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Sointu Syrjala, Scene design for Sunday in the Park in Pins and Needles, 1937. Watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper. Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, TL1999.328.3.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- From city streets to Texas Hill Country roads, San Antonio features a kaleidoscope of landscapes. Street Scene: Cities on Stage explores the artful qualities of built environments via stage designs from the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts and artworks from the McNay's Permanent Collection. The new exhibition is on view in the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts and Brown Galleries through February 6, 2022. Street Scene: Cities on Stage shows how theatre designers create realistic stage settings that challenge and stretch our understanding of urban environments forged from steel, glass, bricks, and mortar. The artworks on view also offer interpretations of small-town life. Some designs are imaginative, colorful, exciting, and surreal, while others depict more realistic visions of sleepy farm towns. Traveling from the heart of downtown San Antonio to the rolling Texas Hill Country, street scenes in our communities transform from u ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Israel Antiquities Authority Yavne excavation director Pablo Betzer shows a fragment of a measuring cup found at the Tel Yavne excavation site, where remains of a building dating back to the Sanhedrin era have been uncovered, in central Israel on November 29, 2021. Israel's Antiquities Authority excavations in Yavne have uncovered the first evidence there of a building from the time of the Sanhedrinâthe supreme legislative Jewish assembly that went into exile in Yavne after the fall of Jerusalem, some 2,000 years ago. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
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| Florida museums highlight Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Machu Picchu | | A curator makes room for big ideas and big art | | With a stellar panel, Asia Week New York zooms-in on collecting contemporary Asian art |
Down the coast a bit, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is presenting Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru, a dazzling collection of sculpted gold and silver ornaments, ceramic jugs and bowls, many dating back thousands of years.
by Joseph B. Treaster
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera the tormented lovers and heavyweight Mexican artists are together again. This time at a museum in West Palm Beach. Their paintings, a batch of photographs and a replica of a Rivera mural are part of a pair of Latin American art exhibitions that create an elegant change of pace from the mostly contemporary work at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. The Kahlo and Rivera show at the Norton Museum of Art captures a segment of the modernist movement in Mexico from the 1920s through the 1950s that the museums director, Ghislain dHumierès, said added another dimension to the Nortons permanent collection of American and European modernism. Down the coast a bit, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is ... More | |
Nicholas Galanin, The Value of Sharpness: When it Falls, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
MEXICO CITY.- Art Basel had practical purposes in mind when it introduced the Meridians section to its sprawling Miami Beach marketplace in 2019. The oversize exhibition space was meant to make room for large-scale objects and performance pieces that galleries could not fit in their standard fair booths. But the sideshow display of giant, colorful canvases, 3D installations and multichannel videos ended up transforming the whole fair-going experience, adding a curated art option something more like a museum show to the seemingly endless grid of retail spaces that make up the event. At the booths, visitors shopped. At Meridians, they watched, walked through and interacted with the art. It made Art Basel Miami Beach more engaging. Part of the credit goes to the work; it was well received, as they say in the art world. But another part goes to the curator, Magalà Arriola, ... More | |
Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled, Oil on canvas board, circa 1964, 47 x 35 in. (119.3 x 88.9 cm.) , sold for $437,500, a world auction record for the artist, March 16, 2020 (Courtesy of Sothebys).
NEW YORK, NY.- Continuing their series of lively and thought-provoking webinars, Asia Week New York is pleased to present Ahead of the Curve: Collecting Contemporary Asian Art, a webinar on Thursday, December 2 at 5:00 p.m. EST. To register click here. As contemporary Asian artists find more inventive forms, styles and media to express their creativity, there are more opportunities to entice collectorsboth novice and seasonedto start or build upon a new or existing collection. Whether its a geometric-shaped Japanese bamboo basket, a complex Chinese ink drawing from a young emerging artist, a dramatic contemporary Japanese photograph or a contemporary Indian painting, there is one thing that unites them: the collectors discerning eye. In partnership with Joan B Mirviss LTD, the panel discussion will spotlight four areas of contemporary Asian art: Chinese ink painting, bamboo art, So ... More |
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| For 2 Bogotá galleries, Art Basel means business | | Barbican Art Gallery presents the first European touring retrospective of Isamu Noguchi's work in 20 years | | In opposite styles, 2 African artists capture the same spirit |
Photographs by Karen Paulina Biswell are installed in the gallery Instituto de Visión in Bogotá, Colombia, Nov. 22, 2021. Nadège Mazars/The New York Times.
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
BOGOTA.- Contemporary art is an export industry in Colombia. Gallerists boast of an abundant supply of homegrown artists but bemoan a shortage of consumers willing to pay the prices that could support professional careers. If galleries want to sell at the high end of the international market, they need to build connections at global fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach. Those fairs can be a side business for legacy dealers from Manhattan or Los Angeles, where local buyers keep the cash flowing, but they serve as crucial revenue generators for places such as Casas Riegner and Instituto de Visión, Bogotá galleries that will show in Miami this year. Our local market is very limited, very small, and it would be very difficult for us to subsist or to depend on it, said Paula Bossa, Casas Riegner curator. Hopefully, one day we can. The galleries have different styles. Casas Riegner is elegant and inside ... More | |
Isamu Noguchi assembling "Figure" in his MacDougal Alley studio, 1944. Photograph by Rudolph Burckhardt. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 03765 ©INFGM / ARS - DACS / Estate of Rudolph Burckhardt.
LONDON.- Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904 1988) is one of the most experimental and important artists of the 20th century. Barbican Art Gallery is staging the first European touring retrospective of his work in 20 years. This exhibition is jointly organised and curated by Barbican Centre (London), Museum Ludwig (Cologne) and Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern), in partnership with LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut. Retracing the evolution of Noguchis kaleidoscopic career over six decades across sculpture, architecture, dance and design, the exhibition celebrates the artists inventive and risk-taking approach to sculpture as a living environment. Drawing from The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York, as well as private and public collections, the exhibition brings together over 150 works, including an extraordinary range of sculptures created in stone ... More | |
Sungi Mlengeya, a 30-year-old Tanzanian artist. She is one of the young African artists being celebrated at Art Basel Miami Beach. Papa Shabani via The New York Times.
by Ginanne Brownell
LONDON.- At first glance, the works of Marcellina Akpojotor and Sungi Mlengeya seemingly have nothing in common. Akpojotors bright canvases are infused with color and textiles, and Mlengeya creates stripped-down black-and-white works that are stunning in their simplicity. One is more minimalist, while the other is loaded with craftsmanship, with skill, with nuance, with maybe a bit more overt messaging but also equally well done, said Azu Nwagbogu, founder and director of the Africa Artists Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria. The key thing is, they both work with conviction and competence. But both artists have an eye for capturing the spirit of contemporary African women, exploring female empowerment and the roles of women in African society. And both artists will be making their debuts at Art Basel Miami ... More |
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| The Oklahoma City Museum of Art receives over 100 works from the "Golden Age" of Studio Glass | | New platform for comic books will give creators a greater stake | | Weaving the threads of applied and contemporary art |
Interior view of the Jerome and Judith Rose residence in Atherton, California.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art announced a receipt of a major gift of over 100 important works from the Golden Age of studio glass from the Jerome V. and Judith G. Rose Family Glass Collection. The collection includes works by pioneers of the studio glass movement and many other artists prominent in U.S. and international museum and private collections, among them Harvey K. Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Paul Marioni, Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, William Morris, Lino Tagliapietra, Jaroslava Brychtova and Stanislav Libensky, and Ginny Ruffner. Jerome and Judith Rose, known to their family and friends as Jerry and Judy, began collecting glass in 1977 with the acquisition of a small glass teapot by Richard Marquis. The Roses traveled frequently in the 1980s and 1990s building their collection. This included many visits to Seattle where they became friendly with Dale Chihuly and many of the other artists represented in the coll ... More | |
Zestworld, which counts Alexis Ohanian as a supporter, will allow comic book writers and artists to present new work and reap the benefits. Dean Kotz via The New York Times.
by George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK, NY.- Many comic book characters anchor global franchises, but their creators or the writers and artists who helped make them popular have not always shared in that success. Zestworld, a new subscription-based platform that is set to be introduced early next year, is hoping to change that. Zestworld will allow comic book writers and artists to present new work and reap the benefits and help monetize their creations if they are made into collectibles or adapted for TV, movies or other media. The creators will be stockholders in the company. In setting out to build this, we started with the problem statement that this industry is broken for creators; and its broken in publishing and TV and film; its also broken in events and collectibles, Chris Giliberti ... More | |
Bonolo Kavula with one of her works that crosses printmaking with weaving and sculpting. Bonolo Kavula and SMAC Gallery via The New York Times.
by Ginanne Brownell
LONDON.- Considering her tumultuous early childhood, it is little wonder that South African artist Bonolo Kavula craves the meditative mental stillness she gets from working with textiles. Born in Kimberley, South Africa, she was raised by a foster family after her mothers death (she was 4 at the time). She was later enrolled in an art school where she was the only Black student. In secondary school, she won a national youth art award and went on to study printmaking at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Kavula, now 29, is making her debut at Art Basel Miami Beach with a re kopane ko thabeng, an expansion of her first solo exhibition, sewedi sewedi (Sewedi was her mothers maiden name), that was held earlier this year at the Cape Town outpost of Smac Gallery, which represents ... More |
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| Centraal Museum presents 'Antonis Pittas: jaune, geel, gelb, yellow' | | Donors worry about fate of artifacts as museum on Irish famine closes | | An auto show for the raddest cars of the '80s and '90s |
Both the exhibition and the publication are characterized by reflective yellow foil, which is a material generally used for traffic barriers and road signs. © Centraal Museum Utrecht / Gert Jan van Rooij.
UTRECHT.- Antonis Pittas (1973, Athens) has long been researching the visual language and legacy of modernism and its promise for a better, more egalitarian and democratic world for all. However, the urge for total renewal also contributed to total destruction. In 2019 Pittas was an artist in residence at the Van Doesburg House, the former home and studio of Theo van Doesburg, just outside of Paris. His residency coincided with the widespread yellow vest protests in France. Although the demonstrations seemed visually united by the yellow vests, the protestors motivations for change were extremely diverse. Pittas moved from the urgency of the protests outside on the streets to the historical context and the private sphere of the Van Doesburg House. It brought him to investigate the legacy of modernism through a political lense, culminating into a solo exhibition at Centraal Museum and an autonomous publication ... More | |
An undated photo provided bt Quinnipiac University shows the inside of Irelands Great Hunger Museum, which opened in 2012 and is now permanently closed. Via Quinnipiac University via The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- In the mid-1990s, John L. Lahey, president of Quinnipiac College, read a book about the 19th-century potato famine in Ireland and decided that its causes and consequences, its death toll and resulting diaspora, warranted broader exposure. It is estimated that at least 1 million Irish died and that another 2 million or more left the country in the years after the devastation of the potato crop, caused by disease, led to widespread hunger. The college that Lahey led began collecting artworks and documents related to the famine and in 2012 opened Irelands Great Hunger Museum inside a former public library building in Hamden, Connecticut, near the schools campus. Although the institution focused on the specific events, Lahey saw the famine story as being about more than the agricultural failure that began in 1845, he told people. It was also about ... More | |
Break dancing and a low-riding red Mercedes convertible at a RADwood auto show in Torrence, Calif., Nov. 20, 2021. Carlos Jaramillo/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Everything was awesome. The music was fresh, the movies were dope and the hair was big. The cars? Rad, then and now. Maybe especially now. In the 1980s and 90s, cars were boxy and far-out, futuristic and often a bit funky. Then came a new millennium and the internet era, and the previous two decades quickly felt dated. Eventually, all those Back to the Future angles gave way to cars with more timeless, sloping silhouettes. The coolest cars of the 80s and 90s the DeLoreans and Countachs, Audis Quattro and Nissans 300ZX faded away like a photo of Marty McFly. But with time comes nostalgia, and Gen Xers and millennials are moving forward in their lives and careers, with greater ability to spend on a hobby like collecting cars. And so the forgotten-about cars they grew up with are gaining new respect, and pushing up prices. A group called RADwood has tapped into this vein, putting on auto shows with a dash of cosplay dress-up througho ... More |
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Two 18th century powder horns bring a combined $66,420 in Bruneau & Co's Arms & Militaria sale
CRANSTON, RI.- Two powder horns dating to the American Revolution and earlier sold for a combined $66,420 and a silver Captain Isaac Hull presentation medal from 1812 knocked down for $40,590 in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers fall Historic Arms & Militaria auction held on November 20th, online and live in the Cranston gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue. It was just the second such auction conducted by Bruneau & Co.s newly formed Arms & Militaria department, headed up by director Joel Bohy. It was great to see so many faces in the gallery and the bidding was active and lively, Mr. Bohy said. We sold some wonderful historic items which did very well. After researching them it was nice to see them go off to new homes. The sale was packed with over 500 items focusing on the French & Indian War, American Revolution, Civil War, World Wars I and II and modern ... More
Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens seasonal exhibition space in Miami Design District
MIAMI, FLA.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announced their return to the Miami Design District with a winter exhibition space. The first exhibition is a group show featuring early work by Eddie Martinez alongside work by nine outsider, self-taught and American art brut artists that Martinez collects or is otherwise inspired by: Hawkins Bolden, Freddie Brice, David Butler, Willie Jinks, Joe Light, Laura Craig McNellis, Ike Morgan, Mary T. Smith and Billy WhiteTaken together, the exhibition emphasizes a set of shared formal mannerisms between the artists: flatness rather than a sense of perspective, a graphic line rather than finely wrought draughtsmanship. The works contain a sense of speed, immediacy and improvisation. Repeated figures assume a symbolic, spiritual or totemic quality. Eddie Martinez has become known for work that joins together painting and drawing, ... More
'Big Island Collection' of Hawaiian coins and tokens coming to Heritage Auctions US coins event
DALLAS, TX.- As the song says, Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day... Collectors will definitely be celebrating when the Big Island Collection of Hawaiian Coinage and Tokens crosses the auction block at Heritage Auctions US Coins Signature® event Dec. 16-19, just in time for the holidays. The aptly named Big Island collection features 15 lots in the sale from the state known as a tropical vacation getaway, but also one with an important numismatic history. The Big Island collection tells the story of Hawaiis monetary history, including tokens that circulated during a shortage of coinage, Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Sarah Miller said. This collection also includes a lovely example of what might have been with the fascinating Reginald Huth pattern. Highlights from the Big Island collection include, but are not limited to: An 1881 ... More
Arlene Dahl, movie star turned entrepreneur, is dead at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- Arlene Dahl, who parlayed success as a movie actress in the 1940s and 50s into an even more successful career as an author, beauty expert, astrologist, and fashion and cosmetics entrepreneur, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. The death was confirmed by her husband, Marc Rosen. Strikingly beautiful, Dahl was a model before becoming an actress considered one of the worlds loveliest gals, The Daily News of New York wrote in a profile in 1959, using the parlance of the day. With her fiery red hair, she was a natural for Technicolor; she notably played the seductive sister of another famous redhead, Rhonda Fleming, in the 1956 crime drama Slightly Scarlet. But although she demonstrated her range in everything from westerns, like The Outriders (1950), to the Red Skelton comedies A Southern Yankee (1948) and Watch the ... More
Notre-Dame in Paris denies redesign is too radical
PARIS.- Plans to replace the gothic ambience of Notre Dame cathedral with a softer vibe of modern art and warm lighting have raised a few eyebrows, but the priest in charge denies any radical transformation is afoot. With the cathedral set to reopen in 2024 -- five years after a fire devastated much of its roof and spire -- church authorities are putting forward new plans on December 9 for how the public will experience the iconic Parisian landmark. They include Bible quotes to be projected in multiple languages on the walls and new art installations in place of its little-used 19th century confessionals, said Father Gilles Drouin, who is charged with reworking the interior, in an interview with AFP. Gone would be the traditional straw chairs, to be replaced by more comfortable benches with their own little lamps to brighten the gloom -- perhaps even able to disappear into the floor when not ... More
Exhibition explores multiple and conflicting meanings of Byzantinism
ISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum presents What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!: Byzantium in Popular Culture exhibition in collaboration with Istanbul Research Institute. Focusing on Byzantiums representation in popular culture, the exhibition brings together contemporary novels, metal music, comics and graphic novels, visual arts, video games, movies, fashion and will be on view at Pera Museum, Istanbul between 23 November 2021 6 March 2022. What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul! borrows its title from Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlus two-part novel Panorama I-II (19531954), where his protagonist exclaims these lines, being frustrated with postwar Turkish society. Karaosmanoğlu knew precisely what he meant by Byzantinism, referring to not only the social unrest and hostility among the nations citizens but also the superstitions ... More
Explore Sydney Contemporary secures in excess of AU$4 million in sales over 11 days
SYDNEY.- Explore Sydney Contemporary, the digital edition of Australasias premier art fair, Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with MA Financial Group, has secured sales in excess of AU$4million during its 11-day presentation from 11 until 21 November 2021 (Collector Preview 10 November). Galleries have reported further sales continuing into this week. The dynamic custom-designed digital platform welcomed 40,000+ visitors, and featured over 80 leading galleries from Australia and New Zealand, presenting over 1,700 artworks by 560 artists from Australia and around the world making it the largest online platform in Australasia for viewing and purchasing artwork. Tim Etchells, Founder of Sydney Contemporary said: We are delighted at the strong sales secured through our Explore Sydney Contemporary custom digital platform and are proud to have been able to contribute ... More
Presentation marks Toyin Ojih Odutola's first major museum exhibition in the US
WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents A Countervailing Theory, a major exhibition of work by Toyin Ojih Odutola (born Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985), Nov. 19April 3, 2022. The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist. The installation spans the entirety of the museums circular inner galleries on its second floor, nearly 400 linear feet. Ojih Odutola is known for investigating the relationship between drawing and storytelling, using materials such as pastel, charcoal and chalk to communicate elaborate, fictional narratives of her own creation. With this series, she explores how mark-making can open up pathways to new meanings. By fluidly shifting between the imaginary and the real, Ojih Odutola incorporates an ... More
Gallery FUMI presents newly commissioned works by the gallery roster of international artists and designers
LONDON.- Gallery FUMIs new group exhibition Stories and Other Objects features an exciting selection of works by the gallery roster of international artists and designers. Presenting newly commissioned work along with a selection of key pieces, the exhibition invites visitors to observe the growth of artists who are at the forefront in the use of materials and technologies. Some are using new colours, materials and shapes. Others are moving towards a more figurative aesthetic; whilst others are taking inspiration from their past, or their mistakes. For Italian craftsman Francesco Perini, nature serves as the main inspiration of his creatures - as he likes defining the works that he makes applying his marquetry skills. Living in the Tuscan countryside and observing the surrounding landscape, Perinis work is a celebration of the simplest natural elements: leaves, trees, water. Now his attention has ... More
Museum quality works of modern and contemporary art exhibited and auctioned in Geneva for the first time
GENEVA.- Piguet Auction House will present an exceptional group of modern and contemporary art at the December auction, featuring many major 20th century artists. Works of museum quality by the most important masters in the history of art will be brought together for the first time in Geneva and will be put on show before being sold at auction! The Grodtmann name is perhaps less well known than those of other important collections entrusted to Bernard Piguet for auction, names such as Aga Khan, de Balkany, Givaudan, Romanov etc. However, the names of the artists who adorned the walls of these two art-loving spouses are amongst the most known in the art world. Picasso (lot 184-185), Henri Matisse (lots 179-180), Amedeo Modigliani (lots 181-183), Paul Klee (lot 178), Odilon Redon (lot 169), Da Silva (lots 208-209)... and so it continues! He is a successful ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Andrea Palladio was born November 30, 1508. Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 - 19 August 1580) was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), gained him wide recognition. The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In this image: A Royal Academy of Arts staff looks over a model of the Villa Emo at the Royal Academy in London, Britain, 27 January, 2009. The Royal Academy of Arts showed the first exhibition devoted to one of Italy's greatest architects, Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) to be held in London. The exhibit follows Palladio's career, from the earlier palazzi in Vicenza, the Basilica and his innovative solutions to rural buildings.
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