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Jeffrey Gibsons hyper-colorful show Ancestral Superbloom at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Manhattan, Oct. 21, 2023. From left, Superbloom (2023), digitally printed wallpaper; Butterfly Effect (2023), painted bronze; and Gonna Reap Just What You Sow" (2023), a painting with glass beads. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- When organizers with the State Department announced that Jeffrey Gibson would represent the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale next spring the contemporary art worlds version of the Olympics there were clear reasons to celebrate. Not only would the artist fulfill a personal dream, but he would also be writing a chapter of American history as the first Indigenous artist to receive a solo exhibition there. But with only six months until the April opening, the team behind his exhibition still needs to raise millions to reach the total of $5 million to complete work on the U.S. Pavilion. The government provides only $375,000 roughly 7.5% of the projected cost of this years show. So a patchwork coalition of curators, gallerists, collectors and philanthropists is working overtime to secure donations to house and feed the artist and his workers and install the Venice exhibition while trying to ensure that Gibson isnt saddled with debt for t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of The de Young Open, 2023.
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| Roland Auctions NY to offer the final offering of the legendary Phyllis Lucas Gallery collection | | Christie's announces Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Live Evening Sale | | Christie's Global President Jussi Pylkkänen to leave Christie's in 2024 | 
Previews for the November 4th auction are by appointment only (call Roland at 212-260-2000) on Nov. 2nd & 3rd at the Phyllis Lucas Gallery (AKA the Old Print Center) at 133 East 54th Street 2nd floor. NY, NY 10022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will present the final offering of the legendary Phyllis Lucas Gallery collection in New York on Saturday, November 4th, 2023 at 11am. Roland kicked-off their new highly-successful collaboration with the renowned gallery with The Phyllis Lucas Gallery Collection Part I and Part 2 back in the spring of this year. Previews for the November 4th auction are by appointment only (call Roland at 212-260-2000) on Nov. 2nd & 3rd at the Phyllis Lucas Gallery (AKA the Old Print Center) at 133 East 54th Street 2nd floor. NY, NY 10022. Take a glimpse into world history, as told through over 20,000 antique and historical prints of all kinds, along with other artwork, in this one final auction. Don't miss this institutions last glance at the past and a very unique auction opportunity. The plan was for Roland Auctions NY to offer the collection over several installments ... More | | 
Nabil Nahas, (b. 1949, Beirut) Orion, 1996. Estimate: £40,000-60,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Christies announces the seasonal autumn auction of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art taking place as a live evening sale at Christies headquarters in St Jamess, London on 9 November. The sale offers a strong selection of Modern and Contemporary works of art which reflect the regions rich modern art heritage and thriving contemporary art scene. Comprising 58 works across mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and photography from the period 1940s-2020s, the sale encompasses works by Arab artists from across the across the Middle East and North Africa, including works by artists from the U.A.E, KSA, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Morocco. One of the contemporary highlights of the sale is From the Real to the Symbolic City (Desert of Pharan series), 2012, (estimate £40,000-60,000) by Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater (B.1979). Recognised today as one of the most esteemed cultur ... More | | 
Jussi Pylkkänen selling Andy Warhols Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for $195 million, Christies NY (May 2022). © Christies Images Limited 2023.
LONDON.- Christies Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Cerutti announced today that after 38 years of dedicated service to the company, Christies Global President Jussi Pylkkänen plans to step down from his formal role at the auction house to work as an independent art advisor. On November 9, Jussi will take his final New York auction when he climbs into the rostrum for the 20th Century Evening sale, and will then make his final appearance as an auctioneer in London for the Old Masters Evening sale on December 7. Guillaume Cerutti, Christies Chief Executive Officer, commented: Jussi is a well-loved member of the Christies family. We are very grateful for his tremendous contribution to Christies, as a respected art specialist, a remarkable business getter and one of our best auctioneers. We wish him the best on beginning this next phase of his career as an independent client advisor. Jussi Pylkkänen, Global ... More |
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| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates first retrospective of artist Pacita Abad | | The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair opening in November 2023 | | Seventh solo exhibition by Portuguese painter and graphic artist Jorge Queiroz opening today | 
Pacita Abad, If My Friends Could See Me Now, 1991. Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim, courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate; photo: Don Ross.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is carrying out the first retrospective of Pacita Abad. Featuring more than 40 major works, including many rarely seen by the public, this exhibition is the most significant U.S. presentation of the artists multifaceted and mesmerizing art practice. Throughout her 32-year career from the 1970s to the early 2000s, Abad centered the triumphs and adversities of people on the periphery of power, as seen in her Social Realist, Immigrant Experience and Masks and Spirits series. This exhibition celebrates an artist whose vibrant and inventive practice generated thousands of daring artworksfrom intricately constructed underwater scenes to abstract compositionsand whose themes are as urgent today as they were two ... More | | 
Simeon Stafford, Wall of Deith (detail). Photo: Bink Fine Art.
ENGLAND.- This years Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers Association Fair, sponsored by art insurance specialist Hallett Independent, is taking place for three days from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 November 2023. Some 27 dealers, mainly CADA members along with some guest exhibitors, are exhibiting for the third year in succession at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. The Associations annual fair is taking place in November this year coinciding with Compton Verneys exhibition 'History in the Making: Highlights from Woburn and the Crafts Council Collections'. A couple of dealers are planning specific exhibitions on their individual stands: Mayflower Antiques is putting together a special exhibition of Spanish and Portuguese colonial pieces, rare items from a period not really known about these days. Christopher Hamlyn of Mayflower Antiques is currently working on a book to accompany the exhibition. Amongst the item ... More | | 
Shape the echo #3, 2023. Acrylic on canvas. © Jorge Queiroz.
BRUSSELS .- Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Brussels is now opening Shape the echo and other works, the seventh solo exhibition by Portuguese painter and graphic artist Jorge Queiroz, since the gallery first represented the artist at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Born in 1966, Jorge Queiroz studied painting and drawing at ArCo - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon (Portugal) and continued his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York (USA), where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in 1999. In 2004, he was resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The artist first studied drawing techniques before exploring the medium of painting. Shape the echo and other works features a group of paintings by the artist, including five new works created especially for this exhibition. For over thirty years, Jorge Queiroz has been creating dreamlike worlds in which the realms of the spirit and ... More |
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| Works by Greek master Moralis lead Bonhams Greek sale | | Spanierman Modern's 'Artistry and Alchemical Process' on view until November 11th | | Christie's to offer the Sam Josefwitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt | 
Nikiforos Lytras (1832-1904), Jeune fille au bain (Girl washing her hair) Estimate: 80,000-120,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- From the 1970s to the 21st century, Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009) consistently adhered to the principles of geometric abstraction, exploring its mystical pathways and taking his place among its leading exponents. Five paintings of this Greek master lead Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr Greek Sale in Paris on Wednesday 22 November. Head of the Greek Sale, Anastasia Orfanidou, said: Its always a pleasure to show Moralis works to the market and our rediscovery of an important piece by Lytras is particularly interesting. These works will be exhibited in Athens from 8-10 November 2023 then in Paris from 20-22 November. The Greek Sale is a collaborative sale put together by Bonhams in London and Paris and its associates in Athens, Art Expertise whose Director, Terpsichore Angelopoulou, said: Amassing such a great collection and discovering hidden gems and missing links in the history of Greek Art was ... More | | 
Steven Alexander, Reflector 18, 2021, Oil and acrylic on linen, 72 x 60 inches, Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the act of creation there are no straight lines, no easy answers, rather there is a process of foraging, a journey of trial and error, informed by years of experience. It takes courage to deviate from the linear path, to venture into unfamiliar territory, to experiment, pose new questions and create new obstacles, and then seek to resolve them - or not. Though we may live in a technologically dominated world, the practice of being an artisan, the use of hands, and the cherishing of craft, is still key. NFTs, AI, and 3D printing, all seek to supplant the practice of being an artisan as irrelevant. All of the artists in this exhibition take singular pleasure in the investigation of materials and their application. Charles Alstons use of ochre in Abstract #3 gives a warm and earthy grit to the dynamic angularity of his gestures. Sam Middleton conceals found printed material in The Search, so that the signage is rendered mute and abstract, lending only text ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639. Estimate: £80,000 - 120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Following the launch of a series of sales dedicated to The Sam Josefowitz Collection in October, Christies will present 75 Rembrandt prints, which will be offered across two sales on 7 December in Christie's London. Old Masters Part I will include five highly important subjects, representing different aspects of Rembrandt's unrivalled skill as a printmaker. This will be followed by the Evening Sale of The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn. Seen together, the works in the sales will form a survey of the different genres, periods and working methods of Rembrandt's printed oeuvre. Sam Josefowitz was one of the greatest print collectors of the 20th century and the sale represents a rare opportunity to acquire works with esteemed provenance. The prints will be on display at Christies Rockefeller Center in New York until 29 October and in Amsterdam from 24 to 27 November. Highlights will be ... More |
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| Afro-Atlantic Histories concludes its U.S. tour at the Dallas Museum of Art | | Over 60 Chaucer manuscripts available online | | Ukrainian 'Artifacts' seized in Spain may not be treasures, experts say | 
Dalton Paula, Zeferina, 2018. Oil on canvas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, gift of the artist on the occasion of the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition, 2018. © Dalton Paula.
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Afro-Atlantic Historiesan unprecedented exhibition that visually explores the history and legacy of the Black Diaspora, with a focus on the transatlantic slave tradeon the final stop of its U.S. tour. Initially organized and presented in 2018 by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), the exhibition comprises around 100 artworks and documents produced in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe from the 17th century to the present day, including works from the DMAs own collection. The presenting sponsor for this exhibition in Dallas is Bank of America. Now more than ever, we appreciate the power of the arts to foster human connection and encourage greater cultural understanding. Bank of Americas support of the DMA over the years, including the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition ... More | | 
This volume contains one of only two surviving manuscripts of The Isle of Ladies, a 15th-century Middle English poem in rhyming couplets.
LONDON.- Often called the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400) was a prolific writer whose works have transfixed generations of readers. Chaucers Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works of medieval literature, but he also wrote in a range of poetic forms and genres. Among his works are the Trojan epic Troilus and Criseyde, the dream vision The Legend of Good Women, his translations of the Roman de la Rose and The Consolation of Philosophy, his instructional manual on the astrolabe, and a whole host of minor poems. The British Library holds the worlds largest surviving collection of Chaucers works, and this year we have reached a major milestone. Thanks to generous funding provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Peck Stacpoole Foundation, and the ... More | | 
National Archaeological Museum of Spain. Photo: Emilio J. RodrÃguez Posada - Museo Arqueológico Nacional / wikipedia.org
NEW YORK, NY.- To police in Spain, the artifacts possessed an ancient and golden allure. In a criminal investigation, Spanish police said Monday, officers had found that 11 pieces of gold, believed to date as far back as the fourth and eighth centuries B.C., had been stolen from Ukraine in 2016 and illegally taken to Madrid, where five people schemed to sell the artifacts. The five individuals were arrested and charged with money laundering, and the national police released images and video of the stolen items, saying that their value was around 60 million euros ($64 million). But two experts in Greco-Scythian artifacts said in interviews that the items seized are most likely modern imitations of those crafted by ancient Greeks for Scythian nomads who, in the fourth century B.C., traversed what is now Ukraine and southern Russia. Leonid Babenko, ... More |
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 New arts, education and cultural centre planned for the South Downs, SussexENGLAND.- Towner Eastbourne, in partnership with Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC), plans to create a world-class culture and education centre in the unique landscape of the South Downs National Park. Its vision is to transform lives by connecting communities and visitors with the outstanding nature, landscape and cultural heritage of the downlands for health and wellbeing. The building design, by architects Feilden Fowles, has just been submitted for planning approval. The submission of a planning application follows Eastbourne Borough Council's successful £19.8 million bid to the government's Levelling Up Fund. As a new eastern gateway to the South Downs, this landscape-led project will act as a catalyst to connect the Sussex Heritage Coast's iconic landmarks of Beachy Head, Birling Gap, Seven ... More  After a long intermission, a new act for a flagship Paris TheaterPARIS.- A lot can happen in seven years. When the Théâtre de la Ville a flagship venue for Paris contemporary dance and theater scene last welcomed audiences, in late 2016, TikTok had just launched. A pandemic seemed like a far-fetched idea. La(Horde), the influential dance collective featured prominently during the theaters reopening festivities this month, was still wholly unknown. Roughly half of the Théâtre de la Villes employees joined during the closure and didnt set foot in the building during renovations, its director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota said during a tour of the playhouse last month. (While it was closed, shows continued at a temporary location, the Espace Cardin, at partner venues and on the Théâtre de la Villes second stage, Les Abbesses.) Anticipation for ... More  Black Sabbath Ballet turns up the volume on a varied London seasonLONDON.- As the crowds filed out of Sadlers Wells theater Friday, I approached a bushy-bearded man in a leather jacket and Black Sabbath T-shirt. Was he a die-hard aficionado of the heavy metal band? He was. What had he thought of the show we had just seen, Black Sabbath: The Ballet? Fantastic! he said, beaming. But Im also a big ballet fan. I was at Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House last week. Bravo to Londons robust dance-going public, which has been packing houses at season openings in the past few weeks, culminating in the Birmingham Royal Ballets much talked-about Black Sabbath production. The improbable heavy-metal-meets-classical-dance premise came from the companys director, Carlos Acosta, who has described the band, founded in Birmingham in 1968, as one ... More  Richard Roundtree, star of 'Shaft,' dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Roundtree, the actor who redefined African American masculinity in the movies when he played the title role in Shaft, one of the first Black action heroes, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his manager, Patrick McMinn, who said that it had been diagnosed two months ago. Shaft, which was released in 1971, was among the first of the so-called Blaxploitation movies, and it made Roundtree a movie star at 29. The character John Shaft is his own man, a private detective who jaywalks confidently through moving Times Square traffic in a handsome brown leather coat with the collar turned up; sports a robust, dark mustache somewhere between walrus-style and a downturned handlebar; and keeps a pearl-handled revolver in th ... More  Review: In 'Daphne,' remaking a myth, with mixed resultsNEW YORK, NY.- A crying baby pulled from a kitchen cabinet, a woman abruptly exiting a house via a window and a banged-up finger that turns into bark: The new play Daphne is chock-full of magical surprises and mystical transformations, but its surreal elements leave the audience with too many unanswered questions. In the play, which opened Monday at the Claire Tow Theater, Daphne (Jasmine Batchelor) has recently moved in with her girlfriend, Winona (Keilly McQuail) an abrupt change that has Daphnes friends concerned. And with good cause: Daphne is living in a big, mysterious house in the middle of big, mysterious woods with a controlling partner who disapproves of her leaving or receiving guests. After an accident leaves Daphne with an injured finger, she begins a botanical transf ... More  Edwaard Liang appointed artistic director of Washington BalletNEW YORK, NY.- The Washington Ballet announced on Tuesday that Edwaard Liang would be its next artistic director, starting immediately. Liang, 48, comes to Washington after 10 years leading BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. He succeeds Julie Kent, who was appointed in 2016 and left earlier this year to serve as the joint artistic director of Houston Ballet with Stanton Welch. Liang will continue to direct BalletMet through the end of its current season. Liang, who was born in Taiwan and raised in California, is the first person of color to lead the Washington Ballet, and the first Asian American to lead an American ballet company of its size and stature. (Gen Horiuchi, the artistic director of the smaller St. Louis Ballet, is of Japanese descent.) Its a major source of pride, Liang said in an interview. Such represent ... More  In Sanliurfa, the Silk Road meets the Stone AgeNEW YORK, NY.- As we climbed the slope toward one of the worlds most momentous archaeological sites in a gusty December drizzle, a futuristic shape loomed into view. It was the swooping white canopy erected over the main excavation at Gobekli Tepe, a group of Neolithic structures up to 11,400 years old in southeastern Turkey. Their unearthing in the mid-1990s caused a reconsideration of the standard timeline of human civilization. From under the space-age canopy, my partner, Anya, and I stared down into the monumental Stone Age panorama before us, like awed and slightly spooked time travelers. Awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2018, Gobekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill) has spawned sensational Netflix shows and the woolliest of speculative theories. Recently, the site and its myst ... More  David Adamo has third solo show at Rodolphe Janssen LIVORNOSTRAAT.- rodolphe janssen has announced the presentation of On the Fence, David Adamos third solo exhibition at the gallery, which takes place from October 26th to December 16th, 2023 at Livourne 35. Talking about the show, David Adamo described his most current explorations in the following terms. I started the process for the show funny enough with painting. Something I havent really explored over the years as an artist, something Ive definitely dreamt about but somehow too self-conscious to try. I spent the summer on a residency in Liguria at the former residence and studio of Danish artist Asger Jorn. For one month, I slept in his former bedroom, and I firmly believe he entered my dreams, and I got permission to paint by Asgers spirit. I came back to Berlin and suddenly had the urge. As i ... More  Museum launches free digitized archive connected to Black and Native American soldiers from the Revolutionary WarPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Nearly 200 rare documents bearing the names of Black and Native American soldiers who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War are now accessible online to everyone at no cost, thanks to a partnership between Philadelphias Museum of the American Revolution and Ancestry®, the global leader in family history. I am delighted that Ancestry and the Museum of the American Revolution have partnered to make this unique and important archive available to the public, said Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author. The founding of our great republic was truly a multicultural ... More  Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the marginalized, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Natalie Zemon Davis, a social and cultural historian whose imaginative and deeply researched investigations of the lives of marginalized figures peasants, long-forgotten women, border crossers of all sorts profoundly influenced the discipline, died Saturday at her home in Toronto. She was 94. The cause was cancer, Aaron Davis, her son, said. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary criticism, as well as meticulous archival digging, Natalie Davis both represented and inspired an emerging approach to history in the second half of the 20th century, often by filling in gaps in the historical record with informed speculations based on deep immersion in the period under study. Her best-known book was The Return of Martin Guerre (1983), based on the tale of a 16th-cent ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter William Hogarth died October 26, 1764. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian.". In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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