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| | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers to hold 'Folk, Outsider & Self-Taught Art + Americana' sale | |
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LOT 3: Anna Pottery / Wallace & Cornwall Kirkpatrick Centennial snake jug. Estimate $30,000-50,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Thursday, August 12, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct its first ever Folk, Outsider & Self-Taught Art + Americana sale with over 250 lots featuring ceramics, woodcarvings, sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints, collages, quilts, and more. A range of works by notable artists in these overlapping fields will be presented in the auction, with a large offering of property from the Collection of Governor Jim Thompson (Chicago, Illinois). Toomey & Co.s Aron Packer, Senior Specialist for Contemporary & Outsider Art, is acting as Head of Sale and brings decades of experience curating this genre of material. Vice President & Senior Specialist John P. Walcher helped to bring in material and compose the auction. Logistical details for the sale and bidding instructions are provided below the highlights. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A depiction of our planet Earth is seen as people visit the recently-opened Shanghai Planetarium in Shanghai on July 30, 2021. Hector RETAMAL / AFP.
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| Roland Auctions NY to offer the Asian Art Collection of Congressman Lester L. Wolff | | Toledo Museum of Art adds two monumental outdoor sculptures to its collection | | James Cohan announces expansion with new Tribeca location | 
Monumental Outdoor Bronze Garden Fountain signd S Keliam,Featuring a classical putti boy with three mythological dolphin figures. Estimate: $2,500-$3,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will present the Asian Art Collection of Congressman Lester L. Wolff at a very special online only auction on Saturday, August 7th with unique Asian art and outdoor bronze taking the spotlight. Renowned American Statesman, diplomat, civil rights proponent, businessman, and philanthropist, Lester L. Wolff, served as a vocal member of the United States House of Representatives from Long Island from 1965 until 1981, where he distinguished himself as an expert in Asian affairs, eventually meeting with the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and authoring The Taiwan Relations Act. After leaving Congress, Wolff remained committed to Asian relations, serving as President of the International Trade and Development Agency and acting as Director of the Pacific Community Institute at Touro College. At his home in East Norwich, NY, Wolff displayed an array of Asian fine and decorative arts including painted sc ... More | | 
Wangechi Mutu, The Seated II, 2019. Bronze, 80 ¾ x 37 ¼ x 31 2/4 inches (205.1 x 94.6 x 80.6 cm) © Wangechi Mutu. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photo: Joseph Coscia, Jr., Imaging, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired two major works by leading contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu and Josiah McElheny. Both will be installed within the next year in TMAs Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, which features a growing collection of more than 25 exceptional works of art sited on the Museums verdant 40-acre campus. Mutus The Seated II (2019), a bronze sculpture of a woman reaching over 6.5 feet tall and 3 feet wide, is inspired by the caryatid a sculpted female figure found in African and European art that doubles as a load-bearing architectural element. McElhenys Moon Mirror (2019) is a crescent-shaped work of colored glass and stainless steel that suggests a luminous half-moon resting on a plane. At 8.5 feet wide and 16 feet tall, its curved shape also lends itself to frame performances and other acoustic ... More | | 
From left to right: David Norr, Jane Cohan, and Jim Cohan. Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announces the opening of a new 5,000 square foot location in Tribeca. The new space, on the second floor of the historic 52 Walker Street building and adjacent to James Cohans 48 Walker Street location, will open October 7, 2021, with a solo exhibition of work by Gauri Gill. The space is being designed by longtime gallery collaborator HS2 Architects. This expansion is necessitated by the growth of the gallerys program; in the past 18 months, James Cohan has added five artists to its roster, including Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Eamon Ore-Giron, Christopher Myers, Gauri Gill and Naudline Pierre. The new location will provide more space for large-scale installations by artists including Firelei Báez, Grace Weaver, Teresa Margolles, and Yinka Shonibare CBE. The design of the new location highlights the dramatic proportions of the loft building, with eight floor-to-ceiling windows across the main gallery s ... More |
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| MFA, St. Petersburg welcomes new Curator of Photography, Dr. Jane L. Aspinwall | | A World War II spy didn't live to tell her tale. Her great-great-niece will. | | mumok opens an exhibition of works by Ane Mette Hol | 
Aspinwall was previously at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as its Curator of Photography and Collections Supervisor.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg announced esteemed photography specialist and scholar Dr. Jane L. Aspinwall has joined its staff as Curator of Photography. She will be working with the museums photography collection, which is one of the largest and finest in the Southeast, with more than 15,000 images, ranging from rare, early daguerreotypes and salt prints to major modern and contemporary works.. Aspinwall was previously at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as its Curator of Photography and Collections Supervisor. As one of the first members of its Photography Department created in 2007 with the gift of the internationally recognized Hallmark Photographic Collection Aspinwall oversaw exceptional acquisitions, developed nearly 25 thought-provoking exhibitions, and presented ground-breaking scholarship in the ... More | | 
Photographs of Mildred Harnack, the great-great-aunt of Rebecca Donner and subject of Donners book All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, at Donners home in New York, July 22, 2021. Elizabeth D. Herman/The New York Times.
by Kate Dwyer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Every year when Rebecca Donner visited her great-grandmothers home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she and her brother would stand against the kitchen wall to have their heights marked in pencil. When she turned 9, she noticed a letter M near one of the faintest lines. Whos that? she asked her great-grandmother Harriette, who muttered, Oh, thats Mildred. Donners curiosity was piqued, but it wasnt until she was 16 that she learned the truth: Mildred Harnack was an American spy during World War II. Along with her husband, Arvid Harnack, she led a resistance organization in Berlin, risking her life to leak information from Germanys Ministry of Economics, where he worked, in ... More | | 
Portrait: Ane Mette Hol at the exhibition Becoming (working title) Photo: Lisa Rastl, © mumok.
VIENNA.- Ane Mette Hol explores marginal phenomena of art production. Her eye locked on minor matteritems that fall on the ground while making art in the studio, for instance, or traces left in an exhibition space after installing the worksshe sharpens the viewers awareness of the conditions surrounding artistic production. A piece of packing paper randomly dropped on the floor, indicating that the exhibition space was only recently paintedsplattered dispersion paint complete with specks of dust; color checkers and gray cards used in reproduction photography to adjust the exposure so that the picture is as close to the depicted object as possible; lined notebooks or sketchbooks decorated with pencils or other visual clichés, stacks of paper and packaging material: on closer inspection all these inconspicuous materials and scraps turn out to be detailed, perfectly rendered drawings. The high level of precision on which Ane Mette Hol operates in her drawn objects, the meti ... More |
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| Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria features 44 drawings by Goya on loan from the Prado Museum | | Phillips achieves $542.7 million in sales during the spring 2021 season, a 25% increase from 2019 | | George Forss, 80, photographer discovered on the street, dies | 
Francisco Goya, They carried her off! c. 1797. Preparatory drawing for Los Caprichos, plate 8, red ink wash over traces of black chalk. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo © Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
MELBOURNE.- The world-exclusive exhibition Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum features more than 160 works on paper by Francisco Goya (1746 1828), celebrating the artists extraordinary draughtsmanship and imagination. Considered to be one of the first truly modern artists, Goya produced humorous and critical images of Spanish society that comment on gender relationships, social inequality and violence, as well as visions of fantastic creatures. Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum is the first major presentation of Goyas work at the NGV in more than 20 years and features 44 drawings on loan from the Prado Museum, the largest group of Goyas drawings ever seen in Australia. Ranging from bold ink drawings to delicate red chalk sketches, the drawings on display have been ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud, Winding River, 2002. Estimate: 6,000,000 - 8,000,000. Sold for: $9,809,000 / £7,023,146 / 8,220,923. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced results from the Spring 2021 Sale Season (January through July). Edward Dolman, Phillips Chief Executive Officer, and Cheyenne Westphal, Phillips Global Chairwoman, said, The Spring 2021 sales were truly extraordinary, surpassing pre-pandemic levels with strong international participation across all of Phillips platforms. Our several White Glove sales across New York, Geneva and Hong Kong demonstrate a great sense of optimism and confidence in the market and have led to Phillips maintaining the highest sell-through rates in the industry. There is a palpable energy around the new generation of artists, and this season yielded soaring artist records for emerging artists who are making an important impact in our time. Phillips sold 100% of all watches offered across Hong Kong, Geneva, and online sales, realizing over $68 million total. An unprecedented result was achieved at ... More | | 
The photographer George Forss at work. Forss, who saw New York as the Emerald City, and whose cityscapes portrayed a luminous and majestic metropolis, died on July 17 at his home in Cambridge, N.Y. Phyllis Wrynn via The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the 1980s, a street photographer named George Forss was selling his black-and-white pictures of the Empire State Building and Central Park to tourists for $5 a pop. Like so many of New York Citys sidewalk peddlers, he was just trying to make a buck. But his images stood apart from the typical fare. As he saw it, New York was the Emerald City, and his cityscapes portrayed a luminous and majestic metropolis. In framing the Brooklyn Bridges grandeur, he captured the masses who trudge across it daily. As fog crept over New York Harbor, he photographed the Statue of Liberty seemingly trying to peer through the mist, awaiting another ship of immigrants. And in what became ... More |
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| Cromwell Place unveils autumn exhibitions | | Steidl announces U.S. release of 'Course of the Empire' by Ken Light | | 'Wicked' hits the road, carrying the hopes of Broadway tours | 
Steven Stipelman (1944 - ), Intensity, 1996. Gouache & Colour Pencil on Coloured Paper, signed & dated, 60 x 43.5 cms.
LONDON.- Cromwell Place, the international arts destination and Membership organisation, has announced its autumn programming focusing on three key themes of Design, Asian Art, and International Contemporary Art. Since opening its doors last October, Cromwell Place has fast become one of London's most exciting arts destinations. Providing its members flexible, pay-as-you-need services, it is the home to a local and international community of arts professionals. Art dealers, advisors, curators, collectors and institutions have year-round access to exhibition space, viewing rooms, offices, art storage and logistical support, bringing to London a programme of art and antiquities, all accessible to the public. Cromwell Place offers a place for Members and collectors to meet, collaborate and conduct business. The exhibitions for September to November 2021 reflect the global and multidisciplinary nature of the art market and our Membership, i ... More | | 
Ken Light: Course of the Empire. 300 pages, 208 images, 10.5 x 11 in. / 27 x 28 cm. Black and White. Hardback. US$ 65.00 / 48.00. ISBN 978-3-95829-958-0.
NEW YORK, NY.- A decade ago, Ken Light traveled across the United States photographing the country, an empire he realized was the most fragile of organisms. The photographs of the earlier years in this book create the context for understanding how America lost its way. Light reached all four corners of the country to document people across race, class and political lines. We see the heartland and the coastal cities, Wall Street and rural small towns. As he continued, seismic changes erupted across America and the country descended into an age of crisis. He photographed protests and Washington politicians in Congress and the White House, climate change disasters and environmental defenders, the rise of the regime of Donald Trump, the Trump rallies and Americas reactions to it all. He comprehensively probed the fractured social and economic condition, going beyond ... More | | 
Allison Bailey, who plays Glinda, prepares for a dress rehearsal for Wicked at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, July 21, 2021. Cooper Neill/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
DALLAS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Talia Suskauer knows what its like to be green. She remembers the feel of pigment and powder on her arms, neck, and face; how the color seemed to seep into her pores and linger behind her ears; what it was like to see a strange but familiar self staring back from a mirror. But on a hot July afternoon in Dallas, she didn't know that getting painted once again would make her cry. Sixteen months after the touring production of Wicked in which Suskauer stars as the green-skinned witch Elphaba was forced to close, the cast and crew have reassembled in Dallas for a high-stakes effort to start again. The shows first performance here Tuesday, the first by any touring Broadway production since the coronavirus pandemic shut down shows across the nation, ... More |
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 Dread Scott to spend year at Lunder Institute, Colby CollegeWATERVILLE, ME.- The Lunder Institute for American Art at the Colby College Museum has named the acclaimed and revolutionary artist, Dread Scott, its new senior fellow for the 202122 academic year. Chosen by invitation, senior fellows contribute to the Colby community through academic and artistic engagement as well as public programs related to their work. Scotts fellowship will focus on a collaboration between the Lunder Institute and Colbys Center for the Arts and Humanities as part of the Centers 202122 theme, Freedom & Captivity. Appointments last from nine to eighteen months and past fellows at the Lunder Institute include Maya Lin, Phong Bui, Richard Blanco, and Theaster Gates, as well as scholars David Park Curry and Romi Crawford, among others. Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His work is exhibited across ... More  As Bang on a Can returns, a new generation risesNORTH ADAMS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Venturing back to live performances and finding a classical-music institution in rude health can be like putting on a pair of old jeans and discovering, with relief, an easy fit. Thats how it felt to attend Bang on a Cans LOUD Weekend festival, held throughout the Mass MoCA complex here Friday and Saturday, a return to form for the new music collective after 15 months of hosting streamed concerts. With over 20 hours of performances, you could see one familiar look after another all of them hallmarks of the fabled, free Bang on a Can Marathons in New York City. But here, in a two-day, paid-ticket environment, there was more time for each musicians set to take on an individual character. And even though a few artists copped to first-day-back jitters, most appearances unfurled with crisp, defiant polish as if they had spent no time away from ... More  'Farmer Designers: An Art of Living' on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in BordeauxBORDEAUX.- One of the main roles of design today is to invent new reciprocities. While modernity has forged the idea that humans could control their environment and make nature their own, we now know that this is simply not the case. The current crises are our confirmation that it is time to change paradigm. Design has contributed to the invention of modern life, producing objects on an industrial scale, but it has a new role to play today. More than ever, designers are striving to respond to the problems raised, rethinking the social organisation of our everyday life. We are facing urgent questions: how can we feed, educate and care for ourselves? In English, the word design is used with precision: fashion design, interior design, sport design. This exhibition is devoted to farming design. 20th-century industrialisation has profoundly transformed our soils in order to feed more ... More  'Rafa Macarrón: Between Imagination and Reality' opens at Fundación La Nave SalinasIBIZA.- Rafa Macarrón (Madrid, 1981) is the first Spanish artist to exhibit at La Nave Salinas Foundation in Ibiza. Macarrón follows KAWS, Keith Haring, Marco Brambilla, Bill Viola, and Kenny Scharf. These artists represent the pinnacle of contemporary art; as they are all masters of Street Art, video art, or Pop Surrealism in their own right. Macarrón now joins the ranks of these esteemed artists as a young Spanish talent who is carving out a place for himself in the international art scene. His work is already in important collections around the world, and he has been exhibited in Porto, New York, Miami, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Toronto, Istanbul, and Bogota. His latest solo exhibition was at the CAC Museum in Malaga. Now, in the summer of 2021, he presents El bañista / The Bather at La Nave Salinas. Macarróns works explore his characteristic shape-shifting characters, which are full of humility ... More  Reuben Paterson's Guide Kaiārahi launches at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki AUCKLAND.- Reuben Patersons much-anticipated major new sculpture Guide Kaiārahi, 2021, a 10-metre-high waka (canoe) made of 595 iridescent crystals, was revealed at Auckland Art Gallery on July 8, 2021. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery and Edmiston Trust, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Reuben Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) says Guide Kaiārahi navigates a spectacular journey from Papatūānuku (the earth mother) into the embrace of Ranginui (the sky father). As the crystals illuminate the Gallery in rainbow refractions, the waka appears to venture skyward, seemingly levitating above the forecourt pool, he says. The inspiration for the crystalline sculpture is the legend of the sighting of a phantom waka on Lake Tarawera 11 days before the devastating eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886 which resulted in the loss of life and displacement, and ... More  John Hansard Gallery opens the largest solo exhibition to date by artist Hetain PatelSOUTHAMPTON.- John Hansard Gallery in partnership with New Art Exchange presents Trinity, the largest solo exhibition to date by artist Hetain Patel. Trinity is also the title for an ambitious new film by Patel, the final part of a film trilogy that will be premiered at John Hansard Gallery in August 2021 and presented at New Art Exchange in January 2022. Working with dance, martial arts and sign language collaborators, and with a specially composed score Trinity represents Patels most significant and developed film work to date. Alongside Patels new moving image work, Trinity (2021), John Hansard Gallery and New Art Exchange will also show the first two acclaimed films from the trilogy: Dont Look at the Finger (2017) and The Jump (2015) bringing together the different facets of the rich filmic world the artist has been creating over the past five years. The exhibition will also feature a number ... More  Exhibition at Art Sonje Center features three recent works by Jane Jin KaisenSEOUL.- Art Sonje Center is presenting Community of Parting, a solo exhibition by Jane Jin Kaisen from July 29 to September 26, 2021. Jane Jin Kaisens work concerns themes of history, memory, translation, and migration. The exhibition features three recent works by Kaisen: the three-channel film installation Community of Parting (2019), an installation of six light boxes The Pull of the Moon (2020), and the dual-channel video installation Braiding and Mending (2020). All of them are rooted in the artists ancestral island of Jeju and her long-term research of Jeju shamanism. By juxtaposing the voices of repressed and marginalized communities with images and archival materials related to the historical incidents involved, Kaisen explores an aesthetic approach that incorporates multifaceted perspectives on events and multiple voices. The 72-minute film installation Community of Parting ... More  Exhibition celebrates the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian cinemaBUDAPEST.- On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian film, a large-scale exhibition entitled Wide Angle 120 Years of Hungarian Cinema opened at the Ludwig Museum, which provides a wide-ranging overview of the history of Hungarian film from the beginning to the present day. The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the National Film Institute. The Dance, the first Hungarian film that already contained staged scenes, was screened at the Urania Scientific Theatre in Budapest on April 30, 1901. This date is considered to be the birthday of Hungarian film. 120 years have passed since then, a long time rich in turns, the results, values and challenges of which are definitely worth looking back from such a perspective. On the occasion of the anniversary, the exhibition held at the Ludwig Museum between July 23 and November 14, 2021 provides ... More  Kerim Seiler presents a site-specific installation for the 74th Locarno Film FestivalLOCARNO.- Pursuing his longstanding collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival and its main partner la Mobiliare, a Swiss insurance firm, contemporary artist Kerim Seiler (b. 1974, Bern, Switzerland) unveils Come Together, a large-scale site-specific installation at the Locarno Rotonda by la Mobiliare, the sociocultural space of the Locarno74 film festival. A colorful spatial composition, the installation brings together a sampling of new works by Seiler, all part of the la Mobiliare collection, as he revisits the notion of space as a boundless canvas as well as works by contemporary artists Maya Rochat, Julian Charrière and Ekrem Yalcindag. Prompting countless experiences of the space, the 3,000-square-meter rotunda a large roundabout well known to Locarnos inhabitants and visitors acts as the new social hub of the festival, inviting visitors to engage with a playful ... More  Karma opens a two-person exhibition in the former St James Catholic church in Thomaston, MaineTHOMASTON, ME.- Karma is presenting a two-person exhibition featuring angel paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges and moon paintings by Ann Craven. The show is set in the former St James Catholic church at 70 Main Street in Thomaston, Maine. The angels and moons on display symbolically and literally explore the notion of light found in darkness. Deep hues of black and midnight blue set the stage for the heavenly icons, capturing them with a painterly effulgenceor radiating glow. Appearing throughout the canon of art history, these enduring celestial subjects have served as protectors and messengers. Craven and Hodges create warm and inviting interpretations of these guiding lights that allow the viewer to, in Hodgess words, offer up and be offered back. In Cravens large-scale paintings, pink moons cast their light on to still water, through backlit trees. A ... More  Flemish artist Rinus Van de Velde exhibits in Nantes this summerNANTES.- For the inaugural exhibition at its new site, the FRAC des Pays de la Loire French Regional Collection of Contemporary Art has tasked Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde [born in 1983 in Leuven] with devising a one-man exhibition that also features a subjective selection of artworks from the FRAC collections, as well as allowing for an active and cordial exchange with the artist Kati Heck [born in 1979 in Düsseldorf]. Both artists are part of a forward-looking scene based in Antwerp and work with the Tim Van Laere Gallery, whose approach reflects an eye for densely figurative expressiveness, with a post-Punk vibe at times tinged with melancholy, and unfettered by labels. Other artists in this vein include Armen Eloyan, Gelitin and Friedrich Kunath. The exhibition is titled La Ruta Natural, a sequence of letters that can be read in the same way either forwards or backwards and Spanish for ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died August 03, 2004. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: USA. New York City. Manhattan. 1947. Near the Hall of Records. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
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