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In this file photo taken on September 13, 2019 A visitor looks at the "Bayeux tapestry" or "Queen Mathilde tapestry" which relates Britain's conquest by William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquerant) in 1066, in Bayeux, western France, on September 13, 2019. LOIC VENANCE / AFP.
by Chloé Coupeau
BAYEUX (AFP).- It has stood for over nine centuries as the most celebrated record of the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, its famous images cemented into the mind of every British school child. But for all its enduring power, the 70-metre (230 feet) long Bayeux Tapestry -- held at a museum in the northern French town of the same name -- is a fragile object suffering from wear-and-tear, including thousands of holes. It will now be restored for the first since 1870, two years after an agreement between Paris and London for the tapestry to be loaned to Britain. "The tapestry is an old lady who is nearly 1,000 years old, a very, very fine linen canvas embroidered with wool which now shows multiple signs of damage," Antoine Verney, the chief curator of the museum, told AFP. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The solo exhibition 'The Concept of History' links Peter Kennard's work to the political thinking of Hannah Arendt through their shared belief that history is a construct managed and controlled by those in power.Photo: Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery.
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| Vibrant multimedia artist and painter Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt dies at the age of 93 | | Asia Week New York extends online viewing room through March 27th | | Solo exhibition of ten works by Roy Lichtenstein opens at Pace Gallery's seasonal location in Palm Beach | 
Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt. Courtesy Anita Shapolsky Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Shapolsky announced the death of Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt, vibrant multimedia artist and painter belonging to the second generation of the New York Abstract School that burst to prominence in the 1950s. Although she spent most of her artist life in Paris, the color and energy of her work makes her an inseparable part of the New York School of abstraction. Ms. Ehrenhalt passed on March 16th, 2021 at the age of 93 in New York City due to complications from Covid-19. She is survived by her son Caradoc and daughter, Sonce. Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1928 and grew up in Philadelphia, PA. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on scholarship and studied also at ... More | | 
Longquan Phoenix Tail Vase, Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, China. Image courtesy Zetterquist Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Asia Week New York opened on Thursday, March 11, it was entering unchartered territory. Before the pandemic, galleries and auction houses were abuzz with international collectors, curators and Asian art enthusiasts seeking out treasures. While 13 New York galleries are open by appointment, all 29 exhibitions went digital on a newly revamped platform, attracting a number of buyers on opening weekend. We are very pleased with the enthusiastic response from visitors to the website, many of whom made significant purchases and have decided to extend the virtual viewing rooms through March 27th, says Asia Week New York chairperson Katherine Martin. As of press time, reported sales from the online viewing rooms ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstroke (Tuten 23), 1982. Painted and patinated bronze sculpture, 54" à 27-1/2" à 11" (137.2 cm à 69.9 cm à 27.9 cm) © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Pace Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of ten works by Roy Lichtenstein at the gallerys seasonal location in Palm Beach, FL. Bringing together a selection of rarely seen works, this presentation features collage, drawing, painting, and sculpture from the 1970s and 80s, in particular showcasing Lichtensteins return to the iconic theme of the brushstroke across a range of different media. Borrowing from the signs and symbols of mass culture while mining images from media, advertisements, and commercial illustrations, Lichtenstein developed a singular Pop idiom that playfully challenged the boundaries of high art and low culture. Over ... More |
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| The Met receives significant gift of 18 exceptional contemporary metalworks by Japanese artists | | Extremely rare Ming Dynasty bowl discovered at Connecticut yard sale for $35 achieves $721,800 at Sotheby's | | Career-spanning survey of Alice Neel opens March 22 at The Met | 
Nakagawa Mamoru (Japanese, born 1947). 7 o'clock NY, 2020. Reiwa period (2019present). Cast alloy of copper, silver, and tin with inlays of copper, silver, and gold. H. 13 7/8 (35.2 cm); W. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); D. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Hayashi Kaoru, in celebration of the Museums 150th Anniversary, 2020. Image © Nakagawa Mamoru.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a gift from Hayashi Kaoru of 18 exceptional metalworks by Japanese contemporary artists. The gift, part of The Mets 2020 Collections Initiative celebrating the Museums 150th anniversary, significantly broadens the scope of The Mets Japanese decorative arts collection. The works are being displayed alongside other transformative acquisitions of the past decade in Japan: A History of Stylea yearlong exhibition marking the first time contemporary metalworks are on view in the Arts of Japan, The Sackler Wing Galleries. (The 18 metalworks will be featured in two rotations, with the changeover taking place in August 2021.) We are extremely grateful to Hayashi Kaoru for this ... More | | 
An exceptional and rare blue and white 'floral' bowl, Ming dynasty, Yongle period, sold for $721,800 during Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Auction in New York, 17 March 2021. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today in Sothebys New York salesroom, a Ming dynasty, Yongle period exceptional and rare blue and white 'floral' bowl originally purchased for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale achieved $721,800 following a bidding battle between four bidders. Just six companion bowls are known, with most held in renowned museum collections in the world. Angela McAteer, Sothebys Head of Chinese Works of Art Department in New York, said: "Today's result for this exceptionally rare floral bowl, dating to the 15th century, epitomizes the incredible, once in a lifetime discovery stories that we dream about as specialists in the Chinese Art field. With more than five centuries of history, the bowl has an incredible story - from the famed Yongle court of the Ming dynasty to present day Connecticut, where was it recently acquired for just $35, to our York Avenue saleroom where it was one ... More | | 
Alice Neel, (American, 19001984), The Spanish Family, 1943. Oil on canvas, 34 à 28 in. (86.4 à 71.1 cm) Estate of Alice Neel. © The Estate of Alice Neel.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alice Neel: People Come First is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (19001984) in 20 years. This ambitious, career-spanning survey at The Met positions Neel as one of the century's most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art, as demonstrated in the survey's approximately 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors. Alice Neel: People Come First will be on view March 22 through August 1, 2021. "Alice Neel was an outstanding painter whose iconic 'pictures of people,' as she called her portraits, radiate her fierce personal belief in humanity's inherent dignity and her steadfast social conscience," said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "This important exhibition places Neel's life and art within the context of the 20th century, considering them ... More |
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| James Levine, former Met Opera maestro, is dead at 77 | | 2021 begins a new era of arms & armor at Cowan's and Hindman | | An architect's muted triumph | 
Levine, the guiding maestro of the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years and one of the worlds most influential and admired conductors until allegations of sexual abuse and harassment ended his career, died on March 9, 2021, in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 77. Richard Termine/The New York Times.
by Anthony Tommasini
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- James Levine, the guiding maestro of the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years and one of the worlds most influential and admired conductors until allegations of sexual abuse and harassment ended his career, died March 9 in Palm Springs, California. He was 77. His death was confirmed Wednesday morning by Dr. Len Horovitz, his physician. The cause was not immediately released, nor was it clear why the death had not been announced earlier. After investigating accounts of sexual improprieties by Levine with younger men stretching over decades, the Met first suspended and then fired him ... More | | 
Ashley Hlebinsky.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Cowans and Hindman Auctions announced a new era in Arms and Armor with the addition of three new arms historians. Tim Carey has been appointed as the new Director and Specialist of the department, while long-time Cowans consultant Tim Prince will formally join the team, along with Ashley Hlebinsky, as Senior Specialists. For the better part of two decades, Cowans has been synonymous with Arms and Armor. With the addition of such talented experts, we are reaffirming our commitment to maintaining our position as the industry leader and look forward to expanding the department into new and exciting categories, said Jay Krehbiel, Hindmans Chief Executive Officer. Tim Carey is a 40-year veteran of the sporting arms and outdoor recreation industry. Carey joins Cowans from Griffin & Howe at Hudson Farms in Andover, NJ where he was responsible for the acquisition, appraisal, and ... More | | 
The architectural designer Maya Lin, right, with her daughter at Smith Colleges Neilson Library in Northampton, Mass., Feb. 24, 2021. Tony Luong/The New York Times.
by Brett Sokol
NORTHAMPTON, MASS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Renovating a historic building is rarely simple, whether its a Brooklyn brownstone or, in this case, the $120 million overhaul of Smith Colleges century-old Neilson Library. As any architect can attest, a venerable buildings emotionally attached owners can be far more challenging to manage than the actual construction. But any reservations Maya Lin may have had after being hired in 2015 by Smith to redesign the 200,000-square-foot Neilson fell away as soon as she stepped through its front doors. With a laugh, she recalled her reaction at the time: This is going to be easy, because this is so bad! Three rounds of prior ... More |
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| Naudline Pierre now represented by James Cohan | | Exhibition at BOZAR presents a comprehensive overview of Roger Raveel's work | | The arts are coming back this summer. Just step outside. | 
Naudline Pierre by Rafael Martinez.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of New York-based artist Naudline Pierre. Pierre is known for her paintings that draw from fantasy and iconography to conjure alternate worlds. Swirling with jewel-toned texture, her works center ecstasy, devotion, and tenderness in epic scenes that generate space for rescue and healing. Pierres winged figures are enveloped in vast, horizonless landscapes, where they come together in acts of intimacy and salvation; they reach longingly outward toward each other, congregate, and embrace, emoting protection and care. Rendered in layers of prismatic-colored washes, the artists subjects are limitless and uniquely out of step with time. Cast within stories of sublimation, mercy, and resurrection, their ethereal bodies defy boundaries set by inherited mythology and art historical precedent. Within these narratives, Pierre inscribes her alter-ego as protagonista vessel to explore ... More | | 
Roger Raveel, Yellow Man with Cart, 1952, Collection of the Flemish Community/Roger Raveel Museum © Raveel MDM. Photo: Peter Claeys.
BRUSSELS.- In 2021 Roger Raveel would have celebrated his 100th birthday. In this centenary year BOZAR is paying extensive homage to Raveel with a very comprehensive overview of his work. With more than 150 works (paintings, drawings, graphics and objects) from public and private collections the public will be able to (re)discover one of Belgiums most important post-war artists. As curator Franz Wilhelm Kaiser aptly puts it, Raveel (1921-2013) was a fiercely individualistic artist. He was radically different to his contemporaries in the way he developed his very own visual language that achieved a balance between the figurative and the abstract. At a time when the art world was becoming increasingly international, he also made the conscious decision to remain in the village of his birth, Machelen-aan-de-Leie, and to draw his inspiration from the local: his family, ... More | | 
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Oskar Eustis, the Artistic Director at the Public Theater, bump elbows during a press conference at the Delacorte Theater, home to Shakespeare in the Park, in New York, March 16, 2021. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The path back for performing arts in America is winding through a parking lot in Los Angeles, a Formula 1 racetrack in Texas, and Shakespeares summer home in New Yorks Central Park. As the coronavirus pandemic slowly loosens its grip, theaters, orchestras and opera companies across the country are heading outdoors, grabbing whatever space they can find as they desperately seek a way back to the stage. The newest sign of cultural rebound: On Tuesday, New York Citys Public Theater said that it would seek to present Shakespeare in the Park once again this summer, restarting a cherished ... More |
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Vincent Van Goghâs Windmills of Montmartre
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 PalaisPopulaire gives new insight into the important oeuvre of K.H. Hödicke BERLIN.- This comprehensive exhibition gives new and little-known insights into the important lifes work of the Berlin-based artist. Following Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects 19632020, PalaisPopulaire is now showing another monographic exhibition with a strong reference to Berlin. Berlin has been the home of K.H. Hödicke since 1957 and the city that has shaped and inspired his work for decades, says Svenja von Reichenbach, director of the PalaisPopulaire. The exhibition promises to introduce a completely different Hödicke, the likes of which has never been seen before. We are very pleased to be able to exhibit this extraordinary artist here, an artist whose work surprises us again and again in its diversity and boldness. Born in 1938, Karl Horst Hödicke is considered a pioneer of German Neo-Expressive postwar painting. As a professor at the West Berlin University of the ... More  Colnaghi partners with influential Barcelona galleries for 'Spanish Modern Landscapes' exhibitionLONDON.- Colnaghi, London is presenting an exhibition of museum quality landscape paintings by Spanish modern masters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, opening March 17th 2021. Spanish Modern Landscapes follows a successful introductory exhibition into the art of the period, The Golden Age of Spanish Modern Art in 2020. This second foray into the area focuses on how these artists responded to the dramatic and varied Spanish landscape as subject matter, depicting it in unique ways which pre-empt and reflect movements such as Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. To realise this presentation, Colnaghi (est. 1760), collaborated once again with two of Barcelonas most influential and venerable galleries, Sala Parés (est. 1877) and Artur Ramon Art (est. 1911), combining more than five hundred years of collective knowledge and experience. This exhibition ... More  Artcurial announces the 4th edition of Italian Design salesPARIS.- The Italian Design department at Artcurial will present its 4th sale on 13 April. Work by the grand masters of Italian Design, including Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi and Gino Sarfatti will feature alongside an exciting new section on 1970s Design with designers who are less well-known. Names include Gaetano Pesce, Joe Colombo, Tobia Scarpa, Mario Ceroli, Superstudio and Enzo Mari, who died in 2020 and is the subject of a current exhibition at the Milan Triennale. Ettore Sottsass will once again be in the spotlight with pieces that span his career and encompass different disciplines. There will also be an opportunity to discover some modern masterpieces such as an enamel and glass coffee table, that resulted from the collaboration between Gio Ponti and Paolo De Poli (estimate : 10 000-15 000 ), as well as the pair of armchairs for the Settebello train by Gio Ponti (estimate: 24 000- ... More  Nicola Pagett, 'Upstairs, Downstairs' actress, dies at 75NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nicola Pagett, the actress who played the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy on the beloved British television series Upstairs, Downstairs and the title role in an acclaimed BBC version of Anna Karenina, died March 3 at a hospice center in suburban London. She was 75. The cause was a brain tumor, her daughter, Eve Swannell, said. Pagett was 26 when she was cast in the original Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-76), the prestigious, multi-award-winning British drama set in a spacious Belgravia town house during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Bellamys, Richard and Lady Marjorie, live there with their two grown children and about half a dozen servants, as the world of London aristocracy changes around them. In the first season, Elizabeth comes home from school in Germany, a changed girl- ... More  Elliott Carter's early flops reveal a budding musical masterNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early ballet Pocahontas, wrote that it was full of suggestions of things that were to remain important to me, as well as others which were later rejected or completely transformed. Rejected is putting it lightly. The approachable Pocahontas one of Carters first scores, from the late 1930s bears almost no resemblance to the thorny and unpredictable works that would come to define his long career, which continued until shortly before his death in 2012, at 103. Carter, a composer who always seemed more interested in the future than the past, was no champion of Pocahontas, which despite its likability quickly fell into obscurity never a repertory staple and never recorded. That is, until now, with the release of a new album by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project that also includes The Minotaur ... More  Hosfelt Gallery announces the world premiere of the most recent video by Liliana PorterSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Hosfelt Gallery is presenting the world premiere of the most recent video by Liliana Porter, The Riddle/Charada, featuring an idiosyncratic cast of characters culled from her ever-evolving collection of toys and figurines that she finds in flea markets, antique stores, and souvenir shops. The narrative is constructed from a sequence of vignettes wherein these characters interact in unexpected and darkly humorous ways, accompanied by an evocative soundtrack. Porters quirky objects have a double existence. On the one hand they appear as banal or kitschy curios; at the same time, they possess a gaze that evokes a certain pathos, provoking the viewer to endow them with an interiority and identity. Each theatrical vignette in the video presents a pointed visual commentary that speaks to the human condition. Leaving the narrative intentionally ambiguous ... More  Stanley Whitney's first full-scale exhibition in Los Angeles on view at Matthew MarksLOS ANGELES, CA.- Matthew Marks is presenting Stanley Whitney: How Black is That Blue, the new exhibition in his galleries at 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard. This is Whitneys first full-scale exhibition in Los Angeles, and it includes twelve new paintings. Whitneys paintings have a consistent structure that provides a stage for his bold use of color and gesture. One element of this structure is the canvas itself: for the past three decades, with rare exceptions, Whitney has made predominantly square paintings. Whitneys other structural element is the composition he employs: stacked rectangles of varying sizes, separated by horizontal lines the width of his brush. In this arrangement, which seems to extend beyond the canvas, figure merges with ground, allowing color to provide all of the works weight, density, and space. As the artist explains, I wanted ... More  Sports items headlined by Roger Peckinpaugh collection up for auctionBOSTON, MASS.- Important sports cards, autographs, and memorabilia fill RR Auction's spring sports auction with online bidding March 11 through March 25. Headlining the sale is a special section that offers items from the collection of early Yankees captain and one-time AL MVP Roger Peckinpaugh. Peckinpaugh is often cited as one of the best players to not be enshrined in Cooperstown. Though chiefly remembered for his strong throwing arm and rangy play in the middle of the infield, he was also capable at the plate, collecting 1,876 career hits. Traded from Cleveland to the New York Yankees in 1913, he quickly established himself as a leader in the clubhouse and was named captain by manager Frank Chance the next year. In 1914at the age of 23he became the youngest manager in the history of baseball, helming the Bronx Bombers for the last three weeks of the ... More  Hip Hop artist I Self Devine partners with Minneapolis Institute of Art on 'Rituals of Resilience' exhibitionMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art will present Rituals of Resilience an audio-visual experience co-curated by Twin Citiesbased musician, artist, and community organizer Chaka Mkali (a.k.a. I Self Devine) and Gabriel Ritter, Mias curator and head of the Department of Contemporary Art. Opening this Thursday, March 18, the installation will pair 28 works by Black visual artists from the United States, Africa, and the greater African Diaspora with new music created for the exhibition by Mkali and his collaborators. The show will explore themes of identity, culture, spirituality, and power through the embodiment of Black lived experience. Mkalis album, also named Rituals of Resilience, will be available on all digital platforms the same day the exhibition opens. This is the first time a musician has collaborated with Mia to produce an album that addresses specific artworks. ... More  Archive of plans for Walt Disney's legendary backyard railroad pulls in to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Before there was Disneyland, there was Walt Disney's backyard. There, in the spring of 1950, on the five acres that sprawled across 355 Carolwood Drive in Los Angeles' Holmby Hills neighborhood, Disney debuted his first theme park, a rideable railroad in miniature, exact to the last detail. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad, it was called 2,615 feet of track upon which Disney the train conductor ran his 1/8-scale, 260-pound, coal-fueled, 7¼-inch gauge train, all pulled by the locomotive Lilly Belle, so named for Walt's wife Lillian. "I just needed something to get myself away from things," Disney once said of his decision to create this backyard railyard, the original plans and blueprints for which serve as the extraordinary centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' The Art of the Disney Theme Park & Disney Storybook Art auction event, which takes place April 8-10. Little wonder that Disney ... More  Heritage Auctions' march toward April 1-4 Comics and Comic Art sale began with a record-setting eventDALLAS, TX.- Original art from a global who's-who of comic-book creators realized more than $1.57 million last weekend at Heritage Auctions, heralding the upcoming Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction event sure to make this a record-smashing spring for the Dallas-based house. Nearly 2,900 bidders competed for almost 800 lots in the almost entirely sold-out International Comic and Animation Art Signature Auction event held March 13-14 at Heritage's global headquarters and conducted in English and French for a worldwide audience. The appreciation of and demand for comic-book art from around the world has never been higher, whether from well-known American titles or profoundly influential books from Europe and Asia. That, too, is abundantly clear from Heritage's enormously successful weekly Comics & Comic Art auctions the most recent of which, held March 14-15, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Cornelis Ketel was born March 18, 1548. Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 - 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well. In this image: Woman Aged 56 painted in 1594.
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