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Glenn Lowry, did not rule out the possibility of purchasing NFTs with the money when asked by The Wall Street Journal. (Richard Perry/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Arts lobby will glow this winter, not by the twinkling lights of the holiday season but the swirling datascapes of a digital artist whose popularity rose during the speculative frenzy around NFTs. Last year, Refik Anadol plugged more than 138,000 images and text materials from the museums publicly available archive into a machine-learning model to create hundreds of colorful abstractions that he called machine hallucinations, selling them as NFTs, or nonfungible tokens. It was the beginning of a quiet partnership between Anadol, a 37-year-old Turkish American artist, and MoMA curators Michelle Kuo and Paola Antonelli and it was a financial boon for both parties. Some of the blockchain-based artworks wound up selling for thousands of dollars, with the most exclusive one selling for $200,000. Within the fine print of the transactions was a note that the museum would earn nearly 17% of all primary sales and 5% of all secondary sales. For ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Items from Joan Didionâs estate sale auction hosted by Stair Galleries, in Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2022. Hundreds of the writerâs furnishings and personal items will be sold at auction on Nov. 16, 2022, offering fans the opportunity to acquire a piece of her legacy. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times).
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| Calder, Léger, Hockney and Förg walk us along arta's favorite path in Heritage's Nov. 17 event | | 'Revolver,' newly expanded, shows the Beatles at a creative peak | | In Russia, Nobel-winning rights group is forced to downsize its tribute |
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), Patron--la salle de lecture, 1959 (detail). Oil, pencil, ink, and crayon on Rives paper, 19-1/2 x 25-3/4 inches. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Every year, November marks a high season for the modern and contemporary art market, and on Nov. 17 Heritage presents a lavish selection of works that tell the story of the art worlds favorite back-and-forth volley: figuration to abstraction and back again. And again. The art world demands both, often in fascinating cycles, because while figuration keeps us feeling grounded in the power of narrative and the familiar, non-figurative works take us into a realm of aesthetic purity and free-wheeling association. Despite these notable cycles, were experiencing a moment of liberation from hard expectations or trends. These days, collectors who favor figuration find themselves perpetually in luck, and so do those who love the openness of abstraction. Often, of course, a single work embraces both. Heritages event reflects a bounty of abstraction, figuration and ... More | |
Fans scream outside a hotel where the Beatles were staying in New York in 1964. (Carl T. Gossett Jr./The New York Times)
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK, NY.- Imagine or if youre young or distant enough, enjoy a moment when Beatles songs werent bone-deep familiar, werent canonical, werent thoroughly embedded in succeeding generations of rock and pop. A moment when the band that had worked its way up to becoming the most popular act in the Western world was still just four guys knocking songs around in a room and keeping themselves loose and whimsical. The room, however, was a well-equipped recording studio creating what were then state-of-the-art four-track master tapes and for all their joking around, the Beatles were also pushing themselves to evolve while applying ruthless quality control. Thats what comes through on the expanded reissue of Revolver, a pivotal Beatles album from faraway 1966. ... More | |
Newly delivered historic diaries at the closed Memorial office in Moscow on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
MOSCOW.- Slowly, purposefully, on a quiet fall afternoon in Moscows Donskoye cemetery, several dozen Russians came forward to read the names of people murdered during Josef Stalins Great Terror. Their remains are believed to be scattered among three mass graves, although most of the victims were burned and no one can say for sure which ones they lie in. Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov is a poet, writer and playwright, read a red-haired woman named Olga, 72, with a soft voice, as crows rustled in the barren trees overhead. Special correspondent for Pravda newspaper. He lived in Moscow. Shot dead on September 10, 1937. He was rehabilitated in 1956, she continued, using a term meaning his name was cleared. Buried at Donskoye Cemetery. Three weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize and nearly a year after the Kremlin moved to liquidate it, Russian human rights organization Memorial ... More |
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| Richmond can remove last Confederate statue, judge rules | | Joan Didion's life in objects | | Bonhams presents highlights from the Essie Green Collection |
In this file photo a Confederate statue just blocks from the new Otis Redding Center for the Arts, which will feature a statue of the singer, in Macon, Ga. (Lynsey Weatherspoon/The New York Times)
by Christine Hauser
NEW YORK, NY.- Since 1892, the statue of Ambrose P. Hill, a Confederate lieutenant general, has towered over a busy intersection in Richmond, Virginia, built over the spot where his remains are buried. The statue is the last Confederate monument in the city, and it could soon be gone. Judge Eugene Cheek Sr., of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, this past week ruled that the city had the right to dismantle the statue and donate it to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. The remains of the general will be reburied at a cemetery in Culpeper, about 85 miles north, according to his ruling. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said the ruling allowed the city to improve traffic safety at the intersection. But it also represented a victory for those in Richmond who have been fighting to rid the city of symbols of the Confederacy ... More | |
Two copies of Mastering the Art of French Cooking from Joan Didions estate sale auction hosted by Stair Galleries, in Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Anna Kodé
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Didion, who died last year at 87, famously never used a decorator. The only interior design advice she admitted to taking came from her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. I hope you California it up, Quintana told her parents when she saw the New York City apartment they bought in 1988, after 24 years in Los Angeles. The move happened fast: The West Coast home Didion shared with her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, sold the same day it was listed, and the Upper East Side apartment they bought was the first one they saw. We felt stale, settled, restless, the couple said, explaining their move in a 1992 article they co-wrote for HG magazine, previously known as House & Garden. Over the years, they filled their new apartment with furniture, art and other things that had meaning only for us, ... More | |
Edward Bannister (1828-1901), Figure on a Pier at Edge of Lake, is estimated at $30,000-50,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will present the collection of legendary Harlem gallery, Essie Green, with works from leading contemporary Black artists including Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, and Norman Lewis across two fine art sales this November. Husband-and-wife duo Essie Green Edmiston and Sherman K. Edmiston Jr. built a program that championed Black patronage and community over the past 50 years. Cultivating relationships with their artists, collectors, and neighborhood was equally matched to their dedication to present works of art by Black masters. The Edmistons are remembered for their influence on the academic and institutional narrative of 20th century painting and the gallerys Harlem brownstone is a fixture in the Sugar Hill neighborhood that remains today. Bonhams will present masterpiece examples from the collection across two sales: Post-War and Contemporary on November 16 and American Art on November 17. ... More |
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| Bonhams to partner with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2022 from 3-6 November | | Design revealed for 8 Shenton Way, Singapore's new tallest tower | | Christopher Grimes Projects announces representation of Daniel Canogar |
Banksy (British, born 1974) Bomb Love (Bomb Hugger) Screenprint in colours, 2004 18,000 - 25,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- In 2022, Bonhams will partner with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, presenting the first ever Bonhams Prints & Multiples Showroom at the event. Edition 7 of the fair will be open from 3 November until 6 November at Woolwich Works, Woolwich, London. The pieces previewed - which include several works by British artist David Shrigley - are a selection from an online sale on Bonhams.com running from 2 November to 10 November. Prints & Multiples Online: David Shrigley & Co at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair is a celebration of the avant-garde of printmaking and editions through the lens of the irreverently deadpan David Shrigley. An icon of contemporary British printing, the sale will present Shrigleys works alongside that of his contemporaries including Tracey Emin, ... More | |
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SINGAPOUR.- Poised to redefine Singapores skyline as the citys tallest building, and among Asias most sustainable skyscrapers, the 63-story mixed-use downtown development is inspired by the tropical climate, taking cues from bamboo forests to create an indoor-outdoor vertical community with public spaces, offices, retail, a hotel, and luxury residences. Envisioned as one of Asias most sustainable skyscrapers, the 63-story mixed-use downtown development takes cues from bamboo forests to create an indoor-outdoor vertical community with public spaces, offices, retail, a hotel, and luxury residences. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has revealed the design of 8 Shenton Way, a 63-story tower that will anchor the intersection of Singapores Central Business District (CBD) and Marina Bay, the historic Tanjong Pagar neighborhood, and the emerging Greater ... More | |
Dynamo, 2021. Flexible LED screen, computer, generative custom software, real-time data, metal structure. Expo Dubai, Spanish Pavillion, Dubai, 2021. Images courtesy of the artist.
CULVER CITY, CALIF.- Christopher Grimes Projects announced our representation of Daniel Canogar. Exploring the central theme of memory, and its loss, Daniel Canogars work engages with light, color, movement, materiality, and the dynamics of the data sphere. Activated by online data, the fluid and ever-changing imagery transmitted through Canogars sculptures react in real-time to various socio-political and environmental phenomena occurring around the globe, such as atmospheric conditions, pollution, news cycles, trending google searches, and stock market fluctuations. These generative artworks are driven by algorithms coded in the artist's studio. The meditative and often hypnotic aspect of these compositions reveals ... More |
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| "Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore: Works from the 1990s at the David Kordansky Gallery | | Sullivan+Strumpf to represent Melbourne artist James Lemon | | The Hood Museum of Art shows Korean contemporary artist's large-scale ink paintings |
Balustrade Relief Vase #52, 1992, glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, and paint, 82 x 45 x 8 1/2 inches (208.3 x 114.3 x 21.6 cm). Photography: Phoebe d'Heurle. © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s brings together a group of thirteen important ceramic sculptures from a crucial, career-defining period in Woodmans development as a genre-defying artist, and marks David Kordansky Gallerys first exhibition of the artists work in collaboration with the Woodman Family Foundation since announcing its representation of her estate earlier this year. The exhibition which began on this past October 29th is on view in New York at 520 W. 20th Street through December 17, 2022. Betty Woodman (19302018) is recognized not only as one of the most important artists to work in ceramicsand one of those most responsible for ... More | |
James Lemon, Worm Bowl, 2021, stoneware, glaze, gold, 30.2 Ã 46.5 Ã 44.4 cm. Photo, Annika Kafaloudis.
SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf announced the representation of one of Naarm / Melbournes most exciting young multi-media artists, James Lemon; whose constantly evolving practice has us and a growing audience of curators and collectors, eagerly awaiting his next chapter. Over recent years Lemon has garnered increasing attention, arising from his diverse cutting-edge commissions and collaborations. He is renowned for his typically colourful, highly textural, creations, frequently imbued with reflections on religion, pop culture and insects. But then again, not always From ceramic objects to large-scale sculptural works and interactive installations, we are excited to see to see his new commission for Melbourne Now in March and his first Sydney show in May 2023. James Lemon was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand in 1993 and moved to Naarm / Melbourne ... More | |
Park Dae Sung, Heaven, Earth and Human, 2011, 93 1/8 x 118 11/16 in. (236.5 x 301.5 cm), ink and color on paper. Private Collection. Image courtesy: Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture.
HANOVER NH.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined, a major exhibition of contemporary Korean ink painting including 23 works, many of which are being shown for the first time in the United States. Park Dae Sung (b. 1945) transforms meditative observation into monumental artworks that revitalize traditional Korean brush and ink techniques for a modern audience. His paintings couple large scale (several works in the show are more than 25 feet long) with technical finesse, reinterpreting ancient landscapes and objects. Park Dae Sung inspires viewers to rethink modernity via tradition and engage with the impact of the past on life today. Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined currently on view at the Hood Museum since, ... More |
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Bronx Museum reveals schematic design for renovation of its Grand Concourse entrance
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the citys only free contemporary art museum, is pleased to reveal schematic designs for the renovation of its new multi-story entrance and lobby on the corner of Grand Concourse and 165th Street by Marvel, an award-winning architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and urban planning practice. Marking the Museums 50th anniversary, the $26 million renovation is supported by city fundswith additional support from the stateand is overseen by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) on behalf of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and The Bronx Museum, and is slated for completion in 2025. Coinciding with this announcement, the Museum is pleased to share a refresh of its brand identity and website by New York based strategy and design studio Team. ... More
Exhibition "Piñatas-The High Alert of Celebration" opens at Mingei International Museum
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- On October 28, 2022, Mingei International Museum opened PIÃATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION, one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form. This groundbreaking show includes more than 80 works made by Latinx artists and makers from across the U.S. Work by traditional piñateros will be featured alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata to form a burgeoning, expressive medium. This exhibition is guest curated by Emily Zaiden, Curator of the Craft in America Center, and is a reimagining of an exhibition featured at the Craft in America gallery in 2021. Works in this exhibition will explore how piñatas are designed, constructed and executed, along with the role they play in modern material culture and in artistic practices. ... More
Music, science and healing intersect in an AI opera
NEW YORK, NY.- This is what your brain was doing! a Lincoln Center staffer said to Shanta Thake, the performing arts complexs artistic director, while swiping through some freshly taken photos. It was the end of a recent rehearsal at Alice Tully Hall for Song of the Ambassadors, a work-in-progress that fuses elements of traditional opera with artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and the photos did appear to show Thakes brain doing something remarkable: generating images of flowers. Bright, colorful, fantastical flowers of no known species or genus, morphing continuously in size, color and shape, as if botany and fluid dynamics had somehow merged. Song of the Ambassadors, which was presented to the public at Tully on Tuesday evening, was created by K Allado-McDowell, who leads the Artists and Machine Intelligence ... More
Rare complete shrine of Buddha Shakyamuni to lead Bonhams Images of Devotion sale in November
HONG KONG.- The Qing court had a long-standing respect for Tibetan Buddhism. This is clearly seen in the imperial collection of Buddhist figures, which show traces of both the Tibetan and the Imperial aesthetics. A Gilt Copper Alloy Triad of Shakyamuni Buddha from 18th Century Mongolia, to be offered as a star lot at Bonhams Images of Devotion sale in Hong Kong on 30 November 2022, is a rare surviving example. It bears the hallmarks of the top Zanabazar craftsmanship of its time: wide shoulders and a strong torso on the signature round lotus seat to form a complete set as a shrine. Measuring more than 43cm in height, the lot carries an estimate of HK$4,000,000-6,000,000, with a comparable example currently on display at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Also rare is an extremely vibrant Thangka of Shakyamuni Buddha from the 18th century Eastern ... More
One more project for David Geffen: Building his legacy
NEW YORK, NY.- In Los Angeles, you can wander through Judy Baca murals at the cavernous Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, view Beetlejuice at the spherelike David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum, watch The Inheritance at the Geffen Playhouse and follow the progress of the new David Geffen Galleries, a striking work of architecture that will span Wilshire Boulevard, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York City now has not one but two David Geffen Halls: an academic building at Columbia Business School and the remake of the Lincoln Center home of the New York Philharmonic, which reopened this month after a $550 million renovation that he jump-started with a $100 million gift. At 79, Geffen, the entertainment magnate, has planted himself into the pantheon of leading American philanthropists. ... More
Denver Art Museum announces Jill D'Alessandro as Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion
DENVER.- The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of Jill DAlessandro as Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Art and Fashion. DAlessandro will officially join the museum staff in January 2023. Prior to her appointment to the Denver Art Museums curatorial team, DAlessandro served as curator-in-charge of costume and textile arts for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). During her 21-year career at FAMSF, she worked with the institutions extensive fiber collections, as well as its fashion holdings. The Denver Art Museum is delighted to welcome Jill to its team of collaborative curatorial leaders, said Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. In recent years, the DAM ... More
Robert Gordon, punk rocker turned rockabilly revivalist, dies at 75
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Gordon, a 1950s-influenced rocker with a silky baritone and towering pompadour who emerged from the New York punk underground of the 1970s to help stoke a rockabilly revival, died Oct. 18 in a hospice in Manhattan. He was 75. His sister Melissa Gordon Uram said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia. Gordon had been the frontman for the buzzy CBGB-era band Tuff Darts when he traded his punk attitude for a tin of Nu Nile pomade and released his first album, a collaboration with the fuzz-guitar pioneer Link Wray, in 1977. At the time, 1950s signifiers like ducktail haircuts and pink pegged slacks had scarcely been glimpsed for years outside the set of Happy Days or the Broadway production of Grease. But, turning his back on both the pomp of 70s stadium rock and the rock n roll arsonist ethos of punk, ... More
Bonhams to offer Fine Chinese art from the esteemed gallery J.J. Lally & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams will present fine Chinese works of art, including ancient Chinese jades, silver, bronzes, and ceramics, from premier Chinese art gallery J.J. Lally & Co. during Asia Week New York in March 2023. An active participant in the Chinese art market for more than 50 years, James J. Lally is recognized for his expert connoisseurship and considerate presentation of the finest Chinese art. His distinguished reputation among scholars, educators, and collectors is a result of his meticulous cataloguing and research that he brought to the 35-year run of the J.J. Lally & Co. gallery in New York. A discerning eye for quality pieces with both aesthetic value and authenticity, Mr. Lally found cherished works for every collector at every price-point. Lally is known for his dedication to the objects and the relationships he fostered with collectors, ... More
A new biography of George Balanchine, ballet's colossus
NEW YORK, NY.- Opera is all about saying goodbye, Virgil Thomson is reputed to have said, and ballet is all about saying hello. In Mr. B, a sensitive, stately and often thrilling new biography of Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine, Jennifer Homans finds a bittersweet tone to capture Balanchines many leave-takings the way he was chased, as if he were Charlie Chaplins Tramp, across the first half of the 20th century. When World War I arrived, Balanchine was a young dance student in czarist Russia. Three years later, at 13, he was forced to scavenge for food when the revolution disrupted his life. He spent the interwar years shuffling between Weimar Berlin, before Hitler put an end to that decadent and creative intellectual milieu, and Paris, London and Monte Carlo, Monaco. He fled for the United States before World War II. ... More
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The Global Life of Design
Flashback On a day like today, American painter and educator William Merritt Chase was born November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849â1916), The Young Orphan (An Idle Moment) by 1884. Oil on canvas. National Academy Museum, New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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