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The artist Henry Ward in his South London studio.
by Antonio Gabassi
LONDON.- Henry Ward got the inspiration for his new body of work on display in his big summer solo show Baffle from the gutter. Literally from the gutter. Back in 2017, looking for stimuli to kick start a new series of abstract oil paintings, be decided to make little sculptures from random stuff he found on the ground when he was walking round the streets of London, where he lives. He built up a large collection of rubber bands, squashed toys, bent nails, bits of plastic, that sort of thing, and then, on his kitchen table, fashioned them into ingenious little works of art. Unfortunately, the resulting paintings were rubbish, he remembers with a smile. Fortunately, though, the act of making the sculptures and he produced scores of them ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso are two of the foremost figures in the history of twentieth-century art. This touring exhibition, which debuted in 2019 at the Musée national Picasso-Paris and is on view at the High Museum of Art this summer, presents more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper spanning Calder's and Picasso's careers that reveal the radical innovation and enduring influence of their art.
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| Minneapolis Institute of Art acquires nearly 800 works on paper by Theodore Roszak | | The World Wide Web sells for $5.4 million | | New Hans Christian Andersen museum opens in Denmark | 
Theodore Roszak, Sammy, 1933. Ink on paper; 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Gift of the estate of Theodore Roszak. Minneapolis Institute of Art 2020.80.66 © Estate of Theodore Roszak / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art today announced the acquisition of nearly 800 works on paper by the Polish-American artist Theodore Roszak (19071981). The worksincluding 727 drawings, 63 prints, and three photographswere given by the artists daughter, Sara Roszak, on behalf of the artists estate; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery facilitated the gift. Today best known for his sculptural work, Roszak experimented with various techniques across a wide range of styles, notably creating abstract geometric forms, influenced by technology, in wood, plastic, and metal. The gifts to Mia, created between 1920 and 1980, represent the numerous themes, subjects, and styles the artist explored throughout his prolific career. The newly acquired works complement and enhance Mias collection of modernist art. Robert Cozzolino, Mias Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings, worked closely with Sara Roszak on t ... More | | 
A section of code from the non-fungible token created by Tim Berners-Lee that was auctioned off by Sothebys on Wednesday. Sothebys via The New York Times.
by Coral Murphy Marcos and Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- NFTs, the hot collectible that has been embraced by the founder of Twitter, the National Basketball Association and the artist who created a flying cat with a Pop-Tart body, has cast its reach back to the beginning of the digital age: the source code to an early version of World Wide Web. Sothebys on Wednesday auctioned off the code, created by Tim Berners-Lee, in the form of a nonfungible token, or NFT, for $5.4 million with fees. Sothebys said it was accepting payment in cryptocurrency for both the hammer price and its buyer fee. The winning bidder will remain anonymous, per auction house rules, but that could change if the buyer steps forward. Bidding began at $1,000, and bidders had a week to name their highest price in the auction, called This Changed Everything. The NFT attracted 51 bids, according to Sothebys website, and the proceeds will ... More | | 
Queen Margrethe of Denmark opens the new museum devoted to Danish children's author Hans Christian Andersen in his home town of Odense with with the mayor of Odense Peter Rahbaek Juel, following a 10-year renovation project on June 30, 2021. Claus Fisker / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP.
COPENHAGEN (AFP).- Danish Queen Margrethe II inaugurated Wednesday a new museum devoted to children's author Hans Christian Andersen in his home town of Odense following a 10-year renovation project. Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, who also created Tokyo's new Olympic stadium, the museum cost around 390 million Danish kroner (52 million euros, $62 million), covered for the most part by private foundations. "The idea behind the architectural design resembled Andersens method, where a small world suddenly expands to a bigger universe," Kuma explained ahead of the inauguration. Two thirds of the wood-and-glass museum is underground and it is located in a vast garden with paved walkways and high trimmed hedges. A statement described the structure as "flowing into a magical childrens universe" and added that it "intertwines with a labyrinthine magic garden". Andersen was born ... More |
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| V&A reveals new creative vision for V&A East, alongside first acquisitions | | Over 200 million years ago, nature called. It was full of beetles. | | Exhibition at the Städel Museum sheds light on modern photography's wide-ranging trends | 
Behind the scenes at the V&As Blythe House Stores. Sir Elton Johns glasses and stage costumes are prepared ready to move to V&A East Storehouse. © Jamie Stoker. Image Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- Today, Director Gus Casely-Hayford revealed further details about V&A East, the V&As new national museum complex in east London. One of the worlds most significant new museum projects, V&A East will comprise two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Opening at Here East in 2024, V&A East Storehouse offers a new immersive visitor experience taking visitors behind the scenes and providing unprecedented public access to 5,000 years of creativity. A short walk across the park, opening in 2025, V&A East Museum celebrates global creativity and making. Both sites are part of East Bank, the Mayor of Londons £1.1 billion Olympic legacy project, which will create a new arts, innovation and education hub in Stratfords Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. V&A East builds on the V&As long-standing heritage in east London and founding mission to make ... More | | 
A rendering of Silesaurus opolensis, the 230-million-year-old dinosaur ancestor whose coprolite probably turned up the beetle. Malgorzata Czaja via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Imagine a bunch of beetles minding their own business on an algae-covered rock. All of a sudden, they get hoovered up whole into the beak of a slim, long-necked dinosaur ancestor. RIP but on the bright side, through a complex combination of luck and microbial activity, their tiny corpses become frozen in time. And over 200 million years later, scientists uncover them while rooting around in fossilized feces. These coprolites, as theyre called, can provide extraordinarily detailed insight into long-lost ecosystems, according to new research published in Current Biology. A team of researchers found nearly unscathed beetles, now extinct, that are new to science, suspended inside a piece of excrement from the Triassic Period. The scientists suspect that the waste belonged to Silesaurus opolensis, a close relative of dinosaurs that lived about 230 million years ago, although it is tricky to place once separated from its point ... More | | 
Exhibition view New Ways of Seeing. The Photography of the 1920s and 30s. Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- The Weimar Republic (19181933) was an era of great innovation in modern photography. There was a growing demand for press and advertising imagesand numerous photographers to cater to it. Their works also appeared in elaborate photo books they published on their own initiative. One catalyst for these developments was the advent of the 35mm camera in the 1920s, an invention permitting unprecedented freedom of movement. Unusual perspectives, steep-angled views from above and below, and close-ups of details testify to a new enthusiasm for photographic experimentation. This modern aesthetic came to be known as Neues Sehen (New Ways of Seeing), a catchword that can be understood as a call for a new visual approach on the part of the photographer and the viewer alike. Pictorial language now became clearer, more direct, and in many cases more linear. In its matter-of-fact rigour it corresponded to the needs of a society that, after the disaster of World War I, had come to favour re ... More |
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| Kunstmuseen Krefeld presents 'Lehmbruck - Kolbe - Mies van der Rohe: Artificial Biotopes' | | Kenjirō Okazaki joins Blum & Poe | | Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy to return to the UK - exactly 100 years, to the day, since it left | 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lange House, 1927 1930, Krefeld, Germany. West side. Photo: Volker Döhne, 2000 / Kunstmuseen Krefeld.
KREFELD.- With the exhibition Lehmbruck Kolbe Mies van der Rohe: Artificial Biotopes, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld thematizes the interrelationship of these three outstanding protagonists of the modern era and the coexistence of architecture, sculpture, and nature. A total of 15 sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Georg Kolbe enter into a dialogue with Haus Lange, designed by Mies van der Rohe as a country house. For the first time, the house and garden are seen as an organic system in which figurative sculpture is integrated both as independent work of arts and as living organisms. Built between 1927 and 1930, Haus Lange and Haus Esters form a unique architectural ensemble of the International Style. In keeping with the spirit of Mies van der Rohe, who conceived of architecture, design, and art as a unity, we at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld have been pursuing a program focused on interdisciplinary connections since 2016, ... More | | 
Kenjiro Okazaki, Juno And Luna / Siderum Regina Bicornis, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 10 1/8 x 7 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches (25.7 x 18.7 x 3.5 centimeters) © Kenjiro Okazaki, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles / New York / Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe welcomed Tokyo-based artist Kenjirō Okazaki to the gallery. A solo exhibition of Okazakis work will open this July in Los Angeles. As an artist and critic best known for his publication Abstract Art As Impact: Analysis of Modern Art (Aki Shobō, 2018), Kenjirō Okazaki (b. 1955, Tokyo, Japan) has developed a wide range of interdisciplinary practices that transcend conventional artistic genres and classifications of art, including architecture, literary theory, painting, relief, sculpture, robotics, and contemporary dance. Carrying on the investigations of Sophie Taeuber Arp, Paul Klee, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Saburo Hasegawa, and John Cage, at the root of Okazakis thinking is the exploration and reconstruction of time and space at the foundation of human perception. The singularity of time and space that emerges from the postmodernist fragment ... More | | 
Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770, Oil on canvas, 179.4 à 123.8 cm. Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California (21.1) © Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.
LONDON.- On 25 January 2022, Gainsboroughs The Blue Boy will return to Trafalgar Square, exactly one hundred years, to the day, since it was last seen in this country. On 25 January 1922, the National Gallery and the nation said goodbye to Thomas Gainsboroughs (17271788) The Blue Boy (1770). Bought the previous year by rail and property businessman Henry E. Huntington, The Blue Boy went on display at the National Gallery as part of a farewell tour. During the 3 weeks it was on display in Trafalgar Square, 90,000 visitors came to see the painting before its departure for California. Before it left, the National Gallerys then Director Charles Holmes wrote au revoir on the paintings reverse, in the hope that the painting would return one day. Now that dream is coming true as the painting is being generously lent to the Gallery for an exceptional free exhibition. The work is now owned by the H ... More |
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| High Museum receives $3.1 million conservation grant from Sara Giles Moore Foundation | | Hello, i'm Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life totals $2.16 million | | Chadwick masterpieces triumph at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale | 
High Museum of Art Galleries. CatMax Photography.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art announced today that it has received a $3.1 million grant from The Sara Giles Moore Foundation to support a complete assessment of the Museums collection care needs and to fund necessary treatment for its artworks. One of the largest foundation grants the High has ever received, the funding will be allocated over six years, allowing the Museum to develop a long-term collection care plan and to present expanded programming to foster greater public awareness of art conservation. This work will build on the Highs ongoing preservation plan, which has included renovations to its storage facilities and major renovations to its galleries in 2003 and 2018. As an institution, we must balance our mission to exhibit the incredible works in our holdings with the mandate to responsibly provide for their preservation, said Rand Suffolk, the Highs Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director. W ... More | | 
FEWOCiOUS, Year 1, Age 14 - It Hurts To Hide. Single-channel video 00:00:32 seconds (1710 x 1294 pixels) Executed in 2021. Price Realized: USD $437,500 © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York reports the results from its latest online auction of NFT artworks made by the celebrated and prolific 18 year-old transgender artist FEWOCiOUS, presented as part of Christies Pride program. Hello, im Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life realized USD $2,162,500, closing today after competitive bidding from more than 20 collectors. A coming-of-age story told through art, the series Hello, Im Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life consists of five new, unique NFTs, each lot accompanied by a physical painting and never-before-seen doodles and diary entries. The deeply personal and poignant work speaks to his personal experiences as a young artist making a gender transition between the ages of 14 to 18from Victoria to Victor. Noah Davis, ... More | | 
Lynn Chadwick. Maquette Jubilee II. Sold for £838,750. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A fine collection of works by the British sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) made a combined total of more than £1,225,000 at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale in London today (Wednesday 30 June). Consigned direct from the family, the six pieces all of which sold had never before been offered at auction. Overall, the sale made a total of £3,657,450. Leading the group of Chadwicks was Maquette Jubilee II which sold for £838,750 having been estimated at £300,000-500,000. Other highlights of the collection included: Cloaked Couple V. Sold for £150,250 (estimate: £100,000-150,000). Winged Figures. Sold for £100,250 (estimate: £60,000-80,000). Sitting Couple. Sold for £82,250 (estimate: £25,000-35,000). Elsewhere in the 71-lot sale there was a strong showing by painters associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Works ... More |
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 Hollywood history worn by Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and more struts into Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Gene London was a storyteller first as the beloved host of a long-running children's-TV show in Philadelphia, then as curator of an astonishing collection of big-screen costumes worn by glamorous Golden Age idols. Among those whose dresses filled London's shining assemblage: Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Joan Crawford. And on and on it went, a roll call as long as the guest list to party at Frank Sinatra's Farralone home; each one, a star who only grows bigger as the screens get smaller. So lasting was London's legacy, which included a stint as puppeteer and fashion designer, that when the man born Eugene Yulish died in January 2020 at the age of 88, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a lengthy, loving farewell. The paper ran in its entirety the lyrics to his Cartoon Corners theme song memorized by generations of Philadelphians ... More  The Steinway that traveled the world with Elton John lands at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The piano, which first came up for sale in June 2008, was clearly Elton John's. This is how it was marketed: "SIR ELTON JOHN'S STEINWAY NO.426549 GRAND PIANO, (CIRCA 1972)," along with a lone footnote describing the instrument's origins: "Completed in New York, June 9th, 1972 and sold to Elton John at his Beverley Hills address, subsequently housed at Lockwood House." Sir Elton even signed the piano, on the gilded cast-iron frame. In permanent black ink, he wrote, "Enjoy this as much as I have, Elton John." And that was it. This was all Curtis Schwartz knew about the piano when he bought it 13 years ago, and as far as he was concerned at the time, that was plenty. The longtime engineer whose name can be found on albums by Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lush, Cutting Crew, the Bee Gees and Yes simply needed ... More  Wellington Arch's Quadriga Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Daniel Crews-Chubb LONDON.- Vigo, in association with English Heritage, is presenting The Consequences of Play, a series of six epic paintings by British artist Daniel Crews-Chubb relating to Wellington Arch, Apsley House and its environs and inspired by Peter Paul Rubens painting The Consequences of War (1638/9), which allegorically depicted Europe in the aftermath of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Commissioned by Ferdinando II de Medici, Rubens employed numerous references, both contemporary and ancient, to illustrate the dire state of the continent after one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history where fighting, famine and disease claimed more than 8 million casualties. Holding up a mirror in equally testing times, Crews-Chubb has turned the themes in Rubens masterwork on their head and reinterpreted them within todays context and ... More  The $30 million founding father: How 'Hamilton' got federal aidNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hamilton is the biggest Broadway hit in years, and until the coronavirus pandemic shuttered all of its productions, it was making a lot of money: It has played to full houses since it opened in 2015, and on Broadway it has been seen by 2.6 million people and grossed $650 million. So why is the show getting $30 million in relief from the federal government, with the possibility of another $20 million coming down the road? The answer is that, before the pandemic, Hamilton had five separately incorporated productions running in the United States one on Broadway and four on tour and, under the rules set up for the governments Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which provides pandemic relief for the culture sector and live-event businesses, each was eligible for $10 million to help make up for lost ... More  Ellen McIlwaine, slide guitarist with a power voice, dies at 75NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the mid-1960s Ellen McIlwaine spent about a month playing in New York with a fellow guitarist whose musical tastes she shared, an undiscovered talent named Jimi Hendrix. They made an unusual pair a white woman working on her slide-guitar skills and a Black guy developing his own flamboyant style. It was going pretty well, and she thought about formalizing the partnership. I talked to my manager about Hendrix, McIlwaine recalled almost 30 years later in an interview with The Calgary Herald, and wanting to get a group together, and he said: Oh, I know who that is. Hes Black. You dont want him in your group. And I said, No, I dont want you for my manager. That was the music scene at the time bubbling with talent and experimentation, yet also still hindered by misguided ideas about ... More  Black Dance Stories: By the artists, for the peopleNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The choreographers Robert Battle and Angie Pittman had just met formally for the first time when they were left to talk one on one, in front of a live (virtual) audience, during a recent episode of the conversation series Black Dance Stories. Im going to sit back and watch you two get in trouble, Charmaine Warren, the shows warm and energizing host, said as she raised a glass of wine and took a sip. Ill see you in a minute. Have fun! And she slipped off-screen. As it turned out, they had plenty to talk about. Battle, 48, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, had grown up steeped in gospel music through his family and church. Pittman, 31, an experimental choreographer, also grew up with church as a strong influence; her background as a liturgical praise dancer shapes her work today. By ... More  Modern Art announces representation of the Estate of Karlo KacharavaLONDON.- Modern Art announced representation of the Estate of Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994). Our first exhibition of Kacharavas work, curated by Sanya Kantarovsky and Scott Portnoy, will take place in October 2021 and open during Frieze week at Modern Art Helmet Row. Karlo Kacharava was an artist, theorist and poet living in Tbilisi, Georgia. Active through the 1980s and 1990s, the artists inventive approach to painting transgressed the boundaries of late Soviet visual culture, greatly contributing to contemporary art in the post-Soviet Caucasus. Though his career was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty, Kacharavas output and presence galvanized a generation of contemporary Georgian artists, eventually broadening the conversation beyond Georgias borders. Karlo Kacharava studied Art History at the Tbilisi State Academy ... More  'It's a rush of culture!' Americans return to ParisPARIS (AFP).- They're back! After vanishing from Paris for a year and a half, American tourists have returned, Covid vaccination certificates in pocket, as part of a grand reopening of the country's tourist sector. France, which was the world's top tourism destination before the coronavirus pandemic, began welcoming back Americans on June 9. "It's amazing! We've been wanting to come back since last year," said Padmini Pyapali, an engineer on a tour of Greece and France with five friends, who were having a drink on a cafe terrasse in the Montmartre district. "It's just a rush of culture and we really missed it," she said. The United States was France's biggest source of non-European tourists before the virus struck, with over four million visiting the country each year. Americans are also among the biggest spenders, making them a welcome sight ... More  Important group of medals awarded to Captain Peter Townsend to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- The Important Battle of Britain fighter aces group of eleven awarded to Group Captain Peter Townsend (1914-1995) of the Royal Air Force, who was also known for his famously controversial romance with the Queens sister, Princess Margaret will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. It is expected to fetch £160,000 - 200,000. Peter Wooldridge Townsend was born in Rangoon, Burma on November 22, 1914 and was brought home to be raised in Devon. In February 1940, he became the first pilot to bring down an enemy aircraft on English soil, later commanding No. 85 Squadron from May 1940 until June 1941, a period that witnessed him completing over 300 operational sorties, twice taking to his parachute - once ... More  Whistling as an art almost died off. Can Molly Lewis keep it alive?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Molly Lewis lives at the top of a steep hill in East Los Angeles, where a group of feral peafowl roam idly around, as if they own the place. Peacocks and peahens dont have much of a bird song they emit a sharp caw that is not cute, Lewis said but other birds have found themselves in conversation with the 31-year-old whistler. If Im out walking in the woods and I hear a birdcall, I try to mimic it, she said, lamenting that the chats are a little one-sided: Ive probably got a terrible accent in bird. Humans tend to be more impressed. By her early 20s, Lewis was a veteran of the niche world of competitive whistling; in 2015, she took first prize in the womens live-band division at the Masters of Musical Whistling tournament. These days, shes more focused on Café Molly, her lounge show thats become ... More  ARTA accelerates integrations with art galleries, marketplaces and auction houses to support surge in online salesNEW YORK, NY.- Today, ARTA, leader in logistics software and fulfillment services for high-value goods and collectibles, is announcing 10 new API integrations driven by an increase in demand and business needs to sell online. ARTAs platform helps businesses eliminate the inherent friction in selling unique items online from pre-purchase to fulfillment. Both new entrants to the market and incumbent sellers are leveraging ARTA to get to market quickly and capitalize on demand - including Artland, Charles Moffett, KIRPA Auction House, Wescover, Up My Art, Altamira and more. The sale of collectibles, art and design have exploded with a total estimated market of over $300 billion. Online sales, in particular, account for a larger ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Buckminster Fuller died July 01, 1983. Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. In this image: U.S. Pavilion Montreal Expo 67. Buckminster Fuller, 1967. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller.
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