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Pablo Picasso, Le Moulin de la Gale-e, Paris, ca. November 1900. Oil on canvas, 89.7 à 116.8 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser CollecFon, GiG, JusFn K. Thannhauser 78.2514.34 © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / ArFsts Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Midge WaZles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
by Jesus Jiménez
NEW YORK, NY.- In Pablo Picassos 1900 painting Le Moulin de la Galette, revelers sporting dresses or top hats appear to be drinking, dancing and chatting. Beneath the partyers, under layers of paint, there is a hidden dog that the artist seems to have hastily painted over. For decades, the dog went unnoticed. But recent research and extensive restoration of the painting for an exhibition revealed an auburn-coated King Charles spaniel with a red bow. The painting, which is on display through Aug. 6 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, is part of the 10-piece exhibition Young Picasso in Paris, which features some of the Spanish artists early work when he was living in France. Before the exhibition, the Guggenheim, working in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, restored the painting, removing grime and varnish. The treatment revealed subtleties such as the brushwork, color palette and spa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Part gallery and part studio, Illuminating Birds on view at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University celebrates the enduring appeal of drawing and writing about birds. Requiring prolonged observation and deep curiosity, drawing --- in its ability to distill --- contributes to creative insights and scientific understanding. Photo credit: Ramon Torres/ANS.
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| Alexandre da Cunha: Broken, solo exhibition now on view at Thomas Dane Gallery | | Kurt Cobain's Nevermind era smashed & signed by Nirvana Fender Stratocaster sold for $595,900 | | The National Gallery of Art acquires work by Tseng Kwong Chi | 
Alexandre da Cunha, Broken VI, 2023 © Alexandre da Cunha. Photo: © Edouard Fraipont.
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery will open on May 24th a solo exhibition of Alexandre da Cunha (b. 1969, Rio de Janeiro) featuring new sculptures and works on paper. These new works expand on da Cunhas longstanding engagement with found objects, incorporating new aspects of his studio practice and experimenting with strategies of display through spatial interventions in the gallery. Titled Broken, the show, which will end on July 15th, 2023, will encompass ideas of redundancy, fragmentation and disrepair as generative and productive forces. Da Cunhas practice centres on a highly attuned bearing toward his everyday surroundings, often engaging with workaday objects and utilitarian materials in ways that challenge perceptions of value, function and form. Da Cunha splits his time between Brazil and the UK, countries which have both seen turbulent periods of political transition and social disruption in the last year. This br ... More | | 
The headlining item at the auction was a lefty black Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, smashed by one of the most influential artists of all time, Kurt Cobain, during Nirvana's seminal Nevermind era which sold for an astounding $595,000 nearly ten times its original estimate of $60,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Julien's Auctions held on Friday, May 19th and Saturday, May 20th the industrys premiere music auction event MUSIC ICONS, featuring a spectacular line-up of over 1,200 pieces of music history from rock royalty owned and used by the likes of Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Lifeson, Freddie Mercury, Led Zeppelin, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, KISS, Mötley Crüe, Tom Petty, Lenny Kravitz, and more with special collections from Amy Winehouse, Bill Wyman, Bette Midler and Julian Lennon, sold in front of a live audience at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City and online with thousands of bidders, fans and collectors from around the world participating at julienslive.com The headlining ... More | | 
Tseng Kwong Chi, Washington, DC (E25v1.36), 1981. Gelatin silver print, image: 92.08 x 92.08 cm (36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.) framed: 96.52 x 96.52 x 4.45 cm (38 x 38 x 1 3/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Gift of Funds from Gregory and Aline Gooding, 2023.12.1 © Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc.. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The performance artist and photographer Tseng Kwong Chi (19501990) described himself as an inquisitive traveler, a witness of my time, and an ambiguous ambassador. The National Gallery of Art has acquired four photographs from his series East Meets West (19791987), a group of innovative pictures that depicts the artist in front of different tourist locations around the countrythe Brooklyn Bridge, the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Disneylandwearing mirrored sunglasses, an identity badge (which says visitor or slutforart), and what is now called a Mao suit. The inspiration for East Meets West was in part President Richard ... More |
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| Handel Hendrix House sheds light on lives of George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix | | Aboriginal artist Richard Bell's Embassy comes to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall | | Yale Art Gallery acquires collection of 19th-century drawings | 
Handel and Hendrix in London cares for and presents to the public the homes of two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. Photo Credit: Christopher Ison.
LONDON.- Hallelujah! Handels London home has been fully restored and newly opened exhibitions shed new light on the great composer and his next-door neighbour, rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Handel Hendrix House cares for and presents to the public the homes of two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. George Frideric Handel lived at 25 Brook Street from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that Handel wrote and rehearsed his greatest works, including Messiah and its ever popular Hallelujah chorus perhaps the most famous piece of classical music ever written. His stirring anthem Zadok the Priest, was also written in Brook Street and has accompanied the coronation of every British monarch since George II (for whom it was written in 1727), including HM King Charles III. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix moved into an adjoining flat at number 23. Here, in the only place he said he felt truly at home, ... More | | 
Richard Bell, You Can Go Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © The artist, Photograph Anna Kučera.
SYDNEY.- Since May 20th and continuing to 18 June 2023, Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bells Embassy is exhibiting his work at Tate Moderns prestigious Turbine Hall in London. Bells powerful travelling artwork Embassy, a Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Tate joint acquisition, provides a public space for activism and a program with in-conversation events with artist Richard Bell, for listening and telling stories of resistance, survival, displacement and oppression. Born in 1953, Richard Bell is of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang people. He is one of Australias most significant contemporary artists working across painting, performance, video and installation. A renowned activist, artist and political commentator, Bell uses humour, satire and word play to address issues around representation, place, identity politics, and the perceptions of Aboriginal art within a postcolonial history and frame ... More | | 
Carlo Randanini, Portrait of Young Girl in Ciocira Costume. Watercolor and black ink on paper. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Roberta Olson, Ph.D., and Alexander Johnson.
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery announced the extraordinary gift/purchase of more than 190 late 18th- and 19th-century Italian drawings, watercolors, and sketchbooks from the collection of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson. Comprising over 400 individual sheets, this superb trove is among the finest in private hands anywhere in the world and represents a comprehensive, panoramic view of drawings by Italian artists made between 1780 and 1890, a period known as the Ottocento. Together, these works define and illuminate the multiple artistic trends at play in the art and politics of the Italian Peninsula during this pivotal century. With this remarkable cache, the Gallery becomes the largest repository of and primary research center in the United States for 19th-century Italian art. Freyda Spira, the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Gallery, comments, The Olson/Johnson collection offers an e ... More |
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| Bonhams achieves $10 million at its modern & contemporary sales this week in New York | | Yaron Michael Hakim: Aves Ambigua on view at Sargent's Daughters | | Olivia Miller appointed UAMA director | 
Three Candied Apples, 1961 by Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021).
NEW YORK, NY.- This week at Bonhams New York the Impressionist & Modern Art and Post-War & Contemporary Art departments presented their marquee sales for the Spring season, achieving $10 million from both live auctions on Wednesday, May 17 and Thursday, May 18. A highlight of the week was Three Candied Apples, 1961 by Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021). One of the earliest examples of the recurring motif known to Thiebaud, this example achieved $1.26 million. The Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on May 18 achieved $7.76 million overall with a sell-through rate of 83% by lot and 97% by value. Highlights include: A Declaration of War, 2018 by Jadé Fadojutimi (b. 1993) sold for $933,000. Blick auf den menschen, 2001 by Miriam Cahn (b. 1949) sold for two times above its estimate at $126,000. Bedroom Brunette with Irises (Black Variation #1), 1988 by Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) sold for $277 ... More | | 
Yaron Michael Hakim, Pyrrhura Figure With Two Noses, 2021, Teak, clay and acrylic paint.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Aves Ambigua, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Yaron Michael Hakim, his first exhibition with the gallery. The title of the exhibition references Ara Ambigua, the latin nomenclature for a type of green macaw, while also alluding to the ambiguous human/parrot hybrids that populate the verdant junglescapes of Hakims acrylic on used sailcloth paintings. In these paintings, as well as in small sculptural works, Hakim considers identity through the lens of speciation, disrupting the established boundaries of self and other, human and animal. The works on view in this exhibition are a continuation of Hakims ongoing series Psittaciformes, which references the taxonomic name for parrot species. This body of work began when Hakim became interested in the parrots he could hear flying over his Los Angeles home and studio. These birds, he learned, were bro ... More | | 
Miller becomes the first woman to serve as the institutions director.
TUCSON, AZ.- Olivia Miller has been appointed the director of the University of Arizona Museum of Art (UAMA), effective immediately. Miller becomes the first woman to serve as the institutions director. Miller, a University of Arizona alumna (BA 05, Art History and Studio Art), earned her masters in art history from the University of Oregon. She joined the museum as Curator of Education in 2012, overseeing the docent and education programs before becoming Curator of Exhibitions in 2014. She has curated more than 30 exhibitions during her tenure, overseeing the restoration and return of the UAMAs stolen Willem de Kooning painting, Woman-Ochre. She served as interim director for the past 10 months. Olivia has done outstanding work as interim director, and I am delighted that she will be taking on this role permanently, said Andy Schulz, vice president for the arts at the University of Arizona. ... More |
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| WAM sells British Sculpture to establish American Art Acquisition Fund | | Andrew Jones to hold two decorative arts auctions in June | | Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky | 
Art collector purchases Henry Moores Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae for $10.5 Million.
WICHITA, KAN.- The Wichita Art Museum, nationally recognized for its American art collection, announced the sale of its outdoor sculpture Vertebrae by renowned British sculptor Henry Moore. The proceeds from this sale will pave the way for the creation of an American Art Acquisition Fund, allowing the museum to significantly increase funds available to purchase, conserve and exhibit American art. The fund will enable the museum to further its mission of building a comprehensive collection that authentically represents the American story, WAM Director/CEO Anne Kraybill said. The British sculpture, while a masterpiece in its own right, does not align with the museum's founding vision of establishing a collection of American art, making this opportunity all the more compelling, said Dr. Tera Hedrick, WAMs Curator. With this sale, we have the ability to take British art and turn it into American art in keeping with our found ... More | | 
La Gloire after the model by Charles Vital-Cornu.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions will greet the summer season in a big way with two sales dedicated to important decorative arts. The Sunday, June 18th auction features the collection of Stuart and Phyllis Moldaw of Atherton, California, curated by Anthony Hail. The collection includes a broad selection of Chinese porcelain as well as Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica dinnerware, along with furnishing and accessories. Three days later, on Wednesday, June 21st will see a signature Design for the Home and Garden auction, including property from the estate of Jack Lemmon, as well as collections of renowned interior designers Hendrix Allardyce, John Cole and Craig Wright, plus private sources in Beverly Hills and Palos Verdes Estates. Andrew Jones Auctions will be letting folks into the saleroom on both auction days. The address is 2221 South Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Live previews will also be held in-gallery prior to auction. Star ... More | | 
Blacksmith Craig Kaviar at work in Louisville, Ky., April 13, 2023. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
by Joshua Needelman
NEW YORK, NY.- Are blacksmiths going extinct in America? Not according to Craig Kaviar, a prominent practitioner of the craft who is based in Louisville, Kentucky. If anything, he said, theres been a revival. The industrial revolution rendered a lot of traditional blacksmith work making hammers, nails, axes, shovels and more obsolete. But blacksmiths like Kaviar, 69, have found success creating so-called functional art. Kaviar, for instance, is regionally known for making handrails forged with leaves and birds that have a rough-hewed, borderline macabre design evocative of the work of sculptors like Louise Bourgeois. He recently completed a sprawling, three-part archway for the local Crab Orchard Animal Sanctuary with almost Tim Burton-esque details. Kaviar said he had taken the criteria the owner had and had then made ... More |
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 David Zink Yi's first solo presentation in Korea on view at KÖNIG SEOULSEOUL.- KÃNIG SEOUL is presenting an exhibition by David Zink Yi, PLAYING UNTIL FAILURE, the artists first solo presentation in Korea. The show consists of over a dozen ceramic works, including the sprawling ALL MY COLOURS, a multi-part collection of serially repeated ceramic forms, each with their own unique glaze, which is also on view at the Gwangju Biennial. Additionally, a short 16mm film loop, PNEUMA, 2011, is being shown, which features Yuliesky Gonzalez Guerra, a longtime collaborator and musician. The loop guides viewers to the centrality of the hand within the show at large, as well as the act of breathing through, which is displayed through Gonzalez Guerras instrument as it approaches the camera. PNEUMA helps to contextualize the ceramic sculptures, as it foregrounds ... More  Royal Air Force Museum London presents 'Strike Hard, Strike Sure: Bomber Command 1939 to 1945'LONDON.- Marking the 80th anniversary of the famous Dam Busters raid, the Royal Air Force Museum London has unveiled the permanent exhibition Strike Hard, Strike Sure: Bomber Command 19391945 dedicated to Bomber Command. Around 125,000 aircrew from 60 nations served in Bomber Command during the Second World War, volunteering from Britain, the Commonwealth and Dominions, occupied and neutral countries as well as German nationals fleeing persecution. Their average age was just 23. Our exhibition shares the Bomber Command story through the lens of the personal experiences of those who served. They were, in their eyes, just ordinary people from many different countries and backgrounds. In historys, they gave extraordinary service. Men and women from across the worl ... More  Helmut Berger, actor known for his work with Visconti, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Helmut Berger, a handsome Austrian movie star who was best known for appearing in three feature films by Italian neorealist director Luchino Visconti, his lover for a dozen years, died Thursday at his home in Salzburg. He was 78. His death was announced by his agent, Helmut Werner, who did not give a cause. Many years ago, Werner said in a statement, Helmut Berger told me, I have lived three lives. And in four languages! Je ne regrette rien. Berger was studying Italian in Perugia in 1964 when a friend introduced him to Visconti, who was on location directing a film that starred Claudia Cardinale. I was there watching, I was fascinated, he told the website Europe of Cultures in 1988. I wanted to see how they shot a film. They began a relationship soon after that, personal as w ... More  Donna Summer's bedazzled closet and ephemera will go up for auctionNEW YORK, NY.- For nearly a decade after Donna Summers death in 2012, her home in Nashville, Tennessee, remained like a shrine to the Queen of Discos decadeslong music career. Beaded gowns that she had worn onstage remained tucked away along with designer pumps in the upstairs closet; ephemera such as an annotated album cover design for She Works Hard for the Money were stored downstairs; and in the basement, there was an accumulation of brightly colored paintings, awards and gold records. Never eager to talk about death, Summer who died of lung cancer at 63 had not given directions for what should be done with her possessions, her husband, Bruce Sudano, said recently. It was only in the past few years that Summers family was ready to fully comb through her belongings a ... More  Njideka Akunyili Crosby wants to take it slow, despite her rapid riseLOS ANGELES, CA.- To listen to Njideka Akunyili Crosby talk about the lengths to which shell go in researching the scientific classification of plants to depict in one of her paintings Madagascar Jasmine? Safari Sunset? is to begin to understand this Nigerian artists slow and exacting approach, as well as why her new exhibition, inaugurating David Zwirners first Los Angeles gallery May 23, feels like a significant art world event. I had a clear idea of what I wanted the plant to do, said Akunyili Crosby, 40, in a recent conversation at her East Los Angeles studio, discussing the process behind the self-portrait, Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, which features her in patterned pants, holding her youngest child on the porch surrounded by lush greenery. There was a certain amount of obscuring th ... More  Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents two new exhibitionsOMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents two new exhibitions: Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence and Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness, on view from May 20, 2023, through September 17, 2023. Presence in the Pause brings together eleven female and non-binary artists who interpret the complex nature of daily life. Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness is a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Datchuk focusing on her multidisciplinary exploration of her personal identity as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an American, and as a third culture kid. Both exhibitions are curated by Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at Bemis Center. Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence focuses on the complexity of our everyday r ... More  Vintage Japanese photography - from Araki to Yamamoto - in confrontation with Dutch photographer Jeremy StigterANTWERP.- IBASHO is presenting Yōjo, an exhibition developed in close collaboration with the Dutch photographer Jeremy Stigter. Yōjo, a Japanese concept that can be translated as a remaining, lingering, or sustained feeling, an emotional experience triggered by images created through certain kinds of indirect, often implicit, writings, presents a dialogue, as much a confrontation, between IBASHOs collection of vintage Japanese photography from Araki to Yamamoto and Jeremy Stigters own extensive work on Japan. The result is a total of twenty-five sets of pictures, a sumptuous showcase of vintage black and white photography, each pairing inviting the spectator to ... More  Cool tribal tattoo. Is it from the '90s?NEW YORK, NY.- Sometimes, a customer walks into Name Brand Tattoo on North Main Street and asks Julian Bast to design a tattoo just like the ones on his Instagram account. They use words like psychedelic, abstract and swirly. You mean, tribal? Bast responds. At this point, according to Bast, some of the customers recoil. No, not those bold, all-black, geometric designs, allegedly based on Indigenous motifs, which adorn the biceps and deltoids of meatheads and cultural appropriators around the Western world. Everyone knows tribal tattoos are uncool, permanent reminders of 1990s bad taste. Right? Maybe not. Today, thanks to the alchemy of the long-term trend cycle and the social media algorithm, tribal tattoos are making a return. On arms, legs and torsos from Los Angeles to London and from San ... More  Finnish National Gallery to develop a new ticket sales serviceHELSINKI.- The Finnish National Gallerys new digital ticket sales service will enable advance ticket sales on the Ateneum, Kiasma and Sinebrychoff art museums websites. A Finnish business cluster with strong expertise in digital business as well as events management, service design and e-commerce is supplying this new service. The business cluster consists of four companies: Sofokus Oy, Liveto Group Oy, Passi & Ripatti Oy and Costa Commerce Oy. Freedom Digitals Mika Tuomainen has advised the project from the beginning. The project will adopt a new composable commerce approach where the ticket sales service is built using separate compatible pieces according to the Finnish National Gallerys individual business needs and goals. The systems architecture will build on Livet ... More  $100,000 art prize finalists announced for Hadley's 2023 recipientsHOBART.- Hadleys Art Prize today announced 30 contemporary Australian artists who have been selected as finalists for the $100,000 acquisitive landscape prize, representing one of Australias richest art prizes, presented in Hobart from 22 July 20 August 2023. Selected for the best portrayal of the Australian landscape, this year's list of finalists features representation from every state in Australia and includes leading Australian artists such as Joan Ross (NSW), Raymond Arnold (TAS), Betty Chimney (SA), Sebastian Di Mauro (QLD), Megan Evans (VIC), Mabel Juli (WA), Kieren Karritpul (NT), Donna Marcus (QLD), Patrick Mung Mung (WA), Megan Walch (TAS), Philip Wolfhagen (TAS), alongside emerging and early career artists. The 2023 judging panel comprises one of Australias most acclaimed an ... More  Early painting by Bhupen Khakhar makes auction debut at BonhamsLONDON.- Residency Bungalow, an important early work by Bhupen Khakhar, leads Bonhams Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art sale on Tuesday 6 June in New Bond Street, London. Painted in 1969, the work was exhibited at the 1969 Sao Paulo Biennale before being acquired by a private American Collection in the early 1970s, where it has remained ever since. The work has an estimate of £250,000-350,000. Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) played a central role in modern Indian art and was recognised for his unique figurative style and incisive observations of class and sexuality. He often explored openly homosexual themes at a time when it was not generally addressed within India, and celebrated the day-to-day lives of the common man. An accountant turned self-taught artist, who came to painting quit ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish Baroque painter Bertholet Flemalle was born May 23, 1614. Bertholet Flemalle, Flemal, or Flamael (1614 - 1675) was a Liége Baroque painter. His The Glorification of the Holy Cross is in St Bartholomew's Church, Liége. In this image: Heliodorus driven from the temple, 1658-62.
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