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Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug 5 ft 3 in x 4 ft 2 in (1.6 m x 1.27 m). Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nazmiyal Auctions announces its much-anticipated February 2023 Auction. A highly curated collection of antique and mid-century rugs from a variety of estates and from Nazmiyal collection will be offered for a fraction of their original price; some without reserve. This exciting auction will take place online on Sunday, February 26, at 11:00 am and will feature a phenomenal collection of fine and decorative pieces sourced from dealers, private estates, and collectors worldwide. These spectacular lots are auctioned at a fraction of their original price and some have no reserve at all, offering a unique chance to dealers, interior design professionals and design afficionados alike, to private clients and the general public, academic scholars and antique collectors to spot and purchase highly valued antique and vintage pieces at a more accessible price. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting Fran Siegel, Chronicle, curated by jill moniz of Transformative Arts. Chronicle is the culmination of recent works that express Siegelâs contemplation of place, dreams and perspectives.
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| Art fair visitor breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture | | Cambodia says it has recovered looted gold jewelry once worn by royals | | An art show that asks, 'why is everyone breaking up right now?' |
A woman accidentally knocked over a bright blue dog sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said.
MIAMI, FLA.- The balloon dog sculptures made famous by Jeff Koons so closely imitate their twisted latex inspiration that some observers might think they would be better set in a circus than an art gallery. But the fragility of these seemingly buoyant sculptures was made clear Thursday when visitors at an art fair in Miami saw a bright blue porcelain dog worth $42,000 fall and shatter into pieces. The sculpture, which was about 16 inches tall and 19 inches long, was perched on a transparent pedestal at Art Wynwood, an art fair in downtown Miami where more than 50 galleries from the United States and abroad are showcasing works through Sunday. During the art fairs VIP preview night Thursday, art collectors and other aficionados were milling around when a woman knocked over the Koons sculpture, causing it to shatter into at least 100 pieces. Before I knew it, they ... More | |
A gold necklace with an amulet and purple stone, believed to have once been worn by Angkor royalty, that was returned to Cambodia. (Cambodia Ministry of Culture & Fine Arts via The New York Times)
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the ninth century. Other items were also treasured legacies of Cambodias past: belts and necklaces woven from fine gold filaments, or body ornaments shaped into rosettes and scrolling vines. All were part of a hoard of 77 gold relics that Cambodian officials believe were looted by tomb raiders and whose return was celebrated Monday in the capital, Phnom Penh. Each of the items came from the collection of Douglas A.J. Latchford, a dealer and scholar of ancient Cambodian art who was accused late in his life of having been an antiquities trafficking kingpin. Hab Touch, secretary of state with Cambodias Ministry of Culture & Fine Arts, said in an interview ... More | |
A tower of pink marshmallow cereal treats at the one-night-only event Why Is Everyone Breaking Up Right Now?, in Brooklyn, Feb. 14, 2023. The event provided a salve to the brokenhearted on Valentines Day. (Ali Cherkis/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Where do broken hearts go on Valentines Day? Or any day, for that matter? While romantics across New York City were presumably holding hands over small bistro tables at overpriced restaurants or seated inside theaters in their best outfits, more than 150 people took refuge at an AllInOne Collective warehouse in Brooklyn, communing over their shared grief instead of spending the night alone at home. Jack Carrick woke up early Valentines Day morning for a cross-country flight from Seattle to New York, his soon-to-be new home. He landed about 9 a.m. last Tuesday and settled into his sublet in Brooklyn. After dinner that evening, Carrick, 29, headed to his first outing as one of the citys newest residents: an art installation inspired by broken hearts. Posts about ... More |
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| An artist's queer take on 'Moby-Dick' | | Zen Buddhist Japanese Paintings from the Renowned Gitter-Yelen Collection now on view at the MFAH | | Frieze Los Angeles returns for largest fair yet, with strong sales |
Wu Tsang in London, Feb. 9, 2023. (Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times)
by Thomas Rogers
ZURICH.- Until a few years ago, American artist Wu Tsang never had much interest in Moby-Dick, Herman Melvilles classic 1851 novel. Its subject an obsessed mariners quest for a mythical white whale was far removed from her previous work, which includes video and performance pieces about migration and nightlife, as well as abstract dance. But when a friend suggested that she take a closer look at the books complex and often loaded treatment of capitalism and social hierarchy, she became excited. There are these passages where they are squeezing the whale blubber that are so perverse, she said recently in Zurich, where she lives. It was so juicy. Tsang, 41, was so moved by the novel that she created two large-scale video pieces inspired by it: a digital work mostly depicting undersea life, Of Whales, ... More | |
Hakuin Ekaku, Giant Daruma, 18th century, hanging scroll; ink on paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Gitter-Yelen Collection, gift of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, from February 19 through May 14, 2023. The exhibition is centered around some 100 masterworks from the renowned holdings of New Orleans- based collectors Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen, many of which were recently acquired by the museum. None Whatsoever explores the origins of Zen Buddhism in Japanese painting through ink paintings and calligraphies by 18th-century Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768), and other painter-monks from the 18th to the 20th century who expressed Zen Buddhist teachings through their art. A related selection of modern and contemporary art influenced by Zen Buddhism includes work by Robert Motherwell, John Cage, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ad Reinhardt, Takahiro Kondo, and Franz ... More | |
Goodman Gallery. Frieze Los Angeles 2023. Photo by James Jackman / CKA. Courtesy of Frieze.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Frieze Los Angeles 2023 closed on Sunday evening to reports of strong sales, international attendees, energy, and enthusiasm, attracting 35,000 visitors throughout the fairs four day run. This year the event was held at a new location at the Santa Monica Airport, with over 120 galleries from 22 countries, its largest number of participants to date. Running from an invitation-only preview on Thursday, February 16 to Sunday, February 19, Frieze Los Angeles brought together galleries, institutions, non-profits, philanthropists, and artists to celebrate the citys arts and cultural communities. Opening to high energy in the early hours of Thursday morning, all four days of the fair saw major sales and notable attendance from international collectors, museum groups and major figures from the cultural and entertainment worlds. Christine Messineo, Director of Americas, Frieze: Each year Frieze rallies the creative com ... More |
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| World premiere exhibition Pop Masters: Art From the Mugrabi Collection, New York unveiled | | Fran Siegel Chronicle, curated by jill moniz on view at Wilding Cran Gallery | | Sotheby's to offer one of the most important works to come to auction by Frantiek Kupka |
HOTA Gallery Installation view Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York.
Top to Bottom, L to R: Andy Warhol, Sylvester Stallone (1980) Keith Haring and Juan Dubose (1983) Robert Mapplethorpe (1983) Gianni Versace (197980). Photographer credit Shannon Johnston, Risen Film.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Gold Coast contemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts today unveiled the world premiere exhibition, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York this February 18th, 2023. Drawn entirely from the famed private collection of one of the worlds most prominent art collectors, Jose Mugrabi, the first international blockbuster exhibition to be presented at the new HOTA Gallery celebrates the origins and on-going legacy of Pop Art. A world first exhibition, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York presents more than 50 works never-before-seen in Australia by 15 legendary and renowned artists including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Tom Wesselmann, Katherine ... More | |
Fiona, 2022. Porcelain, paint, fabric, scrim, 81 x 68 x 3 in., 205.74 x 172.72 x 7.62 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Wilding Cran Gallery opened Fran Siegel, Chronicle, curated by jill moniz of Transformative Arts this past January 14th. Chronicle is the culmination of recent works that express Siegels contemplation of place, dreams and perspectives, and will be on view until March 4th. Chronicle features 216 small drawings on paper that Siegel started at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She visualized the discourse around the virus as extensions of her focus on pinwheel and maps, as a shorthand of place, and the aesthetics approaching abstraction. moniz pairs these ephemeral works with Siegels painted tapestries that incorporate porcelain as armatures, structural hardware that deciphers colonial appropriation and cultural production. The exhibition offers multiple entry points into dialogues that magnify how making transforms moments, from staged and beautiful, to essential ... More | |
Complexe carries an estimate of £2,200,000-2,800,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- An exceptional painting by Frantiek Kupka from the estate of the late Sir Sean Connery, the original James Bond actor, is set to make its auction debut in London on March 1 as part of Sothebys Modern & Contemporary Evening sale. An extremely rare work by the Czech painter, Complexe carries an estimate of £2,200,000-2,800,000 the highest estimate ever to be placed on a work by the artist at auction. The work was acquired by the late actor and philanthropist in 2016, and proceeds from its sale will partially benefit The Connery Foundation, set up in 2022 to honour Sir Seans legacy through strategic grantmaking to institutions and organisations in Scotland and the Bahamas. Thomas Boyd-Bowman, Head of Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sales, Sothebys London, said One of the key artists credited with developing abstraction, Kupkas place in the history of modern painting is finally being recogni ... More |
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| Nadezda Nikolova: Unique Works solo exhibition on view at HackelBury Fine Art | | The Puddester Collection of Coins of the English East India Company fetches £1,581,800 at Noonans | | Despised dictator's 'scary' shrine becomes a bet on Albania's future |
Immanent Forms, Waves: Transposition © Nadezda Nikolova / Courtesy HackelBury Fine Art London.
LONDON.- HackelBury Fine Art, London is presenting Unique Works, a solo exhibition of work by Nadezda Nikolova in which the artist seeks to capture a singular sense of oneness and universal connectivity in her work through multi-layered compositions. The exhibition opened on February 4th, and will continue through April 1st, 2023. Nikolovas profound love of nature and concern about the detrimental human impact on the environment is a recurring theme. There is a palpable sense of loss and fragility in her work in which she expresses a desperate plea for change and for a radical shift in collective values in the way we live our lives and coexist on this planet. I believe that we need to create new templates for how we relate to ourselves, to one another, to the living planet. - Nadezda Nikolova However, Nikolovas belief in humanity and a deep sense of spirituality ... More | |
The only known Bombay gold Half-Mohur, 1765.
LONDON.- A phenomenal single-owner collection of coins of the East India Company fetched a hammer price of £1,581,800 (£1,961,432 including buyers' premium) at Noonans in a two-day sale on Wednesday and Thursday, February 8 and 9, 2023. Comprising 1,246 coins which were sold in 905 lots, the legendary Robert P. Puddester Collection had been amassed over the past 45 years. As Peter Preston-Morley, Special Projects Director in the Coins department at Noonans commented: This was a landmark sale which will be remembered for a very long time, as indeed were the sales of the Pridmore and other major collections back in the 1980s, when many of the great rarities here were last on the market. We were very pleased with the overall result, bearing in mind the current economic climate. The 905 lots were acquired by no less than 106 different buyers from almost every part of the globe, with many more individuals involved in the bidding who were u ... More | |
Llesh Biba, an Albanian artist and sculptor, seen in his workshop in Tirana, Albania on Feb. 1, 2023. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
by Andrew Higgins
TIRANA.- Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the center of Albanias capital, Tirana, was falling apart by the time engineers and construction workers arrived to rescue it. The windows were broken. Homeless people were sleeping in its cavernous hall, which was daubed with graffiti and stinking of urine. Empty bottles and syringes littered the floor, which was covered in polished marble when the pyramid a shrine to Albanias late communist dictator, Enver Hoxha first opened in 1988, but had since been stripped bare by vandals and thieves. The place was a wreck, Genci Golemi, the site engineer, recalled of his first visit. Everything had been stolen. Now, after two years of reconstruction work, the building is a glistening ... More |
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"Simon Fujiwara: Who is Who-Dimensional?" recently opened in Milan
MILAN.- Gió Marconi announced Who is Who-Dimensional?, Simon Fujiwaras third solo exhibition at the gallery, hasreturned to its former venue in Via Tadino 15 in Milan this past February 17th, and will continue through to April 20th, 2023. Building on a string of international exhibitions centered around his cartoon character Who the Baer, Fujiwara presents a body of new two dimensional or flat works from his highly acclaimed series which debuted in 2020 at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. Who the Baer was developed by the artist during the first pandemic lockdown as a Dada-esque response to an increasingly absurd and incomprehensible world. Faced with the seemingly unresolvable questions raised by global protests and the dissolution of our traditional identity structures, Fujiwara created an avatar in the form of an identity-free cartoon character named ... More
Richard Belzer, detective Munch on 'Law & Order: SVU,' dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Belzer, who became one of American televisions most enduring police detectives as John Munch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and several other shows, died Sunday at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. He was 78. The death was confirmed by Bill Scheft, a friend of Belzers. Scheft, who has been working on a documentary about Belzers life and career, said the actor had suffered from circulatory and respiratory issues for years. As Munch, Belzer was brainy but hard-boiled, cynical but sensitive. He wore sunglasses at night and listened to the horror stories of rape victims in stony silence. He was the kind of cop who made casual references to Friedrich Nietzsche and novelist Elmore Leonard. He spoke in quips; when accused of being a dirty old man, he responded: Who are you calling old? In a 2010 interview ... More
Wilding Cran Gallery exhibits recent works by Fran Siegel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting Fran Siegel, Chronicle, curated by jill moniz of Transformative Arts. Chronicle is the culmination of recent works that express Siegels contemplation of place, dreams and perspectives. Chronicle features 216 small drawings on paper that Siegel started at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She visualized the discourse around the virus as extensions of her focus on pinwheel and maps, as a shorthand of place, and the aesthetics approaching abstraction. moniz pairs these ephemeral works with Siegels painted tapestries that incorporate porcelain as armatures, structural hardware that deciphers colonial appropriation and cultural production. The exhibition offers multiple entry points into dialogues that magnify how making transforms moments, from staged and beautiful, to essential ... More
Exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin on view at Gagosian
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Gavin. This is the artists first exhibition with the gallery. Gavins landscape paintings transmute subjective responses to specific places into expansive works with striking palettes and fluid, gestural brushwork. Composed in dimensions that are in keeping with the scale of experience, these paintings interpret the sites and processes of the natural world. In this body of work, Gavin concentrates on subjects he finds in the vicinity of his studio in New Yorks Hudson Valley. He proposes a conception of landscape in relation to his status as a citizen and steward of the land, developing ways to explore themes of growth, renewal, and belonging. Gavins paintings respond to the land as he finds it, which he endeavors to preserve and rewild. Made following the artists move ... More
The man who discovered Escher: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
THE HAGUE.- This year is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). With the worlds largest museum collection of work by Escher, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Escher in The Palace are the focus of this special anniversary year. Both museums host major exhibitions devoted to Escher. His successful career is being celebrated, which would never have been possible without his mentor and close friend Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868-1944). The moving work of De Mesquita is being shown alongside Eschers work in The Man Who Discovered Escher: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. De Mesquita was not only a magnificent artist and printmaker, he also taught graphic techniques. It was in this capacity that he first met a keen young man at the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. Encouraged ... More
Toledo Museum of Art pairs works by Caravaggio with paintings from the permanent collection in early 2024 exhibition
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art will present four important paintings by Caravaggio in conversation with works from the Museums permanent collection in The Brilliance of Caravaggio: Four Paintings in Focus, on view Jan. 20-April 14, 2024. The exhibition marks the first time in more than a decade that four paintings by this renowned Italian artist have been on view together in the United States and only the second showing ever of Caravaggios work at the Toledo Museum of Art. A single composition by the artist was shown at the Museum in 1951. Caravaggios theatrical works will appear alongside examples of paintings by Italian, French, Dutch and Spanish artists from TMAs collection to demonstrate ... More
Bellmans to sell part of the property of Meredith Etherington-Smith
LONDON.- Meredith Etherington-Smith (19462020) was a British fashion and art journalist and biographer, well-known for working with Diana, Princess of Wales, on her charity clothes auction at Christie's in 1997. Bellmans is selling a selection of works of art, furniture and fashion items in the February auction (22-24 February 2023). She started her career as a journalist in the 1960s, worked as the London editor for Vogue Paris in the 1970s, and for a year was the only female editor of GQ in the US and Deputy and Features editor at Harpers & Queen in London from 1983. By the early 1990s, however, she had established herself as an art journalist and was the founder of Art Fortnight, edited ArtReview and Artinfo.com. She was editor-in-chief of Christie's Magazine and was not only closely involved with the famous Diana charity auction, but also ... More
The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is on-track for a 2024 reopening
KEARNEY, NE.- The expansion, restoration, and renovation of The Museum of Nebraska Art is on-track for a 2024 reopening. This past fall, Phase One of construction began with the removal of both the parking lot and former Sculpture Garden, making way for the 23,000 square foot addition. In an effort to maintain energy efficiency, twenty-four geothermal wells have been installed, thus creating temperature-controlled buildings throughout the seasons. The next major milestone was the excavation of roughly 9,000 square feet of terrain, making way for the two-story expansion. Additional preparation includes removal of the surrounding ground water, followed with a foundation pour of approximately 600-800 cubic yards of concrete. Upon completion of the three-foot foundation, steel members will be installed to bolster the mass wood timbers ... More
For a film about Korean adoptees, a group effort
NEW YORK, NY.- Her biological father insists on buying her ballet shoes she does not want. She is repulsed by a tortured relatives overzealous dinner prayer and insistence on physical touching. When she visits her adoption agency, her eyes linger on pictures of smiling, happy parents and children. But Freddie, a 25-year-old adoptee born in South Korea and raised in France, also grows up. She realizes that South Korea is toxic for her. And she goes back anyway with mixed results. Return to Seoul, a critically acclaimed drama that earned a place on the Oscars shortlist, has drawn praise for bringing forward a story that feels authentic to many adoptees and at the same time resonates with anyone who has ever felt a little lost. The film tracks Freddie as she repeatedly returns to her birth country in a series of vignettes that play out over r ... More
With 'Letters From Max' onstage, Sarah Ruhl again mourns a poet's death
NEW YORK, NY.- About 10 minutes into Letters From Max, a Ritual, Sarah Ruhls new play about her epistolary friendship with poet Max Ritvo, something akin to a sacred rite takes place: The lights dim, a spotlight illuminates center stage, and the actor portraying Ritvo walks toward a winged tattoo artist. For a few moments, they circle each other. Then the tattoo artist-angel removes the hospital gown that the poet is wearing and lifts him with grace. With a miming gesture, he offers a compact mirror to Ritvo so he might examine the birds newly adorning his back. Its dope, Ritvo says of the tattoo, looking over his shoulder. I really love it in this light. But that quiet exchange was not dreamed up by Ruhl. It is actually a scene from a play that Ritvo wrote for Ruhl when he was a student at Yale in 2012, four years before he died of cancer at age ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy was born February 21, 1927. Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born 21 February 1927) is a French fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In this image: French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy poses at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, on November 23, 2016 during a retrospective of the designer's work at the exhibition To Audrey With Love. Bart Maat / ANP / AFP.
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