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Julien Dupré Virtual Catalogue Raisonné is Now Live

Julien Dupré (1851-1910) La vache blanche, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, Photo courtesy: Tony Querrec, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resources, NY.

NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., the New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, has launched the Julien Dupré (1851-1910) Virtual Catalogue Raisonné (www.juliendupre.org). The catalogue raisonné project began in 1991 when Howard Rehs began researching the life and work of the 19th-century French Realist artist. At the time, information about the artist was scarce, but interest in Realist artists was growing among both collectors and art historians. Mr. Rehs’ early research was conducted in the archives of Knoedler Gallery, one of several dealers who represented the artist during his lifetime. Subsequently, the Frick Art Reference Library and the Getty Research Institute proved to be valuable resources for information about Dupré’s sales. In addition, Mr. Rehs was fortunate to acquire the artist’s account book and earliest sketchbook, which have provide ... More


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'Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away', Pace Gallery, 5 Hanover Square, London, October 8 - November 13, 202. Artwork on paper by Mark Rothko Copyright © 2020 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Galler.







Ketterer Kunst to offer a seminal work by Egon Schiele   Christie's to offer Banksy painting from the collection of Sir Paul Smith   The artistic aromas of Anicka Yi


Egon Schiele, Schlafendes Mädchen. Pencil drawing with watercolors, 1908 (detail). 22 x 30,2 cm / 8.6 x 11.8 in. Estimate: € 150,000-250,000 / US$180,000-300,000.

MUNICH.- This early work by Egon Schiele remained hidden in a private collection for more than 45 years. Now the pencil drawing with watercolors will be included into the catalog raisonné of the Schiele expert Jane Kallir, and will be sold in the Ketterer Kunst Auction from December 9 to 11 in Munich, Germany. “Egon Schiele‘s sheet ‘Schlafendes Mädchen’ is of seminal importance, as it clearly shows the artist‘s development from Viennese Art Nouveau to Expressionism. Next to the delicate representation of the model, the artist also reveals his own inner sensation“, explains the auctioneer Gudrun Ketterer. Egon Schiele was only 18 years old when he rendered the sleeping girl in an extraordinary presence with just a few pencil lines and brushstrokes. Through the astounding reduction to vital details, the artist showed great poise in staging the body in all its comeliness. He had begun to study at the Academy o ... More
 

Banksy, Sunflowers from Petrol Station, signed ‘Banksy’ (center left); signed and dated ‘BANKSY OCTOBER 2005’ (on the stretcher) oil on canvas, in artist's frame, 40 ⅝ x 34 ⅜ in. (102.6 x 87.5 cm.) Executed in 2005. Estimate: $12,000,000 - $18,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York announced Banksy’s Sunflowers from Petrol Station (estimate: $12,000,000- $18,000,000) from the collection of Sir Paul Smith will highlight Christie’s 21st Century Art Evening Sale on Tuesday, 9 November 2021. The painting, executed in 2005, will be exhibited in Christie’s Hong Kong galleries 7 – 12 October and in Christie's Los Angeles galleries 20 – 23 October before returning to New York, where it will be on view from 30 October – 9 November ahead of the sale. Katharine Arnold, Christie’s Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Europe, remarks: “Following the record-breaking sale of Game Changer (2020) in March – another major oil on canvas by Banksy – we are delighted to offer Sunflowers from Petrol Station this November. Belonging to the legendary British designer, ... More
 

Anicka Yi at Tate Modern in London with one of her “biologized machines” that will float and undulate in the museum, Oct. 6, 2021. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times.

by Tess Thackara


NEW YORK, NY.- Six years ago, artist Anicka Yi created an exhibition on a theme that now feels eerily prescient: human fears of viral contagion. After an ebola case was confirmed in New York, unsettling city life and causing months of anxiety, Yi set up tents at The Kitchen arts venue in New York City to display petri dishes containing bacteria she had gathered from 100 women. For Yi, 50, the germs and microbes that pass between us are key to understanding how humans respond to one another. And the air that we breathe is where much of this molecular exchange takes place. Now as she takes over Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London for a solo presentation running from Tuesday through Jan. 16, 2022, Yi has made air her primary material and subject. When visitors enter the cavernous, industrial hall, they will encounter ... More



Richard Schultz, designer who made the outdoors modern, dies at 95   Phillips presents Art For Change: Comic Relief x Phillips   Philadelphia Museum of Art opens the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Emma Amos


Schultz, the ingenious industrial designer whose furniture collections for Knoll, the design laboratory that streamlined American interiors, are among the classics of modern design, died on Sept. 28, 2021, in Princeton, N.J. He was 95. Knoll Archive via the New York Times.

NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Schultz, the ingenious industrial designer whose furniture collections for Knoll, the design laboratory that streamlined American interiors, are among the classics of modern design, died Sept. 28 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 95. He had been in ill health, his son Peter said. Rust was the catalyst for Schultz’s most enduring design: an elegant, clean-lined outdoor chaise made from plastic mesh, aluminum tubes and a pair of wheels. Florence Knoll, Schultz’s boss, had taken a few metal chairs by sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia to her seaside house in Florida, and they had rusted out. (The Bertoia chairs are another modernist classic, manufactured by Knoll, which Schultz ... More
 

Antony Gormley, LIFT 5 (MEME) III, 2018. Estimate £60,000-80,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.

LONDON.- On 14 October, Phillips, in collaboration with Comic Relief, will present Art For Change: four works generously donated by contemporary artists Michael Armitage, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Caroline Walker that will be offered in Phillips’ 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale in London. These works explore the human condition on an intimate scale through sculpture, drawing, and painting. All of the proceeds from the sale of these works will be donated to Comic Relief to invest in organisations in the UK and across the world, including those that harness the power of the arts for social change. All four works are being exhibited online and are on view in Phillips’ galleries at 30 Berkeley Square alongside further auction highlights from 6 to 14 October. The four works to be offered at auction are Michael Armitage’s Snake Charmer, 2020 (estimate £20,000-30,000) – ... More
 

"India and Afghan," 1977, by Emma Amos. Oil on canvas, 42 × 23 inches; framed: 33 3/4 × 24 1/2 inches. Amos Family, courtesy Ryan Lee Gallery.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Emma Amos. As a member of the Black artist collective, Spiral, in the mid-1960s, an active participant in the Guerilla Girls of the 1980s, and a pathbreaking multimedia artist until her death in 2020, Amos made vibrant, witty, and passionate works that challenge, unsettle, and sometimes altogether reject the dominant visual codes of American life. Across her prolific career, Amos’s art explored the links among personal biography, history, and the politics of race and gender in America. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, Emma Amos: Color Odyssey surveys Amos’s body of work from the late 1950s to the 2010s for the first time, highlighting her bold approach to printmaking, painting, and weaving, and ... More


MFA Boston displays two iconic Harriet Powers quilts together for the first time   Hammer Museum and ICA LA present 'Witch Hunt'   Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Melissa Thompson goes on display at the V&A


Harriet Powers (American, 1837–1910), Pictorial quilt, 1895–98 (detail). Cotton plain weave, pieced, appliqued, embroidered, and quilted. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Maxim Karolik. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

BOSTON, MASS.- This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings together the only two extant quilts made by Harriet Powers (1837–1910), displaying the iconic works together for the very first time since they were made by the artist in the 19th century. The famous Pictorial quilt (1895–98) from the MFA’s collection and the Bible quilt (1885–86), on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, are being featured in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories. Uniting the only two surviving quilts by Powers—a formerly enslaved woman from Athens, Georgia—will shed new light on her extraordinary artistic and storytelling talents. Powers, an African American woman who was born into slavery in Georgia in 1837, exhibited the Bible quilt at the Northeast Georgia Fair in 1886, where it was spotted by Jennie Smith, a white art teacher at a girls’ school. Smith unsuccessfully ... More
 

Yael Bartana, Patriarchy is History, 2019. Neon.78 1/8 × 72 15/16 in. (198.4 × 185.3 cm). 198.4 x 185.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist, Annet Gelink Gallery and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Photo: Tom Haartsen.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles present Witch Hunt, an incisive international survey of 16 critically acclaimed artists whose practices deploy feminist, queer, and decolonial strategies to explore current and historical political events, social conditions, and artistic legacies. Leonor Antunes, Yael Bartana, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Candice Breitz, Shu Lea Cheang, Minerva Cuevas, Vaginal Davis, Bouchra Khalili, Every Ocean Hughes (formerly Emily Roysdon), Laura Lima, Teresa Margolles, Otobong Nkanga, Okwui Okpokwasili, Lara Schnitger, and Beverly Semmes animate a range of current global feminist thought and action through painting, sculpture, video, photography, sound, and performance. The exhibition features many newly commissioned works and major projects that are making their United States ... More
 

The portrait will be on display in the William Morris Room (125) in the V&A South Kensington’s British Galleries until 2024, when it will move to its permanent home at V&A East Museum in 2025. © Victoria and Albert Museum.

LONDON.- The V&A announces that Portrait of Melissa Thompson, 2020, by American artist Kehinde Wiley is now on display in the museum’s William Morris Room (room 125) in the British Galleries, alongside William Morris’s Wild Tulip designs that inspired it. The monumental two-metre oil painting was made as part of Wiley’s series The Yellow Wallpaper, first exhibited at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow in 2020 and was acquired by the V&A East team in June 2021. The portrait goes on display as part of a series of initiatives marking the 125th anniversary of William Morris’s death this October, including the new V&A and Thames & Hudson publication, William Morris, by Anna Mason, due for release on 21 October. Wiley’s portrait depicts Melissa Thompson, a young woman the artist met at Ridley Road Market in Dalston, east London – a market first founded in the late 1880s and that remains ... More


Theaster Gates delivers conceptual sermons on the meaning and significance of clay in expansive new survey   Pradiauto presents the group exhibition 'De Oro en su Núcleo'   Ingrid Swenson to leave PEER


Theaster Gates, Power Figure, 2019. Clay and wood, 35 7/16 x 35 1/16 x 10 5/8 in (90 x 89 x 27 cm) © Theaster Gates. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis).

LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery is presenting Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon, a major solo exhibition by Theaster Gates (b. 1973, Chicago). The exhibition initiates the artist’s year-long, multi-venue investigation into the material and spiritual significance of clay in craft, labour, community building, religion, colonialism and global trade. Brining together pottery, sculpture, film and research materials, the exhibition surveys works by Gates across two decades, from his early hand-thrown pots to his large-scale Afro-Mingei sculptures, a hybrid form which combines two strands of his works: Black aesthetics and Japanese philosophy. New large-scale ceramics created by Gates at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Montana, are seen here for the first time. These are displayed ... More
 

Installation view.

MADRID.- Pradiauto is presenting the group exhibition De Oro en su Núcleo. The project starts from the city of London and the Royal College of Art as the beginning of diverse links between Esther Merinero, Lina Lapelytė, Alejandro Villa Durán and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen. The exhibition is activated as a zone of convergence of ideas and artistic intuitions. An encounter that had already begun in time and is now materialising in space. From the 16th to the mid-20th century, in some wood-producing countries, the maderada was a river transport technique used to carry logs. Proceeding from the felling of forests and pine forests, these logs travelled along the river to places such as factories or industrial areas where they would later be used. In Spain, the people who transported these logs were called Gancheros. Their job was to help the logs to follow the riverbed and not stop. To do this, they climbed on top of them and let themselves ... More
 

Alongside steering its exhibitions programme, Ingrid has championed engagement with the local community through public art commissions and participatory programmes.

LONDON.- Ingrid Swenson has announced that she will leave PEER after 23 years as its director, stepping down at the end of December 2021. Since joining PEER in 1998, Ingrid has nurtured and grown what was then a small, independent experimental arts organisation into one that is now nationally and internationally acclaimed, while extending deep roots into the socially, culturally and economically diverse area of Hoxton in East London. Uncompromisingly true to PEER’s core ethos of engaging the widest possible audience by offering the highest quality art as part of daily life, Ingrid has led an exceptionally ambitious programme of projects with many celebrated artists. She has both recognised talent at a key stage of the artist’s career and has provided artists with opportunities ... More




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Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibits a collection of historically significant works from Western Desert artists
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting The Purple House, a new exhibition celebrating leading Pintupi artists and their enduring legacy. Opening today, the exhibition brings together a group of eight historically significant works by Pintupi artists to acknowledge the 21-year anniversary of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal, which was held at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and raised more than $1 million through the auction of paintings by Papunya Tula artists. Presented alongside the major exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius in 2000, the Art Gallery worked with several organisations to realise the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. Leading Pintupi artists were the driving force behind the appeal, creating and donating ... More

The City in Masks: Photographs by Francesca Magnani on view at the Consulate General of Italy in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The City in Masks (La città in maschera), an exhibition of 25 images by street photographer Francesca Magnani, is on view by appointment from October 7 through November 11, 2021 at the Consulate General of Italy, a landmarked 1917 mansion at 690 Park Avenue. Early on in the pandemic, many New Yorkers started coordinating their face coverings with their outfits and sometimes this new mandatory and concealing accessory became a statement in itself. Though the mask was needed for a basic protective function, it gradually transformed into a more complex object with multiple functions: communicating a message; expressing one’s mood, personality, ethnicity, or community; signifying mutual respect or belonging; or indicating a political stance. With a background in classics and anthropology, Magnani has long been interested in issues of ... More

North Carolina Museum of Art commissions campaign inspired by Alphonse Mucha exhibition
RALEIGH, NC.- To celebrate the upcoming Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary exhibition opening at the North Carolina Museum of Art October 23, 2021, the NCMA tapped three North Carolina–based artists to reinterpret Mucha’s iconic art nouveau works from the turn of the 20th century. These reinterpretations explore contemporary definitions of beauty and widened cultural representation. The juxtaposition of the new designs and well-known Mucha images are intended to spark conversation about the art historical canon. The three commissions are by Lumbee artist Alisha Locklear Monroe, an art teacher and former employee of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC Pembroke; painter and muralist Tori "FNoRD" Carpenter, who has shown her work statewide and is a disabled artist working with Arts Access, a group the NCMA collaborates with to make the ... More

Woody Auction to offer the lifetime collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The outstanding private collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen – a bountiful selection of some of the best Wave Crest and French cameo pieces available, plus other fine items – will be sold without reserve on Saturday, October 23rd by Woody Auction, online and live in the Woody Auction auction hall located at 130 East Third Street in Douglass, Kan., starting at 9 am Central time. The Wave Crest features plaques, jardinieres, bells, boxes and vases, while the collection also boasts French cameo, plated Amberina, pink agata, slot machines, a Pairpoint lamp, Thomas Webb & Sons English cameo and more. “There are over 2,000 photos featured for this amazing auction so plan to view them online or join us in person,” said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Signed Galle French cameo art glass vases are always a hit with collectors. Up for bid will be a rare blown ... More

The ICA presents Channel B by Nine Nights, an audiovisual exploration of Black futurism
LONDON.- The ICA this autumn presents Channel B, an exhibition by the black-owned art, music and creative education initiative Nine Nights. Channel B is an audio-visual exploration of Black futurism, featuring five interactive sound and video installations that each act as a stage for live performance and broadcast. Traversing music, performance and art, the installations are created by multidisciplinary artists Gaika, GLOR1A and Shannen SP, whose work is rooted in the electronically mutated rhythms of the diaspora that pulse through every city on every night. Nine Nights says: ‘We are building an ecosystem that educates, platforms and promotes alternative Black art and supports black-focused charities at home and overseas. The global music industry is worth over $50 billion, with 50% of that made from live music. The global pandemic has caused a crisis for all live artists and ... More

Gauri Gill's first solo exhibition with James Cohan opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, an exhibition by Gauri Gill. This is Gill’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan and inaugurates the gallery’s new Tribeca space. A central tenet in Delhi-based Gauri Gill’s practice is her exploration of collaborative partnerships as a means to blur the line between photographer and subject. This exhibition brings together new works from two of Gill’s collaborative series Acts of Appearance and Fields of Sight. Since 2013, Gill and renowned Warli painter Rajesh Vangad have worked together on Fields of Sight, a series of photographs taken by Gill and then hand-inscribed in black paint by Vangad, co-creating new imagery of life in Ganjad, a small farming village. These fantastical works combine the contemporary language of photography with that of ancient Warli drawing, a genre of folk art ... More

The 15-Minute City wins £100,000 OBEL Award for architecture
LONDON.- A truly liveable and sustainable urban future that places each global citizen at the heart of their own city. This is the goal of the 15-minute city, an urban model, which was chosen by the jury to win the third ever OBEL Award. The idea behind the 15-minute city is that cities should be (re)designed, so that all residents are able to access their daily needs (housing, work, food, health, education, and culture and leisure) within the distance of a 15-minute walk or bike ride. This greatly reduces car traffic and CO2 emissions and increases the health and well-being of residents. The model, which can be adjusted to local culture, conditions, and needs, has already been implemented with great success in cities like Paris, Chengdu, and Melbourne, generating a global movement. According to the jury, the 15-minute city is a beautiful and intuitive vision that has the potential to vastly ... More

Underground Museum looks to Philadelphia curator
NEW YORK, NY.- Meg Onli will join the Underground Museum in Los Angeles as director and curator, co-leading the museum with director and COO Cristina Pacheco. Onli joins the museum from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, where she was a curator. Pacheco has been co-interim director and COO since 2020, and has served on the board of the Underground Museum since 2015. “The co-leader model feels like the future,” Onli said in a recent phone interview. “The U.M. has always been a collective, so working collaboratively is natural.” In 2012, artists Noah and Karon Davis founded the Underground Museum in four converted storefronts in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of central Los Angeles. Three years later, Noah Davis died. Throughout its existence, the museum has been a gathering place for people in the neighborhood and a destination ... More

Bernard Tapie, French tycoon, actor and politician, dies at 78
PARIS.- Bernard Tapie, a swaggering French businessman who lurched throughout his life from wild success to humiliation, knowing everything from high political office to the prison cell, died Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 78. The cause was cancer, according to a statement by his wife, Dominique Tapie. The announcement appeared in La Provence, a newspaper Tapie owned in the southern French port city of Marseille, where he was beloved due to the extraordinary success he brought its soccer team, Olympique de Marseille, after he bought it in 1986. “He led a thousand lives,” President Emmanuel Macron said in a message of condolence to the Tapie family, adding that Tapie’s “ambition, energy and enthusiasm were an inspiration for generations of French people.” Macron’s praise of a man who was embroiled in legal problems for several decades and went to jail for five months in 1997 ... More

Superman comes out, as DC Comics ushers in a new man of steel
NEW YORK, NY.- The new Superman, Jonathan Kent — who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane — will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend, DC Comics announced Monday. That same-sex relationship is just one of the ways that Jonathan Kent, who goes by Jon, is proving to be a different Superman than his famous father. Since his new series, "Superman: Son of Kal-El," began in July, Jon has combated wildfires caused by climate change, thwarted a high school shooting and protested the deportation of refugees in Metropolis. “The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity,” Tom Taylor, who writes the series, said in an interview. He said that a “new Superman had to have new fights — real world problems — that he could stand up to as one of the most powerful people in the world.” The coming out of ... More

Dottie Dodgion, a standout drummer in more ways than one, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Dottie Dodgion, one of the very few high-profile female drummers in the male-dominated jazz world of the 1950s and ’60s, died Sept. 17 in a hospice center in Pacific Grove, California. She was 91. The cause was a stroke, said her daughter and only immediate survivor, Deborah Dodgion. Dodgion, who was known for her steady and swinging but unobtrusive approach to the drums, worked for more than 60 years with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland and Ruby Braff. She also led her own combos. But she rarely recorded. “She didn’t get the exposure that she might have gotten through recording because of her gender,” said Wayne Enstice, who collaborated with her on her autobiography, “The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer” (2021). “She wasn’t taken as seriously as she should have been — not ... More


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On a day like today, American architect Richard Meier was born
October 12, 1934. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he was honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

  
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