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The Use of Hands (1949), left, and Horror (1936) by the Norwegian textile artist Hannah Ryggen at the new National Museum, in Oslo, Norway, June 7, 2022. City administrators hope the museum will help Oslo, and the rest of the country, step out of its Scandinavian neighbors shadows. David B. Torch/The New York Times.
by Thomas Rogers
OSLO.- For decades, Oslo lived in the shadow of Scandinavias two other capitals, Stockholm and Copenhagen, Denmark. The Norwegian city, alongside a picturesque fjord dotted with rugged islands, has often been derided as sleepy and overpriced, or as a mere stopping-off point for tourists heading into the Norwegian mountains or boarding a cruise along the coast. In recent years, Norwegian and municipal authorities have spent hundreds of millions trying to change that view. As part of a redevelopment project known as Fjord City, leaders have transformed the Oslo waterfront into a glossy district of high-rises and pedestrian plazas dotted with swimming spots and cultural amenities, including its now-famous opera house and the towering new home of the Munch Museum, dedicated to Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. On Saturday, after years of delay and dispute, the most ambitious of these projects finally opened its doors: the countrys new National Museum, a gargantuan building c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Isamu Noguchi, White Cube at Arley Hall, until 29 August 2022, Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)
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| Long unseen portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon leads summer season | | Fondation Louis Vuitton celebrates the centenary of Simon Hantaï with exhibition | | Pioneering drone technology leads to new discoveries in Iraq | 
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1964, est. in excess of £34m. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Unseen for over half a century, Francis Bacons magnetic portrait of Lucian Freud is set to lead this seasons auctions in London, when it stars in Sothebys "British Art: The Jubilee Auction marquee sale on June 29. Carrying an estimate in excess of £35 million, Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud is coming to auction for the very first time, having remained in the same private European collection for 40 years. Painted in 1964, at the height of Bacons career, the full-length portrait illuminates the powerful dialogue of friendship and epochal rivalry which would engulf two titans of art history and spur them to create some of their greatest works. The pair had first met 20 years earlier and would go on to share an intense friendship for over 40 years until jealousy and petty rows would ultimately splinter relations forever in the mid-1980s. Though their visual styles differed considerably, both artists wer ... More | | 
Simon Hantaï, Mariale m.d.4 (Marian m.d.4), Paris,1962. Oil on canvas, 236 à 207 cm. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris © Archives Simon Hantaï / ADAGP, Paris 2022 © Primae / Louis Bourjac.
PARIS.- To celebrate the centenary of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008), Fondation Louis Vuitton is organising an unprecedented retrospective exhibition curated by Anne Baldassari. It includes more than 150 of Simon Hantaïs works, many of which have never before been shown, and the majority of which are large format works from 1957 to 2004. This impressive panorama of the artists work spans three floors of the Frank Gehry building, covering a total of approximately 29,063 ft2. For the first time, a largely unprecedented workshop collection of Hantaïs works is being shown. A total of fifteen historical pieces are included in this collection, all of which are emblematic of his approach during the period of 1957-1960. The artist donated most of these works to public institutions, while others are held in large private collections ... More | | 
Face of the Demon Humbaba; fired clay; Abu Haba, Iraq; 1800 1600BC. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- A new approach to archaeology in Iraq using high resolution drone imagery has led to the discovery, identification, and preservation of ancient buildings, from over 4,000 years ago. This is the first time drone technology has been used in this way for cultural heritage sites in southern Iraq. A unique combination of remote sensing work using high resolution drone imagery, ground-truthing and conservation techniques. Without this important work, these buildings would have remained hidden under the surface. Fieldwork research such as this provides new and important insight into archaeological sites and objects from this region within the British Museums collection and museums in Iraq. Field research from Iraq in combination with key objects from the Museums collection forms the narrative of the British Museum touring exhibition Ancient Iraq: ... More |
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| 145 lots of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture now available for online bidding on shannons.com | | Christie's results: 83 million for Hubert de Givenchy, Part I | | Palmer Museum summer exhibitions highlight past roots and present experience during its 50th anniversary year | 
Oil on canvas by Jenness Cortez (American, b. 1944), titled Saratoga Horse Race, signed, 36 ¼ inches by 32 inches (Estimate: $6,000-$8,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Summer Online Auction on Thursday, June 23rd at 2 pm Eastern time offers something for everyone, with many works priced around $1,000. There are original oil paintings, fine quality prints, unique contemporary drawings and brightly colored works on paper. Leading the auction is an oil painting of a New England covered bridge by American artist Eric Sloane. Under the bridge, identified as Conway Bridge in New Hampshire, there is a figure fishing in the stream (estimate $6,000-$8,000). Other leading lots in the sale include a stormy sailing scene attributed to Robert Salmon (estimate $6,000-$8,000); a Jenness Cortez, titled Saratoga Horse Race (estimate $6,000-$8,000) and a Jennie Brownscombe, titled Girl with Flower (estimate $3,000-$5,000). There are numerous paintings by celebrated Gloucester, Massachusetts area artists. Highlights in this ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Femme qui marche [I]. Bronze with dark brown patina. Price realised : 27,169,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
PARIS.- On 14 June 2022, Christies held the first of six sales of the Hubert de Givenchy collection. Hubert de Givenchy - Collectionneur: Chefs-d'oeuvre | Masterpieces, featured 63 lots representing the very best examples of 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Century art selected from the couturiers final collection, housed in his exquisite residences, the Hôtel d'Orrouer in Paris and the Manoir du Jonchet in the Loire Valley. The sale realised 82,992,850 / $86,810,521 / £71,373,851 selling 100% by lot, 100% by value, 76% of lots sold above their high estimate and with bidding from 18 countries. Buying by lot came 46% from EMEA, 30% from APAC and 24% from the Americas. The top lot of the sale was Albert Giacomettis Femme qui marche [I], which achieved 27,169,500 ($28,419,297), setting the record for the most expensive work sold at auction in France so far this year. Conceived in 1932-1936, this ... More | | 
William P. Hanson (American, 19282017), Grasses, Branches, and Shore, Maine, 1963/1969, watercolor, pencil, and crayon, 14 x 10 inches. Gift of Professor Cortland Eyer, 88.7.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- In ongoing celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State recently opened three exhibitions that bring home its connection to faculty, staff, and the collection as it reflects on its history during its jubilee year. Headlined by HOME/STUDIO: 2022 Penn State School of Visual Arts Faculty Show, which opened May 28, the summer exhibitions represent a symbolic homecoming, according to Museum Director Erin M. Coe, as we reflect on the museums historic connection to organizing faculty shows since our founding in 1972, and our own connection to the growing collection during this 50th anniversary year. HOME/STUDIO features recent work by twenty-five current faculty members from the Penn State School of Visual Arts (SoVA). Exhibitions of work by visual ... More |
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| Garvey│Simon opens an exhibition of works by Gwyneth Leech | | Christie's Aspen opens new season of selling exhibitions | | Newly rediscovered Stubbs dog portrait offered at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale | 
Cort Theatre and Building Rising, View from West 48th Street #4, 2020, 12 x 9, Oil on wood panel.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting Gwyneth Leech: Liminal New York opening June 15, 2022 at Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. Liminal New York features a selection of paintings from Gwyneth Leech, chronicling the evolution of New York Citys skyline. Equal parts documentarian and poet, Leechs paintings center on internal frameworks, scaffolding and other temporarily visible structures; architectures that only exist as other architectures takes shape. Liminal New York observes these gestations from foundation to finish, capturing the transient adolescence of Manhattans future giants. Liminal New York will be on view from June 15th through June 26th; an opening reception will take place on Thursday, June 16th from 6-8pm. Gwyneth Leech tracks the progress of Manhattan construction with the sensitivity of an Impressionist painter. Initially ... More | | 
Javier Calleja (b. 1971), Redhead, 2014. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
ASPEN, CO.- Christies seasonal residency program returns to Aspen for summer 2022, now taking place in a new location in the core of the city. The building is a creation of Annabelle Selldorf, renowned architect who also designed the new galleries at Christies New York in Rockefeller Center. The stunning new Rocky Mountain outpost is a two-story, 2,635 square-foot state-of-the-art gallery boasting a striking exterior, beautiful finishes, and polished cement floors. Mere blocks from the gondola, restaurants, shops, and the Aspen Art Museum, the building is in the heart of downtown. It features an outdoor sculpture garden space and gorgeous sunlight filled rooms with views of Aspen Mountain. Bonnie Brennan, President, Christies Americas, remarks, It is our pleasure to welcome the Aspen community back to Christies pop-up residency for a series of exciting exhibitions this summer, ... More | | 
Detail of A black and white spaniel pointing by George Stubbs. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- It is not every day that a lost masterpiece resurfaces and when its a work by the preeminent 18th century animal painter George Stubbs (1724-1806) interest is bound to be high. Until recently, Stubbs A black and white spaniel pointing was considered lost. In fact, it had been hidden away unrecognised in a collection overseas and its re-emergence is already capturing the attention of collectors. The portrait, which leads Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on 6 July, has an estimate of £200,000-300,000. Although Stubbs made his name as a painter of horses for the grandees of racing and horse breeding, he developed an equally lucrative career as a painter of dogs often as commissions from the aristocratic owners of the horses. As art critic Susan Moore, writing in the summer edition of Bonhams Magazine explains, His clientele was delighted that he was prepared to treat their hounds, working ... More |
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| Painter Duncan Hannah passes away at 70 | | Liz Munsell appointed Barnett & Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum | | Painting by Maine artist Joel Babb joins Portland Museum of Art's permanent collection | 
Duncan Hannah in his Connecticut home and studio, 2016. Credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Modernism is saddened to announce the passing away of Duncan Hannah at 70. Duncan Hannah was a painter, collagist, draftsman and writer who had over a hundred solo shows throughout the United States (including six solo shows at Modernism in San Francisco since 1984), England, France, Holland, Seoul and Israel since his debut in 1981. Born in 1952 in Minneapolis Minnesota, Hannah studied at Bard College and the Parsons School of Design in New York. He lived in Brooklyn, NY and West Cornwall, CT. Duncan Hannah created a world evocative of an earlier era, with quiet theatricality and unspoken narratives. With Europe often the setting for his atmospheric scenes, the artist reinvented a period in which fashionable figures wander the streets of London and Paris, a classic car races in the Monaco Grand Prix, and a train makes it way through the snow-laden Alps. Hannah favored mysteries left open to interpretation, and liked to wander ... More | | 
Over her 12-year tenure, Ms. Munsell had a transformative impact on the contemporary program and collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum announced today that Liz Munsell will become the Jewish Museums Barnett & Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art. Ms. Munsell is currently the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She will begin her new role at the Jewish Museum on August 8, 2022. A vital part of the Jewish Museums curatorial team and reporting to Darsie Alexander, Senior Deputy Director & Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, Ms. Munsell will produce and steer exhibitions that explore the intersection of Jewish identity and contemporary art practice. She will work to enhance the diversity of artists and cultures represented in the Museums contemporary program through exhibitions, acquisitions, commissions, and special projects. In addition, she will oversee The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection at the Museum. Claudia Gould, ... More | | 
Joel Babb, Gulf Hagas, 2011 (detail), 45 x 65, oil on linen.
PORTLAND, ME.- Gulf Hagas, a painting by Joel Babb, a regional painter of renown in both Boston and the state of Maine, has recently been installed at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, it was announced by the museums Curator of Contemporary Art, Jaime DeSimone. A gift from an anonymous donor, in honor of Dr. Walter Goldfarb, to the museums permanent collection, Gulf Hagas measures 45 x 64 inches (2011, oil on linen), and depicts a gorge in the northern Maine woods in the mountains of the hundred mile wilderness portion of the Appalachian Trail. The west branch of the Pleasant River makes a canyon of three miles length with a series of beautiful waterfalls. Walter Goldfarb was a Portland surgeon who had given much of his own collection of 19th century American paintings to the PMA. A graduate in Art History from Princeton University in 1969, Babb studied with George Segal and George Ortman. After spending a year in ... More |
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Cy Twombly âUntitledâ | London | June 2022
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 Exceptional results for the Claude de Marteau Collection at Bonhams ParisPARIS.- Treasures from the renowned Claude de Marteau Collection sold for a total of 3.5 million at Bonhams Paris yesterday (14 June) with 96.88% of lots sold and 100% of lots by value. The highlight of the sale was an imposing and enigmatic grey schist Buddha sculpted in the ancient region of Gandhara during the 3rd century, which sold for 567,375. As it is entitled to do under French law, the world-famous Musée Guimet stepped in to pre-empt the final bid on an Indian stele of Ganesha. Edward Wilkinson, Bonhams Global Head of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, said: Buyers from all over the world, online, on the phone, and in the room recognised the rarity and exceptional quality of each piece in this collection. The very positive results of this sale are a tribute to the late Claude de Marteaus great eye and taste. We ... More  Silverstone Auctions launch a new sale, 'The Dawn of Motoring'LONDON.- This fantastic, matching numbers, Bentley 8-litre was delivered new to the Duke of Leinster and was extensively rallied by the late owner. Its guide price is: £600,000 - £800,000. It comes to sale from a family that has owned it for 35 years to a new sale The Dawn Of Motoring Sale on 5th August. Rob Hubbard, Sales Director of Silverstone Auctions, comments: We are delighted to present an entirely new auction to our sales calendar. The Dawn of Motoring Auction will feature select items of memorabilia along with pre-war motor cars and motorcycles celebrating the earliest years of engineering development through to stunning Art Deco styling of the 1930s and 40s. Timed to coincide with the Vintage Sports-Car Clubs Prescott Hillclimb weekend, the largest gathering of Vintage and Post Vintage Thoroughbred cars in the world. ... More  Han Bing joins Thaddaeus RopacPARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared the news that artist Han Bing is joining the gallery. Born in China and currently based in Paris, Han Bing is recognised for her sensitive yet disruptive visual language in paintings that deconstruct pictorial reality and open up new dimensions. Four of her new paintings are currently on view in the group exhibition Saturation at our Paris Pantin gallery, curated by Oona Doyle. Representing the artist in Europe and Korea alongside Antenna Space in China and Night Gallery in the USA, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery will stage a solo exhibition of Hans work in 2023. Paintings by Han Bing are housed in institutional and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, in 2020. Han ... More  Assouline will debut GOLD as the next title in their renowned Impossible Collection seriesNEW YORK, NY.- Goldpure, indestructible, dazzling: Since the dawn of time, this precious metal has generated countless fantasies and beliefs. Whether it leads powerful rulers to the afterlife, casts a delicate glow on the Buddhist pagodas of Southeast Asia, illuminates the halos of saints, adds brilliance to the crowns of kings and popes, gleams on haute couture runways or glitters on a rappers grill, gold is an eternal symbol of wealth and glory, the prized elements highly malleable nature lending itself to infinite metamorphoses. What accounts for such a lasting and universal fascination? Thanks to its irresistible luminosity and remarkable resilience, gold is the ideal medium to symbolize both visible and invisible forces. Artists from Gustav Klimt to Andy Warhol and Yves Klein have exalted its metaphysical and fantastic ... More  Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of artists who grew up in a post-Mao China NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity. Belonging to what is referred to as the ba ling hou generation, artists in the exhibition grew up in a post-Mao China shaped by the one-child policy and the influx of foreign investment. Comprising painting, sculpture, performance, installation, video, digital art, and photography, the exhibition reflects the dramatic economic, political, and cultural shifts the artists have experienced in China during their lifetimes. The exhibitions title, Mirror Image, refers to the double reflection at the heart of the exhibition. Rather than emphasizing their Chinese-ness, these artists respective practices are born of a China where Starbucks can be found in the Forbidden City and the internet permits them accessdespite the obstacles of censorshipto a host ... More  Hirmer Publishing releases Olmsted Trees: Photograohs by Stankey GreenbergNEW YORK, NY.- "Greenberg turns each knot and second growth, every ancient groove and gnarled root into a badge of honorand defiance
In the form of these trees, Olmsted provided us with gigantic guides and protectors that would grow old along with us, and serve as constant reminders of both the fragility of natural life and its persistence in the most urban of environments." Kevin Baker Fundamental to renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's vision in his park designs was the key role of time. He had the ability to see a plot of land for what it was in the raw undeveloped state, as well as to visualize how his designs would translate several decades into the future after the trees and shrubs he planted had rooted and spread and integrated with the space. In a letter to his son he wrote, [W]e ... More  48 artists announced for New Contemporaries 2022LONDON.- New Contemporaries announced this year's selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. Drawing on personal and universal narratives from complex identities to notions of memory and storytelling this years exhibition demonstrates a rich diversity of voices and approaches to making. The rigorous two-part selection process was headed by a panel of three internationally renowned artists comprising James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa. This years 48 artists include final year students and recent graduates from arts institutions across the UK, as well as practitioners on alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes including Open School East, Intoart, The Royal Drawing School, Into the Wild and Conditions Studio Programme. As well as taking part in the annual touring exhibition, artists ... More  1912 car that has spent over a century with the same family will be offered by H&H ClassicsLONDON.- This French beauty has lived with the same family for over a 100 years in the Peterborough area of England. It now comes to sale with H&H Classics seeking a new owner for maybe another century? It is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £40,000. In current family ownership since 1917 it comes to auction with its original purchase invoice present. Paul Cheetham of H&H Classics, says: It has been subject to a restoration during the 1970s and presenting today with a nice patina. It is one of just three examples thought to survive. Suited to many V.C.C and V.S.C.C events it is French rated at 10hp (equating to 11.5hp in British R.A.C ratings)and is offered with a history file and spare engine parts. Adrian Serjeant, one of the family with whom it has had a home for all these years says: The family has lived in the same ... More  Sabrina Amrani announces the incorporation of Ishola Akpo to the gallery's roster of artistsMADRID.- Sabrina Amrani announced the incorporation of Ishola Akpo to the gallerys roster of artists. Ishola Akpo (b. 1983) is a photographer and multimedia artist in Benin. The artist experiments with the possibilities of digital mediums, while mixing modernities and traditions in his work, playing on different levels of reading to make plural metaphors. The border between reality and fiction, fixed identities and multiple identities, remains at the heart of his approach. In 2013, he won the Visa pour la Création (French Institute, Paris), where he presented the series Pas de flash s'il vous plaît!, a reflection on the interaction of light on photographed subjects, presented in the form of a performance and exhibition at the Institut Français de Cotonou. In 2014, he published the series Lessentiel est invisible pour les yeux (Africa Is No Island, MACAAL, ... More  Berry Campbell announces its new locationNEW YORK, NY.- After nine successful years on West 24th Street in Chelsea, Berry Campbell is excited to announce that we will be moving two blocks north to a new expanded gallery space on West 26th Street. Berry Campbell will begin the transition to its new space at 524 West 26th Street on September 1, 2022. We are honored to be moving to this pedigreed location that has previously been the home of the prestigious Paula Cooper Gallery and Robert Miller Gallery. The new Berry Campbell, which will boast a total of 9,000 square feet, will support the continued expansion of our exhibition program and allow us to better serve the evolving needs of both our clients and the artists and estates whom we are fortunate to represent. Our new location houses 4,500 square feet of exhibition space, including a skylit main gallery and four ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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