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Ruben Ochoa in his van turned exhibition space Class: C, which will be displayed with a cardboard cutout of his brother at Frieze Los Angeles, Feb. 11, 2023. Ochoa is using his familys old tortilla delivery van to highlight the harassment endured by Los Angeles street vendors. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
by Jori Finkel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This beige 1985 Chevy cargo van has been around the block. When artist Ruben Ochoa was young, his parents used it for selling tortillas on a route north of San Diego. As a graduate student in the early 2000s, he used it to commute from Los Angeles to Irvine, California. And during that time he also transformed it into a fly-by-night, no-rent art gallery, inviting other artists and curators to take it over, hanging paintings inside, plastering the back with bumper stickers or creating a halfpipe on the roof. Now, for the first time since 2005, Ochoa is opening the doors of his storied and rather rusty van to the public again, parking it on the tarmac of the Santa Monica Airport for the run of Frieze Los Angeles there (Thursday through Sunday). Its engine is shot, so this time the van, known as Class: C (after the standard type of drivers license needed to operate it), will be towed into place. Another change: The van will showcase Ochoas own work, bronze sculptur ... More |
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| Neanderthal crab roast leftovers are found in a Portuguese cave | | Christie's to offer four centuries of gastronomic history through a selection of books | | Maarten Baas' first solo exhibition on the U.S. West Coast opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery | 
Distinctions between crab species based on claw morphology. Photo: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2023.
by Kate Golembiewski
NEW YORK, NY.- A number of cities vie for the unofficial title of seafood capital of the world, and Lisbon has a good claim. The city, Portugals coastal capital, is famous for its salted cod, sardines and stuffed brown crab. A study published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology reveals that these brown crabs have been on the menu for a long time. In a cave less than 20 miles from Lisbon, researchers discovered charred remnants of shells and claws: evidence that Neanderthals were cooking and eating crab 90,000 years ago. The cave site, Gruta da Figueira Brava, was about 1 mile from the coast when Neanderthals lived there. It contained multiple chambers, including an open porch living area, probably large enough to accommodate at least ... More | | 
Le cuisinier françois and Le pastissier françois (circa 1495, Lyon). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
PARIS.- Christies is inviting foodies and collectors alike to explore four centuries of gastronomic history through a selection of books coming from the library of Baron Pierre de Crombrugghe and with the collaboration of the experts Jacques T. Quentin and Benoît Forgeot. Cooking and the culinary arts have been the subject of poems, treatises and educational works as early as Antiquity and the Middle Ages. But it was not until the 19th century that the concept of gastronomy emerged in earnest. The Baron's library displays a number of themes that are inextricably linked to the culinary experience and the way it has evolved throughout history. Its shelves provide a rich menu of treatises on how to cut meat, poultry and fish, as well as texts on truffles, oysters and baking. There are also books explaining how to make iced desserts, tea, coffee and chocolate, and how to set the table and fold napkins. This collection of nearly 200 works ... More | | 
In the manner of a retrospective, Play Time combines artworks from several of Maarten Baas acclaimed collections, including Real Time, Clay, and Close Parity.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Maarten Baas Play Time, Maartens first solo exhibition on the U.S. West Coast. Play Time will be held at the gallerys Los Angeles location, opening during Frieze LA on February 14th, 2023. In the manner of a retrospective, Play Time combines artworks from several of Maarten Baas acclaimed collections, including Real Time, Clay, and Close Parity. Across these many series, Baas has consistently sought to reverse the natural flow of time and rekindle the wonder of childhood within an adult environment. This magical element is expressed through artworks centered around playfulness and purposely naïve shapes, resulting in a childlike signature style that has made his art instantly recognizable and iconic. It is clear, however, that the childlike innocence and honesty that his artworks express does not hide ... More |
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| Phillips unveils 'Titans of the 20th Century from the Collection of Marcel Brient' | | Exhibition at the Fondation HCB offers a new perspective on the work of Paul Strand | | First work by a Native American joins National Gallery of Art's Abstract Expressionist Collection | 
Willem de Koonings [no title], 1984. Estimate: £7,000,000-9,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced two spectacular examples of late 20th century abstraction from the esteemed Collection of Marcel Brient. Coming to auction for the first time, Gerhard Richters Mathis, 1983 and Willem de Koonings [no title], 1984 were created within a year of each other. In their scale, ambition and bravura execution they exemplify the painterly questions posed by the artists at a specific moment in their respective careers. After being unveiled at Phillips Paris, the works will go on view at Phillips Berkeley Square from 23 February to 2 March before being offered in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 2 March. Renowned French collector Marcel Brient has, over the decades, built one of the most important and illuminating collections of contemporary art and design that surprises and delights in the unexpected ... More | | 
Paul Strand, Young Boy, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951 © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. Fundación MAPFRE Collections.
PARIS.- The Fondation HCB offers a new perspective on the work of American photographer Paul Strand (1890‑1976) from the collections of the Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. While Strand is often celebrated as a pioneer of straight photography, this exhibition also addresses the deeply political dimension of his work. Opposites are cured by opposites, goes the saying. American photographer Paul Strand (18901976) was heir to two great traditions in photography, often presented as opposed. He had a formalist approach that sought to prove photography an art, and a social approach, which saw photography as more of a documentary instrument serving political ends. Perhaps this is explained by the fact that Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine, who occupy the two poles in photography ... More | | 
George Morrison, Untitled, 1961. Oil on canvas, overall: 96.2 x 111.44 cm (37 7/8 x 43 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from David M. Rubenstein 2022.123.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Chippewa, 19192000) is perhaps best known for his brilliantly colored paintings of the late 1950s and 1960s, and his wood collages begun in the mid-1960s. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Morrisons Untitled (1961), expanding its significant collection of abstract expressionist works by adding this key voice, and the first work by a Native American, to its New York School holdings. Morrison made this painting at a time when he was in and out of New York City, between teaching positions at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a residency at the Dayton Art Institute. He had arrived in New York in 1943 to study at the Art Students League, working and exhibiting ... More |
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| Lyman Allyn Art Museum adds new items to Tiffany exhibition | | Clars Auction announces Important Winter Modern + Contemporary Art Auction | | 'Reflections and Refractions Helen Pashgian and Kim Taek Sang' opens at Lehmann Maupin | 
Laburnum Library Lamp, ca. 1905, Tiffant Studios, New York, leaded glass, gilded bronze. The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has added a number of artworks to its permanent exhibition, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London, which has been attracting enthusiastic visitors since October 2018. The new objects include a large Laburnum Library Lamp by Tiffany, circa 1905, a Tiffany & Co. Egyptian Revival Scarab bib necklace and earring set, and a massive Tiffany-designed carved walnut and leather armchair. Museum staff periodically refresh the popular exhibition gallery, which is dedicated to the life and works of American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose family had deep ties to the New London area. With items from the Museums collection and others on loan, the exhibition displays nearly 100 pieces of decorative arts and fine art objects, including windows, lamps, silver, "favrile" glass, paintings and period photographs that tell the Tiffany familys story of life in Connecticut ... More | | 
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 18991991), Untitled (Dos Figuras), 1989, steel sculpture with patina, 16.5"h (41.90 cm). Estimate: $70,000$100,000.
OAKLAND, CA.- A featured highlight this month is a watercolor on paper by influential German-Swiss artist Paul Klee. This piece, titled Fragment of a Mural (Fragment einer Wandmalerei), shows an abstract image that is left to the viewer to decipher. Klee is known for the use of geometric forms in his work, often building his arrangements with triangles and rectangles, but here we see an unrecognizable object, made more mysterious by the title identifying it as just one section from a larger composition. Klee is perhaps even better known for his innovative take on color theory. The blending of purple into red into gray tones seen in this work illustrates Klees opinion that small sections of color could be unified to create a harmonious visual. Furthermore, during his time as an instructor at the Bauhaus, Klee taught as a master of stained glass, often using smoking techniques to color pieces of glass. The muted tones in this watercolor ... More | | 
Helen Pashgian, Untitled, circa 2010 (detail). Cast epoxy, 12 x 12 x 2 inches (framed), 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm.
SEOUL.- Lehmann Maupin presents Reflections and Refractions, an exhibition that unites works by Helen Pashigian and Kim Taek Sang to explore the universalizing possibilities of light, space, and sensory immersion. Though separated by geography, cultural difference, and linguistic barriers, both Pashgian and Kim are deeply invested in the haptic experience of both the art making and art viewing processes. Their work shares an intangible connection: both artists seek to convey the experience of something inarticulablea natural quality, an elemental space, a fleeting moment in time. The works on view, which include painting and sculpture, draw viewers into contact with something at once familiar and mysterious, creating opportunity for interaction outside of cultural boundaries or societal norms. Connecting Pashgian and Kim across time and space, Reflections and Refractions gestures towards a kind of cross-cultural ... More |
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| Famous Olivier family art collection to be offered at auction | | Holabird's Treasures from the Shelves auction will be held Feb. 18-19 | | De La Soul's David Jolicoeur, who rapped as Trugoy the Dove, dies at 54 | 
In Freya Starks Garden by Herbert Olivier (1861-1952). Lot 128. Estimate £1,500-£2,000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts auctioneers is excited to offer the largest collection of works to ever come onto the market by celebrated artist Herbert Olivier (1861-1952), uncle of the legendary actor Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989). While his works can be found in museums and major collections around the world, these 39 lots (lots 105-145) come straight from the artists home in Airlie Gardens, Holland Park, London, where his great grandson James Larsson tells us they have adorned the walls for over 100 years. Royal Academy-trained Herbert Olivier was a portrait, allegorical and landscape painter, as well as being appointed an official war artist. He was well-known for his portraits of Royalty (George V) and aristocracy, as well as his grand-scale allegorical works. He favoured painting en plein air and had a passion for capturing the natural landscape around him. Well-travelled, visiting far-flung destinations such as India with the Duke ... More | | 
Map of the Leadville (Colorado) mining district from 1901, compiled from official records and other reliable sources by Chas. F. Saunders, printed by Denver Litho. Co. (est. $1,000-$2,000).
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs next auction, titled Treasures from the Shelves, will represent a bit of a departure from past events. For starters, its only two days (February 18th and 19th), not Holabirds customary five days. Start times both days will be 8 am Pacific time. Also, it will be an autopilot auction, with a ten dollar start price on each lot. The auction will feature over 1,400 lots in many collecting categories, to include mining, bottles, stocks, philatelic, militaria, Native Americana, numismatics and general Americana. More items from important collections that have been featured in past sales, such as those of Gary Bracken, Ken Prag and Stuart MacKenzie, will come up for bid. Dealers will want to mark their calendars. Day 1 on Saturday, February 18th will contain 757 lots in the categories minerals ... More | | 
The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and 90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the groups longtime exclusion from streaming.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Jolicoeur of De La Soul, the rap trio that expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 90s with eclectic samples and offbeat humor, becoming MTV staples and cult heroes of the genre, died Sunday. He was 54. His death was confirmed by the groups publicist, Tony Ferguson, who did not specify a cause or say where Jolicoeur was when he died. In recent years, Jolicoeur has openly discussed a struggle with congestive heart failure, including in a music video for the groups song Royalty Capes. De La Soul arrived with the album 3 Feet High and Rising in 1989, a time when hip-hop was still relatively new to the mainstream. The genres public face was often confrontational, with groups such as Public Enemy and NWA speaking out about the racism, police violence ... More |
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 Gustavo Dudamel: A maestro at a crossroadsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Gustavo Dudamel paused mid-Rachmaninoff the other morning and flashed a mischievous smile at the 92 players of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This part, he said as they rehearsed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, is like that aunt who kisses you too much. He puckered his lips loudly three times. My dears, he said, looking toward the violins, lets try it again. He was back on the same podium where, just two days earlier, he had broken the news to the musicians, in a shaky and uncertain voice, that he would leave his post as their music and artistic director in 2026 to take on the same job at the New York Philharmonic. It was, he said, one of the hardest decisions of his life. But now he was back in his element, making music, swaying his hips and throwing his fist into the air, and imploring the players to liberate every bit of gravity from their playing ... More  Reminiscing about clothes that shaped hip-hopNEW YORK, NY.- A proud crowd of hip-hop style pioneers gathered at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology on Tuesday night to toast the opening of a show that celebrates the history and evolution of hip-hop fashion. The exhibition, Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style, documents the fashion genres humble origins from its beginnings in the Bronx borough of New York City in the early 1970s to its crossover into the mainstream as a dominant and lucrative international force. The guest list was filled with early streetwear designers, old-school rappers, graffiti artists and hip-hop historians. Visitors sipped Champagne while a DJ played retro hits like Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G. (The late rappers son, C.J. Wallace, was in attendance.) The mood was triumphant: No one disputes the Timberland boots enduring influence on street fashion ... More  Jürgen Flimm, director of festivals and opera houses, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Jürgen Flimm, who led some of Europes most important theaters, opera houses and performing arts festivals over the past 40 years, died Feb. 4 at his home in Wischhafen, Germany, northeast of Hamburg. He was 81. His death was announced by the Berlin State Opera, where he had been general manager from 2010-18. His wife, film producer Susanne Ottersbach Flimm, said the cause was heart failure following pneumonia. Flimms Berlin appointment was his last in a long career that also included directorships at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Ruhrtriennale festival in northwestern Germany and the Salzburg Festival in Austria. He also staged Richard Wagners Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany in 2000. He directed acclaimed productions outside the German-speaking world as well, including at Teatro alla Scala in Milan ... More  Across Paris, an Invader unleashes his artPARIS.- It all began down a narrow cobblestone road near Place de la Bastille. An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a wall. He used square bathroom tiles that resembled pixels. Within the year, he had stuck 146 more to monuments, bridges and sidewalks. He was cementing a mosaic to a church wall when the police arrested him for the first time. He was not caught when he stuck 10 up inside the Louvre. I was invading public space with a mosaic of a small character whose role is to invade, said the artist, who goes by the street name Invader, during an interview in a private room of a small gallery exhibiting his work in Paris. I had found my thing, like the great artists who found their style. A quarter-century later, it is hard to go more than a few blocks in much of Paris without spotting an Invader mosaic if you look. ... More  Celia Cruz will be first Afro-Latina to appear on the U.S. quarterNEW YORK, NY.- Celia Cruz, a Cuban American singer who was known as the Queen of Salsa, will be the first Afro-Latina woman to appear on American quarters as part of a U.S. Mint initiative. The mint said in a news release Feb. 1 that Cruz would be featured as a 2024 honoree of the American Women Quarters Program, which portrays prominent women throughout history on the quarter. Other honorees this year include Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color to serve in Congress; Pauli Murray, the writer, lawyer and activist; Mary Edwards Walker, an abolitionist and surgeon during the Civil War era; and Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, who was a political activist for Native American rights. The designs for the honorees will be made public by mid-2023, the mint said. Cruz, described ... More  Rare £500 note from the Bank of England branch in Leeds will be offered at auctionLONDON.- An extremely rare £500 note from the Bank of England branch in Leeds dated 1936 will be offered by Noonans in their sale of Banknotes on Wednesday & Thursday, March 1 & 2, 2023. Signed by Kenneth O. Peppiatt who was Chief Cashier at the Bank of England, it is expected to fetch £18,000-22,000. It is the first one to ever be sold at auction and only the second one known to exist. As Andrew Pattison, Head of Banknote Department at Noonans commented: It is indeed a fantastic note. £500 notes are very rare, and in fact only available from three Bank of England branches - London, Liverpool and Leeds, although some were issued in Birmingham and Manchester none have ever come to light. Of those available, Leeds branch, like this one, are the rarest. It comes from a long-term collector and is only the second example ever to come to the open market. ... More  Latvian National Museum of Art exhibits work by Amanda ZiemeleRIGA.- From 11 February to 23 April 2023, a solo exhibition entitled Sun Has Teeth by the Purvītis Prize 2021 winner Amanda Ziemele is on view in the Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. The project focuses on the diverse potential and expressiveness of the art form of painting as it transforms through interaction with space into an installation that invites the visitors gaze in. Amanda Ziemele (1990), who won the Purvītis Prize 2021 for her show Quantum Hair Implants at the Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, is one of the most vivid and unconventional figures on the current Latvian art scene. At the time, the panel of experts singled out the authors skill for creating an open space where there was neither too much nor too little of anything, noting that it exudes a certain feel of freedom for everybody and everything ... More  'Anastasia Bay: The Stumbler's Parade' opens at Venus Over ManhattanNEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting Anastasia Bay: The Sumbler's Parade, an exhibition of new work by the Brussels-based artist. Comprising a series of twelve paintings inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elders masterpiece The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), the exhibition is Bays first in New York City, and her debut presentation with Venus Over Manhattan. Anastasia Bay: The Stumblers Parade is on view at 55 Great Jones Street from February 9th through March 11th, 2023. Rendered directly on canvas with soft pastels, Bays gestural, figurative imagery combines blocks of saturated color with loose and suggestive lines that convey motion: her figures travel across the canvas with speed and purpose. Bay draws deliberate connections to antiquity and art history in an oeuvre that routinely offers up such classical forms as Greek caryatids and Roman wrestlers ... More  Record-setting 1855-S Three Dollar Gold coin leads Heritage auction above $14.5 millionDALLAS, TX.- A unique 1855-S Three Dollar Gold, PR64 Cameo, from the Bender Family Collection, Part III, sold for a record $2.16 million to lead Heritage Auctions Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature ® Auction to $14,576,527 Feb. 9-12. The total for the events top lot, which drew 47 bids, obliterated the previous auction record of $1,322,500 a standard that was set in 2011. Ive been watching collector demand for $3 gold pieces increase over the past few years especially for those proof issues with very low original mintages, says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions. Coincidentally, the Bender and Bass collections have come to market at the same time, providing connoisseurs in this series opportunities that might only come once in their lifetimes. The 1855-S was produced to commemorate the first striking of the three dollar denomination at the San Francisco ... More  India Art Fair closes its 2023 edition, concluding its most ambitious showcase to dateNEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, the leading platform showcasing modern and contemporary art from India and South Asia, closed to significant acclaim amid reports of buoyant sales. Taking place from 9 12 February 2023 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi, the fair featured a strong line-up of 85 exhibitors, including 71 galleries and 14 institutions. Led in partnership with BMW India for the seventh time and with artists voices at its centre, the fair brought together galleries, collectors, institutions, artists, organisations and art-lovers alike, fostering crucial opportunities for dialogue, discovery and exchange. The 14th edition of India Art Fair, organised by Angus Montgomery Arts, welcomed new and returning visitors, acknowledging it as an unmissable event on the international art calendar, to discover, nurture and collect South Asian art and artists. Jaya Asokan ... More  Review: Bach Collegium Japan returns with chamber musicNEW YORK, NY.- At the 92nd Street Y, New York, on Sunday, Bach Collegium Japan led by its founder and music director, Masaaki Suzuki brought bold, brisk style to chamber works by its eponymous composer and his contemporaries. A small subset of this ensembles period-instrument forces five strings, oboe, flute and harpsichord came together in various configurations for a Bach orchestral suite, one of Telemanns Paris quartets and a chamber sonata by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch. Baritone Roderick Williams joined them for cantatas by Bach and Telemann. It was an afternoon of fitful pleasures. When the players had a clear, distinctive musical character to embody a blithe movement from the Telemann quartet or the slumber aria from Bachs cantata they tackled it with focused collaboration. Individual members of the group had moments of understated eloquence ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German sculptor Katharina Fritsch was born February 14, 1956. Katharina Fritsch (born 14 February 1956) is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Katharina Fritsch is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. In this image: Katharina Fritsch, Erdbeere / Strawberry 2017. Polyester, paint, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, 80 x 80 x 80 cm. ©Katharina Fritsch / VG BildKunst, Bonn / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Ivo Faber, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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