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The Art Operations Talent Report arrives at a time when issues of equity, transparency, and inclusion are at the forefront of many industries, including the art world.
PARIS.- In a significant move aimed at shedding light on the often-overlooked segment of the art world, Convelio, a leader in fine art logistics, and SML | Sophie Macpherson Limited, an expert in art recruitment, have joined forces to release the inaugural edition of the Art Operations Talent Report. Drawing from over 900 records collected through surveys from Convelio, SML, and ArtTactic, the report offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of art operations roles in the UK, Continental Europe, and the U.S. The report delves deep into the challenges, opportunities, and trends experienced by both employees and employers in the art operations field, a sector critical to the functioning of the global art market but often overlooked in discussions dominated by curation and sales. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View from Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Finland inherited Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien.
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| Unique Christo-wrapped Leica M4 camera inscribed and gifted to photographer Wolfgang Volz to be auctioned Oct. 12 | | Christie's announces 20th/21st Century Art Marquee Week sales | | Paul de Flers' fourth solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in New York |
Christo (Bulgarian, 19352020), Wrapped Leica, Leica M4 camera belonging to photographer and longtime Christo + Jeanne-Claude collaborator Wolfgang Volz (German, b. 1942-), foil and cord-wrapped by Christo and returned to Volz as a gift of art on January 17, 1994. Hand-inscribed, signed and dated on verso by the artist. Estimate: 80,000-100,000 ($89,390-$111,740)
WETZLAR.- Every artist, whether famous or obscure, adds something to the collective consciousness of art. But every once in a great while, a true innovator emerges ... More | |
Emil Nolde, Herbstmeer XV, (1911, estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Christies will present a dynamic series of live and online 20th/21st Century Art auctions coinciding with Frieze Week. The sales will present exceptional works by artists including Jeff Koons, Lucian Freud, Paula Rego, Franz Gertsch, Emil Nolde, David Hockney, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Cecily Brown and René Magritte, bringing together Contemporary, Modern and Impressionist art across categories. With ... More | |
Paul de Flers Untitled, 2024. Oil and pigments on linen, 89 x 63 x 2.5 cm. 35 x 25 x 1 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side is presenting, Poisson - Scorpion, Paul de Flers' fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 12 to October 26, 2024. Isolation is not a place, but a condition. This reflective line from Nicolas Bouvier's novel Le Poisson-Scorpion serves as a central theme in this new body of work from Paul de Flers. Bouviers narrative of exile and introspection on the remote ... More |
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| Hammer Museum names Zoë Ryan as its new Director | | Hayward Gallery and Hayward Gallery Touring 2025 visual arts programme announced | | The plan to save Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper isn't going as planned |
Ryan comes to the Hammer Museum from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been the Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director since 2020. Photo: Constance Mensch. Photo: Constance Mensh.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marcy Carsey, chair of the Hammer Museum at UCLAs Board of Directors, announced today the appointment of Zoë Ryan as the next director of the museum. This appointment follows the 2023 announcement of longtime director Ann Philbins retirement, following 25 years of leading the museum. Philbin ... More | |
Yoshitomo Nara, Midnight Tears, 2023. © Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Yoshitomo Nara. Foundation
LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery has announced a bold new programme of solo exhibitions for 2025 from some of the most exciting, boundary-pushing and dynamic contemporary artists working today. In February 2025, Linder and Mickalene Thomas, two masters of collage redefining the female image, will take over the Hayward Gallery with two landmark survey shows. These will be followed In June by the first UK exhibition to survey the career of renowned artist ... More | |
The copper-clad Price Tower, Frank Lloyd Wrights only realized skyscraper, in Bartlesville, Okla., Aug. 26, 2024. (Joseph Rushmore/The New York Times)
BARTLESVILLE, OKLA.- Frank Lloyd Wrights only realized skyscraper is just 19 stories, but even 70 years after it was built, Price Tower sits higher than most buildings in this city, and the view from the top still stretches to the horizon where the rolling prairie starts to take shape. The tower is a landmark in Bartlesville, and a rarity in the architects portfolio. Designed by Wright to resemble a tree, with green, oxidized ... More |
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| Donors say a scarred island could become a park | | Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo exhibiton celebrates the centennial of the birth of two Gutai artists | | Cristiana Collu appointed Director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice |
Austin and Allison McChord, who have committed to transforming an industrial island in Long Island Sound into a park, in Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 27, 2024. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NORWALK, CONN.- On a peninsula projecting into Long Island Sound, an empty road passes through a wild salt marsh where snowy-feathered egrets dot tawny fall grasses and ospreys soar. A small herd of wild turkeys ambles nearby. This 125-acre tract called Manresa Island, an extension of the Norwalk mainland, offers almost 2 miles ... More | |
Installation view of Kazuo Shiraga & Akira Kanayama: Plus-Minus, at Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo, 2024. Photo by Ryuichi Maruo. Courtesy of Fergus McCaffrey.
TOKYO.- Featuring revolutionary robot paintings by Akira Kanayama (1924-2006) and foot paintings by Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo will present an exhibition that celebrates the centennial of the birth of both Gutai artists. Plus Minus focuses on both artists highly individualistic and innovative methods of painting that fulfilled the Gutai mantra of Making art ... More | |
Cristiana Collu, Director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. Photo: Adriano Mura.
VENICE.- Fondazione Querini Stampalia announced the appointment of Cristiana Collu as new Director. Museum Director, art historian, curator, lecturer, Cristiana Collu has been enthusiastically and unanimously appointed by the Querini Stampalias President, Paolo Molesini, and the members of its Board, Donatella Calabi (vice president), Shaul Bassi and Gilberto Muraro. The appointment marks a new chapter for the Foundation, ... More |
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| Archibald winner in first solo exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia | | Francis Upritchard unfolds a world of mermaids and mythical creatures in her first Scandinavian exhibition | | mother's tankstation opens 'Prudence Flint: Second Lesson' |
Julia Gutman. Photo: Magdalene Shapter.
PERTH.- Archibald-winning artist Julia Gutman will unveil her largest artwork to date at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). life in the third person is not only ambitious in scale, sitting at 12 x 3 metres, but it is also a material leap for the artist, who is known for stitching together donated garments to create narrative tableaux. This work is jacquard woven, a first for the artist, and composed on a 3-metre loom at the Textiel Lab in the Netherlands. Collaborating with the Textiel Lab created an entirely new way of approaching ... More | |
Francis Upritchard, Giacometti Looters, 2024 Installation view from the exhibition Any Noise Annoys an Oyster at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2024. Courtesy Kate MacGarry, London. Photo by David Stjernholm.
COPENHAGEN.- This autumn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a solo exhibition with New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard. Presenting more than 100 works, this comprehensive exhibition creates a space somewhere between ideas of our past and visions for a future. Francis Upritchard (b. 1976, based in London) works ... More | |
Prudence Flint, Full Length Mirror, 2024. Oil on Belgium Linen, 135 x 107 cm. Courtesy the artist and mothers tankstation Dublin | London.
LONDON.- How it strikes a lesson The dream does in fact concern itself with both health and sickness, and since, by virtue of its source in the unconscious, it draws upon a wealth of subliminal perceptions, it can sometimes produce things that are very well worth knowing.[i] Carl G. Jung, On the Nature of Dreams. If we are to assimilate anything from Carl G. Jungs hypothesis On the Nature of Dreamsor the long line ... More |
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Smuggling Domesticated Silkworms along the Silk Roads
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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art names Jessica S. Hong Chief CuratorKANSAS CITY, MO.- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art announced today that Jessica S. Hong has been appointed to lead the museums curatorial program as chief curator, effective December 30, 2024. Hong joins Kemper Museum from the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH) where she is the senior curator of modern and contemporary art. With nearly two decades of experience, Hong has worked with artists and communities at museums and organizations including Dartmouths Hood Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard Art Museums, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Independent Curators International (ICI). She has collaborated with artists on major projects and exhibitions including Jean Shin: Perch (2024) at Appleton Farms in Ipswich, MA, the first site-specific commission at the oldest ... More Roald Dahl is antisemitic, but not a cartoon villain, in 'Giant'LONDON.- It started with a book review. In the August 1983 issue of Literary Review, a British journal, beloved childrens author Roald Dahl reviewed an eyewitness account of Israels 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In a strident piece, Dahl mourned the disproportionate loss of Arab civilian life in that conflict, and appeared to crassly conflate the actions of the Israeli state with the will of the Jewish people. He also asserted that all Jews had a responsibility to denounce Israel. Later that month, in an interview in The New Statesman newsmagazine, he was asked to clarify those remarks. Dahl went further, saying, There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity. He went on: I mean, theres always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didnt just pick on them for no reason. This shameful episode, which left a stain ... More 'The Hills of California,' alive with the sound of musicNEW YORK, NY.- Two sounds greet you at the start of The Hills of California, Jez Butterworths relentlessly entertaining new play: the crashing of waves on the beaches of Blackpool and the tinkling of a tinny piano being tuned. Both are plot points: The story concerns a musical family operating a rundown resort on the west coast of England. Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy, It Never Entered My Mind, When I Fall in Love and Dream a Little Dream of Me are among the marvelous oldies youll hear sung during the course of the action. But the crashing and tuning are thematic points, too. Though frequently funny and, even at nearly three hours, swift, The Hills of California, which opened Sunday at the Broadhurst Theater, drops you deep into the devastations of time and lifts you gently into the consolations of song. It does so within a familiar ... More What to know about Francis Ford Coppola and 'Megalopolis'NEW YORK, NY.- Francis Ford Coppola waged war with studio heads throughout the making of The Godfather. Production on his 1979 Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now, was so troubled there was a typhoon and a near-fatal heart attack that it was chronicled in a documentary. So its not exactly a surprise that his latest movie, Megalopolis, a nearly 2-1/2-hour futuristic fable about the battle between art and greed that stars Adam Driver, arrived in theaters Friday mired in controversy. The 85-year-old filmmakers self-financed passion project, which he conceived all the way back in the 1970s, has earned headlines about a reportedly chaotic shoot, allegations of misconduct and questions about the films commercial prospects. While we wait to see whether it will find a place in the canon of Coppola masterpieces ... More Malcolm Gladwell holds his ideas loosely. He thinks you should, too.NEW YORK, NY.- Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author, has an office on a quiet street in Hudson, New York, where he sits at a desk under a poster of Mao Zedong, the former communist leader of China. Why? Maybe to signal how ideas can be dangerous? Nope, no particular reason. There are two other Chinese communist posters on the wall, too. I found them online for like $10, said Gladwell, 61. I just think its funny. Gladwell, who has spent his career steeped in ideas and translating social science research into everyday usefulness, says he doesnt take his own ideas too seriously. But others do. His first book, The Tipping Point, became a sensation when it was released in 2000. The book explained how something ordinary whether a shoe (Hush Puppies loafers), a behavior (theft) or an idea (the British are coming) spreads so wide that ... More Gavin Creel, Tony-winning musical theater actor, dies at 48NEW YORK, NY.- Gavin Creel, a sly and charming musical theater actor who won a Tony Award as a wide-eyed adventure seeker in Hello, Dolly! and an Olivier Award as a preening missionary in The Book of Mormon, died Monday at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 48. His death was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, via a publicist, Matt Polk. The cause was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, which Creel learned he had in July. Creel was a well-liked member of the New York theater community whose death comes as a shock, given his age; he had been performing on Broadway for two decades, mostly in starring roles, and just last winter, his physical and vocal agility, as well as his charisma and curiosity, were on display in a memoiristic show he wrote ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died October 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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