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Myrtis Bedolla at her gallery in Baltimore, June 18, 2020. As Art Basel opens online, African-American galleries are glaringly absent. Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Art Basels online viewing rooms went live Thursday, presenting 281 of the worlds leading modern and contemporary art galleries. Not one of them is owned by an African American. Despite the increasing attention being paid to Black artists many of whom have been snatched up by megadealers and seen the prices for their work surge at auction the number of Black-owned galleries representing artists in the United States remains strikingly, stubbornly low. There is only one African American gallerist in the 176-member Art Dealers Association of America, a professional group. Now, as the country focuses on systemic racism amid the George Floyd protests, some Black dealers say the mostly white art market is long overdue for a radical transformation. Until we have a seat at the table, this is going to continue to be an exclusive club, said Karen Jenkins-Johnson of Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco and New York City. We are not playing on a lev ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Pablo Picasso's Le Reservoir is exhibited as Sotheby's NY previews highlights of the Evening Sale at Sotheby's during the coronavirus pandemic on June 19, 2020 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images,/AFP
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 | | September 11 Memorial lays off staff members and furloughs others | | Music from the death camps: Alive and being readied for a new home | | 'Astonishing' neolithic circle found near Stonehenge | 
An inscription at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, May 12, 2014. Damon Winter/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Since its subterranean galleries opened in 2014, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan has depended upon income from millions of visitors to pay for programming, operating costs and security. Now, deprived of ticket revenue because of the coronavirus pandemic and facing a deficit of up to $45 million over the next year, the organization has started a fundraising campaign and resorted to furloughs and layoffs that affect almost 60% of its staff. Weve had to make difficult and painful decisions to forestall the deficit and address the loss of revenue, the memorial and museums president and chief executive, Alice M. Greenwald, said in a statement, adding: It is not easy to let go of dear friends and colleagues who have contributed so much to this sacred place. Although the outdoor memorial is scheduled to reopen July 4, the museum is expected to remain closed for now, in accordance with city and ... More | | 
Composer and pianist Francesco Lotoro analyzing original sheets at the Terezin Museum. Marc Valenti/Fondazione ILMC Barletta via The New York Times.
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For months, Francesco Lotoro was forced to stay in his home, quarantined by a virus that ravaged his country, Italy, and slowed a project he has been working on since 2014. His dream is to build a study center to house an archive of concentration camp music from World War II, a trove he has been collecting for 30 years. Now he is back at work, raising money and reviewing plans for what he calls a citadel, one to be built in Barletta, a city in southeastern Italy by the Adriatic Sea where he lives and was born 55 years ago. The main hurdles are raising the money and developing an international campaign to get it, he said in a telephone interview. Lotoro, a composer and pianist, and his wife, Grazia, have collected and cataloged symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagines that music would have lost its ability to encourage and to soothe. But to review Lotoros ... More | | 
A vast, 4,500-year-old monument, thought to be one of the largest prehistoric structures found in Britain, has been discovered near Stonehenge in southwest England, archaeologists said Monday, June 22. Adrian DENNIS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A vast, 4,500-year-old monument, thought to be one of the largest prehistoric structures found in Britain, has been discovered near Stonehenge in southwest England, archaeologists said Monday. Some 20 or more massive shafts forming a circle -- more than 10 metres (33 feet) in diameter and five metres deep -- have been uncovered close to the ancient settlement of Durrington Walls, just three kilometres (two miles) from Stonehenge. Nick Snashall, National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, called the latest find an "astonishing discovery". "As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape, and this astonishing discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs of our Neolithic ancestors," she said in a statement. It is thought the shafts may have served as a boundary to a sacred area connected to the mysterious circle of standing stones on Salisbu ... More |
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| | Museo Picasso Malaga shows photographs and some illustrated books by Picasso | | 400 artists and 80 arts organizations receive $2.7 million in COVID-19 relief grants | | Exhibition at The Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge presents historic materials in "Democracy and Its Eagles" | 
Roberto Otero (1931-2004). Picasso in front of his chateau in Vauvenargues [Between 1961 and 1972] Fondo Roberto Otero. Museo Picasso Málaga © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2020.
MALAGA.- The exhibition comprises over 60 pictures that show the everyday life of Pablo Picasso: at work on his last exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, or receiving visits from friends and acquaintances such as Joan Miró and Rafael Alberti, in the company of his wife, Jacqueline Roque. They also portray the artist during his creative process, and the artworks with which he lived every day. Photographer, journalist, author and film documentalist Roberto Otero (Trenque Lauquen, Buenos Aires, 1931 - Palma de Mallorca, 2004) took a continuous series of intimate pictures of Pablo Picasso between 1961 and 1970, the latter years of the artists life. The more than 1,500 pictures that make up the archive, which was acquired by Museo Picasso Málaga in 2005 and includes negatives, slides, copies on paper and internegatives, are important ... More | | 
Craft Contemporary Paperworks Installation Image, September 2015. Photo: Craft Contemporary.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Four hundred artists and 80 arts organizations received $2.7 million in total grants as part of a broad-based COVID-19 relief effort for the visual arts in the Los Angeles region, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the California Community Foundation announced today. The emergency support was designed to reach individual artists throughout all areas of LA County and arts organizations that serve the regions culturally diverse communities. The arts are a source of expression, resistance, and healing, says Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation, an operating program of the Getty Trust, which initiated the $10 million LA Arts COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund to help small and midsize visual arts organizations. But our creative artists and arts organizations, who do so much to advocate for social change, will not survive this pandemic and its economic fallout if we dont take action now to ... More | | 
Eagle Draft. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1919. Coloured print on paper. On loan from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg (estate of Edwin Redslob, I B-2) Photo: Armin Herrmann, 2020.
BERLIN.- Coats of Arms, signs, banknotes, postage stamps, documents, seals, buildings, and even public events all state signs and symbols of the Weimar Republic were to be given a new appearance after the November-Revolution of 1918 to distinguish the Republic from the German Empire by the usage of a modern design language. The first parliamentary democracy in Germany wanted to free itself from the past not only politically, but also aesthetically. The office of the Reichskunstwart (national custodian of art) was established for state design and was held by the Weimar art historian and Werkbund-member Edwin Redslob from 1920 till 1933. A central task was the renewal of the national emblems. Redslob developed formal guidelines, their artistic elaboration ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Galerie Karsten Greve features ceramics by Korean artist Young-Jae Lee | | The Fundació Joan Miró and "la Caixa" Foundation present Nalini Malani's first museum exhibition in Spain | | Exhibition of new work by Cerith Wyn Evans on view at White Cube Bermondsey | 
Young Jae Lee, Spinach Bowl #135, 2018-2020. Ceramics (stoneware, feldspar glaze, 1280 °C gas kiln) h = 9, à 14,9 cm / h = 3 1/2, à 5 3/4 in. Signed at the bottom: Young Jae (in Chinese YJL/S 310 © Young Jae Lee. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln Paris St. Moritz.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting a second solo exhibition featuring ceramics by Korean artist Young-Jae Lee in Cologne. On display are one hundred and sixty Spinach Bowls dining and drinking bowls created over a period of almost twenty years. The small, bulbous jars have their special aesthetic appeal due to their diverse glazes. Born in Seoul in 1951, Young-Jae Lee moved to Germany in 1972. Following her studies of ceramics and design at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences from 1973 to 1978, she ran her own workshop in Sandhausen near Heidelberg. Since 1987, Young-Jae Lee has been head of the long-established Margaretenhöhe Ceramics Workshop in Essen. With Bauhaus principles serving ... More | | 
Nalini Malani, You Dont Hear Me. Courtesy La Caixa Foundation. Photo: David Campos.
BARCELONA.- Nalini Malani (Karachi, now Pakistan, 1946) has devoted her artistic career to the defence of social, feminist and environmental justice. Malanis work is built as a narrative that intertwines literary and mythological references with Asian and Western aesthetic forms to create a distinct multilayer language. Her bold output, based on a prodigious intellectual curiosity and committed to the values of radical imagination and socio-political awareness, earned the artist the 2019 Joan Miró Prize, one of the most prestigious and best-endowed contemporary art awards in the world, granted jointly by the Fundació Joan Miró and the la Caixa Foundation. The exhibition Nalini Malanis first solo museum show in Spain is curated by Martina Millà , Head of Exhibitions at the Fundació Joan Miró, in close collaboration with the artist. It features fifty years of Malanis career with works that illustrate ... More | | 
Cerith Wyn Evans, No realm of thought... No field of vision, White Cube Bermondsey, 7 February 2 August 2020 © Cerith Wyn Evans. Photo © White Cube (Ollie Hammick).
LONDON.- White Cube Bermondsey is presenting No realm of thought... No field of vision, an exhibition of new work by Cerith Wyn Evans. Installed throughout all of the gallerys spaces, it features installation, sculpture and painting that foreground the artists longstanding exploration of transcendence, translation and temporality. Evans practice can be considered a process of transposition, whereby elements such as text, code, light and sound are compressed, extended, inverted and multiplied. Drawing on the thematic potential and erotic resonance of mechanised forms, the works in this exhibition interweave juxtaposed narratives and skewed perspectives. Suspended, obscuring, mirroring and reflexive, his works encourage a synesthetic experience, interrogating a Phenomenology of Perception played out across visual, spatial ... More |
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| | Art Fund announces £2m to support museums through crisis | | Catalina Island Museum opens "Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray" | | Krannert Art Museum welcomes Liza Sylvestre as Curator of Academic Programs | 
Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund.
LONDON.- Today, as doors to the nations much-loved museums and galleries remain closed by the Covid-19 crisis, Art Fund announces funding and resources in response to the challenges they face. After hearing from hundreds of museum directors and professionals through its Covid-19 Impact Report to identify needs now and in the future, the national fundraising charity for art will make more than £2m available in additional funding through grants and strategic partnerships to support reopening and beyond. Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund, said: The future of our museums and galleries, which are so vital to society, is far from certain. Art Fund is putting every effort into helping museums through the current crisis, informed by our recent report into what museums and galleries need, and following the exceptional immediate response from public funders which provided a lifeline for many organisations. We encourage all those at immediat ... More | | 
Frida with Magenta Rebozo, New York, 1939 by Nickolas Muray.
CATALINA ISLAND.- The Catalina Island Museum presents Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray on view through September 27, 2020. The intimate exhibition displays the personal life of Mexicos most prolific female artist, Frida Kahlo, captured through the lens of longtime friend, lover and confidant Nickolas Muray. The work includes approximately 50 photographic portraits and prints from 1937-1946, including six images that have never before been exhibited in the United States, and a number of intimate letters of correspondence between Kahlo and Muray. With art comes the power to inspire, heal and explore the world from different viewpoints and Catalina Island Museum is honored to share in this experience with Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of the Catalina Island Museum. Today more than ever, the importance of resonating with ... More | | 
Sylvestre is known for her intersectional and multidisciplinary work that explores the ways in which our senses alter our experience and perception of the world.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign welcomed Liza Sylvestre as the museums inaugural Curator of Academic Programs. In this position, Sylvestre will be responsible for connecting the universitys faculty and students to the museum, developing KAM into a vital resource for teaching across all disciplines at the University of Illinois, both by facilitating instruction with the museums collection and exhibitions and by forging her own collaborative projects with university partners. Lizas remarkable practice as an artist and educator make her an ideal person to launch this new position at KAM, said Museum Director Jon L. Seydl. Her novel approach to deploying art museums in interdisciplinary teachingincluding innovative collaborations with scientists at the University of ... More |
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 'Batman Forever' and 'Lost Boys' director Schumacher dies at 80LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Joel Schumacher, the director of two flamboyant "Batman" films and cult teen classic "The Lost Boys," has died of cancer aged 80. The maverick who began as a costume designer before rising to the top ranks of Hollywood directors passed away in New York City, publicists ID-PR said in a statement to AFP. Schumacher "passed away quietly from cancer this morning after a year-long battle. He will be fondly remembered by his friends and collaborators," it said. The director is best known to wider audiences for the divisive "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997). Schumacher had taken over helming the highly lucrative comic book franchise from Tim Burton, and his first effort starring Val Kilmer performed well at the box office. But both movies, notable for their camp and colorful style, were assailed by many critics ... More As lockdown lifts, Barcelona plants enjoy a day at the operaBARCELONA (AFP).- The lights dim, the curtain rises and the music begins -- all signs normal life has returned to Barcelona's Liceu opera house, were the seats not filled with some 2,300 plants. After months of silence, the emblematic opera house located in central Barcelona decided to throw open its doors with a unique performance -- a metaphor for the months of lockdown when nature took back space from people. Seated in the plush red seats of the stalls, the dress circle and the boxes were an eye-catching array of 2,292 ficus trees, palms and Swiss cheese plants, their verdant green contrasting with the ornate gold columns and mouldings of the auditorium. On the stage, which has stood empty since mid-March, a string quartet played the beautiful lilting melodies of Puccini's Crisantemi -- or The Chrysanthemums. The idea of the concert came to conceptual ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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