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Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927). Montmartre - Rue du Chevalier de la Barre. Gelatin silver chloride. 37.9 x 28.6 cm (14 15/16 x 11 ¼ in.) 2022.44.28.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a collection of 209 photographs by French photographer Eugène Atget, two magnificent busts by French sculptor Charles Cordier, and a pair of rare bronze reliefs by the Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati. The transformational acquisition of Atget photographs, a portion of which is a gift to the Museum, makes our holdings of this artist among the most significant in the country, said Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. We are especially grateful to Dan and Mary Solomon for their astute eye in building this collection and their generosity in offering it to Getty, where it will further enrich our representation of late 19th and early 20th century French photography by its most innovative and forward-looking practitioner. Potts continues: The pair of portrait busts by Charles Cordier, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âLorna Simpson. 1985 - 92,â Hauser & Wirth New York 69th Street, 2022. 7 September - 22 October 2022 © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang.
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| 'Taking Stock. Gurlitt in Review' opens at the Kunstmuseum Bern | | Rijksmuseum reveals groundbreaking discoveries on Vermeer's painting The Milkmaid | | Jean-Luc Godard, daring director who shaped the French New Wave, dies at 91 | 
Edvard Munch, August Strindberg, 1896. Lithografie in Schwarz und Grau, [mit Kreide, Tusche und Schabtechnik] auf grauem Papier [vélin], 66,5 x 49,6 cm. Kunstmuseum Bern, Cornelius Gurlitt Estate 2014.
BERN.- Much has happened since the acceptance of the Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt (19322014) by the Kunstmuseum Bern in November 2014: in 2017, Switzerlands first department of provenance research was founded at the Kunstmuseum Bern. In 2017 and 2018, works from the holdings were shown in several exhibitions and nine works were returned to their owners. Since December 2021 the entire holdings of the Gurlitt Estate have been made publicly accessible in a database for the first time. The Gurlitt Estate was comprehensively documented and explored, and the most important assessments and decisions were established in detail. Finally, with regard to works whose provenance was incomplete, a fairer solution ... More | | 
The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1660.
AMSTERDAM.- Last week at a press conference held in front of Vermeers The Milkmaid (c. 1660) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, General Director Taco Dibbits revealed some of the most important new discoveries on one of Vermeers most famous paintings since it was completed more than more than 350 years ago. Recent research into the Vermeer painting The Milkmaid, conducted in the run-up to Rijksmuseums major Vermeer exhibition in 2023, has yielded several startling discoveries. Advanced research technologies have brought to light two objects on Vermeers world-famous canvas: a jug holder and a fire basket. The artist himself later painted over the objects. The most recent scans also uncovered what is clearly an underpainting. These discoveries offer revealing insights into Vermeers process and his search for capturing the tranquil atmosphere that characterises his work. So much work had already ... More | | 
Jean-Luc Godard in New York on Sept. 22, 1964. Sam Falk/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jean-Luc Godard, the daringly innovative director and provocateur whose unconventional camerawork, disjointed narrative style and penchant for radical politics changed the course of filmmaking in the 1960s, leaving a lasting influence on it, died Tuesday at his home in Rolle, Switzerland. He was 91. His longtime legal adviser, Patrick Jeanneret, said Godard died by assisted suicide, having suffered from multiple disabling pathologies. He could not live like you and me, so he decided with a great lucidity, as he had all his life, to say, Now its enough, Jeanneret said in a phone interview. Godard wanted to die with dignity, Jeanneret said, and that was exactly what he did. A master of epigrams as well as of movies, Godard once observed, A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order. In practice, he seldom scrambled the timeline ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth presents a survey of foundational works by pioneering American artist Lorna Simpson | | Paul Evans mid-century modern sideboard and rare Chinese scroll take the lead at Roland Auctions | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Cy Twombly, | 
Lorna Simpson, 1978-1988, 1991. 4 silver gelatin prints, 13 engraved plastic plaques. Ed. of 4 + 2 AP Overall: 123.8 x 171.5 x 4.1 cm / 48 3/4 x 67 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth New York opened its fall season on 7 September 2022 with a survey of foundational works by pioneering American artist Lorna Simpson. Occupying all three floors of the gallerys 69th Street location, this exhibition traces the impact and enduring influence of Simpsons early photography-based output from the 1980s and 90s, with a selection of works on loan from major museums, private collections, and the artists studio, in the most comprehensive presentation of this period of the artists career since her first major survey, For the Sake of the Viewer, organized by curator of contemporary art Beryl Wright at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1992. Internationally admired for a pathbreaking multidisciplinary practice that has expanded over the past three decades into film, painting, collage, and sculpture, Simpson ... More | | 
Paul Evans Cityscape 20th C. Modern Sideboard, Mid century modern sculptural two door, wall mounted sideboard. Sold for $50,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY hosted their final auction of the summer season on September 10th, which featured hundreds of lots of fine and contemporary art, silver, decorative arts, unique Asian items, antique & vintage furniture, rugs, jewelry and lighting. Coming out on top at the multi-estates auction were a Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans wall-mounted sideboard and a rare Gilt Framed Chinese Scroll, followed by exquisite fine art, including a Renoir lithograph and much more. The Paul Evans "Cityscape" 20th C. Modern Sideboard, Mid-century modern sculptural two door, wall mounted sideboard, having brass and walnut juxtaposed dimensional elements and a black lacquer top. Each door folds open, both interior door panels are marked "PE-380". [32" H x 95"W x 25" D], was estimated at $6,500 - $8,000 and climbed up to the $50, 000 selling price. Additional modern furniture ... More | | 
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2007, acrylic and pencil on wood panel, in artists frame, 104 3/4 à 79 à 2 1/2 inches (266.1 à 200.7 à 6.3 cm) © Cy Twombly Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Cy Twombly, organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation. Marking the first appearance of the artists work at the Beverly Hills gallery since Cy Twombly: The Last Paintings in 2012, it gathers art produced in the final decade of Twomblys life. Gagosians exhibition coincides with Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, at the J. Paul Getty Museum from August 2 through October 30, 2022. The first institutional presentation in Los Angeles dedicated to the artist in nearly three decades, Making Past Present explores Twomblys engagement with the art, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean, and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2023. Working in Gaeta, Italy, and Lexington, Virginia, Twombly returned to painting at a large scale in the 2000s. The shift followed his 1994 retrospective at the Museum of ... More |
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| Persons Projects opens a solo exhibition of works by Niina Vatanen | | Skarstedt opens an exhibition of works by Eric Fischl | | Almine Rech New York opens an exhibition of tapestries by Le Corbusier | 
Niina Vatanen, The World Egg, 2022, chromogenic color print, photo sticker, 129.5 x 105 cm.
BERLIN.- Persons Projects presents Niina Vatanens solo exhibition titled Gravity Experiments and Cyclic Phenomena. This exhibition follows her 2015 solo show at C/O Berlin, and her latest book Time Atlas (Kehrer Verlag, 2019). Ones experience of time is incredibly complex. By studying the movements of the planets, and with the help of various omens and prophecies, religions and oracles, humans have investigated not only our place in the universe, but also searched for answers to existential questions. In this exhibition, Vatanen does the same she has combined images from various archives to create a multifaceted visual essay concerning time. Vatanen has challenged, seduced, and explored time as a mystery from the beginnings of her career. She has repeatedly attempted to decode the intricate workings of times passage and our perception of it as the core question in her work. She explores time through ... More | | 
Eric Fischl, A Boy's Life, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 54 x 68 inches, 137.2 x 172.7 cm. signed, titled and dated A Boy's Life Eric Fischl 2022.003 (on the reverse).
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt is presenting its latest exhibition in New York, Eric Fischl: Towards the End of an Astonishing Beauty: An Elegy to Sag Harbor, and Thus America. Opening on September 14th, the exhibition will feature seven new paintings by the artist. In this new body of work, the annual Halloween parade in Fischls home of Sag Harbor, known as the Ragamuffin Parade, sets the scene for explorations into themes of exhaustion, isolation, disappointment, and passivity. Since the 1980s, Fischl has produced narratives that speak to the façade of happiness latent within the middle-class AmericaÂn dream and the masks one must wear to survive in contemporary society. Now, these guises take center stage as Fischl explores costumes as a site of self-projection and what these choices of dress reveal about our present moment. Drawn to the parades evocation of ... More | | 
Le Corbusier, Nature morte, 1965 (detail). Wool tapestry 220 x 310 cm. 86 1/2 x 122 1/2 in. Edition: 6/7.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting Nomadic Murals an exhibition of tapestries by Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier. This is the first time the gallery has shown works by Le Corbusier. The exhibition will be on view from September 14 to October 22, 2022. For sixty years, Le Corbusier used a wide variety of media to explore the themes and forms of his art, ranging from drawing to urbanism and including painting, architecture, and sculpture. He first discovered tapestry in 1936, in response to a request from Marie Cuttoli, who was then commissioning artworks woven in a factory in Aubusson from modern painters. However, it was twelve years later that he expressed his interest in producing woven artworks based on his drawings and found his way to this city in central France, where a true renaissance of tapestry had begun, at the initiative of Jean Lurçat and Jean Picart ... More |
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| Artuner opens a solo exhibition of new paintings by Pia Krajewski | | Exhibition shows various engagements with waste as the repressed remains of our civilization | | At PEN America, a complicated centennial for free speech | 
oT (Trichter), 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.
BERLIN.- Artuner is presenting The Tactile Mind, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Pia Krajewski, alongside Habitats, a solo exhibition of Ana Elisa Egreja at Direktorenhaus Museum in Berlin during Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions will open on September 14th and run through September 28th and coincide with the release of Pia Krajewski's catalogue, The Tactile Eye, produced by Artuner. The exhibition The Tactile Mind will feature a new series of paintings by Pia Krajewski. Locked in whimsical dispute between mechanistic imagery reminiscent of weaving machines and soft billowing formsKrajewski's paintings enter the fantastical. Animated by hues of yellow, the monochrome approach highlights the pattern-making and rhythmic compositions and the protean nature of reality. Settled within a defined artistic language, Pia explores the creation of textiles from a thread to mechanical intervention. Krajewski extrapolates the ... More | | 
Nicolas Garcia Uriburu and Joseph Beuys, Rhein Water Polluted, 1981. Glass bottle, coloured Rhine water, label, screw cap with oil paint. Kunsthalle zu Kiel © 2022 ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Sonke Ehlert.
BASEL.- From 14 September 2022 to 8 January 2023, Territories of Waste shows various engagements with waste as the repressed remains of our civilization. The artists whose works are exhibited here share the desire to visualize the global and ecological consequences of our consumption. The twenty-five artistic perspectives presented, including those of Julien Creuzet, Agnes Denes, and Hira Nabi, address those impacts of our production of goods and waste that are normally hidden from view. While some works turn on the waste generated in other countries or focus on the pollution of the environment, Romy Rüegger and Eric Hattan are among those to present new works that are of direct relevance to the Basel context. The exhibitions ... More | | 
A flyer from the 1939 World Congress of Writers held is displayed at the centenary celebration for PEN America at the New-York Historical Society in New York on Sept. 12, 2022. Literary luminaries gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the centenary of PEN America, at a moment that many see support for free speech eroding across the political spectrum. Timothy O'Connell/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- At a sold-out event Monday in New York City celebrating the centenary of the free expression group PEN America, there were as many literary luminaries in the audience as there were onstage. Before intermission, Margaret Atwood, dressed in metallic sneakers and a bright pink shirt, had engaged in some salty, friendly needling of Dave Eggers over whose dystopian novels were more prescient. At the break, Tom Stoppard and Neil Gaiman were spotted in a floppy-haired tête-à -tête, while Robert Caro and Paul Auster passed nearby. But over the three-hour event at the New- ... More |
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 William Klein, who photographed the energy of city life, dies at 96NEW YORK, NY.- Exterior. Daylight. Two boys in a doorway. The older, 11 or 12, holds a revolver aimed at your left eye. He is snarling, ready to kill you. The younger, maybe 8, has the face of an angel. It is a grainy black-and-white photograph, staged circa 1954, titled Gun 1, New York. Visual artist William Klein called it a self-portrait. He was both boys, he said. One grew up angry on the streets of New York and was capable of anything. The other, sensitive and intelligent, settled in Paris as a young man and devoted himself to one artistic pursuit after another. Klein, who caught the wit and energy of great cities and satirized the world of fashion with his strikingly original photographs, and portrayed Muhammad Ali and Eldridge Cleaver as iconic rebels in his documentary films, died Sept. 10 in Paris. He was 96. His assistant Pierre- ... More  Collector pays $2+ million for Cal. Gold Rush 62-pound "Johnny Carson" gold barLOS ANGELES, CA.- A collector of California Gold Rush artifacts has paid more than $2 million for a historic 62-pound gold bar recovered from the 1857 sinking of the fabled Ship of Gold, the S.S. Central America. The nearly foot-long ingot was nicknamed the Carson Bar after late-night television host Johnny Carson carefully picked it up during a 1991 segment of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, according to the seller of the massive gold bar, Rare Collectibles TV of Los Angeles California through their Private Advisory Coin Team concierge service. The anonymous buyer is a collector who specializes in historically significant, rare United States coins with an emphasis on the California Gold Rush, explained Jack McNamara, co-founder of Rare Collectibles TV. This enormous gold ingot is eleven inches long, three and a half inches ... More  Kandis Williams: the inaugural volume in the Clarion series presented by David Zwirner and 52 WalkerNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner Books and 52 Walker published Kandis Williams, the first volume in the new Clarion series. With a sleek design influenced by encyclopedias, the Clarion series is positioned as an extension of each exhibition at the groundbreaking gallery space 52 Walker, curated by Ebony L. Haynes. Kandis Williams documents the origins of the Los Angeles-based artists exhibition A Linethe gallerys inaugural presentationpraised by ArtForum as rich, sharp, and choreographic. Interrogating issues of race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism, Kandis Williamss topical work is made across collage, sculpture, and video. Williams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how movement might be read. She establishes indices that network the parts ... More  Louisiana Art & Science Museum opens Pinpointing the StarsBATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum has opened Pinpointing the Stars in the Universe Gallery, featuring works from the permanent collection that highlight the planetariums history, the timeline of its development, and its focus on the stars. Pinpointing the Stars will be available to public through August 2024. Pinpointing the Stars also features the star plates that were part of the Zeiss Model IV projector, used in the LASM planetarium between 1964-1985. That projector is on display downstairs in the Solar System Gallery along with the #21 Aquarius Star Plate. LASM Interim Curator Tracey Barhorst used this exhibition to further her knowledge of the LASM, after being with the museum for only a few months. Researching the history of LASMs planetarium for our new exhibition Pinpointing the Stars was a terrific ... More  Shin Gallery presents 'Gerda Wegener & Lili Elbe: The Powering of Portraiture'NEW YORK, NY.- Gerda Wegener (1886-1940) may be familiar to viewers from the 2015 bio-pic film, The Danish Girl, which is (quite) loosely inspired by the lives of Gerda Wegener and her partner (and fellow Danish painter), Lili Elbe (1882 1931). The 2015 film is, in fact, a romanticized narrative that takes great libertiesit is an adaptation of David Ebershoff s 2000 novel of the same name that draws on, but also greatly fictionalizes, Lili Elbes story as the first transgender woman to undergo gender affirmation surgery. Indeed, Ebershoff s novel draws from source material that it also takes liberties with, the original anchor being Lili Elbe's posthumously thatched-together autobiographical writings that were published in 1933, Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. While The Danish Girl is a compelling film featuring ... More  The Oswaldo Vigas Foundation announces the launch of the artist's online catalogue raisonnéNEW YORK, NY.- The Oswaldo Vigas Foundation announces the launch of the Oswaldo Vigas online Catalogue Raisonné. Oswaldo Vigas (1923-2014) was a pioneering Venezuelan artist who developed a unique artistic vocabulary inspired by the magical and mystical elements of Latin American culture. This web-based resource, thoroughly researched by the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation with the support of Axel Stein, head of the Latin American Art Department at Sothebys from 2011-2018, is the first complete online Catalogue Raisonné of any Venezuelan modern or contemporary artist. The online document will contribute to Vigass artistic legacy by allowing scholars, curators, collectors and the general public to freely access the information and browse through the crossed references. With more than 3000 paintings catalogued, ... More  Ikon presents artist and musician Mayunkiki in his first solo exhibition in the UKBIRMINGHAM.- Ikon presents Siknure - Let me live by Ainu artist and musician Mayunkiki (9 September - 13 November 2022). It is the first solo exhibition by an Ainu artist in the UK. Born in 1980 in Asahikawa, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, Mayunkiki's artistic practice arises from her Indigenous identity. Through a variety of works, this exhibition conveys the predicament of her community in recent times. Like many First Nation populations, the Ainu have suffered systematic marginalisation by a central government and Mayunkiki is especially concerned to raise the profile of their traditional culture, including Sinuye (traditional tattooing practice for Ainu women, banned by Japanese law) and Upopo (traditional Ainu music rooted in rhythmic patterns and singing in a trance-like chorus). On the walls throughout the exhibition ... More  National Gallery announces 40th Anniversary ProgramCANBERRA.- This October, the National Gallery celebrates 40 years since the opening of its iconic building with a dynamic program of art and events. From a futurist opera by multidisciplinary Australian artist Justene Williams to a new addition to the Gallerys Sculpture Garden in the form of a figurative bronze sculpture by internationally renowned British artist Tracey Emin, the Gallery commemorates its 40th year with a dedicated artistic program in Kamberri/Canberra throughout the month of October. Following the announcement that the Gallery has commissioned leading Australian artist Lindy Lee to conceive her first immersive public sculpture, the National Gallery continues to celebrate with a range of new acquisitions, exhibitions, collection displays, events and stories produced exclusively for its 40th anniversary. The National Gallery ... More  Paul P. opens an exhibition at Maureen PaleyLONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting Vespertilians by Paul P. This is his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and his first presented at Studio M. The exhibition takes its title from Paul P.'s watercolour works that depict envisioned scenes of bats in flight. A recurrent motif within his landscapes since the early 2000s, employed as an indirect representation of transience and desire. Their point of origin was as a reference to the symbolist poet Comte Robert de Montesquiou (on whom Huysmans modelled the fictional character des Esseintes, and Proust his Baron de Charlus) who adopted the nocturnal bird, as he liked to call it, as an emblem of his rarefied self, an esoteric symbol of homosexuality in an era of criminalised desire
Between bird and animal, appearing at dusk and through the night, existing upside down/inverted, vilified and feared, the bat ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born September 15, 1881. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams.
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