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Thomas Orr, Blue Cup with Sun, 1998.
POMONA, CA.- From a Gift to a Collection: Igal & Diane Silber, on view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, celebrates AMOCAs recent acquisition of more than 300 ceramic works collected by Igal and Diane Silber. The exhibition presents a selection of 100 works from this unparalleled collection, representing artists from Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, and North America. Igal (1936-2021) and Diane (1944- ) Silber began collecting art early in their marriage. Initially they were most attracted to contemporary figurative painting and sculpture. Then, in the late 1970s, the Silbers received the gift of a green crater glazed bowl by Otto and Gertrud Natzler from their friends, Robert Logan and Robert Cugno. The gift of this bowl, clearly a serious work of art, invited the Silbers to consider ceramics as an art form worthy of further study and pursuit. While at first the Silbers focused their ceramics collection on the vessel form, thei ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The thirteenth edition of the international Blickachsen Sculpture Biennale celebrated its official opening on Sunday, 14 May, and has already attracted hundreds of interested visitors. Until 1 October 2023, over 30 works by the following 24 artists can be seen in the extensive historic park landscapes of Bad Homburg, Germany.
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| Eli Wilner announces a new frame funding opportunity on twelfth anniversary of America's most important framing project | | After lots of auctions, some lessons | | Tina Turner, magnetic singer of explosive power, is dead at 83 |
This project was featured in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, including a six-minute interview by Morley Safer with Eli Wilner and Carrie Barratt of the Metropolitan Museum. The interview can be viewed at EliWilner.com.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of Eli Wilner & Companys most notable framing accomplishments began when they were commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to recreate a monumental frame for Emanuel Leutzes "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851), based on re-discovered documentary photographs by Mathew Brady. The original frame shown in the Brady photographs had been inexplicably lost. Mr. Wilner speaks of the frame as a tour de force, absolutely the most creative and involved surround for a painting that I have ever seen. Not only does the frame have exterior dimensions of approximately 14 x 23 feet, it also features a fully hand-carved and gilded 14-foot wide crest, consisting of Revolutionary War symbols such as an eagle, flags, pikes, bayonets, a drum, and ... More | |
In an image provided by Christies, Jean-Michel Basquiats El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile), from 1983, also known as History of the Black People (in three parts). It sold for more than $67 million at Christies. Amid high inflation and low inventory, the art market correction appears to have landed. (Christie's via The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Spring auction week tends to be a swirl of heartachingly beautiful works of art and mind-bendingly big prices. But it also serves a more practical purpose: setting the level of the art market. Is it strong overall or ailing? Were prices inflated, appropriate or low? Which artists broke out and which tanked? On the face of it, the past week of New York sales at Sothebys, Christies and Phillips seemed solid, with the amount of art sold totaling nearly $2 billion at high sell-through rates. But compared with the stratosphere of the past few years, this series of auctions fell considerably short, with less exciting inventory, lower price points and ... More | |
Tina Turner performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 7, 2000. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Turner, the earthshaking singer whose rasping vocals, sexual magnetism and explosive energy made her an unforgettable live performer and one of the most successful recording artists of all time, died Wednesday at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, near Zurich. She was 83. Her publicist Bernard Doherty announced the death in a statement but did not provide the cause. She had a stroke in recent years and was known to be struggling with a kidney disease and other illnesses. Turner embarked on her half-century career in the late 1950s, while still attending high school, when she began singing with Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm. At first she was only an occasional performer, but she soon became the groups star attraction and Ike Turners wife. With her potent, bluesy voice and her frenetic dancing style, she made an instant impression. Their ensemble, soon renamed ... More |
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| Gustave Loiseau steals the show at Hindman European Art auction | | Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale results from RR Auction include Warhol and Steve Jobs | | New work by Native American and Alaska native artists on display at the Renwick Gallery |
Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865-1935), Le quai du Pothuis à Pontoise, 1905 (detail). Price Realized: $201,600.
CHICAGO, IL.- Gustave Loiseau and Charles Amable Lenoir led Hindmans European Art auction last week, with competitive bidding driving both lots to significantly exceed their estimates. Loiseaus 1905 Le quai du Pothuis à Pontoise soared past its $80,000-120,000 estimate to realize $201,600, while Charles Amable Lenoirs 1902 life-size Pandora doubled its high estimate, selling for $176,400 and setting a new world auction record for the artist. Overall, the auction realized $1,488,690, and 40 percent of buyers were new to Hindman. The Loiseau and Lenoir paintings were highlights from the impressive Indianapolis estate, Linden House, built by collector, businesswoman, and philanthropist Christel DeHaan. We were delighted by the international attention the auction received, commented Madalina Lazen, Director & Senior Specialist of European Art. The Linden House collection ... More | |
Colorful Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup print signed by Andy Warhol at the Baltimore Art Museum.
BOSTON, MA.- Boston-based RR Auction has announced the sale of a rare and pristine Apple Computer Company check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976, which fetched a whopping $106,985. The check, dated July 8, 1976, was payable to Crampton, Remke & Miller, Inc. for $175 and is filled out in type and signed by Jobs himself. This check holds great significance because of its association with Apple's co-founder and because it uses the company's first official address at "770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto." At the time, this was the address of an answering service and mail drop the company used while operating out of the Jobs family garage. The consulting firm that the check was payable to, Crampton, Remke & Miller, provided business process consulting to various high-tech companies in Northern California, including Atari, Memorex, National Semiconductor, and Xerox. By hiring such a firm during Apple's earliest stages, Jobs demonstrated his focus on long-term ... More | |
Lily Hope, Memorial Beats, 2021, thigh-spun merino and cedar bark with copper, headphones, and audio files, 16 x 4 x 10 in., The Hope Family Trust. Photo by Sydney Akagi.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 focuses on fresh and nuanced visions by six contemporary Native American and Alaska Native artists who express the honors and burdens that connect people to one another. The exhibition features objects by Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan), Lily Hope (Tlingit), Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Iñupiat), Geo Neptune (Passamaquoddy) and Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe) that speak to the responsibility of ushering forward cultural traditions while shaping the future with innovative works of art. Their works are often culturally specific, yet they communicate across cultural boundaries. The 55 artworks in the exhibition arise from traditions of making that honor family, community or clan and require broad community participation. ... More |
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| 'The Visual Language of Modernity: The Early Photographs of André Kertész' | | London artist Louise Giovanelli now on view at Grimm Gallery in New York | | Leon Ichaso, whose films explored Latino identity, dies at 74 |
Chez Mondrian, Gelatin silver print tipped to period vellum, printed c. 1926.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is now opening The Visual Language of Modernity: The Early Photographs of André Kertész. This exhibition showcases over fifty original prints of exceptional quality, each taken between 1914 and 1936; featuring iconic and never-before-seen works, explores the intersection between two significant periods of the artists output: works created in Hungary between 1914 and 1925 and later in Paris between 1926 and 1936, firmly establishing André Kertész at the forefront of Modernist photography. André Kertész (18941985), widely considered one the most influential photographers of the 20th century, is known for using innovative camera angles, unexpected lighting, and up-close cropping that often abstracted his subjects. His images teeter between the real and the surreal through pioneering compositions infused with lyricism and wit that would remain a constant throughout his long career. ... More | |
Installation view of Soothsay, by artist Louise Giovanelli.
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is currently presenting Soothsay, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, UK). This will be the Manchester-based artists fourth solo exhibition at GRIMM and her third at the New York gallery. Expanding upon motifs that recur throughout her oeuvre, in particular curtains, stages, performers and vessels, Giovanelli considers the mouth as a site of transformative possibility in her new work. She continues to explore an interest in thresholds: zones or places of change where action occurs, focusing keenly on moments of contemporary spiritual reverie. The mouth as threshold is underscored by the exhibition title Soothsay, referring to a prognosticator or prophet who predicts and speaks the truth. The exhibition marks the US debut of a new series of paintings titled Entheogen, which features an appropriated 1970s film still image of a young woman taking the Eucharist. Giovanelli repeats the im ... More | |
Leon Ichaso in 2015. Ichaso, a Cuban American filmmaker who in El Super, Crossover Dreams, Piñero, El Cantante and other movies examined themes of Latino assimilation and cultural identity, died on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 74. (David Gonzalez/The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Leon Ichaso, a Cuban American filmmaker who in El Super, Crossover Dreams, Piñero, El Cantante and other movies examined themes of Latino assimilation and cultural identity, died on Sunday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 74. His sister, journalist Mari Rodriguez Ichaso, said the cause was a heart attack. Leon Ichaso, who came to the United States as a teenager, was writing advertising copy and making television commercials in New York in 1977 when he saw an off-Broadway play called El Super, written by Ivan Acosta, and decided to try a new career. I remember he went to see it and said to me, Im going to make that movie, his sister ... More |
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| Armen Eloyan's cartoon related paintings at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp | | Jan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings is on view in New York through June 3 | | A successful start: Blickachsen 13 has opened |
Armen Eloyan, Untitled (C.R.P.34), 2025. Oil on canvas, 110 x 130 cm. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents its fourth solo exhibition by Armen Eloyan; C.R.P. paintings and related drawings. "C.R.P." stands for "Cartoon Related Painting." These new series of works continue Armen's interest in American and Western culture - especially with a great fascination with cartoons and George Herriman's daily comic strips, whose playful atmosphere he adopted to his work. In recent years, Eloyan has also sought more abstraction in his works, where the works represent a lexicon without words, like a numerical system. Like the panoramic paintings of abstract-expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, the syntax of forms in the series expresses an emotional charge and spiritual power independent of language. In this new series of paintings, he combines both his signature figurative satire and abstraction. His gestural approach, driven by great zest, gives off a remarkable energy that generates a strong emotional charge. ... More | |
Jan-Ole Schiemann, o.T., 2023. Charcoal, ink, gesso and acrylic on canvas, 63 x 55 1/8 inches, 160 x 140 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jan-Ole Schiemanns second solo exhibition at Kasmin is presenting new paintings and works on paper since this past April, and will continue through June 3, 2023 at the gallerys flagship location, 509 West 27th Street, New York. Schiemanns energetic constructions are characterized by boldly abstract figures, vivid cumulous color clouds, and an assertive, instinctive use of shape and line. The artists most recent compositions meld fragments and echoes from his former visual vocabulary with new devices that together push the language of gestural abstraction into new territories. The artists complex compositions begin as references drawn from archives of vintage animation and his own meticulous sketches. Using the edge of his rectangular picture plane as the first rule of play, Schiemann begins a game of decision-making, toying with the tension between process and image as he builds layers of charcoal, ink ... More | |
Sabine Gross, Heimatloser Monolith, 2023. Photo: Stiftung Blickachsen und Kuenstlerin.
BAD HOMBURG.- The thirteenth Blickachsen Sculpture Biennale was officially opened on Sunday 14 May and has already attracted hundreds of interested visitors. Blickachsen 13 brings together over 30 contemporary sculptures and installations in the Kurpark and Schlosspark in Bad Homburg, Germany. Until 1 October 2023, the exhibition once again invites visitors to experience diverse artworks of the highest quality on a leisurely walk through the historic park landscapes of the city. The official opening of the 2023 Blickachsen summer was held on a beautiful spring day on the Schmuckplatz in the Bad Homburg Kurpark. More than 300 Blickachsen enthusiasts from far and wide attended the opening ceremony alone. The guests were greeted by Alexander W. Hetjes, Mayor of the city of Bad Homburg. Dr. Manuel Lösel, State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Culture, paid tribute to the Biennale also on behalf of its patron, the Minister President of Hessen, ... More |
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Exhibition at max goelitz brings together works by Cécile B. Evans and Troika for the first time
MUNICH.- Bringing together works by Cécile B. Evans and Troika for the first time, the duo exhibition in a forest of red, green and blue speculates on new ways and forms of being(s), inviting reflection on machine vision, non-human intelligent life and multi-species agency. Cécile B. Evans (*1983 Belgium/America) incorporates video, installation, sculpture, and perfor- mance into their artistic practice. Evans work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They are currently artist in residence at Lafayette Anticipations, producing a new film Reality or Not that will premiere in Fall 2023 additionally co-produced with Le Fresnoy, Singapore Art Museum, and Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna. Recent selected solo exhibitions include mumok Vienna ... More
How America's playwrights saved the Tony Awards
NEW YORK, NY.- Martyna Majok, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, was revising her musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby after a long day in a developmental workshop when she heard the news: The union representing striking screenwriters was not going to grant a waiver for the Tony Awards, imperiling this years telecast. So at 3 in the morning, she set aside her script to join a group of playwrights frantically writing emails and making phone calls to leaders of the Writers Guild of America, urging the union not to make the pandemic-hobbled theater industry collateral damage in a Hollywood dispute. I had to try, she said. Surprising even themselves, the army of artists succeeded. The screenwriters union agreed to a compromise: it said it would not picket the ceremony as long as the show does not rely on a written script. Theater ... More
Review: In 'Monsoon Wedding,' an arranged marriage of musical styles
NEW YORK, NY.- In musicals, the marriage of elements is everything. A story thats too thin will dissolve when mixed with the songs. A story thats too heavy wont let the songs lift off. To get the right fizzy blend, the balance must be perfect. That is not yet the case with Mira Nairs Monsoon Wedding, which opened Monday in an always busy, sometimes touching, but strangely mild production at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn. Its shambolic plotlines (drawn from Nairs 2001 film of the same name) and Indian-pop-meets-marching-band songs, though full of interest individually, fail to build on themselves or one another, leaving the intertwined tale of love and obligation to unravel as fast as it spins. Not that the movie was a landmark of pith. The arranged marriage of rich South Delhi girl Aditi Verma (played here by Salena ... More
Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership elects Lola C. West as Board Chair
ATLANTA, GA.- Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership announced today that Lola C. West has been elected chair of its Board of Directors. West has served on the board since 2019. With more than 20 years of experience in financial advising and fundraising, West has infused her passion and advocacy for social justice, racial equity, and gender rights to create spaces of opportunity, helping progressive institutions build a vision for the future. She is a co-founder of leading Black-owned, multi-racial, gender diverse, independent advisory and wealth management firm Westfuller Advisors, where she currently serves as Chairwoman and Chief Culture Officer. In her previous career as an event producer and fundraiser, she worked with clients including The Studio Museum of Harlem, NAACP, and President Nelson Mandela, ... More
Artist Claudia Comte now on view at Gladstone Gallery with 'Marine Wildfire & Underwater Forests'
SEOUL.- Begining on May 25th Gladstone is opening Marine Wildfire & Underwater Forests, an exhibition of new works by Claudia Comte, and the artists first exhibition with the Gallery in Seoul, Korea. For the first time, the artist will present a series of relief sculptures alongside an expansive and immersive new wall painting designed specifically for the Gallery space. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Comte applies a carefully considered palette of material to create forms in space that suggest both playful and deeply political, socially engaged narratives. Having employed the practice of sculpting with wood and marble since the earliest moments of her career, Comte has distinguished herself as an artist with an uncanny ability to transform dense material into delicate and awe-inspiring forms. From large-scale outdoor installations ... More
'Andy Warhol's Insiders' to open at the Gagosian Shop in London
LONDON.- Gagosian is opening Andy Warhols Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in Londons historic Burlington Arcade, a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature portraits of Warhol by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. The Shop is presenting a selection of Warhol prints, publications, merchandise, and rare books and posters, including prints from his Ladies and Gentlemen portfolio (1975), prints of his Cow (1971) and Fish (1983) wallpaper designs, and Richard Bernsteins original collages for the covers of Interview, alongside signed copies of the magazine. As early as the 1950s, Warhol employed assistants in the production and archiving of his paintings, films, publications, and media projects. Many of them became photographers, ... More
Helen Bermingham: "Where Everything is Held" on view at GR Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery is now hosting the first solo exhibition of Helen Bermingham with the gallery and in the U.S. Titled Where Everything is Held, the show will present a new series with an intense focus on the artists psychological territory, introducing cognitive and emotional landscapes able to sharply communicate, through powerful yet delicate brushstrokes, feelings and recognizable patterns, in a sort of memoir of the past months revealed as the resolved conversation that occurred between unconscious, memories and the material of paint. This exhibition will introduce to the public seventeen fresh small and large format artworks on canvas. This new body of work, exemplarily executed with the artist signature technique, shows the exceptional capability of depicting emotions, imbued with personal remembrances, through the act of repetition and ... More
Order & Disorder and Marcel Berlanger now opening at Rodolphe Janssen
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen art gallery will be opening two exhibitions: Order & Disorder and Marcel Berlanger. Order & Disorder will gather works by almost 20 artists from different countries & generations, whereas Marcel Berlanger's 3rd solo at the gallery, PLUVIAL PROTOCOL, will present a new series of paintings from 2023 centering around the notion of rain. ORDER & DISORDER: Organised in collaboration with QG Gallery, Knokke: From May 25 to July 8, 2023. Quentin Grosjean and I each had a gallery in Knokke during the pandemic. From our friendly conversations on the seawall came the idea of organizing an exhibition that would bring together minimal and conceptual works from our two galleries. The title, borrowed from a work on paper by Alighiero Boetti, ORDINE E DISORDINE, (included in the exhibition), testifies ... More
Julie W. Chang's exhibition 'Amulets' now on view at hosfelt gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In her newest body of work, now on view at hosfelt gallery until June 30th, 2023, Julie W. Chang wields a dictionary of talismans to investigate and celebrate the power of cultural symbols to shape and transform our lives. In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, Chang began reconsidering how traditional amulets operate as protective energies as well as binding or guiding forces. Her deftly intricate paintings weave together fetishes from a wide range of cultures and eras, in a series of layers that form a three-dimensional matrix. Layered and interwoven in this way, these symbols of healing, wisdom, redemption, joy, enlightenment, interdependence, and peace combine to form a powerful global emblem of hope and renewal. Detail of work in progress: Chang has long been interested in the implied meanings ... More
Martos Gallery now presenting the exhibition 'Powder and Water' by Christine Burgon
NEW YORK, NY.- As of May 18th Christine Burgon: Powder and Water has been on view at Martos Gallery where it will remain until June 24th, 2023. This work revolves around modernist doubt, as Christine Burgon traces the means of creation, and how intentionality in the studio gives way to the viewers perception. How can one effectively locate the meaning of the work? Is it to be determined by the sensations aroused in the viewer, its operation as an affect machine? Or is it merely resigned to irreducibility? These are questions that Burgon absorbs. She deals with them rather than staking claim to any resolutions. Her paintings are thus points of departure, the studio operations yielding to the experience of the viewer. The artist must relinquish control post-production. As the world drifts further away from the conditions ... More
AstaGuru's 'Jewellery, Silver, Timepieces Auction' bedecked with exquisite one-of-a-kind pieces
MUMBAI.- The horology collection for AstaGurus upcoming Jewellery, Silver & Timepieces auction is steeped in timeless luxury with a wide gamut of vintage, modern, bejewelled watches along with those with high complications. The state-of-the-art timepieces being showcased in the auction come from globally renowned luxury brands like Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-Lecoultre, Cartier, Chopard, Omega, Breguet, Bvlgari, and Franck Muller. The auction is scheduled to be held on May 28-29,2023. Leading the auction line up is an assortment of coveted timepieces by Patek Philippe. Founded in 1839 in Geneva, Switzerland, Patek Philippe (PP) is part of the Holy Trinity. They have a history of crafting many of the most beautiful and complicated timepieces in the world and are considered one of the most prestigious names in watchmaking. Lot no. 170 is a Nautilus Moon Phase Wristwatch REF NO. 5726. The watch features a stai ... More
Ray Stevenson, actor in 'Thor' and other films, dies at 58
NEW YORK, NY.- Ray Stevenson, who in a 30-year career played a wide range of roles in television and films, among them a talkative soldier in the HBO historical drama Rome, the pirate Blackbeard in the Starz series Black Sails and the Asgardian warrior Volstagg in the Thor fantasy movies, died Sunday. He was 58. His publicist, Nicki Fioravante, confirmed his death but provided no further details. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica said Stevenson died on the Italian island of Ischia, where he had been filming a movie. Stevenson was born May 25, 1964, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, according to the Internet Movie Database. He had begun a career in interior design when, in his mid-20s, he decided to try acting. Seeing John Malkovich in the Lanford Wilson play Burn This in Londons West End in the early 1990s was the catalyst. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Lyubov Popova died May 25, 1924. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. In this image: Air+Man+Space, 1912, Oil on canvas, 125 x 107 cm, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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