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A silicone mold for a giant abstract beehive planned for a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Sept. 26, 2022. A soon-to-be-completed extension of the museum, the Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, will connect visitors to the extraordinary variety of the insect world through large-scale models, interactive exhibits, and even live insects. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
by Alix Strauss
NEW YORK, NY.- You could think of them as worker bees. Early on a Friday morning as daylight streamed through a window overlooking New York Citys Theodore Roosevelt Park, a dozen or so contractors lifted a 500-pound, honey-colored mass of sculpted resin off a rolling cart and suspended it from the ceiling. It was a first step in what will ultimately be a tribute to the power of the beehive and the creatures that make them. The project is underway on the first floor of the soon-to-be-completed Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation the long-awaited extension of the American Museum of Natural History which is set to open early next year. The new 5,000-foot gallery where the workers had gathered that morning is the Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium, which will connect visitors to the extraordinary variety of the insect world through large-scale models, interactive exhibits and yes, even live insects. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galleria Borghese is dedicating the exhibition Timeless Wonder. Painting on Stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento from 25 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Patrizia Cavazzini. Installation view Ph. A. Novelli © Galleria Borghese.
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| In memoriam: Rodney Graham, 1949-2022 | | National Gallery of Art acquires rare drawing by Giovanni Boldini and illustrated book by Giorgio Fossati | | Climate activists throw mashed potatoes on Monet painting | 
Portrait by Sven Boecker, 2022.
LONDON.- It is with great sadness that 303 Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Lisson Gallery, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle and Esther Schipper announce the passing of Rodney Graham, aged 73. He died on Saturday, surrounded by family, after struggling with cancer for the past year. He is survived by his mother Janet Graham; his sister, Lindsay Graham; his brother, Alan Graham; his partner, Jill Orsten; Shannon Oksanen; Scott Livingstone and their children Ray and Coco Livingstone. Nicholas Logsdail writes: "We've lost our dear Rodney, a genius artist, dear friend, master of disguise, snappy dresser, supplier of dry humour, an amazing songwriter, always modest, an understated intellectual, gifted amateur, professional connoisseur, Sunday painter who seldom worked Sundays, ultimately a true professional in every sense of what it means to be an artist." Born and based in Vancouver, Graham was a laid-back polymath, steeped in art, music, film, literature, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Alongside Ian Wallace ... More | | 
Giorgio Fossati, Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate ed incise in rame, 1744. Six volumes in two, with three etched headpieces and 216 etchings printed in colors, bound in full contemporary Venetian vellum, each book: 29.5 x 20.5 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund 2021.29.1.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired Bust of Francesco I d'Este (c. 1890/1900), a dynamic wash drawing by Italian portrait painter Giovanni Boldini (18421931). This rare work captures, in variations of brown and blue, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's (15981680) bust of the Duke of Modena, Francesco I d'Este (16101658), now in the Galleria Estense at Modena. Boldini created his work during the height of his success as a society portrait painter in Paris. The dramatic curls and vigorous movement in the drapery found in Bernini's marble resonate with Boldini's equally theatrical style. The drawing portrays the head in full profile and exaggerates the essential features of the sculpture, eliminating the ... More | | 
The stunt in a German museum was the latest attack on widely admired art, carried out by protesters demanding action on climate change.
by Eduardo Medina
NEW YORK, NY.- Two climate activists threw mashed potatoes on a glass-covered painting by celebrated French impressionist Claude Monet on Sunday inside a German museum, the latest art attack intended to draw attention to climate change. Videos show the activists dousing one of the artists works, Grainstacks, with a thick yellow substance that covered the paintings warm red hues. The oil on canvas is one of 25 paintings the artist made around 1890 of stacks of hay in the fields near his house in Giverny, France. The activists, a man and a woman, each glued a hand to the wall by the painting. Then, the woman shouted in German that the world was in a climate catastrophe, and all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes in a painting, referring to a similar attack this month in London by activists who threw ... More |
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| Non-conformist art at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris on 8 November | | Paris+ par Art Basel concludes highly successful debut edition | | Galleria Borghese exhibits painting on stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento | 
Oleg Tselkov, Two Green Heads, Oil on canvas
Estimate: 24,000 - 34,000
PARIS.- A new sale Rebel Spirits: Non-Conformist Art from Important European Collections will be held at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr on 8 November 2022 in Paris. The auction will feature more than 70 paintings by artists such as Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin, Vasily Yakovlevich Sitnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Eduard Arkadievich Steinberg, Oleg Tselkov, Ilya Kabakov, many of whom are part of a diaspora forced to leave their homeland as a result of persecution. The art authorised by the Soviet regime was Socialist Realism which consisted of figurative art depicting workers, the working classes, and the defenders of the regime in heroic postures. Any other artistic trend that contravened the official style was banned and considered 'degenerate'. Opposed to Socialist Realism, these ... More | | 
Paris+ par Art Basel 2022. Courtesy of Paris+ par Art Basel. Paris+ par Art Basel concludes highly successful debut edition marked by buoyant sales, vibrant city-wide programming, and strong attendance from international collectors and institutions.
PARIS.- The inaugural edition of Paris+ par Art Basel brought together 156 premier galleries from 30 countries and territories including 61 exhibitors with spaces in France in a new flagship event that further amplifies Pariss international standing as a cultural capital. A strong line- up of galleries from France was joined by exhibitors from across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and the Middle East for a global showcase of the highest quality. Reaching beyond the Grand Palais Ãphémère, the fair presented an active cultural program from morning to night, all week, and throughout the city, through a robust program of collaborations with Pariss cultural institutions and its city- ... More | | 
Installation view Ph. A. Novelli © Galleria Borghese.
ROME.- Sebastiano del Piombo, perhaps even before the Sack of Rome in 1527, developed the technique of oil painting on stone, aware that he was reviving an ancient practice mentioned by Pliny. The terrible devastation caused by the sacking of the city decreed the success of his invention: painter and patrons were under the illusion that stone, as opposed to fragile canvases and panels, would confer immortality to painting. To the Venetian painter therefore, and to this terrible juncture, can be traced the invention of stone painting, to which the Galleria Borghese is dedicating the exhibition Timeless Wonder. Painting on Stone in Rome in the Cinquecento and Seicento from 25 October 2022 to 29 January 2023, curated by Francesca Cappelletti ... More |
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| Triumph for rare Tiffany & Co. enamelled 'lao-over-edge' flatware service at Bonhams Silver Sale | | Heritage Sports sale features Ty Cobb's bat, Ted Williams' glove and a stunning 1952 Mickey Mantle card | | Marc Straus gallery features Mexico City's Omar Rodriguez Grahm in one person exhibition | 
A Louis XV vari-coloured gold and enamelled oval snuff box by Jean-Joseph Barrière, Paris 1772. Sold for £35,580. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A spectacular and very rare American silver and enamelled 108 piece 'Lap Over Edge' flatware service, made around 1891 by Tiffany & Co. New York, sold for £334,200 at Bonhams two-day Silver and Objects of Vertu including Gold Boxes sale in London on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October. It had been estimated at £40,000-60,000. The sale made a total of £1,109,870. Cecile Shannon, Bonhams Silver specialist, said, 'This was a wonderful and very rare example of Tiffanys ground-breaking Lap Over Edge' design - the most innovative silver flatware the company ever produced. Made by hand to the most exacting standards this labour intensive, costly special-order service stands as an emblem of late 19th century American conspicuous consumption and the luxury of the Gilded Age. I am not surprised that it attracted such spirited bidding from collectors round the world, nor that it sold for ... More | | 
1910-14 Ty Cobb Game Used & Signed Bat from the Legendary Eddie Maier Collection, PSA/DNA GU 10.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' Sports category wraps up its headline-grabbing, history-making 2022 with an event worthy of the year that saw the auction house set a record for the world's most valuable sports memorabilia. And that's not just because the November 17-19 Fall Sports Catalog Auction features among its offerings a Near Mint-Mint 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card estimated to sell in the millions. "Our team of experts has worked incredibly hard to engage with clients around the world to secure more than 3,400 unique and often extraordinary lots for this auction," says Chris Ivy, director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. "It's always a pleasure to present this material to the widest possible audience and find new homes for these collectibles. I suspect that our clients of all types will be able to find quality pieces to add to their collections in this sale, be it Hall of Fame lumber, game-used gear or rare rookie cards." Here, among this estima ... More | | 
Batalla en las Tinieblas, 2022, oil and acrylic on linen mounted on wood panel, 70.9 x 64.5 x 1.2 in (180 x 164 x 3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting an exhibition of recent works by Mexico City based artist Omar Rodriguez-Graham. The exhibition began on October 20 and will continue through December 18, 2023. This is Rodriguez-Grahams third one-person exhibition with the gallery. Omar Rodriguez-Grahams paintings are the results of his ongoing exploration in the terrains of color, texture, and time. His points of departure are historical Renaissance or Baroque figurative paintings. He then digitally deconstructs the image until there is an almost unrecognizable abstract composition. To this he begins to make further choices as to paint texture, colors, and shaping. In these recent oil paintings, the bands of colors partly determine the edges of the painting; they splay out to the periphery as shards or arrows. By not constricting the painting to a rectangle or circle ... More |
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| Willie Doherty opens an exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery | | Artifacts of Hollywood and music offered at Kruse GWS Auctions | | Joanna Nordin appointed artistic director of Bonniers Konsthall | 
Willie Doherty, Elsewhere, 2022, pigment print on Hahnemuhle. Photo: Rag Baryta, 315 gsm. Edition of 3. 109 x 135.5 cm / 42.9 x 53.3 in framed.
DUBLIN.- Join Willie Doherty on a walkthrough of his current exhibition IS AND IS NOT with Declan Long, critic, lecturer and author of Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland on Thursday 27 October, 6 pm at the Kerlin Gallery. An open, conversational format reflecting on this new series of black and white photographs and the broader concerns of Dohertys practice. In this most recent series, Dohertys starkly atmospheric images reveal the residual traces that mark the surfaces and fabric of natural and built environments. Places that have been formed by the long slow processes of geological time and that have been shaped by the consequences of human intervention: conflict, inequality, neglect, and injustice. ... More | | 
E.T. life-size prop used in the 1990s Pepsi Commercial that spawned from the incredible film. It is 45 high and is housed in a museum quality case.
LOS ANGELES.- Kruse GWS Auctions, the world-record-breaking auction house specializing in entertainment memorabilia, fine jewelry, master timepieces, NFTs and Royal artifacts has announced the Artifacts of Hollywood & Music auction to take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT. No one can forget the monumental impact the movie ET: The Extraterrestrial had on movie-goers. The Steven Spielberg 1982 film was a box office hit and has been dubbed one of the greatest films of all time. Who can ever forget Elliott, who befriended an extraterrestrial dubbed E.T. who was left behind on Earth Earth or the tears that flowed when his beloved friend E.T. had to leave to go back home. E.T. ... More | | 
Joanna Nordin. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Oskar Omne).
STOCKHOLM.- Joanna Nordin has been the director of the Carl Eldh Studio Museum in Stockholm since 2020. As of April 2023, she will be the Artistic Director of Bonniers Konsthall. "It will be great to see how Bonniers Konsthall develops under Joanna Nordins leadership, and I am convinced that she will ensure that Bonniers Konsthall continues to challenge, engage and be a voice for contemporary art, both locally and on the topmost international level." Pontus Bonnier, Chair of the Board of Bonniers Konsthall. Joanna Nordin was born in Halmstad in 1982. Nordin was previously curator of contemporary art at Sörmlands Museum, curator of learning at Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation and has international experience from MoMA PS1 in New York. She has an MFA ... More |
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Age of Wonder: John van Wyhe on an Autograph Manuscript Leaf by Charles Darwin
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 Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation presents 'Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South'JOHANNESBURG.- The Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation announces Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South opening today. The exhibition features the works of three seminal women artists, Frida Kahlo (1907 1954), Amrita Sher-Gil (19131941) and Irma Stern (18941966), together in South Africa and in Africa, for the first time. Expounding on the lives and practices of these Modernist women artists, the exhibition aims to reposition their contribution to the rewriting of art history through their pioneering artistic production. The lives of Kahlo, Sher-Gil and Stern overlap in a decade that lay between the two World Wars. From approximately 1930 to 1941, they were all affected in various ... More  'Brilliant Earth: The Ceramic Sculpture of Tony Marsh' opens at Long Beach Museum of ArtLONG BEACH, CALIF.- The Long Beach Museum of Art is pleased to present, Brilliant Earth: The Ceramic Sculpture of Tony Marsh, a landmark survey of the artists work spanning 1982 to present. This exhibition, which began on October 23rd, features workssome that have never been in public viewfrom his early series: Water, Marriage, Fertility and Creation Vesselsthrough his most recent and ongoing series Crucibles and Cauldron, aptly named after instruments formed with fire. Marsh pays homage to what pottery has always been required to dohold, preserve, commemorate, ritualize and beautify. The work is spurred by curiosity, risk-taking and restless exploration. Tony Marsh [b. 1954, New York, NY] is a sculptor and ceramicist based in Long Beach, California. Marshs ceramic forms of the past dozen years emerge from his intensive ... More  Martyna Majok on hoping for magic, and wishing for ghostsNEW YORK, NY.- Playwright Martyna Majok has never met her father, so it was her grandfather who played the paternal role in her life. When he died, in Poland in August 2012, she didnt have the money to travel to his funeral. Also, I was afraid to go, she said on a recent afternoon, because I just didnt want it to be true. Not being there, though, gave his death a sense of unreality for her: Sometimes I just think that we havent spoken for a long time. Majok (pronounced MY-oak) was missing him on the snowy January night in 2014 when she lost her job at a bar in downtown Manhattan. (They thought I had stolen $100, and they fired me because I was mouthy.) Back home at the latest in a string of sublets, she started to write the poignant comic monologue that opens her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cost of Living. Its spoken ... More  A choreographer who merges art, activism and the natural worldNEW YORK, NY.- On a warm fall Saturday, about 30 people walked together down Houston Street on the Lower East Side, heading toward East River Park. A trumpeter led the way, sounding occasional notes that marked the path forward. Close behind, two volunteers held a banner that read, in hand-drawn letters, The Forest Is an Archive of Breath. Passing cars honked, a reminder that this was something out of the ordinary. While it might have looked unusual from the outside, the procession felt right at home within the larger body of work of Emily Johnson, a choreographer whose latest project, Being Future Being, had brought us together. Merging art and activism, Johnsons expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us to what has been ... More  'A Little Life' review: A collage of unrelenting tormentNEW YORK, NY.- Pain is something most characters try to outrun or that results, with some logic, from their actions. But in A Little Life, a bold and brutal adaptation of the novel by Hanya Yanagihara now playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it is the unyielding system of logic around which an entire play is built. The question is not why a man has suffered but how much. The answer, it spoils nothing to say, is a lot. Conceived and directed by Ivo van Hove and adapted by Koen Tachelet, A Little Life is a kind of endurance test. As a doctor tells Jude, the melodramas human punching bag of a protagonist, Only you know how much pain you can tolerate. Those whove read the 2015 bestseller know that the threshold required here is extremely high. Initially a chronicle of four male friends coming up in New York City, the story grows progressively ... More  Young knitters discover a decades-old wool festivalRHINEBECK, NY.- Wearing a ruffled bonnet that framed her face, a sweater with poufy bobble-stitched sleeves and an ankle-length skirt with tiers of lace and openwork, Sabrina Brokenborough could have been mistaken for a model at an avant-garde photo shoot taking place at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on Oct. 15. Brokenborough, 23, a production assistant for a swimwear company, crocheted the outfit herself. I like to pull from a lot of historical drawings and maybe some imagery from old, folkish fairy-tale books, she said. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in the New York city borough of Brooklyn, where she earned a bachelors degree in fashion design, Brokenborough had come to Rhinebeck from her home in the borough of Queens to attend the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival, one of the largest fiber arts fairs in the country. ... More  Geoff Nuttall, first among equals in acclaimed quartet, dies at 56NEW YORK, NY.- Geoff Nuttall, a charismatic musician who played boldly as the first violinist of the acclaimed St. Lawrence String Quartet for more than three decades, and who was widely admired as the leader of the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival USA, died Wednesday in Palo Alto, California. He was 56. The cause was pancreatic cancer, the quartets management company, David Rowe Artists, said. Nuttall founded the St. Lawrence in Toronto in 1989 with violinist Barry Shiffman, violist Lesley Robertson and cellist Marina Hoover. Training with the fabled Tokyo and Emerson quartets and taking first prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in Canada in 1992, they came to prominence quickly and distinctively, with Nuttall first among the groups equals. The quartets stage manner was hip and casual, ... More  Qatar Museums unveils site-specific public artworks by Olafur Eliasson, Simone Fattal, and Ernesto NetoDOHA.- Qatar Museums and its Chairperson Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani today unveiled large-scale, site-specific artworks by renowned artists Olafur Eliasson, Simone Fattal and Ernesto Neto that were commissioned for the desert outside of Al Zubarah and Ain Mohammed heritage sites in the nations northernmost region. The works join more than 100 public artworks that Qatar Museums has installed across the nations public spaces, from the Hamad International Airport to the bustling Souq Waqif, in time for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, when 1.5 million visitors are expected to be in Doha. Olafur Eliasson and Ernesto Neto were in attendance for the unveiling of the installations, which took place as part of Qatar Creates, the year-round national cultural movement that curates, promotes and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In this image: Pablo Picasso watches the filming of his life story in Nice, France, on July 26, 1955. Henri Georges Clouzot, seated, is producing the picture. Picasso's daughter Maya is at left.
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