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Romy Golan, an art historian, at home in New York on Dec. 1, 2023. The decision by an art journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historians essay about his work created a chilling effect on the critical culture, a journalism expert said. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- It all began with the flowers and the hands holding them aloft. Romy Golan remembers the day in a Paris garden that she gazed upon Jeff Koons Bouquet of Tulips, a monumental sculpture that depicts a fist grasping 11 stems topped by balloon-like petals. She immediately saw a conceptual echo of a 1937 mural by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand showing three hands brandishing what look like wild roses. Both reflected political events: With fascism then on the rise across Europe, Léger and Perriand welcomed a newly elected French socialist government. Koons sculpture, unveiled in 2019 at the Petit Palais, was meant as a symbol of healing and a remembrance of victims of terror attacks that had rocked France a few years earlier. To explore the use of similar motifs by artists of different generations, Golan, an art historian in New York, got an interview with Koons, an influential but often-polarizing artist who has set auction records with his toylike Balloon Dog ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Noor Riyadh, the critically acclaimed light art festival, celebrated as the world's largest annual event of its kind, has successfully concluded its 2023 edition. The public light art showcase, which ran from November 30 to December 17, transformed Saudi Arabia's capital into a dazzling 'gallery without walls', engaging more than 3 million visitors with over 120 innovative artworks by more than 100 artists from 35 countries, more than 30 of which are from Saudi Arabia.
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| Berry Campbell partners with White Cube to represent The Lynne Drexler Archive | | Historic palace vandalized with graffiti in Seoul | | Vase bought at Goodwill for $3.99 sells for more than $100,000 | 
Martha Campbell, Christine Berry, and Sukanya Rajaratnam. Photo: Weston Wells.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell announced White Cube as partner in representing The Lynne Drexler Archive outside of the United States. Berry Campbell will continue its long-standing relationship with Michael Rancourt and The Lynne Drexler Archive in the United States. For the last ten years, Berry Campbell has made a commitment to further the careers and legacies of underrepresented artists. Alongside Perle Fine, Yvonne Thomas, Ethel Schwabacher, and Judith Godwin, Berry Campbell has been instrumental in the rediscovery, scholarship, and market development of women Abstract Expressionists, including Lynne Drexler. Following a successful joint Lynne Drexler exhibition with Mnuchin Gallery (2022) and a solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach (2022), we look forward to collaborating with White Cube on bringing Lynne Drexler to an international audience. Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened Berry ... More | | 
For two consecutive nights, the Gyeongbokgung palace was spray painted, in a country where such brazen vandalism is rare. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
by Jin Yu Young
NEW YORK, NY.- The Gyeongbokgung palace, a national treasure in the heart of South Koreas capital of Seoul that draws millions of visitors each year, was vandalized with graffiti twice over the weekend. Parts of the 14th century palace were spray painted in red and blue on Saturday and Sunday nights, according to police. Police said at least two people acted Saturday, and at least one person did Sunday. They have yet to identify the suspects from Saturday. One person handed themselves in to police Monday morning. Police have not determined a motive. While graffiti is more common in alleyways and tunnels in South Korea, heritage sites are a rare target in the country, and have special protections under the law, with violators facing stiff prison sentences and fines. The ... More | | 
Carlo Scarpa, Rare Pennellate vase, model 3664, Venini, Italy, c. 1947. Glass with applied opaque and transparent glass 13½ h à 4 dia in (34 à 10 cm). Estimate: $30,00050,000. Result: $107,100.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jessica Vincent made her way in June through a busy Goodwill thrift store in Hanover County, Virginia, passing VCRs, lamps and glassware commonly sold at big-box retailers. Nothing really caught her eye until she saw an iridescent glass vase. After doing a lap around the store, she returned to the bottle-shaped vase with red and green swirls. She noticed a small M on the bottom that she believed stood for Murano, an island off Venice and the historical home of Italian glassware. She had a feeling it might be worth something. There was no price on the vase. Vincent, 43, told herself shed pay $8.99 and no more. When the cashier rang her up, it was $3.99. When she returned home from the Goodwill thrift store, she joined Facebook groups for glass identification to learn more about the vase. Some members told her it looked like it was designed by Carlo ... More |
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| Celebrated artist and designer Es Devlin to install 30-year archive in 1st monographic museum exhibition | | For the occasion of 80th birthday of British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, Victoria Miro is hosting exhibition | | Ornament: A novel look at how ornament and patterns traverse various art forms | 
Es Devlin in Memory Palace, courtesy of Es Devlin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has been presenting An Atlas of Es Devlin since Nov. 18, where it will continue through Aug. 11, 2024. The genre-defying British contemporary artist and designer Es Devlin (b. 1971) is globally renowned for her large-scale, illuminated installations and sculptures for performances. Her wide-ranging practice, which began in small-scale theater, has been experienced by millions in some of the worlds most prominent museums, galleries, opera houses, arena and stadia. Her highly collaborative work is at once deeply personal and inherently collective. Devlin views the audience as a temporary society and invites public participation in communal works to encourage profound cognitive shifts. For her first monographic museum exhibition, Devlin installed her 30-year archive across the third floor of the museum. An Atlas of Es Devlin features over 300 sketches, paintings ... More | | 
Book cover, Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler, 2023. Published by Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is now holding an exhibition by pioneering British conceptual artist Stephen Willats on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Bringing together new works and seminal examples from the 1970s, Time Tumbler, curated with Jelena Kristic, charts developments in the artists singular language, reveals the constancy of his vision and celebrates his long-standing relationship with the gallery. For six decades, Stephen Willats has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present in contemporary art participation, communication, social interaction, active spectatorship and self-organisation. He has drawn on sciences such as cybernetics, advertising, artificial intelligence and behavioral theory to develop a multi-media practice grounded in the idea of the artwork as a dynamic, multichannel and social process in time and place, based on the lived experiences of people outside of a ... More | | 
Andreas Ruckers, Harpsichord, Antwerp, 1640. Yale School of Music, Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments. Photo: Christopher Gardner.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Ornament marks the Yale University Art Gallerys latest collaboration with the Yale School of Music, occasioned by the resÂtoration of its historic building housing the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments. During the closure necessitated by the renovation project, three important and elaborately ornamented early keyboard instruments are on loan to the Gallery. A 1640 harpsichord by the Antwerp-based craftsÂman Andreas Ruckers, with its intricately decorated soundboard and lid, exemplifies the Flemish school of harpsichord making at its height. Also featured in the installation is a smaller instrument called a spinetta, made by Francesco Poggio of Florence in 1620, with a lid painted by an accomplished atelier in the Tuscan city. On view alongside these two harpsichords is an early 19th-century Austrian pyramid piano, a stylish ... More |
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| Korean artist Minjung Kim to present exhibition at Robilant+Voena | | William Turner Gallery is currently presenting the exhibition 'Shingo Francis: Liminal Presence' | | Winners announced for Jimei x Arles 2023 Curatorial Awards and Discovery Awards | 
Minjung Kim, Timeless, 2019. Mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper, 125 x 88.5 cm (49 1/4 x 34 7/8 in.).
ST. MORITZ.- Robilant+Voena now opening an exhibition of works by the Korean artist Minjung Kim, taking place at the Forum Paracelsus, St. Moritz. This is the artists second solo show with R+V, following a successful exhibition in 2019, also in St. Moritz. Set in the serene and newly restored galleries of the Forum Paracelsus, the historic site of the mineral-rich springs that has made St. Moritz a destination for travellers across the centuries, the forthcoming exhibition offers visitors a journey through Kims key works from the last ten years. With examples of her most celebrated series, including Mountain and Street, the paintings in the exhibition have been carefully selected by the artist to reflect and complement the immense beauty of the surrounding Engadin region. As the artist explains: I hope that my artworks resonate harmoniously with the serenity, purity, and clarity of nature. Nature ... More | | 
Shingo Francis, Illuminated Presence (deep red in blue) 2023. Interference oil on panel, 76 x 76.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- William Turner Gallery is currently presenting the exhibition Shingo Francis フランシス : 真悟 Liminal Presence, a series of exceptional new works until January 6th 2024. Utilizing interference paint, a medium with mercurial properties, Francis dials into the phenomenology of perception to produce works that resonate with subtle shifts of color to extraordinary effect. Their nuance invites a quiet curiosity, provoking a sense of wonder as one moves Zen-like into an exploration of engaged contemplation on the cyclical nature of time and liminal space. With a Japanese mother and American father, Mako Idemitsu and Sam Francis, highly regarded artists themselves, Shingo Francis grew up between Tokyo and Santa Monica, immersed in art and absorbing the sensibilities of both cultures. "Artwork is transformative. If it can release a kind of energy that has been stored, it can be a cathartic experience. I think we all need that in some way, from all k ... More | | 
Gan Yingying(left) & Zhou Yichen(right) won the 2023 Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image.
XIAMEN.- Kicked off in Xiamen on 15 December, the ninth Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival announced that Gan Yingying (b.1990) & Zhou Yichen (b.1986) , Chinese curatorial duo, won the 2023 Jimei x Arles "Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image", and the Chinese artist Lahem (b.1984, birth name Luo Xin) won the 2023 "Jimei x Arles Discovery Award". Gan Yingying and Zhou Yichen's The Via Combusta wins 2023 Jimei x Arles "Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image". The curators receive RMB 100,000 and participate in a mentoring program. The cash prize is supported by the CHANEL fund and will help finalize the exhibition in 2024. The jury: The team has chosen a very important and current theme that has been experienced by the curators themselves but also by their community. The exhibition stands out because of its serious approach with actual in-person ... More |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts establishes curator position dedicated to automotive, industrial, and decorative design | | Fourth solo exhibition by the artist Yutaka Sone opens at Tommy Simoens Gallery | | Newest exhibition by Joeun Kim Aatchim now on view for first time at François Ghebaly Downtown LA | 
Shelley Selim to Lead DIAs Efforts to Expand the Museums Collections and Narratives of Modern and Contemporary Transportation, Design and Decorative Arts.
DEETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced its first-ever Mort Harris Curator of Automotive, Industrial, and Decorative Design, appointing Shelley Selim to the newly created role, which will focus on the narratives of transportation design and artistry throughout history and looking to the future. This new role will also allow the DIA to acquire and present the intersections and continuums of automotive, industrial, and decorative design. Detroit is known as the heart of the countrys automotive industry and holds unique significance in its innovation and evolution, said Jill Shaw, head of Modern and Contemporary Art and Rebecca A. Boylan and Thomas W. Sidlik Curator of European Art, 18501970. Its only fitting that the museum establishes a curatorial ... More | | 
Yutaka Sone, Somebody broke the glass.
ANTWERP.- Tommy Simoens is conducting the fourth solo exhibition by the artist Yutaka Sone at the gallery. Yutaka Sone: Obsidian brings a series of new obsidian-shaped ceramic sculptures by the artist. The exhibitions' starting point is a recent poem by Sone. Somebody broke the glass is a four-word poem by the Japanese artist Yutaka Sone. The poem refers to the use of obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed by the rapid cooling of molten lava. Under certain circumstances, when a volcano erupts violently and drops of lava end up in the sea or other cold environments, they form almost perfect spheres of obsidian. This is where the potential time span in the search for meaning starts for our poet. Archaeologists know that pieces of obsidian have been used as tools of all kinds since prehistoric times, due to their sharpness and weight. It is believed that the forces of nature initially broke large chunks of obsidian ... More | | 
Joeun Kim Aatchim, Kneeling without Pain, Gifts without Drafts (at Engelberg Kloster), 2023. Colored pencil on silk, waxed linen thread, stone pigment suspended in shellac on acrylic sheets, black walnut frame. 17.5 x 12.5 inches. 44.5 x 32 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photo: Running Huang.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly is currently presenting Sheer Painer, the newest exhibition by South Korean, Brooklyn-based artist Joeun Kim Aatchim and her first time exhibiting at our Downtown Los Angeles space. Artist and poet Joeun Kim Aatchim has long embraced her English second language as a site of invention. In her publications of writing and poetry, including Four of Matresses Stacked on Misery (2017), eye jailed eye (2019) and last years In Praise of Cry Breaks 눈물 휴식 예찬 (2016-2022), as well as in her artworks themselves, incidences of miscommunication and ... More |
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 Project at Independence Seaport Museum to document lives of African-Americans from along Delaware RiverPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Furthering the Independence Seaport Museum mission as a maritime museum focused on the Delaware River, its people and the environment and how it connects to the larger world, the museum is embarking on a new, multi-year project, Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River, an initiative that will collect oral histories from African-American Philadelphians who lived and worked along the Delaware River in the mid- to the late 20th- and 21st-centuries. These stories will guide further development and expansion of the museums flagship exhibition, Tides of Freedom: The African Presence on the Delaware River. When completed, Breaking Uncommon Ground ... More  Works on recycled paper by Nú Barreto on view at his fourth exhibition at Galerie Nathalie ObadiaPARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Silhouettes Parfaites (Perfect Silhouettes), Nú Barreto's fourth solo exhibition, across the Paris and Brussels galleries. Works on recycled paper offer spaces of circulation where beings and things, swept up into a disconcerting mobility, find themselves and shift around, sometimes going beyond the structural limits imposed by the frame. At the heart of the exhibition is a three-meter-long canvas mounted on wood. Titled Transmissions (2022), it is a continuation of his series Etats Désunis d'Afrique (2009), in which the configuration of the American flag is replaced by the colors of most African states. Pens are amassed along the entire length of the canvas, as if to signify the accumulations of ideas, knowledge and desires. This new body of work is an extension of the artist's research ... More  Design Miami/ concludes successful nineteenth edition, recording strong salesMIAMI, FL.- Design Miami/ concluded a successful nineteenth edition of its flagship fair in Miami Beach on Sunday, December 10. This years fair welcomed over 50 gallery and Curio presentations, offering an array of historic and contemporary collectible design, more than 20 brand collaborations, a variety of Special Projects, and a robust and vibrant talks program, all of which responded to this years curatorial theme, Where We Stand, in thought-provoking ways, resulting in strong sales and attendance. This nineteenth edition of our flagship Miami Beach fair felt particularly impactful, bookending a milestone year following a successful Basel edition in June, and our debut in Paris this October. This years curatorial theme, Where We Stand, welcomed an array of engaging contemporary works from the likes of Marta, Southern Guild and æquō, ... More  'Stay' a while to enjoy Sala, new permanent exhibition at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art AfricaCAPE TOWN.- In collaboration with the 2023 cohort of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art AfricaZeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellows, Sala is an intimate look into Zeitz MOCAAs permanent collection archive. Incorporating an in-depth research project, it aims to better understand the values of the institution, the role of contemporary art in society, how the museums team link and mediate the work of artists, and how the institution connects with and becomes a home for its audiences. Central to the exhibition is a set of questions that invite audiences to explore and reflect on the limits and possibilities of the museum. This invitation is championed by the title of the exhibition Sala. A word that is common among many Nguni languages in Southern Africa, sala is part of a call ... More  'Women in the Abstract' at Annely Juda Fine Art highlights the essential and refined work of womenLONDON.- Art in Britain in the aftermath of WWII was a space of contradictions. On the one hand, artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world, one which required a new visual lexicon. On the other, a generation scarred by the war years sought comfort in the familiar, with traditional mindsets persisting that placed value in figuration and classicism. This will have been most keenly felt by women practitioners, whose place in the art world was already liminal. At art schools, women artists were encouraged towards feminine pursuits, such as needlework. Two artists who not only resisted the call to tradition, but completely defied it, were Prunella Clough and Edwina Leapman. Cloughs early post-war work was informed by the industrial landscape of Britain: she drew inspiration from factories, bomb sites and wastelands, integrating found detritus into ... More  Exhibition celebrates some of the most important female artists from the Post-war era up to the present-dayLONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery is presenting Womens Work is Never Done, curated by Catherine de Zegher, internationally acclaimed Belgian curator and art historian, celebrating some of the most important female artists from the Post-war era up to the present-day. Titled after de Zegher's anthology published in 2014, the exhibition features works by gallery artists BRACHA L. Ettinger, Simryn GILL, Everlyn NICODEMUS and Ria VERHAEGHE, alongside pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Edith Dekyndt, Monika Grzymala, Mona Hatoum, Ann Veronica Janssens, Maria Laet, Anna Maria Maiolino, Erin Manning, Ranjani Shettar, Nancy Spero, Cecilia Vicuña, Judith Wright and others. Since the early 1990s, de Zegher has been amongst the most influential figures to shape the discourse around a womans art practice, dedicating her career ... More  One-of-a-kind cultural artifacts hit the auction blockRUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Goldin, the leading collectibles marketplace, announces it has curated a one-of-a-kind pop culture auction featuring iconic symbols of the last three decades, as well as some of todays most coveted cultural keepsakes. The auction includes remarkable items from some of the most sought-after comics featuring first appearances of iconic characters, signed items from entertainment legends and rare Pokémon Cards, representing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors of all focuses to own a piece of history. The auction features over 800 items available for bidding and is headlined by significant cultural artifacts, including: A 1973 Bruce Lee twice-signed handwritten letter from the period leading up to the legendary actors death. Lees signature is coveted by collectors, making the letter a notable addition ... More  The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art awarded $40,000 by the New York State Council on the ArtsBUFFALO, NY.- The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art announced today a grant award totaling $40,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Through New York States continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded over $80 million since Spring 2023 to over 1,500 artists and organizations across the state. Governor Kathy Hochul said, Research confirms what weve always known here in New York: arts and culture are a powerhouse, with a staggering return on investment for our economy and our communities. Nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences generated $151.7 billion in economic activity nationwide in 2022 and New Yorks unparalleled arts and culture sector is leading the way to benefit our residents, our students and our visitors ... More  Abraham Lincoln signed carte-de-visite, Ernest Hemingway's typewriter take the lead in Heritage's $2 million eventDALLAS, TX.- Heritages latest Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction yet again offered history and made it, too. The finely curated, nearly sold-out 104-lot auction, held Friday, realized $2,082,625 in three hours. More than 560 bidders from around the world vied for offerings that spanned centuries of human achievement, ranging from the samurais of the 17th century and American presidents and the first men to walk on the moon to The King of Rock and Roll and The Worlds Greatest Typewriter Collection. Yet again Heritage has assembled the best of the very best highlighting the great personalities and events of the last several centuries," says Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. ... More  Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC announces results of 'Christmas Chronicles' auctionRENO, NEV.- An early 1900s Miller Brothers 101 Ranch performers beaded gun belt sold for $10,000, a circa 1940 handmade buckskin and beaded ceremonial dress made by native Nez Perce woman V. Morris brought $9,062; and a button-shaped silver ingot made in Arizona in 1882 changed hands for $13,125 at a massive, four-day Christmas Chronicles auction held Dec. 7-10 by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and live at the gallery in Reno. The mega-event the last of the year for Holabird was packed with over 2,500 lots in a variety of collecting categories, starting at 8 am Pacific time each day. The categories included saloon, bottles, brewery, mining, numismatics, philatelic, general Americana, stocks and bonds, fine art, display minerals, vintage toys and more something for novice collectors ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner died December 19, 1775. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In this image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834," 1834 - 1835. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection.
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