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Karen Jenkins-Johnsons gallery in San Francisco, Aug. 20, 2022. Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to a city with a vibrant artistic history. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times
NEW YORK, NY.- The San Francisco art world has long been a vibrant center of experimentation and tradition, thriving in a city that has been a platform for literature, music, social activism and intellectual ferment. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo lived here twice during their tumultuous relationship. Ansel Adams was born here, and he used the city as a leaping-off point for his first photographic explorations in Yosemite National Park. Kehinde Wiley, who painted the official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. But the region is losing two top-drawer galleries whose openings had been celebrated as evidence of this regions stature as an international arts destination: the Gagosian Gallery closed last year, and Pace will close its Palo Alto gallery next month. Working artists have had to leave their Bay Area studios for less-expensive regions. And last month, the San Francisco Art Institute, which has counted a long line of distinguished artists among ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Heide Museum of Modern Art is presenting Bruce Munro: From Sunrise Road, the first museum exhibition in Australia of the work of internationally celebrated English/Australian artist Bruce Munro, best known for his interactive, large-scale light installations inspired largely by his interest in shared human experience.
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| Final week to see Per Kirkeby: Geological Messages: Paintings From 1965-2015 at Michael Werner Gallery | | Getty Museum presents 18th-century pastels | | Morphy's to auction premier Henri Krijnen mechanical music collection, Sept. 9-10 | 
Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1965. Mixed media on masonite, 70 3/4 x 47 1/4 inches, 180 x 120 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-2018). Taking the form of a small retrospective, the show focuses on the artists lifelong engagement with landscape, geology, and the natural world. Kirkebys interest in visible and invisible structures that configure the physical world has been well-documented. The artist studied geology in the 1950s, traveling on expeditions to Greenland and the Arctic. Making a radical shift in his life, Kirkeby decided to become an artist and enrolled in Copenhagens Experimental Art School in the early 1960s. One of Scandinavias most important 20th century artists, Kirkeby followed the tradition of Northern European painters like Caspar David Friedrich and Edvard Munch. Like his predecessors, the artist sought to encapsulate the light and patterns of the landscape of his homeland ... More | | 
Young Woman with a Fan, early 1750s. Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian, 1707 1762). Pastel, on blue-green paper, mounted on canvas, in original Dresden frame. 46 x 37 cm (18 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Eighteenth-Century Pastels, an exhibition that explores the popularity of pastels across eighteenth-century Europe and showcases their striking physical properties. Presenting works from the Getty Museum collection along with four loans, the exhibition is on view at the Getty Center from August 30, 2022 to February 26, 2023. By the mid-18th century, pastels reached an unprecedented peak of popularity and acclaim. The dry, satiny pigments, manufactured in sticks of every hue, were portable and allowed for swift executionallowing artists to essentially draw a painting. Working with pastels differs greatly from painting with oils, which require cumbersome equipment, long sittings, and extensive drying times, says ... More | | 
L. Koenigsberg Brothers accordion orchestrion, Belgium, 1920. Weber Brabo base with factory-added accordion, xylophone, large and small drums, wood block and triangle. Height: 90 in. Estimate $30,000-$50,000.
DENVER, PA.- The word unique can sometimes be overused, but not in the case of the Henri Krijnen mechanical music collection, which will be auctioned at Morphys on September 9-10, 2022. Amassed over a lifetime, the peerless collection of early music and entertainment machines includes grand European fair, dance and theater organs; orchestrions, automata, Frank Polk figurals and other slot machines; and even a spectacular, fully functional Karl Muller antique carousel. As described by Tom Tolworthy, CEO of Morphy Auctions and curator/director of the sale, the collection features the finest examples of mechanical music machines to come to market in a decade. The late Henri Krijnen, who made his fortune in the gambling and entertainment industry, had the heart of an ... More |
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| Faheem Majeed presents "Freedom's Stand," a tribute to historic Black newspapers | | NEW INC, New Museum's cultural incubator, announces its ninth annual class for | | Von Bartha opens first solo exhibition of paintings in Denmark by American artist Marina Adams | 
Rendering courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- High Line Art announces Freedoms Stand, a new commission by artist Faheem Majeed. Showcasing the vitality of community-generated news and self-representation, Freedoms Stand displays two centuries of Black newspapers on a 15-foot-tall wooden structure. The installation, Majeeds first institutional exhibition in New York City, will be on view from September 2022 through August 2023 on the High Line at 30th Street. Freedoms Stand is organized by Melanie Kress, associate curator, High Line Art. Located on the High Line at 30th Street near the pathway to Hudson Yards, a crossroads in the public park that sees traffic from thousands daily of domestic and international tourists as well as commuting office workers and residents, Faheem Majeeds Freedoms Stand is an homage to the influential role of Black newspapers as historic sources of information dissemination, community ... More | | 
Lamb performs at assembly, alchemy, ascension curated by NEW INC member black beyond for ONX Studio, 2022. Photo: Christine Rivera.
NEW YORK, NY.- NEW INC, the New Museums cultural incubator, welcomes its ninth annual class for the September 2022 to August 2023 program cycle. The cohort of 63 new members working at the intersection of art, design, technology, and entrepreneurship will participate in NEW INCs yearlong program, which includes a values-centered business education curriculum, mentorship, and opportunities to showcase their work to the public. This year, members range from individual practitionerssuch as artists, designers, and storytellersto collectives, studios, nonprofits, and startups. In alignment with NEW INCs mission to foster cultural value, many of these members are committed to projects that emphasize social impact, addressing issues of racial equity, climate, access, education, and the ... More | | 
Marina Adams, Honeysuckle Rose, 2021, Acrylic on Linen, 172.7 x 147.3 cm, Courtesy the artist, von Bartha and Malle Madsen.
COPENHAGEN.- Von Bartha is presenting the first solo exhibition of paintings in Denmark by American artist Marina Adams, on show in the gallerys recently opened Copenhagen space from 25 August to 15 October 2022. Titled Flower Power the exhibition showcases a new body of work by Adams featuring a selection of 3 acrylic paintings and 5 works on paper, that continue the artists rigorous ongoing exploration of colour, form and movement. Large in scale, the vibrant paintings exhibited as part of Flower Power form an expression of the lavish flora and fauna that surrounds the artist in her studios in upstate New York and Parma in Northern Italy. The focus on nature in these works is a direct reflection of Adams changing environment after she moved away from industrial Brooklyn, last year. Through the use of ... More |
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| Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art opens "To Bough and To Bend" | | Early Elvis Sun Records master recording to be sold by Weiss Auctions | | Secret data, tiny islands and a quest for treasure on the ocean floor | 
Kieran Dodds, Bitsawit Mariam (detail), 2018, archival photographic print. Courtesy of the Ahmanson Art Collection
MALIBU, CA.- Pepperdine Universitys Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art presents the exhibition To Bough and To Bend, curated by Bridge Projects. Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight. When true simplicity is gain'd, To bow and to bend we will not be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight, Till by turning, turning we come round right. Simple Gifts is the Shaker song from which To Bough and To Bend borrows its title. Written by Joseph Brackett in 1848, the song was both an instruction for social dance and also for how to live a life of simplicity. Inspired by those ideas, the curators of this exhibition ask, Do trees not also teach us how to embody ... More | | 
Elvis Presley items
LYNBROOK, NY.- Rock n roll history will hit the auction block on Thursday, September 29th, when three early items pertaining to Elvis Presley including one of three original master recordings from his first-ever recording session in 1954 for Sun Records will be offered by Weiss Auctions. Music will be a key part of the 500-lot, online-only Iconic and Eclectic auction. The acetate recording, with Thats All Right on one side and Blue Moon of Kentucky on the other side, is considered one of rocks true Holy Grail items, as it was the record that launched Elviss career and changed American popular music forever. John Lennon once said, Before Elvis there was nothing. Three acetates were cut in that first session; one of the three will come up for bid. Also sold will be an acetate recording of Blue Suede Shoes, also with Elvis on vocals. The song would become a huge hit in 1955 ... More | | 
Core samples collected in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, in San Diego, Calif., on June 8, 2021. Data from the seabed agency helped the Metals Company pinpoint mineral-rich areas. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times.
KINGSTON.- As demand grows globally for metals needed to make batteries for electric vehicles, one of the richest untapped sources of the raw materials lies 2 1/2 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This remote section of the seabed, about 1,500 miles southwest of San Diego, could soon become the worlds first industrial-scale mining site in international waters. The Metals Co., based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has secured exclusive access to tons of seabed rocks packed with cobalt, copper and nickel enough, it says, to power 280 million electric vehicles, equivalent to the entire fleet of cars in the United States. The historic climate legislation that Congress passed ... More |
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| Jaimie Branch, trumpeter who crossed genre lines, dies at 39 | | Finest Meiji Pattern 10 Yen leads Heritage World & Ancient Coins Auction past $17.8 million | | Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography features newly acquired, contemporary photographs | 
Jaimie Branch in action with her group Fly or Die at the Winter Jazzfest in New York, Jan, 13, 2018. Jacob Blickenstaff/The New York Times.
by Mike Rubin
NEW YORK, NY.- Jaimie Branch, an innovative avant-garde trumpet player and composer whose punk-rock intensity and relentless commitment to experimentation and to dissolving the distinctions between genres invigorated the music scenes of New York and Chicago, died Monday night at her apartment in Red Hook, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She was 39. Her death was announced by International Anthem, a Chicago-based label that released albums by her groups Fly or Die and Anteloper. No cause was given. Over the past decade, Branch had emerged as one of the most dynamic trumpet players in contemporary music, coaxing a remarkable range of sounds from her horn. She used electronic effects and toy ... More | | 
Meiji gold Pattern 10 Yen Year 3 (1870) MS66 NGC
DALLAS, TX.- The worlds finest certified example of the Meiji gold Pattern 10 Yen Year 3 (1870) MS66 NGC sold for a record $564,000 to lead Heritage Auctions World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction $17,847,520 August 25 and 27-28. This is one of the most impressive Japanese coins likely to reach the open market for some time, says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. It is one of the finest representatives within the entire Japanese series, the epitome of conditional and absolute rarity. Pattern coins produced during the Meiji era remain a difficult portion of Japanese numismatics. So its no surprise that this coin, especially in such exceptional condition, drew such competitive bidding. A Victoria gold Proof "Una and the Lion" 5 Pounds 1839 PR63 Ultra Cameo NGC, by William Wyon, soared above pre-auction expectations until it closed ... More | | 
Martine Gutierrez, American, b. 1989. Line Up 3, 2014. Inkjet print, 42 x 28 inches. Collection of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Museum purchase through the Bayly Art Museum Acquisition Fund, © Martine Gutierrez; Image courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents a new exhibition featuring artists that utilize portraiture, satire, pop culture references and advertising techniques to critique and combat essentializing representations of feminine identities. Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography, on view Aug. 27-Dec. 31, features ten recently acquired photographs by contemporary artists Martine Gutierrez, Sarah Maple, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero and Tokie Rome-Taylor, with additional loaned works. The artists inclusion of heirlooms, regalia and toys placed in meticulously constructed scenes highlights the role that objects and representation ... More |
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 Record-setting 1927-D Double Eagle, from Bob R. Simpson Collection, leads Heritage US Coins Auction to $67.9 millionDALLAS, TX.- An exceedingly rare 1927-D Double Eagle MS66 PCGS, part of The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part IX, soared to a record $4.44 million at Heritage Auctions US Coins Signature® Auction August 22-28. This magnificent coin led the event to $67,901,923 in total sales making it the highest-grossing ANA-partner rare coins auction ever held. That total, combined with the $17,847,520 sold at Heritages World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction, brings the total for the weekend to $85,749,443. It only makes sense that an exceptional coin from such an extraordinary collection would be the top lot in an event of this magnitude, Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Todd Imhof ... More  Carl Croneberg, explorer of deaf culture, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Carl Croneberg, a deaf Swedish immigrant who helped write the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language and was the first to outline the idea of Deaf culture as a distinct part of society and one worth studying, died Aug. 11. He was 92. His death was announced by Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the only university for the hearing-impaired in the United States, where he earned a degree and spent his entire career. The university did not specify the cause or say where he died. Croneberg was a new member of the Gallaudet faculty when, in 1957, linguist William C. Stokoe Jr., himself recently arrived on campus, recruited him to join his new Linguistics Research Laboratory. Until the late 1950s, many linguists had dismissed sign language as a poor substitute for spoken language, a rigid, imprecise system ... More  Heritage's Platinum Night Sports Auction sets more than 40 world records en route to historic $39.2 million finishDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions history-making, headline-grabbing and hobby-altering Aug. 27-28 Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction will forever be known as the auction that set the record for the worlds most valuable sports collectible: the SGC Mint+ 9.5 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card that sold Sunday morning for $12.6 million. Never before had a sports card or collectible of any kind broken the eight-figure mark until this mythic Mantle, a work of art adorning a palm-sized slab of cardboard, stepped up to the plate. Yet the mint-condition Mantle was far from the $39,183,299 auctions lone leap into history. Nearly 2,800 bidders worldwide helped rewrite the sports-collectibles record book this weekend. ... More  Ten pennies sell for $1.1 million in CaliforniaIRVINE, CA.- Who says a penny isn't worth much these days? Ten century-old Lincoln cents sold for a combined $1.1 million in an auction Sunday night, according to GreatCollections (www.GreatCollections.com) of Irvine, California, the auction house that offered the valuable pennies. One of the ten, a first-year of issue Lincoln cent from 1909 with designer Victor D. Brenners initials, V.D.B., on the tails side sold for $365,625, a record price for that coin, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections. Four other pennies dated between 1909 and 1915 and also in superb quality brought more than $100,000 each. The ten pennies were specially struck proof coins made for collectors by the United States Mint in Philadelphia in the early years of the Lincoln cents. All are still in pristine, mint red condition and sold for a combined total of $1,113,174. The coins were from a New York coll ... More  Impressive results of Bonhams Skinner Books & Manuscripts AuctionMARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner saw exceptional results at their recent Books & Manuscripts online auction which ran from August 13-23. The auction was very successful, with 90 percent of the lots sold and a 100 percent sold-by-value rate. Over a third of the lots went over their high estimate, some by a large margin. Bidders from all over competed vigorously for many categories of material said John Dorfman, Director of Books & Manuscripts. We were particularly excited to see the enthusiasm for personal, archival material such as a collection of letters from Princess Grace of Monaco, a business correspondence from T. S. Eliot, a group of photographs from Nikola Tesla's laboratory and a fresh-to-the-market journal kept by a 17-year-old boy on a Massachusetts whaling voyage in the 1850s. Leading the auction results ... More  Palo Gallery announces new flagship space in NewYork City designed by Selldorf ArchitectsNEW YORK, NY.- Palo Gallery, a dynamic art program dedicated to curating, managing and cultivating an intersection of emerging and established artistic talents founded by Paul Henkel, announces the debut of a new 3,400 square-foot flagship in New York City, opening on September 9, 2022. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the new space will partner with Vica by Annabelle Selldorf, a furnishing collection designed by Selldorf that blends her personal legacy with the fundamental logic of her architecture practice. The collection will be available to the public for the first time and will be integrated into the curation of each art exhibition. The inaugural exhibition, Ontological Spherescapes features new sculptural painting by celebrated British multimedia artist Henry Hudson alongside ceramic sculptures which are a collaboration between the ... More  Asian Cultural Council announces 2022 fellowships and grantsNEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Asian Cultural Council, the preeminent not-for-profit, New York-based organization that advances international dialogue through arts and cultural exchange between Asia and the United States, announces its 2022 fellowship and grant recipients, awarded by its New York office. Founded in 1963 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) has enabled more than 6,000 exchanges between artists, humanities scholars, and specialists, investing more than $100 million in support across 16 artistic disciplines and 26 countries/regions to date. ACC has connected creators and thinkers to peers in countries including China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the U.S. for nearly 60 years, effectively cultivating cultural bridges across global borders. ... More  Appleton Museum of Art announces Composer in ResidenceOCALA, FLA.- The Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida, announces composer-in-residence, Dr. Silviu Octavian Ciulei. The classical and flamenco guitarist was born in Romania and began his musical training at the age of 6. By age 13, he had already won his first performance prize, which marked the first of many awards and recognitions received both in Europe and the United States. Ciulei is currently the director of Guitar Studies at the University of Florida and is also a member of the freshly minted Global Music Award-winners, Maharajah Flamenco Trio. The group, founded in 2011, is comprised of Ciulei, Ramin Yazdanpanah and David Cobb. With two critically acclaimed and successful albums under their belts, Maharajah Flamenco Trio craft their expression of Flamenco Nuevo (New or modern flamenco) by blending ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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