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 | | Chinatown museum gets grant after fire | | Lyon & Turnbull auction celebrates the best of European design at Modern Made | | Sotheby's to offer an ultra-rare Russian Pink Diamond this autumn | 
Workers pass artifacts from the Museum of Chinese in America down the fire escape after a fire damaged the building in New York, March 8, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the Museum of Chinese in America, this year has been one disaster after another. In January, a fire ripped through the upper floors of the Chinatown building that held the museums archives, endangering roughly 85,000 artifacts. Then the coronavirus pandemic, which had prompted a surge in anti-Asian harassment, shut the museum down for months. But in late September, Nancy Yao Maasbach, the museums president, got some good news. It was from the Ford Foundation, which told her that the museum had been chosen to receive a grant part of an initiative, organized by some of the nations most prominent philanthropists, to provide pandemic relief for arts organizations ... More | | 
Charles Holland (British b.1969-), Heavenly Mansions, 2019. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull.
LONDON.- From pottery by Hans Coper to jewellery by Henning Koppel and furniture by John Makepeace, Lyon & Turnbulls Modern Made auction on October 23 brings to market important works from across the European design canon. Works by Modern British artists are headlined by The Red Curtain, a key Camden Town school oil by William Ratcliffe (1870-1955). Dated to c.1916 (it was included in the Goupil Gallery show The London Group held that year) this oil shares close compositional similarities to The Artists Room, Letchworth in The Tate Gallery collection. Both works are thought to depict the Arts and Crafts style sitting room of 102 Wilbury Road in the new garden city of Letchworth - the home of fellow artist Stanley and Signe Parker. Ratcliffe and Parker (whose rather was one of the architects of Letchworth) met while students at the Manchester School of Art. It has an guide of £20,000-30,000*. Another ... More | | 
At 14.83 carats, this is the world's largest vivid purple-pink diamond ever to appear at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA.- Hot on the heels of the sale of a 102.39-carat perfect white diamond for US$15.7 million last week, Sothebys announced today that it will offer another rarity: the worlds largest vivid purple-pink diamond. Mined and cut by ALROSA one of the worlds leading diamond producers, the 14.83- carat Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Internally Flawless diamond was faceted from the largest pink rough diamond ever mined in Russia. The ultra-rare gem is named after a celebrated Russian ballet, The Spirit of the Rose and will be offered in Sothebys Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction in Geneva on 11 November, with an estimate of US$ 23-38 million (CHF 21 35 million). Driven by a limited supply and rising demand, prices for top-quality large pink diamonds has increased exponentially over the past decade. The appearance of The Spirit of the ... More |
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| | Phillips presents 'Keith Haring: Falling Up' at K11 MUSEA | | Niño de Elche's new project based on Val del Omar's work now on view at Museo Reina SofÃa | | Wellcome Collection is reopen and asks the question 'What does it mean to be human, now?' | 
Keith Haring, Untitled. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips auction house is presenting Keith Haring: Falling Up at Hong Kong K11 MUSEAs new K11 Art & Cultural Centre from 9 to 18 October. Located on the 6th floor of K11 MUSEA, this showcase is being presented alongside an inspiring collection of international artworks on the same floor which reflects and represents Hong Kongs harbourfront culture and the fluid exchange of ideas in a multicultural society. Featuring a broad-ranging selection of works by the legendary American pop artist Keith Haring across his all-too-brief career, the showcase encompasses his instantly recognisable paintings, drawings, painted aluminum sculptures, and a grouping of memorabilia that are available for purchase through Phillips Private Sales. Miety Heiden, Deputy Chairman and Head of Private Sales, Phillips, said: One of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, Keith Haring achieved new heights by redefining how the pub ... More | | 
Installation view of Niño de Elche, Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omart, Museo Reina Sofia, October 2020. Photo: Joaquin Cortes/Roman Lores, Archive of Museo Reina Sofia.
MADRID.- Within the framework of the Fisuras program, the Collections Department of the Museo Reina SofÃa has been working together with Niño de Elche (Francisco Contreras, Elche 1985) on Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omar. This project is freely based on Invisible Auto Sacramental, a work that can be seen as the first sound installation in history, which was produced in the early 1950s by José Val del Omar (Granada, 1904 Madrid, 1982), one of the fundamental artists in the Museums collection and a pioneer in experimental cinema and sound art. The project comprises a sound installation based on the original work and reinterpreted by Niño de Elche, incorporating theatrical and musical components, and an exhibition room that contextualizes ... More | | 
Yinka Shonibare CBE, Refugee Astronaut III, 2019, © Yinka Shonibare CBE. Image Courtesy Wellcome Collection.
LONDON.- Wellcome Collection has reopened its doors with a programme that takes its cue from the question What does it mean to be human, now? Throughout history, pandemics have been powerful engines of change, exposing structural inequalities in the distribution of health and wealth. This reopening programme explores the intertwined connections between the individual, societal and global health and asks how Covid-19 is shaping our perceptions of the fault lines between them. Inspired by Wellcome Collections permanent display, Being Human, the reopening programme considers how we can care for ourselves and for each other in the context of extraordinary cultural, social and political shifts. Over the coming months the programme brings multiple perspectives and voices both into the building and across Wellcome Collections digital ... More |
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| | Winners of £200,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 unveiled | | Broadway will be a while. These venues say they're ready now. | | ITALICS Art and Landscape: The new digital platform to discover Italian excellence | 
Gairloch Museum. Photo: © Marc Atkins.
LONDON.- Aberdeen Art Gallery, Gairloch Museum, Science Museum, South London Gallery, and Towner Eastbourne have been announced as winners of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 this evening (12 October 2020), the largest arts award in Britain and the most prestigious museum award in the world. In a unique edition of the prize, Art Fund responded to the unprecedented challenges that all museums face this year by selecting five winners and increasing the prize money to £200,000, a 40% rise over previous years. The outstanding museums are recognised for their achievements in 2019 20: from bringing art to local audiences, moving to a repurposed nuclear bunker, redisplaying collections through major refurbishment, making museums a community hub, opening new permanent galleries and championing under-represented artists. Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund, said: The winners are exceptional ... More | | 
The Shed, an arts center at Hudson Yards in New York on Dec. 27, 2018. New Yorks newest neighborhood drew inspiration from Battery Park City, but is filled with 21st-century twists. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Park Avenue Armorys vast drill hall has nearly 40,000 square feet of unobstructed open area. The Sheds central performance space has a 115-foot-high ceiling. St. Anns Warehouse has 10 big double doors and a new air ionization system. While the pandemic-prompted closing of Broadway is expected to drag into next summer or fall, these and other adventurous performing arts organizations argue that their futures need not wait that long. They are pressing state regulators to consider a series of architectural advantages that they say should make their buildings easier to adapt for safety than the glorious but ... More | | 
RB Ride, Carsten Höller. Installazione per "ArtePollino. Un altro sud San Severino Lucano (PZ), 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua. Photo Lorenzo Fiaschi
LONDON.- Out of the vision of nine of the most influential galleries in Italy, comes a first-hand guide to the countrys art, culture and contemporary lifestyle, written and illustrated by the gallerists themselves. ITALICS Art and Landscape is an all-digital editorial platform that will spotlight the profound cultural experiences cultivated on the Italian territory by its most celebrated gallerists, exploring the extraordinary art heritage of the country. Through insightful storytelling and eye-catching photography, readers will be offered a sense of discovery and unrivalled access to explore Italy. Driven by the desire to build a network based on collaboration and shared experience, nine gallerists Lorenzo Fiaschi (Galleria Continua) and Pepi Marchetti Franchi (Gagosian) with Alfonso Artiaco, Ludovica Barbieri (Massimo De Carlo), Massimo Di Carlo ... More |
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| | Swann's American Art sale delivers 15 new records | | Karsten Schubert London opens an exhibition of new paintings by Kirsten Glass | | Columbia Museum of Art adds 5 works by African American artists to collection | 
Emil Bisttram, Sun, Moon, watercolor, 1942. Sold for $47,500, a record for a watercolor by the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries opened the fall 2020 season with a whirlwind sale of American Art on Thursday, September 17. We were delighted to start the fall season at Swann with our American Art sale that brought strong prices from nineteenth-century artists, such as Severin Roesen and Alfred Thompson Bricher, alongside modernists like Marsden Hartley and Emil Bisttram, noted Todd Weyman, a vice president for the house and specialist for the sale. We were especially pleased to see under recognized artists such as Sophie Harpe, Nils Gren, Fidelma Cadmus and Dorr Bothwell achieve recognition on the market, concluded Weyman. The auction brought in over $1 million, and saw 15 new artist records set. The sale was led by Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses with Happy Days, a 1961 oil-on-masonite painting depicting a scene typical of Mosess style, a rural family ... More | | 
Kirsten Glass, Going In, 2020.
LONDON.- Karsten Schubert London is presenting Kirsten Glass: Swimming Witches, an exhibition of the artists new paintings. The title is an irreverent reference to the historic witch trials when suspects were tied by ropes and thrown into deep water if they sank and drowned they were innocent, if they floated they must be guilty. In Glasss view, witches can swim, so her title suggests the survival of the soul, an animistic reconnection, a reenchantment, here through the painting process. To Glass, art is potentially the manifestation of a spiritual, magical process, whether or not artists realise it. Alongside the paintings this exhibition includes an offering table assembled by Glass, containing a historic coven relic. Glasss paintings grow and develop in a process she likens to a slow-motion collage without a plan. Figures and shapes are decontextualised, recontextualised, obscured and added over ... More | | 
Kwame Brathwaite (American, born 1938). Untitled, c. 1970s (negative), 2020 (print). Archival pigment print. Museum purchase. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announces a series of exciting purchases in the past year of works by contemporary African American artists Sanford Biggers, Kwame Brathwaite, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Middleton, and Winston Wingo that add significantly to its collection. These acquisitions highlight the range and impact of Black art and artists, and each of them are important additions to the CMA collection, says CMA Executive Director Della Watkins. Representation matters, and the museum takes seriously its commitment to growing the collection to be more reflective of and relevant to the communities we serve. Inclusion was the major impetus behind the total revamp of the collection galleries a few years ago, and it remains a driving force in our work. In August 2019, the CMA ... More |
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 Grazer Kunstverein opens "Emma Wolf-Haugh: Domestic Optimism"GRAZ.- Domestic Optimism is an exhibition about mangled and mistold modernist legacies. The project begins with furniture, inanimate objects that come loaded with social connections and invisible histories. Through the displacement of cultural detritus Emma Wolf-Haugh retells modernist architectural history in the collective key of queer-feminist and decolonial practices, continually unearthing filth in times of hygiene, and complicating things that were never simple to begin with. Wolf-Haugh is a visual artist and educator. Weaving together installation, performance, publishing and collaborative workshop techniques, she is interested in reorienting attention towards cultural narratives by developing work from a questioning of what is missing. Her work is informed by how spaces, identities and social relations are generated temporarily in theatre, ... More Gwendolyn Perry Davis named Sr. Director of Operations at Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoCHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, today announced the promotion of Gwendolyn Perry Davis as the new Senior Director of Operations at the MCA. In this role, Perry Davis will be responsible for the strategic and creative leadership of the museums operations division including human resources, information technology, facilities, security, as well as the collections and exhibitions department. She will also continue directing COVID-19 planning while monitoring local and national requirements for cultural institutions. Grynsztejn says, We are thrilled to announce that we have filled this impactful senior position at the MCA with Gwen Perry Davis, an exceptional strategist and negotiator who has been a guiding force in the success of our development and fundraising goals. ... More 'If no tourists come, I have no business': New York's tourism crisisNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Outside Kennedy International Airports Terminal 4, the long line of New York City yellow cabs that in years past rotated like a conveyor belt to meet the demand of passenger arrivals has disappeared. The wraparound rows where riders line up to hail a cab are empty. Where usually a dozen cabs idle to pick up travelers, last Thursday two were parked. The drivers can wait for hours before picking up a single passenger. I have no fares. Theres no flights coming in, no tourists visiting and theres less people on the streets, said Jean Metellus, a 71-year-old Queens resident who has owned his taxi since 1988. So theres no business, but we still have to pay the bills. The pandemic and the global travel restrictions introduced in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus have decimated the U.S. tourism industry, ... More Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents 'This is my Church'MAASTRICHT.- Dutch dance photographer Rutger Geerling is exhibiting at Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The exhibition 'This is my Church' shows a selection of imposing photos of international dance festivals and events in stadiums and large clubs. Dutch DJ heroes such as Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Don Diablo, Hardwell, Nicky Romero and Tiësto play a prominent role. Rutger Geerling is one of the world's top photographers in Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Starting as a pioneer, he has been photographing the international dance scene for 25 years and enjoys enormous respect from organizers and artists. With his camera he captures the music, freedom, love, togetherness, energy, friendship and magic of this fascinating culture. With the colourful exhibition, the photography museum pays tribute ... More Opening dates announced for Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Scottish National Gallery of Modern ArtEDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Portrait Gallery will reopen on Sunday 8 November 2020 with a new exhibition You Are Here 2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions, which will showcase contributions from the public and well-known figures. This includes a new acquisition a portrait of the international singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé, painted by Samira Addo, winner of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2018. Visitors are able to book their free ticket at www.nationalgalleries.org/visit. Due to the staffing levels required to ensure COVID-19 health and safety standards, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) will each open for three days a week from early November 2020 - 10 January 2021. A decision on opening days beyond then will be made in coming months. This is a temporary measure ... More Mel Getlan collection is star attraction of Morphy's Oct. 29-31 Coin-Op & Antique Advertising AuctionDENVER, PA.- On October 29-31, Morphys will auction the last and very best of the renowned Mel Getlan collection, along with other fresh-to-market collections, at an all-star 1,635-lot Coin-Op & Antique Advertising Auction. The live event will take place at Morphys gallery in Lancaster County, Pa., starting at 10 a.m. ET. All forms of remote bidding will also be available, including absentee, phone, and live via the Internet through Morphy Live. Mel Getlan grew up in the coin-op business and started collecting coin-op and gambling machines in the early 1970s, said Morphy Auctions president, Dan Morphy. In the coin-op hobby, his collection is considered one of the all-time greats. We expect strong competition over Mels machines because his fellow ... More 'Daleside: Static Dreams' by Cyprien Clément-Delmas and Lindokuhle Sobekwa to be published in NovemberLONDON.- Since 2015, French photographer Cyprien Clément-Delmas and South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa have collaborated to create a portrait of Daleside, a small Afrikaner suburb south-east of Johannesburg, South Africa. Daleside, in the Gauteng Province, once had a predominantly white population and is isolated in the industrial outer suburbs of Johannesburg. Its separation has resulted in Daleside's residents becoming increasingly inward-facing, and in the space of a decade it has become an isolated ghost town with a dwindling population consisting of mostly mine workers and smallholders. The two photographers met through the Of Soul and Joy programme launched by Rubis Mécénat in Thokoza, a township in the suburbs of Johannesburg where Sobekwa grew up, only five kilometres from Daleside. Rubis Mécénat then commissioned ... More Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new paintings and their corresponding drawings by Stefanie HeinzeNEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting Frail Juice, a solo exhibition of new paintings and their corresponding drawings by Berlin-based artist Stefanie Heinze. On view from October 7 to November 7, on the parlor floor of Petzels Upper East Side gallery, the show marks Heinzes debut exhibition at Petzel and second solo show in New York. Encompassing six paintings (all 2020), and four works on paper two shown as double-sided drawings on pedestals the works in the show explore the dissolution of historical norms and the paradoxes that arise when investigating power structures. Heinze works from a process of coupling collaged drawings to paintings, starting on paper not strictly as studies but as companions. For Heinze, the act of drawing and collaging is a form of intuitive notetaking that then becomes a retracing of thoughts, ... More The Chrysler Museum celebrates the power of community with collection-based exhibitionNORFOLK, VA.- This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art encourages everyone to consider the bonds between us with Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering. On view Oct. 11, 2020Jan. 3, 2021 at the Museum and in outdoor locations in Norfolk, the exhibition features more than 100 artworks drawn from the Chryslers collection and digital photography submitted by community members. Visitors will see many works that are rarely on view and masterpieces from all areas of the collection, including photography, painting, sculpture and installation works. Four themesTogether in Celebration, Together in Purpose, Together in Justice, and Together in Lovehighlight the many ways artists examine the joys and complexities of coming together and showcase how communities are linked by activities, celebrations, demonstrations, ... More Watts Gallery Trust receives lifeline grant from £1.57 billion Culture Recovery FundCOMPTON.- Watts Gallery Trust has been awarded £421,980 as part of the Governments £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today. Watts Gallery Trust is one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country receiving urgently needed support. £257 million of investment has been announced today as part of the very first round of the Culture Recovery Fund grants programme being administered by Arts Council England. Further rounds of funding in the cultural and heritage sector are due to be announced over the coming weeks. Established in Compton, Surrey at the end of the 19th century to provide Art for All, Watts Gallery Artists Village is the legacy of the great Victorian artist, George ... More The Photographer's Gallery opens the first major retrospective of Sunil GuptaLONDON.- From Here to Eternity marks the first major retrospective of UK based photographer, Sunil Gupta (b.1953, New Delhi, India). Spanning five decades, the exhibition brings together all the key series from his pioneering photographic practice for the first time, as well as presenting never-before exhibited works. Subversive, impulsive, personal and political, Sunil Guptas socially engaged practice has focused on themes of identity, family, race, migration and the complexities and taboos of sexuality. A committed activist, his work has been instrumental in raising awareness around the political realities concerning the fight for international gay rights, and making visible the tensions between traditional and contemporary societies, public and private, the body and body politics. This retrospective is a timely reflection and overview of his politically ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to former US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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