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Visitors study Senga Nengudis R.S.V.P. Reverie, part of the artists Topologies exhibition, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, May 21, 2021. The fragile sculptures are rare to see in such numbers, a New York Times critic says, and that alone makes this show an event. Hannah Yoon/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
PHILADELPHIA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- You know whats chicer than spending a ton on a landmark building? Spending a ton and barely showing it. When other museums and cultural institutions have turned to Frank Gehry, the Canadian Angeleno and 92-year-old grandmaster of torquing titanium, he has summoned up buildings both inventive and ostentatious: curves of metal at the Guggenheim Bilbao or Disney Hall in Los Angeles, or billowing sails of glass at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. But here in Philadelphia, where he was tasked to reimagine one of the countrys oldest and most significant museums, he has left the stainless steel and the kinematics software at home. Fifteen whole years after the Philadelphia Museum of Art engaged Gehry for an expansion and renovation of its Beaux-Arts home at the top of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the first part of the work is complete and discreet. His Core Project, as the museum calls it, has cleared out and reshaped the underground ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation of 2 Tone exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @garryjonesphotography.
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| Thai museum unveils 1,000-year-old artefacts returned from US | | Sprüth Magers announces global representation of John Baldessari's estate | | Christie's to offer Hekking's Mona Lisa |
Thailand's Minister of Culture Itthiphol Khunpluem (R) looks on as an official welcomes one of two ancient sandstone lintels. Jack TAYLOR / AFP.
BANGKOK (AFP).- Two ancient sandstone artefacts believed to have been stolen from Thailand during the Vietnam War were unveiled Monday at a Bangkok museum, greeted with a fanfare of traditional dancers and an elaborate worship ceremony. The temple support beams -- which were returned Friday -- boast exquisite carvings of the Hindu deities Indra and Yama that date back to the late 10th or 11th century. They had been on display for decades at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and their repatriation to Thailand followed a yearslong investigation by the US Department of Homeland Security. On Monday, museum staff carefully unpacked the artefacts under the watchful gaze of Culture Minister Itthiphol Khunpluem as Thai traditional music played. "These two lintels are evidence of our rich and prosperous history dating back many centuries ago," he said, thanking US authorities and the Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry for the "relentless pursuit of the sandstones". ... More | |
John Baldessari, 2015 © The Estate of John Baldessari. Courtesy the Estate of John Baldessari and Sprüth Magers. Photo: Manfredi Gioacchini.
BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers announced the global representation of the Estate of John Baldessari, extending the gallerys decades-long relationship with the celebrated and beloved conceptual artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Baldessari produced works that broke ground in their bridging of painting and photography, word and image, and high art and vernacular contextsalways with a heavy dose of wit and humor that made his works accessible to viewers of all kinds. In his paintings, drawings, photographs, editions, films, installations and public artworks, he pulled from sources as diverse as art history, Hollywood B-movies and Ludwig Wittgenstein, giving the trappings of everyday life equal footing with the complex theoretical questions that underpinned each of his projects. As Philomene Magers remarks, Monika and I had the unique pleasure of working with John since the late 1980s. His work has remained a cornerstone of Sprüth ... More | |
Early 17th Century Italian School, Follower of Leonardo da Vinci, Hekkings Mona Lisa. Oil on canvas. Estimate : 200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- Christie's will present a famous early replica of the Mona Lisa in this beautiful interpretation known as the Hekking's Mona Lisa, named after its owner in the 1950s, Raymond Hekking (1866-1977), who acquired it from an antique dealer in a small village in the Nice area. This work and its history illustrate the fascination that the Mona Lisa and the aura of Leonardo da Vinci have always held. Consigned in the south of France through our regional representative Fabienne Albertini, this spectacular work of art with its incredible history and quality of execution is estimated at 200,000-300,000. Pierre Etienne, International Director of Old Master Paintings: "Art challenges, fascinates, sometimes obsesses. Hekking's Mona Lisa that we are pleased to present bears the name of its owner and inventor, Mr Raymond Hekking (1886 - 1977). She is the perfect illustration of the fascination the Mona Lisa has ... More |
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| Long-lost 19th-century vase designed by Thomas Hope discovered in Oklahoma collection | | 17th century Flemish and Netherlandish paintings highlight Dorotheum's Old Master Paintings sale | | Grandma Moses painting privately owned for 40 years headlines Everard's June 8-9 auction |
A Gilt Bronze-Mounted Patinated Copper Two-Handled Vase by Alexis Decaix, Designed by Thomas Hope for his Duchess Street Mansion, London, circa 1802-1803.
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinarily rare and important 19th-century urn, thought lost to history, was recently discovered by Heritage Auctions and is set to go to auction June 18 in Dallas, Texas. Designed in the early 19th century by furniture designer Thomas Hope, the urn was found in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the collection of David D. Denham, where it had been modified into a side table. Heritage has set a conservative pre-auction estimate of $40,000 to $60,000 on the rare bronze. According to research, the urn's mate resides in London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the world's largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design. "This important discovery was a remarkable surprise," said Karen Rigdon, Director of Fine & Decorative Art at Heritage Auctions. "No one knew where the urn was for decades until we recognized it during a house call." Hope ... More | |
Roelant Savery (Courtrai 15761639 Utrecht), Mixed flowers in a glass vase with a lizard nearby, oil on copper, 31 x 24.5 cm. estimate 200,000 - 300,000.
VIENNA.- From the beauty of refined, jewel-like floral arrangements to hard-drinking peasants fighting in the mud, both the high and the low elements of 17th century Flemish and Netherlandish life are represented in Dorotheums Old Master Paintings sale on 8th June 2021. The prowess of the painters of the Low Countries was such that they were much sought-after and travelled far and wide around Europe. Works by some of the greatest exponents are included in our sale; from Peter Paul Rubens, who was the quintessential European statesman and served as emissary to several noble courts, to Roelant Savery, who undertook expeditions to the Tyrol on behalf of Rudolf II, collecting naturalia for the Emperors Wunderkammer in Prague, and Paul Vredeman de Vries, who decorated the ceilings of Rudolfs palace, as well as the grand, renaissance town hall in Gdansk. What was it about these masters who recorded the natural ... More | |
Grandma Moses (nee Anna Mary Robertson, American, 1860-1961), Deep Snow, 1957, oil on Masonite, 22¾ x 30 5/8in (framed), artist-signed at lower left. Titled and dated on original artists label on verso. Direct line of provenance back to the artist. Copyright Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York. Estimate $60,000-$80,000.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Those who have always yearned to own an original Grandma Moses oil painting will have the rare opportunity to make that happen when Everard Auctions presents the revered New England artists Deep Snow as the headliner of its June 8-9 online auction. Fresh to the market after more than 40 years of private ownership, the prized artworks provenance can be traced back directly to Grandma Moses herself. Created in 1957, the lively winter scene is a mélange of colorful figures engaged in outdoor activities riding in horse-drawn sleighs, shoveling snow, pulling childrens sleds, and carrying hockey sticks, perhaps en route to a nearby frozen pond. The painting is illustrated in Otto Kallirs book Grandma Moses (Harry N. ... More |
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| Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan opens Nairy Baghramian's first solo exhibition in an Italian institution | | Installation by Kevin Beasley welcomes the public back into the Snite Museum of Art June 1 | | Christie's announces highlights included in its Paris photography sale |
Nairy Baghramian, Stay Downers (Nerd), 2016. Polyurethane, 144 x 125 x 55 cm / 56,69 x 49,21 x 21,65" Photo: Timo Ohler.
MILAN.- Fondazione Furla and GAM Galleria dArte Moderna, Milan, are presenting Misfits, a Nairy Baghramian exhibition curated by Bruna Roccasalva. The artists first solo exhibition in an Italian institution, Misfits is a new project of the Furla Series, the program promoted by Fondazione Furla and realized in collaboration with Italys foremost museums. The exhibition explores some of the pivotal themes of the artist's research, from her interest in crossing and redefining the border between interior and exterior to the relationship between the aesthetic object and its institutional context. Baghramian firmly believes that a work of art, despite its considerable autonomy, is always inextricably linked to the time, place and socio-political context in which it appears. Accordingly, for the Misfits project, she began with the specific urban setting of the GAM, that is, an English garden ... More | |
Kevin Beasley (American, b. 1985).
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame will reopen to the public on June 1, with the special focus on the exhibition of Kevin Beasleys Chair of the Ministers of Defense (2016) on loan from The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection and The Rennie Collection. This immersive installation explores ideas of power and race in America through theatrics reminiscent of the Roman Baroque. Renowned conceptual artist Kevin Beasley calls into focus Black Liberation movements and ongoing imbalances of power experienced by Black Americans and marginalized men and women of color. The work maintains a formality often employed in religious imagery in artworks intended to convey the divine right of leaders. An empty, rattan peacock chair is at the center; above it hangs a house window clad in protective iron bars, evoking a stained-glass window. Flanking the chair are archetypical Maasai and Zulu warrior shields, icons ... More | |
Bastiaan Woudt, Thula, Alkmaar, 2017. 132 x 102 cm. (52 x 40.1/8 in.) 15,000 20,000 © Bastiaan Woudt courtesy of Atlas Gallery.
PARIS.- Christie's will hold its photography sale on 29 June, focusing on 20th and 21st century photography. It will feature over 120 lots including iconic prints by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Edward Weston as well as more contemporary works by Walead Beshty, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Nick Knight, Sohei Nishino, Richard Prince, Thomas Ruff and Mario Testino. A collection of Nick Brandt's photographs from his first series On This Earth will be led by one of his most famous images, Elephant Drinking. Historic, documentary, fashion and contemporary photography will be presented alongside each other with estimates ranging from 1,000 to 80,000. For the past six years, Christie's Paris has been keen to highlight fashion photography at its summer sale, and with great success, demonstrated by the sale of the Leon Constantiner ... More |
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| Kahmann Gallery announces new location in Rotterdam | | Julien's Auctions announces Music Icons auction highlights | | Cassina Projects presents a survey of minimalistic tendencies from the late 70s until today |
Roy Kahmann. © Bastiaan Woudt.
AMSTERDAM.- Kahmann Gallery will move into a new location on June 26, 2021. In addition to the Amsterdam office, the photography gallery will expand into Keilepand in the harbor area of Nieuw Mathenesse. This progressive step is part of the gallery's long-term vision. Located in Amsterdam's Jordaan since 2005, Kahmann Gallery has developed a fruitful relationship with the city of Rotterdam in recent years. The successful 2016 edition of the Haute Photographie fair nourished this burgeoning partnership and will continue to flourish during Rotterdam Art Week 2022. With this expansion, we give shape to the warm bond between the many relations in Rotterdam that we would like to explore further, says Roy Kahmann. The new space is located at Keilestraat 9, in the heart of the Merwe-Vierhaven project. The building covers 14,500 m² and is designed by the architectural firm GROUP A in collaboration with Studio ADAMS. The building rec ... More | |
A Charvel EVH Art Series electric guitar, hand-striped and played on stage by Eddie Van Halen. Estimate: $30,000-50,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions announced the marquee lineup of Music Icons, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars annual music extravaganza on Friday, June 11th, Saturday, June 12th and Sunday, June 13th 2021 live at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. A canon of over 1,000 music iconography featuring instruments, memorabilia, wardrobe and personal property owned and used by the greatest 20th and 21st centurys pop culture icons representing the genres of rock and roll, pop, soul, R&B and beyond will be offered. A marquee lineup of legends including Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Elton John, Little Richard and others join the previously announced female music icons lineup of Cher, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Whitney Houston and more. Bursting ... More | |
Meuser Kittel an Stange, 2020. Oil on steel, 170 x 66 x 75 cm. Photo: Stefan Jeske | Courtesy the artist, Meyer Riegger (Karlsruhe) and Cassina Projects (Milan).
MILAN.- x_minimal (across minimal) is a cross over survey of minimalistic tendencies from the late 70s until today. Each of the selected artists has developed a signature style, which distinguishes his work as an independent artistic position. Despite all differences between the single artists in terms of media, form of expression and background they connect or react with/to each other, and share in minimalism a common ground. Essays on minimalism often begin with a discourse on its problematic definition. The difficulty in finding a widely accepted name points to a core problem of this art: it involves the most diverse theories and media and has never existed as a uniform body. The American art historian James Meyer therefore proposes to understand this movement as a "practical field" and "critical debate" whose main goal is to create an art that is up to the demands of ... More |
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The Magnum Gallery to open an exhibition of works by Herbert List
LONDON.- The Magnum Gallery will present Metamorphoses, an exhibition of works by the avant la lettre queer German photographer Herbert List, staged at its 63 Gee Street location and online, from 4 to 30 June 2021. The artists first solo exhibition in the UK in five years, Metamorphoses explores themes of mythology, the male body, and Greek sculpture. Borrowing its title from Ovids epic poem, Metamorphoses focuses on transformation. It seeks to explore the complex relationship between Lists prolific depiction of sculptures, his sensual images of men, and the blurred line between them. The myths of Apollo and Daphne, Echo and Narcissus, the Minotaur, all narrated in Ovids fundamental tales The Metamorphoses, appear as underlying themes in Lists remarkable photographs, less in subject matter than as a result of the photographers ... More
Hospitalfield combines contemporary art, history and horticulture as first stage of Future Plan
ARBROATH.- Hospitalfield is an exceptional resource for contemporary artists and local and international audiences in Arbroath, Scotland. A place to work, study, learn, visit and enjoy, it has been undergoing a visionary new redevelopment - the first elements of which were revealed to the public from 27 May 2021 alongside a major new outdoor art work by Mick Peter, the first of a series of artist commissions to be unveiled in 2021. Hospitalfield plans to restore key elements of the iconic site over the next five years. First to launch will be the new garden and restored 19th century fernery and a glass house café. In response to the 800 year horticultural history of the site at Hospitalfield, the Garden will open alongside the newly restored fernery and glass house cafe designed by Stirling Prize Winning Architects Caruso St John, their first project ... More
'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' singer B.J. Thomas dies
WASHINGTON (AFP).- US singer B.J. Thomas, known for his popular song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," has died at the age of 78, his agents announced. His death Saturday in Arlington, Texas came after a lung cancer diagnosis. Thomas won five Grammy Awards between 1977 and 1981, but he first came to public attention in 1966 with his rendition of the Hank Williams country standard "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." He followed that two years later with "Hooked on a Feeling," which hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. But his greatest fame came with "Raindrops," part of the soundtrack of popular film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. The song, a sunny ode to optimism written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, brought him an Oscar and propelled him to the top of the US hit parade. ... More
Exhibition features the work of Nick Cave, Hayv Kahraman, Lyne Lapointe, and Carlos Vega
NEW YORK, NY.- There is a belief across many cultures that the body is a vessel for the soul. It functions as a protector, a container to shield one's essence from permeating toxins. It is a guardian barrier that is to be treated with reverence, respect, and tenderness. But the body vessel, a protectorcan be subverted, distorted, and manipulated, from protector to perpetrator, vanquisher to victim. Sometimes that which is meant to serve and protect inverts itself. It becomes an entity to search and destroy, and sometimes that which is meant to be the warrior is perverted into the weakling. Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Anti/Body, a group exhibition featuring the work of four prolific artists: Nick Cave, Hayv Kahraman, Lyne Lapointe, and Carlos Vega. Collectively, they explore the tender relationship to the corporeal form and our ... More
Fredrik Tjærandsen debuts in Hong Kong with large-scale installation
HONG KONG.- As part of the Swire Properties Arts Month 2021 programme, ArtisTree presents ArtisTree Selects: Light In/Out Film and Exhibition from 24 May to 8 June 2021. Marrying fashion with movement, film, photography and the visual arts, this project from Norwegian artist Fredrik Tjærandsen features a large-scale installation, the dance film Light In/Out, and a collection of striking photographs. Featuring Tjærandsens signature bubble dresses, which earned him viral attention and the prestigious L'Oréal Professional Young Talent Award, this exhibition takes visitors on a journey that combines space, time and light. Visitors can interact with shapes, movement and visual textures in the exhibition. They are also invited to explore a four-metre high, three-dimensional sculpture constructed with the same material as that of the bubble ... More
Denver Art Museum presents work of two leading Indigenous contemporary artists
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum is presenting Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, the first exhibition to feature together the work of Watt and Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes both focus on collaborative artmaking. Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other features 26 mixed media sculptures, wall hangings and large-scale installation works by Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artists practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work. Curated by John P. Lukavic, ... More
Reconstruction of trailblazing American painting exhibition on view at Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI, OH.- An exhibition of 41 evocative paintings sparked an art world commotion in the late 1970s. Now, a reconstruction of the exhibition is on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum. American Painting: The Eighties Revisited is on view until September 5. Not often does the chance come along to revisit a cultural event from our past and interpret it anew. With the generous gift of intrepid art collectors Ronnie Levinson Shore and John Shore, the Cincinnati Art Museum has acquired 40 of the 41 paintings from the original American Painting: The Eighties exhibition. When the show debuted at New York Universitys Grey Gallery in 1979, it touched off a critical and spirited debate about the nature and direction of painting in America. In this new interpretation, visitors have a chance to view work from some of the most iconic ... More
Exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery features two of James Lee Byars's most ambitious works
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London is presenting James Lee Byars: The Milky Way and The Star Man. The exhibition features two of Byarss most ambitious works: The Milky Way, a two-dimensional work composed of 100 black paper stars, and The Star Man, a three-dimensional work comprising 100 white Thassos marble stars. This exhibition marks only the second time each work has been on view and the first time these important works have been shown together. Eros, inscribed in gold on one black star and hidden beneath the artists stylised writing, is the genesis of Byarss The Milky Way. In Greek mythology and philosophy, Eros has many guises. In the earliest sources, Eros is considered a primordial deity, a creator of the cosmos. While we commonly think of Eros as the Greek god of love and procreation, Byars adheres to a Platonic understanding ... More
'Good for the soul: Giant murals turn São Paulo into open-air gallery
SAO PAULO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Eduardo Kobra started out as an artist, he was tagging walls in São Paulo in the predawn hours with gritty depictions of urban life, always working fast and always on the lookout for police cars. At the time, there was no money to be made as a graffiti artist in Brazil, and the risks abounded. Passersby routinely cursed at him, cops took him into custody three times, and he racked up dozens of citations for defacing public property. Many artists in that period fell from buildings and died, Kobra recalled. And there were very violent fights among rival bands of graffiti artists. That is a bygone era. Much has changed since Kobra first took his art to the streets of São Paulo two decades ago. He is now an internationally acclaimed muralist, and São Paulo, Latin Americas largest city, has come to embrace and ... More
Lois Ehlert, creator of boldly colored children's books, dies at 86
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lois Ehlert, the childrens book author and illustrator who won a Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo (1997) and whose 1989 book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, sold more than 12 million copies across various formats, died Tuesday in Milwaukee. She was 86. The death was confirmed by Lisa Moraleda, a publicity director at Ehlerts publisher, Simon & Schuster. Ehlert created 38 books for young readers some for infants and toddlers, others for children as old as 10. Publishers Weekly, in its obituary, paid tribute to her signature collage artwork featuring bold colors and crisply cut shapes as well as found objects. In Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, whose text is by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, a complete alphabet of brightly colored lowercase letters compete to be first to get to the top of a coconut ... More
One of the most powerful and important covers in comics history heads to Heritage Auctions in June
DALLAS, TX.- The cover of Shock SuspenStories No. 6 is among the most famous images in the history of comics. Because of its subject matter. The terrifying story inside. And because of the man who made it. A perfect storm of creator and content: Wally Wood takes on the Ku Klux Klan! And for the first time in four decades, this 1952 masterpiece heads to auction as one of the centerpieces of Heritage Auctions' June 17-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction. Its estimate is $300,000 and up. It was produced by Wood at the most fertile period of his career, as he ascended from journeyman to legend, moving from comic-strip assistant to an illustrator of romance comics to a MAD man for Harvey Kurtzman to a creator of titles for Bill Gaines at EC in the 1950s. All the titles in which Wood had a hand left their mark, but Shock SuspenStories ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born June 01, 1936. Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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