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DISCLOSURE Reception on Jan 5, 2019 at Durden and Ray, Los Angeles. Shown are co-curators Alanna Marcelletti and Dani Dodge with exhibiting artist Kathryn Hart. Artwork at right, "Caretaker" by Kathryn Hart.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- January is about cleansing the past and making new starts. But since the early 1990s, independent polls have shown the rapid growth of those without a religious affiliation. So where do people go to confess, if not to a higher power? Two curators thought
perhaps an art gallery? On Jan. 5, 2019, Durden and Ray in downtown Los Angeles celebrated the start of the year with an exhibition that allows people to cleanse their souls through the art of disclosure. Curated by Dani Dodge and Alanna Marcelletti, Disclosure: Confessions for Modern Times features artists Kim Abeles, Jorin Bossen, Kimberly Brooks, Joe Davidson, Dani Dodge, Donald Fodness, Kathryn Hart, Debby and Larry Kline, Conchi Sanford, Ed Tahaney and Steven Wolkoff. For this exhibition, Dodge and Marcelletti decided to play devils advocates and create ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The North Carolina Museum of Art worked with North Carolina State University men's basketball player Wyatt Walker to re-create the arm of an ancient statue as part of its Bacchus Conservation Project. The 6-foot-9-inch player's arm was 3-D scanned by Heather Pendrak of Pendragon 3D, with Walker holding grapes above his head in the manner depicted in a 19th-century drawing of the statue, to help artist Larry Heyda of Lawrence Heyda Studios create the new statue arm.
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 | | Unknown painting by Daniel Ridgway Knight surfaces after 118 years | | Dedicated to 'fun stuff,' Urban Culture Auctions opens in South Florida, plans show-stopping spring debut | | The McNay Art Museum welcomes Dr. R. Scott Blackshire as new Curator of the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts | 
Daniel Ridgway Knight, On The Terrace, Rolleboise.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., the New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, recently discovered On The Terrace, Rolleboise, a previously unknown painting by the American Ex-patriate artist Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924). Ridgway Knight, born in Chambersburg, PA, received his formal training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he was a classmate of Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. In 1861, he traveled to Paris and entered the ateliers of Alexandre Cabanel and Charles Gabriel Gleyre. Knight returned to the United States in 1863 to serve in the Civil War and met Rebecca Morris Webster. The two married in 1871 and the following year the couple traveled back to France, where they would remain for the rest of their lives. Once settled in France, they became friendly with Renoir, Sisley, and Meissonier (the latter of which, Daniel developed a close relationship with). Ridgway Knights 1875 Paris Salon pa ... More | | 
Andy Warhol Campbells Soup can paper bag. Sold by Palm Beach Modern Auctions for $4,300.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- With a history of smash results for celebrity and entertainment memorabilia under its belt including 100% sell-through rates from its sales of Studio 54, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Karl Lagerfeld archives Palm Beach Modern Auctions spinoff of its pop culture division has seemed inevitable to industry observers. That time has now arrived. The West Palm Beach auction house is releasing its satellite entertainment division from the mothership with the launch of Urban Culture Auctions (UCA). Consignments are currently being accepted for a debut auction this spring. Focusing on the cool and quirky items todays collectors want, UCA casts a wide net across the many categories that fall under the general heading of fun, said president and co-owner Wade Terwilliger. People have a fascination with headline-makers, entertainers, the unusual and the provocative. At Palm Beach ... More | | 
Blackshire brings more than two decades of professional, academic, and consulting experience to the Museum.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Today, the McNay Art Museum welcomed Dr. R. Scott Blackshire as the new Curator, Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts. Dr. Blackshire received his PhD in Performance Studies through the Performance as Public Practice program at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Bachelor and a Master of Music degree in Opera Performance, and has sung with regional opera companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Blackshire brings more than two decades of professional, academic, and consulting experience to the Museum. His work includes overseeing an important, private art collection, directing a childrens charity in Cambodia, and teaching in higher education. His passionate outlook towards theatre arts sits at the intersection of culture and community, where he encourages performance innovations and advocates for social justice. ... More |
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| | | Glass maestro Lino Tagliapietra to travel to Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, January 10-13 | | Aleksandra Mir displays for the first time a selection from her collection of NYC tabloid covers | | Portrait of Giovanni Belzoni donated to the Fitzwilliam | 
Lino Tagliapietra, Secret Garden (Autumn), Blown glass, 60 x 60", Photo: Russell Johnson.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries will present an exhibition of works by Maestro Lino Tagliapietra, one of the worlds most accomplished artists working with glass. As the late James Yood, professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago wrote, there are probably no two words more respected and honored in the history of modern sculpture in glass than Lino Tagliapietra; he is the living bridge, the crucial link between the august history of Venetian glass and the ceaseless wonders of what today we call the modern Studio Glass Movement. Certainly, the definition of what is Contemporary is always on the move secured in the present with a beginning that, from this point, moves forward. Like time, it doesn't stop, and it doesn't come back. An early influence on the Studio Glass Movement in the United States, Lino Tagliapietra ... More | | 
Aleksandra Mir, The Pre-Presidential Library, archive material, dimensions variable, 2007-2019.
LONDON.- Aleksandra Mir presents the Pre-Presidential Library in Hayward Gallerys HENI Project Space. In this free exhibition, Mir displays for the first time a selection from her collection of NYC tabloid covers compiled during research into the news media archives of the New York Public Library, covering the 15 year period between 1986 and 2000. In this exhibition Mir presents a selection of 32 of the 87 covers she found with headlines relating to Donald Trump, which have been photocopied from microfiche and enlarged to almost two metres high. The covers are dominated by stories about Trumps business dealings, political aspirations or personal life, while world news, such as the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, are often given a tiny fraction of this space. Also notable is a headline from 1999 reporting Trumps intention to run as Presidential candidate ... More | | 
Jan Adam Kruseman (1804-1862), Portrait of Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Oil on canvas.
LONDON.- The oil painting by Dutch artist Jan Adam Kruseman (1804-1862) is thought to be a portrait of the 19th century explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), known as the Great Belzoni. It has been donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum through the Cultural Gifts Scheme by Daniel Katz Limited, in honour of Tim Knox who served as Director of The Fitzwilliam Museum between 2013 2018. The characteristics displayed by the sitter in the portrait such as the strongman pose, ample facial hair and oriental costume can be identified in other known portraits of Belzoni. Born in Italy, Giovanni Belzoni studied hydraulic engineering before travelling throughout Europe and coming to England in 1803. He worked as a circus strongman at Sadlers Wells Theatre, where his height (at almost 2 metres tall) and large build meant he became a freak show ... More |
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| | | International cinematographer, Peter Suschitzky, to light major Rembrandt exhibition | | Special re-hang for final week of Bacon's Women at Ordovas | | North Carolina State University basketball player lends an arm to ancient statue | 
Helen Hillyard and Peter Suschitzky.
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery today announced it will work with award-winning cinematographer, Peter Suschitzky, on its forthcoming exhibition, Rembrandts Light (4 October 2019 2 February 2020). Suschitzky, renowned for his work on films such as Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Mars Attacks!, and as cinematographer on eleven of David Cronenbergs films (Director of Photography), will assist the exhibitions curators in creating an atmospheric exhibition experience, lighting some of Rembrandts greatest paintings, etchings and drawings in innovative ways, and creating contemplative moments for visitors. Rembrandts mastery of light is a touchstone for many people working in film; the phrase every frame a Rembrandt often being used on film sets. Suschitzkys involvement in this seminal exhibition emphasizes ... More | | 
Following his visit, Condo was so taken by Bacons painting of Isabel Rawsthorne, that he made his own portrait of her.
NEW YORK, NY.- In early November 2018, George Condo visited Bacons Women, at Ordovas, 9 East 77th Street, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Francis Bacons female subjects. Following his visit, Condo was so taken by Bacons painting of Isabel Rawsthorne, that he made his own portrait of her. For the final week of the exhibition, Bacons painting of Isabel will be replaced by Condos own version. Set designer and artist Isabel Rawsthorne (1912-1992) inspired many of the twentieth centurys greatest painters and sculptors and was a great friend to Bacon. Rawsthorne left home as soon as she could to study art and stage design, she was accepted into the Royal Academy with a scholarship and there she began meeting young artists and ... More | | 
North Carolina State University basketball player Wyatt Walker models with a bunch of grapes at the teams Dail Basketball Center practice facility in Raleigh.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art worked with North Carolina State University mens basketball player Wyatt Walker to re-create the arm of an ancient statue as part of its Bacchus Conservation Project. The 6-foot-9-inch players arm was 3-D scanned by Heather Pendrak of Pendragon 3D, with Walker holding grapes above his head in the manner depicted in a 19th-century drawing of the statue, to help artist Larry Heyda of Lawrence Heyda Studios create the new statue arm. The new arm is crucial to the project, and its proportions must be carefully replicated to create a limb that looks natural and fits with the rest of the sculpture. Considering that the Statue of Bacchus measures 6 feet 8 inches, Heyda proposed that the model be a basketball player, ... More |
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| | | Credits roll for Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas | | Expertise and exceptional client service combine to boost Ewbank's auction totals to £4.6m in 2018 | | Elusive Beauty: A solo show by Mutaz Elemam on view at Ubuntu Art Gallery | 
A picture taken on December 13, 2018 shows a view of the 1938 Rodina ("Motherland") cinema, a Stalinist landmark in northern Moscow with huge pillars decorated with Soviet mosaics. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Scattered throughout the city's outlying neighbourhoods, Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas have for decades served as the centre of communities. With names like "Mars" and "The Diamond", the cinemas were mostly built in the 1960s and 70s during a Soviet film boom and were popular even after the collapse of the USSR, offering cheaper tickets than their counterparts in shopping centres. Now -- as part of a wider plan changing the face of the Russian capital -- almost 40 of them are being turned into modern glass complexes. Developers say the project will brighten up dreary suburbs and bring more life to dormant residential districts. But it has faced a backlash from activists and residents, who say it will deprive ... More | | 
Paul Henry R.H.A (Irish, 1876-1958), A View on Achill Sound, 1943-45 (detail).
WOKING.- Ewbanks Auctions are celebrating a significant uplift in sales for 2018, with a turnover topping £4.6m and a sell-through rate of 83.4% by lot. The total was 12.6% on 2017, with turnover up for almost every month year on year. The auction houses top lot was the oil on canvas, (pictured above), by the celebrated Irish artist Paul Henry R.H.A (Irish, 1876-1958), titled A View on Achill Sound and dating to 1943-45. With an estimate of £20,000-40,000, it sold for £78,740 including buyers premium on April 26. A c.1928 signed Chiparus cold-painted bronze of Antinea claimed the next highest price of the year at £52,070 including premium on September 13, with an 18th-19th century coral bead necklace making £36,830 including premium on June 20. Its been an exceptional year for us in Send, said chairman Chris Ewbank, but not just in terms ... More | | 
Mutaz Elemam, Elusive Beauty, 2018. Acrylic on Paper, 20cm x 20cm.
CAIRO.- The past two years have been busy ones for Mutaz Elemam; he travelled extensively, got married, joined his wife for a six-month sojourn in Paris which was crowned by the advent of their newborn baby, and as is customary for him on his travels he soaked in the artistic environment and dialogued extensively with local artists, a cross-pollination exercise that invariably filters through his subsequent work. In his current solo show, Elemam reflects on the beauty and aesthetics hidden in ordinary things, places and people we encounter every day. Working from his studio in the suburbs of Cairo high up on a hill where the air is pure and the sun shines bright, away from the bustle and pollution of the city, he keeps daily regular studio hours punctuated by interludes with the growing community of artists who have taken up residence ... More |
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George Condo, Nicholas Cullinan and Pilar Ordovas with "Bacon's Women"
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More Master potter's work for sale for the first time outside ChinaLONDON.- For the first time outside China, a selection of tea bowls (zhan) created by master potter, Xu Ru Bao, has been brought to England and will be debuting on Mark J West's stand at The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 January 2019. Until now, Ru Bao's work has been pre sold to his growing band of domestic collectors. Zhan are made from the red iron rich Fujian clay glazed with liquid iron ore and fired in traditional wood burning 'dragon' kilns. The firing process takes 3 to 5 days and the kilns have to be served continuously, reaching temperatures of 1200° - 1300°C. The finished colours and surface are defined by their position in the kiln, the temperature, the amount of resin in the pine, used as fuel, and even the weather. Only around 10% -15% ... 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More FRONT International announces Co-Artistic Directors for 2021 edition CLEVELAND, OH.- Prem Krishnamurthy and Tina Kukielski have been named Co-Artistic Directors for the second edition of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, which will run from July 17 through October 2, 2021. FRONT is a contemporary art triennial based in Northeast Ohio that is a collaboration with the regions major arts and culture institutions. The inaugural edition of FRONT in summer of 2018 enjoyed wide recognition and strong attendance. Prem Krishnamurthy is a designer, exhibition maker, writer, and teacher who divides his time between Berlin and New York. As a founding principal at the award-winning design firm Project Projects and now partner and director at Wkshps, Prem has led strategic identity, exhibition, publishing, and interactive projects with artists, architects, museums, and non-profit institutions. As an independent ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Marc Quinn was born January 08, 1964. Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation and painting. Quinn explores 'what it is to be human in the world today' through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. In this image: Marc Quinn, Buck & Allanah, 2009. Orbital sanded and flap wheeled lacquered bronze, 65 3/4 x 41 5/16 x 17 11/16 in. (167 x 105 x 45 cm) © the artist. Photo: Roger Wooldridge. Courtesy White Cube.
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