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In an image provided by Jehovah's Witnesses, Central European Archive, a concentration camp uniform, with the purple triangle that was given by the Nazis to more than 4,000 Jehovahs Witnesses. The pacifist religious group are pursuing legal action against the German government to claim a family archive that documents the Nazis persecution of the Christian denomination. Jehovah's Witnesses, Central European Archive via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jehovahs Witnesses, a pacifist religious group, are pursuing legal action against the German government to claim a family archive that documents the Nazis persecution of the Christian denomination. The archive comprises 31 files of documents relating to the Kusserow family, whose members were arrested, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazi regime because of their faith. It has been held by the Museum of Military History in Dresden, which is operated by the German army, since 2009 when it was purchased from a member of the Kusserow family. A German regional court rejected the Jehovahs Witnesses claim last year, saying the museum had purchased the archive in good faith and should keep it. But the religious group is appealing that ruling, arguing that the family member who sold it was not the actual owner of the archive, which had been bequeathed to the Jehovahs Witnesses in the 2005 will of Annemarie Kusserow, the family member who had assembled and mainta ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Rachel Rose: Enclosure, at Gladstone Gallery, 2022. © Rachel Rose. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.
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| Lucian Freud's 'Girl with Closed Eyes' offered at auction for the first time | | Art Basel selected to stage new contemporary and Modern art fair in the iconic Grand Palais of Paris | | kamel mennour announces exclusive international representation of Judit Reigl | 
Lucian Freud, Girl with Closed Eyes, 1986-87 (detail). Estimate on Request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- In the year that marks the centenary of the artists birth, Christies will offer Lucian Freuds masterpiece of frank, tender observation, Girl with Closed Eyes (1986-87, estimate on request), which is among the most exquisite of Lucian Freuds triumphant 1980s portraits. Girl with Closed Eyes will be a focal point of Christies 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, a key auction within the 20/21 Shanghai to London sales series, which will take place on 1 March 2022. The painting is being offered at auction for the first time, having remained in the same private collection for around 35 years. Reclined on a bed in the artists Holland Park studio, the sitter, Janey Longman, is caught as if in a reverie. Her eyes are closed, her lips parted, and her head turned serenely to one side. Her dark hair spills onto the mattress, ... More | | 
Art Basel in Basel 2021 © Art Basel.
BASEL.- Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, announced that it has been awarded a seven-year contract to stage a new contemporary and Modern art fair at the prestigious Grand Palais in Paris, following a public competition initiated by the Réunion des musées nationaux Grand Palais in December last year. Launching in October 2022, this new project of international stature will build bridges with Frances cultural industries from fashion and design to film and music to create a flagship event that radiates throughout the city and is firmly embedded in Paris and its cultural scene. The new fair will initially take place at the Grand Palaiss temporary venue, the Grand Palais Ãphémère, located in the historic heart of Paris on the Champ-de-Mars, until the restoration of the Grand Palais is completed in 2024. With its incomparable history and contemporary dynamism, Paris ... More | | 
Ãcriture en masse, 1964. Oil on canvas. 236 x 206 cm.
PARIS.- kamel mennour announced the exclusive international representation of Judit Reigl, and to contribute with the Fonds de Dotation Judit Reigl to the promotion and dissemination of her work. Internationally recognized, Judit Reigl constantly found her own way through different artistic currents and schools, from surrealism to gestural abstraction, including figuration, and established herself as one of the great painters of the late 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1923, Judit Reigl moved to France in 1950, after several attempts to cross the Iron Curtain and escape totalitarianism. Her work was clearly marked by the historical, social and political events she witnessed, particularly the border divisions and wars. I left one bloc to belong to no other. Neither emigrant, nor exiled, nor integrated. Transnational. (1) Working in series, Reigl inscribed ... More |
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| Three massive 1,500+ pound amethyst clusters unveiled at Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show | | $12M gift of Chinese calligraphy transforms Asian art collection at U-M Museum of Art | | Gladstone Gallery presents a film and installation by Rachel Rose | 
The three clusters weigh in at 1,682 lbs., 1,600 lbs., and 1,500 lbs. The specimens are considered rare due to their immense size which measure 5' x 3' and larger with individual points between 3" - 8 " in diameter.
TUCSON, AR.- Three extremely rare amethyst clusters, the largest that have been unearthed by the acclaimed Anahi Mine in Bolivia in more than 20 years, will be presented to the public for the first time at the Tucson Gem Show, according to Jeffrey Berk, founder of Grounded Life and Home. The three clusters weigh in at 1,682 lbs., 1,600 lbs., and 1,500 lbs. The specimens are considered rare due to their immense size which measure 5' x 3' and larger with individual points between 3" - 8 " in diameter. The clusters' journey included more than 8,000 miles from deep within the mine, through a dense jungle, a 150-mile escort with the Bolivian Navy down the Pantanal (the world's largest tropical wetland) to its final destination at the Pueblo Gem and Mineral Show at Porte Cochere (directly at the entrance to the Pueblo Gem Show) in Tucson, Arizona. "What sets these pieces ... More | | 
Wen Zhengming (1470 - 1559), Twelve Poems (detail), Ming dynasty, album of twenty six leaves, ink on paper, 9 ¼ x 6 ⅛ inches (each page), Gift of Jiu-Fong Lo Chang and Kuei-sheng Chang, University of Michigan Museum of Art.
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art has received a gift of Chinese calligraphy from the family of Lo Chia-Lun valued at more than $12 millionthe largest gift of art in the university's history. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection, donated by his daughter Jiu-Fong Lo Chang and her husband Kuei-sheng Chang, will transform the museum's Asian art collection, adding an impressive breadth of works to an already stellar collection of Chinese paintings and ceramics. Lo Chia-Lun (1897-1969) was a student leader in China's "May Fourth Movement" and became a prominent government official in Nationalist China as well as a scholar, calligrapher, poet and president of two major universitiesNational Central University and Tsinghua University. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection will contribute significantly to contemporary ... More | | 
Rachel Rose, Burl Egg 1, 2021. Burl Egg and blown glass, 17 x 17 x 12 in © Rachel Rose. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photo: Daniel Greer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announced the New York premiere of Enclosure, a film and installation by Rachel Rose originally co-commissioned by Luma Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. Unfolding against an agrarian community on the verge of obsolescence, Enclosure addresses the catastrophic psycho-social and ecological disturbances triggered by the advent of capitalism and industrialization. This monumental project also includes a new publication and a suite of gravures by the artist. For this installation, the gallery presents a selection of paintings on loan from the Yale Center for British Art that inspired Roses vision for this expansive body of work. Set in rural 17th-century England at the beginning of the Enclosure Acts, a series of legal maneuvers that seized communally used farmlands and privatized property ownership, Enclosure follows a fictional group of purloining travelers who call themselves the Famlee. ... More |
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| £2M supports over 63 museums and networks across the UK | | PMA, ReykjavÃk Art Museum, and Bildmuseet announce artists for "North Atlantic Triennial: Down Иorth" | | Harvey Stack, leading dealer in rare coins, dies at 93 | 
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery - Visitor considers one of RAMMs permanent displays.
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, announced today that it has awarded £1,144,655 in the latest two rounds of Reimagine grants for 2021. The support will go to 40 UK museums, galleries, historic houses, trusts and professional networks to help them reimagine their activities following the pandemic. Recipients are located across Britain - from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, to Cardiff in Wales, Carlisle in Cumbria, and to Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Among the projects to be supported are: a reinterpretation of Paradise Mill, the largest collection of Jacquard silk handlooms in their original C18th-setting at The Silk Museum in Macclesfield; a new mindful audio guide for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter, co-created with local people who have lived experience of mental health difficulty; and a series of new portrait commissions and gallery redevelopment for Judges Lodgings in La ... More | | 
Jordan Bennett, Birds Shed FeathersPeskewikús, from 13 Moons: Full Suite, 2020, giclée print on rag paper, 24 x 24 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with support from the Contemporary Art Fund, 2021.13.113. © Jordan Bennett. Photograph by Luc Demers.
PORTLAND, ME.- Featuring both emerging and more established artists living today, the exhibition presents 21st-century art from an unprecedented cross-section of artists living in Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark as well as Indigenous Nations throughout the region. Ragnar Axelsson | Jordan Bennett | Jason Brown aka. Firefly | Christopher Carroll | Jóhan Martin Christiansen | Lauren Fensterstock | Gideonsson/Londré | Julie Edel Hardenberg | Reggie Burrows Hodges | Ann Cathrin November Høibo | Joan Jonas | Jessie Kleemann | Justin Levesque | Anna LÃndal | Meagan Musseau | Mattias Olofsson | Frida Orupabo | Bita Razavi | Joshua Reiman | Hans Rosenström | Máret Ãnne Sara | ... More | | 
Harvey Stack, a rare coin dealer, right, at the coin store he owned with his cousin, Benjamin Stack, rear, in New York, March 18, 1976. Tyrone Dukes/The New York Times.
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Harvey Stack, the patriarch of the family firm that bills itself as the nations largest rare coin business, died Jan. 3 in New York City. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, Larry. Stack joined Stacks Rare Coins as a teenager in 1947, 14 years after his father and uncle transformed what his great-grandfather had founded in 1858 as a foreign exchange house in lower Manhattan into a dealership devoted exclusively to collectible currency. Before formally retiring in 2009, Stack, with his wife, his cousins and his children, helped turn what is now known as Stacks Bowers Galleries into an industry gold standard. He developed a standardized grading system for appraising coins, and he expanded demand among hobbyists by urging Congress ... More |
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| Goff Books to publish "New York Stilled Life: Portrait of a City in Lockdown' by Gregory J. Peterson | | The first bi-annual Made in Mexico sale at John Moran Auctioneers is a festival of delights | | Allie Haeusslein promoted to Director of Pier 24 Photography | 
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Josie Robertson Plaza, April 7, 2020, 6:52 p.m.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mid-March 2020: Native New Yorker Gregory J. Peterson is on an early evening walk in his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where the unthinkable has happened. The 24-hour city has shut down to protect its citizens from an invisible, lethal novel coronavirus raging through it. Manhattans iconic public spaces are now devoid of people. The monumental Lincoln Center Plaza is emptied of opera and ballet fans. Sounds of skaters on ice and the bustle of tourists at Rockefeller Centers world-famous skating rink are absent. Not a single soul can be seen going to mass on Easter Sunday as churches, including the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, are closed. Starkly silent, the city is stilled, as no one had ever seen it before. Traveling by foot and bike to avoid contagion, Peterson embarked on a personal journey to document a momentous point in time in the city where he was born and raised. He took more than 400 photographs of over 200 locations through the spring an ... More | | 
Jorge MarÃns nearly 34 high Superficie de Argon II of 1997 is presented in a classical figurative style, depicting an angel in a blue mantle with a headdress topped with a bird, with masked cherubs and a monkey, standing on a sphere. Estimated at $5,000-$7,000.
MONROVIA, CA.- The first of John Moran Auctioneers bi-annual Made in Mexico auctions will entice collectors as we set the tone and begin the year with exciting offerings in all genres. Featuring all things from across the border, from fine art to pottery and decorative metalware, textiles, and jewelry, the selection is sure to whet the appetite of Mexican art enthusiasts everywhere. With more than 200 lots of mostly mid-20th Century Mexican jewelry from all the preeminent designers, silver devotees will enjoy finding something distinctive to wear and add to their collection. Additionally, the sale will present a selection of Latin and Central American art, including Guatemalan, Peruvian, and Panamanian silver, pottery, and woodwork. While many of the works in this auction are influenced by Spanish culture in Mexico, some of the highlighted ... More | | 
Haeusslein has served as Associate Director since 2012. Photo: Ry Allred.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Pier 24 Photography announces the promotion of Allie Haeusslein to Director, working in tandem with Director Christopher McCall. Haeusslein has served as Associate Director since 2012. During her decade-long tenure, Haeusslein has overseen the museums in-house publication program, producing more than ten books including Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (2019), in which she invited artists from the Pilara Foundation Collection to write about works they selected from the collection. After co-curating previous exhibitions, she served as the lead curator for Looking Back (201922), the first of the institutions tenth anniversary exhibitions; she is also responsible for the second of these anniversary exhibitionsLooking Forwardwhich is slated to open in spring 2022. It has been a pleasure seeing Allies tremendous growth over the past decade, said McCall. She is integral to every aspect of our op ... More |
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 A singer brings his authentic self to the PhilharmonicNEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Roth Costanzo was never just going to step onstage and sing. Instead, as the New York Philharmonics artist-in-residence, this countertenor is planning a series of events beginning Thursday and continuing through the spring that add up to a self-portrait of a musician who, among other things, is also a charismatic impresario, cross-discipline connector and community organizer. His festival, Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within, reaches from Lincoln Center to the Lower East Side, the Bronx and Queens; includes premieres as well as recastings of classic repertory; and brings the queer joy of Only an Octave Apart, his show with cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, into the concert hall. It is the product of a restless personality who believes there are too many hours in the day to be only a countertenor. I sleep eight hours ... More  Irvine's Military airfield becomes cultural hubIRVINE, CA.- The City of Irvine awarded the contract for Cultural Terrace, the transformation of a former military airfield into a major cultural complex, to a distinguished design team led by IBI Group and including Dutch architects MVRDV, local architects MAAM, and landscape architecture firm Agency Artifact. Consulting firms Buro Happold, Langan Engineering, and Ryder Levitt Bucknell will also play a critical role in the evolution of Cultural Terrace. Located adjacent to Irvines Great Park on a 110-acre parcel of the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, the Cultural Terrace will combine the adaptive re-use of two 140,000 sf hangars and a 40,000 sf warehouse, with a dynamic revisioning of the surrounding landscape. Some programs proposed for the Cultural Terrace are a museum complex, library, event space, community center, and City offices. ... More  Collection of Vienna bronzes, five decades in the making, comes to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Joseph and Sonia Zobel found their first Vienna bronze, a gift from an older relative who had brought it from her native Austria, over five decades ago, and it was love at first sight. It is hard not to love these exquisite little bronzes, modeled and cast to the highest standards of Viennese craftsmanship honed by centuries of tradition, and beautifully painted in a subtle, naturalistic palette which brings them to life. The high point of production was from about 1895 until World War I, when production was interrupted by world events. This short window of time at the end of a magnificent era became the Zobels hunting ground at a time, before the eBay tsunami, when precious little antiques could still be found in precious little antique shops, flea markets and the odd garage sale. Joseph and Sonia did it right. Buying with discrimination, choosing ... More  Frederick Holmes and Company opens an exhibition of works by Gary LoganSEATTLE, WA.- Surface is a series of sublime, topographic images alongside magnified, biological masses that make poignant statements on identity, reveal signs of human discord, and chronicle the destruction and consumption of the natural world. Gary Logans provocative series fluctuates between his reflections on the complexities of human nature and our currently imbalanced relationship with the Earth. His diversely haunting images aim to navigate the viewer towards various levels of reckoning, realization, and hopefully healing from the often destructive sides of human nature. Superficially, his turbulent artwork vacillates between microscopic and macroscopic points of views while utilizing an array of both artificial and natural materials to create a variety of earthly textures and curious biomorphic forms. The experimental, mixed media surfaces ... More  Worried about the health of cinema? Sundance has good news for you.NEW YORK, NY.- There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. One year, if I remember right, there were stickers all over its Park City, Utah, home reminding those of us in attendance to focus on films rather than parties, celebrity sightings, industry buzz and tabloid gossip. That isnt much of a problem now. For the second year in a row, Sundance isnt in Park City at all. Instead of traipsing up and down Main Street or piling into shuttle buses, the audience is exactly where it has been for most of the past two years: at home, in front of a screen, scrolling through a menu in search of something to watch. Theres a lot of film scores of features and dozens of shorts, running through next weekend and not so much festival. Im not going ... More  A shorter 'Long Day's Journey,' now with N95sNEW YORK, NY.- Eugene ONeill, whose insanely detailed stage directions for Long Days Journey Into Night specify even the titles of the books on the shelves, somehow forgot to mention the Purell. Also the N95s. Yet there they are, prominent props in Robert OHaras warp-speed COVID-era revival, which opened Tuesday at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. Far from cheapening a classic work with random relevance, they help define (or at any rate dont get in the way of) a beautifully acted and affecting interpretation for a new age of disease and lockdown. In the Tyrone family, closely based on ONeills, disease and lockdown are already a way of life. For James (Bill Camp) the disease is spiritual; a could-have-been Shakespearean who (like the playwrights father) got trapped in an immensely popular melodrama, he is embittered ... More  Carvalho Park presents the debut New York solo exhibition of ten monumental new paintings by Brian Rattiner BROOKLYN, NY.- Carvalho Park announced the opening of Two Birds in a Pale Sky, marking Brian Rattiner's debut New York solo exhibition. Featuring the largest paintings the artist has realized and shown to date, Rattiner offers the viewer the optical splendor of monumentally-scaled works resounding with the freedom of nature, in their lyrical eruptions of line and color. Suspended in perpetual rhythms and free-flowing intuitive gestures, the works suggest natures ever-shifting sublimity and singular balance there is no sign of conflict. This series emanates what we seek from nature its charge, the rejuvenating possibilities, the desire to be made anew. While categorically landscape painting, it is the sensations across ... More  'Pioneering' and 'breathtaking' new book casts a light on 20th century Indian artLONDON.- A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day. Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as Amrita ... More  Reading Public Museum receives giftREADING, PA.- The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum announced two recent major gifts in 2021 and 2022 from The Ethel Baziotes Trust and Estate of William Baziotes in New York, New York. The large gift of nearly one hundred works includes sketchbooks, drawings, watercolors and gouaches, oil paintings on canvas and board, and archival material representing the full scope of the Pennsylvania-born artists career from the early 1930s through the early 1960s. The gift includes some works from Baziotess W.P.A. period, early Surrealist period, his geometric/cubist period and his lyrical mature style developed in the 1950s and 60s. William Baziotes (American, 1912 1963) was born in 1912 Pittsburgh to Greek immigrant parents. The family moved to Reading the following year to pursue business opportunities, which included a partnership ... More  Melania Trump's auction of hat hit by plunge in cryptocurrencyNEW YORK, NY.- Melania Trumps much-discussed online auction, featuring a hat she wore at the White House during a 2018 visit by President Emmanuel Macron of France, is turning into a potential victim of the crash in the cryptocurrency market. Trump decided to hold an online auction pairing the white, broad-brimmed hat and a watercolor of her wearing it, along with a virtual piece of art, called a nonfungible token, or NFT, which shows an animated version of her wearing the hat. The three-piece package, called Head of State Collection, 2022, was intended to open with a minimum bid of about $250,000, according to a news release from Trump in early January announcing the sale. But bids were only accepted in the cryptocurrency of the Solana blockchain called SOL, which was then trading at a price of about $170 per token. The one-of-a-kind ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp was born January 27, 1585. Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) - May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen). In this image: Hendrick Avercamp, IJsgezicht met jager die een otter toont. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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