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An Oleksiy Sai painting that features a satellite image of battle-ravaged areas of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, hangs in a Miami warehouse on Feb. 27, 2022. A Kyiv couple stage a socially charged exhibition in South Florida as their Voloshyn Gallery back home becomes a bomb shelter. Alfonso Duran/The New York Times) .
by Brett Sokol
NEW YORK, NY.- Wife-and-husband gallerists Julia and Max Voloshyn had planned to return to Kyiv last week to open a new show at their space there. But with commercial air traffic halted as Russian troops invaded Ukraine, their stay in Miami and the run of their pop-up exhibition there was extended. The show, titled The Memory on Her Face, features socially charged work by five Ukrainian artists. After arriving in Miami in November to run booths at two of the satellite art fairs held concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach NADA and Untitled Art the Voloshyns contracted COVID-19, postponing their return for a month. By mid-January, with several prominent Ukrainian art collectors coming to Miami in February, they mounted this impromptu show inside a small warehouse in the Allapattah neighborhood, with Untitleds Omar Lopez-Chahoud as the curator. Its a documentation of what has been happening in Ukraine for the last few years, said Julia Vol ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Stephen Friedman Gallery recently presented its first solo exhibition with British artist Holly Hendry.
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| New exhibition explores the Hebrew Bible through Christian eyes | | British Museum unveils Stonehenge exhibition | | Does this Amazon rock art depict extinct Ice Age mammals? |
Moses Placed in the River (detail), from World Chronicle (text in German), Germany (Regensburg), about 14001410, artist unknown; author, Rudolf von Ems. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Images drawn from the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament) were among the most popular subjects for Christian illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages. Drawn from the Getty Museums renowned collection of manuscripts, and featuring the recently-acquired Rothschild Pentateuch, Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes brings manuscripts that explore the medieval Christian understanding of Hebrew scripture into dialogue with the Rothschild Pentateuch, a masterpiece of the Jewish manuscript tradition. Together, these objects from different religious traditions demonstrate how the Hebrew Bible was a living document, its contents subject to interpretation dependent on time and place. Each new acquisition allows us to expand and reconsider the broader themes that emerge within our collections and ultimately to see a richer diversity of perspectives within their narratives, ... More | |
Bronze twin horsesnake hybrid from hoard, 12001000 BC. Kallerup, Thy, Jutland, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark/Ofret Museum. CC-BY-SA, Søren Greve, National Museum of Denmark.
LONDON.- The British Museum unveiled its major exhibition on Stonehenge. Over 430 objects have been brought together from across Europe in a once-in alifetime spectacle on the history and mystery of the ancient monument. The world of Stonehenge (17 February 17 July 2022) is the UKs first ever major exhibition on the story of Stonehenge. Key loans include the Nebra Sky Disc, the worlds oldest map of the stars which is on loan to the UK for the very first time, and the astonishing wooden monument dubbed Seahenge that recently emerged after millennia from the sands of a Norfolk beach. Stonehenge was built 4,500 years ago around the same time as the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. This landmark exhibition sets the great monument in the context of one of the most remarkable eras on the islands of Britain and Ireland, which saw huge social and technological revolutions, alongside f ... More | |
An undated photo and drawing provided by Jose Iriarte, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in England, show a possible painting of an ancient lineage of a horse at Serrania La Lindosa in Colombia, top, and an artistic reconstruction, bottom. A new study suggests that ocher paintings made by ice-age humans in the Colombian Amazon depict extinct creatures, but other researchers say the art has a more recent origin. Iriarte et al., Royal Society B 2022 via The New York Times; drawing by Mike Keesey.
by Becky Ferreira
NEW YORK, NY.- At the end of the last ice age, South America was home to strange animals that have since vanished into extinction: giant ground sloths, elephant-like herbivores and an ancient lineage of horses. A new study suggests that we can see these lost creatures in enchanting ocher paintings made by ice age humans on a rocky outcrop in the Colombian Amazon. These dazzling rock art displays at Serranía de la Lindosa, a site on the remote banks of the Guayabero River, were long known to the areas Indigenous people but were virtually off limits to researchers because of the Colombian civil war. Recent ... More |
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| Property from The Strong National Museum of Play to be auctioned off | | Metropolitan Opera will host concert in support of Ukraine | | UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art announces 2021 acquisitions of works by six artists |
A Large Japanese Gold, Red and Black Lacquer Three-Case Inro. Signed Shokasai, Edo Period, 19th Century. Estimate: $10,000-15,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions is will present Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play on March 28, which will feature items from The Strong National Museum of Plays collections and its founder, Margaret Woodbury Strong. Strong was a prominent collector and philanthropist, whose passions developed early in life through her unconventional upbringing. Her parents, each avid collectors, took her on extended travels across the world, which encouraged her sense of curiosity and instilled within her a lifelong passion for learning. By the middle of the 20th century, Strong had assembled one of the most heralded private collections in the United States and had to add two wings to her Rochester, N.Y. home to accommodate all of her works. When she passed away in 1969, she left the entirety of her collection to a foundation that would form what is today known as The Strong National Museum of Play, home to the National Toy Hall of Fam ... More | |
The Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 12, 2020. The Metropolitan Opera said on Sunday that it would no longer engage with performers or other institutions that have voiced support for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, becoming the latest cultural organization to seek to distance itself from some Russian artists amid Putins invasion of Ukraine. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera said Monday that it would stage a concert in support of Ukraine next week in an effort to show solidarity with Ukrainians under attack, raise relief funds and express opposition to the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The concert which will take place March 14 and be broadcast on radio stations around the world will open with the Ukrainian national anthem and feature Prayer for the Ukraine, by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, the Met said. We want the people in Ukraine to know that the Metropolitan Opera and the artistic community are rallying together to support them, Peter Gelb, ... More | |
Edgar Payne, Snow in the High Sierras, Early 20th century. Oil on canvas. 31 x 39 in.
UC Irvine Institute and Museum of California Art, Donated in Memory of Christian A. Gerola.
IRVINE, CA.- Today, UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) announced six new acquisitions that entered the museums growing collection in 2021. The gifts of artworks represent a range of genres and mediums by artists responding to the California experience, dating from the early 20th century to 2019. Langson IMCAs holdings of over 4,500 works span 19th century California Impressionism and plein air painting to Post-War and contemporary art. Langson IMCA Museum Director Kim Kanatani said, These highly individual artworks greatly enhance and deepen our growing collection, enriching opportunities for dialogue, research, and presentation. John Paul Joness ethereal lithograph, Stanton Macdonald-Wrights coastal scene, Helen Pashgians luminous canvas, Edgar Paynes dynamic landscape, and Jan Stussys meticulous drawing ... More |
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| The Secession opens an exhibition of works by Dineo Seshee Bopape | | Red five-string bass made for The Cars' Benjamin Orr pulls into Heritage Auctions in April | | Artcurial to offer the Collection Isabelle & Hervé Poulain |
Dineo Seshee Bopape, footnotes (The struggle of memory against forgetting), 2018, installation view, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler.
VIENNA.- In Dineo Seshee Bopapes haunting installations and videos, the history of her native South Africa prompts reflections on memory and hegemony over land and bodies in relation to the lived experiences of African people (and also a beauty). Her work is informed by her quest for a visual, acoustic, and material language that evokes an autochthonous aesthetic. It articulates (particularly) the African diasporas peoples resilience and healing as well as their sustained energies of resistance to and emancipation from and traversing through the violence of the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal matrix. Bopape makes art out of carefully selected everyday materials such as soil, clay, fabric, plants, containers, paint and digital media. Their material and symbolic properties often appear in conversation with ideas about politics, aesthetics, the metaphysics of self/thing/spirit ... More | |
The Cars-Benjamin Orr 1987 Mosrite Custom 5-String Red Electric Bass Guitar, Serial #BO 013.
DALLAS, TX.- David Robinson the drummer who gave The Cars their name, their logo, their look, their album covers and their timelessly tuneful backbeat remembers when the guitars arrived. Well, more or less. After all, it was 35 years ago, at the end of the Door to Door tour. Just months before The Cars broke up. Around the beginning of 1987, The Cars' lead guitarist Elliott Easton suggested ordering matching Mosrites for the band one for him, another for rhythm guitarist and vocalist Ric Ocasek, and one for bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, whose instrument now heads to auction 35 years later. They were "exotic-looking guitars," Robinson says now, made popular by the Ventures and other surf-rock bands of the 1960s. Orr's was particularly unusual: Robinson later learned it was the only five-string bass Mosrite ever made during its on-and-off 66-year history. Each was red, because of course that was the color scheme Robinson, The Cars' de facto art director, had chosen for ... More | |
Auctioneer, racing driver behind the Art Cars concept and Artcurials Honorary Chairman, Hervé Poulain and his wife have shared an erudite interest in the Native Americans for many years.
PARIS.- Over 150 items from the collection of Artcurials Honorary Chairman Hervé Poulain and his wife will come under the hammer on 17 May. Entitled The Native Americans as seen by Europeans 1800-1960, the selection of work includes sculptures, paintings, photographs, comic strips and folk art. Among items dating from the end of the 18th century, the 19th and early 20th centuries, are pieces that pay tribute to the creativity of Native Americans, notably the Navajo rugs so admired by Andy Warhol. Originally started by the couple with the simple objective of decorating their house in Sologne, as time went by the collection of furnishings took a particular and original direction, focusing on how European artists have represented the Native Americans. Notable highlights of this diverse selection of works includes a gouache by Guy Arnoux entitled Le général Lafayette et les chefs regroupés dans la Confédération des Six Tribus estimated at 50 000 - ... More |
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| Thomas Rehbein Galerie opens an exhibition of paintings by Ulrich Pester | | Crescent City Auction Gallery announces Important Winter Estates Auction | | The 'Dark Knight' returns to Heritage Auctions with original cover art from Frank Miller |
Ohne Titel (Scooter), 2022 Öl & Acryl auf Leinwand / Oil & Acrylic on canvas 110 x 80 cm.
COLOGN.- Thomas Rehbein Galerie announced the exhibition heizen which is the 6th solo exhibition with the painter Ulrich Pester. Ulrich Pester's paintings do not develop out of a given intention of the artist, but rather out of themselves as a process. The images are understood as a reaction to an idea that accidentally crosses Pester's perception. Incidental things from his immediate environment, such as kitchen utensils, shirt patterns from the closet, but also observations on the street, in films or YouTube videos, become signifiers with symbolic meaning. By cutting out an apparently insignificant object or a situational observation, its form or the snapshot comes into focus. The subject of scissors, for example, is representative of the dissection of objects from their context. Stylized and alienated in dark blue, the utensil in the work Ohne Titel (Schere) (2020) is reduced to its form and yet subtly personifi ... More | |
Gorgeous 19th century M. T. Kaltenberger gilt bronze and porcelain mantel clock, 17 inches tall (est. $800-$1,200).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- An oil on board folk art painting by Clementine Hunter, magnificent 19th century clocks and clock sets, a portrait painting attributed to Sir William Beechey and another after Guido Reni, and dazzling estate jewelry items are all part of Crescent City Auction Gallerys Important Spring Estates Auction, planned for the weekend of March 18th and 19th. The auction will be held online and in the gallery at 1330 Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans. Start times are 10 am Central time both days. More than 900 lots will come up for bid over the two days, in categories that include French period furniture, original works of art by noted local and regional artists, clocks, estate jewelry, couture items, silver, bronzes and decorative items. The oil on board painting by Clementine Hunter (La., 1887-1987), titled Fish Fry, is a wonderful example of the artists work. The ... More | |
Frank Miller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #3 "Hunt the Dark Knight" Cover Original Art (DC, 1986).
DALLAS, TX.- Just as The Batman hits big screens, The Dark Knight Returns to the auction block. Heritage Auctions will offer in its momentous April 7-10 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction the original cover artwork for Book Three in Frank Miller's four-part series published in 1986. Featuring Miller's new Robin 13-year-old Carrie Kelly crouched beneath the Bat-Signal, this is nothing short of a historic offering from the landmark title that finally and fully transformed the Caped Crusader into The Dark Knight and irrevocably altered the character, comic books, cinema and popular culture. Rarely do offerings from Miller's triumph come to auction, especially one of the four coveted, closely guarded covers. In fact, it has been two years since even a page from the miniseries was brought to market and nearly a decade since Heritage Auctions sold the cover to Book Two (for $478,000), the only other time a cover from ... More |
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La MaMa announces a year of exhibitions of women artists presented by new Director C. Finley
NEW YORK, NY.- La MaMa Galleria announces a year of exhibitions by women artists, along with curatorial fellowships, presented by the gallerys new Director C. Finley (artist, curator, and founder of Every Woman Biennial.) The program kicks off on March 3rd with a series of eight solo gallery exhibitions that will further engage the community with free art classes building on the exhibitions themes and curatorial practice. Providing additional opportunities for 24 artists, a new window gallery, viewable from the street 24 hours a day, will rotate with new art projects every two weeks. The 2022 program features exhibitions and programs by Liz Liguori, Sarah Anderson, Jessica Mitrani, Nichole Washington, Emily Oliveira, Alex Chowaniec, and Leah Aron with a special vestibule project by Eddy Segal. The artists explore a range of ideas, including: light ... More
Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ãric Antoine
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announced an exhibition of recent work by the French artist Ãric Antoine, on view this March. Antoine has earned acclaim for his quiet, deeply contemplative images, which tap into a shared human pathos while also evoking an atmosphere of wonder and anticipation. Antoine works in series, creating careful studies of a singular object, tableau, or setting, from achingly emotive trees to drowning flowers to graceful arrangements of the human body. He repeats his process to a near-obsessive degree in order to capture the essence of each subject in all its nuance and complexity. I try to see less, Antoine explains, so that I can see more, alluding to his intense focus, attraction to repetition, and rejection of todays insatiable appetite for the next thing. His home in the forest of northeastern ... More
Terrance Dean named first Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Scholar-in-Residence
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) announces that Terrance Dean, Ph.D., has been named the first Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Scholar-in-Residence. Dean is assistant professor of Black Studies at Denison University. As the scholar-in-residence, Dean is tasked with developing scholarly programs related to the Aminah Robinson Legacy Project at CMA, including lectures, symposia, conversations and courses on themes such as race, gender, religion, Black intellectualism and Afrofuturism. The 12-month residency began in January 2022. Aminah Robinsons inspired work deserves to be better known nationally and internationally, and through this residency, the Columbus Museum of Art underscores its commitment to advance the legacy of this outstanding and influential Columbus artist, said Nannette V. Maciejunes, CMAs ... More
Museum Brandhorst presents Site Visit
MUNICH.- From March 8 to April 3, the exhibition Site Visit invites artists from Munich, New York, Berlin and Los Angeles to encounter and engage with each other. In workshops, artists talks and installations, they will spend four weeks on the lower floor of Museum Brandhorst exploring questions about the significance of institutional spaces and the conditions of artistic creation. Site Visit turns the process of the artists site visit, which usually happens at the beginning of an exhibition project, into a program of installations, talks, and workshops. Inviting the public into this process provides the opportunity for intensive examinations of contemporary art practices. With chances to see art, hear artists talk, and have group conversations, we hope to create dialogue between leading artistic positions and the public. Curator Giampaolo Bianconi Throughout its entire run ... More
V&A announces return to 7-days a week opening
LONDON.- Today the V&A reveals plans to return to opening 7-days a week from Monday 4 April as well as a full public programme of free events including the relaunch of Fashion in Motion, Friday Late, and the Performance Festival. Visitors will no longer need to book timed tickets for general admission to the V&As permanent galleries, and exhibition tickets for Mondays and Tuesdays are now available to buy on the V&A website. Alongside the 7-day opening, the V&As pre-pandemic programming will resume: including late opening hours on Fridays and contemporary Friday Lates on the last Friday of every month, starting from the 25 March with the theme Pretty Useless Things. With a line-up of workshops, talks and installations, the late will explore the joys and contradictions around aspirational objects and concepts of functionality in the context ... More
Bonhams celebrates women through history in new London sale
LONDON.- Women have often been side lined in history, frequently having to fight for their voices to be heard. A new Bonhams sale, Women Through History, aims to highlight this struggle and celebrate the achievements of the women who changed the narrative. The sale, which will take place on Wednesday 23 March at Bonhams Knightsbridge, will bring together an assortment of items, from books and manuscripts to portraits, suffragette memorabilia and objects of interesting provenance. Sarah Lindberg, Head of Sale, commented: Bonhams has always been proud to champion the works of female artists, writers, and cultural pioneers, and reinstate the voices of the women who were often overlooked. Women Through History brings together the works of some incredible women and offers an assortment of items relating to some of the most important ... More
Irish banknotes continue to dominate at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- Three important Irish Banknotes far exceeded expectations when they were sold by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). The highest price was achieved by an extremely rare £100 from the Irish Free State dating from September 10, 1928. The note is in a near-perfect mint condition and sold for a remarkable £39,680* against an estimate of £12,000-16,000 [Lot 431]. Two specimen Bank of Ireland Ploughman notes: a £50 and a £100, both dating from around 1929, each sold for £32,240. Neither of these had appeared in auction for decades and had been expected to fetch £5,000-6,000 each [Lots 410 & 411]. The three notes were part of the John Geraghty Collection and were all bought by an overseas ... More
Solo exhibition featuring Safwan Dahoul's newest body of work opens at Ayyam Gallery
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery is presenting Awake, a solo exhibition featuring Safwan Dahouls newest body of work. Dahouls Dream series has explored the physical and psychological effects of alienation and solitude for over three decades. The artist embraces his dreams in all their beauty, chaos, and nuances. Some are disconcerting nightmares of unsettled beings, while others are dreams of a perpetual longing for Safwans homeland. Dahoul talks about the gnawing pain of being in diaspora, so close yet so far, estranged. Partly autobiographical, this seminal body of work encloses feelings and emotions within each canvas while emanating through space nonetheless. Taking his previous body Awakening further, Dahouls protagonists features haunt us with their presence, looking straight into the void, and swallowing us through the darkness. ... More
Thierry Goldberg opened 'They're On to You', a group exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Theyre On to You, a group exhibition of works by Caroline Absher, Grace Bromley, Briana McLaurin, Anisa Rakaj, Dylan Rose Rheingold, and Natalie Strait. The exhibition runs from March 4th through April 2nd, 2022. Theyre On to You brings together six women who are currently exploring aspects of figuration and identity conception in their practice. Collectively the works contemplate the multitudes of layers, roles, and relationships that play upon the female body. Caroline Absher favors the subjective and serendipitous. Drawing inspiration from canonical art history, films, photography and the deeply personal, she creates works that reverberate with an innate notion of familiarity. Absher works in layers of colors, generating gradients and underlying paintings that imbed depth through the occurrence ... More
Again and again, literature provides an outlet for the upended lives of refugees
NEW YORK, NY.- Pursued by the armies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a shark for all seasons, refugees are pouring through Europe at a rate not seen since World War II, according to the United Nations. It has rarely seemed truer, as Don DeLillo wrote in Zero K, his 2016 novel, that half the world is redoing its kitchens; the other half is starving. The starving half, as often as not, is on the run. Edward Said called the 20th century the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration. The crisis in Ukraine reminds us that the 21st century has been no different. Checkpoints, bomb shelters, open latrines, children born in subways, insomnia, exhaustion, exposure, delay and sudden death: The news is both shocking and deeply familiar, a reminder of how often mass exodus has occurred in history, and a reminder that history ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and illustrator Anthony Caro was born March 08, 1924. Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 - 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In this image: Anthony Caro, Paper Like Steel, installation view.
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