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Newspapers and art books on the floor of artist Frank Auerbachs London studio, on April 6, 2023. Since the 1950s, Auerbach has been producing intense portraits and vivid London landscapes in thickly encrusted paint, often depicting the same model or scene over decades. (Suzie Howell/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth Fullerton
LONDON.- In a Victorian house in North London on a recent afternoon, Frank Auerbach, one of Britains foremost painters, was working in his spartan, paint-spattered studio with a vigor belying his 91 years. The face of a self-portrait in charcoal, begun that day, looked out from an easel next to him with a mixture of vulnerability and stoicism. It was an impressive start, but the drawing was destined to be erased and recommenced, perhaps 50, a hundred times or more like all Auerbachs works. Its been going on like that for the last 70 years, the reclusive artist said. Ive found myself simply not being able to accept what had come out on the canvas or the paper,, he said. That process of destroying the works and trying again and again involved a lot of swearing, a lot of anger, a lot of moaning, Auerbach said. I start always in the hope of picking up my brushes, putting an amazing momentous image on the canvas, and finishing ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Etruscan burial ground of Greppe SantâAngelo in Cerveteri, Italy, June 19, 2009. Thousands of Greek artifacts were discovered intact in tombs, protected by the volcanic rock from which the tombs were often carved. (Chris Warde-Jones/The New York Times)
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| Rare works by India's modernist icons take centre srage at AstaGuru's upcoming 'Masters Legacy' auction | | Sold! John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever Suit, Harry Potter Wand, Iron Man Helmet Julien's Auctions | | Colby Museum receives 184 pieces of art from Norma Marin | 
M.F. Husain, Untitled (horse), Circa 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 47.5 in.
MUMBAI.- AstaGurus upcoming Masters Legacy Modern Indian Art Auction will showcase a diverse range of unique and important creations from different phases of India's most celebrated modernists. Scheduled to be held on April 29-30, 2023, the collection is bedecked with creations from several artists who shaped the narrative of Modern Indian Art, including Nicholas Roerich, M.V. Dhurandhar, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza, Tyeb Mehta, H.A Gade, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Krishen Khanna, K.G. Subramanyan, K.K. Hebbar, Prabhakar Barwe, A. Ramachandran, Himmat Shah, Rameshwar Broota, B. Prabha, and T. Vaikuntam. Talking about the upcoming auction, Sneha Gautam, Vice President - Client Relations, AstaGuru said, The auction offers collectors and art enthusiasts a rare opportunity to acquire significant works by eminent figures of Indian modernism. These works not only represent the ... More | | 
The centerpiece of this historic auction event is the custom-made white suit worn by John Travolta in his Academy Award®-nominated role as Tony Manero in the classic blockbuster motion picture Saturday Night Fever (estimate: $100,000 - $200,000).
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) held Hollywood: Classic and Contemporary, on Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd, their two-day blockbuster featuring over 1,400 artifacts from the greatest films of the Silent Era, the Golden Age of Hollywood and the biggest and most popular present day contemporary films spanning Sci-Fi, Action and Fantasy classics and beyond. The sale was held in front of a live audience at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and online with thousands of bidders and collectors from around the world participating on Juliens Live. The most highly anticipated moment of the auction event was the sale of the headlining item, John Travoltas suit from his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. The ... More | | 
John Marin, A Looking Back-The Marin Family, 1953. Oil and graphite on canvas, 22 in. x 18 in. (55.88 cm x 45.72 cm). Gift of Norma B. Marin; 031.1998.
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art recently announced that it has received 184 pieces of art from Norma Marin. Ms. Marin, who passed away in 2022 and was married to John Marin Jr. .son of the modernist painter John Marinhad a long relationship with the Colby Museum as a donor, lifetime member of the Museum Board of Governors. Over the last 50 year the Marin family has gifted numerous works by John Marin to the museum, including watercolors, oil paintings, drawings, and prints. Lisa Marin, Normas daughter and the painters granddaughter, currently serves on the Museums Board of Governors and chairs its Collections and Impact Committee, continuing the familys history of service to the museum. The museum was established in 1959, and relatively soon after that received its first Marin artwork, said Elizabeth Finch, head curator of the Colby Museum. That ... More |
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| A blockbuster exhibition, ripped in two by Russia's war | | New exhibition presents contemporary landscape painting as you had never imagined it before | | Exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery continues the dialogue between Mark Rothko and William Scott | 
Georges Seurat, The Channel of Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe, 1890. Oil on canvas, 65 à 81 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Every day last week, hundreds of visitors to the National Gallery in London marveled at After Impressionism an acclaimed exhibition examining how, at the turn of the 20th century, painters including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso pushed art in bold new directions. So, too, have art lovers visiting an institution 1,700 miles away: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, in Moscow. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, the two museums were collaborating on a single After Impressionism show, which would bring together masterpieces from each institutions vast museum holdings. The exhibition was to open in London and then travel to Moscow. Now the shows are divorced; the National Gallerys version of Cézannes Bathers will be seen only in London, while Henri Matisses The Pink Studio, a major painting of bright color and vivid decoration from 1911, will stay put in Moscow. Over the past year, ... More | | 
Lubaina Himid, Industrial Hills, 1991, acrylic on canvas. ©The Artist. Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
LEEDS.- A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, challenges our expectations of landscape painting and invites us to think outside the box. The exhibition rethinks landscape painting for the 21st century - a time of climate crisis, a post COVID-19 world, a post-colonial and capitalist era. Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now raises pertinent questions about who has access to nature, where and how. It acknowledges that in the 21st century people in the UK access and experience landscape now in many ways. This could be through walking in parks or on footpaths, working in community gardens and allotments, or looking longingly on our screens at faraway places we may never visit in person. Opening on Wednesday 26 April, the exhibition features a wonderfully broad spectrum of artworks by over thirty artists. They approach nature from many different directions, expanding ... More | | 
Portrait of William Scott (on left) with Mark Rothko (on right) at the Scott home in England. 1959. Photo by James Scott. © James Scott.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is will present Mark Rothko and William Scott: Continuing the Dialogue, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by two twentieth-century masters, offering new insight into their relationship and mutual admiration, influence, and respect. Large-scale works on canvas will be complemented by preparatory drawings, as well as correspondence between the two artists. Mark Rothko (1903-1970), one of the most prominent of the American abstract painters, and William Scott CBE, RA (1913-1989), a leader in the Modernist movement in the UK, met in 1953 and consequently grew close through letters and visits. By including the artists works and words together, the gallery hopes to share the story of this friendship with a wider public. Rothko and Scott first met through gallerist Martha Jackson in New York in 1953 and kept in contact through letters, ... More |
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| Explore historic menus and food culture at the Grolier Club | | LeBron James' photo-matched rookie sneakers lace up for Heritage's decades-spanning May Sports Catalog Auction | | Second exhibition at the Drawing Room of Berlin artist Anke Völk in 'color it!' | 
Hotel Pennsylvania, Fountain Room, New York City, 1924. Henry Voigt Collection of American Menus.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club in New York City presents a special exhibition exploring the history and culture of dining out through a vast collection of vintage menus. On view from April 26 through July 29, 2023 in the Grolier Clubs ground floor gallery, A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941 features menus that document the first 100 years of dining out in the United States. The exhibition is curated by Grolier Club member Henry Voigt from his renowned collection of historic menus and features an accompanying publication. Menus tell us how people have dined outside the home over time. They aid our cultural memory by providing historical evidence, not only of what people were eating, but what else they were doing and with whom they were doing it; and what they valued, said curator Henry Voigt. Examine ... More | | 
2003 LeBron James Game Worn Nike Air Zoom Rookie Sneakers--Photo Matched to James' 2nd NBA Game.
DALLAS, TX.- As always with one of Heritage's Sports auctions, extraordinary history and unassailable rarities draw the collector's attention every which way thanks to the more than 2,800 pieces representing every sport and every decade in which professional games have been played. And every legend, too from Ted Williams' Sultan of Swat Crown to signed pieces from Pelé's collection to a photo-matched pair of LeBron James' rookie-season sneakers. One could crack the spine on the May 11-13 Sports Catalog Auction and start with what has long been one of The Hobby's holy-moly Holy Grails: 73 high-grade 1952 Topps baseball cards pedigreed from The Lionel Carter Collection, so named for the man who famously accumulated ... More | | 
Anke Völk, Untitled, 2023. Ãl auf Karton auf Leinwand, 90 x 70 cm_kl.
HAMBURG.- Berlin-based artist Anke Völk (* 1965 in Idar-Oberstein) works in the media of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, (slide) projection and various printing techniques. However, her primary medium and thus the starting point of her artistic conceptions is painting. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1994 to 2000, graduating as a master student under Professor Helmut Dorner. Anke Völk has been represented previously at the Drawing Room Hamburg in 2018 with the exhibition ON. Her second, current exhibition at the Drawing Room is entitled color it! On display are three large-format paintings measuring 250 x 160 cm from 2023, as well as a selection of medium- and small-format paintings created in her Neukölln studio over the past two ... More |
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| National Portrait Gallery announces new Mildred and Simon Palley Learning Centre ahead of reopening | | Review: In 'Prima Facie,' Jodie Comer makes the case | | Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra gets ambitious at Carnegie Hall | 
A visualisation of The Mildred Garden by Jamie Fobert Architects © Forbes Massie. National Portrait Gallery, London and © National Portrait Gallery, London
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery announced the name of its new state-of-the-art learning facility, The Mildred and Simon Palley Learning Centre. Developed as part of the Gallerys transformational Inspiring People project, the new Centre will provide spaces for learners of all ages to better connect with the worlds largest collection of portraits when the Gallery reopens on 22 June 2023. Made fully accessible for the first time, The Mildred and Simon Palley Learning Centre will have its own dedicated entrance on St Martins Place, renovated as part of the largest redevelopment project in the Gallerys history. Now comprising three new studios, a gallery and an outdoor space, the footprint of active learning spaces at the Gallery has significantly increased since 2020. The Centres new studios The Law Photography Studio, The Art Studio and The Clore Studio will host the Gallerys creative programmes ... More | | 
Jodie Comer as a barrister in Suzie Millers Prima Facie, a one-woman, 100-minute play at the Golden Theater in New York, April 21, 2023. The Killing Eve star has a spectacular Broadway debut in a play that puts sexual assault jurisprudence on trial. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The neon image of a louche Lady Justice, in an electric-blue robe and a hot-pink mask, greets the audience at the Golden Theatre as if the place were a strip joint for lawyers. In a way, it is, at least while Prima Facie, which opened Sunday, is playing there. Over the course of the one-woman, 100-minute play, we watch a barrister the story takes place in England remove every piece of psychological armor from the women she cross-examines in sexual assault cases, then see the same armor stripped from her when she becomes a victim herself. The play, by Suzie Miller, won all sorts of awards in Australia and Britain. Its easy to see why. Its star, Jodie Comer, late of Killing Eve, gives a performance of tremendous skill and improbable stamina, especially ... More | | 
After decades away, the musicians, led by Kent Nagano, were back in the United States to perform works by Sean Shepherd, along with Beethoven and Brahms. Photo: Andreas Praefcke.
NEW YORK, NY.- Go big or go home must have been the rallying cry for the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestras debut at Carnegie Hall Saturday night. The last time this group appeared in the United States was more than 50 years ago, in 1967. So for this program, the Hamburg musicians, led by conductor Kent Nagano, went large-scale ambitious, performing the world premiere of American composer Sean Shepherds 12-movement An Einem Klaren Tag On a Clear Day for cello, choruses and orchestra. Here, that ambition demanded the participation of no fewer than five choruses culled from both Germany and New York: the Audi Jugendchorakademie (a youth chorus sponsored by the car manufacturer); Alsterspatzen (the children and youth choir of the Hamburg State Opera); ... More |
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 Now celebrated, Julius Eastman's music points to a new canonNEW YORK, NY.- At last, it no longer feels accurate to describe the music of Julius Eastman as long lost. Were firmly enjoying some new period of appreciation for the pioneering but once-overlooked work of this Black queer composer and multi-instrumentalist; archival recordings and new interpretations are widely available, and the art world more broadly has taken an enthusiastic interest in him. And at the 92nd Street Y, New York, this weekend, Eastman was celebrated with a three-concert series by the ensemble Wild Up, called Radical Adornment. The first two programs, both of which were well attended, presented works that, in recent years, have reemerged as pillars of the American Minimalist repertoire. Fridays show offered the evening-length Femenine gentle at the outset, then thundering (if overamplified) as ... More  Bill Reid Gallery celebrates 25-year living legacy of Bill Reid with Canadian premiere of group exhibitionVANCOUVER, BC.- Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the Canadian premiere exhibition of Bright Futures from April 26, 2023January 14, 2024. Co-curated by Bill Reid Gallery Curator Beth Carter, Assistant Curator Aliya Boubard, and in consultation with Jordan Wilson (Musqueam), Bright Futures examines the lasting influence of Bill Reids iconic art on the development and creation of contemporary Northwest Coast art today, 25 years after his death in 1998. Alongside a selection of works from Bill Reid Gallerys permanent collection, the group exhibition showcases a broad variety of disciplines and cultures from throughout BC and the Yukon, including surrealist painting, classic weaving, wearable art, conceptual installation, modern carving, metalwork, and abstract photography. Central to Bright Futures is how contemporary ... More  Megan Terry, feminist playwright and rock musical innovator, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Megan Terry, an Obie Award winner, a founding member of the Open Theater group and a prolific feminist playwright who wrote and directed a rock musical on the New York City stage that predated Hair, died April 12 at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She was 90. Elizabeth Primamore, a writer who is working on a book about Terry and four other women writers, confirmed the death Monday. Terrys Viet Rock: A Folk War Movie opened at Martinique Theater, an off-Broadway house, on Nov. 10, 1966, during the Vietnam War, after earlier performances at the Yale Repertory Company and La MaMa ETC, in the East Village. The rock numbers lyrics were poignant and pointed: The wars have melted into one / A war was on when I was born. One song advised against optimism: Dont put all your eggs in one basket / Baskets ... More  The cathartic value of Dame Edna's extravaganzas of egoNEW YORK, NY.- She was, lest we forget, the original Real Housewife. Or Surreal Housewife, if you prefer. Possessed of few obvious talents and a bottomless sense of entitlement, this expensively upholstered figure was the archetype for the ordinary middle-class matron who blossomed into improbable, overwhelming, gasp-inducing fame. Her name was Edna Everage (just one vowel away from average), and her advent in the mid-20th century anticipated a brash new age of undeserved celebrity. Oh, my prophetic soul, she might have said, contemplating the constellation of self-anointed stars who occupy our attention these days. The line comes from Hamlet. But Edna was the kind of gal who could convince you that she had coined it all by herself. Dame Edna, as she became known from the early 1970s, was the inspired alter-ego ... More  Among faceless offices, a theater taking risksNEW YORK, NY.- Regents Place, a business quarter in the Euston district of central London, isnt a likely location for a theater. Many of the buildings there are the offices of global corporations. The glass-fronted New Diorama could easily be mistaken for one. Since it opened in 2010, the New Diorama, an 80-seat studio theater, has gained a reputation as an incubator of new talent. It presents an innovative program of work by emerging theater companies and offers the artists who work there a level of creative support thats rare for a venue of its size, with free rehearsal space, interest-free loans and help finding funding from other sources. The theater has nurtured the careers of many small troupes, and, in some cases, its support has been transformative. This season, two shows that originated at the New Diorama are playing on the West ... More  Hunna Art to now represent Amna Al BakerDUBAI.- Amnas recent practice is based on creating parallels between the natural world and the female experience. Her work, now on view at Hunna Art - a contemporary art gallery representing women artists based in the Gulf - aims to materialize the internal wilderness navigated by women, specifically in the Arab world, as they come of age and forge alternative paths. Her practice is an experimental one, in which she lets the medium choose her. Self-discovery is at the heart of her practice as she collects objects, photographs and writing to build her ideas on. Fuelled by a desire to express her experiences of being an Arab woman in her time and space, Amna Al Baker (b. 1996) is an artist, photographer and writer with a Qatari, Indian and Persian heritage. Born and raised in Doha, Al Bakers practice forms as an experimental process, ... More  'Chip Haggerty: Boy Meets World' on view at Julia Seabrook GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Julia Seabrook Gallery brought in Chip Haggerty a brutish New England painter and reluctant outsider in from the cold with his first ever New York City solo exhibition. The show, on view since April 20 through May 28, 2023, at Julia Seabrook Gallery, 660 Franklin Ave., Crown Heights, Brooklyn, will open with a reception and the artist present. Chip Haggerty: Boy Meets World presents 49 paintings that touch on themes drawn from quotidian stresses: gravity, traffic, food, people. A list of herbs and spices for a recipe becomes a threat. Some Warholesque bananas become a decorative frieze. Collections of sunglasses and ballet slippers take on repetitive relevance. There are scenes of skiers and snow from his adopted home in Vermont. But bowing to his New York City roots, Haggerty also includes Gotham cityscapes, traffic, the ... More  Art in Mayfair, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, announces this year's art flag commissionLONDON.- The world-leading fashion and fine jewellery houses across Bond Street are joining forces with the Royal Academy of Arts for the sixth year in their annual showcase of art and culture. This years event will be larger than ever before. The tailors of Savile Row are partaking for the second year alongside the unique brands of Mount Street, North and South Audley Street and Duke Street who all join for the first time. Timed to coincide with the Royal Academys 255th Summer Exhibition, Art in Mayfair will run from 12 June 9 July 2023, as an immersive arts festival in celebration of the areas vibrant arts and cultural scene. This year, world-renowned contemporary artist Bob and Roberta Smith RA whose best known work includes Make Art Not War has been invited to create the unique Art in Mayfair flags that will hang above Bond ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel was born April 25, 1921. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, Big Bird Flying Over the City, 1951. Oil on canvas, 49 3/16 x 65 3/4 inches (125 x 167 centimeters) © Karel Appel Foundation, c/o ARS New York, 2014. Courtesy of the Karel Appel Foundation and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
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