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Ludolf de Jongh, (Overschie 1616 Hillegersberg 1679), Portrait of a Young Boy Holding a Kestrel. Oil on canvas, 60 x 44 in. (152.44 x 111.76 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- A portrait is a representation of a particular person. Seems like an obvious statement, right? But would you look at it as a 19th century propaganda tool? Not to bolster the strength of a country but dash the hopes of a political rival? Using a child? We can trace portraiture to at least as far back as ancient Egypt, where it flourished. Paintings, sculptures and drawings until recently were the only way to record the appearance of a person and were often commissioned by their wealthy or powerful subjects. Portraits have always been more than just a record of a person. They have often been used to demonstrate power, importance, wealth, and beauty. Royal houses, government and tribal leaders, and of course woman of great beauty or consequence, have all used the power of portraiture to their benefit, but what about children? Where does child portraiture fit into this narrative? It would seem a strange idea in our current society to have a photograph commissioned to show how powerf ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day LaiSun Keane is presenting a four person exhibition featuring contemporary Japanese women artists, Mikiko Tomita, Mayumi Nakamura, Sayaka Shingu and Mio Yamaguchi titled New Directions: Japanese Women Artists from November 14 to December 12, 2020.
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| MSU Broad Director Mónica RamÃrez-Montagut appointed to ICOM-US Board of Directors, joins AAMD | | Joan B Mirviss LTD exhibits works by artists Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko | | Elders and an artist bring a social sculpture to life | 
Dr. RamÃrez-Montagut began her tenure at the MSU Broad on July 1, 2020. Her contributions to both US-ICOM and AAMD solidify the MSU Broads leadership positions internationally, nationally, and in Michigan. Photo: MSU Broad/Aaron Word.
EAST LANSING, MI.- Mónica RamÃrez-Montagut, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU Broad), has been appointed to the US Board of Directors for the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and has joined the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). ICOM is a membership association committed to researching, conserving, and educating society about our worlds natural and cultural heritage by establishing both professional and ethical standards for museums. Members of the ICOM-US Board of Directors are nominated and confirmed by the ICOM-US nominating committee. Dr. RamÃrez-Montagut will join the ICOM-US Board Class of 2023, serving for a full three-year term. Founded in 1916, AAMD maintains a limited membership ... More | | 
Akiyama Yō (b. 1953) and Kitamura Junko (b. 1956), T-198 and Vessel 19-B, (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan B Mirviss LTD is presenting new works by critically acclaimed artists Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko. Akiyama's powerful sculptures look as if they have been excavated from the earth's very core and, with subtle reddish-brown tones, as if the liquid magma had just barely cooled. Kitamura covers curvilinear forms in ethereal geometric patterns that seem to ebb and flow across the surface. As different as they may initially appear, similar ideas about the possibilities of clay inform the artworks of this Kyoto-based artistic couple. Greatly inspired by their teachers who co-founded the Sōdeisha ceramic movement, both artists are known for conceptually daring works that shake loose traditional ties to functionality. Akiyama and Kitamura explore the very essence of clay in their latest works created for their second joint exhibition at Joan B Mirviss. AKIYAMA YŌ (b. 1953): Considered one of Japan's ... More | | 
An aerial view of "Project, Look Up," a moving-art installation by Elizabeth Turk, created with residents of Mt. San Antonio Gardens, a retirement community in Pomona, Calif. Christopher Stobie via The New York Times.
by Lisa Fung
POMONA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Deep within the verdant grounds of the Mount San Antonio Gardens retirement community, Elizabeth Turk was immersed in her latest project, an ambitious work of art that she could easily imagine but not yet see. What do you tell yourself when you face adversity? she asked the residents, drawing inspiration for a project that would create hope during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the 31-acre community as her canvas and its 500 residents and staff members as her medium, Turk envisioned a wild garden on steroids for a moving-art installation titled Project: Look Up. Plunging into this project has just been an act of grace because its kept me ... More |
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| You're gonna need a bigger museum: 'Jaws' shark installed | | Christie's presents Latest x Greatest featuring Supreme rarities alongside contemporary art | | Von Bartha opens two solo exhibitions by Imi Knoebel and Bernar Venet | 
Bruce the Shark installation at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, November 2020 - Credit: Photo by Todd Wawrychuk/©Academy Museum Foundation.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Over four decades after terrorizing beachgoers in "Jaws," the blockbuster movie's 25-foot shark model has been installed at Los Angeles' long-awaited Oscars museum, it was announced Monday. "Bruce the Shark," rumored to have earned its nickname from director Steven Spielberg's razor-sharp lawyer, now lurks 30-feet (nine-metres) above the third floor of the Academy Museum, which is set to open in April. The fiberglass predator is the only remaining version created for the classic 1975 movie, but with Jaws measuring nearly five feet wide, was too large for the building's elevators -- and had to be levered in by crane through the window. "It's been a long journey for Bruce since he was acquired in 2016, and we couldn't be happier to welcome him to his new home," said museum president Bill Kramer. Weighing more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilos), it is the largest object so far in the collection of the upcoming ... More | | 
Shara Hughes (B. 1981), Broccoli Trees. Oilstick, oil, and acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2016. Estimate: $10,000-15,000
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents Latest x Greatest, a series of three online-only sales and a landmark private selling collection spanning post-war and contemporary art, prints and luxury categories. The online sales include Behind The Box: 1994-2020 (open 1-15 December) which presents Christies first dedicated auction to infamous New York brand Supreme, First Open | Online (open 1-15 December) brings together a diverse selection of post-war and contemporary art and Murakami/Nara (open 24 November 11 December) offers editions and works on paper by Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. Taking place alongside the series and offered for the first time in a private sale is The Box Logo Collection, the only known comprehensive archive of Supreme box logo t-shirts ever curated. Expected to realize in the region of $2 million, this is poised to be the most valuable collection of Supreme material to ever be offered in a single sale. Pr ... More | | 
Installation View, Bernar Venet: TRAJECTORY at von Bartha, Basel, 21 November 20 February 2020. Photo: Simon Schwyzer. Image courtesy von Bartha and the Artist.
BASEL.- Von Bartha is presenting two solo exhibitions by Imi Knoebel and Bernar Venet in the gallerys Basel space, 21 November 2020 20 February 2021. Installed in the front space of the gallery, CENTRUM features new large-scale art works by German artist Imi Knoebel. Running concurrently with Knoebels exhibition, TRAJECTORY features a series of paintings and new sculptures by French artist Bernar Venet in the gallery's main hall, exploring the artist's attraction to pure science as a subject for art. One of the leading German artists of the post-war period, conceptual artist Imi Knoebel is known for his theoretical approach to colour and form. CENTRUM features a new series of five large-scale, monochrome paintings by the artist. For this series of work, Knoebel returns to working with wood, a material which has occupied him since the beginning of his career. The works in the series, which are being exhibited ... More |
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| Jane Austen leads Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann | | François Catroux, decorator of choice for aristocrats, dies at 83 | | Freeman's Modern & Contemporary auction realizes $2.7 million | 
Highlights from this sales selection included first editions of Pride and Prejudice, 1813 ($75,000), Sense and Sensibility, 1811 ($57,500), Mansfield Park, 1814 ($16,250), Emma, 1816 ($15,000), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, 1818 ($10,625).
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Tuesday, November 17 sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts saw great success across categories with a 90% sell-through rate by lot, and closed above the total high-estimate at $675,481. Literature tipped over to an eye-opening 95% of all lots sold. Steadfast buyer confidence, a constant throughout the entire sale, drove high prices via a multitude of bidding platforms, remarked John Larson, the houses specialist for literature and art books. Enthusiasm for Jane Austen proved to be enduring as 100% of the 12 works by the author on offer found buyers. The success of the editions comes after the house offered a complete run of first editions of Austens novels in rare period binding earlier in the year. Highlights from this sales selection included first editions of Pride and Prejudice, 1813 ($75,000), Sense and ... More | | 
Russian Constructivist paintings dominate a room designed by François Catroux, center, on Oct. 15, 1989. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- François Catroux, a glamorous designer for the Rothschild family, Russian oligarchs, Greek and Arab princesses, fashion designers, media moguls and South American billionaires what used to be known as the jet set died on Nov. 8 in a hospital in Paris. He was 83. The cause was a brain tumor, said his wife, Betty Catroux. François Catroux was movie-star handsome with a perennial tan and a taste for expensive sports cars, the grandson of a noted French general and a Spanish heiress, and a high school friend of Yves Saint Laurent. Along with his wife, Betty Catroux, the lanky androgyne beauty who was Saint Laurents muse and playmate, the Algerian-born François Catroux was at the center of Paris glittering 1970s-era social scene, a complicated fantasia at which art, fashion and money collided. ... More | | 
Clyfford Still (1904-1980), PH-491 (detail). Sold for $411,000. Second highest price ever achieved for a Clyfford Still work on paper.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its November 17 Modern & Contemporary Art auction, which realized over $2.7M. With highly competitive bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the phone, the auction achieved an impressive 95% sell-through rate and established record prices for works by Alexander Calder and Clyfford Still. The undoubted highlight of the sale was the record price achieved for Clyfford Stills PH-491 (Lot 18). The work sold for $411,000, five times its pre-sale high estimate, resulting in the second highest price ever achieved for a Clyfford Still work on paper. Said Vice President and Senior Specialist, Anne Henry: We are delighted with the results of Tuesdays sale, especially the results realized for the fresh-to-market works by highly sought after artists such as Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning and Carlos Cruz-Diez from three private collections ... More |
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| Exhibition of sculptural paintings by artist Rachel Klinghoffer on view at One River School | | Sotheby's New York announces second annual Auction of Aboriginal Art | | Whitney Museum of American Art opens Salman Toor's first solo museum exhibition | 
Rachel Klinghoffer, If you like piña coladas, 2020. 10 x 8 inches. Photo: Etienne Frossard.
WOODBURY, NY.- If You Like Piña Coladas, a solo exhibition of sculptural paintings by multi-disciplinary artist Rachel Klinghoffer, curated by Lauren Powell, is on view at the One River School in Woodbury, New York from November 14, 2020 - January 16, 2021. The works in this exhibition provide a ray of light in hazy and uncertain times. They remind us of the power, joy, comfort, safety, and possibility that can reside within our own nostalgia, if we so choose to see with that perspective. Created while sheltering in place with her husband and two young children at their home in South Orange, NJ, the works in If You Like Piña Coladas combine personal ephemera (used lingerie, souvenirs and studio refuse) to create prismatic, self-narratives that recycle Klinghoffers own joyful memories into hope and optimism for the viewer. Materials ranging from balloons from her son being brought home from the hospital when he was ... More | | 
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Ninu (Greater Bilby) Dreaming at Tjiturrulnga, 1999 (detail). 35 7/8 in by 24 in (91 cm by 61cm). Synthetic polymer paint on linen. Estimate $6/8,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the second annual Aboriginal Art auction in New York, which will be presented as an online sale open for bidding from 25 November 4 December. Comprising 52 lots, the sale features works created by artists from the worlds oldest continuous culture, including a selection of works from the collection of the late, pioneering Australian artist David Larwill, as well as masterworks from the most celebrated artists in the field such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi, John Mawurndjul, Charlie Numbulmoore, Mathaman Marika and more. Timothy Klingender, Sothebys Senior Consultant Australian Art commented: The success of last years inaugural auction in New York confirmed the appeal of Aboriginal art among a growing international audience so we ... More | | 
Salman Toor, Puppy Play Date, 2019. Oil on panel, 40 x 30 in. Image courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Salman Toors first solo museum exhibitionoriginally scheduled to open in March 2020 but postponed due to the pandemicis being presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art from November 13, 2020 to April 4, 2021. Primarily making intimate oil-on-panel works, Toor expands the tradition of figurative painting by melding sketch like immediacy with disarming detail to create affecting views of young, queer Brown men living in New York City and South Asia. Salman Toor: How Will I Know is part of the Whitneys emerging artists program, which most recently included solo shows by Kevin Beasley and Eckhaus Latta, and is on view in the first-floor John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gallery, which is accessible to the public free-of-charge. Over the past few years the field of figurative painting has been reimagined once again, this time by artists frankly depicting lives and cultures that were all too often ... More |
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 Bruce Swedien, a shaper of Michael Jackson's sound, dies at 86NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bruce Swedien, a Grammy Award-winning recording engineer best known for his collaboration with Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones on hit albums Thriller and Off the Wall, died Nov. 16 in Gainesville, Florida. He was 86. His daughter Roberta Swedien said the cause of death, in a hospital, was complications of surgery for a broken hip. He had also tested positive for COVID-19 but was asymptomatic. Raised by parents who were professional musicians and encouraged his love of music, Swedien (pronounced swe-DEEN) was a masterly studio technician who, in a career of nearly 60 years, captured the sound of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Barbra Streisand, Dinah Washington, Jackie Wilson, Sarah Vaughan and Jennifer Lopez. His most fruitful ... More 'Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing' opens in Toledo TOLEDO, OH.- Three internationally renowned artists, who represent the extraordinary vitality of contemporary drawing, are being featured in a special exhibition beginning in November at the Toledo Museum of Art. Telling Stories: Resilience and Struggle in Contemporary Narrative Drawing on view at TMA from Nov. 21, 2020, through Feb. 14, 2021. Twenty-five large and small-scale works and an animated film, drawn from TMAs holdings and public and private collections across North America, are being featured in the exhibition. Telling Stories displays the work of the third-generation Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook of Cape Dorset, Canada, and two American artists, Amy Cutler and Robyn ONeil. These artists showcase the power of drawing as a distinctive form of expression, creating open-ended narratives within natural landscape settings that chronicle ... More James, Jordan, Obama linked in auction of sports memorabiliaLOS ANGELES (AFP).- A LeBron James autographed rookie NBA season Cleveland Cavaliers jersey and a high school basketball vest worn by Barack Obama are among items expected to generate buzz at a December 4 auction in Beverly Hills. James' jersey, signed and gifted by the NBA legend during his 2003-04 rookie season, is considered the earliest known LeBron James autograph on a game-worn jersey according to Juliens Auctions, which is estimate to fetch between $100,000 to $200,000 when it goes under the hammer. Since coming into the league as a highly touted rookie, James has won four NBA titles with three different teams, most recently with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020 in the NBA's quarantine bubble in Orlando, Florida. He earned a fourth NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award -- second only to the six of NBA icon ... More Sotheby's partners with Goldin Auctions for sports memorabilia saleNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys and Goldin Auctions announced A Century of Champions, an unparalleled collection of sports memorabilia spanning the past 100 years of global sporting history. The online auction, open for bidding 24 November 3 December via sothebys.com, will feature approximately 100 lots representing an international array of iconic memorabilia, including jerseys, sneakers, trading cards, and other objects from renowned athletes, past and present, across baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, boxing, hockey, and more. Among the marquee athletes featured in the sale include Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, LeBron James, Pelé, Rafael Nadal, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, and Kobe Bryant, with many more consigning directly to the auction. The partnership with Goldin is the first dedicated sports memorabilia ... More Medals belonging to PGA golfer Gary Alliss to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- A group of Golfing medals from the Collection of Gary Alliss relating to golf courses around the world will be offered in a live/online auction of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals on Tuesday & Wednesday, December 1 & 2, 2020 by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb via their website www.dnw.co.uk A member of one of the most famous golfing familes, Gary Alliss is a golf professional and the third generation of golfing Allisses! He has been a coin collector for almost 60 years - since he was seven years old. He had a substantial collection of coins of the reign of Stephen, which he sold about 15 years ago. As he explained; I decided to start buying golf medals in the 1990s, just because I am a golf professional and both my father and grandfather were professionals and both very famous!! ... More Tomokazu Matsuyama's first solo exhibition in Mainland China opens at the Long Museum West BundHONG KONG.- Tomokazu Matsuyama's first solo exhibition in Mainland China, Accountable Nature, opened at The Long Museum West Bund on November 12, 2020, and will run until January 24, 2021. This exhibition introduces Matsuyama's fundamental notions, which capture the status quo of present-day life and culture in an unembellished manner. The works in the exhibition feature Matsuyamas extensive range of aesthetic language, from his iconic shaped canvases to sculptures. Growing up in a bicultural environment in Japan and the United States, Matsuyama physically represents the urban one-world blend of cultures. Joyfully colored canvases, which blend a traditional Japanese color palette with eye-catching fluorescents, render a diverse and ambiguous modern culture, where he splices edited images from broad aesthetic ... More Christie's to offer 200 drawings by Quentin Blake to benefit House of Illustration LONDON.- Christies Classic Week presents Quentin Blake: 200 Drawings, open for browsing from 25 November and bidding from 2 to 16 December. With estimates ranging from £100 to £2,000, the online auction is the latest collection of works offered directly from the artists studio, sold to benefit House of Illustration, the UKs only gallery and education space dedicated to illustration and graphics. Proceeds from the sale will support the charitys ongoing projects, which include the redevelopment of New River Head in London into the renamed Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the worlds largest public arts space dedicated to illustration. Set to open in 2022, the centre will be a new cultural landmark for the UK that will become a permanent home for the archive of the organisations founder, Sir Quentin Blake, with selections from his archive of more ... More Janine Yorimoto Boldt named Associate Curator of American Art at the ChazenMADISON, WIS.- The Chazen Museum of Art continues to grow its curatorial ranks by adding Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Ph.D. to the team. Boldt, who is currently working as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral curatorial fellow at the American Philosophical Society, will begin her tenure as associate curator of American art on Jan. 4, 2021. Boldts two-year appointment is made possible by a generous gift from the Chipstone Foundation. Welcoming Janine to the Chazen is an exciting next step in our efforts to reshape our curatorial team and practices, said Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen. As we work to expand our impact in Wisconsin and beyond, she will lead collaborations with a variety of departments across campus, such as the Center for Design and Material Culture and the Art History Department. She will also be a part ... More Saint Louis Art Museum presents 'Buzz Spector: Alterations'ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting Buzz Spector: Alterations, a solo exhibition that spans more than 40 years of the artists works on paper. It opened Nov. 20 in Galleries 234 and 235. Buzz Spector (born 1948) is a conceptual artist who explores the aesthetic possibilities of language, paper and books. A master at tearing paper, he brings a constructive energy to that otherwise destructive act. Sometimes he alters found books by methodically tearing their pages. At other times, he creates his own blocks of printed texts or images that he also transforms by tearing. Through this refashioning of printed materials, he poses questions about authorship, the history of art, and the written word. Works on view in the exhibition range from early drawings presaging his torn-paper process to altered books, postcard collages and Spectors ... More Artsy supports and spotlights emerging African artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Artsy, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling fine art by leading international artists, has partnered with the African Art Galleries Association (AAGA)led by Valerie Kabov, Co-Founder of First Floor, and Julie Taylor, Founder of Guns & Rainto launch an innovative new online-only event, African Galleries Now. This newly ideated event, which will be live on Artsy from November 23rd until December 13th, places an important spotlight on emerging African artists and exposes them to Artsys global audience of nearly 2 million collectors and art lovers. The inaugural, exclusively-on-Artsy event features 13 gallery participants spanning 15 countries across the African continent and will allow global audiences to discover and collect over 200 fresh artworks by 52 African artists to watch. For this debut edition, ... More Christie's Paris announces highlights included in the African and Oceanic Art SalePARIS.- The Department of African and Oceanic Art will present Shape(s): L'univers des Formes, on December 3, 2020. This exceptional sale celebrates the artistic genius of artists from Africa and Oceania through 67 lots from private collections. Asserting a singular stylistic approach and opting for formal deconstruction, the works of this selection offer a unique visual experience. True masterpieces of execution, they reveal an astonishing reconfiguration of the human figure and the object. Shape(s): L'univers des Formes offers a dialogue between these works and modern creation, travelling through cultures, eras and disciplines. The lots in this sale, with their strong aesthetic sense and having evolved within prestigious collections, make it possible to decipher the manifest influence of this particular treatment of form among artists and collectors ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born November 24, 1864. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. In this image: A man passes in front of two posters by French artist Toulouse Lautrec, belonging to Brussels' Musée d'Ixelles, which were shown for the first time in Spain under the title 'Toulouse Lautrec. The origin of the modern poster', at Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity, in Valencia, eastern Spain, Thursday 29 September 2005.
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