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Capacity will be limited to 25% with access available through timed-ticket entry only. Photo: David Heald. © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- After an unprecedented seven months of closure, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum invites the public to return beginning on Saturday, October 3. New hours are from 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday through Monday. To celebrate the first two months of reopening, the Guggenheim welcomes back neighbors, New Yorkers, and all other visitors with expanded Pay What You Wish hours from 4 to 6 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Through December 1, the museum will match every purchase of a full-priced ticket with a free family pass for an essential worker through the Art for the Front Line program. The Guggenheim will offer museum members and patrons preview days on Wednesday, September 30; Thursday, October 1; and Friday, October 2. Beginning on October 5, the museum will offer additional member hours from 6 to 8 pm on Mondays, in appreciation of members continued support through the challenges brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Cap ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day English musician Bill Wyman's stage ensembles and Staccato MG bass are exhibited during a press preview of "Property from Bill Wyman and his Rolling Stones Archive" at Julien's Auctions, September 8, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. VALERIE MACON / AFP
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 | | Sotheby's unveils highlights from Contemporary Curated | | Sperone Westwater reopens with exhibition of sculptures by Bruce Nauman | | Sotheby's to offer Asian and Western contemporary art from the collection of Natalie Chan Chu and Lawrence Chu | 
Barkley L. Hendricks, Latin From Manhattan...The Bronx Actually. Estimate $700,000 - $1 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys is pleased to announce highlights from this seasons Contemporary Curated auction in New York, with co-curators by Virgil Abloh, Chief Creative Director and Founder of Off-White and Mens Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton, and Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Mercedes-Benz. The sale will take place 2 October and is highlighted by Project Geländewagen, the first outcome of a collaboration that is a first of its kind between Mercedes-Benz and Abloh, in which a special, one-of-a-kind Mercedes-Benz maquette will be auctioned for charity (estimate $60/80,000). The conceptual design project used the Mercedes-Benz G-Class to explore ways of disrupting future perceptions of luxury, and the result is a distinctive manifestation of the G-Class as never seen before. The October sale features an exceptional array of works spanning postwar to contemporary art, anchored by many of the leading ... More | | 
Bruce Nauman, Two Leaping Foxes, 2018. Polyurethane foam with steel and wire cables, 141 1/2 x 90 x 38 inches (359,4 x 228,6 x 96,5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater reopened on Wednesday, 9 September with three new unique sculptures by Bruce Nauman, his thirteenth solo at the gallery, his first 45 years ago in 1976. Since the late 1960s, Nauman has consistently questioned what an artwork is, adopting a wide range of diverse mediums, including his own body, language, sound, film, video, neon, holograms and 3D technology. His practice has expanded the traditional boundaries of art-making, reflecting the perceptions, preconceptions and contradictions which characterize our existence in the world. Beginning 7 October, Tate Modern will host a Bruce Nauman survey which runs through February 2021 before it travels to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Walking a Line, 2019, references Naumans performances in his studio dating back to 1968-69, specifically Walk with Contrapposto, and the more ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Ein Werktätiger (The Worker), 1967, oil on paper laid on canvas, 100 x 81 cm. Est. HK$4,500,000 6,000,000 / US$585,000 775,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- This October, Sothebys will present Art of Tomorrow: Works Sold to Benefit the Chu Foundation, an eclectic collection from prominent Hong Kong-based art collectors and patrons Natalie Chan Chu and Lawrence Chu. A total of 34 lots will be offered across Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales, featuring a compelling group of paintings, sculptures and installation art by some of the most sought-after Asian and Western contemporary artists including Martin Wong, Firenze Lai, Zhang Enli and Jonas Wood. A portion of the sale proceeds will benefit the Chu Foundation, an independent not-for-profit entity founded by the Chus with a mission to empower human potential through art and education. Funds will be used to support the Foundations latest project, the Chu Residency at Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture in Japan, which is ... More |
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| | Annkya Kultys Gallery is the first commercial art gallery to represent a humanoid robot artist | | Patricia Marroquin Norby named Associate Curator of Native American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Palmer Museum of Art delays reopening, announces programs and projects for fall | 
Ai-Da, the brainchild of Gallery Director Aidan Meller, is the first robot capable of drawing people from life using her eye, and a pencil in her hand. Photo: Victor Frankowski.
LONDON.- Annkya Kultys Gallery in East London is the first commercial art gallery to represent a humanoid robot artist. Ai-Da, the worlds first ultra realistic AI humanoid robot artist, is set to open her first solo London exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery on the 10th September 2020. Ai-Da, the brainchild of Gallery Director Aidan Meller, is the first robot capable of drawing people from life using her eye, and a pencil in her hand. Using AI processes and algorithms developed by PhD students at Oxford University, Ai-Das ability as a humanoid robot to draw and paint from sight has never been achieved before, and makes Ai-Da an artist in her own right. Titled Do Robots Dream of Electric Bees, a play on the novel by Philip K. Dick, Ai-Das first solo London exhibition will present a new selection of Ai-Das artwork including drawing, painting, sculpture and a video artwork. ... More | | 
Dr. Norby previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian-New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) as the Museum's inaugural Associate Curator of Native American Art. On September 14, she will join the staff of the American Wing where historical Native American art is now displayed, under the direction of Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge. Dr. Norby previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian-New York, and as Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry, in Chicago. In making the announcement, Max Hollein, Director of The Met, said: "I am excited to welcome Patricia Marroquin Norby to The Met after a long and competitive search for our first-ever full-time curator in Native American Art, a position made especially relevant by the landmark ... More | | 
Updates on all programs will be shared via the museum website as well as on the Palmers social media channels.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- As the fall semester begins, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has decided to delay its reopening to the public and will open its doors in early January 2021. The museum will continue its robust virtual programming and online content while using the extended closure to address critical needs of the facility and collection. Though a difficult decision, opening in January is the most prudent course of action, especially in light of ongoing concerns surrounding the pandemic and bringing visitors to campus, said Museum Director Erin M. Coe. Extending our closure will provide us with the much-needed opportunity to make advances on other initiatives including critical facility and collection projects. We look forward to reopening our doors to the public in early January. The Palmers plans for the fall closure include a major collection rehousing project, performing renovation work in the buildin ... More |
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| | Basquiat and Mitchell to highlight 'A New York State of Mind' | | Exhibition explores the art of photography and architecture in Soviet Russia: 1920s-1930s | | Ron Gorchov, painter who challenged viewers' perceptions, dies at 90 | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, MP, 1984. Estimate: $4-6 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- This Fall, Christies will offer A New York State of Mind: An Important Private Collection across its 20th Century Evening Sale on October 6 and its Day Sales on October 7. The collection offers a selection of works that underscores the collectors passion for New York artists, highlighting several of its most emblematic movements including Abstract Expressionism with works from Joan Mitchell, Adolph Gottlieb and Helen Frankenthaler as well as New York Neo-Expressionism, which is represented by Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Salle. The sale will also be across additional sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, Prints and Multiples, Decorative Arts and Chinese Works of Art taking place this Fall. Johanna Flaum, Head of Department, Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarked: In this moment, it is particularly exciting to be offering such a dynamic group of works from many of the artists who firmly rooted New York at the c ... More | | 
Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959). The Globe at Moscow Telegraph, 1928. Vintage gelatin silver print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting The Art of Photography and Architecture in Soviet Russia: 1920s-1930s, on view online now through Saturday 10 October 2020. This exhibition explores the relationship between photography and architecture in the Soviet Union during a time of unprecedented artistic, urban, and industrial transformation, when Constructivism began to recede in prominence and Stalinist architecture became the dominant style. The exhibition includes photographs by the leading Soviet photographers of the era, including Arkady Shaikhet (1898-1959), Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976), Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), Georgy Petrusov (1903-1971), Ivan Shagin (1904-1982), Yakov Khalip (1908-1980), and Naum Granovsky (1910-1984). With the consolidation of state power under Stalin by the late 1920s, enormous industrial and construction projects were undertaken across the ... More | | 
A photo provided by Brian Buckley shows the artist Ron Gorchov at his Brooklyn studio in 2012. Brian Buckley via The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ron Gorchov, an abstract painter widely known for vividly colored, saddle-shaped canvases that curved away from the wall and gently warped the viewers perception, died on Aug. 18 at his home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his Manhattan gallery, Cheim & Read. His family said the cause was lung cancer. A tall, solidly built man with a kindly face, Gorchov may have been the closest thing the New York art world had to a gentle giant in the late 20th century. He was soft-spoken and approachable, with a relaxed manner. In a 2006 interview with The Brooklyn Rail, an art newspaper, he said that his paintings came not from angst but from reverie, and luck and out of leisure. He attracted a broad following among younger painters, particularly in the last ... More |
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| | Movie mogul/Paramount Pictures Studio chief auction heads to Julien's Auctions | | Bonhams to offer the FA Cup trophy awarded from 1896 to 1910 | | Macron urged to move Rimbaud, Verlaine to Pantheon | 
Duilio Barnabe, Man Playing Cards, oil on canvas, signed lower right. This painting appears in the foyer of Woodland in the film The Kid Stays in the Picture (Highway Films, 2002). Estimate: 6000-8000.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Julien's Auctions has announced Property from the Estate of Robert Evans, a celebration of the dazzling life and singular career of the legendary American film producer and studio executive, Robert Evans, who produced some of American cinema's finest achievements and championed a new generation of commercial and artistic filmmaking from the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger and more in Hollywood. This exclusive auction event will take place Saturday, October 24, 2020 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. On offer is a spectacular collection of the Hollywood titan's fine/decorative art, classic car, household items, film scripts, memorabilia and awards from Evans' most iconic film productions, Chinatown, The Godfather, ... More | | 
The FA Cup trophy awarded from 1896 to 1910. Estimate: £700,000 - 900,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- On September 29, Bonhams is to offer a unique piece of English football history the oldest surviving FA Cup presented to the winning teams between 1896 and 1910, including Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. The cup leads a special Sporting Trophies Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street saleroom. It has an estimate of £700,000 - 900,000. The trophy was in use from 1896 until 1910 when, realising that no patent had been taken out on the design, the Football Association withdrew it and commissioned a new cup a forerunner of the one in use today. The FA presented the withdrawn cup to their President, Lord Kinnaird, in recognition of his 21 years of service. (Lord Kinnaird was also a formidable football player, appearing in a record nine FA Cup Finals). The trophy remained in the Kinnaird family until 2005. Until recently, the privately owned cup has been on loan to the National Fo ... More | | 
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a ceremony to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the French Third Republic at the Pantheon, in Paris on September 4, 2020. Julien DE ROSA / POOL / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A group of French artists, intellectuals and politicians on Wednesday urged President Emmanuel Macron to give poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, known for their stormy relationship as well as impassioned verse, the honour of a final resting place in the Pantheon in Paris. The Pantheon is the memorial complex for France's literary luminaries such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dumas, Hugo and Malraux as well as other great figures from culture, science and politics. But their eternal serenity could be ruffled by the arrival of Rimbaud and Verlaine, who are hailed by critics for their innovative poetry but have also become famous for a tempestuous relationship marked by sex, drugs and trouble with the law. The petition is backed by Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, although she has not signed it personally, the ministry ... More |
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 Shape of Play public art installation, designed by NYC artist Sari Carel, open on Boston's Waterfront ParkBOSTON, MASS.- The Shape of Play, a new temporary public art installation by artist Sari Carel, commissioned by the Jewish Arts Collaborative and curated and produced by Now + There, debuted September 4 in the North Ends Waterfront Park, posing a provocative question: Do you feel free to play? This engaging multi-sensory work, up through October 31, invites us to reflect on the connections between play and the universal search for freedom through sight and sound. The work invites people from across the Boston area to come, play, question, and explore the meaning of freedom in this time when personal and communal freedoms are being tested. The Shape of Play fuses an ambient, multi-channel soundscape created by Carel using structures and play equipment at Boston-area playgrounds as her instruments with a colorful, ... More Just published! Nowhere to go but Everywhere by Dotan SaguyNEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning photographer Dotan Saguy first met the Reis family, Mormons from Brazil, the day they arrived in Los Angeles in a converted yellow school bus they call home with their three children ages 10, 5 and 2. They had come to the United States two years prior to chase the American Dream. While they quickly found financial footing and acquired all the material things they wanted, they were still not happy. Inspired by a YouTube video by a Brazilian artist who quit everything to travel, they decided to explore an alternative lifestyle that would allow them to spend more time as a family and discover the world together through travel. In Nowhere to go but Everywhere (Kehrer Verlag, September 2020), Saguy documents artfully and with compassion the Reis familys trials and tribulations during their ten-month stop in the City ... More Big turnout for Milestone's auction of Maiher railroadiana & petroliana collectionWILLOUGHBY, OH.- Those who knew the late Brian Maiher described him as one of the most passionate and astute collectors of railroadiana, petroleum-related memorabilia and fire-related antiques in the entire country. On August 29, Maihers many friends in the hobby, as well as fellow collectors who knew of him only by reputation, had the opportunity to bid on his extraordinary 40-year estate collection. Milestone Auctions hosted the event at their spacious suburban-Cleveland venue, where in-house attendees competed vigorously against a strong contingent of phone and Internet bidders. The final tally revealed that 40% of the winning bids had been placed by gallery guests, who were eager to claim their purchases and transport them home for immediate display. We had an excellent turnout and were very pleased with the results, said Milestone ... More More than 90 works from 42 galleries will be presented in an unprecedented online auctionPARIS.- More than 90 iconic works from 42 international galleries will be presented in an unprecedented online auction with an overall estimate of 7 to 10 million euros. La Biennale Paris and Christies are pleased to present an online auction involving 42 international dealers from 8 different countries. This unprecedented sale, featuring 91 works of art in a dozen disciplines, will be held online from September 24 to October 8, 2020 on the Christies website. The works in this sale reflect the diversity and unique nature of La Biennale Paris. All of these objects - paintings, artworks and pieces of furniture from around the world, created by the finest masters, artists and craftsmen of their day, and spanning nearly 6,000 years of art history: from archaeology to modern ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals to offer The Joel Harris Collection of Oziana & Children's BooksSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present The Joel Harris Collection of Oziana & Childrens Books on Saturday, September 26, 2020. Curated by the Director of Special Publications of the International Wizard of Oz Club who is also an author, collector and San Francisco Bay Area estate planning and probate attorney Mr. Harriss sale offers over 190 lots of first edition and vintage books, featuring a captivating and broad selection of Oz books. These include The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Land of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz, Scarecrow of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, and others. The Oz series was written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), a prolific American author best known for his children's books in particular The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 13 sequels, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, and more than 200 ... More Shannon's fall auction features 230 quality artworksMILFORD, CONN.- Shannons fall auction on Thursday, September 17th, at 6 pm Eastern time, will be presented in a 180-page color catalog filled with important paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. A live-stream of the auction and live-online bidding will be available via Invaluable.com. Telephone bids can be reserved in advance and absentee bids will be accepted before the auction. The centerpiece of the sale is the Jeanne and Carroll Berry Collection, assembled with great care over the past 30 years. The collection includes works by sixteen of the original Irascible Eighteen. The Berrys knew advanced art when they saw it and collected works by these leading Abstract Expressionist artists ahead of the trend. Leading offerings from the collection are a work on paper by Adolph Gottlieb from his Burst series (est. $80,000-$120,000); a Jackson ... More Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Minku KimNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Minku Kim: Foundation. This exhibition is open by appointment only, at the gallery: 1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3. In reaction to his formal art education, Minku Kim has developed his own visual language, inspired by the punk movement, Straight Edge, referencing the refrain from the consumption of any alcohol or drugs. This struck the artist as radical and it freed him in navigating his practice. (1) Out of this freedom grew his Straight Edge Paintings (S.E.P) seriesa body of work focused on what the artist calls the true foundations of painting: light, color, composition, and space. The artist extracts the essences of an ensemble of specific moments to carefully render their core imagery, methodically pausing between each layer of paint. In conjunction with the paintings titles, Kims restrained palettes and minimalist compos ... More An artist continues her applause for essential workersNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Murals thanking frontline health care workers have popped up in neighborhoods all over New York during the pandemic. A new art piece, unveiled Tuesday across the city, pays homage to other essential workers: the men and women who run the transit system and pick up garbage day in and day out. And it comes from an artist, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who for decades has honored those who toil anonymously in the service of the city. Ukeles, 80, the artist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation, is perhaps best known for a 1979-80 performance piece for which she shook hands with all 8,500 employees of the agency, saying to each one, Thank you for keeping New York City alive! Her new work, entitled For > forever
, reprises that exact message, via a 15-second animation of a note ... More An operatic innovator takes on DetroitNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Yuval Sharon, who has established himself as perhaps the most innovative opera director in the United States through his experimental Los Angeles company, the Industry, has been named the next artistic director of a more traditional outfit: Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit. This Chicago native, 40, who received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2017 and became the first American to direct a production at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival in Germany in 2018, will take over immediately, offering his first production Wagner in a parking garage next month. Over his five-season contract, he will plan four to six stagings a year at and around the Detroit Opera House, directing at least one himself each season. With everything else going on, it just wasnt the time to withdraw from the world and go off into a tranquil, peaceful, reflective mode, said Sharon, who had planned to spend this year on a writing sabbatical in Japan before the coronavirus pandemic intervened. ... More Bill Wyman's bass rig & Harry Styles' guitar are top sellers at Julien's Auctions charity saleBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions held today Wednesday, September 9, the highly-anticipated MusiCares Charity Relief Auction live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com Proceeds from the marquee lineup of items offered by artists, athletes and entertainers including Barbra Streisand, Bee Gees, Bill Wyman, Billie Eilish, Blake Shelton, Brandon Flowers (The Killers), Carlos Santana, Carole King, Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Coldplay, Darrell Bubba Wallace Jr., Depeche Mode, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Hans Zimmer, Joan Jett, John Stamos, Ozzy Osbourne, Patti Smith, Peyton Manning, Rhett Atkins, Sir Tom Jones, Thomas Rhett, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson and more will benefit MusiCares, the charitable foundation which provides aid to artists and music community professionals in times of need. The top selling items were former Rolling Stones ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019) was a German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer, and caricaturist who lived in Paris. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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