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A 1554 portrait of Mary I by Hans Eworth (foreground) and Elizabeth I by Quentin Metsys the Younger (background), from 1583, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. The Tudors shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- The labels beside seven objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts new exhibition of art from 15th- and 16th-century England have a credit line that slightly jars: Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In one sense, the credit is accurate. Elizabeth was alive and well when the keepers of the royal collection in London approved the loans to the Met and so, in tribute to her, the museum has decided to leave the labels as written. But the drawings and paintings are Charles now, and the obsolete credit line underscores how the modern state grinds on from one reign to the next. Barristers are updating their business cards from Queens Counsel to Kings, but no one needs a fresh appointment at the bar. A new pound is being minted, with a new royal punim, but itll be worth just the same as before. (Well, less, but thats more the new governments fault than the new kings.) The crown is continuous, it passes in a breath. But what ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This week in Paris, Sothebys is offering the sumptuous contents of the collection across five live auctions, and an online sale, having welcomed just under 4,000 visitors to its galleries to view the treasures since the exhibition opened on 6 October.
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| "Tal R: The Forest in My Eyebrow" opens at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp | | RISD Museum announces return of Benin bronze | | Frick to present exhibition of major acquisitions this fall | 
TAL R, Halfway Tree, 2021, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm.
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition by Tal R: The Forest in My Eyebrow. This exhibition shows a new series of works that resulted from a confrontation between the artist and an opening in the forest, created by trees that had been cut down. The opening, which curiously seemed to form the shape of an eye, compelled the artist to make a series of drawings, which he later reworked in his studio into colored drawings on paper, woodcuts, and large-scale paintings. In addition to these works, Tal also presents a new bronze sculpture in the outdoor patio of the gallery. There is a strange coincidence in the Danish language that the word forest skovbryn and eyebrow øjenbryn are very similar to each other, Tal explains, referring to the title of the exhibition. So when I saw this eye-shaped space of cut-down trees in the forest, I was intrigued. I took a chair a ... More | | 
Edo (African culture), Head of a king (Oba), probably 1700s. Deaccessioned by the RISD Museum Fine Arts Committee and Board of Governors, Fall 2020. Ex Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich. Courtesy of the RISD Museum.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design announced the rightful return of Head of a King (Oba), previously held in the museums collection, to the Nigerian National Collections. The transfer occurred on October 11 at a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM). The transfer ceremony included the return of the Head of a King (Oba), also referred to as a Benin Bronze, which had been in the RISD Museum collection until its deaccessioning in September of 2020, along with 29 objects returned from the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a single object returned from the National Gallery of Art. These 31 objects are among ... More | | 
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Head of a Woman, 1784, Pastel on paper, 12 x 9 7/8 inches. Promised Gift from the Collection of Elizabeth and Jean -Marie Eveillard. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
NEW YORK, NY.- The major fall exhibition at Frick Madison (the temporary home of The Frick Collection during renovation of its historic buildings) presents the largest and most significant promised gift of drawings and pastels in the institutions history. Assembled by Elizabeth Betty and Jean-Marie Eveillard, avid collectors of drawings and pastels, the exhibition includes European works ranging in date from the end of the fifteenth century to the twentieth century and representing artists working in France, Britain, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. The twenty-six works include some of the couples finest acquisitions: eighteen drawings, five pastels, two prints, and one oil sketch. Along with preparatory figurative sketches and independent studies and portraits are two vivid landscape scenes, and will be on display October 13 through ... More |
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| Threshold: An exhibition of paintings by Eric Aho opens at DC Moore Gallery | | Hôtel Lambert: Stellar results for contents of Paris' most beautiful residence | | Ming Dynasty chair makes record $16 million in Sotheby's Hong Kong Auction | 
Eric Aho, "Vernal Pool" (Oxford County), 2022. Oil on linen, 80 x 90 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Threshold, an exhibition of paintings by Eric Aho, on view from October 13 November 12, 2022. In this new series of paintings, Eric Aho explores the various threshold spaces between water, earth, sky, and our own physical presence in the landscape. Developed over the past two years and drawn from the artists explorations of forests and wetlands, Aho reconstructs and reinvents his observations, composing a visual language of natural forms, feelings, and remembrances. The borders where natural elements meet are disrupted by Ahos intricate mark-making. Recognizable space is clarified towards the top of many of the paintings, where stark pine trees cut across open patches of sky. Moving towards the bottom of his canvases, closer to the artists vantage point, forms become fluid and ... More | | 
A pair of Louis XVI gilt & blue-patinated bronze candelabra, circa 1784-1786, attributed to Lucien-François Feuchère. Est. 300,000-500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
PARIS.- Standing tall among Paris many architectural jewels, the Hôtel Lambert is a palatial private house, built in the early 1640s and decorated by the artistic visionaries behind Versailles. Following a painstaking and sympathetic restoration by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani and his immediate family, the Hôtel Lambert was returned to its former glory and filled with furniture and objects whose provenance, craftsmanship and academic significance matched that of the prestigious setting resulting in one of the finest private collections of decorative arts ever assembled. This week in Paris, Sothebys is offering the sumptuous contents of the collection across five live auctions, and an online sale, having welcomed just under 4,000 visitors to ... More | | 
An exceptional and rare huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, Ming dynasty - in situ. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Folding horse-back armchairs (jiaoyi) are extremely rare and considered one of the most elegant forms made by the Chinese cabinetmaker. By the Ming dynasty, they had become a designated seat of honour for any travelling dignitary, with the quality of wood defining their high level. This weekend, Sotheby's auction of the collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung world-renowned collector and philanthropist offered a masterfully constructed Huanghuali folding horse-shoe back armchair a superb example of the timeless and minimalistic aesthetic that characterises Ming dynasty furniture. Conceived to be folded for easy transport, these portable chairs were naturally more prone to damage than other pieces of furniture; few, therefore, could withstand the test of time, making extant examples extremely ... More |
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| Storm King Art Center appoints Eric Booker to the role of Associate Curator | | Nara Roesler debuts "Lines of Abstraction" at 181 Fremont's Gallery 181 | | Seattle Art Museum transforms its American Art Galleries | 
Eric Booker. Photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center announces the appointment of Eric Booker as Associate Curator, joining the curatorial team led by Nora Lawrence, Artistic Director and Chief Curator. In this role, Booker will contribute to Storm Kings artistic program through the deveopment of special exhibitions and collection presentations, including scholarly research, writing, publications, and interpretation. Booker will also work closely with the Department of Education and Public Programs on the development and implementation of the Art Centers public program offerings. Nora Lawrence said, Eric Booker will be a true asset to Storm Kings growing curatorial team and play a pivotal role in the Art Centers work with artists. His experience presenting exhibitions and projects across mediums such as performance, site-specific installations, and public art commissions will bring immense value to Storm Kings artistic program ... More | | 
Artur Lescher, 3 Esferas, 2017.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery 181, a highlight of 181 Fremonts art program located in a half-floor penthouse 700 feet high in San Franciscos acclaimed first LEED Platinum-certified mixed-use building, announced a new exhibition and the first presentation in San Francisco by the renown Brazilian Gallery Nara Roesler Lines of Abstraction" which showcases Brazilian artists Artur Lescher, Abraham Palatnik, Amelia Toledo, and Tomie Ohtake. The exhibition proposes a reflection on the legacy of Constructivism in Brazilian Modern and Contemporary art, offering an overview of different approaches to its vocabulary and principles. This exhibition also offers the first opportunity to see more works by Tomie Ohtake, whose work was recently acquired by SFMOMA, joining its permanent collection. Lines of Abstraction will run from September 22 November 19, 2022. Nara Roesler is a leading Brazilian contemporary art gallery, represe ... More | | 
General Toussaint LOuverture, from The Life of Toussaint LOuverture, 1986, Jacob Lawrence, silkscreen on Bainbridge two ply rag paper through hand-cut film stencils, image: 28 1/2 x 18 1/2 in., paper: 32 1/4 à 22 in., General Acquisition Fund, 2021.18.2. © Estate of Jacob Lawrence/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents American Art: The Stories We Carry (October 20, 2022ongoing), the first major reinstallation of the museums American art collection in 15 years. Funded primarily by a $1 million grant from The Mellon Foundation and a $75,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the exhibition brings the museums historical American collectionpredominately comprised of works by artists of European descentinto conversation with Native, Asian American, African American, and Latinx art, including contemporary art and new acquisitions and commissions. The galleries will feature regular rotations beginning in April 2023. The Stories We Carry is ... More |
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| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opens three fall exhibitions | | The Belvedere opens an exhibition of works by Rona Pondick | | Baltimore Museum of Art appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt as Curator of European Painting and Sculpture | 
George P. Perez, Overlap and an in between (detail), 2022, C-prints- tape. Courtesy of the Artist.
BOULDER, CO.- Experience the work of four innovative, Colorado-based artists at BMoCA this fall. BMoCAs three new exhibitions feature the work of Kevin Hoth, George P. Perez, Kristopher Wright, and Erin Hyunhee Kang. While the artists use distinct processes and address a range of themes, each utilizes and experiments with the medium of photography. They expand the definition and possibilities of photography in works that invite viewers to reflect on how they see the world and moments from their daily lives. Plane of Action explores how Kevin Hoth (Boulder, CO) and George P. Perez (Denver, CO/Detroit, MI) glitch, deconstruct, and rebuild machine and hand-altered photographs. The two artists distort the legibility of imagery sourced from personal collections, archives, and social media through acts of weaving, cutting, collage, and even burning. Hoths works in Plane of Action illustrate his process of deconstructing instant film before c ... More | | 
Exhibition view "CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Rona Pondick" Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- A horde of monkeys descended on the Carlone Hall at the Upper Belvedere! They are hybrid creatures with human parts: Monkeys by Rona Pondick adopts the Baroque ambiences playful engagement with distance and proximity to the viewer. The Belvedere is showing this work in the series CARLONE CONTEMPORARY. General Director and curator Stella Rollig comments: With Monkeys Rona Pondick is creating a situation that is both disconcerting and at the same time seems very familiar: We recognize ourselves and the Other in one object in terms of its depth and multifaceted nature, capturing this moment resembles the Baroque frescoes by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. Magical human-animal hybrids have populated the artists sculptural world since the year 2000. The cavorting monkeys incorporating parts of the human body are simultaneously wild, erotic, aggressive, and whimsical; the human facethe artist herselfeit ... More | | 
Yeager-Crasselt is a renowned scholar of early modern European art with significant experience in curating, teaching, and writing on a range of subjects in the field.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art recently announced that Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been named Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Department Head. Yeager-Crasselt is a scholar and curator of early modern European art, specializing in painting, sculpture, and tapestry produced in Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. As part of her new role, she will oversee the reconceptualization of the BMAs galleries of 15th- through 19th-century European art, with a particular emphasis on expanding the narratives told through the museums expansive holdings. The BMA has also promoted Dr. Leslie Cozzi to Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs in recognition of her numerous contributions to the museum since she joined in 2018. Additionally, the museum announced that it has received a generous $2 million ... More |
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 Innovative Jewish Center designed by Landau Zinder celebrates grand opening, serves an evolving communityPRINCETON, NJ.- Landau Zinder Architecture, experts in leading-edge, sustainable design for synagogue and Jewish worship-study spaces, have announced the completion of work and grand opening of the Yakov & Hava Telyas Chabad Jewish Center in nearby Clinton, New Jersey. Combining learning environments and community amenities with a sunlit sanctuary for worship, the innovative community center will serve as the new home for the activities and education programs of Chabad of Hunterdon County, and host regular worship services for Central New Jerseys Jewish community at large. Constructed over the past two years on a ten-acre site, the 17,000-square-foot Telyas Center features classrooms for pre-kindergarten, ... More  Kavi Gupta opens a solo exhibition of new paintings by Miya AndoCHICAGO, IL.- Kavi Gupta presents Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon), a solo exhibition of new paintings by Miya Ando. Expressive of the transitory and immaterial quality of clouds at night, the exhibition spotlights natures impermanence and interdependence, concepts also prevalent in Andos recent solo exhibitions at the Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY; Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC; and Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX; and her recent group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (with Marina Abramović, Marilyn Minter, Ãlafur Eliasson, and Ai Weiwei); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Ando lived her formative years between a Buddhist temple in Japan and the mountains of Northern California. The unique vantage ... More  Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Caroline CoonLONDON.- Focusing on her local neighbourhood in West London, the show brings together a selection of the artists Urban Landscapes made over the past twenty-five years. Scenes of everyday life depicting roadways, social housing and canals, shoppers and pram-pushing mothers, are peppered with subtle allusions to the citys darker underbelly. Faithful depictions of Ladbroke Groves bustling community and architectural landmarks are juxtaposed with fantastical images of male and female commuters stripped of their clothing. Coons distinctive style is characterised by crisp-edged lines, bright colours and hyperrealism redolent of Paul Cadmus and Tamara de Lempicka. Coon writes: This neighbourhood has been my home for nearly sixty years. As I have grown old, the avenue of plane trees on Ladbroke Grove has grown magnificently ... More  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum opens a new exhibition by vanessa germanSOUTH HADLEY, MASS.- A new exhibition, vanessa germanTHE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH, will be on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum from October 13, 2022 through May 28, 2023. Featuring video and sculpture by the artist, activist, performer, and poet vanessa german,* the exhibition navigates ancestral memory and the contemporary landscapes of race, politics, and the pandemic with a uniquely powerful and profound approach. The genesis of the exhibition is germans response to the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, an early 20th-century cabinet of curiosities at Mount Holyoke College. The collectionranging from Lakota Sioux beadwork and a merchant ships carved figurehead, to 19th-century folk art portraits, dinosaur tracks, and Samurai swordsis an impressive and unwieldy trove of over ... More  'Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration' now open at Brown UniversityPROVIDENCE, RI.- The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University has opened Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, an acclaimed exhibition exploring the profound cultural influence of the U.S. prison system through the work of artists who are or have been incarcerated, alongside work by advocates and family members affected by carceral systems. Seen together, the works explore how predatory policing, surveillance, and mass imprisonment impact everyday life for millions of people, offering new ways to envision art and to understand the reach and effects of the U.S. carceral state. The comprehensive exhibition spans spaces in the Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration is organized by curator Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, NYU Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, and exhibition ... More  American LA based artist presents Visions in Motion Art Installation at the DMZ in South KoreaLOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles-based Poetic Kinetics artist Patrick Shearn is presenting Visions in Motion, a large-scale, outdoor, public art installation at the Lets DMZ Peace Arts Festival held annually in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Curated by the GyeongGi Cultural Foundation, Visions in Motion is on display from September 21 until October 30, 2022 in Pyeonghwa-Nuri Park in the Imjingak area of Paju, South Korea. The goal of the Lets DMZ Peace Arts Festival is to promote peace and coexistence while highlighting the environment and culture in the Demilitarized Zone. The 250-meter (800-foot) participatory sculpture was conceived to be a symbol for peace and the united power of people overcoming injusticeincorporating messages from individuals all over the world to visualize a collective voice of hope. During the festival, the Korean public will ... More  Harkawik now representing Calliope Pavlides, John Seal and Katarina Janečková WalsheNEW YORK, NY.- Harkawik announced their representation of Calliope Pavlides (b. 1998, Athens, Greece), John Seal (b. 1971, Seattle, WA), and Katarina Janečková Walshe (b. 1988, Bratislava, Slovakia). Calliope Pavlides has quickly gained attention for her distinctive works on paper, layering oil and dry pastels, crayon and colored pencil to produce disquieting images of the quotidian and the uncanny. Her most recent project, Dovecote, follows the artist's meditation on the rituals of Greek Summer. Here she introduces an easy realism that was previously only glimpsed through an array of unconventional framing devices, portals, and projected spaces. Her tools allow her to manipulate texture like a sly magician, and her forceful rending of incompatible vantage points, birds eye views and first-person perspectives here give way to a more ... More  Bitter Sweet moments highlighted pottery exhibition by artist Laurie Carretta ScuppNEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing Bitter|Sweet, a series of 32 ceramic pottery pieces crafted by artist Laurie Carretta Scupp. Created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, Bitter|Sweet presents a series of emotionally connected stories in clay, representing the bittersweet moments during isolation. Located in a street-level window at 215 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through December 4th. The installation is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations and over 17 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. Were proud to present Lauries thought-provoking exhibit as part of our series of public art installations ... More  Baber's "Swirl of Sounds - Wind, Rock and Sun" leads Moran's "She Made It" saleLOS ANGELES, CALIF.- On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 4:00pm PST, John Moran Auctioneers will present She Made It, their inaugural sale dedicated to female artists and makers in a wide variety of styles, mediums, and subjects. Featuring jewelry, fine art, furniture, sculpture, this sale has a range of estimates well-suited to the emerging as well as the established collector. After having recently achieved a World-Auction Record of $187,500 (including buyers premium) in Morans Summer Modern & Contemporary auction, Alice Baber will be offered again with her work, Swirl of Sounds -Wind, Rock and Sun, 1975. Baber was an American artist and a lesser-known figure from the Abstract Expressionist but has since garnered mass appeal. With an estimate of $30,000-50,000, this large 103 H x 71.75 W oil on canvas is another example of her signature ... More  Central Wharf Park exhibits new installatioin "Five Marble Leaves" by international artist Claudia ComteBOSTON, MASS.- Inspired by 24 pin and red oak trees inside Bostons Central Wharf Park, the acclaimed and award-winning international artist Claudia Comte has developed a new body of sculptural work, Five Marble Leaves, is on view now. Drawing attention to the marvel of nature and the importance of rising to the challenge of the current environmental crisis, the large-scale work was commissioned by Now + There, Bostons public art nonprofit that brings temporary, site-specific installations to all of the citys neighborhoods and was curated by Bostons Pedro Alonzo. Comtes artwork has captivated art critics and the public in solo and group shows all over the world including Berlin, Geneva, Copenhagen, Madrid, London, Vienna, and New York City. A native of Switzerland, she has long been inspired by nature. Growing up near a forest, she has ... More  MTA Arts & Design permanent public artwork by Shawna X features vibrant glass and geometric metal railingsNEW YORK, NY.- MTA Arts & Design has announced a new commission by graphic artist Shawna X titled Cyclical Everything at the newly opened overpass at the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Elmont-UBS Arena Station. A series of ten vibrant glass panels enliven the station overpass, and metal railings in geometric forms are located on the eastbound platform and in the ramp of the westbound platform. The first new LIRR station in almost 50 years, Elmont-UBS Arena provides service to and from events at UBS Arena and Belmont Park racetrack, as well as to the local community. We are delighted to have such lively artwork for the new Elmont-UBS Arena Station, says Sandra Bloodworth, Director, MTA ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to former US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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