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La Grande vitesse (1:5 intermediate maquette). 1969. Sheet metal, bolts, and paint, 102" x 135" x 93" (259.1 x 342.9 x 236.2 cm).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Calder-Picasso at the de Young museum. Conceived by the artists grandsons Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, it is the first major museum exhibition to explore the formal resonances between the works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, two of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century. In more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographsincluding many iconic worksthe exhibition presents a compelling presentation of the artists exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which they defined from the figure through to abstraction. Calder-Picasso provides an in-depth investigation of the synchronicities between two of the most influential artists of the 20th century, states Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. We are delighted to share this fascin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation photograph, Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020, art © Vera Lutter, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
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| Pace Gallery opens Marina Perez Simão's first solo exhibition in New York City | | Christie's Arts from the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Oriental Rugs and Carpets totals $14,800,042 | | Warhol a lame copier? The judges who said so are sadly mistaken. | 
Marina Perez Simão, Untitled, 2021. Oil on canvas, 23-3/4" à 19-7/8" (60.3 cm à 50.5 cm). © Marina Perez Simão. Courtesy of the artist, Mendes Wood DM, and Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is debuting São Paulo-based artist Marina Perez Simãos first solo exhibition in New York City. Rooted in the natural landscape of her native Brazil, Simãos luminous oil paintings pulse with a magnetic, musical, and hypnotic presence that make the viewers eye dance. Influenced by painters such as Tarsila do Amaral, Agnes Pelton, and Luchita Hurtado, Simãos work is situated within a larger constellation of artists who have similarly used the landscape to explore the metaphysical elements of nature. With the artists new series of paintings, which have been unveiled at Paces New York space this spring, Simão presents a symbol of hopea beacon for a future not yet mapped out but filled with infinite possibilities. Referencing a phrase by Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa, the exhibition title, Tudo é e não é, translates to Everything is and is not, encompassing the ambiguity o ... More | | 
A highly important Safavid silk and metal-thread Polonaise carpet, Central Persia, early 17th century. Estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000. Sold for: £2,062,500 / $2,833,875 / 2,417,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, including Oriental Rugs and Carpets realised a total of £10,771,500/ $14,800,042 / 12,624,198, achieving sell-through rates of 96% by value and 82% by lot. Sara Plumbly, Head of the Islamic Art Department, commented: It was a great pleasure to have been part of the journey of this spectacular painting, formerly in the collection of Bonnet House Museum and Gardens. Bringing it to the market for the first time in over 100 years was a very special moment. It almost doubled its pre-sale estimate when it sold for over £2.3 million. Another highlight of the auction was a late 15th or early 16th century Veneto-Saracenic bucket, which was signed by the master Mahmud Al-Kurdi, and which tripled its pre-sale estimate when it sold for £1,822,500 / $2,504,115 / 2,135,970. Throughout the sale we saw very ... More | | 
Back in 2019, a trial court decided that Warhols use of Goldsmiths photo was within the bounds of what copyright law calls fair use.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A few years back, a bevy of art critics declared that Marcel Duchamps 1917 sculpture called Fountain a store-bought urinal he had presented, unchanged, as art was the most influential work of the 20th century. Andy Warhols 1964 Brillo Boxes copies of scouring-pad cartons presented as art could easily have come a close second. Philosopher Arthur Danto built an illustrious career, and a whole school of thought, around the importance of those boxes to understanding the very nature of artworks. Last month, three federal appellate judges in New York City decided they knew more about art than any old critic or philosopher: Whether they quite meant to or not, their ruling had the effect of declaring that the landmark inventions of Duchamp and Warhol the appropriation they practiced, to use the term of art were not worthy of the legal protection that other creativity is given under copyright law. The case ... More |
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| Rare Books and Incunabula sale achieves $162,164 on iGavel Auctions | | Bonhams to offer works of art from the Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom | | MoMA PS 1 opens first New York exhibition of Niki de Saint Phalle | 
Hanapis, Nicolaus de. S. Bonaventure, Breviloquium Biblia Pauperum Venice, 1477.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- iGavel Auctions announced that its sale of rare books and incunabula achieved $162,164 including buyers premium. With 100 out of 200 lots going into overtime, bidding was highly competitive and resulted in prices far exceeding their original estimates. The top lot Hanapis, Nicolaus de. S. Bonaventure, Breviloquium Biblia Pauperum, Venice: 1477sold for $22,500 (estimate: $2,000-4,000). The text, though commonly referred to as a Pauper's Bible, was, in fact, not a bible. Supposedly written by Bonaventure, it is now known to be a shortened version of a text by Nicolaus de Hanapis (1225-1291) and was intended for use by priests or clergy as an aid for sermons. It is filled with cautionary tales intended to assist in the illustration of virtues and vices. Several other top lots were snapped up by international collectors from Chile, England, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.S. Their ... More | | 
Claire Falkenstein (American, 1908-1997), Untitled, circa 1970, copper with glass, 14 3/4 x 21 x 14in, Estimate: $20,000-$30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-four works from The Estate of Yvonne de Chavigny Segerstrom will be sold in Bonhams auctions in New York and Los Angeles, from April through November 2021. Leading the group is Fairfield Porters (1907-1975) Yawl in the Channel, a magnificent landscape which will highlight the American Art Sale in New York on May 20. The painting is estimated at $700,000-1,000,000. This masterwork by Porter, one of the leading representational American painters of the mid-20th century, was painted in the final two years of his life. The colorful landscape presents the artists mature painterly technique while still imbuing his own emotion, thoughts, and feelings into the work. The painting is a fantastic example of his commitment to a direct approach to the canvas and belief in the ability of paint itself to bring life to a scene. Bonhams Specialist, Aaron Anderson, ... More | | 
Niki de Saint Phalle. Mini Nana maison. c. 1968. Painted polyester. 6 5/16 à 5 7/8 à 3 9/16″ (16 à 15 à 9 cm). Photo: Aaron Serafino. © 2021 Niki Charitable Art Foundation.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first New York museum exhibition of the work of visionary feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle (American and French, 1930‒2002). On view from March 11 to September 6, 2021, Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life features over 200 works created from the mid-1960s until the artists death, including sculptures, prints, drawings, jewelry, films, and archival materials. Highlighting Saint Phalles interdisciplinary approach and engagement with key social and political issues, the exhibition will focus on works that she created to transform environments, individuals, and society. From the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Saint Phalle pushed against accepted artistic practices, creating work that used assemblage as well as performative and ... More |
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| Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Markus Linnenbrink | | Largest ever survey of Moroccan art opens at Reina Sofia Museum | | Bat used by Lou Gehrig in 1938 sells at auction for $715,120 | 
AHOLETOSWALLOWUS, 2020, Epoxy resin and pigments on wood, 63 x 51 inches, 160 x 129.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by Markus Linnenbrink. WEREMEMBEREVERYONE is the artists fifth solo exhibition at the gallery and opened on 1 April at 525 West 22nd Street and remains on view through 8 May 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Cat Kron. Over the course of his thirty-year career, the German-born, Brooklyn-based artists paintings have taken form primarily in three distinct processes, which he identifies as drips, drills, and reverses. The genesis of the works developed from the artists formative question: What if you take your will out of the equation and just pay attention to process? Linnenbrinks skillfully engineered paintings derive from the artists exploration of color with attention to the behavior of material. Linnenbrink ... More | | 
Mustapha Boujemaoui, The glass of my life, 2003. Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm. © Mustapha Boujemaoui,
MADRID.- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid presents Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020, a sweeping survey of the culture of Morocco from the 1950s to the present day, running from 31 March - 27 September 2021, in a unique collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Qatar Museums and Qatar Foundation. The show features more than 250 works by 60 artists, including a series of important works from the collection of Mathaf, as well as archival material drawn from private and public collections. The exhibition also premieres or re-activates a number of works, and includes several new commissions. The exhibition is co-curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, Director of the Reina Sofia Museum, and Abdellah Karroum, Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha. Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020 looks at modern and contemporary art and culture in Moroccos major urban centres including Tangier, Tetouan and Casablanc ... More | | 
Gehrig gave the bat, which was made from ash, to Earle Combs, a onetime Yankees teammate and coach who, like Gehrig, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the company said.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A baseball bat used by Lou Gehrig at the twilight of his legendary career with the New York Yankees sold for $715,120 over the weekend, the company that auctioned it said Sunday. The bat a 34-inch, 36-ounce Bill Dickey model Louisville Slugger was used by Gehrig in 1938, his final full season as a key cog in the early dynasties of the Yankees franchise, according to SCP Auctions. It may have been used by Gehrig in a World Series sweep of the Chicago Cubs that year and the next spring, said the company, which indicated that it had received 26 bids for the bat before online bidding ended Saturday. SCP Auctions, which is based in Laguna Niguel, California, and specializes in sports memorabilia sales, would not identify the buyer, other than to say it was a private collector. Gehrig gave the bat, which was made from ash, to Earle ... More |
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| How the Chicxulub Impactor gave rise to modern rainforests | | Group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley on view at Regen Projects | | Exhibition spans more than 3,500 years to offer various degrees of ventriloquized voices | 
New and improved plant sex: Plants produced attractive flowers containing sugary rewards for insects who carry pollen (basically the male sperm of the plants) to other flowers, helping plants reproduce. This strategy was so successful that flowering plants took over tropical forests, and the world.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the worlds climate systems. A new study published in Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future. The study led by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute shows that the asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests. We wondered how tropical rainforests changed after a drastic ecological perturbation such as the Chicxulub impact, so we looked for tropical plant fossils, said Mónica Carvalho, first author and joint postdoctoral ... More | | 
Kandis Williams, candyman urban threat modeling, becky, karen, nike, athena: a future foreclosed to all but king kong and faye wray, 2020. Collage on artificial plant and India ink in vase, 48 x 22 x 9 inches (121.9 x 55.9 x 22.9 cm) © Kandis Williams, Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents Make-Shift-Future, a group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley, featuring Kevin Beasley, Elaine Cameron-Weir, rafa esparza, Max Hooper Schneider, Eric N. Mack, Alicia Piller, Eric-Paul Riege, and Kandis Williams. "I am interested in studying ancient literature because, like speculative fiction, it can massage loose the underpinnings of our attachments to pervasive contemporary mythologies, so that we might gain a clearer view of ourselves and reveal the blind spots. So many blind spots. Collage and assemblage function similarly by transposing tactile and familiar signs and symbols into new disquieting and uncanny situations. The medium, for much of its history, has scavenged for the discarded, broken, and disused. In this age of abundant material commerce, the predicted ... More | | 
Postcard printed by Rotobrome, c. 1920, courtesy of Peter J. Cohen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting NOT I: Throwing Voice (1500 BCE2020 CE), an exhibition using ventriloquism, literally and liberally, to explore the representations of sounds and voices and their disquieting capacity of refraction, synchronicity, and misdirection. Ventriloquism relies on the confusion between sight and hearing, performer and puppet, silence and speech; and confronts issues of identity, embodiment, agency, performance, and objecthood. Even the most conventional ventriloquist sketch is defined by the continuous recasting of questions on the imbricated relationship between voice, speech, identity, and authority: Where is the voice coming from? How is that voice split into many bodies? Whose voice is this? Who is speaking on behalf of whom? Drawn primarily from LACMAs encyclopedic collection, NOT I considers ventriloquism as both a theme and a methodology integral to the logic of institutions ... More |
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Banksy 'Gas Mask Boy' | London | Spring 2021
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 The MIT Press launches new open access collection of 34 classic architecture and urban studies titlesCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Today, the MIT Press launched MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books, on their digital book platform MIT Press Direct. The collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program, which they co-sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities. For years, the MIT Press has fielded requests for ebook editions of classic, out-of-print works, like the two volumes of The Staircase by John Templer, On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories by Mark Jarzombek, Possible Palladian Villas: (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones) by George L. Hersey and Richard Freedman, and Making a Middle Landscape by Peter Rowe. Many of these ... More  Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya unveils powerful & timely installation in Meatpacking DistrictNEW YORK, NY.- The New York City Commission on Human Rights announces the latest work from Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya entitled May We Know Our Own Strength. Located in Meatpacking District in partnership with the local Business Improvement District (BID), the interactive installation transforms the accounts of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence into large, room-scale sculptures. The installation employs sixteen internet-connected printers, placed in a high-traffic storefront window, that will relay anonymous survivors stories provided through an online submission form. This installation is inspired by young South Asian New Yorkers who, in summer 2020, broke their silence and began sharing stories of sexual assault and gender-based violence on social media. The wave of disclosure spread to other ... More  "Invisible Cities" a new curated exhibition of NFTs on SuperRareNEW YORK, NY.- SuperRare is presenting Invisible Cities, a groundbreaking exhibition of NFT art presented in a virtual gallery, curated by An Rong and Elisabeth Johs. Inspired by the pioneering text by Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities presents a digital exploration of the relationship between the visible and the invisible of our real and imagined cities from a distance and under close observation. The exhibition features unique NFT artworks by Fabio Giampietro, JENISU, Elise Swopes, Karisman, Dangiuz, KLDPXL, Gutty Kreum, Mari K, Annibale Siconolfi and Nate Mohler whose work together presents a multivalent global response to Calvinos prompt to imagine a realm of cities that never existed. Invisible Cities will be live to collectors worldwide April 2-30, 2021 as buy now or auctioned works via SuperRare, a platform built on the Ethereum Blockchain. ... More  Pangolin London opens Terence Coventry's new exhibition 'Vital Image'LONDON.- Inspired by an interview with Terence Coventry exactly 10 years ago, this exhibition explores sculptures and works on paper whose vital images convey both great power and tenderness. Coventrys work is charged with energy and life, capturing the essence of an animal or human figure whether on the move or in quiet contemplation. After studying at Stourbridge School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, Terence Coventry was posted to North Devon on National Service. It was following his discharge from the army that he decided to put his artistic pursuits to one side, setting up home, and farm, on the Cornish coast. For the following thirty years Terence Coventrys natural talent as an artist lay dormant while he worked the land and watched the animals that surrounded him. Year after year the shapes and forms of his environment ... More  Portugal reopens museums, cafe terraces and schoolsLISBON (AFP).- Portugal reopened museums, cafe terraces and secondary schools on Monday, nearly two months after tightening Covid-19 curbs following a wave of cases just after Christmas and New Year. The government imposed a general lockdown in the middle of January and closed schools a week later, only reopening primaries in mid-March. "We are turning the page and we hope there will be no turning back," President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Monday. There have been nearly 16,900 coronavirus deaths and 823,335 cases so far, according to an official tally on Sunday. Monday's easing comes with some guidelines. Only four people will be able to sit together at a table on cafe terraces and group training sessions at gyms and sports venues remain banned. "This return to something approaching normality comes ... More  PAFA announces new additions to the permanent collectionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced its latest acquisitions of a wide range of artworks that significantly enhance its renowned American art collection. Ranging in date from 1869 to 2020, the museum acquired 168 works of art through purchase and gift. These new additions include historic, 20th century, and contemporary art in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. Works by 62 living artists have joined the permanent collection, and 98% of the acquisitions represent the 20th and 21st centuries. The growing collection is utilized in the 2020-2023 exhibition program with permanent collection projects featuring women and artists of color. Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (open through September 5, 2021) and Women in Motion: 150 Years of Women's ... More  The Museo Nacional del Prado pays tribute to its own history with a permanent installationMADRID.- The Museo del Prado opened its doors for the first time on 19 November 1819 with the name of Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura. That early museum displayed only 311 works, all of them by Spanish painters. Now, 200 years on, the Museo del Prado is considered Spains leading cultural institution, shared cultural patrimony of which all Spaniards are proud and a legacy of incalculable value in the history of culture. Taking the evolution of the Museums architecture as its guiding thread, this new installation offers a reflection on the historical and political events which transformed the initial Real Museo into the public institution of international renown which it is today. In parallel, the display shows the changes and modifications that have come about over time in terms of the Museums public image, its staff, publications, research, visitors, ... More  The most intimate portrait yet of a black holeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, an international team of radio astronomers that has been staring down the throat of a giant black hole for years, has published what it called the most intimate portrait yet of the forces that give rise to quasars, the luminous fountains of energy that can reach across interstellar and intergalactic space and disrupt the growth of distant galaxies. The monstrous black hole is 6.5 billion times as massive as the sun, and it lies in the center of an enormous elliptical galaxy, Messier 87, about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Two years ago, the team photographed it, producing the first image of a black hole. The previously invisible entity a porthole to eternity looked like a fuzzy smoke ring, much as Albert Einsteins equations had predicted a century ... More  Gloria Henry, 'Dennis the Menace' mother, dies at 98NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Gloria Henry, a B-movie actress of the 1940s and 50s who became best known as the sunny, preternaturally patient mom on the television series Dennis the Menace, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 98. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Erin Ellwood. Henry was 36 and a veteran of more than two dozen films in 1959 when she was cast as Alice Mitchell, the gentle, tolerant but constantly horrified mother in Dennis the Menace, a sitcom based on Hank Ketchams popular comic strip. Dennis (played by Jay North) was an angelic little boy on the surface, but every time he tried to help or just do something nice, it somehow backfired. The show ran for four seasons on CBS. Gloria Eileen McEniry was born in New Orleans on April 2, 1923, and attended Worcester Art Museum School in ... More  Daylight Books publishes HOME FIRES, Vol 1: The Past by Bruce HaleyNEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Haley spent his formative years on a small ranch in the southwestern portion of California's San Joaquin Valley, in an area between Lemoore and Riverdale known as the Island District. Not the sort of young man who was easily contained indoors (setting a pattern that would last a lifetime), he ran the land, rode horses and dirt bikes across the fields, and grew up. Haley is a Robert Capa Gold Medal winner and celebrated internationally for his war and documentary work that took him to Somalia, Afghanistan, Burma, the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere. For this deeply personal project, he turns his camera homeward, to the agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley. The resulting haunting, melancholy images taken during the historic drought of 2013-2014, play out against the larger framework of contentious water politics ... More  Artist Morag Myerscough invites passers-by to step into Summer Time with a burst of colour and hopeLONDON.- Artist Morag Myerscough presents See Through, a site-specific bamboo installation in Grosvenor Square, as part of Wander Art, Londons largest outdoor art trail curated by Alter-Projects and hosted by Landlord Grosvenor Britain and Ireland. As British Summer Time begins and galleries remain shut, Londoners can immerse themselves in this outdoor gallery trail in the heart of Mayfair and Belgravia. Myerscoughs installation See Through is an interactive sculpture of eye-popping colour, geometric patterns and neon messages of hope and joy. Situated in the iconic Grosvenor Square, the unmissable artwork invites passers-by to walk through and engage with it as a haven of positivity and joy. It is a buoyant and resilient response to the challenging times we are living in, aiming to uplift those who encounter it and stimulate positive conversation. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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