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Climate activists demonstrate at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on July 8, 2023. Museums have begun to pay for added security for paintings. Now they are suing eco-activists for damages, and authorities are bringing serious charges. (Elizabeth Bick/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Two climate activists made a beeline for a beautiful Monet painting exhibited at the National Museum in Sweden on a recent Wednesday morning. They wanted to convey the urgency of the environmental crisis pollution, global warming and other man-made disasters that could turn the artists gorgeous gardens at Giverny into a distant memory. So the young protesters followed what has become a familiar playbook: gluing a hand to the artworks protective glass and smearing it with red paint. In April, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington two eco-activists splattered paint on the case surrounding a 19th century Degas sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, drawing pine trees and frowny faces onto its plinth with red and black paint symbolic of blood and oil. Similar scenes have unfolded at more than a dozen museums over the last year, leaving cultural workers on edge and at a loss for how to prevent climate activists from targeting delicate art ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition "Léon Wuidar , une peinture à géométrie variable" at Bonisson Art Center presents the Belgian painter's work for the first time in France. Born in Liège in 1938, Léon Wuidar has been producing seemingly geometric abstractions since the early 1960s.
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| Dallas Museum of Art presents initial design concepts from shortlisted firms | | Exhibition presents previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977 by Bruce Davidson | | Bonhams announces 32% growth in 2023 | 
Aerial from Klyde Warren Park © Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Malcolm Reading Consultants.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art revealed the finalists concept designs devised by renowned US and international architect teams in the competition to reimagine the DMA. The Museums brief to the six teams was to give its campus greater physical visibility and transparency, show visitors what is going on inside, and make the DMA more welcoming, and accessible to all. The concept designs are now available to view in a free presentation at the DMA and in an online gallery on the competition website hosted by international competition organizers, Malcolm Reading Consultants, here. The DMAs Architect Selection Committee will meet in July to interview the finalists and make a recommendation to the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees; a winner announcement is expected in August. The design will then be developed in close partnership with the Museum and its stakeholders. The Museum ... More | | 
Coney Island, New York, 1966. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Davidson: The Way Back is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 22 through September 16, 2023. Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, the exhibition presents previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977. The photographs represent the arc of Davidsons versatile career with individual images that were overlooked at the time. Some are from Davidsons most well-known seriesEast 100th Street, a look at one Harlem block in 1966-68; Brooklyn Gang, which followed a group of teenagers in the summer of 1959; Time of Change, his Civil rights photographs from 1961-65; and Subway, a look at life on the trains from 1977. Other works, in the streets of New York, the markets of Mexico, or the wilds of Yosemite, stand apart from those series though remain characterized by a creative practice rooted in humanism. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a new book ... More | | 
Tipu Sultans bedchamber sword, which sold for £14 million in May at the Islamic and Indian Art Sale, setting a new auction record for an Indian and Islamic object. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams announces its best-ever first-half year results in the companys history. From January to June 2023, the Bonhams network achieved more than $550,000,000 with sales across the globe. This is a 32% increase in sales for Bonhams Network from last year. Excluding the acquisitions made in 2022, Bonhams itself grew by 20%. This builds upon the results for 2022, in which the company achieved $1billion for the year for the first time. Bruno Vinciguerra, Bonhams Chief Executive Officer, commented: Following a breakthrough year for Bonhams in 2022 when the network achieved $1 Billion turnover for the first time in its history, it is a pleasure to announce such strong results in the first half of 2023. The auction houses acquired last year continue to strengthen Bonhams global network, and we have seen a number of memorable sales across the world and achieved ... More |
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| HART versus Hermitage Amsterdam | | Ellen Hovde, 'Grey Gardens' documentarian, dies at 97 | | The ups and downs of Europe's most interesting opera festival | 
HART Magazine has had a Benelux trademark registration since 2006 and has been using the current logo since 2019.
AMSTERDAM.- At the end of June, the Hermitage Amsterdam announced that it would change its name to H'ART Museum, effective 1 September. The rebranding of the Hermitage Amsterdam comes in the wake of the museums decision to cut all ties with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The Hermitage Amsterdam's new choice of name is baffling, given that the Belgian contemporary art magazine HART is well known in the Netherlands, being sold there in bookshops and museums (in addition to having a loyal subscriber an advertiser base). Whats more, both names HART and HART sound identical when pronounced. HART Magazine has had a Benelux trademark registration since 2006 and has been using the current logo since 2019. In response to objections by the magazine, Hermitage Amsterdam filed an emergency application for the trademark HART. It is not unimaginable that a cultural institution such as the Hermitag ... More | | 
In an undated photo from Marianne Barcellona, the documentarian Ellen Hovde. (Marianne Barcellona via The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Ellen Hovde, a documentarian who was one of the directors of Grey Gardens, the groundbreaking 1975 movie that examined the lives of two reclusive women living in a deteriorating mansion on Long Island and inspired both a Broadway musical and an HBO film, died Feb. 16 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 97. Her death, which had not been widely reported, was confirmed last week by her children, Tessa Huxley and Mark Trevenen Huxley, who said the cause was Alzheimers disease. Hovde (pronounced HUV-dee) worked on several films with the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, in the late 1960s and 70s, when they were expanding the documentary form with cinéma vérité techniques, eschewing sit-in-a-chair interviews in favor of recording life and events as they happened. In 1969 she was a contributing editor on Salesman, a documentary ... More | | 
In an image provided by Monika Ritterhaus, Simon McBurneys new staging of Wozzeck during the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023. (Monika Ritterhaus via The New York Times)
by Joshua Barone
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Christian Gerhaher never left the stage. He could have, as the title character in Alban Bergs Wozzeck. But in Simon McBurneys brutal, elegiac production at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, Gerhaher was exposed from the start: He wore his harrowing transformation, from hapless soldier to psychologically crushed murderer, on his face for the operas 90 minutes of, as Wozzeck says, one thing after another. It was hard to watch, as this opera should be: Gerhaher, a baritone, is a reigning lieder singer with a scholarly attention to text and a chameleonic ability to inhabit richly considered characters, even for just a few minutes. This remarkable skill, on the scale of opera and under the care of McBurneys stark, unshowy staging, makes for a high point of Gerhahers long, much-lauded career. ... More |
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| Auction features items from 'Citizen Kane,' 'The Sound of Music,' Disneyland and throughout Hollywood history | | Tolarno Galleries opens an exhibition of works by Tim Maguire | | Weiss Auctions announces highlights included in online-only estate auction | 
First Conceptual Maquette of Sleeping Beauty's Castle Designed by Walt Disney's Master Planner Marvin Davis and Built by "Imagineer" Fred Joerger (1953).
DALLAS, TX.- Over three days at July's end, Heritage Auctions will offer a breathtaking assortment of memorabilia spanning entertainment history: some of the rarest artifacts from The Land of Oz, a never-before-seen assortment of props and paintings and even a robot from Disaster Master Irwin Allen, collector John Azarian's out-of-this-world assemblage from the Star Wars franchise, some precious nyuk-nyuks from The Three Stooges, and Hawkeye's boots and dog tags from M*A*S*H star and national treasure Alan Alda. Which, believe it not, is only the beginning of the beginning of treasures available throughout this remarkable three-day event. Indeed, Heritage's July 27-29 Hollywood/Entertainment Signature® Auction contains myriad ... More | | 
Tim Maguire, CMY Dice Abstracts, 2021. Colour photopolymer intaglio prints, 65.5 x 64.5 cm framed size.
MELBOURNE.- Hi-Fi, Lo-Fi is Tim Maguires 16th solo show with Tolarno Galleries, a partnership that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Started in 2005 and re-visited in 2023, the earliest painting in the exhibition stands at the Lo-Fi end of the fidelity spectrum. At the Hi-Fi end, is the exhibitions tour de force: Untitled 20230201. Measuring 212 x 404 cm, it has a purity of colour and a clarity similar to computer screens and digital photography. This widescreen work is a stunningly detailed reproduction of a passage taken from Jan van Huysums Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, c. 1715, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I could never have painted this work based on the source imagery that was available in the 1990s, says Tim Maguire. My early Dutch ... More | | 
Paul Revere sterling silver pepper pot, 5 ½ inches tall and weighing 129 grams, hallmarked at the bottom with four PR initials in block letters, plus the letters F W E (est. $20,000-$30,000).
LYNBROOK, NY.- A complete portfolio of four screenprints in colors by Andy Warhol titled Skulls, three fabulous pieces by Philip and Kelvin Laverne (including an incredible wall plaque), and a Paul Revere sterling silver pepper pot are just a few of the more than 500 lots folks will be able to bid on in Weiss Auctions online-only estates auction scheduled for Tuesday, July 18th. The auction, with a 10 am Eastern start time, will have bidding available on Weiss Auctions newly redesigned bidding platform (weissauctions.com), as well as the other online platforms. The Warhol Skulls portfolio, from 1976, comprises the complete set four screenprints in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper, full sheets, each ... More |
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| ROKBOX represents needle-moving innovation in the art world | | Downbeat: Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery opens today | | 'People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue' opens at albertz benda | 
Sustainable packaging service backed by leading art shippers will positively impact ESG targets.
LONDON.- A new packaging and shipping service for the art world will be a game changer for galleries, auction houses and museums, reducing the cost of shipping and dramatically reducing carbon emissions by up to 90%. ROKBOX LOOP launched at Art Basel (15-18 June 2023), an international art fair staged annually in Basel, Switzerland (amongst other iterations internationally), where UBS will be the first to use the revolutionary new system to ship its works of art. This will simultaneously reduce CO2, waste, pollutants, and cost whilst positively contributing to its ESG targets. ROKBOX LOOP provides sustainable, protective art shipment crates on a rental basis, eradicating the need for single-use crates. The new system is light, reusable and 100% recyclable. The product has been brought to market thanks to the backing of Gander & White and Haas & Company, the first shippers to provide their clients with the rental system. Initially, the ... More | | 
Downbeat: Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery, Curated by Guillermo RodrÃguez. 11 July 18 August 2023, Photo credit: Sojourner Truth Parsons.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery is opening Downbeat, an exhibition about Denniston Hill, the artist residency founded by artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer and architect Lawrence Chua. Downbeat features alumni and collaborators of Denniston Hills residency program, including Rosa Barba, Pelenakeke Brown, Renee Gladman, Autumn Knight, Zoe Leonard, Joseph Liatela, Emma McNally, Maia Cruz Palileo, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Carlos Reyes, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The exhibition takes its title from Denniston Hills concept of the downbeat: a rhythmic kind of time stretched out to make space for rest, reflection, research, and rejuvenationessential components of the creative process. Artists exist under a constant pressure to produce. Artist studios are expected to operate like factories, many without the benefit of staff or distribution systems. The Denniston Hill downbeat ... More | | 
Ken Kiff [British, 1935-2001]. Shadow, early 1980s. Oil and pastel on canvas. 40 x 30 1/8 inches | 101.5 x 76.6 cm. Framed Dimensions: 42 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches | 108.5 x 83.4 cm. Image courtesy the estate of Ken Kiff and albertz benda, New York | Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is now opening People of the Otherworld, the gallerys first collaboration with the estate of Ken Kiff. This exhibition presents works in various media from the estate and loans from a major private UK collection, alongside new works by contemporary artists who live and work in the US. The exhibition title is derived from a story in Folk Tales of the British Isles, a book illustrated by Kiff in 1977. The title speaks to the artists fascination with creatures human, animal and mythological that inhabit his visionary, expressive paintings. Though somewhat at odds with the art celebrated during his era, Kiff was remarkably successful, celebrated through institutional exhibitions and collected both in his native country and the US. The exhibition is guest curated by Kathy Battista, an art historian who has researched post ... More |
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 Award-winning 'Cabaret' revival plans spring Broadway bowNEW YORK, NY.- Willkommen, bienvenue, Broadway! Cabaret, the ever-popular (and portentous) musical set in a Berlin nightclub on the eve of the Nazis rise to power, will return to Broadway in the spring in a new production that has won raves in London. The producing team on Tuesday morning announced a plan to transfer the show to Broadway, and said it would open at August Wilson Theater, where a revival of Funny Girl is scheduled to close Sept. 3. Cabaret producers did not announce any other details, but it is widely expected that Eddie Redmayne, the film star who played the nightclubs Master of Ceremonies when this revival opened in London, will reprise the role on Broadway. The shows other big role, Sally Bowles, the nightclubs star singer, was initially played in London by Jessie Buckley; that role has not yet been cast in New York. Cabaret, with music by John Kander, lyrics ... More  A Pokémon Ruby Version graded 10.0 A++ leads Heritage's July Video Games eventDALLAS, TX.- The making of a new category of collectible comes down to a consensus, and a few years ago, circumstances dovetailed: Vintage home video games entered the collector market due to a surge in demand from both veteran and potential collectors to acknowledge the rarity and desirability of these objects. Gen X, as well as Boomers and Millennials, share a deep nostalgia and affection for these games, and the games in turn cooperate as limited editions. In each and every beloved home video game release there is a sense of the history of evolving technologies, narratives, and aesthetics forces that have sunk into us as powerfully as those from our favorite comics, movies, books, music and more. (And more often than not, the games have formed the basis of our favorite comics, movies and more.) Why not concede the inherent ... More  In Scotland, taking the traditional and making it newNEW YORK, NY.- Cool-kid chefs turning local bounty into Michelin-worthy dishes, an artisan whiskey boom and a clutch of stylish hotels have helped Scotland shrug off its saturnine image and rebrand as a misty, moody mecca. The cult following of the time-travel television series Outlander has added to the patina. Its depiction of Highland clan life, along with stunning locations from Inverness to Edinburgh, has fueled a tourism spike that the National Trust for Scotland refers to as the Outlander Effect. One thing is clear: Between women-helmed whiskey startups, the rise in gastronomic tasting menus in middle-of-nowhere settings and the classic tartan patterns spike in popularity, Gaelic culture has been rejiggered in a fresh and exciting way. Its enough to make closely held traditions relevant to Millennials, Gen Z and people old enough to remember ... More  Gorgeous Chinese blue and white porcelain vase blasts through its $100-$300 to sell for $20,910 BEACHWOOD, OHIO.- A gorgeous 17-inch-tall Chinese blue and white porcelain vase sold for $20,910, an equally beautiful pair of late 19th century Aesthetic Movement leaded glass windows realized $7,995, and a pair of carved and painted carousel animal figures each brought $7,380 in an online-only Fine Art & Antiques auction held on Saturday, June 24th, by Neue Auctions. The Chinese porcelain vase came into the sale with a $100/$300 estimate and ended up being the overall top lot. It was probably early 20th century and was nicely decorated with a landscape of a scholar boating on a lake to view the autumn moon. It was predominantly painted in underglaze cobalt; copper red was used for the trees and moon to emphasize the season and the time of day. The late 19th century pair of Aesthetic Movement leaded glass windows ... More  Art Gallery of Ontario presents three contemporary artists re-imagining African studio portraitureTORONTO.- On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Re-Mixing African Photography: Kelani Abass, Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Abraham Oghobase presents new and recent works by three contemporary African artists. United by their shared interest in the photographic histories of West and Central Africaspecifically studio portraiture these artists are reimagining traditions with introspective, experimental and critical approaches. Featuring family photographs, archival material and mixed media objects, the exhibition is curated by Dr. Julie Crooks, Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, and organized by the AGO. The works here on view reflect the enduring influence of the many African studio photographers who came before and look towards the future, demonstrating varying degrees of nostalgia and critique and reflecting ... More  Book launch and exhibition of paintings by artist and poet, A Painter and a Poet: Conversations in Colour ST IVES.- Place a poem beside a painting and something almost mystical occurs. A space outside of space suddenly opens. In it, a new syntax and a new grammar a language that is neither verbal nor visual, yet both is formed: a conversation between strangers who share neither origin nor accent but a yearning for truth. Kelly Grovier. This new book of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, celebrates the intimacy and beauty that can be found in our everyday lives, bringing together exciting new work from the two makers in which art and language sit side by side, each illuminating the other. Painter and poet discuss their experience of working in their respective media. They talk about their sources of inspiration, how they might choose a subject, and the process that surrounds the making of their work. What do they share in their creative ... More  'A girl for the living room' by Rene Matić to open at the Martin Parr Foundation, BristolBRISTOL.- A series of portraits exploring intentional love and its locality by artist Rene Matić go on display today at the Martin Parr Foundation. Matićs diaristic portraits are of their friend, writer, performer and theatre-maker Travis Alabanza, documenting their developing relationship as it became lit by a table lamp instead of a disco ball. Matić was commissioned by the Martin Parr Foundation to make a new series of work focusing on Bristol in 2022. Matić chose to use the opportunity to focus on and get to know their Bristol-born and based friend Alabanza. Before embarking on this project, Matić and Alabanzas encounters had always been in clubs and on the dancefloor. Many of the relationships that permeate the QTPOC (queer, trans, people of colour) community have been birthed in clubs and on dancefloors. They are relationships that exist when the room is always too loud to ... More  $100,000 Hadley's Art Prize winner to be announced on July 21st, 2023HOBART.- The winner of the $100,000 Hadleys Art Prize 2023 for landscape painting, one of Australias richest art prizes, is set to be announced on Friday 21 July 2023. The annual acquisitive prize, held at Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart from 22 July 20 August 2023, features 30 finalists selected for their outstanding portrayal of the Australian landscape, with representation from every state in Australia. Among this years finalists are leading Australian artists such as Joan Ross (NSW), Raymond Arnold (TAS), Betty Chimney (SA), Sebastian Di Mauro (QLD), megan evans (VIC), Mabel Juli (WA), Kieren Karritpul (NT), Donna Marcus (QLD), Patrick Mung Mung (WA), Megan Walch (TAS), Philip Wolfhagen (TAS), alongside emerging and early career artists. Selected works span a range of mediums, from oil, acrylic, gouache and beeswax, to natural ochre and ... More  Melting glaciers and icebergs depicted by Myrtha Vega at the Museum of Contemporary Art in AtlantaATLANTA, GA.- Longtime Atlanta Artist Myrtha Vega has been learning about and painting melting glaciers and icebergs for over 10 years with growing interest and urgency. Her work is now the subject of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta that began June 10 and will continue to August 5, 2023. According to Vega, I am fascinated that glaciers have a life cycle much like humans and animals. Glaciers grow and diminish in size just as living things do, and from the moment a glacier births an iceberg, a process amazingly referred to as calving, that iceberg moves away from its mother and may wander the sea, changing in size and shape, sometimes even becoming beached on shore much like whales sometimes do. Vega, a retired architect originally from Cuba, began painting while still a practicing architect. She began showing ... More  'Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain' to be exhibited at the Rose Art Museum this AugustWALTHAM, MASS.- Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain, on view at the Rose Art Museum from August 3 through October 22 in the Lois Foster Wing, is the Iranian artists first comprehensive museum survey. Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984) has become known for weaving Persian motifs with surreal iconography, creating ghostly, enigmatic artworks that thematize gender, censorship, power, and cultural transience. Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, Black Rain will trace Khosravis development as an artist from her Muslim Ban series, painted on her expired Iranian passports, alongside over a dozen new reliefs and monumental sculptures created especially for the exhibition. Khosravis powerful feminist imagery could not be more relevant as we witness the Iranian regimes extreme brutality in response to the brave ... More  Gotta save the castle? Start a podcast.NEW YORK, NY.- Last month, Emma, Duchess of Rutland, sat in her drawing room and weighed the pros and cons of living over the shop. Specifically, Belvoir Castle, a stately and splendid pile perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It has been the site of the family seat since the 16th century. Well, it is magnificent, of course, and we are incredibly lucky, but you never quite know who is in here with you, she said. There isnt privacy in the way most people might expect from their homes. And dont get me started on the ghosts. A private secretary wandered by with a giant flag that needed repair before it could fly from the castles 2 1/2-acre roof. Downstairs, the castle tearoom hummed with tables of tourists sampling scones with jams from the Belvoir estate. Nearby, a platoon ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was born July 13, 1933. Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 - February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. In this image: Piero Manzoni (1933â1963), Milano et-mitologiaa (Milan and mythology), 1956. Oil on board. Private Collection Milan© Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano, by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013, 95 x 130 cm.
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