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In an image provided by Christies, a Bulgari sapphire, emerald and diamond necklace which will be part of an upcoming auction of the late Austrian heiress Heidi Hortens major jewelry collection. While proceeds will go to philanthropic causes, the auction has drawn criticism because the Horten familys fortune came from businesses bought from Jews pressured into selling by the Nazis. (Christie's via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Facing criticism for its sale of jewelry from an estate partly built on profits made from the purchase of Jewish businesses during the Holocaust, Christies promised in spring to donate a portion of its proceeds to further Holocaust research and education. But the auction house has struggled to find organizations willing to accept money from the sale, which went forward despite the objections of Jewish groups. The record-breaking sale of jewelry from the estate of Heidi Horten generated $202 million. Horten was an Austrian heiress whose husband, Helmut, built a retail empire in Germany partly by taking advantage of Nazi policies that forced Jewish businesspeople to sell their companies. Yad Vashem, the organization that operates Israels official memorial to Holocaust victims, has announced that it declined a donation from Christies because of the source of the money. The Jerusalem Post reported that several other Jewish organizations in Israel have also rejected Christ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The @houseofdgf Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023 presents work by Catherina Cramer & Giulietta Ockenfuss, Cristiana Cott Negoescu, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fabian Friese, Fynn Ribbeck, Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny, Jieun Lim, Klara Virnich, Lex Rütten & Jana Kerima Stolzer, Lukas Panek, Luki Von der Gracht, Mira Mann, Moritz Krauth, Naiyun Yang and Nicholas Grafia. @houseofdgf Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023, Courtesy of Cork Street Galleries, Photo: Luke Hayes.
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| Hamiltons celebrates the centenary of Richard Avedon's birth with exhibition | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Marcel Broodthaers - Museum' | | 'Lauren Quin: Salon Real' is now on view at Blum & Poe | 
Tina Turner, performer, dress by Azzaro, New York, June 13, 1971 © The Richard Avedon Foundation, Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery.
LONDON.- Hamiltons is presenting Avedon: Glamorous in celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedons birth. In recognition of the gallerys long-standing association with the artist, and to mark this momentous occasion, the exhibition presents iconic and rarely seen photographs that focus on glamour - a central pillar to his oeuvre. Through his unique ability to invoke an exciting quality within his subjects Avedon could make even the most mundane appealing, bringing a sophisticated glamour to both some of the 20th centurys most notable figures and luminaries. Richard Avedon, widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern photography, but also one of its most influential proponents was born in New York City in 1923. His first foray into the world of professional photography came about in 1945, under the tutelage of Alexey Brodovitch, ... More | | 
Marcel Broodthaers, Ein Eisenbahnüberfall, 1972. Offset print in black on glossy paper, 83.6 x 55.7 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Migros-Genossenschaftsbund, 1982 © Succession Marcel Broodthaers / 2023, ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich is showing a cabinet exhibition devoted to the graphic editions of Marcel Broodthaers. It focuses on the artists critical questioning of the museum as institution. Marcel Broodthaers (19241976) worked intensively on the subject of the museum. The Belgian artists critical perspective on that institution has lost none of its relevance today. Four aspects play a central role and are being highlighted in the exhibition: the museum itself, artists, the art market, and visitors. Assembled by guest curator Simone Gehr from works held at the Kunsthaus, the cabinet exhibition asks how exactly Broodthaers envisaged the ideal museum. What did he criticise about the museums of his time? And how, on the basis of his works, ... More | | 
Lauren Quin, Salon Real, 2023, oil on canvas, © Lauren Quin, Photo: Evan Walsh.
TOKYO .- Blum & Poe opened yesterday Salon Real, Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Quins second solo exhibition with the gallery and her debut in Japan. Salon Real is the opening sequence to a series of knots. One inferred meaning of this phrase connotes the original Paris Salons and the reactionary Salon dAutomne. These traditional exhibition forums united and established a throughline for the canonical discourse forged by generations of artists, Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp among them, whose influences have elliptically swayed pictures composed by Quin. Resisting a stable, fixed definition, the poetic word pairing conjured by the artist describes a method of determination through synchronicities. Self-aware as models for visual indulgence, the paintingslike the exhibition's titlescavenge, pluck, and layer symbols, forms, mediums, and gestures from throughout art ... More |
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| Renowned Star Wars collector John Azarian brings his trophies to Heritage on July 29 | | Nationalmuseum acquires silverwork by Anna Atterling | | RR Auction's Revolutionary War Collection takes center stage in July Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale | 
Imperial Stormtrooper Helmet from the Collection of Costume Designer John Mollo with Signed LOA from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (TCF, 1977).
DALLAS, TX.- John Azarian began collecting props and costumes from his favorite television series and movies for a straightforward, heartfelt reason: "To see something in person, to be able to touch something from a show or film you watched as a child, there is nothing like it," he says. "Seeing it on TV or in a movie and then being able to say, 'That's my piece,' that's real. And there is nothing like it." The real estate developer began his journey in 1995, with Adam West's Batman and Burt Ward's Robin costumes bought at auction. He likes to say that pulling them from their boxes made him feel like a kid on Christmas morning Batman's cowl, especially: "It made me speechless." This is how a single purchase evolved into an enviable assemblage brimming with many palpable keepsakes that evoke memories and magic. But Azarian's decades-long tenure as the custodian of these enchanted reminders is winding down: On July 29, he will offer ... More | | 
Anna Atterling: Pralines on foot, 2005. Sterling silver, blanched. NMK 212a-c/2022. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has received 25 silver artefacts, forming 11 works, generously donated by the artist Anna Atterling. All the pieces were made using the silversmithing technique developed by Atterling, which results in delicate forms with decorative cavities. Several of the pieces are on display in The Joy of Giving exhibition. Sometimes, artists develop their own mature aesthetic while they are still students, as was the case with Anna Atterling (born 1968). In her graduation exhibition at Konstfack in 2000, she unveiled a technique she had developed for working with silver plate, which resulted in delicate forms with cavities resembling a doily. Now, more than two decades later, Atterling has donated a number of her works to Nationalmuseum, having decided to take a break from silversmithing. The donation consists of jewellery and small sculptures: a total of 25 artefacts forming 11 works created between ... More | | 
Part of Alexander Hamilton's 1787 handwritten draft for 'An Act Raising Certain Yearly Taxes' in New York State
BOSTON, MA.- RR Auction's July Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale brings the Revolutionary War to the forefront in celebration of the Fourth of July. These historic items include significant autograph letters by John Hancock, including an emotional and heartfelt correspondence to his wife, Dolly Hancock, dated March 10 and 11, 1777. The missive discusses the state of the war, the health of their family, and the arrival of Martha Washington. The letter not only reveals the sacrifices and pain of separation but also captures the familial strain experienced by the founding fathers during this critical period in American history. Hancock letters to his beloved wife, Dolly, rarely appear at auction, representing one of the best we have seen. (Estimate: $25,000+) A George Washington, one-page signed letter dated November 22, 1780, in which he discusses plans for an attack on British-held Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. In the letter, Washington i ... More |
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| David Adjaye relinquishes roles after reported accusations of misconduct | | Berry Campbell opens 'Susan Vecsey: Day and Night' | | Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, "Wali's Farm" opening today at Derek Eller Gallery | 
File photo of David Adjaye, lead architect of the National Museum of African American History in Washington, Sept. 8, 2016. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- David Adjaye, the acclaimed Ghanaian British architect who designed the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., stepped back from a number of roles Tuesday after The Financial Times reported that three former employees had accused him of sexual harassment and misconduct. Adjaye resigned as an architectural adviser to the mayor of London, and his work on a British Holocaust memorial was suspended after The Financial Times reported that three women, who were not identified, had accused him and his firm of different forms of exploitation from alleged sexual assault and sexual harassment by him to a toxic work culture that have gone unchecked for years. In a statement Tuesday, Adjaye denied the accusations. ... More | | 
Susan Vecsey, Untitled (Blue), 2023, Oil on linen, 74 x 90 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell is opening Day and Night, its fifth solo show with Susan Vecsey. In 15 new oil paintings, luminous nocturnes set where the sea meets the sky, Vecsey continues her exploration of the optical sublime. Like all her works, Vecseys recent series of poured paintings is inspired by the topography of eastern Long Island, and the ever-changing effects of light, air, and water on human perception. Stained in soft-edge shades of blue, orange, gray, and white, Vecseys soft-edge abstractions hover at the edge of pure form and illusion. Vecsey arrives at her minimal compositions through an elaborate series of actions that begins with direct observation and ends with risky improvisation. First, she creates charcoal sketches in the plein air tradition, recording the landscapes along the shores of eastern Long Island. Then she moves to the studio. Using tactics from artistic influences including the Tonalists and Jo ... More | | 
Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson (b. 1999), My old lady, 2023. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is now opening Walis Farm, a solo exhibition of new works by Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson. Wilson has been conceiving and dreaming of the farm and its extended systems, storylines, characters, and history for several years, thoroughly steeping its mythical and dreamy state in reality (despite having little to no knowledge of farming ecosystems). Central to the ethos of Wali's Farm is the suspension of disbeliefboth on the part of the viewer and the artistwhereby one can submit oneself to the poetic faith of fiction and metafictional painting. Interpretations and revelations become infinite as one is immersed in the visual folktales; repetition and multiple perspectives diversify the viewpoints of the farm. Wilson invites the viewer to take an active role in mending the fields, herding the animals, collecting herbs, and rejoicing in the humble yet historic patch of land that constitutes Walis ... More |
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| John Hansard Gallery announces solo exhibitions with Ayo Akingbade and Billie Zangewa | | Joel Magee Disneyland Collection is hitting the auction block - largest Disneyana Collection needs own building | | One of the most significant exhibitions of contemporary Chicano art opening at Veranos de la Villa Festival | 
Billie Zangewa, Every Woman. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. From the exhibition 'A Quiet Fire'.
SOUTHAMPTON .- John Hansard Gallery, part of the University of Southampton, is currently presenting 'Show Me The World Mister', a solo exhibition by London-based artist Ayo Akingbade. Comprising two new films, alongside a series of new prints and archival imagery, the exhibition builds upon the artists continued interest in history, placemaking, legacy, economics, and power. The exhibitions title suggests a power dynamic, on one level someone is instructing the other, implying that one occupies power, whilst the other does not but which one? Furthermore, the title suggests that one can be shown the world through the eyes of another, shaped and formed through their lived experiences. Filmed on location The Fist and Faluyi, Akingbade presents the world as Nigeria, and are the artists most ambitious and prevailing productions ... More | | 
The collection is so vast, the auction house secured a 30,000 square foot building for the public exhibition which began June 28, 2023 and will remain open through July 16, 2023.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The largest individually owned Disneyland/Disney Park collection in the world, amassed over a 30-year period will hit the auction block at Van Eaton Galleries. The Joel Magee Disneyland Collection auction will kick off on July 17, 2023 (Disneylands 68th birthday) and continue for three days, concluding on July 19, 2023. The collection is so vast, the auction house secured a 30,000 square foot building for the public exhibition which began June 28, 2023 and will remain open through July 16, 2023. With over 1,500 items, the auction and exhibition is so diverse, so large and so fascinating that both Disney aficionados and fans who love the happiest place on earth will be stunned at the amount of items included. The Joel Magee Disneyland Collection is actually almost ... More | | 
Delilah Montoya (1990), El Guadalupano.
MADRID.- In Your Face: Chicano Art After CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) features 54 works of diverse media such as sculpture, photography, prints, painting, and mixed media by 29 Chicana/o artists will be a part of the popular Veranos de la Villa Festival at the Espacio Cultural Serreria Belga in Madrid, Spain from July 6 to August 26, 2023. The artwork is largely from the collection of AltaMed Health Services, one of the largest federally qualified community health centers in the United States, was co-organized with the Embassy of Mexico in Italy, and will be presented in partnership with the Embassy of Mexico in Madrid, Spain. Chicano art is an important part of understanding American art from the mid-20th century to the present. It is a vibrant, visual expression and documentation of the Mexican American experience in the United States, and an affirmation of Mexican history that was and still is closely ... More |
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 'Speaking Back: Decolonizing Nordic Narratives' currently on view at Kunsthaus HamburgHAMBURG.- SPEAKING BACK is an art and research project that reflects upon colonialism in Europes North and its past and present entanglements with Germany. In the ongoing decolonization processes of German museums and other memory institutions, the Nordic colonialism and its devastating impacts on the Sámi and other minorities has not yet received enough attention. With art and scholarly perspectives, the project SPEAKING BACK, now on view at Kunsthaus Hamburg, focuses on this complex and ethically sensible field. SPEAKING BACK calls attention to the white supremacy ideology and racist structures that even today bias peoples minds and attitudes. "Race theories" along with the Nordic welfare states created both segregation of minorities and forced assimilation politics, such as adapting the language, knowledge and values ... More  Royal Scottish Academy currently showing three summer exhibitionsEDINBURGH.- This June the Royal Scottish Academy is presenting three new exhibitions: Elemental: RSA Residencies for Scotland, Reveal: Three Artists respond to Dürer's Apocalypse and Goyas Los Caprichos and Menagerie: Beasts Real and Imagined. Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland. We are an independent, non-governmental institution, governed by our Members to operate on a charitable basis. We run our year-round programme of exhibitions, artist opportunities and events from our base at the Mound, Edinburgh, and care for our nationally recognised collection. We support artists and architects through awards, residencies, scholarships and bursaries. In 2026 the RSA will celebrate its 200th anniversary. 'Elemental: RSA Residencies for Scotland' is a selection of new ... More  Americas Society: first U.S. solo exhibition of Chilean artist Sylvia Palacios WhitmanNEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society is currently presenting Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body, the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in the United States. Co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator, Art at Americas Society, and Rachel Remick, Assistant Curator, Art at Americas Society, the show will restage Palacios Whitmans key historical works; feature sketches, video, photographic documentation of performances; and include new large-scale works on paper. The exhibition focuses on the fundamental connection between drawing and performance in Palacios Whitmans practice. Sylvia Palacios Whitman is truly an interdisciplinary artist who moves between drawing and performance in a way that is very unique. Her works are playful and engaging, and she pays close attention to personal history ... More  GR gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ai☆MadonnaNEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery is now opening THE TAME DOG and THE HARE, the first solo presentation of Tokyo-based artist, Ai☆Madonna, in the U.S. The exhibition features the artist newest series of portraits that derive from her recurring reveries, related to the almost total lack of childhood and adolescence memories. These artworks are the result of a systematic research and a fanciful visualization, of how her girlhood would have been. The show puts together 15 shaped artworks of various sizes, executed with the artist radical signature technique; Ai☆Madonna will complete a large live painting, as part of a performance, during the opening event. THE TAME DOG and THE HARE is a gentle praise of freedom dedicated to all artists, progressively implying that creativity should never be tamed and obey to commands, but always unrestricted and able to pursue its goal. ... More  Soft Focus: Jessica Cannon, Parmen Daushvili, Tamo Jugeli, Carrie Rudd at Polina Berlin GalleryPARIS.- Polina Berlin Gallery and have opened Soft Focus, a group exhibition on view since June 29 through July 31, 2023 at superzoom's 81 boulevard Beaumarchais location in Paris. An opening reception was held on June 29th. Soft Focus brings together work by Jessica Cannon, Parmen Daushvili, Tamo Jugeli, and Carrie Rudd; four artists investigating liminal spaces. Reminiscent of the way consciousness flickers in the space between waking and dreaming, they explore the edges of portraiture and landscape; the line between process and intuition; and the blurred boundary between a literal interior and interior life. Paris was the birthplace of Surrealism, which elevated dream life to a generative plane. The artists included in Soft Focus masterfully navigate this realm, drawing their viewers inward and outside of themselves. ... More  Conceptual artist and pioneer of critical feminism Martha Rosler presents selection of major artwork at the SchirnFRANKFURT.- For decades, Martha Rosler has influenced numerous contemporary artists with the radicalism of her artistic position. From July 6 to September 24, 2023, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a focused solo exhibition to the American conceptual artist and pioneer of critical feminism. Roslers political artwork deals with issues of power, violence, social injustice, with war reporting, as well as with societys images of women and their deconstruction. For her socially critical photomontages and videos, the artist uses a variety of media such as photography, text, and installation. The exhibition at the Schirn will feature an array of major works selected in close cooperation with the artist, offering an overview ... More  Her symphony reclaims an ancestral story, and classical musicNEW YORK, NY.- When the composer Tamar-kali goes fishing in the South Carolina low country, she thinks about her ancestors the Gullah Geechee singing spirituals like Wade in the Water. And she pictures Harriet Tubman arriving with Union gunboats in the summer of 1863 when those ancestors actually had to wade in the water to their freedom. The Gullah Geechee, who called Tubman Black Moses, helped create a rich book of spirituals that fused biblical imagery with their own plight. You think about a people who have been engaging in this faith as a form of coping with their lot in life, Tamar-kali said, which is the absolute removal of their agency, their humanity, as chattel slaves. Tamar-kali, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is always thinking about history, and it infuses her music. The largest expression yet is her Sea Island Symphony: ... More  Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Heritage Auctions for a wonderful 'Wizard of Oz' eventDALLAS, TX.- This is no dream: On July 28, as part of its blockbuster three-day Hollywood & Entertainment Signature ® Auction, Heritage will offer the largest selection of memorabilia from The Wizard of Oz available in more than 50 years. So scarce is material from the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classic a motion picture so beloved the U.S. Library of Congress classifies it as the most watched film in movie history only nine lots make up the auction. But what wonderful lots they are. The event's offerings hail from Munchkinland and the Emerald City and all the way back to Oz's literary beginnings, with a complete set of first-edition Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the author who, in 1900, first introduced readers to Kansas farmgirl Dorothy Gale and the magical Land of Oz. The auction comes on the heels of the December 2022 Heritage event that saw ... More  'Nellie Fedchun: A Tribute to Significant Form' opens at the Ukrainian Institute of AmericaNEW YORK, NY.- Art at the Institute announces A Tribute to Significant Form, an exhibition of select sculptures by Ukrainian-American artist Nellie Fedchun, opening July 6, remaining on view through September 10, 2023. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, July 6 from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Using traditional modeling and firing techniques along with experimental methods, Fedchun brings porcelain master-pieces to life. After creating each work by hand from Stoneware clay, or chamotte, with restraint, she sparingly uses color to accent the surface texture of each work foreseeable of its expressive condition. Her thematic forms bear organic abstractions limbs, heads, and torsos revealed slowly, gradually without conscious intention. This exhibition marks Ms. Fedchuns first solo showing of her work with the ... More  'Artists in a Time of War' on view at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea through NovemberRIVOLI.- This exhibition 'Artists in a Time of War' of over 140 works by 30 artists including major new commissions of work by Ukrainian and Afghan artists takes over the entire top floor of Castello di Rivoli and is curated by Carolyn Christov- Bakargiev and Marianna Vecellio. Artists in a Time of War. From Francisco Goya to Salvador DalÃ, Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, Zoran Muič, Alberto Burri, Iri and Toshi Maruki, Fabio Mauri, Bracha L. Ettinger, Anri Sala, Michael Rakowitz, Dinh Q. Lê (with works by among others Le Lam, Phan Oanh, Nguyen Thu, Truong Hieu, Nguyen Toan Thi, Kim Tien, Quach Phong, Huynh Phuong Dong, Minh Phuong), Vu Giang Huong, Rahraw Omarzad and Nikita Kadan. The exhibition presents important works by artists who have experienced or are experiencing war. Their works express empathy and complexity, unease ... More  Cork Street Galleries in partnership with Serpentine announces @houseofdgf LONDON.- Cork Street Galleries, in partnership with Serpentine, announces @houseofdgf as its Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023. The @houseofdgf Cork Street Galleries Banners Commission 2023 presents work by Catherina Cramer & Giulietta Ockenfuss, Cristiana Cott Negoescu, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fabian Friese, Fynn Ribbeck, Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny, Jieun Lim, Klara Virnich, Lex Rütten & Jana Kerima Stolzer, Lukas Panek, Luki Von der Gracht, Mira Mann, Moritz Krauth, Naiyun Yang and Nicholas Grafia. This group exhibition of fifteen banners, exhibited over Cork Street, platforms house of dgf, (@houseofdgf on Instagram) an idea, community, place of learning and exchange relating to students and alumni of experimental artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foersters class at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Marc Chagall was born July 06, 1887. Marc Zakharovich Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. In this image: Marc Chagall, Paradise, 1961. Oil on hardboard. H: 43.5 cm, W: 58 cm. Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Marc Chagall) / Gérard Blot / ADAGP, Paris - SACK, Seoul, 2018.
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