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Bruneau & Co. will warm up the winter with an online-only Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Original paintings by noted, listed artists that span multiple generations and genres will headline Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers next online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique Auction scheduled for Monday, February 21st, beginning at 6 pm Eastern time. More than 350 lots, pulled from prominent estates and collections across New England, will come up for bid. Continuing on the momentum of last months sale, this catalog features an incredible single owner collection of 32 paintings by noted New England artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, said Kevin Bruneau, Bruneau & Cos president and an auctioneer. Names include Robert Spear Dunning, George Whitaker, Charles Gifford, and Bryant Chapin, amongst others. It will be interesting to see how they perform today. The art market is red-hot right now. Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer and the firms Director ... More

Smithsonian American Art Museum appoints two new deputy directors
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has hired Jane Carpenter-Rock as deputy director for museum content and outreach and promoted Eric Nastasi to deputy director for administration and finance. Carpenter-Rock will oversee the museums departments for Education, Conservation, External Affairs and Digital Strategies and the Research and Scholars Center. Nastasi will oversee the museums Administrative Office, Registrars Office, Exhibitions and Publications, as well as manage strategic partnerships. Nastasis appointment begins immediately; Carpenter-Rock joins the museum staff March 14. I am delighted to bring Jane Carpenter-Rock back home and to promote Eric Nastasi into new leadership roles at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, said Stephanie Stebich, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. ... More

Rolex stainless steel 'Pepsi' wristwatch sells for £22,320 at Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers
CHISLEHURST.- A Rolex stainless steel GMT Master 'Pepsi' automatic calendar bracelet wristwatch with dual time zone, along with its original receipt from 1970 and service history was sold for Â£22,320* by Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 in a sale of Antiques & Collectables at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon in Surrey. Purchased in April 1970, the watch was estimated to fetch Â£8,000-10,000 but was bought by trade buyer after fierce competition between telephone, room and internet bidders. In the same family since its original purchase, the watch had been discovered by Catherine during a valuation day last year at the sale venue [lot 356]. The second highest price of the sale was for an Egyptian sandstone relief fragment of a goddess that sold for Â£11,160 to a UK buyer against an estimate of Â£800-1,200 [lot 42]. Also from ... More

RAF Museum acquires Goodman medals
LONDON.- Expert Medal Auctioneers, Dix Noonan Webb have arranged the sale of the Second War campaign group of six awarded to Lancaster pilot Squadron Leader L. S. Benny Goodman to the RAF Museum. Goodman, who died in July 2021, aged 100 and his memorial service will be held at St. Clement Danes Church, this Friday (February 4, 2022) was the last surviving RAF pilot of 617 (Dambuster) Squadron to attack the German battleship Tirpitz. He went on to be one of the few pilots to drop the 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb, the heaviest ever dropped by the Royal Air Force, and by the end of the war he had flown on 30 bombing operations. The medals were sold with Squadron Leader Goodmans brown leather Irvin flying jacket, five Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Books plus several photographs and photographic images of the recipient as well as a variety of books. ... More

Dix Noonan Webb to sell first collection of 'skit' notes to come to auction
LONDON.- More than 30 skit notes dating from the 19th century will offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). This group of notes is the first part of the astonishing collection put together by Sir David Kirch - more will appear in future auctions. As Andrew Pattison, Head of Banknote Department at Dix Noonan Webb, explains: These documents, for it is technically incorrect to call them banknotes, are remarkable pieces of social history. They give us snapshots into the cares, fears, livelihoods, humour and pastimes of those who lived and worked in the British Isles for the last several hundred years. He continues: Skit notes generally mirror designs of real banknotes of the era. Some, by accident or design, sail very close to the wind, and 19th century court ... More

Harn Museum of Art appoints new Curator of Contemporary Art
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida announced the appointment of Jade Powers as Curator of Contemporary Art following a nation-wide search. Powers will assume her new position on Apr. 1, 2022. She joins the Harn from the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri where she curated more than ten permanent collection and special exhibitions since being appointed as Assistant Curator in 2018. Exhibition highlights include Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives (2021), Well-Read: Artists Inspired by Literature (2021), Dawoud Bey: Selections from Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2020), and Deconstructing Marcus Jansen (2018). In her role, Powers implemented acquisitions of contemporary art, co-authored and managed the Dyani White Hawk exhibition catalog, and was instrumental in the launch of the Kempers ... More

The Brooklyn Museum awards third annual UOVO Prize to Oscar yi Hou
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum awarded Oscar yi Hou the third annual UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists. yi Hous practice primarily focuses on the human form, and explores the complexity of identity through layers of iconography, symbolic references, and poetry. As the awardee, yi Hou will receive a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, a commission for a 50x50-foot public art installation on the faÃ§ade of UOVOs Brooklyn facility, located in Bushwick, and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. His public installation and Museum exhibition will debut later this year. yi Hou was selected by a team of curators from the Brooklyn Museum, and the exhibition, the artists first solo museum show, will be curated by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum. Were thrilled to select yi Hou ... More

Stirling's Macrobert Arts Centre kicks off 50th anniversary celebrations with Matilda Hall exhibition
STIRLING.- Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirlings cultural hub, is at last celebrating its monumental 50th Anniversary year after the pandemic postponed celebrations due to start in September 2021. With a programme of events running until September 2022, the venue will be welcoming audiences back for comedy, theatre, music and visual arts, as well as engaging the community in a range of cultural initiatives. The 50th anniversary comes at a time which also sees Stirling as the only Scottish city in the running to become UK City of Culture 2025. Culture in Stirling is characterised by collaboration, with all the main arts, heritage and cultural organisations working together under Scene Stirling involved in the bid. Macrobert Arts Centre is working alongside these fantastic organisations to break down barriers to the arts, aiming to create a place where art is part of the everyday and has ... More

Mingei International Museum welcomes new chief curator
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Emily G. Hanna joined Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park as Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator beginning January 31. She joins the Museum as it continues to celebrate its extraordinary transformation and reopening last September. She comes to San Diego from the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, where from 2002 she has served as Curator and Department Head, Arts of Africa and the Americas. In 2015 she was named Senior Curator while continuing as Department Head, and in 2020 took on the further role of Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the museum. In 2017 Emily was given a fellowship by the Center for Curatorial Leadership in partnership with The Columbia Business School. The year prior she participated in Leadership Birmingham, a program to educate leaders in the community about current issues ... More

GRAM presents forty years of groundbreaking photography by Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- A forty-year retrospective by two of todays most influential photo-based artists, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems, is on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum until April 30, 2022. Organized by GRAM, Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is the first exhibition to exclusively bring their work together. Featuring 140 works, the exhibition gives a unique glimpse into their distinct artistic approaches and trajectories, as well as the artists shared focus on representing communities and histories that have largely been unseen. Speaking about the artists, Chief Curator Ron Platt said, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems have always sought to create works of art that expand the way we think about the world. Both artists have been united in their commitment to amplifying authentic Black experiences and images, recognizing those important ... More

Kenneth H. Brown, playwright best known for 'The Brig,' dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Kenneth H. Brown, a New York playwright whose acclaimed 1963 off-off-Broadway play The Brig, based on his experiences as a Marine, portrayed dehumanization inside a military prison during the Korean War, died Feb. 5 at a hospice in Queens. He was 85. A friend, performance artist and writer Penny Arcade, said the cause was cancer. After growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s as something of a street tough, Brown, eager to serve his country, enlisted in the Marines at 18. But stationed in Japan, he found himself rattled by military life and was thrown into the brig for insubordination. There, by his account, he was humiliated and abused. Guards called him maggot; he was punched in the gut for even minor infractions. Mornings started with garbage-can lids being banged on bunk beds, and he and his fellow inmates were ordered to jog around their ... More