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Paul Cadmus, Apple Tree, c. 1925-26. Oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates announced that Paul Cadmus and His Circle: Property from the Estate of Jon F. Anderson will open for bidding on April 28th through May 19th on www.igavelauctions.com. A well-known cabaret singer and actor, Jon F. Anderson was the muse and lover of artist Paul Cadmus for 36 years and the subject of many of his paintings and drawings. Showcasing more than 400 works of art, this unprecedented saleassembles for the first time paintings, sculptures, photographs, and finished and preparatory drawings by not only artists Paul Cadmus, but also his intimate friends and fellow artists Jared and Margaret Hoening French. Referred to collectively by the acronym PaJaMa (acronym for Paul, Jared, and Margaret), they founded the movement known as Magical Realism. This trio formed a close, often polyamorous relationship, since Cadmus was once the lover of Jared French and others before his relationship with A ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day bitforms gallery is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition with Daniel Canogar. This series continues the artistÂs interest in the similitude between screens and textiles. Canogar plays with the idea of threads and knotted string by exposing electric data cables underneath the LED panels. Another defining element of the artist's recent work is the curving, architectural intersections of his sculptures. Rolling silhouettes of technological streams emulate the natural world of rivers, hills, and valleys. Canogar presents sculptures of the incorporeal electronic realm in the hopes of better understanding the ebb and flow of our digital times.
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 | | Works by Ellsworth Kelly, Keith Haring, Warhol and Picasso highlight Doyle's Auction of Prints & Multiples | | Anna Wintour made Condé Nast the embodiment of boomer excess. Can it change to meet this crisis? | | Sotheby's charity auction offers virtual experiences with Sting, Hillary Clinton, The Strokes & more | 
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), Colored Paper Image XIII (detail). Colored and pressed paper pulp, 1976. Est. $30,000-40,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's auction of Prints & Multiples on Wednesday, April 29 at 10am EDT will present a wide range of works spanning the 17th century to the present day. Highlights include works by Gauguin, Miró and Toulouse-Lautrec to Keith Haring, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol, as well as prints and ceramics by Picasso. The auction presents the perfect opportunity to add to your collection or begin a new one! The sale will be presented as a live auction event with safety in mind. From a closed setting, the auctioneer will conduct the sale live. Place your bids from the safety and comfort of your own home by entering Absentee Bids online or by using Doyles BidLive! bidding platform to place bids in real time during the auction with a computer mouse or mobile device. Old Master Prints in the auction are highlighted by three ... More | | 
Anna Wintour at the 2017 Met Gala in New York, May 1, 2017. Benjamin Norman/The New York Times.
by Ben Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The coronavirus chased the fashion industry across Europe in February, from fashion week in Milan to fashion week in Paris, where designers handed out masks and some nervous fashion editors left early. On Saturday the 29th, the team from InStyle magazine, owned by the Meredith Corp., decided it was too dangerous to stay. The same day, Anna Wintour convened Condé Nasts fashion staff in a makeshift conference room at the Paris Vogue headquarters. The message from Anna was: This is not a big deal, one attendee recalled (though a company spokesman denied she sent that message). Her editors, some nervous about the coronavirus, didnt dare ask to go home. You wouldnt challenge Anna in a group meeting thats just not how our ... More | | 
Sting. Photo: Eric Ryan Anderson.
NEW YORK, NY.- In this time of separation and social-distancing, Sothebys and Google are coming together virtually to raise much-needed funds for the International Rescue Committees (IRC) work to help mitigate and respond to the spread of COVID-19 in vulnerable communities. Together with leading figures from all walks of culture, business, politics and science, Sothebys and Google will launch an online auction of unique experiences which can be enjoyed virtually via Google Meet video calls during this period of social-distancing. From intimate conversations and virtual drinks to lessons and tutorials, all of the experiences will be offered without reserve in an online auction open for bidding from 1-8 May 2020. The winning bidders will have the option to share their experience with front-lines workers and others who have been directly impacted by COVID-19 and the social-distancing rules put in place. ... More |
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| | Exhibition presents a series of new LED sculptures that respond to Google trends in real time | | The Sheldon Mayer Estate featuring Sugar and Spike & many of his earliest works to be auctioned | | University Press of Mississippi publishes definitive volume on Dusti Bongé | 
Daniel Canogar, Billow, 2020. bitforms gallery, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- As the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the nation, bitforms gallery found itself in the midst of installation for Daniel Canogar's fourth solo exhibition, Billow. After considerable safety measures regarding international shipments, canceled flights, solo installation shifts, Instagram live tests, weather-permitting bike rides, and endless Zoom calls, the exhibition has finally taken shape. Director Steve Sacks and Art Technician Scott Neal used extreme caution to coordinate with Daniel Canogar and his studio, exchanging virtual advice from New York to Madrid, to make this exhibition possible. Now, the gallery finds itself faced with a new set of questions: how can it effectively share a physical installation in the middle of self-isolation? Join them for an Instagram Live tour and conversation to discuss the exhibition in the time of coronavirus with ... More | | 
Sugar and Spike in "Tiny Visitor". Photo: Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sheldon Mayer and Chic Young collections featuring Sugar and Spike and Blondie comic strips will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on April 30, 2020. One of the most influential cartoonists of the Golden Age of Comics, Sheldon Mayer delighted his readers with the adventures of his characters Sugar and Spike, Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist, and The Three Mouseketeers, along with his popular artwork of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, throughout the years. Hes also the man credited with discovering Superman, so impressed was he with the strip (which had been rejected over a dozen times) that he convinced Max Gaines to take it up the food chain for the first issue of Action Comics. Later, as an editor at DC Comics, Mayer was responsible for bringing in Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and scores of ... More | | 
Book cover for Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York.
JACKSON, MISS.- The art of Dusti Bongé was influenced by her experiences in three distinctive American cities: Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York, New York. In developing her artistic practice in these vibrant urban settings, she portrayed a unique sense of place in her work. In Dusti Bongé, Art and Life, which includes over five hundred color images, J. Richard Gruber documents Dusti Bongé's full career and her key role in the twentieth-century art world and in a highly creative family, including her husband, Archie (1901‒1936), her son, photographer Lyle Bongé (19292009), and her grandson, photographer Paul Bongé (b. 1963). Born in Biloxi in 1903, she died there in 1993, living on the family property where she was raised. After graduating from Blue Mountain College in 1922, she moved to Chicago and became an actress, then moved to New ... More |
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| | Street artists stay home -- mostly -- to recount the lockdown | | Warhol leads May 14 Modern & Contemporary Art auction | | Experts mull how to resume Notre-Dame restoration | 
A cyclist passes a mural of an NHS worker in central London as Britain remains under lockdown during the coronavirus crisis on April 22, 2020. Tolga AKMEN / AFP.
by Natalie Handel
PARIS (AFP).- In normal times, their canvas is the great urban outdoors, their collages and mosaics speaking to passers-by from city walls. But like everyone else, street artists must now stay home. Despite long inhabiting a legal grey area, the majority of urban art creators have taken COVID-19 isolation measures to heart, choosing to work online and from home, sometimes revisiting old work with a confinement-inspired twist. The most famous of them all, Britain's Banksy, has stuck to the letter of the law, having his trademark rats run riot in his bathroom, with one taking a tinkle on his toilet seat. "My wife hates it when I work from home," was the droll caption to his Instagram post. But for a few, ... More | | 
Alex Katz, Yellow Road (Lot 30, $25,000-40,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Thursday, May 14, Freemans will hold its online auction of Modern & Contemporary Art. The 58-lot sale spans myriad artistic periods and features fresh-to-market works by important international artists such as Sam Gilliam, Wolf Kahn, Harry Bertoia, Henri Matisse, and Lynn Chadwick, amongst others. Says Dunham Townend, Head of Sale: We are delighted to present this well-curated sale, which offers a wide array of works that will appeal to a broad cross-section of collectors. With pieces by early Modern masters, Post-War luminaries, and dynamic blue-chip artists still working today, this sale offers something for the new as well as the established collector. Leading the auction is Chanel from Ads (Lot 48, $120,000-180,000) by American Pop Art icon Andy Warhol. Chanel is one of ten prints from Andy Warhols Ads series, each of which features images that were appropriated from ubiquitous ads or logos ... More | | 
A cyclist wears a protective mask as she rides a Velib hire cycle near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 25, 2020, on the 40th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
PARIS (AFP).- Building experts met near Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral on Monday to decide how to restart restoration works on the fire-ravaged monument while respecting restrictions designed to stem the coronavirus outbreak. Chief architect Philippe Villeneuve and a dozen planners examined hygiene measures and social distancing rules during their meeting at temporary offices at the cathedral. "It is extremely important to ensure everyone in the frontline works in safe conditions in the face of the pandemic," General Jean-Louis Georgelin, the government's pointman for ... More |
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| | Prospect New Orleans postponed till October 2021 | | A pandemic gives the funny pages a jolt of reality | | Edward James Olmos on Hollywood's view of Latino actors | 
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, 2017. Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Nino Mier Gallery .
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Prospect New Orleans announced the postponement of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, now scheduled to open October 23, 2021, and remaining on view until January 23, 2022. The regretful decision to postpone has been made in solidarity with the city of New Orleans efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, and in accordance with social-distancing measures nationwide. Prospect New Orleans was originally born out of a crisisa time of hardship and coming together. Were a nimble and resilient organization. Were well equipped to think quickly and improvisationally about how to handle this, said Nick Stillman, Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans. While we regret having to postpone, were optimistic about the future. We also know this is the right decision for our artists, our staff, and for the city. Prospect New Orleans is committed to the health and safety of its a ... More | | 
Mark Tatulli's April 1, 2020, comic strip for Lio. Tatulli discovered that the pandemic introduced new visual shorthand, such as the suddenly recognizable spiky ball that is the COVID-19 viral particle: When Lio blows bubbles, his bubbles float away looking like the spiky virions. Mark Tatulli via The New York Times.
by Gavin Edwards
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, many in the United States self-quarantined and thousands of people died, one section of the daily newspaper seemed wholly untouched by the cataclysmic events: the comics pages. Characters carried on much as they ever did carpooling, going to school, wandering into neighbors houses. Each comic strip felt like a time capsule from the impossibly faraway era of 2019. One reason for that cultural disconnection was the lead time in comics syndication: Unlike internet cartoonists, who can respond immediately to current events, creators of daily newspaper strips work about two weeks in advance, ... More | | 
Edward James Olmos in Los Angeles on Aug. 27, 2018. Emily Berl/The New York Times.
by Carlos Aguilar
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the new drama Windows on the World, Edward James Olmos plays an unauthorized busboy working at the restaurant that was destroyed on 9/11. The moving immigration story, which debuted for free this week on the Latino-focused streaming site Vix, is just the latest turn in a storied career that includes an Oscar nomination for Olmos work in Stand and Deliver (1988), making him one of the few American-born Latino actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. Outspoken on the issue of representation in Hollywood, Olmos believes the industry doesnt understand the distinct worldviews of Latinos born and raised in the United States versus those from Latin America. Quarantining alone in Los Angeles, Olmos has been binge-watching, reading screenplays and promoting the virtual version of the Los Angeles Latino ... More |
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 Remembering Mike Huckaby, a towering figure in Detroit house musicNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The death of the Detroit house-music D.J. and producer Mike Huckaby on Friday, at 54, sent a shock wave through the music community he called home. Huckaby who died from complications of a stroke and COVID-19 at Beaumont Hospital in Detroits Royal Oak suburb was one of global dance musics most widely beloved figures. A tall, quiet man with a sly sense of humor who made friends easily and often, Huckaby known widely as Huck was a pivotal scene figure, equally renowned as a D.J., producer, educator and tastemaker who was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost practitioners of the jazzy, mature house variant dubbed deep house. Between 1992 and 2005, he worked at the Roseville, Michigan, store Record Time as the buyer for the dance room a separate space within ... More Towner Eastbourne joins forces with Eastbourne community groups to deliver creative kit bagsEASTBOURNE.- The current national lockdown is impacting everyone - none more so however than those in our community who are surviving on low incomes or who are vulnerable and self-isolating. Eastbourne Borough Council, Eastbourne Food Bank and Community Stuff are providing a lifeline to vulnerable households, ensuring that help is delivered to those most in need. While they are working hard to provide essential food and other essential items, Towner Eastbourne has joined forces with these groups and provide creative kit bags filled with sketchbooks, drawing equipment and brightly coloured pencils. An initiative driven by Towners new Learning Team Esther Collins and Willow Mitchell the gallery are also delivering further creative kits to carers through the Association of Carers ... More Two important medals from the Charge of the Light Brigade to be offered by Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- Two medals from the Charge of the Light Brigade will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their online/ live auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, May 21, 2020 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. The emotive medal to Private Walter Brooks, 17th Lancers, who was killed in the Charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854, is estimated at £8,000-10,000. From A Descriptive Account of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava by William Butler, Late of the 17th Lancers: Captain Nolan had not gone 400 yards when he was shot, the first to fall in our charge. Just as we got to No. 1 redoubt, my right-hand man Walter Brooks, was also shot. He was my comrade for over three years, from the time I went to the 4th troop. Walter Brooks was born at Uttoxeter and was a servant prior to enlistment. As Nimrod Dix, Deputy Chairman ... More The Tel Aviv Museum draws a spotlight on Israeli artTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has temporarily closed its doors to visitors, in accordance with the regulations to contain the Corona epidemic. The museum is currently focusing its activities on the local art domain and is launching a new program that breaks into the digital space and marks its constant commitment to artists and art created in Israel. In recent decades, with more and more physical presences being transformed globally into digital forms, the museum is one of the last territories that closely involves physical encounters. While the information revolution and the internet allow for a plethora of content and experiences in a virtual way, the museum establishes the necessity and the possibilities of being there. The current situation provides an ad hoc stop, an immediate disruption of the museum as a real site. It is a fascinating moment ... More Bernard Gersten, offstage star of nonprofit theater, dies at 97NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bernard Gersten, a canny executive who helped turn two of New Yorks nonprofit theater companies into powerhouse producers and presenters of award-winning plays and musicals, died Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his daughter Jenny Gersten said. Gersten was Joseph Papps top deputy at the New York Shakespeare Festival for 18 years in the 1960s and 70s, a time when the two worked together to build the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for free summer productions of Shakespeare, and to turn the old Astor Library on Lafayette Street in the East Village into the Public Theater, the original home of such notable plays as David Rabes Vietnam drama Sticks and Bones and Jason Millers Pulitzer Prize-winner, That Championship Season, as ... More Two Bahrainis bring fashion world to masksMANAMA (AFP).- As the world combats the spread of the novel coronavirus, two Bahraini entrepeneurs are adding a little colour to an item that is now almost part of everyday life -- masks. Noor Khamdan and Nada Alawi want to raise awareness and add enthusiasm to wearing masks in the small Gulf country. Khamdan's designs include symbols from Gulf culture, ranging from the traditional ghutra (headdress) or the Bahraini flag to the local viral hashtag #Team_Bahrain. "The mask you are wearing is to protect you and others against COVID-19 and to also bring colour and joy into your life in these hard times," Khamdan, founder of BH Masks, told AFP. "By giving people the option to invest in colourful, washable masks, we are ensuring medical masks are saved for those who need it the most, such as medical staff," said the mother of three ... More Virtual film festival to feature work from Cannes, VeniceNEW YORK (AFP).- The globe's top film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Berlin will participate in a free 10-day virtual cinema program starting next month, New York's Tribeca festival announced Monday. YouTube will host screenings for "We Are One: A Global Film Festival" beginning May 29 and including feature films, shorts, documentaries and round tables. The festival will benefit the World Health Organization, and encourage viewers to donate to COVID-19 relief efforts, organizers said. They have not yet announced a precise program for the digital event. Earlier this month organizers of Cannes, the premier festival held each year on the French Riviera, indicated that glittering event would be difficult to put on "in original form" due to the coronavirus pandemic. Initially planned for May 12-23, the festival was postponed to late June, but ... More Sullivan+Strumpf opens an online exhibition of works by Ramesh Mario NithiyendranSYDNEY.- In his new body of work, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran combines multiple elements into sculptures and plates to create figures with multiple personalities. Polymorphous Figures combines sexual, structural, animal and architectural forms moving past his previous dualities into polymorphous figures that occur in several different forms and stages. Such hijacking of hegemonic institutions is one of Ramesh trademarks. By carefully replicating and blending the appearance of these figures, Rameshs ideas and concepts transform into multi-faceted narratives that reflect the artist more than ever before. These concepts made in clay defy traditional representations of Eastern idols and Western tropes, offering an incomparable understanding of power and representation. Bold and multifaceted, colourful and confident, glazes and gestures ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, "Untitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1)," 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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