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Photo courtesy of Hubert Phipps. Photo by Jacek Gancarz.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- The monumental new sculpture Rocket by Hubert Phipps has been selected for an Art in Public Places initiative in South Florida, at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), the historic tech landmark where the first IBM Personal Computer was invented. Watch the aerial video here. This new public art program is part of a cultural partnership between the Boca Raton Museum of Art and CP Group, the owner of BRiC and a premier developer and operator of commercial real estate. South Florida officials are welcoming Rocket as one of the largest outdoor sculptures ever chosen for a public art initiative in Palm Beach County. The Phipps sculpture is valued at $1.5 million, stands 30-feet tall, weighs 9.8 tons, and took more than 2,200 square feet of stainless steel to construct. The Rocket sculpture towers alongside a waterfront panorama of iconic architecture designed by Marcel B ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibits are displayed in a showcase at The Sybir Memorial Museum exhibition during a preview before the official opening, in Bialystok, Poland on September 6, 2021. The history of Soviet deportations is the subject of a new museum opening in Bialystok in northeast Poland on September 17 -- the anniversary of the Soviet assault on Poland which followed soon after the Nazi German invasion that triggered World War II. The museum traces the history of the hundreds of thousands of Poles deported to Siberia during Tsarist Russia and Soviet times set in the context of the millions who suffered the same fate. The Soviet deportations in 1940 and 1941 affected some 330,000 people in what was then a very multi-ethnic Poland -- entire families were taken away, including 130,000 children. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP.
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| Snite Museum of Art acquires Yinka Shonibare's Earth Kid, 2020 | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Post-War to Present auction | | Hindman Auctions to present three days of Asian art sales | 
Yinka Shonibare, CBE, RA (British-Nigerian, b. 1962), Earth Kid (Boy), 2020. Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, globe, brass, steel baseplate, netted bag and found objects. Walter R. Beardsley Endowment for Contemporary Art 2020.017.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Timed to coincide with the University of Notre Dame Forum 202122, Care for Our Common Home: Just Transition to a Sustainable Future, the Snite Museum of Art announced the acquisition and premier presentation of Earth Kid, 2020, a major sculpture by Yinka Shonibare. There is little doubt that the Nigerian-British Shonibare CBE is among the most compelling international figures in Contemporary art. His work is exhibited and eagerly collected around; in his artistic practice, Shonibare engages a myriad of timely issues ranging from cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonial cultures, race, and disabilities. In Earth Kid, the artist explores the themes of climate change, fragile global environments, and the role of youth in attempting to save the planet. Shonibares repertoire, especially recent ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud, Tomato Bowl. Oil on paperboard mounted on panel, 11 ⅜ x 8 ⅛ in. Painted in 2003. $600,000-800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 1, Christies Post-War to Present auction will offer over 200 works spanning the Post-War era to the most celebrated contemporary artists today. Starting the sale will be Art Blocks Curated, Full Sets 1, 2 and 3 31 Projects, assembled by the Canadian collector Barcella, and Curio Cards, Full set of 30 cards plus 17b, a set of 31 NFTs considered to be some of the oldest artworks on the Ethereum blockchain. In a first for any leading auction house, the live bidding for Art Blocks Curated: Sets 1-3 will take place in Ether (ETH). The top lot of the sale is Helen Frankenthalers Warming the Wires ($1,500,000-2,000,000), alongside a strong selection of works by female Abstract Expressionists including Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning and Grace Hartigan. A spectacular group of works by Wayne Thiebaud from the Collection of the Frances Hamilton White Trust will also highlight the sale. Frances ... More | | 
Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra (The Great Wisdom Sutra), Daihannyaharamitta-kyō, Volume 334. Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On September 23 to 25, Hindman Auctions will present three days of Asian Art sales offering more than 900 lots ranging from early Asian lacquer and pottery wares to late 19th through early 20th century precious stone carvings and paintings. The series will launch with Asian Works of Art on September 23, followed by Japanese Works of Art on September 24 and will conclude with an online sale on September 25. The September 23rd Asian Works of Art auction will present more than 350 lots of fine Chinese works of art and Chinese paintings with a selection of important Japanese and Himalayan art. Prominent collections include property from the collection of Al and Hazel Sullivan (Prospect, Kentucky), the collection of James and Ana Melikian, (Phoenix, Arizona) and the estate of Donna Wasserstrom, (Cleveland, Ohio). Other important collections include the collection of Leung Kum Wah, Ontario, ... More |
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| Nigeria eyes July 2022 for German return of looted bronzes | | Unknown Lennon recording to be auctioned in Denmark | | 'They had nothing': Polish museum honours Siberian deportees | 
The 16th-century Queen Mother Pendant Mask from Benin City, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on Dec. 9, 2019. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
LAGOS.- Nigeria has agreed with Germany for hundreds of artefacts stolen during colonial times to be returned from July next year and is negotiating with other museums to repatriate more, an official said on Tuesday. Thousands of pieces of Nigeria's so-called Benin Bronzes -- 16th to 18th century metal plaques and sculptures -- were stolen from the palace of the ancient Benin Kingdom only to end up in museums across the US and Europe. Nigeria plans to build a museum in Benin City in southern Edo State where it hopes to house the bronzes, seen as among the most highly regarded works of African art. "We have agreed on a timeline that actual return will start next year, 2022, which is going to be around July, August," Abba Tijani, director of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments said of the bronzes in Germany. "We finalise our agreement by December this year." Around 1,000 pieces have been identified for return from ... More | | 
The asking price for the 33-minute recording has been estimated at between 27,000 and 40,000 euros ($32,000-$47,000).
COPENHAGEN.- A 1970 audio recording of John Lennon singing a hitherto unpublished song during a visit to Denmark will go under the hammer in Copenhagen on September 28, the auction house said Tuesday. The asking price for the 33-minute recording has been estimated at between 27,000 and 40,000 euros ($32,000-$47,000). It has been put up for sale by four men who were teenagers when they met The Beatles' singer, who was spending part of the 1969-1970 winter in a small town on Denmark's west coast. "The tape is totally unique because it's a conversation. It took place after a press conference with the four schoolboys and some journalists, and John Lennon plays a few songs for them," Alexa Bruun Rasmussen of the Bruun Rasmussen auction house told AFP. "One of them, 'Radio Peace', has never been published," she said. "It's a little piece of Danish history and when we listen to it, we can sense that John Lennon felt cosy in Denmark. He could be left alone and just be," she said. ... More | | 
Toys other personal belongings of people exiled to Siberia are seen at The Sybir Memorial Museum exhibition during a preview before the official opening, in Bialystok, Poland, on September 6, 2021. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP.
by Stanislaw Waszak
BIALYSTOK.- Eighty years on, the emotion is still raw for Elzbieta Smulkowa when she remembers her deportation to Siberia in 1941. "The worst was the hunger, the lack of heating and how it was impossible to help my mother any more," the 90-year-old told AFP at her home in suburban Warsaw. Smulkowa, her little sister and their mother were forced to leave their hometown of Lviv, then a part of Poland, when it was taken over by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her father, a forest ranger, had been arrested and, unbeknownst to his family, killed by Soviet troops a year earlier. The history of Soviet deportations is the subject of a new museum opening in Bialystok in northeast Poland on Friday -- the anniversary of the Soviet assault on Poland which followed soon after the Nazi German invasion that triggered World ... More |
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| A harmonic convergence of signature art surveys | | Burton is designated to lead Los Angeles museum | | Seeking historical exhibits that speak to the here and now | 
Ahmed Morsi. Green Horse I. 2001. Acrylic on canvas. 90 x 70 x 1 1/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York. © Ahmed Morsi.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not yet clear if New York is out of the coronavirus woods, but if all goes well, October will bring chances for us to see how recent and new art has fared during the pandemics siege. That month the city will witness the unprecedented coincidence of three ambitious and recurring surveys Greater New York at MoMA/PS1, the New Museum 2021 Triennial and the Performa 2021 Biennial. All were established this century to capture the zeitgeist in one way or another. This convergence seems auspicious and needed offering a chance to take stock after one of the most tumultuous, and for better but also for worse, most transformative periods in American history. The last year and a half sharpened the view of art as a weapon for social justice, but it also renewed appreciation for arts contemplative side, its ability to comfort and relieve in times of crisis. These two qualities are often seen as mutually exclusive, but are both present, however ... More | | 
The museum said on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, that Burton will become the institutions sole director and the first woman in that role. Erin Leland/Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles said Tuesday that Johanna Burton will become the institutions sole director and the first woman in that role, now that Klaus Biesenbach has announced he will leave for Berlin to run the Neue Nationalgalerie and the adjacent Museum of the 20th Century, which is under development. In a decision announced in February, the museum said Biesenbach, the director, would become artistic director and lead the museum along with an executive director. Burton was hired for that job earlier this month. But in the statement Tuesday, the museum said it does not plan to hire another artistic director. Instead, Burton will run the museum solo beginning Nov. 1. The interim will serve as a transition period. Though brief, the announcement appears to confirm the implications of the museums earlier ... More | | 
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 16641750), Still Life with Flowers, 1709. Oil on canvas. Promised gift of Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- Time during the first year of the pandemic was a continuous present: that was what was worst about it. Days became shapeless, dislodged from the past, divorced from the future; nothing stuck, nothing had endurance; whole months washed over me in a nebulous babble of posts and pics. Rediscovering ourselves means rediscovering time not the time of push notifications and 14-day infection rates, but a deep, evolutionary time, where who we were informs who we are and who we will be. How? Where? In a museum, for example: a compression chamber of past, present and future. Across the United States this autumn, exhibitions and collection displays of historical treasures promise to elucidate our own darkling age. Im hoping to go back to the future this fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which four years ago received a transformative gift ... More |
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| In Turkey, a watery grave becomes a park | | The Met appoints Neil Cox as Head of The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art | | Ajlan Gharem announced as winner of Jameel Prize | 
The Mehmetcik Lighthouse near Cape Helles, Turkey, Aug. 19, 2021. Ali Keskin/The New York Times.
by Joshua Hammer
NEW YORK, NY.- The wind was picking up and the sea growing choppier as I rolled backward into the Aegean off the Eftelya Dina, a 33-foot dive boat based in the northwest Turkish port of Canakkale. I rose to the surface, minus my mask knocked off during my plunge and, in my momentary disorientation, swallowed a mouthful of seawater. Deniz Tasci, an athletic commercial diver who was serving as my guide on this expedition, retrieved the mask, helped refit it to my face and tugged me through the churning swells to the anchor rope. I grabbed the slimy cable, let the air out of my vest and began my descent. Freed from the surface turbulence, I instantly relaxed. I gulped air from my regulator, cleared my ears and clambered down toward our objective: a 125-year-old British battleship lying on the sea floor 60 feet below. We were anchored just south of Cape Helles, at the entrance to the Dardanelles, or, as the Turks ... More | | 
A recognized authority on Cubism, with a particular emphasis on Pablo Picasso, he brings to this role a deep knowledge of the fields at the heart of the Research Centers mission.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Neil Cox, a distinguished professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Edinburgh, as the Head of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art. Cox emerged as the unanimous choice from a pool of international applicants. A recognized authority on Cubism, with a particular emphasis on Pablo Picasso, he brings to this role a deep knowledge of the fields at the heart of the Research Centers mission. An expert in several subjects, including Surrealism, he brings decades of experience in the public sphere, collaborating with museums, leading institutional research projects and educational initiatives, and mentoring graduate students. He will join the Museum in December 2021, and will report to the Directors Office. Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met, said, We are thrilled to welcome Neil ... More | | 
Installation view of Ajlan Gharem's project at 'Jameel Prize Poetry to Politics' at the V&A, 18 September-28 November 2021 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- Ajlan Gharem has been announced as the winner of the sixth edition of the Jameel Prize, the worlds leading award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The £25,000 prize was presented to Ajlan Gharem by Fady Jameel, Chairman and Founder of Art Jameel, at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday 15 September 2021. Gharem was chosen by an esteemed, independent jury for his architectural installation Paradise Has Many Gates, 2015, which was commended for its boldness and ambition. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A and chair of the jury, said: We were incredibly impressed with the work of all finalists, selected for their innovative and imaginative projects with strong links between Islamic traditions and contemporary design. As this years Jameel Prize winner, Ajlan Gharems work speaks to global conditions and the experience of migrants, as well as being particularly ... More |
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William Dalrymple on the Mughal Emerald and Diamond Spectacles
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 Sylvester Stallone's personal collection of Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables & more items head to Julien's AuctionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced that Property from the Life and Career of Sylvester Stallone, will close out the world-record breaking auction house to the stars 2021 season in a grand finale celebration of the pop culture icon and one of Hollywoods most legendary film stars of all time. The exclusive auction event presenting the extraordinary collection of the international superstar and the Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor, screenwriter, fitness icon, author, artist and directors most cherished treasures from his singular life and career will take place on Sunday, December 5th, 2021 at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. On offer is a spectacular ... More  Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo exhibits an unseen collection of photographs by Luigi Ghirri SASSUOLO.- From 16 September to 31 October 2021, an almost completely unseen collection of photographs by Luigi Ghirri is the protagonist of the Luigi Ghirri. The Marazzi Years 1975-1985 exhibition, curated by Ilaria Campioli, at the Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo. The Project, put on by Gallerie Estensi in partnership with the Archivio Luigi Ghirri and Marazzi Group, will be presented at the 21st edition of the Festival Filosofia (philosophy festival) in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo, whose topic, Freedom, perfectly represents the spirit of the long-standing partnership between the artist and the ceramics company founded in the 1930s. Luigi Ghirri first met Marazzi in Sassuolo in 1975, in a phase of personal growth and experimentation which communicates well with the direction of the companys research and development, focused at that time on some ... More  Hamiltons Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Daido MoriyamaLONDON.- Daido Moriyama is recognised as one of Japans most influential photographers. Now in his 80s, Moriyamas oeuvre includes colour pictures, Polaroids, films, installations and most rare and importantly, silkscreens. Made using deep black ink, the artworks are larger in scale, produced either as unique works or limited editions a complete reversal to his uneditioned gelatin silver prints. Recognised immediately for their gritty and mysterious style, the artworks pay tribute to the multiple aspects of his oeuvre from his initial projects made in Tokyo in the 60s to his later influences which would push his work to contemporary, international acclaim. This year marks 50 years since Moriyama saw Andy Warhols silkscreens at his inaugural exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1971. The New York Times reviewed the presentation, ... More  Audemars Piguet Contemporary debuts new artwork by Aleksandra DomanovićBERLIN.- Audemars Piguet Contemporary unveiled its latest commissioned artwork Becoming Another (2021) by Aleksandra Domanović, on view in Berlin from 16 September to 10 October 2021 at the former Der Tagesspiegel print house on Potsdamer StraÃe. Premiering timed to Gallery Weekend *Discoveries, the exhibition is the first that Audemars Piguet Contemporary presents in Berlin, a city that the artist has called home for over a decade. Throughout her career, Domanović has been exploring the interrelation of technology, history and identity in sculptures, videos and digital artworks. Becoming Another employs the artists in-depth research practice and asks: what does technology enable us to visualise? The multi-layered exhibition begins with the history of medical imagingin particular obstetric ultrasound images and offers an opportunity to rethink the relationship ... More  Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens a new solo exhibition by Paul WallachPARIS.- Jeanne Bucher Jaeger is presenting a new solo exhibition by Paul Wallach, who has been represented by the gallery since 2008. This exhibition, entitled Yielding Place, is a continuation of the artists three previous solo exhibitions in the gallery and exhibitions of his work in European and American institutions. This new exhibition brings together a selection of recent works made in the lightand shadowof the world events that have taken place since the pandemic began in 2020. The artist was deeply affected by this turmoil in his private life and existentially, and as an American citizen was also troubled by the situation in his native country, especially in the spring of 2020. Although color has at times sparingly appeared in his art, he felt compelled in these new works, which were born in the heart of chaos, to call upon white, with its limitless ... More  'Release. Joy. Love.' A dance festival at Little Island.NEW YORK, NY.- The good thing about a Zoom interview is that it can take place anywhere. Im stuck in New York parking horror, tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel said. But Im parked. Starting soon, Casel will be parked in a far more picturesque spot than a city street. She and her collaborator Torya Beard, a director and dancer, have curated the Little Island Dance Festival. The setting, a floating park dangling on an edge of the Hudson River, is a thing of beauty. (And the experience of watching a dance, especially as the sun sets, at Little Island is starting to feel like the latest New York attraction.) For the festival, which starts Wednesday and runs through the weekend, Casel and Beard the pair are married have created an event united by two themes: art and age. From tap to Kathak, they will explore percussive dance ... More  'Great Circle,' 'Bewilderment' among Booker Prize finalistsLONDON.- Patricia Lockwood, Richard Powers and Maggie Shipstead are among the six novelists shortlisted this year for the Booker Prize, one of the worlds most prestigious literary awards. Powers is a finalist for Bewilderment, his novel about a widowed astrobiologist struggling to care for his son; Shipstead for Great Circle, an epic about a woman who devotes her life to flying and the Hollywood actress set to play her onscreen; and Lockwood for No One Is Talking About This, her debut novel written partly in internet speak. The other authors and books to make the shortlist, announced in an online news conference Tuesday, are Anuk Arudpragasam for A Passage North, about the death of a caregiver set against the backdrop of Sri Lankas civil war; Nadifa Mohamed for The Fortune Men, about a miscarriage of justice in Wales; and Damon ... More  Counting new art blessings amid the uncertaintyNEW YORK, NY.- At some point early in the past pandemic year and a half, with the art calendar tanking museums shuttered, galleries closed I felt myself switch into optimist mode. I began to see the disruption not as a setback but as an opportunity, an enforced readjustment of balances. A new normal thats actually new. Sure, some big shows got canceled by COVID-19, or postponed, or shut down. But blockbusters will always be with us. Im looking forward to one delayed from last season, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, a career retrospective of the studiously mystifying artist that will stretch over two institutions, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this fall (Sept. 29-Feb. 13). But Im also anticipating with even more pleasure two smaller solo surveys by artists less widely celebrated. One, Hung ... More  'Stick it to the man' and other lessons from the Met Gala cocktailsNEW YORK, NY.- Social media may yet save fashion, Tom Ford was saying on Monday, early on at the Met Gala, sipping water with a slice of lime from a wine glass. Everyone now stars in their own movie. Everyone dresses for Instagram. He wasnt exaggerating no look went undocumented during an assuredly self-branded and photo-ready night that, postponed by the pandemic, roared back to life, or a simulacrum of the same. There were fewer guests than in the past and stricter admission rules than ever, yet more costumes, more overt political gestures, more borrowed finery and more trains than youd spot at a railway depot. Often enough attendees are not dressing so much as messaging, and with little subtlety. Case in point: the model Cara Delevingne. A 9:30 red carpet arrival to a cocktail party that had begun at 6, ... More  British artist Gavin Turk sells cans of his own urine LONDON.- British artist Gavin Turk has launched a Kickstarter in which he will sell bespoke aluminium cans of his own urine for its equivalent weight in silver. Entitled Piscio dArtista, the project is a homage to art history - in particular to Piero Manzonis 1961 Merda dArtista, in which the Italian artist challenged the idea of modern art by selling tins of his own excrement for their weight in gold. In preparation for Piscio dArtista, the boundary-pushing artist, who has been collecting his urine over the last two years of the global pandemic, has developed an aluminium can specially screen-printed with the phrase artists piss in 31 languages, and sealed with a hand-signed foil. He is turning his studio (in Canning Town in London) into a temporary canning factory in order to create a limited run of one thousand 330ml tins, to be priced relative to their equivalent ... More  Jaap van Zweden to step down as New York Philharmonic's maestroNEW YORK, NY.- Jaap van Zweden, the New York Philharmonics hard-charging music director, announced Wednesday that he would leave his post at the end of the 2023-24 season, saying that the pandemic had made him rethink his life and priorities. Van Zweden, 60, said that the upheaval of the pandemic had prompted him to reconsider his relationship with the orchestra, which he has led since 2018, as well as with his family, which he rarely got to see during his globe-trotting days before the COVID-19 crisis. He said he felt it would be the right moment to move on, with the orchestra set to return to the newly renovated David Geffen Hall next fall, a year and a half ahead of schedule. It is not out of frustration, its not out of anger, its not out of a difficult situation, he said. Its just out of freedom. His announcement comes as the Philharmonic faces ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Alsatian sculptor and painter Jean Arp was born September 16, 1886. Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 - 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. In this image: Visitors look at Jean Arp's painting "Femme" (woman), right, exhibited at Drouot Gallery in Paris, France Tuesday, April 1, 2003. The painting is one among hundreds of art pieces from French surrealist writer Andre Breton's art collection which is being auctioned.
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