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A photo provided by The National Museum of Norway, Edvard Munchs The Scream. Munchs painting from 1893, is one of the worlds most famous pieces, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription, written in pencil, at the upper left corner of its frame, reading: Could only have been painted by a madman. The National Museum of Norway via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Edvard Munchs The Scream, from 1893, is one of the worlds most famous paintings, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription, written in pencil, at the upper left corner of its frame, reading: Could only have been painted by a madman. Who wrote the sentence there? Some thought a disgruntled viewer might have vandalized the work; others imagined it was the artist himself. But then why? Curators at Norways National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which owns the artwork, announced Monday in Oslo that they have determined that the text was indeed written by the artist. Its been examined now very carefully, letter by letter, and word by word, and its identical in every way to Munchs handwriting, said Mai Britt Guleng, the museums curator of old masters and modern paintings, who was in charge of the research. So there is no more doubt. Munch painted four versions of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Winter of Discontent, 303 Gallery, New York, February 6 - April 1, 2021. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York. Photo: John Berens.
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| With something for everyone, Lark Mason Associates announces Single Owner Sale of Fine and Decorative Arts | | Cézanne, Kandinsky, Klee & Richter among major gift to the Courtauld | | Zoom-in for Asia Week New York's webinar "Transported by Art" | 
Moïse Kisling (French/Polish, 18911953), Still Life (Poppies), Oil on Canvas, 1938.
NEW YORK, NY.- When bidding opens on February 23rd for a single-owner sale presented by Lark Mason Associates on www.igavelauctions.com, collectors will have an eclectic assortment of furniture, decorative arts, paintings, prints and jewelry from which to select. In the fine art category, top highlights include Still Life (Poppies), by Moïse Kisling, an important Jewish artist who was a member of the School of Paris and part of the Montparnasse Circle (Est: $30,000-50,000). Poppies are the national flower of Poland, the artists home country, and became an important symbol of war and rebirth after World War I, in which the artist fought against the German Empire and got seriously wounded. This painting was created as a wedding gift for his friends with heartwarming wishes embodied in these bright and lush red flowers. Also included are two watercolor paintings by the post-Impressionist painter Henri Lebasque: Sailboats, which depicts ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 1965. China ink on French handmade paper 64.7 x 49.5 cm. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) Gift by Linda Karshan in memory of her husband, Howard Karshan © Georg Baselitz. Photo © The Courtauld.
LONDON.- An outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters assembled by the late collector Howard Karshan has been presented to The Courtauld Gallery in London by his wife, the artist Linda Karshan. It is one of the most significant gifts of art to The Courtauld in a generation. Living between London and New York, Howard and Linda formed a preeminent collection of modern drawings. Collecting with great discernment and passion, the drawings were an essential part of their lives for more than half a century. A carefully chosen group of 25 works on paper by leading artists of the modern and post-war period, which lay at the heart of their collection, forms this generous gift. The works being given to The Courtauld demonstrate Howard and Lindas sensibility for the expressive power and rich variety ... More | | 
Chinese Reverse Glass Painting of a scene from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, circa 1810, 28 x 22 inches (71 x56 cm.) framed (Courtesy R.M. Chait Galleries).
NEW YORK, NY.- Who better to explain the harrowing twists and turns of transporting a precious work of art to its final destination than a team of art dealers, collectors and transport specialists? Providing useful tips on how to negotiate this oftentimes convoluted process, Asia Week New York presents a panel of experts who discuss the road from seller to buyer from their individual perspectives. To reserve a spot, for Wednesday, February 24 at 5:00 p.m., click here. Says Lark Mason, founder of iGavel Auctions and president of the Appraisers Association of America, who will moderate the discussion: Our intent is to provide practical information about how to get from A to Z avoiding as much stress as possibleafter purchasing a work of art. The experts include: Mark Aiston has worked in the art and antiques shipping and storage business since 1983. He ... More |
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| MFA Boston receives gift of 48 Henryk Ross photographs depicting life inside a World War II Jewish Ghetto | | Marie-Antoinette's personal theatre gets a lockdown makeover | | Cardi Gallery Milan opens an exhibition of works by Mimmo Paladino | 
Henryk Ross (Polish, 19101991), Untitled from Litzmann (Lodz) Ghetto, 19401945. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Howard Greenberg in honor of Jacques Preis. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (19101991), which offer an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside Polands Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. Donated to the MFA by collector Howard Greenberg, the group of gelatin silver prints was originally given directly by Ross to Lova Szmuszkowicz, later Leon Sutton (19092007), a fellow survivor of the Lodz Ghetto who brought them to the U.S. when he immigrated to New York City in 1947. The prints represent a significant range of both official images, which Ross took as a photographer for the ghettos Department of Statistics, and the unofficial photographs that he took secretly at great personal risk, which documented the grim realities of life inside. This ... More | | 
This file photo taken on February 02, 2021 shows the Queen's theatre of the Chateau de Versailles, in Versailles. Martin BUREAU / AFP.
VERSAILLES (AFP).- Pandemic or not, it's a theatre space that very rarely sees an audience: Marie-Antoinette's personal playhouse in the grounds of Versailles is a fragile historical gem in need of delicate care. The late 18th century was a time of "theatre-mania" in which many wealthy princes and financiers built their own stages on their estates, said Raphael Masson, lead conservator at Versailles. The last queen of France before the revolution was a passionate fan of music and theatre, and had hers built deep in the grounds of the chateau where she could escape with her retinue. It was here, in 1785, that she gave her own last performance on stage, as Rosine in "The Barber of Seville" in front of its author, Beaumarchais. Today, it is the only 18th century theatre in France to still have its original working machinery -- "a miracle of conservation", said Masson. ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Carlo Vannini. Courtesy Cardi Gallery Milan.
MILAN.- Unperturbed eternal men, made of terracotta made by juxtaposing fragments coming from the same matrix but combined differently, each with the unique color of the clay used: I Dormienti [The Sleepers] by Mimmo Paladino were born in the late Nineties, when the artist first exhibited them in Poggibonsi (1998) as part of the Arte all'Arte exhibition. In 2000 he decided to cast them in bronze for the permanent installation at the Fonte delle Fate (Poggibonsi). Other terracotta Sleepers and Crocodiles were created for the great exhibition in the underground rooms of the Roundhouse in London (1999), in dialogue with a sound system specifically designed by the British musician, composer, and producer Brian Eno. Twenty years later, the artist personally curates a new set-up, an unpublished one, an unrepeatable unicum designed for the first exhibition in Milan, in the spaces of Cardi Gallery from 22nd ... More |
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| Exhibition at Mishkan Museum of Art presents a series of actions performed by Gregory Abou | | Raising money for a nonprofit? Try a personalized approach | | A pandemic silver lining for a San Francisco institution | 
Gregory Abou (b. 1974, Melun, France), JETESAIS, Chapter 1: Lofoten Archipelago, Norway, 2016, still, video, 16:9. 13 min. Film Editing: Gregory Abou and Erez Pery; Sound Design: Jakob Mäsel. PhotoGregory Abou, 2021.
EIN HAROD .- This exhibition presents for the first time a series of works created by the performance and video artist Gregory Abou (b. 1974, France; lives and works in Tel Aviv) under the title JETESAIS (Iknowyou). The videos present a series of actions performed by Abou from 2016 to 2020 around the world: at the Lofoten archipelago in northern Norway; in the Yakushima Forest in southern Japan; at the Ein Ziv nature reserve in western Galilee; and at the Byzantine site of Shivta in the Negev Desert. Abou, who serves as the director, actor, and cameraman of his films, strives to become part of the natural environment by engaging in personal rituals, forming a connection between the man-made and nature. A wooden gate-like structure marks the transition between the sacred and the profane, like the Japanese Torii gate in the Shinto religious tradition. For Abou, it also signifies movement between ... More | | 
Joe Pulizzi at his Cleveland home on Feb. 18, 2021. Angelo Merendino/The New York Times.
by Paul Sullivan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The annual gala to benefit a nonprofit group, even one with a good cause? Feels rather old-fashioned. Those glossy annual reports? The money could be better spent. And, please, no generic requests for money. At least thats how a growing number of the wealthy feel about their relationships with the nonprofit organizations that are seeking their donations, according to a new report, Transforming Partnerships With Major Donors, by the Leadership Story Lab, which works with companies and nonprofit organizations on their messaging. The report found that the wealthy would prefer that nonprofit groups updated their approaches and made their pitches more personalized. The report looks at three areas where small changes by gift officers could reap large benefits for their nonprofit organizations. It aims to show how many self-made givers are driven less by a need for public ... More | | 
Curator Tim Burgard installing artwork for The de Young Open, at the de Young museum, September 2020. Photo by Gary Sexton. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
by Jill Cowan
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Usually, major museums begin planning their exhibitions three to four years ahead of time, Thomas Campbell, director and chief executive of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, told me Thursday. They have to figure out loans from other museums and write the catalog of pieces. The de Young Open an exhibition that ran last year at one of the two institutions Campbell leads was, however, very unusual. First, theres the fact that it was a contest, open only to Bay Area artists. Nearly 6,200 artists submitted more than 11,500 artworks for the show, which included 877 works from 762 artists. The pieces could also be sold. Then, theres the biggest reason the show was singular: It was conceived, assembled and shown essentially entirely during the pandemic, as a way ... More |
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| Lucky Luke, the comic book cowboy, discovers race, belatedly | | Why an animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body sold for almost $600,000 | | 'Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment' opens at Reynolda | 
Drafts of characters at the home of Biyong Djehuty, who self-publishes comic books focusing on African history, in a Paris suburb, Feb. 15, 2021. Andrea Mantovan/The New York Times.
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A few years ago, Julien Berjeaut was a cartoonist coming off a hit series when he received the rarest of offers in the French-speaking world: taking over a comic book classic, Lucky Luke. The story of a cowboy in the American Old West, Lucky Luke was only one of a handful of comic book series that, for generations, had been an integral part of growing up in France and other francophone countries. Children read Lucky Luke, along with Tintin and Astérix, at their most impressionable age when, as Berjeaut said, the story enters the mind like a hammer blow and never comes out. But as he sought new storylines, Berjeaut grew troubled as he reflected on the presence of Black characters in Lucky Luke. In the nearly 80 albums published over seven decades, Black characters had appeared in only one story, Going up the Mississippi drawn in typically racist imagery. Id never thought about that, and then I started questioning ... More | | 
A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the worlds taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology. QuickHoney/The New York Times.
by Erin Griffith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the 10 years since Chris Torres created Nyan Cat, an animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body leaving a rainbow trail, the meme has been viewed and shared across the web hundreds of millions of times. On Thursday, he put a one-of-a-kind version of it up for sale on Foundation, a website for buying and selling digital goods. In the final hour of the auction, there was a bidding war. Nyan Cat was sold to a user identified only by a cryptocurrency wallet number. The price? Roughly $580,000. Torres was left breathless. I feel like Ive opened the floodgates, he said in an interview Friday. The sale was a new high point in a fast-growing market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media called NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. The buyers are usually not acquiring copyrights, trademarks or even the sole ownership of whatever ... More | | 
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), Hooded Visorbearer, c. 1863-1864. Oil on canvas. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.93, 12 1/4 Ã 10 in. Photography by Dwight Primiano.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment opened at Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Feb. 19 as part of its reopening weekend of gratitude for members, first responders, and WFU faculty, staff, and students, and on Feb. 23 to the public. The traveling exhibition explores pollination as a metaphor for the interconnections between art and science, among artists, and across generations. Taking flight from Martin Johnson Heade's unprecedented series The Gems of Brazil, Cross Pollination creates dialogues between paintings, sketches, and natural specimen collections of fellow Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. Heade was influenced by and connected to this group of painters working in the nineteenth century, who in various ways all shared a fascination with art and the natural world. The relationships among ... More |
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 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibits a series of 10 paintings by Alberto RegueraMADRID.- From 15 February to 9 May the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a series of 10 paintings by Alberto Reguera (born Segovia, 1961). The artist has taken his starting point from a work in the museums permanent collection, Moonlit Landscape with a Road beside a Canal by the Dutch painter Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam, 1603-1677). Regueras works have been specially created for the exhibition and will subsequently travel to Hong Kong where they will be shown at the University Museum and Art Gallery, in autumn 2021. The exhibition, which has benefited from the collaboration of Madrid Art Gestión de Arte, is on display in the first floor Balcony gallery. Entrance is free. One of the defining characteristics of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting is the importance conceded to the sky and clouds in all their infinite variety. This ... More  Phillips appoints Beth Vilinsky as Senior International Design Specialist, SVPNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointment of Beth Vilinsky as the auction houses new Senior Vice President and Senior International Design Specialist, Americas, based in New York. As a new addition to the Americas team, Ms. Vilinsky will partner closely with Cordelia Lembo in New York, Meaghan Roddy in LA, and with Phillips team of specialists to cultivate networks among collectors, dealers, and curators to further develop and maintain the auction houses best-in-class position in the Design market. Her deep expertise in the 20th and 21st Century Design will add even greater depth to an already extraordinary pool of talent. Phillips Design team has reached new heights in recent seasons, broadening the reach to new audiences, and cementing its reputation for providing unparalleled expertise. Design remains an area of significant ... More  Rare Posters Auction #83 presents 500 rare and iconic worksNEW YORK, NY.- The 83rd Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International slated for Sunday, March 14th features masterpieces and rarities from a century of poster design. Top artists include Cappiello, Cassandre, Mucha, and Toulouse-Lautrec. All 500 lots will be on view to the public February 26-March 13. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am Eastern time. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., called this auction one of our best collections yet, adding, Not only do we have the beloved designs that collectors expect to see from us, but we are also offering a number of especially rare designs that we have not seen at auction in many years. The auction will begin with 30 Winter Sports posters from around ... More  Exhibition features a broad selection of lens-based works by local and international artists VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery opened Pictures and Promises in collaboration with Capture Photography Festival. Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallerys rich photographic holdings. Pictures and Promises, focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used in commercial culture, mass media, fashion and advertising. The works then deploy these strategies to play on collective understandings of the world around us and to investigate the iconography of consumerism. The title of this exhibition directly refers to the 1981 exhibition of the same name: Pictures and Promises: A Display of Advertisings, Slogans and Interventions, curated by artist Barbara Kruger. On view at the Kitchen Center for Video and Music in New York from January 8 to February 5, 1981, the exhibition combined advertisements, ... More  Exhibition presents Brendan Fernandes' Inaction, an exploration of collective action and solidarityVANCOUVER.- Richmond Art Gallery is presenting the timely exhibition Inaction, a new solo show by renowned Canadian contemporary artist Brendan Fernandes on display from February 12 to April 3, 2021. The exhibition, co-produced with the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, is RAGs first collaboration with a U.S. based institution. Inaction addresses violence against queer and POC bodies, as well as the potential for change through collective action. The social upheavals of 2020 catalyzed the global conversation around human rights and equality, says Shaun Dacey, RAG director and the exhibitions curator. Inaction reflects on the continued visible and invisible impacts of hateful rhetoric on marginalized bodies. More than ever, it is crucial to present work that ... More  Photographs capturing important moments in space history to be offered at auctionLONDON.- The public will be offered an amazing opportunity to obtain a piece of important space history when Dreweatts auctioneers holds an exciting sale of Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera on March 17, 2021. This landmark sale is to include more than 600 photographs chronicling the history of mans exploration of space, from early expeditions, to some of the latter trips of the 1990s. Many of the photographs capture historic moments, such as the first humans in space, the first spacewalk and the first moon landing. Commenting on the works in the sale, Ania Hanrahan, Dreweatts Autographs and Ephemera specialist says, These iconic images are sure to draw interest from around the globe, from historians, space and photography aficionados, private collectors and those wanting to obtain a true piece of history. Amongst ... More  Works by Stacey Steers on view at the George Eastman MuseumROCHESTER, NY.- The George Eastman Museum opened a new exhibition, Stacey Steers: Night Reels, in the museums Project Gallery and Multipurpose Hall on Saturday, February 20. The exhibition will be on view through June 6. Night Reels is a body of multidisciplinary work by the artist Stacey Steers (American, b. 1954) that blends 2D paper collage, animation, mixed-media sculpture, and moving image works. Steers pays homage to the history of moving images while inventing entirely original cinematic works that transport familiar characters and imagery into surreal nocturnal dreamscapes. The moving image works on display begin with Phantom Canyon (2006), a true story that follows human figures selected from Eadweard Muybridges pre-cinema motion studies. The second, Night Hunter (2011), features a mesmerizing performance from ... More  Everard Auction captures charm of Old Savannah with March fine & decorative art seriesSAVANNAH, GA.- Five times a year, Everard Auctions presents an outstanding selection of fully vetted paintings and objets dart in live-online sales that have become great favorites with collectors. For their first major event of 2021, Everard takes pleasure in announcing a bonus offering to take place over two consecutive weeks. The first of the two auctions, with absentee and Internet live bidding in progress through March 3, features property from retired New Orleans antiques dealer Angelo Andy Cassimus. The second auction, which closes over March 9 and 10, showcases fine and decorative art from several distinguished collections and Southern estates. In both sales, bidders may participate absentee or live online through Everard Live, LiveAuctioneers or Invaluable. All of the items included in the elegant March 3 selection were personally ... More  Greek government under fire after #MeToo shock arrestATHENS (AFP).- Greece's conservative government on Monday rejected calls to sack its culture minister after a top theatre appointee was arrested over rape claims, but promised a new ethics code. It is the latest in a series of scandals involving allegations of sexual abuse in the fields of arts, sport and education that have rocked the country in recent weeks. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is under growing pressure to sack Culture Minister Lina Mendoni over claims of a deeply entrenched climate of fear and abuse in Greece's art establishment. That pressure increased over the weekend after Dimitris Lignadis, the former artistic director of Greece's national theatre, was arrested Saturday on allegations of raping minors, including migrant children. "Greek society has watched in shock as a series of heinous acts come to the fore," deputy ... More  Phillips to offer Jean Dunand's art deco masterpiece 'Les Palmiers' Smoking Room, 1930-1936LONDON.- This Spring, Phillips presents a rare opportunity to view the smoking room Les Palmiers, designed by Jean Dunand from 1930-1936 for the Parisian apartment of Mademoiselle Collette Aboucaya on rue de Monceau. Standing as one of the great achievements in 20th Century French Design, Les Palmiers will be offered alongside the original daybed designed by the Japanese artist Katsu Hamanaka, which was acquired by the late designer Kenzo in the late 90s before moving to another collection where it has remained until today. Phillips Design auction in London on 4 May will unite these works for the first time since they first appeared on the market in 1997. Domenico Raimondo, Head of Design, Europe and Senior International Specialist, said, For the first time Phillips will be offering a French Art Deco environment, an unrivalled ... More  Bonhams Australia offers 168 works from The Lucio's Collection, SydneySYDNEY.- Bonhams Australia presents The Lucios Collection in the forthcoming auction LUCIOS: Food, Art & Friendship. Taking place on Sunday 21 March, the auction will present 168 works by many of Australias most respected artists, spanning the restaurants almost 40 years of history and celebrating Lucio and Sally Gallettos contribution to Australias culinary and art landscapes. Merryn Schriever, Director Bonhams Australia comments: As Lucio once said, the combination of great food, great service and great art on the walls is one of the best dining experiences you can imagine. The magic of Lucios drew a generation of artists who claimed the restaurant their own and where many books were launched and exhibitions opening nights were celebrated. Now Bonhams presents Lucios Collection offering an opportunity to own ... More |
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz 
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY 
Madelynn Green 
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 - May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling.In this image: Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1908 or 1910-1911. Gouache on paper, 27 x 26.8.
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