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| | Rehs Contemporary Unveils Anne-Marie Zanetti's Captivating "Reminisce Series: A Journey through Time and Self-Discovery" | |
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Drawing upon the visual language of the past, Zanetti thoughtfully crafts each portrait to evoke a sense of nostalgia, drawing viewers into a world brimming with sentiment and reflection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary is presenting new works by renowned artist Anne-Marie Zanetti. The paintings are part of a larger series of works titled "Reminisce," which offers an intimate glimpse into the artist's personal journey of self-discovery, as she explores the intricate relationship between the past and the present through her art. At the heart of the "Reminisce" series is Zanetti's youngest daughter, Bec, who has become an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Through meticulous and emotive portraiture, Zanetti delves into the depths of her own memories, skillfully unlocking hidden truths about her formative years. The profound connection between mother and daughter serves as a gateway to understanding the artist's own adolescent experiences and emotions. "Recreating the visage of my daughter, Bec, has led me to a profound realization: she is a mirror that reflects not only her own journey but also my o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Public Art Fund presents Unruly Forms, a series of eight new and recent paintings by Felipe Baeza. These artworks are displayed on over 400 JCDecaux bus shelters and street furniture across New York, Chicago, and Bosto n in the United States, as well as in Mexico City, León, and Querétaro in Mexico.
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| The Jewish Museum appoints James S. Snyder as Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director | | Hidden no more: An enslaved child's portrait, once erased, arrives at the Met | | Relationships carved from clay bring new partners to museums | 
Snyder to enhance and expand the museums impact as a leading arts and Jewish world institution, drawing upon his transformative tenure at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum announced today the appointment of James S. Snyder as its next Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director. He will start at the Museum in November. Snyder is widely recognized for his transformative 22-year tenure as the Israel Museums Anne and Jerome Fisher Director, where he led the Museum through the most dramatic period of growth since its founding and secured its stature as one of the worlds foremost museums. Under Snyders leadership, the Museum more than doubled its annual attendance to nearly one million visitors and increased its endowment more than fivefold to $200 million. He also realized a series of successful initiatives to upgrade and enhance the experience of art and architecture across the Museums 20-acres campus, culminating in its comprehensive $100 million, 300,000 square-foot expansion and renewal. In recent years, the Jewish Museums reputation for programmatic excellen ... More | | 
The work is the first naturalistic portrait of a named Black subject set in a Southern landscape to enter the American Wings collection.
by Alexandra Eaton
NEW YORK, NY.- For many years, a 19th-century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth. Covered up for reasons that remain unspecified, the image of the young man of African descent was erased from the work around the turn of the last century and languished for decades in attics and a museum basement. But a 2005 restoration revealed him, and now the painting has a new, very prominent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ive been wanting to add such a work to the Mets collection for the past 10 years, said Betsy Kornhauser, the curator for American paintings and sculpture who handled the acquisition, and this is the extraordinary work that appeared. Kornhauser said the museum acquired the work, known as Bélizaire and the Frey Children, this year, as part of its larger effort to reframe how ... More | | 
Brian Vallo, a former governor of Acoma Pueblo and a museum consultant, at the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, N.M., Aug. 7, 2023. (Adria Malcolm/The New York Times)
by Patricia Leigh Brown
NEW YORK, NY.- Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready. First she gives thanks to the Clay Mother the Earth in prayers and offerings that include a sprinkling of cornmeal, a small piece of turquoise and, always, water the high deserts most precious gift. She also thanks the women who came before her, especially her grandmother Lucy M. Lewis, a much-acclaimed potter who worked well into her 80s and whose hands, smooth and soft from years of clay, never lost their strong grip. In her own work, Mitchell, 59, incorporates shards of pottery from previous generations that she finds along the road, grinding them into a powder to give her pots extra strength before firing. Through her vessels, the spirit of all those people is brought back to life, she said. Our ... More |
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| Developers plan to demolish Al Capone's Florida mansion. Some want it preserved. | | Frederick Eberstadt, photographer of socialites and artists, dies at 97 | | Recipients of the Archives of American Art Medal and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award announced | 
The entrance of Capone's mansion in Palm Island, Florida, located at 93 Palm Avenue. Capone bought the estate in 1928 as a winter retreat and lived there until his death in 1947. Photo: Marine 69-71/wikipedia.org
by Eduardo Medina
NEW YORK, NY.- The mansion, on an island off Miami Beach, befitted the Prohibition-era crime leader: pearl white walls, a cabana for pool parties and a guesthouse for armed guards on the payroll to keep a look out for their boss, Al Capone. In 1928, a 29-year-old Capone paid $40,000 for the house, which served, for a time, as a sunny refuge from the bitter Chicago winters. The gangster was convicted of tax evasion three years later and served 6 1/2 years in federal prison. After being released from Alcatraz in ill health because of paresis, a partial paralysis resulting from syphilis, he lived in the island house until his death in 1947. The onetime feared boss of the Chicago mob died of cardiac arrest in a guest room. Now, the home in the exclusive neighborhood on Palm Island, in Biscayne Bay just west ... More | | 
Richard Avedon (United States, 1923-2004), Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D'Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan, evening dresses by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim's, Paris, August 1959, 1959 (detail), gelatin silver print, 19 ½ x 29 inches. Museum purchase with gift in honor of Judith Glickman Lauder, 2020.7. Photograph by Richard Avedon. © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Frederick Eberstadt, a fashion and society photographer whose varied work encompassed the parlors of Park Avenue as well as the gritty performance spaces of downtown Manhattan during New Yorks avant-garde era of the 1960s, died July 29 at his apartment in New York City. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his son, Nicholas Eberstadt. Eberstadt had started a career in banking, following in the footsteps of his father, Ferdinand Eberstadt, a lion of Wall Street who founded the investment bank Eberstadt & Co. and pioneered the development of mutual funds. But Frederick Eberstadt left for a stint in television, then received a ... More | | 
Installation View of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institutions Archives of American Art has announced the recipients of The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History and the Archives of American Art Medal. These annual awards, the Archives of American Arts highest honors, recognize individuals who have made transformative contributions in the field of American art. Ruth Fine, retired curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will receive The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, established in 1998 by Trustee Emerita Barbara G. Fleischman as a tribute to her late husband, who co-founded the Archives of American Art in 1954. The Keith Haring Foundation, dedicated to advancing the artistic and philanthropic legacy of Keith Haring, and artist, educator and activist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, will receive t ... More |
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| Asheville Art Museum presents a new exhibition of work by artist Romare Bearden | | A religious ritual in Iran becomes a new form of protest | | Mazzoleni announces highlights to be presented at Frieze Masters Seoul 2023 | 
Romare Bearden, Lullaby at Birdland, circa 1980, monotype, 35 ¼ à 47 ⅛, framed. Jerald Melberg Gallery. © The Romare Bearden Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum has opened Romare Bearden: Ways of Working which is now on view in The Van Winkle Law Firm Gallery, Level 1. Romare Bearden (Charlotte, NC 19111988 New York, NY), African American writer and artist, is renowned for his collages. He constantly experimented with various techniques to achieve his artistic goals throughout his career. This exhibition highlights works on paper and explores his most frequently used mediums, including screen-printing, lithography, hand-colored etching, collagraph, monotype, relief print, photomontage, and collage. Bearden's work reflects his improvisational approach to his practice. He considered his process akin to that of jazz and blues composers. Starting with an open mind, he would let ... More | | 
A tent burned as part of the re-enactment of the battle of Karbala, during Ashura rituals in Tehran, Iran, on July 28, 2023. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
by Farnaz Fassihi
NEW YORK, NY.- The large crowd of men congregated at the center of a mosque in the central city of Yazd, Iran, clad in black and beating their chests rhythmically in unison. They were commemorating Ashura, Shiite Islams most sacred ritual, showcased annually with great fanfare in Iran as a testament to the Shiite theocracys power and strength. But this year Ashura looked different. The mourners who gathered in Yazd last month and in many other cities across Iran diverged unexpectedly from the script to target the clerical rulers of Iran, turning religious ballads into protest songs about the suffering of Iranians. For a city in ruins, for all of us held hostage, for the grieving mothers, for the tears of the marginalized, the men sang, according to videos. We ... More | | 
Salvo, Una sera, 2001 (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm. Courtesy Mazzoleni, London Turin.
LONDON.- Mazzoleni returns to Frieze Masters Seoul with a project presenting a selection of works by three major post-war and contemporary Italian artists who share an innovative approach to painting and sculpture. The subtle ongoing legacy between these artists and their approach to key concepts such as form, colour and matter is emphasised by placing them in dialogue, the former representing the post-war Italian artistic style, the latter, a new kind of art that continues to be relevant in the 21st century. From among the many aspects of todays artistic scene we see the multiplication of the examples of a tendency towards creating forms of object-painting: in other words, of a painting that ...embodies or already intentionally has as its aim the task of first of all representing itself and not something extrinsic. - Gillo Dorfles on Agostino Bonalumi, 1965 Agostino Bonalumi ... More |
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| Blum & Poe announces next chapter of the gallery's trajectory | | Ariel Atom set to rocket in price at Ewbank's British Motor Show auction in Farnborough on August 20 | | The Tide is High (Really), but Debbie Harry is staying put | 
Matt Bangser. Photo: Willa Cutolo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe today announced the next chapter of the gallerys trajectory with Jeff Poe stepping back from his role and Tim Blum spearheading the gallerys global team in building on its history of championing international artists. The gallery also announced that longtime New York-based Partner Matt Bangser has been appointed to the newly created position of Managing Partner. Its been an extraordinary journey building this gallery with Jeff, stated Blum. Starting out in Los Angeles in 1994 with a paltry sum of money and a 1200 square-foot space and taking the gallery through this explosive global growth within the art world is nothing short of remarkable. I see this moment as yet another inflection point in this history, and I am emboldened by the strength of our team now spanning Taipei, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. Its been ... More | | 
The Ariel Atom, expected to fetch up to £25,000 at the British Motor Show auction on August 20.
FARNBOROUGH.- Ewbanks will be back in action at this years British Motor Show in Farnborough from August 17-20 with a live classic car auction on Sunday the 20th. Among the highlights of more than 20 cars up for sale will be a spectacular Ariel Atom, shown here. Fitted with the 2.0 Ltr Honda Turbo charged engine, this unique lightweight sports car so impressed Jeremy Clarkson, that he said of it: I have never ever driven anything that accelerates so fast. Designed to the very highest specifications, its steel classis ensures rigidity and safety.The estimate is £18,000-25,000 Other highlights include a 1964 Alvis TE21 Convertible, estimated at £140,000-145,000, a 2004 Bentley Continental (estimate £12,000-15,000), and a 1981 Pontiac Firebird, Trans Am 5.7 V8 Automatic (£15,000-20,000). One ... More | | 
Debbie Harry, whose new memoir "Face It" is out Oct. 1, in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades, Debbie Harry has been saving her fan art, hundreds of versions of that familiar siren face, rendered by admirers of all talents. There are childrens drawings in markers and crayons (Happy Birthday Debbie Love Miyuki) and ink portraits by skilled illustrators. There are dolls and T-shirts, works on canvas, wood and in mosaic. Harry keeps these images of herself not to prop up her ego, she said, but to honor the makers, and the effort and spirit of their gifts. She had been storing them haphazardly in drawers and boxes until she began rounding them up for her memoir, Face It, out on Tuesday (yes, theres a bit of a pileup of female rockers getting reflective this season). I ... More |
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 What a Carry On as series of posters shows plenty of appetite for comedy franchiseWOKING.- The Carry On brand of slapstick comedy with groanworthy puns may seem dated these days, but the as Ewbanks Vintage Posters auction on August 4 showed, a huge appetite remains for posters associated with the franchise. More than 40 appeared here, with many going well over estimate to provide a premium-inclusive total of more than £12,600 for this section of the sale. The fact that Tom Chantrell, arguably the most celebrated of 20th century British film poster artists, designed the series would have helped. Top prices came for some of the most iconic films in the Carry On stable, as long as the accompanying artwork was lively, colourful and included at least one of the best-loved actors among the cast. Leading the pack was a British Quad poster for the 1963 caper Carry On Cabbie, the ... More  Hawai'i artist Lauren Hana Chai finds harmony in an in-between worldHONOLULU, HAWAII.- The Honolulu Museum of Art has burst with color and transcultural symbolism this summer with Lauren Hana Chai: The Five Senses,. The exhibition presents deeply personal work by Oahu-based artist Lauren Hana Chai (b. 1991). The painter and ceramicist is known for contrasting her traditional Korean upbringing with modern American life. Centered on an overarching theme of healing, The Five Senses touches on concepts of grief, trauma and resilience in an ever-evolving world. The exhibition transcends a visual experience with works that activate other senses. Vibrant paintings arranged around a multi-media installation in the middle of the gallery invite participants to touch, smell, hear, taste and see. I first encountered Laurens work in Honolulu and was immediately drawn to it. Her paintings are an invitation ... More  Trevor Yeung to represent Hong Kong at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di VeneziaHONG KONG.- Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council announced the selection of Trevor Yeung as the featured artist for Hong Kong's participation in the 60th International Art ExhibitionLa Biennale di Venezia. The solo exhibition of Hong Kong-based Trevor Yeung will be curated by Olivia Chow, Assistant Curator, Visual Art, M+. Both the artist and the curator have been jointly selected by M+ and HKADC. The new, site-specific exhibition will be a collateral event at the 2024 edition of La Biennale di Venezia, one of the most important contemporary art forums in the world which will be held between 20 April and 24 November 2024. This exhibition marks the sixth collaboration between M+ and HKADC on Hong Kong's participation ... More  Italians pay tribute to novelist and activist who spoke out till the endROME.- Since bursting onto the scene nearly two decades ago with her first novel about her experience working in a call center, a novel that later inspired a popular film, Michela Murgia had become a public persona and a lightning rod for political debate in Italy. A novelist, intellectual and civil rights campaigner, she was an outspoken critic of the countrys rightward shift at a time when its left-wing parties appeared to have lost their voice, and a feminist and civil rights champion urging acceptance of nontraditional family configurations in a nation in which the governing parties have promoted a more conservative vision. Before she died, on Thursday at age 51, she told her friends that she wanted her funeral to be open to everyone. Many hundreds heeded her invitation. They came from all walks of life a retired banker, a hotel employee, a translator, students ... More  The accidental innkeeper: How an American novelist became a hotelier in GuatemalaNEW YORK, NY.- Its close to midnight, two weeks into a precious writing residency in New Hampshire where I have come to finish a novel. My telephone rings. From Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a few thousand miles away, comes the voice of a woman Ive never met: I left the key to my casita on the bed. Can someone let me back in? Ill get right on it, I tell her. A few hours earlier, I had spent an hour on the phone with a plumber discussing the installation of a new Jacuzzi and ordering wood for the sauna. The day before, I had arranged for a guide to take two guests on a hike to see the sun rise above the volcanoes, and the day before that, an airport pickup for a family of five from Indiana, and dinner on the terrace for a couple from Germany celebrating their honeymoon. With my property manager out sick, the past few days have been busier than usual, but ... More  A pioneering generation of Arab-Israeli designers is focus of new exhibition at The Israel MuseumJERUSALEM.- Charting a recent phenomenon that has taken root in Israels contemporary design scene, Design in Arabic shines a spotlight on an emerging class of Arab designers in Israel who are drawing on the traditions of Arab material culture to develop a new vocabulary across fashion, textiles, graphics, and jewelry. The exhibition is the first in Israel to explore the contributions of this pioneering generation, showcasing new commissions by Samah Batheesh, Hazar Grably, Shady Majlaton, Gadeer Slayeh, Sofi Abushakra. The exhibition is on view in the Israel Museums Design Pavilion from July 28 through March 2024. Design in Arabic captures an important moment in the trajectory of contemporary design, bringing to the fore some of Israels most innovative young practitioners who are pushing their respective disciplines in ... More  In 'Uncoupled,' Neil Patrick Harris plays the gameNEW YORK, NY.- Neil Patrick Harris loves puzzles. He loves games. He has designed a single-player board game, Box One; he plays Wordle daily and consistently scores a 3. An accomplished magician, he delights in magic tricks. Every issue of his newsletter, Wondercade, comes with a riddle of one kind or another. His personality is fizz and bounce, with just a touch of guile. He tends to look like he is up to something. Something fun. His house in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, which I visited on a recent, stupidly perfect Sunday had he somehow gamed the weather? is larded with jokes, fake-outs and pranks, which begin at the doormat and never really stop. (There is, I am reliably informed, an indoor slide.) The screened porch where we chatted was ornamented with an enormous Jenga set. Other games lingered on a trolley nearby. But ... More  Beyond the châteaux: New escapes in France's Loire ValleyNEW YORK, NY.- On my last pre-pandemic trip to the Loire Valley, in 2018, I found myself in a familiar place. Ten years after my first road trip on the regions castle route, I was back at the 500-year-old Château de Chambord, joining a small group of European and American tourists on a guided tour. Within seconds of convening in the inner courtyard, we were craning our necks to marvel at the structures ornamental bell towers as our guide rattled off facts and dates about King Francis I and his former hunting lodge. When she ushered us up to the towers, chiding us for not listening, a feeling of deja vu washed over me. This was my third visit to the Loire Valley from my home in Paris, and the whole fairy tale experience felt tired. Little beyond a nearby converted hotel had changed. Not the exasperated guide going through the motions, or the throngs ... More  Playwright is in exile as Cuba uses an old playbook to quash dissentMADRID.- For Yunior GarcÃa, a Cuban playwright, the swift journey from activism in Havana to exile in Madrid might have been lifted from one of his scripts. It began with the decapitated pigeons at his doorstep, placed there, he suspects, by agents of Cubas Communist government to scare him. Then a pro-regime crowd, scores strong, surrounded his home to shame him. He secretly secured a visa for Spain, he said, and contacts whisked him first to a safe house, then to Havanas airport. And just like that, GarcÃa, one of the rising stars in the opposition demonstrations that have rocked Cuba this year, was gone. Im not made of bronze or marble, and I am not riding a white horse, GarcÃa, 39, told reporters at a news conference in Madrid on Thursday, a day after his arrival, saying he feared imprisonment and didnt want to be a martyr. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte died August 15, 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. In this image: Photograph of Rene Magritte, in front of his painting The Pilgrim, as taken by Lothar Wolleh.
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