| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net |    | Established in 1996 | Tuesday, November 23, 2021 |
| | After 20 years, Frank Stella returns to Ground Zero | |
|
|
Frank Stella watches as his sculpture, Jacobs Split Star, is installed at 7 World Trade Center in New York, Nov. 20, 2021. The installation of his sculpture marks a homecoming for the 85-year-old artist, whose diptych at the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by M.H. Miller
NEW YORK, NY.- On a chilly Saturday morning last weekend, Frank Stella 85, bespectacled, somewhat scruffy and holding a cane was overseeing the installation of a sculpture called Jaspers Split Star in the public plaza in front of 7 World Trade Center. Im not in such great shape, he said more than once, but he still moved about his work with excitement, chatting up the small construction crew that was building out the sculpture using a large crane (though, perhaps tellingly for this part of New York, not the largest crane within view). They were handling Stellas work with the ease of seasoned veterans; two of their ranks confidently clutched foil-wrapped sandwiches in one hand as they rigged up a section of the sculpture to the crane with the other. Whats amazing about these guys is theyre not even wearing gloves, Stella said, visibly impressed. Jaspers Split Star is a sculpture from 2017 that Larry Silve ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ranging from brilliantly pieced starbursts to intricately stitched appliqués, more than 30 textiles featured in Pieced & Patterned: American Quilts, c. 1800-1930 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, epitomize the extraordinary needlework, fascinating history, and remarkable designs of this quintessentially American art form.
|
|
|
| 
|
| Freeman's offers prized collection of Pennsylvania Impressionists in December auction | | Brooklyn Museum to receive $50 million gift From New York | | Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery explores 60 years of British printmaking | 
Daniel Garbers expansive landscape Up the River, Winter (Lot 55; estimate: $150,000-250,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- As part of American Art Week, Freemans presents American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz at 2pm on December 5. Led by the esteemed Collection of Virginia and Stuart Peltz, the sale will feature fresh-to-market works by marquee names, including Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Arthur B. Carles, 19th-century landscapists Albert Bierstadt and George Inness, Illustration Art masters Stevan Dohanos and Jessie Willcox Smith, and revered Pennsylvania Impressionists from Daniel Garber to Fern Coppedge, among many others. The Peltz Collection is an esteemed collection of paintings by leading Pennsylvania Impressionists bought by the collectors well in advance of the markets rise. Sixteen of these worksnever before sold at auctionwill be on offer December 5, among them Daniel Garbers expansive landscape Up the River, Winter (Lot 55; estimate: $150,000-250,00 ... More | | 
The Brooklyn Museums skylit Beaux-Arts Court in New York, July 4, 2021. Hilary Swift/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- When Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, sat down with Mayor Bill de Blasio in June, she knew that her proposal millions of dollars in additional funding for the museum was a big ask. Im really grateful to the mayor and the commissioner of Cultural Affairs, she said. When I came to them with this very big idea, they actually took the meeting, and they took it seriously. Her persistence paid off: On Monday, de Blasio will announce that the citys Department of Cultural Affairs will give the museum $50 million in capital funds, the largest gift in the museums nearly 200-year history. Ive been dreaming of this since I joined the museum a little over five years ago, Pasternak said. Our exhibitions and public programs have been embracing ideas for 21st-century museums, but our building is absolutely mired in the 19th century. So its time ... More | | 
Sandra Blow, IV Square, 2004, Screenprint on paper, The Golder - Thompson Gift (2010), © The Sandra Blow Estate Partnership. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021.
CHICHESTER.- Pallant House Gallery is presenting a major exhibition exploring 60 years of British printmaking from the 1960s to the present day. Drawing on the gallerys remarkable collection of modern and contemporary prints, Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking features over 100 prints by 90 artists, including Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Elisabeth Frink, Anthea Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Henry Moore, Chris Ofili, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Graham Sutherland, Julian Trevelyan and Gillian Wearing. From the Pop artists of the swinging Sixties and abstract artists working in St Ives, to the Scottish contemporary art scene and the YBAs in the 2000s, the exhibition celebrates a transformational period in British art through the medium of printmaking. The ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Sotheby's presents charity auction with 7 unique NFTs from 'The Twitter 140 Collection' | | Kasmin opens an exhibition of works by Cynthia Daignault | | KODE Bergen Art Museum presents "Paul McCarthy: Dead End Hole" | 
Furry Twitter (still). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In what is poised to become the one of the most high-impact NFT charity auctions ever staged, Sothebys is teaming up with public health care advocate and nonprofit organization Sostento for Gifted: The 140 Collection, a special, one-of-a-kind charity auction featuring seven unique NFTs originally minted and gifted by Twitter earlier this year. Earlier this year on June 30, Twitter unexpectedly tweeted to its 60 million plus followers 140 free NFTs for 140 of you, besties, and thus, The 140 Collection was born. Seven unique NFTs available in editions of 20 were given away randomly to users who replied to Twitter, and the recipients of the NFTs became known as The Besties. The NFTs present a series of creative iterations that illustrate the many facets of Twitter, from the first designs of its logo to its former 140-character limit, among others, which highlight the Twitter ... More | | 
Cynthia Daignault, Gettysburg (Stereoscopic), 2021. Oil on linen, 30 x 60 inches, 76.2 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cynthia Daignaults (b. 1978) first solo exhibition at the gallery opened on November 18, 2021, exploring the subject of Gettysburg National Military Park to propose a contemporary response to the genre of history painting. On view through January 8, 2022, the exhibition expands on themes explored in the artists earlier Light Atlas and Elegy series, investigating concepts of monument, memory, and the shifting experience of the natural world. As I Lay Dying includes wide-ranging depictions of the battlefields and woodlands of the park, as well as paintings of text drawn from Lincolns historic address, and ghostly nocturnes of Civil War monuments. Daignaults approach is a rumination on the meaning of site and timetime elapsed since the battle, time spent walking its fields, and time shared between the viewer and the work. ... More | | 
Four films are being projected simultaneously juxtaposing scenes from an overcrowded stagecoach, a popular subgenre of the Hollywood Western, populated by a cast of characters including Donald Trump, Nancy Reagan, and Andy Warhol.
BERGEN.- KODE Bergen Art Museum is presenting Dead End Hole, an exhibition of new and recent works by the American artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The exhibition marks the artists first major institutional presentation in Norway and spans two sites in Bergen Stenersensalen (KODE 2) and TÃ¥rnsalen (KODE 4). Dead End Hole premieres the most recent instalment in McCarthys DADDA, CSSC series, DADDA, The Coach, the Skull, 4 Wall (2017/2021), a four-channel video projection in which McCarthy restages the contemporary American political landscape as a regression to the level of the id. Four films are being projected simultaneously juxtaposing scenes from an overcrowded stagecoach, a popular subgenre ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Clapton guitar tops $600,000 in rock memorabilia auction | | Josephine Baker: France's adopted Black superstar immortalised | | Doomed 'Dune' storyboards sell for 2.7mn euros | 
In this file photo taken on November 15, 2021, Eric Clapton's 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic guitar is on display. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- A vintage Eric Clapton guitar sold for $625,000 in New York at a weekend auction of rock memorabilia that fetched nearly $5 million in total, Julien Auctions announced. Heralded as the highlight of the sale that concluded late Saturday at the city's Hard Rock Cafe and which also took bids online, the acoustic 1968 Martin D-45 instrument was played by Clapton in 1970 during the debut live concert of his band Derek and the Dominos. The group was behind the classic song "Layla." Julien's had estimated the instrument would sell for $300,000 to $500,000. While outperforming expectations, the price came up well short of the record $6 million that was paid in 2020 for the acoustic guitar that late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain strummed during a famous "MTV Unplugged" appearance in 1993. The 76-year-old Englishman Clapton, a rock and blues legend, in recent years has made a very public turn to far-right conservatism, taking ardent stances against Covid-19 vaccination and lockdown measures and f ... More | | 
French US-born dancer and singer Josephine Baker arrives at the Palais des Festivals during the 1974 Cannes Film Festival on May 8, 1974. The French-US artist will become on November 30 the sixth woman to enter the Pantheon, after Sophie Berthelot, the physicist Marie Curie, the resistance fighters Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, as well as Simone Veil, figure of life Politics. Ralph GATTI / AFP.
PARIS.- Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar. And later this month she will become the first Black woman to enter the Pantheon in Paris, the mausoleum reserved for France's "great men". Her adopted country is honouring her 46 years after her death not only as a mould-breaking entertainer but also as a French Resistance hero, civil rights activist and a diversity pioneer who created her own multiracial family. Openly bisexual, Baker lived free love decades before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, declaring: "I'm not immoral, I am only natural. "I have married thousands of times because every man I loved has been my husband," she insisted. Born Freda ... More | | 
A page of one of the ten Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic 1970 Dune storyboard copies is displayed to the public three days before an auction at Christie's Paris gallery, on November 19, 2021. Alain JOCARD / AFP.
PARIS.- The storyboards for the doomed 1970s film version of sci-fi classic "Dune" sold for 2.66 million euros ($3 million) at auction on Monday, around 100 times the expected price. Long considered a mythical object by sci-fi fans, the notebook of drawings for the film by Franco-Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky triggered a bidding war at Christie's in Paris. The film project was supposed to bring together some major stars of the period including Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger and Pink Floyd -- but fell apart after four years of preparation due to lack of funding. The auction went down to two determined bidders, with an American eventually emerging victorious. Christie's admitted their initial valuation for the drawings -- between 25,000 and 35,000 euros -- had failed to account for the spike in interest triggered by the new version of the film starring Timothee Chalamet, that has topped box offices around the world in recent months. The drawings are collected in one large notebook, and were ... More |
|
|
|
|
| New York's midcentury art scene springs to life in 'The Loft Generation' | | Art Fund ambition to raise £1 million to help young people access museums and galleries | | The Frye Art Museum appoints Georgia Erger as Associate Curator | 
"The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches 1942-2011" by Edith Schloss. Edited by Mary Venturini; photo editing by Jacob Burckhardt. Illustrated. 312 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $32.
by Alexandra Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- Many prophesied the demise of New York City during the Great and Temporary Exodus of 2020. But none had quite the dramatic vision of Jack Tworkov, the abstract expressionist painter, in the middle of the previous century. Imagine a great catastrophe. And all this mowed down, he mused then, looking at photographs of buildings, envisioning rust and dust. And tourists wandering around in all that emptiness where was the Flatiron, the Empire State looking for past grandeur. Imagine good old New York someday just like Egypt. Tworkov is one of scores who come bearing aperçus in German American writer and artist Edith Schloss memoir, The Loft Generation, discovered in rough-draft form after ... More | | 
Visitors at The Box, Plymouth, August 2021.
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for museums and galleries, is launching a public campaign, Energise Young Minds, to enable them to spend £1 million on programmes across the UKs museums and galleries which will increase access and inspire children and young people. This £1 million pledge represents a major commitment to fuelling museum visiting for the next generation, after months of disruptions for both museums and young people nationwide. Art Fund are over half way there, having committed £500k from their charitable resources and raising a further £50k from their National Art Pass members. The charity is now turning to the wider public for help to reach the £1 million target and make a big difference for young people in 2022. Art Fund research, published earlier this year, revealed that engaging this age group (those under 24), and breaking down barriers to visiting, is one of the most urgent priorities for the sector following the pandemic identified by 64% ... More | | 
Originally from Toronto, Erger is a curator specializing in contemporary art with a focus on lens-based and new media.
SEATTLE, WA.- After a competitive national search, the Frye Art Museum announced that Georgia Erger has joined the museum as Associate Curator, effective November 2021. Originally from Toronto, Erger is a curator specializing in contemporary art with a focus on lens-based and new media. Most recently, she held the position of Assistant Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she curated solo exhibitions including Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations and Caroline Monnet: Bridging Distance, as well as group exhibitions including Hyper Text: The Video Essay and the Expanded Field of Audiovisuality. Georgia also worked closely with museums collection, organizing numerous collection exhibitions including Visual Citizenship and Nature Morte that put the historical into cross-genre conversations with the contemporary. During her tenure at the MSU Broad, ... More |
|
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts | Met Exhibitions
|
|
|
| More News |
 Modern & Post-War Art at Swann December 2NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will present a selection of 111 works by artists expanding the boundaries of abstraction, in a variety of mediums, throughout the mid-century and post-war period in a Thursday, December 2 sale of Modern & Post-War Art. Abstract Expressionism is featured prominently in the sale, with a 1966 tempera-and-ink mixed media work by Robert Motherwell at the top of the offerings ($25,000-35,000); two acrylic-on-paper works by Norman Bluhm will include Steel Grass, 1964 ($12,000-18,000), and a work in lavender from 1967 ($10,000-15,000); and abstract landscapes by Hans Hofmann, Jehudith Sobel and Judith Rothschild. Cubism and geometric abstraction is available with works by Jose de Creeft, Karl Knaths, James Daugherty, Rolph Scarlett, John von Wicht and Louis Schanker. Color field artists include Sam Gilliam, with a run of 1970s ... More  Robert Bly, poet who gave rise to a men's movement, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Bly, the Minnesota poet, author and translator who articulated the solitude of landscapes, galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial mens movement with a bestseller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity, died Sunday at his home in Minneapolis. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his wife, Ruth Bly. From the sheer volume of his output more than 50 books of poetry; translations of European and Latin American writers; and nonfiction commentaries on literature, gender roles and social ills, as well as poetry magazines he edited for decades one might imagine a recluse holed up in a Northwoods cabin. And Bly did live for many years in a small town in Minnesota, immersing himself in the poetry of silent fields and snowy woodlands. But from relative obscurity he roared into national consciousness in ... More  Live theater is back. But a new Broadway play will stream, too.NEW YORK, NY.- The coronavirus closures prompted many theaters around the country to experiment with online offerings. Now, even though theaters have reopened, a new Broadway play is planning to try streaming some performances. Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit that operates a small Broadway house, plans to sell a limited number of real-time, virtual viewings in January for the final 16 performances of Clydes, a dramedy about a group of ex-cons working at a sandwich shop. The show, by two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage, opens Tuesday. The decision to stream some performances, which Second Stage views as an experiment, suggests that some of the survival strategies theaters embraced during the pandemic could have a lasting effect on the art form. Over the 18 months when we had to pivot, and shift a lot of storytelling to Zoom, that opened up a new ... More  Playwright is in exile as Cuba uses an old playbook to quash dissentMADRID.- For Yunior GarcÃa, a Cuban playwright, the swift journey from activism in Havana to exile in Madrid might have been lifted from one of his scripts. It began with the decapitated pigeons at his doorstep, placed there, he suspects, by agents of Cubas Communist government to scare him. Then a pro-regime crowd, scores strong, surrounded his home to shame him. He secretly secured a visa for Spain, he said, and contacts whisked him first to a safe house, then to Havanas airport. And just like that, GarcÃa, one of the rising stars in the opposition demonstrations that have rocked Cuba this year, was gone. Im not made of bronze or marble, and I am not riding a white horse, GarcÃa, 39, told reporters at a news conference in Madrid on Thursday, a day after his arrival, saying he feared imprisonment and didnt want to be a martyr. I am a person who is afraid, with fears ... More  People like her didn't exist in French novels. Until she wrote one.PARIS.- Fatima Daas was used to not reading about people like her. Her debut novel was a chance to remedy this. Based on her own life, The Last One follows a young Muslim lesbian in a tough Paris suburb who struggles to reconcile her conflicting identities. I grew up with the idea, whether in films or in books, that I did not exist, Daas, 26, said in a recent phone interview. I didnt exist as a young lesbian, Muslim woman, with an immigrant background. So the question I have asked myself a lot is How do we shape ourselves when we have absolutely no representation? Representation and identity are fraught topics now in France, a country that prides itself on a universalist tradition that unites all citizens under a single French identity, regardless of their ethnicity or faith. Identity politics are often seen as a threat to social cohesion. So Daas book was an unlikely hit when it came out ... More  New podcast explores personal responses to Towner Eastbourne's Collection through a queer lensEASTBOURNE.- This year, Towner Eastbourne invited members of the LGBTQIA+ community in East Sussex to take part in a unique creative project, exploring personal responses to artworks in the Towner Collection, through a queer lens. The results of this project are a brand new podcast series which launches on Friday 29 November and can be heard on all the popular podcast platforms as well as at www.townereastbourne.org.uk This Collectively podcast series was funded by the The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund administered by the Museums Association and Art Fund. Working with artist Renee Vaughan Sutherland, participants came together in a series of group sessions to view and discuss a selection of artworks, chosen by Renee, by artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Patricia Preece and Wolfgang Tillmans. Exploring successive themes of the body ... More  Museum Folkwang presents spatial installation by Olu Ogunnaike in the "6 ½ Weeks" series ESSEN.- From 25 November 2021, the Museum Folkwang will present the first institutional solo exhibition by Olu Ogunnaike (*1986) in the German-speaking world in the 6 ½ Weeks series. The British artist is a fellow of the residency programme Neue Folkwang Residence, which the Museum Folkwang and Neuer Essener Kunstverein initiated this year. During the five-month residency, Ogunnaike developed several works that he is now presenting in the exhibition ... I'd rather stand as a spatial installation. In the exhibition space, eighteen chairs, each made of different industrial steel, stand around an imaginary table. The chairs, however, lack a seat. Olu Ogunnaike uses them as a support material for charcoal silkscreen prints showing photographs of so-called "pioneer plants" that he took on the grounds of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex. Pioneer ... More  The Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon presents Delphine Balley's first institutional solo exhibitionLYON.- The Musée dart contemporain de Lyon is hosting Delphine Balleys first institutional solo exhibition. Born in 1974 in Roman-sur-Isère, Delphine Balley has pursued her own distinctive style of photography and video-image making for twenty years. Figures de cire is a journey through time and the vernacular, structured around three films Charivari, Le Pays den haut and Le Temps de loiseau , fifteen photographs, and a new sculptural work. Through a study of rites of passage, the artist probes depictions and dysfunctions on the social stage. The exhibition is constructed as a narrative with gaps, in which the family portrait, genre painting, still-lifes and the iconography of ruin and the body the body physical and the body social all come together. By constructing her own inventory of beliefs, Delphine Balley dramatises social atavisms and symbolic uses of place ... More  Sylvère Lotringer, shape-shifting force of the avant-garde, dies at 83NEW YORK, NY.- Sylvère Lotringer, who popularized French critical theory in the United States, helped inspire the Matrix movie series, hosted conferences for counterculture celebrities, lent his name to a character in an acclaimed novel and a television series based on it, provoked rants on Fox News and founded an influential publishing house all while trying to outrun memories of a childhood spent on the precipice of disaster died on Nov. 8 at his home Ensenada, Mexico, in Baja California. He was 83. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Iris Klein, said. By background a Parisian Jew and by trade a tenured academic in the Columbia University French department with a specialty in abstruse philosophy, Lotringer somehow charmed his way into a classically American career consisting of successive 15-minute bursts of fame. He emerged in public life in the late 1970s ... More  Ogunquit Museum of American Art receives transformational giftOGUNQUIT, ME.- The Ogunquit Museum of American Art received one of the largest gifts in the history of the Museum from Carol and Noel Leary to support the Museums exciting new vision and expansion. Carol and Noel wanted to recognize the important role that OMAA has played in the evolution of American Art and its unique ocean-front landscape and sense of place, stated Amanda Lahikainen, Executive Director. We are honored to be entrusted with such significant and impactful philanthropy. OMAA has several long-term projects underway for capital improvements, major exhibitions, and increased staff support, all made possible through this and recent gifts. Without the support of donors like the Learys, we would not be able to offer high-quality exhibitions and programs to enhance the learning of children and adults alike, says Bryan Matluk, the new Director ... More |
|
PhotoGalleries 
NATHALIE DJURBERG AND HANS BERG 
Alex Katz 
Ahmed Morsi: Detail From a Mural Checklist 
RIBA
Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco was born November 23, 1883. José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 - September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. In this image: Mexican painter and muralist Jose Clemente Orozco looks over some of his drawings in his New York City apartment on Dec. 4, 1945.
|
|
|
|
© 1996 - 2021