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Benno Tempel (director Kunstmuseum Den Haag), Fusien Bijl de Vroe (director Rembrandt Association) and Doede Hardeman (Head of Collections Kunstmuseum Den Haag) next to the painting by Max Beckmann.
THE HAGUE.- Kunstmuseum Den Haag has purchased an important work by painter Max Beckmann (1884 1950). The expressionist artist painted Bathers with Green Bathing Hut and Sailors in Red Trousers in 1934, after visiting the Dutch coastal resort of Zandvoort for the first time. Sea views are a recurring theme in Beckmanns work and stylistically, too, this painting is typical of his oeuvre, featuring an alienating composition and executed in vivid colours with dark outlines. The Netherlands played an important role in Beckmanns life. From 1937 until after the Second World War, he lived in exile in Amsterdam, in what turned out to be one of the most productive phases of his career. A major figure in 20th-century art, Beckmann not only occupies a key position in western art history, but also in Kunstmuseum Den Haags collection. This purchase, through Berlin auction house Grisebach, adds a second Beckmann painting to the mus ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Swim the Mountain Climb the Sea, a group exhibition showcasing new work by Bram Demunter, Isabella Ducrot, Adrian Ghenie, Anton Henning, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Dennis Tyfus and Rose Wylie alongside works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Ensor, Cameron Jamie, Pablo Picasso, Ceija Stojka and Franz West. This exhibition thus includes a selection of contemporary and modern artists who share the same pioneering spirit.
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| 'Poussin and the Dance' juxtaposes the old master's work with new dance commissions | | Redwood Library & Athenæum acquires a clock sculpture by contemporary artist Nari Ward | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb | 
Nicolas Poussin, Hymenaeus Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus, 163438 (detail). Oil on canvas, 65 9/16 à 146 7/8 in. Collection Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Purchase, 1958 MASP.00046. Photo: Alexandre Leão.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nicolas Poussin (French, 15941665) was the most influential French painter of the 17th century, and an artist fascinated by movement. Living and working in Rome, he painted scenes of wild revelrydancing nymphs and satyrsthat drew inspiration from classical antiquity and helped make Poussin a star of the European art world, widely recognized as the originator of French classicism. On view February 15May 8, 2022, Poussin and the Dance will present a selection of the artists dancing pictures alongside the antiquities that inspired him, and place these objects in dialogue with contemporary dance. Screened in the exhibition galleries and online, a series of original dance films by Los Angeles-based choreographers Micaela Taylor, Chris Emile, and Ana MarÃa Alvarez, will engage Poussin in a conversation across centuries ... More | | 
Nari Ward, Anchoring Escapement; Ithaca (2021). Clock, wooden West African statuary, copper plate and nails.
NEWPORT, RI.- Redwood Library & Athenæum, the nations first purpose-built library and interdisciplinary think space, has acquired a clock sculpture by contemporary artist Nari Ward. Entitled Anchoring Escapement; Ithaca, the work is from a limited series of tall case clocks radically transformed by Ward not only to address race, the repressed histories of slavery, and the reframing of Western time, but also to interrogate the shifting meaning of materials and motifs through a sculptural practice reliant on the adaptive re-use of divergent objects. The work is particularly suited to the Redwood given that Newport was home to the Claggett dynasty of colonial clockmakers, master craftsmen who from the early eighteenth century to the American Revolution built tall case clocks that are today regarded as the high point of American horology. The Redwood houses no less than three Claggett clocks, and in particular the masterpiece ar ... More | | 
R. Crumb, Fear the Invisible, 2021 © Robert Crumb, 2022. Courtesy the artist, Paul Morris, and David Zwirner.
PARIS.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb, on view at the gallerys Paris location. This is the first major joint presentation of husband and wife Crumb and Kominsky-Crumb and their daughter, Sophie Crumbwho have all lived in France for the past thirty yearssince the 2007 exhibition La Famille Crumb at Le Musée de Sérignan (now Musée régional dart contemporain Occitanie), France. By the time they met in 1971, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and R. Crumb had each already established themselves at the forefront of the underground comics scene: Kominsky-Crumb with her autobiographical comics that appeared in the influential all-female anthology Wimmens Comix, and Crumb with his genre-defining comic strips of the 1960s and early 1970s like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep on Truckin. As pioneering graphic artists, the two have maintained their o ... More |
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| Philbrook acquires major Marisol work | | The Antebellum Period through the Civil Rights Movement highlighted in Hindman's African Americana Auction | | Hauser & Wirth presents a selection of small and large-scale sculpture by Thomas J Price | 
Marisol (Venezuelan-American, 19302016). Magritte II, 1998. Oil, charcoal, plaster, cloth, wood, and umbrella, 67 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 32 1/2". Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Museum purchase, Taber Art Fund, 2022.1 a-e. © Marisol.
TULSA, OKLA.- Philbrook announces the new acquisition of a major work, Magritte II, by Marisol. Once named the Queen of Pop, Venezuelan-American artist Marisol (born MarÃa Sol Escobar, 1930-2016) was among the most influential and compelling artists of the 20th century, creating powerful sculptures exploring relationships, contemporary culture, and her own sense of self. She used her signature materials, reclaimed wood and found items such as jewelry, shoes, or umbrellas, to create life-size sculptures exploring, honoring, andat timessatirizing public personalities and important people in her life. The witty, insightful, and sometimes haunting portraits of cultural figures Marisol created throughout her career included artists who were friends or influences, such as Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986), and ... More | | 
A Tintype of an Armed African American Civil War Cavalryman Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Hindman will offer more than 300 lots detailing the African American experience in the United States from the Antebellum Period through the Civil Rights Movement to the modern day in its February 23 African Americana auction. This sale brings together property from several important collections and estates, most notably the Estate of Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, Washington, DC, who served as US Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia, as well as the Collection of Tom Charles Huston, comprised of a remarkable selection of 19th and 20th-century political imprints and ephemera. Ambassador Perkins spent a lifetime serving his country, first in the military, then as one of its greatest emissaries. Along the way, he surpassed numerous barriers, becoming the first African American to serve as ambassador to South Africa in 1986, then being named the first African American Director General of the Foreign ... More | | 
Thomas J Price, Reaching Out, 2021. Bronze (Golden patina), 177 x 37 x 37 cm / 69 5/8 x 14 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. © Thomas J Price. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Ken Adlard.
ST. MORITZ.- Thomas J Prices multidisciplinary practice confronts preconceived public attitudes towards representation and identity. For his first solo exhibition in Switzerland, titled The Space Between, Price presents a selection of small and large-scale sculpture spanning two decades, alongside two of his film works that show another dimension of his practice. The exhibition is an exploration into the artists long-established preoccupation with ancient traditions of monumental sculpture, alongside an intrinsic understanding of the symbolic power and hierarchy held in materials. Prices sculptures depict imagined subjects through the artists hybrid approach of traditional sculpting and intuitive digital technology. My work references art history as a means to reveal our learnt understandings and attitudes towards representation within ... More |
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| Nicolás Guagnini's first solo show in an Italian institution opens at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome | | Ivan Reitman, director of 'Ghostbusters,' is dead at 75 | | Suchitra Mattai's first solo exhibition with Hollis Taggart opens in New York | 
Nicolás Guagnini, Divinity School (The Ice Queen), 2016. Philara Collection, Düsseldorf.
ROME.- In Farces and Tirades, his first solo show in an Italian institution, Nicolás Guagnini presents over fifteen years of work, in an exhibition freely based on the dramaturgical structure of the commedia dellarte. The works are the masks, the exhibition space the stage on which they improvise their farces and tirades. There is no single theme, no chronological or hierarchal division. Adhering to a simple scenario, the exhibition is organized in two actsthe first from 10 February, the second starting on 14 April 2022in which the works-characters enter and exit, taking turns, changing their positions, relationships and attitudes. A series of key works alternate over the course of the two acts, outlining recurring themes in the artists oeuvrefrom the unconscious to the market, as he writeswhile revealing the variety of media with which Guagnini experiments and expresses himself: video-performance (Discharge, ... More | | 
The filmmaker injected giant marshmallow boogeymen and toga parties into popular culture with movies that included National Lampoons Animal House, Stripes and Kindergarten Cop.
by Christine Chung
NEW YORK, NY.- Ivan Reitman, a producer and director of a string of movies including Ghostbusters and National Lampoons Animal House that imprinted their antics on the funny bones of a generation of filmgoers, died Saturday at his home in Montecito, California, The Associated Press reported. He was 75. His children, Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman, and Caroline Reitman, confirmed the death in a statement to the AP. During his decadeslong career, with credits as recent as last year, Reitman produced and directed major box-office comedies that became iconic to the generations that grew up with them and contributed to the rise of actors like Bill Murray and Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he cast in the unlikely role of a police officer ... More | | 
Fitting In, 2022. Found vintage objects, fabric, and trim. Dimension varies. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart opened Herself as Another, artist Suchitra Mattais first solo exhibition with the gallery. Mattais multidisciplinary practice explores, unravels, and re-imagines commonly understood and entrenched histories and cultural perceptions. With her newest work, Mattai brings her incisive critique to an examination of the way society others populations that it deems different, placing particular focus on the experiences of immigrants and those dealing with mental illness. Through more than a dozen mix-media paintings, fiber sculptures, and installations, Mattai grapples with the fears and mythologies that drive people to ostracize and the impacts those actions have on the other. Herself as Another follows Mattais breakout New York presentation in Hollis Taggarts two-person show, History Reclaimed in 2020, and the artist formally joining the gallery in ... More |
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| Alphonse Mucha, ski and winter posters, vintage Grand Prix imagery & more at Swann | | Heritage Auctions' event commemorating Abraham Lincoln and his times surpasses $4.26 million | | John Michael Kohler Arts Center announces new Deputy Director of Programming and Chief Curator | 
Johannes Handschin, Grosser Preis Montreux, 1934. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Boasting more than 400 lots, Swann Galleries February 24 auction of Vintage Posters will offer graphic gems from across the centuries and around the globe. From the earliest examples of Art Nouveau, the works of Alphonse Mucha are well-represented by decorative panels, portfolios, and posters, including previously unseen rarities. On offer is a selection of designs featuring Sarah Bernhardt notably, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt - Worlds Tour 1914-15-16, circa 1914 ($4,000-6,000); as well as a poster Bernhardts Farewell American Tour in 1915 to 1916 by an unknown designer ($3,000-4,000). Early American Tiffany-Style highlights include Edward Penfields The Northampton Cycle Co., circa 1900 ($8,000-12,000), and Will Bradleys Victor Bicycles, 1895 ($8,000-12,000), among a selection of Bradley covers, posters and ephemera. Drawing inspiration from the Art Nouveau movement is ... More | | 
Abraham Lincoln: Signed Carte de Visite [CDV]. Sold on Feb 12, 2022 for: $81,250.
DALLAS, TX.- More than 1,300 people from around the world spent the weekend of President Abraham Lincolns 213th birthday vying for some of the most significant and compelling pieces of Lincolnalia to come to auction in decades. And by the time Heritage Auctions two-day near-sellout Lincoln and His Times event concluded Sunday afternoon, it realized $4,264,724, becoming Heritages most successful Americana event in the auction houses 46-year history. As the auction unfolded, we could tell this was going to be a special event, says Curtis Lindner, Heritage Auctions Director of Americana. We always knew we had exceptional material, and the collecting community agreed. The Lincoln and His Times Americana & Political Signature® Auction spanned the course of Lincolns life and career, from his days of practicing law in Springfield, Ill., through his wartime presidency. The events top lot ... More | | 
Jodi Throckmorton will be chief curator.
SHEBOYGAN, WI.- The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has appointed Ann Brusky as its new deputy director of programming and tapped Jodi Throckmorton for the newly created chief curator position. Both will assume their new roles on March 1. Ann and Jodi bring valuable experiences, expertise, and voices to a senior leadership team that is committed to JMKAC being a place where artists can experiment and thrive, and to providing meaningful experiences for all audiences. I look forward to working with them in the continuation and growth of those core Arts Center values, said incoming Arts Center Director Amy Horst. On March 1, Horst assumes the Arts Center directorship with the retirement of the current director, Sam Gappmayer. As deputy director of programming, Brusky will oversee planning and strategy for all Arts Center programming departments , including exhibitions, education, performing arts, community arts, Ar ... More |
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 Toledo Museum of Art welcomes Robert Schindler as William Hutton curator of European artTOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has chosen Robert Schindler as its William Hutton curator of European art. Schindler begins his appointment at TMA on March 1, 2022. In this role, he will manage the European art collection while reinstalling and reimagining it to create a more inclusive presentation. Schindler most recently served as the Fariss Gambrill Lynn and Henry Sharpe Lynn curator of European art at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), Alabama, where he was responsible for the collection of European paintings, sculpture and works on paper from c. 1300 to 1970. Robert is an exciting addition to our curatorial team, said Adam Levine, the Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director of the Toledo Museum of Art. The breadth of his scholarship, his commitments to both quality and belonging, the value ... More  The Barry Art Museum presents 'Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots'NORFOLK, VA.- The Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University announced its new exhibition, Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots, on view Feb. 10 to Dec. 31, 2022. This exhibition, presented by The George and Grace Dragas Family Foundation and Dragas Companies, investigates the emotional qualities of automata and robots by exploring parallels in the works from the Barry Art Museums permanent collection, the work of contemporary artists Elizabeth King and Joseph Morris, and the science of robots. Renowned for her multimedia works, King uses classic materials, such as glass, bronze and ceramics, to create intimate sculptures and self-portraits. These works come to life and blur the boundaries of figurative and virtual through stop-frame animation. Using time as a medium, Morris considers embodiment ... More  An audition season begins at the PhilharmonicNEW YORK, NY.- Its audition season at the New York Philharmonic. Well, not officially. But ever since the orchestras music director, Jaap van Zweden, announced that he would step down in 2024, every guest conductors appearance has carried the weight of speculation. When an outsider takes the podium these days, its hard to get through the concert without thinking: Could this be our future? And, for the next six weeks, the Philharmonics calendar is filled with nothing but guests. It began Thursday with Jakub Hrusa, a conductor with an ear for rarities and the skill to make persuasive cases for them. Next up are Santtu-Matias Rouvali, a charismatic and promising young talent; Manfred Honeck, a master of the standard repertory; Herbert Blomstedt, an elder statesman who, now in his mid-90s, is unlikely to be a music director again; and Gustavo Dudamel, ... More  'Life As It Is' by John Myers to be published by RRB PhotoBooksLONDON.- Life As It Is features eighty previously unpublished photographs from the archives of John Myers taken in and around Stourbridge in the 1970s and 80s. The focus of Myers work has always been the ordinary and underappreciated and this bookintended as a B-Side to his The Works trilogycombines both portraits and landscape to re-imagine a day in the life of Stourbridge. In 2020 Myers began revisiting photographs made 30-40 years earlier which his younger self had either previously dismissed or the value of the image wasnt apparent at the time. Through the selection in Life As It Is, Myers is challenging his youthful eye, and these previously disregarded images, collectively, build a more lived-in picture of the Middle England Myers has so diligently documented. Unused images are the odd ones, the ones that didnt quite ... More  Kusthalle Mainz presents 'Walid Raad: We Lived So Well Together'MAINZ.- Walid Raad is known for his performances, installations, videos and photographs. His works engage art and its histories, global conflicts, and the Lebanese civil wars with beautiful and highly crafted images and captivating stories. Swiftly and nimbly he spans continents and centuries, exposing the viewer to a maelstrom of images and words, of passed-down traditions and direct experience. He gently leans on historical and/or fictional objects, exposing explicit and implicit forms of violence hidden within. Walid Raads artistic approach may be compared to that of a historian and/or archaeologist and/or magician: He somehow penetrates an extensive system of passageways that connect continents, people, acts of war and natural catastrophes. The documents, artefacts and narratives that he creates start off from seemingly personal stories but soon ... More  Tamsin Dillon is named next Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture ParkLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park today announced public art proponent, curator, and commissioner of contemporary art, Tamsin Dillon as its next Executive Director. Dillon succeeds Suzy Delvalle, who has served as Interim Executive Director since July 2021, and John Hatfield who served as Executive Director from 2012 until 2021. Dillon begins her tenure at Socrates in mid-February. In a letter sent to Socrates staff and Board members, Socrates Board Transition Committee Members Michelle Coffey, Robert F. Goldrich, Shaun Leonardo, Ivana Mestrovic, and Brooke Kamin Rapaport praised Dillon, noting her role as a champion of the work of artists and art in neighbourhoods and communities, particularly related to parkland and public space: Tamsin is an innovative cultural leader that will take Socrates into the next stage ... More  New York artists in need can apply for $1,000 a monthNEW YORK, NY.- The offers promise to appeal to struggling artists. One would provide $1,000 a month for 18 months, no strings attached, to make it easier to spend time on creative work. The other is for a $65,000-a-year job with a community-based organization or a municipality. Beginning Monday, artists who live in New York state and can demonstrate financial need are being invited to apply for either as part of a new $125 million initiative called Creatives Rebuild New York that is being supported by several major foundations. The new initiative which will provide monthly stipends to 2,400 New York artists, and jobs to another 300 is the latest in a series of efforts around the country to give guaranteed income to artists. Programs are already underway in San Francisco, St. Paul, Minnesota, and elsewhere. The idea gained support ... More  Beethoven returns for the age of Black Lives MatterNEW YORK, NY.- Beethovens only opera, Fidelio, is hardly a fixed text. He wrote several possible overtures for it and reworked the score substantially over the course of a decade. But its meaning never changed: the heroism to be found in devotion, love and freedom in the face of injustice. In 2018, the daring and imaginative Heartbeat Opera an enterprise that, while small and still young, has already contributed more to operas vitality than most major American companies took the malleable history of Fidelio one step further, adapting the work as a moving indictment of mass incarceration. That production has now been revised for a revival that opened at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last weekend, before a tour that continues through the end of the month. Already inspired by the Black Lives ... More  Michael Wajszczuk joins Heritage Auctions as Timepieces Consignment DirectorDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that Michael Wajszczuk, a leading expert in the field of timepieces, has joined its Beverly Hills office as a Consignment Director in the auction houses Timepieces category. Michael brings a wealth of experience and extensive knowledge of global luxury brands and their upcoming releases and potential collaborations, and will be a tremendous asset to our Beverly Hills office, Heritage Auctions Watches & Fine Timepieces Director Jim Wolf said. He will make a significant impact throughout our footprint in the timepieces market on the West Coast, and along with the addition last year of Michael Schmidt, will elevate the Heritage Auctions timepieces department to new heights. Wajszczuk came to Heritage Auctions after spending 14 years as owner and of Los Angeles-based ... More  The estate of Robert W. Woodruff will be auctioned Feb. 26 by Ahlers & OgletreeDALLAS, TX.- Items from the estate of Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985), the American businessman and philanthropist who served as president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 to 1955, will come up for bid on Saturday, February 26th, by Ahlers & Ogletree, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Items from Woodruffs wife Nell, who was a Red Cross nurse, will also be sold. The more than 400 lots will include portraits of Mr. Woodruff by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Stephens, a portrait of George Washington by former President Dwight Eisenhower (Woodruffs longtime friend and golfing partner), a Thomas C. Molesworth Jack Rabbit stand, custom and Tiffany diamond jewelry worn by Nell, Coca-Cola items, furniture items and decorative objects. Also featured will be items pertaining to Woodruffs longtime friendship with legendary golfer Bobby ... More  The Neon Museum hires longtime gaming and hospitality branding executive Mike DiniLAS VEGAS, NEV.- The Neon Museum announced that Mike Dini has joined the museums executive team as director of marketing and communications. Dini brings to the museum a demonstrated history of success shaping the brands of casino hotels, gaming companies, and entertainment offerings, as well as diverse experience with directing marketing strategies and tactics to improve brand positioning, gain market share, and build customer loyalty. Mike will be an invaluable asset to The Neon Museum as we continue to grow and expand our programming and offerings, said Aaron Berger, executive director of The Neon Museum. His strategic approach, incredible professional experience, and affable personality will be a great addition to our executive team. He keenly understands our needs, which mirror the gaming industry, in that we want to attract ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Charles-André van Loo was born February 15, 1705. Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 - 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. In this image: Perseus and Andromeda.
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