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John Amatrudo at the Patrimony Warehouse of the Archdiocese of New York, Dec. 14, 2021. In a warehouse on Staten Island, the Archdiocese of New York stores altars, statuary and other relics that can be reused in churches around the world. Tom Sibley/The New York Times.
by John Freeman Gill
NEW YORK, NY.- Last-minute Christmas shopping in New York City is a famously grueling, elbows-out enterprise, a movable melee often involving the navigation of jampacked shops and subways all over town. But if you happen to be a Roman Catholic priest, deacon or nun looking to spruce up your house of worship for the holiday season, your task is much simpler: Just point your car to the south shore of Staten Island, and a serene afternoon of one-stop shopping awaits you. On the green grounds of Mount Loretto, formerly an orphanage, stands a 17,000-square-foot, Raiders of the Lost Ark-style storehouse stuffed to the rafters with artifacts salvaged by the Archdiocese of New York from scores of churches deconsecrated and sold since 2004. Known as the Patrimony Warehouse, the facility was established to preserve the sorts of relics that sometimes wound up in antiques shops, the homes of parishioners or the trash. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its End-of-Year Clearance Ancient / Ethnographic Auction on Dec 29, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. Time to clear out the warehouse! Features discounted pricing on authentic antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. In this image: Massive Chinese Han Dynasty Clay Panels, TL Tested. Estimate $7,000 - $10,500.
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| Is Disney the Met's fairy godmother? | | 'Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary' opens at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki | | As other Arab states falter, Saudi Arabia seeks to become a cultural hub | 
Cinderella, 1950. Mary Blair. Concept art. Gouache, graphite and ink on board, 12 à 10 in. (30.5 à 25.4 cm) Walt Disney Animation Research Library © Disney.
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK, NY.- Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, which opened this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a classic holiday exhibition: family-friendly, frothy, not asking for much heavy lifting. And like that of the holiday season itself, its promise is a little overstated. The exhibition traces, often in granular detail, the disparate elements of the European aesthetic movements that Disney animators, some 600 strong by the end of the 1930s, swept into its movies: French rococo in Beauty and the Beast (1991); Gothic revival architecture in Cinderella (1950), late medieval and early Netherlandish art in Sleeping Beauty (1959), 19th-century Germanic romanticism in Snow White (1937). All of these stories originated in Europe, so the idea that the Disney machine rooted its visual interpretation in European art isnt that much of a leap as, say, staging Hamlet ... More | | 
Twiggy modelling waistcoat and shorts ensemble, 1966.© Photograph Terence Donovan, courtesy Terence Donovan Archive. The Sunday Times, 23 October 1966.
AUCKLAND.- A much-anticipated international exhibition exploring the work of legendary fashion designer Mary Quant opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Join in the fashion, freedom and fun as Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary explores the cultural icon who embodied the youthquake of the Sixties and embraced new mass production techniques to create new looks and lifestyles for modern women. Auckland Art Gallery Director Kirsten Lacy is excited to bring this international exhibition to Auckland, encapsulating the spirit of Quant and exploring her immense impact on fashion and culture to New Zealanders. Mary Quants effect on women and main-stream culture, was entirely revolutionary. She invited women to dress for having active and playful lives. She made fashion accessible, affordable, comfortable and available to all women. She completely democratised fashion, and moreover gave women the outfits to challenge t ... More | | 
The actor Sumaya Rida watches herself onscreen in the film Rupture at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Dec. 10, 2021. Iman Al-Dabbagh/The New York Times.
by Vivian Yee and Ben Hubbard
JIDDAH.- A pregnant Saudi woman, far from home, finds herself stalked by inner and outer demons. A wannabe Saudi vlogger and his friends, menaced by the internets insatiable appetite for content and more mysterious dangers, try to escape a dark forest. At a wedding, the mother of the bride panics when her daughter disappears with all of their guests waiting downstairs. These were just a few of the 27 Saudi-made films premiering this month at a film festival in Jiddah, part of the conservative kingdoms huge effort to transform itself from a cultural backwater into a cinematic powerhouse in the Middle East. The Saudi push reflects profound shifts in the creative industries across the Arab world. Over the past century, while the name Saudi Arabia conjured little more than oil, desert and Islam, Cairo, Beirut, Damascus and Baghdad stood out as the Arab cultural beacons where blockbuster movies ... More |
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| Jean-Marc Vallée, director of 'Dallas Buyers Club,' dies at 58 | | White Cube Hong Kong presents an exhibition by Damien Hirst. | | Diana Al-Hadid joins Kasmin | 
Patricia Clarkson, who won for supporting actress for the miniseries Sharp Objects, got a hug from her director Jean-Marc Vallée, at HBOs Golden Globes after party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 6, 2019. Elizabeth Lippman/The New York Times.
by Livia Albeck-Ripka
NEW YORK, NY.- Jean-Marc Vallée, the award-winning Canadian director of the film Dallas Buyers Club and the hit HBO show Big Little Lies, was found dead over the weekend at his cabin outside Quebec City. He was 58. His publicist, Bumble Ward, said his death had been unexpected. Vallée was found Sunday by friends who were going to visit him, said Lt. Benoit Richard, a spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec Police Department. The cause and further details were not immediately available. Vallée was known for a naturalistic and generous approach to filmmaking that colleagues said brought out the best in those he worked with. He avoided artificial ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, Mickey. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photo © Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
HONG KONG.- White Cube Hong Kong is presenting His Own Worst Enemy, an exhibition by Damien Hirst. On view in Asia for the first time, sculptures from Hirsts acclaimed series Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable feature alongside a new series of paintings titled The Revelations, produced in 2021. Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, a project that Hirst developed over ten years, is based on the fictional discovery of an ancient shipwreck. Realised through a large suite of sculptures, drawings and other ephemera, all created in an extraordinary array of techniques and materials, the series weaves fantasy and historical references to expose the myth and mutability of history, belief systems and art itself. Five major sculptures from the series are featured in the exhibition. Employing traditional sculptural materials, figures rendered ... More | | 
Portrait of Diana Al-Hadid by Diego Flores.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced the representation of Diana Al-Hadid (b. 1981) whose practice examines the historical frameworks and perspectives that continue to shape discourse on culture and materials today. With a practice spanning sculpture, wall reliefs, and works on paper, Al-Hadid weaves together enigmatic narratives that draw inspiration from both ancient and modern civilizations. The artists rich allegorical constructions are born from art historical religious imagery, ancient manuscripts, female archetypes, and folkloric storytelling frameworks. Framed by a host of references from antiquity, cosmology, cartography, and architecture, Al-Hadids work gives form to ghostly images abstractly rendered in materials as various as steel, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, wood, foam, plaster, aluminum foil, and pigment. Al-Hadids process-based explorations innovate from commonplace industrial materials, their formidable ... More |
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| The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will reopen after major expansion by Selldorf Architects | | India Art Fair announces 2022 edition | | North Carolina Museum of Art presents 'Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary' | 
Tschabalala Self, Evening, 2019. Oil, acrylic, Flashe, gouache, fabric, painted canvas and polyester fiber fill on canvas, 68 Ã 50 in. (172.7 Ã 127 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Museum purchase with funds from the International and Contemporary Collectors, 2019.28. Photographer: Pablo Mason. Copyright notice: Courtesy Tschabalala Self and Thierry Goldberg Gallery.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego announced the reopening of its La Jolla flagship location in April 2022, which over the past four years has undergone a $105 million renovation and expansion by world-renowned Selldorf Architects. The expanded Museum will offer four times the current gallery space, two levels of light-filled galleries, a public park, and new seaside terraces offering dramatic views of the Pacific Coast. The new design includes the renovation of 28,000 square feet of existing spaces as well as the addition of 46,400 square feet of new ... More | | 
F.N.Souza. Untitled (Portrait), 1961. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of DAG.
NEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, the leading platform to discover and celebrate modern and contemporary art from South Asia, announces the full list of participating galleries and programme highlights for its forthcoming 13th edition. Taking place from 3 6 February 2022 in partnership with BMW India, the fair will present 75 exhibitors across 14 cities, including an unprecedented 13 non-profit foundations and institutions. Through an open call led in collaboration with The Gujral Foundation and Artdemic, Anshuka Mahapatra has been selected to design the tent façade of the 2022 fair. Helmed by Jaya Asokan for the first time since her appointment as Fair Director in April 2021, this edition of the fair is a testament to the resilience of the Indian and South Asian art market and the art community at large. The fair spotlights the next generation of artists alongside modern ... More | | 
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RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announced its fall 2021 exhibitions, with artists from both around the world and around the state, including Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary on view through January 23, 2022. Focused on the influence of craft on artists working nationally and globally, Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional Art Making features world-renowned artists like Gabriel de la Mora, Yasumasa Morimura, Shinique Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, and more. In N.C. Artist Connections, three North Carolinabased artists (Stephen Hayes, Hong-An Truong, and The Beautiful Project) enter into a dialogue with the NCMAs collection, presenting work that speaks directly to the Museums works of art. Czech-born Alphonse Mucha (18601939) was one of the most influential and celebrated artists in turn-of-the20th-century Paris. He is best known for his graphic work, such as theater posters ... More |
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| Brand new name, brand new concept: Schoenenkwartier | | Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome hosts artistic collaboration by Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos | | Exhibition bring together more than forty works by Martha Wilson | 
Civic - Schoenenmuseum Waalwijk.
WAALWIJK .- On April 16, 2022, the Schoenenkwartier will open to the public in the west wing of the nationally listed Kropholler complex in Waalwijk, in the heart of Langstraat. Here, on a floor space of more than 3000 m2, a new museum concept under a new name will illuminate the history of shoes and leather as well as its future.The Schoenenkwartier rests on three pillars: the Making Labs, the Knowledge Center and the Museum. It therefore aims to be more than just a museum, much more than just a curator of the rich past of the leather and shoe industry. As a podium, workshop, study center and laboratory, the Schoenenkwartier owns a unique profile that requires not only admiration and learning, but also participation and awareness. This profile makes the Schoenenkwartier very attractive to young generations, or rather, also to younger generations. The predecessor of the Schoenenkwartier, the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk, was fou ... More | | 
Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos, Something for Everyone, Everything for No One, 2021. Ten looks composed of black and white laser prints on A4 paper, polyester, tailoring cotton, organza, suit fabrics, zippers, thread, chrome mannequins. Courtesy the artists.
ROME.- With You can have my brain the Rehearsal section of MACRO hosts Anna-Sophie Berger (Vienna, 1989) and Teak Ramos (Ohio, 1992) first artistic collaboration. The exhibition presents a body of work conceived and made from a jointly built archive on the subject of fashion at-large, which the two artists investigate from a social and historical perspective, whilst also delving into the realm of technical garment construction. The work takes shape in the form of a series of looks which stem from the archive built by Berger and Ramos: images, text and theory on the subjects of everyday material culture and fashion, with a somewhat serendipitous focus on the early modern era (Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries). The looks, ... More | | 
Martha Wilson, Captivating a Man, 1972. Colour photograph and typewritten text on mat. Framed set: 36.8 x 29.8 cm. Courtesy of Martha Wilson, mfc-michèle didier and P.P.O.W. Gallery. Martha Wilson, Photo by Stan Narten.
PARIS.- Martha Wilson is a unique personality in the history of American art and one of the first artists to use her body to question social representations of the feminine. Her pioneering work conducted in the early 1970s falls into the category of conceptual practices with a radical irony. Bringing together more than forty works, the Centre Pompidou is the first French institution to dedicate a monographic exhibition to her. Born in Philadelphia in 1947, Martha Wilson began to stage herself in the early 1970s, alone in front of the camera, using video, photography and text. At the time, she was teaching English literature at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the Canadian city of Halifax. In this place much frequented by essentially male artists from the American conceptual scene, she blurred ... More |
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Symposium---Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe, Part 1
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 Pixlr Genesis, a NFT-based movement to build the world's largest decentralized art museum on the metaverse Pixlr, one of the worlds most popular design and photo editing ecosystems, launches Pixlr Genesis, a 100% decentralized NFT-based art gallery, with its inaugural NFT collection. The collection consists of 10,000 unique, AI-generated NFT art pieces. The meteoric rise has made NFTs one of the most desirable, and lucrative assets for collectors.11 March 2021 marked the NFT sale of Everydays The First 5000 Days by artist Mike Winkelmann for US$ 69.3 million, making it the most expensive NFT ever sold, and the third most valuable artwork sold by a living artist. From the second quarter to the third quarter of 2021, NFT sales have gone up eightfold, reaching US$10.7 billion. Warren Leow, CEO of the Inmagine Group, the parent company of Pixlr says, ... More  VMFA's treasured Mellon Collection returns to RichmondRICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the return of the Mellon Collection. After traveling nationally and internationally for four years while the Mellon Galleries were being renovated, the beloved collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, Sporting art and Jean Schlumberger jewelry, gifted by Paul and Rachel Lambert Mellon to the museum, is being displayed once again at VMFA in Richmond. The renowned collection of European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts generously given to VMFA by Paul and Rachel Lambert Mellon are an essential part of the museums identity, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. These collections are among VMFAs greatest treasures, and we are excited to welcome visitors to rediscover these incredible works of art. The Mellon Galleries, located on the second and third floors of the museums ... More  The first solo museum exhibition of Karla Knight's decades-long career debuts a new body of workRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting Navigator, the first solo museum exhibition of Karla Knight (b. 1958). Knight has spent the last forty years creating an impressive body of work that spans painting, drawing, and photography. After regularly exhibiting in New York City in the 1980s, Knight moved to New Mexico in 1994. She returned to the East coast in 2000, settling in Redding, CT in 2003 where she has lived and worked for nearly twenty years. This exhibition is a focused survey charting the development of a far-seeing language over a four-decade career and debuts a new body of work. Navigator is on view at The Aldrich until May 8, 2022. Knights imagery is steeped in science, the occult, early twentieth century abstraction, Surrealism, and Native American art. And yet, her visual language is purposefully impenetrableshe offers no clues ... More  Online exhibition celebrating a new generation of image-makers shaping the future of photographyAMSTERDAM.- Following the award-winning first edition of 2020, Foam presents a brand new online exhibition: Foam Talent 2021 | Digital. This multi-media platform showcases the work of 20 artists that were selected through the annual Foam Talent Call. Their projects are translated into the digital realm, supported by audio, video and interactive elements. Liberating the photographs from their frames and taking them beyond the museum walls, the exhibition pushes the boundaries of the medium and explores the outlines of its future form. It connects facets of the extensive Foam Talent programme, offering podcasts, Zoom talks, limited Editions and more. The visitor is invited to explore and immerse themselves in the endless possibilities and perspectives that contemporary photography has to offer. The fifteenth edition of Foam Talent presents a selection of 20 outstanding artists, ... More  Hollywood tests the limit of marquee names a single film can holdLOS ANGELES, CA.- On Friday, Netflix began streaming Dont Look Up, a big-budget satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Timothée Chalamet. It sure seemed like a must-watch event, mixed reviews be darned. Casts so ultracelestial embarrassments of celebrity riches dont come along every day. Except that now they do. One star playing Spider-Man? How quaint. Spider-Man: No Way Home, released in theaters Dec. 17, has three A-listers in Spidey spandex: Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. No Way Home, a runaway hit at the global box office, taking in $1.05 billion for Sony Pictures Entertainment as of Sunday, also stars Zendaya, Jamie Foxx, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Willem Dafoe and Jon Favreau. About 43% of opening-weekend viewers ... More  SALT Galata hosts 'Belkıs Hanım and Onur Efendi'ISTANBUL.- The exhibition Belkıs Hanım and Onur Efendi revolves around the identity of an intellectual that emerged with the process of modernization, and the turbulent states of mind that it brought about. Fatma Belkıs and Onur Gökmen question the possibility that the elitist avant-garde attitude attributed to the intelligentsia is inherited across generations from the Tanzimat era. The title of the exhibition, which involves the forenames of the artists, accentuates the witty tone of the works presented as part of The Sequential program. Comprising an excerpt from the duo's first feature-length fiction film Alakadar [The Connected] (2018ongoing) and a series of sculptures, the exhibition tackles the painful relationship established with authority, and the fear of failure in the context of artistic production. A writer trying to make up for lost self-confidence, a painter tending to run away from ... More  Multaka-Oxford refugee project at Oxford University Museums supported by £1m funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies OXFORD.- The award-winning Multaka-Oxford project, that brings the rich and diverse knowledge of people settling in Oxford, many through forced migration, to two Oxford University museums, has received landmark funding. A generous £1million donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies will allow this innovative project at Oxford Universitys History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum to run for a further five years. Multaka which means meeting point in Arabic uses the two University museums and the collections as a meeting point to bring communities together, strengthening cultural understanding through the mutual sharing of art, stories, culture and science. Multaka-Oxford aims to support 200 volunteers to develop new skills and volunteer ... More  Pouya Afshar's multi-media story of displacement, migration, and resiliency on view at Craft ContemporaryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Craft Contemporary presents The Charm of the Unfamiliar, artist Pouya Afshars multi-media story of displacement, migration, and resiliency. Using historic portraiture and animation techniques, digital applications, and augmented reality, the exhibition follows the fictional narrative of a group of migrants that relo- cate to an abandoned city that had once been an amusement park. The displaced in this narrative are hybrid personas human and animal, some real, some mythical each physically transformed by their experiences of migration. These hybrid beings embody the toll of displacement and the adaptation and strength migration require and reflect the dehumanization and exoticizing of immigrants and refugees that continues to this day in the United States. Through this work, Afshar aims to open up dialogue about global refugee cri- ses, U.S. immigration ... More  The Contemporary Dayton presents three exhibitions that explore protestDAYTON, OH.- The Contemporary Dayton, presents artists who perpetually confront subjects surrounding current events encompassing political resistance and protests. This new exhibition features Indiana-based and internationally renowned painter, Samuel Levi Jones, Daytons most prolific artist, activist, and elder statesman, Willis Bing Davis, and Vietnamese film and visual artist, Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The three exhibitions are on view through January 16, 2022. The Co is committed to presenting artists whose practices speak to prominent issues of our time, states The Cos Executive Director, Eva Buttacavoli. These three exhibitions will challenge the way brutality is embedded in institutional systems and the beauty in consistently seeking out the truth. The Co is presenting Samuel Levi Jones: The Empire is Falling, featuring recent large-scale paintings by internationally ... More  Kehrer Verlag publishes 'Ragnar Axelsson's Where the World is Melting'NEW YORK, NY.- The first retrospective by Ragnar Axelsson includes among others the well-known series Faces of the North, Glacier, Last Days of the Arctic, and Arctic Heroes. The eminent Icelandic photographer's themes are the changes in the physical and traditional realities of the North. From the introduction by Isabell Siben,Director Kunstfoyer, Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung Munich: Icelander Ragnar Axelsson, one of the Norths most in-demand photographers,haslong been observing climate change with the greatest concern. For more than 40 years,he has been documenting the dramatic changesto landscapes and habitats on the margins of the inhabitable world,travelling to the most remote and isolated regions ofthe Arctic,to Inuit huntersinNorthern Canada andGreenland,to farmersand fishermen on Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and to the Indigenous population in Northern ... More  GIANT presents an exhibition spanning over 15 years of Sarah Maple's careerBOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT is presenting The Opposite of a Feminist, a solo exhibition of paintings, photographs and films by seminal British artist Sarah Maple. Spanning over 15 years, these are some of the boldest feminist works the artist has ever created, brought together for the first time. Dubbed Saatchi-on-Sea at its launch, GIANT now follows on from inaugural exhibition Big Medicine, which featured controversial sculptures by The Chapman Brothers as well as major works by Jim Lambie, Jeremy Deller and Gavin Turk. Here, GIANT makes another brave move, with The Opposite of A Feminist taking a provocative look at the role of women in the contemporary art world, media and society, through the eyes of one of the naughtiest, wittiest and most reverent artists working today Sarah Maple. GIANT itself, a brand-new 15000 sq ft gallery in Bournemouth, occupies ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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