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The exterior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, July 15, 2019. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1916, Karl Adler, a German Jew, purchased a Pablo Picasso painting now viewed as a masterpiece, Woman Ironing, from the owner of a prestigious gallery in Munich. But 22 years later, when he and his family fled Germany to escape Nazi persecution, he was forced to sell the painting back to the gallery for a pittance, according to a recently filed lawsuit that describes the sale as a desperate attempt to raise cash needed to flee. Now several of Adlers distant relatives are suing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, to which the painting was donated more than four decades ago, claiming ownership of the work and citing the 1938 sale price $1,552 (the equivalent of about $32,000 in todays dollars) as clear evidence that it was sold under duress. Adler would not have disposed of the painting at the time and price that he did, but for the Nazi persecution t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view, photo: Sandra Maier © Candida Höfer / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Hilti Art Foundation
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| Candida Höfer's large-format digital camera photographs subject of exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein | | Exhibition focuses on Maya Lin's artistic investigations of water and her ongoing environmental activism | | Harn Museum presents "Posing Beauty in African American Culture" | 
Candida Höfer, HAF Kistenlager Schaan I 2021, C-Print, 184 à 149 cm © Candida Höfer, Cologne / 2023, Pro Litteris, Zurich.
LIECHTENSTEIN.- For the first time, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation are presenting a jointly conceived, integrated exhibition. Photographs by Candida Höfer, taken especially for this show, form the starting point and focus: a series created in and for Liechtenstein. A member of the Düsseldorf 'Becher School', the acclaimed artist Candida Höfer (b. 1944 in Eberswalde) has previously created a number of site-specific groups of images, for instance in Brussels or Düsseldorf. The photographs taken in Liechtenstein in the autumn and winter of 2021 follow on in this tradition. For the most part, Höfer photographed the subjects with a large format digital camera: interior and exterior views of the museum architecture, libraries or store rooms which serve cultural purposes in the narrow and broad sense. Characteristic of Höfer's photographic oeuvre is an objective ... More | | 
Maya Lin, Silver Tigris & Euphrates Watershed, 2022. Recycled silver, 195.6 à 177.8 à 1 cm © Maya Lin Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery.
SEOUL.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by artist, architect, and environmental activist Maya Lin at its recently expanded arts complex in Seoul. On view from January 20 to March 11, the presentation, titled Nature Knows No Boundaries brings together new and recent installations and sculptures emblematic of the artists style. The exhibition, which marks the artists first solo show in Korea, focuses on Lins longstanding artistic investigations of water and her ongoing environmental activism. Linwho is known for her critical engagement with notions of site and place through a multidisciplinary, ecologically minded practice rose to prominence in the United States after winning a nationwide design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1982. Other major public commissions by the artist include the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery ... More | | 
Omar Victor Diop, Khady, 2011, Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris; © Omar Victor Diop.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is bringing to Gainesville the nationally-touring exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture. More than 100 works of art by more than 45 artists and photographers will explore the ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts. Posing Beauty will be on view from Jan. 31 to June 4, 2023. Throughout the history of Western art and image-making, beauty has been idealized and challenged, and the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture. In the exhibition works of photography, video, fashion and advertising will challenge the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about aesthetics. Posing Beauty examines contemporary ... More |
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| $1.136 million paid for NYC man's 1958 penny | | One of the last typewriters owned by Mark Twain tells its story in Heritage's Historical Manuscripts Auction | | "Ugo Rondinone: nuns + monks at the sea" now on view at Gladstone Gallery | 
Late collectors Lincoln cents with a face value of only $2.76 sold at auction for $7.7 million by GreatCollections.
IRVINE, CALIF.- Who says a penny wont buy much these days? A 1958-dated Lincoln cent mistakenly made with doubling in some letters of the design has sold for a record $1,136,250. It was owned by a New York City collector who died soon after consigning his pristine condition coins to be sold at auction. The million-dollar penny is known as a doubled die and it is the finest of only three known 1958 U.S. cents that have severe doubling of letters in the motto IN GOD WE TRUST and the word LIBERTY on the front of the coin, explained Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections of Irvine, California. It was owned by numismatist and sculptor Stewart Blay of New York who died at age 71 in November. His set of 276 mint-condition Lincoln cents dating back to 1909 with a combined face value of only $2.76 sold for $7,731,811 ... More | | 
[Mark Twain]. Samuel L. Clemens's Personally Owned Williams No. 6 Typewriter.
DALLAS, TX.- The tale of Heritage Auctions Feb. 22 Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction simply can not be told without a good typewriter
specifically without a typewriter that was one of the last owned by one of the most popular and important American authors. The love-hate relationship Mark Twain (whose real name was Samuel Clemens) had with typewriters is well-documented. The author known best for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn soured on the devices he acquired his first in 1874 that were, according to Twain, full of caprices, full of defects devilish ones. He was so firm in his dislike for typewriters that he took his disdain a step further in a letter to the Remington Company on March 10, 1875, shortly after they began marketing the device, steadfastly refusing to lend his name to a testimonial. Please do not use my name in any way ... More | | 
Ugo Rondinone, violet blue monk, 2022. Painted stone, stainless steel, concrete base, Sculpture: 15 x 9 x 4 inches (38 x 23 x 10 cm), Base: 1 x 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (2.5 x 27 x 27 cm), Pedestal: 43 3/8 x 13 x 13 inches (110 x 33 x 33 cm).
BELGIUM.- Gladstone opened "nuns and monks at the sea" this past January 28th, an exhibition of new works by Ugo Rondinone. The show brings together a selection of painted sculptures from his ongoing body of work, nuns + monks, and paintings from his Mattituck series, depicting sunsets at the artist's home on Long Island, New York. This marks the first time either series has been presented in Belgium. As is the case with all earlier presentations, this group of paintings and sculptures were made specifically for this context, offering the viewer a serene, soulful, and contemplative environment in which to experience these quiet, powerful works. Imbued with the weightiness and intrigue of holy people, Rondinones nuns + monks have an undeniable presence ... More |
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| New auction record set for Bronzino during Sotheby's $100M Masters Week | | Irish tokens exceed expectations at Noonans | | He designs sneakers with Dua Lipa and writes songs with The Weeknd | 
Sotheby's Specialist and Auctioneer David Pollack with Bronzino's Portrait of a young man with a quill and a sheet of paper. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys hotly-anticipated marquee Old Master Paintings sales, held in New York this morning, together realized a total of $86.6 million, surpassing their combined $74.1 million pre-sale low estimate, and bringing the running total for Master Week sales thus far to $95m, with a further four sales still to come. The morning opened with the white-glove sale of works from the unparalleled Fisch Davidson Collection - one of the most important collections of Baroque art ever to appear on the market. The sale was led by Sir Peter Paul Rubenss 1609 masterpiece Salome presented with the head of Saint John the Baptist, which reached $26.9m - the third highest price for the artist at auction. Newly rediscovered and restituted, Agnolo Bronzinos extraordinary Portrait of a young man with a quill and a sheet of paper sold to a bidder in the room following a five-minute bidding battle ... More | | 
Co LONDONDERRY, Londonderry, Broadway Bar, copper Farthing,
LONDON.- A further part of a single owner collection of Irish Tokens achieved a hammer price of almost £20,000 atNoonans in their sale of British Tokens, Tickets and Passes on Tuesday, January 24, 2023. The collection had been amassed by the late Barry Woodside and is being dispersed by Noonans in a series of auctions. The highest price was paid for an extremely rare Londonderry copper farthing for Broadway Bar on Duke Street which fetched £1,700 against an estimate of £150-200 and was bought by a private collector [lot 292]. Also from the Woodside Collection was a copper token from Michael Donoghue of Dublin dating from 1853-8 that fetched £1,600 to a private collector against an estimate of £300-400 [lot 265]. The sale of 635 lots was 99.8% sold. Only three examples of the free ticket for the Grandstand of the Isle of Man Race are known to be in existence so it was no surprise that the one in Noonans ... More | | 
Billy Walsh at his home in Los Angeles, Oct. 7, 2022. (Jack Bool/The New York Times)
by Alex Hawgood
NEW YORK, NY.- The Footwear News Achievement Awards, sometimes called the Oscars of shoes, shines a spotlight on the industrys top designers. But when singer Dua Lipa won for a Puma collection in November, her frequent collaborator Billy Walsh bolted at the sight of flashing cameras. Billy Walshs 5-seconds limit on the red carpet, Lipa said, as photographers shouted her name at Cipriani Wall Street. More like 2 seconds, Walsh, 40, added safely from the sidelines. Avoiding attention is a peculiar trait for a man who collaborates with some of the biggest names in pop, including Lipa, Post Malone and The Weeknd, straddling the upper echelons of fashion and music. He has collaborated with Rihanna on a Fenty collection with Puma, and consulted Kanye West on video directors. As a fashion stylist ... More |
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| Holburne Museum presents new sculptures and text pieces by Alberta Whittle | | Liang Yi Museum opens "Majestic: Royal and Imperial Objects from the Liang Yi Collection" | | Audain Art Museum takes a journey through the ages with impressive print exhibition | 
Alberta Whittle, Taking a leap toward the ancestors (remembering G), 2022. Raffia, acrylic, cotton, doillies, wool, felt on linen, 153 x 153 x 20 cm, 60 1/4 x 60 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: Patrick Jameson.
BATH.- Alberta Whittle (b.1980) has made work especially for the Holburne Museum, Bath. New sculptures and text pieces are being shown alongside existing films in an exhibition that spreads beyond the Museum into the public realm. The Barbadian-Scottish artist explores a variety of themes familiar to her practice including pleasure, self-care, relaxation, and health. Viewed through this lens, Dipping Below a Waxing Moon, The Dance Claims Us For Release offers opportunities for growth and compassion despite addressing some uncomfortable truths about Britain, Bath, and the Holburne Museum in this major exhibition. The exhibition, Whittles first in a public museum, directly addresses 18th-century histories; especially those shared by the Balls Plantation in her native Barbados which was owned by Guy Ball, the great-grandfather of Holburne Museum founder ... More | | 
Zitan Shrine, 1769. Height 109cm. The inscription on the back of the shrine in Tibetan, Manchurian, Mongolian and Chinese reads that the shrine was made in the 34th year of Emperor Qianlongs reign (1769) for the worship of bodhisattva Manjushri.
HONG KONG.- Liang Yi Museum is presenting Majestic: Royal and Imperial Objects from the Liang Yi Collection, the first exhibition of its kind in Hong Kong to explore the history of royal and noble patronage in the East and West. Drawing on 190 remarkable artefacts from the Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition celebrates the apex of craftsmanship, encouraged and guided by imperial cultural ambition. Majestic: Royal and Imperial Objects from the Liang Yi Collection will open in Spring 2023. Founded in 2014, Liang Yi Museum has established itself as one of the worlds leading private museums in less than a decade, with an outstanding reputation in the fields of craftsmanship, design and cultural heritage. The Museum now houses close to 7,000 objects in its various collections including classical Chinese furniture; vanities; historic silver; and Japanese works of art ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait in a Cap, Laughing, 1630, etching with drypoint, plate: 5 Ã 4.2 cm; sheet: 5.2 Ã 4.7 cm. Collection of Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran. Photo: Denis Farley.
WHISTLER, BC.- The Collectors' Cosmos: The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection takes viewers on a unique visual journey with a stunning display of Dutch and Flemish prints from the 16th- and 17th-centuries. This remarkable exhibition at the Audain Art Museum provides a glimpse into the making of what became one of the foremost private collections of European prints in Canada. This compelling collection of prints evolved over the course of 40 years. The collectors, Dr. Jonathan Meakins, an officer of the Order of Canada and former head of surgery at McGill University Health Centre, and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran, the founder and first director of the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging, had a deep curiosity about the world, coupled with an interest in landscapes and the striking beauty of the printed line against the white page. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, the AAMs Director & Chief Curator, Dr. Curtis Collins, chose to bring ... More |
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 Karrabing Film Collective's first solo exhibition in Germany opens at Haus der KunstMUNICH.- With "Wonderland", Haus der Kunst presents the first solo exhibition in Germany of the Karrabing Film Collective, an Indigenous artist group from Australia. The exhibition includes all of Karrabing's major films, providing an insight into the Collective's multilayered working methods and new forms of collective, indigenous agency. The grassroots film and arts group was founded in 2007 and deploys their collectively produced films and installations as a form of Indigenous resistance and self-organisation. Karrabing comprises approximately thirty members from different generations, most of whom live in the Belyuen Community in Australias Northern Territory. Often described as improvisational realism, the films seek to open up a space beyond binaries of the fictional and the documentary, or the past and the present ... More  High Museum announces 2023 Driskell Prize recipient Ebony G. PattersonATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced artist Ebony G. Patterson as the 2023 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art. Awarded annually by the Museum since 2005, the prize demonstrates the Highs ongoing dedication to furthering artistic innovation and promoting research of African American artists and scholars. Based in Kingston, Jamaica, and Chicago, Patterson is known for her multilayered works in a variety of media that contrast beautiful, lush imagery, color and texture with darker underlying themes addressing societal and political injustices. Her complex compositions, which at first may appear celebratory, draw the viewer in to discover deeper truths relating to race-based class issues, social division and political violence ... More  Nicolas Party exhibits a group of new works, including pastels, cabinets and oil-on-copper paintingsBRUSSELS.- For Cascade, Nicolas Partys third exhibition with Xavier Hufkens, the artist presents a group of new works, including pastels, cabinets and oil-on-copper paintings. Large tripartite pastels and smaller cabinet paintings point to a new trajectory, both formal and technical, that has opened up in his practice. Mastering the all but forgotten art of painting on copper, Partys paintings are as luminous as their historical counterparts. A group of single arched pastels and oil-on-copper paintings echo the shape of the cabinets central panels. Nicolas Partys triptychs belong to a genre with a rich historical legacy. From The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1410) to Francis Bacons triple portraits, artists have long worked, whether by convention or choice, with this distinctive organisational structure. Immersing himself in the art of the past ... More  Easy does it: Bringing old-school wisdom to City BalletNEW YORK, NY.- Indiana Woodward knew her time with Kyra Nichols was dwindling: It was the last hour they would spend together before Nichols, an esteemed former New York City Ballet principal, had to head back to her day job as a professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. For City Ballets winter season, Nichols had returned for the first time since her 2007 retirement to coach dancers in George Balanchines Donizetti Variations and Walpurgisnacht, as well as Jerome Robbins Rondo, an understated, little-seen ballet created for Nichols and Stephanie Saland in 1980. A rehearsal for that ballet was about to begin, and Woodward and Nichols were talking with repertory director Christine Redpath about energy: how to save it, how to store it, how to look better by doing less. Woodward, with imploring eyes ... More  'The great Czech piano cycle' arrives at Carnegie HallNEW YORK, NY.- Carnegie Hall might have hosted the premiere of AntonÃn Dvoraks Ninth Symphony in 1893, but its not every day, 130 years later, that a major work by that Czech composer is heard there for the first time. Still less, a solo piano cycle that lasts almost an hour. Thats what the unerringly sophisticated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will offer Tuesday, in a recital anchored by Dvoraks Poetic Tone Pictures, 13 character pieces, written in 1889, that Andsnes recently recorded for Sony. Andsnes has known the work since he was a boy; his father had one of its few recordings in his collection. But he came to study it properly only in the time afforded by the pandemic. Most of my colleagues wont even know that Dvorak wrote this wonderful cycle for piano, Andsnes, 52, said in an interview ... More  British artist Robert Montgomery unveils latest light installation in Coal Drops YardKINGSCROSS.- Renowned contemporary British artist, Robert Montgomery has revealed his latest public artwork in Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross: a light poem honouring his personal connection to the iconic London destination. Titled Because the city itself is sacred the poem reads because the city itself is sacred the ground is full of love, which precipitates as rain so even the new glass will remember the tears of the old lovers and is now illuminated across the footbridge in front of Coal Drops Yards picturesque kissing roofs. It will be in situ until 3 March 2023. Montgomery hails from a family of Scottish coal miners, who, throughout the 1900s, mined the coal that was sent to the Kings Cross coal drops via canal and train, once fuelling the city. The light poem, Montgomery says, is about the magic of London and its many layers of history ... More  EMΣT Athens opens its winter-spring exhibition programme with six new solo exhibitions.ATHENS.- The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ΕΜΣΤ) presents its winter-spring exhibition cycle with a constellation of six solo exhibitions in dialogue with the major international group exhibition, MODERN LOVE (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), the flagship show curated by ΕΜΣΤ artistic director Katerina Gregos. With presentations of work by Michael Karikis, Eleni Bagaki, Erica Scourti, Hannah Toticki, Melanie Bonajo, and an on-site installation by Dan Perjovschi, an exhibition route is created throughout the museum, that, with MODERN LOVE, explores how digital technology, the internet and social media have impacted contemporary life and social relations, in addition to the economies they produce. ANNAH TOTICKI: Everything, everywhere, all the time until 28 May 2023, Curated by Ioli Tzanetaki ... More  Eye Filmmuseum opens an exhibition of works by the winner of Eye Art & Film PrizeAMSTERDAM.- This past January 20th Eye opened the presentation of the first major retrospective of work by the Uzbek director and artist Saodat Ismailova. Born in 1981 in Tashkent, Ismailova is the winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize 2022. Her work occupies a prominent place at this years Venice Biennale and Documenta 15 in Kassel. Eye showcases not only her films and video installations but also photography and textiles.The exhibition is also accompanied by a publication and an extensive programme of public events. Insight into the spirit of Central Asia. Saodat Ismailova is an important voice among the first generation of Central-Asian artists to reach adulthood in the post-Soviet era. In her work she examines the rich, complex and layered culture of her native region. She portrays the spirit of Central Asia with its rituals, myths, history and landscape ... More  Multiple records set as Heritage's Winter Sports Card Auction races past $10 millionDALLAS, TX.- A Murderers Row of vintage cardboard, led by Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente, pushed Heritage Auctions latest Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction past the $10.1-million mark over the two-day event. But the legendary sluggers werent alone atop the Jan. 26-27 hits list as more than 2,300 bidders worldwide also staked their claims to some of the most coveted football, basketball and hockey cards ever offered. Among the notable offerings from the nearly sold-out auction: a vending box of first-series 1959 Topps football cards that trampled pre-auction expectations and whats now the worlds most valuable 1968 Joe Namath card. Numerous records were once again achieved during last weeks event, and its always a thrill to see which ones become collectors latest favorites, says Chris Ivy, Heritages Director of Sports Auctions ... More  Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces highlights included in its Advertising & Historic Objects auction NEW HAMBURG.- A 1923 Willards Chocolates Babe Ruth baseball card was a hit for $23,600 and a cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC (later British Air) jet plane soared to $18,880 in an online-only Advertising & Historic Objects auction held January 21st by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. Both lots blasted through their $2,000-$3,000 estimates. All prices quoted are in Canadian dollars. The Babe Ruth card, graded PSA 3 VG (Very Good), is an exceptional example of an early issue Ruth card from a rare Canadian-issued set. It featured a sepia-toned image of the Bambino at bat, with a facsimile signature. It is considered the most sought after card in the series and came out of the estate of collector William Audley Huck Caesar. It was also the top lot of the auction. The cutaway model of a 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Dorothea Tanning died January 31, 2012. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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