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Viking necklace with 38 conical, hollow silver fishtail pendants, circa 10th century CE. Pendants are of nearly pure (98.98%) silver with stippled-dot decoration. Necklace total weight: 187.5 grams. Long history of private ownership. Estimate: $50,000-$75,000.
BOULDER, CO.- Every auction event conducted by Artemis Gallery is a trip back in time, with intriguing artifacts from scores of important cultures waiting to be discovered, however the companys Exceptional Series is a particular favorite with collectors. The finest consignments of investment-grade art and artifacts from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking, Near Eastern, Far East/Asian, Pre-Columbian and tribal cultures are reserved exclusively for sales produced under the Exceptional Series banner. The next Exceptional Antiquities, Asian & Ethnographic Auction, slated for June 10, includes 400+ museum-worthy lots, with absentee and live-online bidding available through LiveAuctioneers. The auction will open with one of the sessions special highlights: an Ancient Egyptian late-18th-Dynasty Amarna faience lotus bottle with glyphs. This incredible, mold-formed vessel dates to circa 1353-1336 BCE and is covered in softened layers of turquoise-h ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The mineral Elbaite is seen during the media preview at the all-new Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History, on June 3, 2021 in New York. The exhibit will open to the public on June 12, 2021. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
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| A new contemporary art museum aims to heal a city's wounds | | New York City plans a Central Park mega-concert to celebrate reopening | | Damien Hirst steps in among Rome's famed Berninis | 
The Missing Poem Is the Poem, by Maurizio Nannucci, on display at MAXXI LAquila in Palazzo Ardinghelli, a Baroque palace that has been restored after it was damaged in a 2009 earthquake, in L'Aquila, Italy. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
LAQUILA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a recent sunny morning, things were kicking into high gear in the Piazza Santa Maria Paganica, a square in the central Italian city of LAquila. Assorted officials, their entourages, journalists, passersby and museum staff mingled excitedly in front of a Baroque palazzo, which was about to be opened as Italys newest bastion of contemporary art. Yet across the piazza from the museum buildings cream-colored facade, which was gleaming after a decadelong restoration, the church that gave the square its name presented a sharp contrast. Though the outer walls are still standing, Santa Maria Paganica is in ruins, with no roof and scaffolding providing scant protection from the elements to the nave and side chapels. These are the two faces of LAquila, 12 years after a powerful earthquake shook the mountainous Abruzzo region, killing more than 300 people and leaving an estimated 65,000 ... More | | 
Clive Davis, chief creative officer for Sony Music Entertainment, at Sony's offices in New York, April 12, 2017. Bryan Derballa/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario and Emma G. Fitzsimmons
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Brunch crowds are back. Rush-hour traffic is back. Tourists in horse-drawn carriages are back. But the best proof that New York City has returned to its full glory may be a mega-concert in the green expanse of Central Park. Seeking a grand symbol of New Yorks revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple acts and has called on Clive Davis, the 89-year-old producer and music-industry eminence, to pull it together. The show, tentatively set for Aug. 21, is still coming together, with no artists confirmed, though Davis whose five-decade career highlights have included working with Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston said he is aiming for eight iconic stars to perform a three-hour show for 60,000 attendees and a worldwide television audience. De Blasio said in an interview that the concert was part of a Homecoming Week to show that ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: A. Novelli © Galleria Borghese Ministero della Cultura © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS 2021/SIAE 2021.
by Alice Ritchie
ROME (AFP).- Beneath the sumptuous ceiling of the entrance hall of Rome's Borghese Gallery, under the gaze of a dozen busts of caesars, Damien Hirst's giant sandalled foot looks only a little out of place. The giveaway that this is not another piece of Roman sculpture but the work of the provocative British artist is the laboratory rat with an ear growing on its back that climbs on the limestone toes. The gallery is home to a spectacular collection of classical Roman sculpture, Renaissance paintings and priceless works by Italian sculptors Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Antonio Canova. Into this rarefied environment has stepped Hirst, for many years one of the most notorious of the "Young British Artists" who made his name by bisecting a cow and displaying it in a tank of formaldehyde. While many of Hirst's sculptures are clearly modern, others blend into those around them thanks to his use of traditional materials such as bronze and Carrara marble. "They are completely unsettling works, but even in the ... More |
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| Movie museum rethinks exhibitions in response to a changing world | | When reviving a forgotten sculptor's reputation is a family affair | | Watts Gallery - Artists' Village opens an exhibition of works by Henry Scott Tuke | 
A rendering provided by the Academy Museum Foundation/WHY Architecture of a gallery dedicated to the work of the director Pedro Almodóvar. Academy Museum Foundation/WHY Architecture via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- How do you make a museum about an industry even as that industry is changing? How do you represent a history when that history is full of omissions? This is the challenge facing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which has been in the works since 2012 and after several delays, the most recent of which was caused by the pandemic is finally scheduled to open on the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in September. While the 300,000-square-foot, $482 million museum, designed by Renzo Piano, has been under construction, the movie business has been going through a process of deconstruction, brought about by seismic social movements like #OscarsSoWhite, #MeToo ... More | | 
Costantino Nivola, Untitled, 1965. Polychromed cement, 13 3/4 x 12 x 7 in. (34.9 x 30.5 x 17.8 cm). Olnick Spanu Collection, New York. Photo by Marco Anelli. Courtesy Magazzino Italian Art.
by Zachary Small
COLD SPRING, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Adrian Nivola remembers the long hours spent in the studio of his grandfather, Costantino Nivola, during the 1980s, watching the artist capture the warm embrace of a mother in a wood sculpture as country singer Tammy Wynette crooned over the stereo. The music and the man came rushing back into focus this year as he went to work on nearly two dozen previously unseen sculptures from his grandfathers studio that were cast from wet sand into the shapes of animals, people and abstract natural forms. Adrian cleaned them of mold and mildew for the exhibition currently on view at Magazzino Italian Art, a museum of postwar and contemporary work in the Hudson Valley. Nivola: Sandscapes, on view through ... More | | 
Henry Scott Tuke, Miss Muriel Lubbock, 1898, Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove.
GUILDFORD.- Henry Scott Tuke explores the complexities that surround the life and art of the British painter, famed for his depictions of sun, sea and bathing. This exhibition explores how, both as an artist and an individual, Tuke navigated the shifting social, artistic and sexual dynamics of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Tackling questions of training, art practice and the relentless representation of the nude male body, the exhibition brings together some of Tukes most significant works, including All Hands to the Pumps! (1888-89, Tate), August Blue (1893-94, Tate) and the richly coloured Ruby, Gold & Malachite (1902, Guildhall Art Gallery). Best-known for his prolific depiction of nude boys and youths bathing on Cornish seashores, Tuke and his art simultaneously raise questions about how we might depict, view and discuss the body in the twenty-first century. Henry Scott Tuke features key works from the artists early ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the role played by women in the development of modern and contemporary art in Brazil | | Freeman's to sell copy of William J. Stone's printing of the Declaration of Independence | | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Elana Bowsher, Vicente Matte, and Gabriel Mills | 
Lygia Pape, Sem tÃtulo (Série Livro do Tempo), Industrial paint and tempera on wood, 50 x 50 x 10.5 cm. Courtesy of Cecilia Brunson Projects.
LONDON.- Cecilia Brunson Projects is presenting The Womens Century Female Perspectives in Brazilian Art. Presented in association with curator Kiki Mazzucchelli, this selection of works foregrounds the unique role played by women in the development of modern and contemporary art in Brazil. This group exhibition brings together works by artists from different generations and spanning several movements and styles. The selection of works includes Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), Eleonore Koch (1926-2018), Lygia Pape (1927-2004), Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Miriam Inez da Silva (1937-1996), Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960) and Adriana Varejão (b. 1964). In the 1920s, several Brazilian artists, writers and musicians had already embraced the idea of forging an avant-garde that combined native and regional references with elements taken from European modernism. It is widely acknowledged that the first ... More | | 
Commissioned by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1820, Stones copperplate engraving on vellum is considered the most accurate representation of the original 1776 document.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the sale of a signers rediscovered copy of William J. Stones 1823 printing of the Declaration of Independence. First presented to Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832), the last surviving signer of the original document, and later inscribed by his grandson-in-law John MacTavish (1787-1852), this rare document is the last of the six signers copies known to still be in private hands. Remarkably, it was found in Scotland by Freemans sister auction house, Lyon & Turnbull, and Freemans will present this historically significant document in a single-lot auction on July 1, 2021, at an estimate of $500,000-800,000. Commissioned by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1820, Stones copperplate engraving on vellum is considered the most accurate representation of the original 1776 document. This specific copy is one of two ... More | | 
Elana Bowsher, Collage A, 2021. Oil on linen, 24 x 21 in. (61 x 53.3 cm.) Photo: Bryan Toro.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Elana Bowsher, Vicente Matte, Gabriel Mills. This exhibition runs June 2July 14, 2021 at 1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10075. Elana Bowsher, Vicente Matte, and Gabriel Mills are contemporary artists who explore painting from varied perspectives. While they are based in three different locationsBowsher in Los Angeles, CA, Matte in Santiago, Chile, and Gabriel in New Haven, CTthey share an appreciation for how objects can weave together into allegory. Each artist in this exhibition commands a distinct lexicography, consisting of images of our known world: hands, door knobs, doorways, desks, birds, fire, shoes, and mirrors. Their dreamlike compositions resist direct interpretation and instead offer an accessible framework for viewers. And at times, their psychological explorations into domestic life seek to extract answers to pervasive cosmic questions. Elana Bows ... More |
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| Peana opens an exhibition featuring works by Robert Janitz and Jessica Wozny | | S.M.A.K. presents the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Anna Bella Geiger | | National Black Theater plans next act in a new Harlem high-rise | 
Robert Janitz, Dr. Atl in Germany, 2020. Oil, wax, flour on linen, 65 x 50 cm. 25.5 x 19.6 in.
MONTERREY.- There happens to be a connection between the apparent and the unexpected, the detection of which is capable of revitalizing the perception of those structures with which we coexist. The encounter with this experience is irregular and permeable, a sign of the passing of an energy whose vibration is hidden both in rest and in things ability to fall into place despite their obvious ups and downs. Robert Janitzs painting and Jessica Woznys sculpture share this character: one that is equally self-evident and surprising, in which their relationships seem simultaneously to disturb and to contain the activities from which they originated. One finds them in a space that can be traversed as a sort of network of nuclei, in which each work clearly presents the system that governs its processes while also obscuring its purposes: there is no doubt about the apparition of forms, though their identity is profoundly indeterminate. In ... More | | 
Little Scrolls, 1998-2000. Lead drawing and engraving on parchment. Courtesy of the artist.
GHENT.- The first retrospective dedicated to the work of Anna Bella Geiger (b. 1933, Rio de Janeiro) opened in S.M.A.K.. The exhibition includes over 170 works and spans a period of more than fifty years. Key series from the artists oeuvre are being shown alongside historical installations and Geigers works for the Venice and São Paolo Biennales (1980 and 1981, respectively). Anna Bella Geiger belongs to the first generation of conceptual artists in South America and is one of the most important contemporary artists in Brazil. Her unique visual language, which has been evolving since the 1950s, combines a critical examination of Brazilian history and identity with the development of experimental techniques. A pioneer of Brazilian video art, the artist has developed a radical art pedagogy and created innovative printing processes. Geigers quest for artistic autonomy is strongly related to the political and social reality of Braz ... More | | 
A planned 21-story building that will include a mix of housing, retail and a gleaming new theater. Luxigon/National Black Theater via The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was more than 50 years ago that Barbara Ann Teer rented space in a building at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem that would serve as the home of a nascent organization called National Black Theater. The theater blossomed into an important cultural anchor, presenting productions by, and about, Black Americans when their stories rarely appeared on mainstream stages, and hosting artists including Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Nina Simone, Nikki Giovanni and Maya Angelou. When the building was destroyed in a fire in 1983, many feared that the theater was doomed, said Sade Lythcott, Teers daughter. But Teer had another idea: She decided to buy the damaged 64,000-square-foot building on Fifth ... More |
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 China's Ai Weiwei unveils art exhibit in adoptive PortugalLISBON (AFP).- Exiled Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei says the coronavirus pandemic, rather than slow him down, has spurred him on, as he prepares to open an exhibition of his art in Lisbon on Friday. "The pandemic time is tragic for the world... but for me personally I have had a very productive time," Ai, 63, told a news conference. The show at Lisbon's Cordoaria Nacional exhibition centre brings together around 80 works by Ai, the artist once feted by Chinese authorities who helped design Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic stadium. But the sculptor, photographer and filmmaker ran foul of the state, especially when he criticised authorities over their handling of 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in which more than 87,000 people died. He was detained for 81 days in 2011 and eventually left for Germany four years later, finally settling in Alentejo, in southern ... More  National Football Museum reopens with new Hall of Fame exhibitionMANCHESTER.- After more than 200 days behind closed doors, The National Football Museum reopened on Thursday 27 May 2021. It launched with a major new exhibition: The English Football Hall of Fame which focuses on 50 of the games most inspirational and influential figures. Spanning all eras from the 1880s, stars featured in the exhibition include: Tom Finney, John Barnes, Lily Parr, Hope Powell, Kenny Dalglish, Alex Scott, Gary Lineker and Alex Ferguson. The English Football Hall of Fame exhibition features objects which went on public display for the very first time including: Manchester City legend Colin Bells MBE. England captain Billy Wrights collection of gramophone records. Wright discovered a love of opera music while playing for England in Italy in 1948. Sir Stanley Matthews Stoke City shirt worn in his testimonial ... More  The Art of Anime auction brings genre's finest artwork to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Production animation cels and backgrounds from the most critically-acclaimed and culturally-influential anime films, television series and characters to headline a three-day auction event June 25-27 at Heritage Auctions. The Art of Anime and Everything Cool Auction is the first of its kind held by any major U.S. auction house to pay homage to the craft of anime animation art. With 928 lots, this will be the worlds largest auction to feature top-grade anime, manga and even classic American animation, said Jim Lentz, Director of Animation Art at Heritage. From feature films to television series, the sale is packed with iconic scenes and characters. The auction features top selections from the Glad Anime Museum Collection, created by Mike Glad, the photographer and Oscar-nominated film producer who amassed original art by ... More  Baltimore Museum of Art presents 'Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: The Perpetual Sense of Redness'BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art has installed a new work by Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (b. 1988, Mexico City) created especially for the museums John Waters Rotunda. The perpetual sense of Redness (2021) is a multi-panel contained structure using hinged and folded canvases to create an electric car and spaceship hybrid that serves as a potent symbol and platform through which to consider the complexity of identity comprised of race, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality. For the artist, this installation is an unclaimed site for hope and escape, removed from the impossible paradox of the colonized Indigenous person suspended in a continual state of resistance. Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: The Perpetual Sense of Redness is on view from June 6 through October 3, 2021. Toranzo Jaegers seductive paintings and constructions ... More  Moody Center for the Arts opens its summer exhibition featuring large-scale ceramics by Brie Ruais HOUSTON, TX.- The Moody Center for the Arts opened its summer exhibition Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of the Land This is the first institutional solo exhibition featuring the artist Brie Ruais (b. 1982, Southern California) whose work challenges the static nature of sculpture. Ruaiss large-scale ceramic works highlight the physical and psychological connections between the human body and the earth, inviting viewers to reflect on our evolving relationship to the natural world. Brie Ruais has a unique ability to create powerful ceramic sculptures that, despite their size and weight, seem almost delicate. They symbolize the force and solidity of nature, but also reflect the fragility of our global environment, says Associate Curator Frauke V. Josenhans. Ruais approaches each work not only as sculpture, but also as performance. The ... More  "Suited Up" showcases extraordinary armor making in TexasHOUSTON, TX.- Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is presenting Suited Up: Contemporary Armor Making in Texas. The exhibition, featuring suits of armor inspired by historical re-enactments and iconic pop-culture warriors, explores the extraordinary craftsmanship behind armor making in the Lone Star State. Showcasing everything from traditional metalwork and leatherwork to 3D-printed and innovative do-it-yourself suits, the works on view exemplify the vibrant and diverse spectrum of fantastical armorers in Texas. Their handmade attire, often fashioned from favorite media figures or historical designs, represents an integral component of their practice. Various communities of fantasy and re-enactment have kept age-old armor-making techniques alive, adding many unique chapters in recent years to the histories of these techniques. Self- ... More  The 5th China International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition opens to the public SHANGHAI.- 183 emerging and established metal art works grace the Shanghai World Handicraft Industry Exposition Park from 5 June until 5 July for the fifth edition of China International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition. Funded by China National Arts Fund, co-organised by the Academy of Arts & Design,Tsinghua University and China Arts and Crafts Association, the 5th China International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition (CICMAE) presents 183 works by the most prominent avant garde figures from 13 countries and regions, including China, Taiwan, the UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, India, Australia, Switzerland and Israel. Wang Xiaoxin, exhibition curator and AADTHU professor, notes: This years edition showcases works from highly innovative handcraft artists, who work with various materials including gold, ... More  Graeme Ferguson, filmmaker who helped create IMAX, dies at 91NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Graeme Ferguson, a Canadian documentarian who co-created IMAX, the panoramic cinema experience that immerses audiences into movies, and was the chief creative force of the company for years, died May 8 at his home in Lake of Bays, Ontario. He was 91. His son, Munro Ferguson, said the cause was cancer. In the 1960s, Ferguson was making a name for himself as a young cinematographer known for working in the cinéma vérité style, and he was asked to direct a documentary about the Arctic and Antarctic for Expo 67, a worlds fair in Montreal. He traveled for a year filming the movie, which included footage of Inuit life and the aurora borealis. The documentary, Polar Life, was screened with an immersive theater configuration: Audiences sat on a rotating turntable as the movie played ... More  Yemen's Socotra, isolated island at strategic crossroadsYEMEN (AFP).- Only goats seeking shade now use the long-abandoned lines of Soviet-era T-34 tanks, but the rusting relics point to the strategic value that Yemen's Socotra islands hold for foreign powers. The archipelago's remote location helped it forge its astonishing nature millennia ago -- a third of the main island's plants are unique, from bulbous bottle and cucumber trees to alien aloes. But the 130-kilometre (80-mile) long island -- the biggest in the Middle East region -- also oversees busy global shipping lanes at the crossroads between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. With mainland Yemen wracked by civil war, Socotra is under the rule of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), part of a UN-recognised unity government, but who want an independent South Yemen. But it is the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that is in de facto control. ... More  Rashid Johnson's Red Stage at Astor Place now open dailyNEW YORK, NY.- This weekend, Creative Time and artist Rashid Johnson opened their latest public art project, Red Stage, a participatory steel sculpture that celebrates the vibrancy and creativity found in New Yorks public spaces. Throughout the weekend, hundreds of New Yorkers attended Red Stage to celebrate resurgence as New York City awakens from the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests participated in a wide breadth of activations, mingled with friends, and danced throughout the evenings to live performances and DJ sets. On opening day, visitors enjoyed an instrument-making workshop made from scavenged items at Astor Place from artist and beatmaker Nelson Bandela; a performance by choreographer Emily Johnson called The Rising Stomp, which featured 12 female dancers that called upon the land through melodic repetition; and celebrated ... More  Glory Days: Springsteen to return to Broadway in June, vaccines requiredNEW YORK (AFP).- US rocker Bruce Springsteen announced Monday that his eponymous hit Broadway show will reopen in June, making him the first megastar to perform for an indoor audience at a major venue since the city began reopening. "Springsteen on Broadway" will admit only vaccinated audience members, the production said in a statement, with proof of full inoculation required. The 71-year-old New Jersey native put on 236 sold-out performances of the show between October 2017 and December 2018, sharing personal stories and performing acoustic songs to illustrate his life journey. Although able to sell out giant concert halls and pack stadiums "the Boss" has chosen St. James Theatre which accommodates only approximately 1,700, for his latest performance, which runs June 26 through September 4. Few theaters have opened on Broadway, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Everett Millais was born June 08, 1829. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 - 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). In this image: Afternoon Tea (or The Gossips). The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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