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Installation view of the first UK retrospective of work by the acclaimed Japanese photographer, Daido Moriyama at The Photographers Gallery.
by Emily LaBarge
LONDON.- Theres more than one answer to the question What is photography?, and this fall in London, there is a dazzling array of possibilities on show in retrospectives of Japanese artists Hiroshi Sugimoto and Daido Moriyama. Born 10 years apart (Moriyama in 1938, in Osaka, and Sugimoto in 1948, in Tokyo), both photographers came of age in Japans postwar photography boom. During this time of political change and technological innovation, practitioners explored, and frequently critiqued, the photograph as journalistic document, art object and mass media advertisement. Photo books and photography magazines proliferated, as did connections with American art scenes including minimalism, pop and the grainy realism of street photography. Both photographers are also invested in the more ephemeral, even metaphysical, qualities of the medium: How it freezes or reconstitutes time, brings the dead or the inanimate to life, unsettles concepts of memory, reality and vision itself. If ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Across three magical nights (Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 November 2023, from 16:30-23:00 each night), Lumiere, the UKâs light art biennial, transformed the beautiful medieval city of Durham into a giant art gallery. 14 years after Lumiere debuted in Durham, and more than one million visitors later, it is now the UKâs first light art biennial, a global event with artists from 15 different countries who exhibited their artwork completely free for the public. In this image: Illumaphonium, Michael Davis. Lumiere 2023, produced by Artichoke. Photo by Emily Carey
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| Newly discovered Fragonard painting unseen since the 18th C. - Auction on 21st Dec. at Drouot | | Rare Adelaide pound sold at Noonans Mayfair in a sale of Coins and Historical Medals | | The Huntington acquires historic portrait by renowned Spanish painter Goya | 
Jeune fille au chapeau, 1770-1775 will be offered at auction by Boisgirard - Antonini on 21st December at Hôtel Drouot, Paris.
PARIS.- On 21st December at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Boisgirard - Antonini auction house will unveil an a newly discovered work by the renowned painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. With an estimate of 400,000 - 600,000, La Jeune fille au chapeau is an incredible discovery from the same collection as the Philosophe, discovered in 2021: that of Dominique Magaud (1722-1806), deputy to the Estates-General, justice of the piece, prosecutor for the king, and deputy of Puy de Dôme. This discovery illustrates a fabulous history that makes it possible to reconstitute a collection, bring together paintings that have been separated since the late 19th century, and better understand the work of the artist and his relations with his patrons. The attractive portrait shows a young woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat trimmed in pink that casts shadow on her eyes ... More | | 
Adelaide Pound; the first Australian gold coin.
LONDON.- A rare Adelaide Pound the first Australian gold coin - sold for a hammer price of £19,000 against an estimate of £10,000-12,000 at Noonans Mayfair in a sale of Coins and Historical Medals on Tuesday & Wednesday, November 14 & 15, 2023. Dating from 1852, it was being sold by a UK Collector and was bought by a UK Collector [lot 1037]. Tim Wilkes, Head of the Coin Department at Noonans explained: This coin proved very popular as it is the first Australian gold coin. This one sold well because it was a particularly nice example. The sale which saw 91% of the 1370 lots sold achieved a final hammer total of £567,770. Elsewhere in the sale was a double proof set of 12 Iraqi coins from the reign of Faisal I, that had been struck at the Royal Mint that sold for a hammer price of £30,000. They were being sold by a descendent of Abraham Elkabir OBE who had been presented with them and were bought by ... More | | 
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 17461828). Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice, 1807. Oil on canvas, canvas: 41 5/16 à 33 1/8 in. (105 à 84.1 cm), frame: 53 1/16 à 44 7/8 à 3 1/2 in. (134.8 à 114 à 8.9 cm). Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CALIF.- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a historic portrait by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Goya) (17461828). Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice was painted in 1807, a time when Goya was renowned for his portraits of the Spanish nobility and just before the Napoleonic invasion of Spain profoundly altered the nature of his later work. While The Huntington holds a number of Goyas etchings and aquatints, Portrait of José Antonio Caballero is the first Spanish oil painting ... More |
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| John Moran Auctioneers to offer two extraordinary works by the recently deceased Columbian artist, Fernando Botero | | Self-taught artist Sam Middleton exhibiting at Spanierman Modern | | National Gallery of Art welcomes major gifts of Haitian art | 
Fernando Botero (1932-2023), Couple Dancing, 1980. Watercolor on paper laid to linen on board, 65.5 H x 42.75 W est. $150,000-200,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Thursday, December 7th, 2023, at 12:00pm PST, John Moran Auctioneers invites you experience work from some of the most influential artists of the 20th century presented in their Latin American Art + Design auction. This winter sale has over 200 lots of art and design, and will offer everything from fine art to Folk Art, candlesticks, pottery, and nearly 100 lots of Mexican silver including tableware and jewelry. Featured artists and designers include Fernando Botero, Alfredo Ramos, Diego Rivera, Felipe Castañeda, Carlos Estevez, Roberto Montenegro, William Spratling, Antonio Pineda, and Fred Davis. Leading the sale are two extraordinary works by the recently deceased Columbian artist, Fernando Botero (1932-2023). His signature style, also known as Boterismo, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. ... More | | 
Sam Middleton, Concerto, 1983, Mixed media and collage on paper, 20 x 30 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Born in 1927, Sam Middleton was raised by a single mother in Harlem - a place he felt was going to condemn him to doom (I was going to become a junkie or end up in jail) if he didnt find a way to escape it. The Merchant Marines took him abroad when he was 17. Glimpses of joy came through music, which was everywhere in Harlem, including across the street from his home at the Savoy Ballroom, where he would sneak in when his mother sent him out to do errands. Jazz became a life-long love and influence. Middleton moved to Greenwich Village in the 1950s and began to spend time at the Cedar Tavern and in the clubs, becoming friends with Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, among others. 1950s jazz was becoming improvisational, and Middletons work would forever reflect the spontaneity and unrehearsed immediacy of that radical change. It was Franz Kline who advised the artist to leave America in order to seek recognition, telling him there was no room for ... More | | 
Philomé Obin, President Tiresias Sam entering Cap-Haitien, 1958. Oil on Masonite. Framed: (25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Kay and Roderick Heller, 2023.44.6. Photo: Matt Dunn, Haitian Art Society.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today a transformative gift of 15 artworks by modern and contemporary Haitian artists from two important collections: the Kay and Roderick Heller Collection of Franklin, TN, and the Beverly and John Fox Sullivan Collection of Washington, VA. The first works by Haitian artists to enter the National Gallerys collection, the objects represent a variety of styles, mediums, and subject matter by some of the most celebrated Haitian artists of the 20th century. The Heller and Sullivan collections include work by self-taught artists, such as Rigaud Benoit, Wilson Bigaud, Hector Hyppolite, and Louisiane Saint Fleurant, as well as works by two living artists of international renown, Myrlande Constant and Edouard Duval-Carrié. Assembled with great care, curiosity, and passion over many decades, the Heller and Sullivan collections ... More |
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| TJ Boulting opening exhibition parallel to the forthcoming film on the life of Lee Miller LEE starring Kate Winslet | | Family photos have never looked so chic | | Cree Wine Company unveils new art installation, Petrucci Family Foundation Collection | 
Vogue US, October 2023 Kate Winslet on War Photographer Lee Miller, and the Film She Was Born to Make. Words Wendell Steavenson. Photography Annie Liebovitz
LONDON.- TJ Boulting is now carrying out a Lee Miller exhibition in association with the Lee Miller Archives You Will Not Lunch In Charlotte Street Today. The title is taken from one of Lee's images of Charlotte Street in London during World War II, a street which is a stone's throw from where TJ Boulting is situated in Fitzrovia. The exhibition serves as a parallel to the forthcoming film on the life of Lee Miller LEE starring Kate Winslet, and also follows a recent publication of Lee's first photobook by her son Antony Penrose, published by Thames and Hudson. You Will Not Lunch In Charlotte Street Today presents various themes from across Lee Miller's prolific photographic output, from the 1930s in France and her beginnings in surrealism and her circle of artist friends, to the 1940s and London during the War, to her time in Germany at its close ... More | | 
Photos of Kimberly Drews grandmothers that became part of her shirt. Magugu, the South African designer, takes memories to the most fashionable level. (Thebe Magugu via The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Forget whipping out your phone to show off your family photos or tucking a loved ones face into a locket around your neck. What if you could wear your favorite memories on your back? Thats the idea South African designer Thebe Magugu started exploring two years ago in a collection he called Genealogy, inspired by old pictures of his mother and aunts even designing one shirt in which he incorporated his grandmothers portrait as part of a wax print. Every house in the township where Im from has family photos on display, and its a source of pride, Magugu said. So I thought it made sense to have one on a shirt. But then, whenever I wore it, everyone would say they loved the shirt, and they ... More | | 
James Brantley, The Delaware, oil on Canvas, 2012, hangs above the mantle in Crees central room.
HAMPTON, NJ.- Cree Wine Company, one of New Jerseys best places to taste, learn, dine, and buy wines from all over the world, has refreshed its walls with a third iteration of African American Art courtesy of the Petrucci Family Foundation (PFF). The art collection has been on view for Crees patrons since the wine company opened its doors in 2021. While the art travels to top museums and exhibitions all over the country, the only permanent, publicly accessible display of the stunning Collection is at Cree in Hampton, NJ. It is an unbelievable honor and privilege to have these works of art from the Petrucci Family Foundation on display. The collection brings warmth, color, and joy to each space, adding another level of ambience that enhances the entire food and wine experience our guests receive at Cree Wine Company, says Chris Cree, Founder & Master of Wine. Monica Ikegwu, Olivia, Oil on canvas, ... More |
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| Florida hurricanes inspire Sarasota Art Museum fall exhibition featuring Judy Pfaff | | Ben Brown Fine Arts presents: Tony Bevan 'Epistrophies and Heads', his 12th exhibition at the London gallery | | Nine international artists presented by Marlborough Madrid explore role played by color | 
Judy Pfaff (American, born 1946). Detail of Picking up the Pieces (work in progress), 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
SARASOTA, FLA.- As residents along Floridas coast endured the busiest months of hurricane season, a New York-based artist was preparing to transform Sarasota Art Museums galleries with a site-specific installation inspired by one of the states costliest natural disasters. Judy Pfaff: Picking up the Pieces, on view through March 24, 2024, explores the devastating impact of Hurricane Ian that battered southern Florida as a Category 4 storm in September 2022. In her largest solo show since 2017, Pfaff presents paintings and sculptures that celebrate Floridas beauty and acknowledge its vulnerability to environmental threats. News coverage of Hurricane Ians extensive damage sparked the idea for the installation. Pfaff often keeps the televisions in her studio tuned to the news and was struck as she watched the storm ravage homes and vegetation in its path. ... More | | 
Tony Bevan, Head, 2021. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 105.5 x 116 cm. (41 1/2 x 45 5/8 in.)
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Epistrophies and Heads, an exhibition of recent paintings by British artist Tony Bevan, at our London gallery. This is Bevans twelfth exhibition with the gallery and marks the second part of our comprehensive exhibition, following the earlier works from this series on view at our Hong Kong gallery through September to November 2023. The exhibition showcases Bevans latest series, Epistrophies, in which the artist explores the rhythmic, abstract, infinite possibilities inspired by a singular motif, a tree, which he encountered near his home over many winters. These works will be presented alongside Bevans Heads paintings, with which he has taken on a looser, more abstract approach as this series progresses. Exhibited together, the repetitive forms and complex structures of these works offer a meditation and myriad ... More | | 
Adrien Lucca, Floraisons de lumière, Ãtude Nº2 Rose a L'or, 2023. Vidriera, 51 x 70 cm.
MADRID.- Marlborough Madrid presents a project developed in different spatial modules and whose axis gravitates around the role played by color in the works of nine international artists. Although these works are diverse in content and structure, each one uses color to claim its space through its vivacity, an expression used by Goethe to refer to the fact that refined people avoided bright colors in their clothes and objects and seemed inclined to banish them altogether. He went so far as to assert that only savage nations, uneducated people, and children retain a taste for vivid colors. Walter Benjamin also wrote about the childs relationship to color by differentiating their perception of color from that of the adult: he even suggested that the latter understood color as a layer superimposed on matter, to such an extent that they regarded it as a deceptive cloak. Perhaps this deception could be ... More |
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 'Calculating Empires' at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan depicts how power and technology are intertwinedMILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents an exhibition titled Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025 by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler at the Osservatorio, its space located at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Osservatorio is Fondazione Pradas centre devoted to visual experimentation and research on potential intersections and collisions between technologies and cultural expressions. It is a free-thinking platform open to reflection on various artistic and media languages and their impact in an ever-changing political and social landscape. Conceived by researcher-artists Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Calculating Empires charts our technological present by depicting how power ... More  Full exposure? Four solo shows ponder the art of true nature.NEW YORK, NY.- Two years of post-shutdown theater has brought to New York stages a slew of solo performers wrestling with subjects like grief, death and the apocalypse and those are just the comedies. Solo shows are inexpensive to produce and relatively low-lift endeavors for an industry still on shaky ground. There has been no shortage this fall, and now four solo shows running off-Broadway demonstrate a range of approaches to the form, proving, at least for this round, that baring your inner thoughts and fears pays off. A Good Day to Me Not to You, at the Connelly Theater in the East Village, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land, at Playwrights Horizons in Midtown Manhattan, opt for all-out vulnerability, dissecting the psyche as if the stage were an operating table. School Pictures and Amusements, also at Playwrights ... More  Not all heroes wear capes, but these termites did for scienceNEW YORK, NY.- The researchers started by collecting plain-looking termites from the wild. Then they pasted pieces of paper to their backs that more or less looked like capes either solid black, solid white or striped in black and white. This was not the latest effort to introduce tiny heroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was an attempt to learn something about how jumping spiders, some of natures most widespread and canny predators, perceive their prey. In nature, most prey avoid being detected by predators by blending into their surroundings. But some species strive to stand out. Monarch butterflies, yellowjacket wasps and ruby-red velvet ants, for example, use bright or contrasting coloration to warn predators of their toxicity. Scientists are still trying to decipher which predators perceive such displays. Especially little is known about ... More  You know about the birds and the bees, but guess what these bats doNEW YORK, NY.- A few years ago, Nicolas Fasel, a biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and his colleagues developed a fascination with the penises of serotine bats, a species found in woodlands and the attics of old buildings across Europe and Asia. Serotine bats sport abnormally long penises with wide, heart-shaped heads. When erect, the members are around seven times longer than the females vagina, and their bulbous heads are seven times wider than the females vaginal opening. We wondered: How does that work? How can they use that for copulation? Fasel recalled. What they discovered has overturned an assumption about mammalian reproduction, namely that procreation must always involve penetration. In a study, published Monday in the journal Current Biology, Fasel and his colleagues presented ... More  The Shindellas, a throwback R&B girl group with an unlikely storyFRANKLIN, TENN.- The home base of pop-R&B girl group the Shindellas is a yellow two-story house thats been standing for more than a century in a pastoral Tennessee town. Inside, the groups vision board fills an entire wall with its goals for radio airplay, industry awards, television appearances, movie roles, high-profile collaborations and brand deals. On a slip of paper in the middle, the words household name are printed in marker. Thats probably the biggest one, said Tamara Chauniece, one of its three members. Because with that comes all of this. The Shindellas, which also include Stacy Johnson and Kasi Jones, stand out in the 2023 pop landscape: a vocal trio of women older than 30, brought together by a writing-production team, trying to reach the masses with songs that recall the glory of powerhouse girl ... More  Gammel Holtegaard opens Danish artist Emily Gernild's solo exhibition 'Aunts and Dolls'COPENHAGEN.- Gammel Holtegaard presents Emily Gernilds exhibition Aunts and Dolls, the Danish artists biggest solo show to date. Compelling works with a distinctive palette explore memories from Gernilds family past and the stories that have been passed down the generations. Aunts and Dolls is an exhibition about the lives of women, the layers of memory and sisterhood. In Aunts and Dolls Emily Gernild (b. 1985) focusses on how we relate to family stories that get passed on and the ones that get lost between one generation and the next. Gernild uses the many layers of painting to probe the bleak, ambivalent and disturbing psychological traces lurking beneath the surface. Taking the story of Aunt Inger ... More  Rehana Zaman receives 2023 Film London Jarman AwardLONDON.- Rehana Zaman has received the 2023 Film London Jarman Award it was announced yesterday evening at a special event at Barbican. The award was presented by actor Russell Tovey. Rehana Zaman is an artist who puts humanity and community at the centre of her practice, creating powerful hypnotic films that navigate issues of social injustice through expressions of joy and community. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work. In Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People (2018 - 2023) Zaman draws on her five-year collaboration with a group of Black & Global Majority women affected by incarceration. This work began ... More  Jim Denevan's "Self Similar", a monumental land art work opens at Manar Abu DhabiABU DHABI.- Self Similar, a large-scale and immersive, site-specific land work by American artist Jim Denevan opened to the public today in Abu Dhabi as part of the inaugural edition of the Department of Culture and Tourisms new Public Art Abu Dhabi initiative, Manar Abu Dhabi. The city-wide light art exhibition curated by Reem Fadda, Director of Abu Dhabi Culture Programming and Cultural Foundation and Artistic Director of Public Art Abu Dhabi, and Alia Zaal Lootah, Manar Abu Dhabi Curator, features 35 site-specific artworks by local and international artists and will run through January 30, 2024. Denevans most ambitious installation to date, the ephemeral work sited on the citys Fahid Island, where city and desert are flanked by the Arabian sea, forms a prominent, new landmark that spans an area of nearly a square kilometer ... More  Mohamed Almusibli to become new Director of Kunsthalle BaselBASEL.- The Swiss curator Mohamed Almusibli, has been selected to succeed Elena Filipovic as Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel. Mohamed Almusibli is currently Co-Founder and Director of the independently run art space Cherish in Geneva, as well as Consultant for the Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam. He will take up his new office as Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel on 1 March 2024. It is an honor to have been appointed to the position of Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel, an institution with a great history of artistic innovation and cultural discourse that has always placed the artist at its center and has come to stand as a beacon in the art world. I am humbled to follow in the footsteps of my predecessor, Elena Filipovic, whose impactful leadership profoundly shaped the Kunsthalle's ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Cuban American painter Rafael Soriano was born November 23, 1920. Rafael Soriano (November 23, 1920 - April 9, 2015) belonged to the third generation of avant-guarde painters in Cuba. In the late 1950s, he became one of the Diez Pintores Concretos, known for bringing the geometric abstraction movement from Europe and the Americas to Cuba. In 1962, Soriano exiled to the United States. His paintings began to transform as he created a new visual vocabulary. Art historian, Alejandro Anreus speaks of his paintings as meditative moments where allusive, biomorphic forms move within fantastic spaces filled with diaphanous color, always shifting and fluid. Today, the Rafael Soriano Foundation, LNS Gallery, collectors, friends and family celebrate his centennial.
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