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Gerhard Richter's 2014 cycle Birkenau which started out as figurative representations of a Nazi death camp. One hundred works by the German artist will be a highlight of a new Berlin museum but the buildings costs have ballooned, and Richter is taking a cautious approach to handing the pieces over. (Gerhard Richter; David von Becker via The New York
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- Four large abstract paintings made with layered streaks of black, gray, red and green are the centerpiece of a new Gerhard Richter exhibition that opens Saturday at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the corners of the gallery hang four photographs from the Nazi death camp at Birkenau that show prisoners moving corpses from a heap. Those four paintings form a cycle called Birkenau that Richter began in 2014 as figurative renderings of the photos. But I realized it wasnt working at all, the artist said in 2016, in a rare newspaper interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. So I scraped it off and painted again until I had four abstract images. The Birkenau cycle has since become something of a German national treasure. It represents the climax of Richters quest for a creative response to the Holocaust, and a conclusion to decades of wrestling with the question of how much horror and brutality art can, or should, sh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Antiquities, Pre-Columbian, Ethno, Fine Art on Apr 06, 2023 8:00 AM CST. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, Jewelry, more! Rare Etruscan Bronze Helmet Montefortino Type. Estimate $15,000 - $25,000.
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| Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter reveals himself: As a composer | | George Condo: People Are Strange presented by Hauser and Wirth West Hollywood | | A Magdalenian "origine du monde"... | 
After more than two decades at the forefront of electronic dance music (while in a robot-style helmet), the French artist is releasing Mythologies, a score for traditional symphony orchestra.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- The most shocking part of Mythologies, a ballet that premiered last summer in Bordeaux, France, came after the dance was over. It was a seemingly normal moment: The composer of the music came out and took a bow. What was surprising was that his face and his wild halo of dark curls were showing. After spending more than 20 years in public behind shiny, opaque robot-style helmets as half of pathbreaking dance-music duo Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter was ready to be seen without barriers. Theres nothing sensational about it, Bangalter, 48 ... More | | 
Constellation II, 2022. Aluminium, gold leaf, 78.7 x 55.3 x 52.7 cm / 31 x 21 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. Photo: Thomas Barratt. George Condo ©George Condo. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LOS ANGELES.- Hauser and Wirth inaugurated the exhibition People are Strange by George Condo at the newly established West Hollywood gallery with his first exhibition in LA in nearly five years. With the exhibitions title People Are Strange, taken from the hit 1967 song of the same name by legendary and quintessentially Los Angeles band The Doors, Condos latest canvases are filled with fragmented portraits and abstractions. In these large-scale works, the artist renders layered, vibrating planes, lines and geometries that suggest a world of oppositional forces and states, at once solemn and euphoric, connected and entropic, logical and ineffable ... More | | 
BD cheval uique Gliksman, Mourre, Suentes. A team of the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeology (Inrap) archaeologists discovered Upper Paleolithic engravings at the site of Bellegarde (Gard, Southeastern France).
PARIS.- Between Nîmes and Arles, a team of Inrap archaeologists discovered Upper Paleolithic engravings at the site of Bellegarde (Gard, Southeastern France). The depictions include horses profiles made on small limestone slabs. The location and age of these discoveries are exceptional. Portable art is very rare in southeastern France and completely unexpected on the edge of the Camargue region. These works date to the very beginning of the Magdalenian (20,000 years BCE) and are thus some of the oldest art works known for this Paleolithic culture, along with the paintings and engravings in Lascaux Cave ... More |
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| Phillips announces highlights from the April Editions Auction in New York | | Art market has climbed above pre-pandemic level, major study says | | Liu Jianhua's porcelain works of art to be shown at Pace Gallery | 
Andy Warhol, Superman, from Myths, 1981 Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from one of the largest Editions and Works on Paper auctions to date. The sale will commence 18 April with works from Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman at 11am and with the evening Sale session following at 4pm. The Day Sale sessions will continue on 19 April with Modern at 11am and Post War at 3pm and the final Contemporary session occurring on 20 April at 1pm. The viewing will be open from 10 April 18 April at 432 Park Avenue with portions of the works coming from impressive private collections, Property from the Collection of Rosa and Aaron Esman, which can be read further here, and others that include a selection of 20th Century icons such as Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean- Michel Basquiat, Vija Celmins, Ed Ruscha, Robert Graham, Francesco Clemente ... More | | 
Installation view of Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2023.
LONDON.- Worldwide art and antiques sales reached an estimated $67.8 billion in 2022, up 3% compared with a year earlier, lifting the market higher than its pre-pandemic level in 2019, according to the annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report published Tuesday. The report said that although the high end of the market was the driver of growth, auction houses and dealers trading in lower value items experienced less demand. The reported growth was also far lower than the year-on-year increase of 31% that the same survey calculated in 2021, when the art trade bounced back from the cancellations and restrictions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Results were more mixed in 2022, the report said, adding, Variations in performance by sector, region and price segments produced more muted growth. According to Claire McAndrew, a Dublin-based economist who wrote the report ... More | | 
Liu Jianhua, A Unified Core, 2018 © Liu Jianhua
SEOUL.- Pace has recently opened an exhibition of sculptural installations by Liu Jianhua at its arts complex in Seoul. The presentation, which will end on April 29th, 2023, will focus on Lius mastery of porcelain, a material he has been experimenting with since 1977, when he began working as an apprentice in the Jingdezhen Pottery and Porcelain Sculpture Factorythe oldest established center of ceramic production in China. Significant series form the artists oeuvre will figure in his upcoming show in Seoul, including A Unified Core (2018); The Shape of Trace (20162022); Blank Paper (20092019) and Lines (20152019). Through his works across sculpture and installation, Liu explores themes of accumulation and impermanence, using ceramics, found objects, artifacts, and detritus as means to examine to Chinese history and culture. His longstanding engagement with porcelain can be understood ... More |
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| Remains of nearly 5,000 Native Americans will be returned, U.S. says | | For producers Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy, collaboration is key | | This Fragile Earth: How pioneer Scottish Artists anticipated the climate crisis | 
A photo provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority of the utilitys offices in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Tennessee Valley Authority via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The remains of nearly 5,000 Native Americans that were excavated long ago from earthen burial mounds by the Tennessee Valley Authority could soon be returned to their tribes, now that the agency has announced it is prepared to repatriate them after a decadeslong wait. The TVA, the largest federally owned utility, said in a notice filed on Wednesday in the Federal Register that it had meticulously tallied the remains of at least 4,871 people of Native American ancestry, a process it had begun 14 years ago. The agency obtained the remains as it built dams near Native American burial grounds and later gave many of them to universities and museums across the South. Beginning on April 28, tribes across the country will be able to request that those remains be returned, the TVA said. More than 1,000 funerary objects which, like the remains, are still under the agencys control will also be returned. When you think about having relatives ... More | | 
Two hands from either side reach into a tangle of colorful cords, in the middle of a large microphone, in a studio in New York, on March 21, 2023. Though from different generations, the producers Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy share a belief in musicianship and the power of a band. (Tonje Thilesen/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Years before Steve Lacys single Bad Habit hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts and became one of the biggest songs of 2022, he connected with R&B veteran Raphael Saadiq in an unusually serendipitous way: by running into him in a parking lot. At the time, around 2017, Saadiq was living above an old bowling alley in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. All my friends thought I was crazy to live there, but I was just trying to get out of the typical spaces, he recalled in a recent video interview. One day, when he was walking through the parking lot behind the building, he saw two cats in the car, listening to music. It sounded good, so he tapped on the window to pay his respects. One of the guys in the car was Jameel Bruner, formerly of the R&B collective the Internet, who had recently hit a new peak with their 2015 album Ego Death ... More | | 
Onwin, Glen, Photosynthesis, Open the Kingdom, 1987. Organic matter, coal, metal, oil, wax and shellac on canvas mounted on board. The Fleming Collection
© The Artist.
COVENTRY.- A ground-breaking exhibition by the Fleming Collection of Scottish art, staged in Coventry Cathedral, focusses on a group of veteran artists who were ahead of their time in responding to the threat of climate change. Until now, these artists, although known to one another, have never been perceived as a group with common artistic goals. It was the gifting to the collection in 2022 of James Morrisons monumental (6 metres in length) Arctic Mural (1995) that led director of the Fleming Collection, James Knox, to investigate whether other Scottish-based artists shared similar preoccupations around that time or earlier; and if so, why? His search led him to examine the work and careers of six artists. They are painters Frances Walker (born 1930), James Morrison (1932-2020) and Glen Onwin (born 1947); visual artist and constructivist, Will MacLean (born 1941); artist / filmmaker Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946) ... More |
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| Thirteen new member dealers from United States join Art Dealers Association of America | | Woody Auction announces live and online antique auction, April 22nd | | Instant videos could represent the next leap in AI technology | 
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a nonprofit membership organization that supports the economic and cultural contributions of the nations leading fine art galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) today announced the addition of 13 new members from across the country: Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), Canada Gallery (New York), Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco), Anat Ebgi Gallery (Los Angeles), Eric Firestone Gallery (New York), Gitterman Gallery (New York), Mignoni (New York), Ortuzar Projects (New York), Parker Gallery (Los Angeles), Paulson Fontaine Press (Berkeley), Perrotin (New York), RYAN LEE Gallery (New York), and Skoto Gallery (New York). With these additions, the Association now surpasses 200 members, furthering its reputation as the nations leading nonprofit organization for fine art dealers and galleries. Membership in the ADAA attests to a gallery or dealers achievements in artistic connoisseurship, intellectual rigor, and professional distinction ... More | | 
Gone With the Wind kerosene lamp with a shade signed Moser, 24 inches tall, made from cased orange glass with an elaborate floral and scroll design and applied jewel highlights (est. 1,000-$1,750).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- Items from the estate of Elfriede and Martin Miller of North Dakota and a private collection out of New Jersey, plus a fine assortment of other quality antiques over 300 lots in all will come up for bid in an Antique Auction slated for Saturday, April 22nd, beginning at 9:30 am Central time by Woody Auction, online and live in the Douglass auction hall at 130 East Third Street. An auction of so much hand-painted quality is a rare opportunity, but thats exactly what is presented in this auction, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Limoges and Royal Bonn are two categories that are strongly featured in this auction, as well as other fine makers such as Muller Frères, Royal Bonn, Wave Crest, Lladro, La Verre Francois and Moser. All lots are being offered without reserves. The April 22nd auction will be preceded by an online-only auction on Friday, April 21st, beginning at 8 am ... More | | 
Anastasis Germanidis, top, Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz, left, and Cristóbal Valenzuela, founders of Runway, at their office in Manhattan, on March 31, 2023. A company in New York is among a group of outfits working on systems that can produce short videos based on simple requests. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ian Sansavera, a software architect at a New York startup called Runway AI, typed a short description of what he wanted to see in a video. A tranquil river in the forest, he wrote. Less than two minutes later, an experimental internet service generated a short video of a tranquil river in a forest. The rivers running water glistened in the sun as it cut between trees and ferns, turned a corner and splashed gently over rocks. Runway, which plans to open its service to a small group of testers this week, is one of several companies building artificial intelligence technology that will soon let people generate videos simply by typing several words into a box on a computer screen. They represent the next stage in an industry race ... More |
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 Phillips announces 'Casa Fornaroli, A Unique Selection of Remarkable Art and Design'LONDON.- Phillips announced Casa Fornaroli, a unique standalone auction of 61 objects assembled during Antonio Fornarolis lifetime. An engineer, architect, and key figure in 20th century Italian design, Fornaroli was Gio Pontis closest collaborator. Fornarolis family were deeply immersed in an artistic environment with particular attention to design details in their home. This sale presents a broad variety of objects from Casa Fornaroli and offers us a window into the intimate day-to-day life of a mid-century Italian family with close artistic connections. Including pieces from iconic designers and manufacturers who stylistically defined the Italian design landscape, the objects in this sale span 6 decades and demonstrate a variety of forms, mediums, and production techniques, illustrating the deep-rooted artistic relationships cultivated by Fornaroli throughout his lifetime ... More  Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, nun with a musical gift, dies at 99NEW YORK, NY.- Honky tonk and nun are words not often seen in combination, but in 2017, when the BBC broadcast a radio documentary about pianist and composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, The Honky Tonk Nun was the title of choice. It was a testament to the music she made, both before and after she became a nun in the 1940s, music that drew on her classical training but seemed to partake of rhythm and blues, jazz and other influences. The relatively few who discovered it knew they had found their way to something singular. Musician Norah Jones was one who did, especially after hearing the album Ãthiopiques 21, a collection of Guèbrous piano solos that was part of a record series spotlighting folkloric and pop music from Ethiopia. This album is one of the most beautiful things Ive ever heard: part Duke Ellington, part modal scales, part the blues, part church music, ... More  Nationalmuseum acquires Camille Claudel sculptureSTOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired its first sculpture by Camille Claudel, one of the most groundbreaking artists of the late 19th century. In her sculptures, Claudel explored her creativity and her lived experience, developing a highly personal style that broke with tradition. This prestigious acquisition symbolises the culmination of Nationalmuseums multiyear project focusing on female sculptors. Camille Claudel (18641943) was for many years the pupil, assistant and partner of Auguste Rodin (18401917), and their connection had a major influence on her. During a relationship lasting almost fifteen years, and more especially after their separation, Claudel developed a personal style of art featuring sensitive modelling and pioneering compositions and techniques. As an exhibitor at the Paris Salons, Claudel was active in a growing art market where female sculptors from all over the world ... More  A new regenerative botanical park in Genoa 'Parco del Polcevera'MILAN.- Together with a delegation of 84 Dutch designers Inside Outside will represent the Dutch creative industry at Masterly the Dutch in Milano at this years Salone del Mobile in Milan from 18 to 23 April, in Palazzo dei Giureconsulti in the center of Milan. In this context Inside Outside presents one of its most ambitious landscape projects to date: a 22-hectare revitalizing botanic park, crossing Genoas heavily industrialized Val Polcevera, named Parco del Polcevera. Still in its early phase of development, this park is a collective project, shared with Stefano Boeri Architetti (Il Cerchio Rosso and Serra Bioclimatica), Metrogramma (industrial buildings, Museo della memoria & Casa delle Famiglia), and Studio Laura Gatti ( planting). Inside Outside is presenting the design for Parco del Polcevera during Milans international design week as a case study to spark a conversation about how we ... More  Clars Auction Gallery's Asian Art department to offer Chinese scholar's OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction's Asian Art department will offer a nice group of Chinese scholars objects including a finely carved aloeswood scholars brush pot, a large celadon jade ruyi scepter and a Kangxi period underglaze blue and white brush pot painted with various court figures. On offer also is a nice collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy by some of the top 20th century masters such as Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou, Yu Youren and Pu Ru. In addition the Fine Art department is offering an oil on board by American painter Maynard Dixon, who is much revered for his depictions of the American West and Southwest. Born in Fresno, California, Dixon later moved to San Francisco to study art at what is now the San Francisco Art Institute, where he developed his unique style that melded the bold graphics of Precisionism with the moody atmosphere captured by Tonalist ... More  Historic Edmonton Charity School receives £300k in funding for community regeneration projectEDMONTON.- A project to restore a former Girls Charity School and school mistress cottage in Church Street, Edmonton has received good news after securing funding to progress its community project. The Life in the Community scheme, led by London Historic Buildings Trust (LHBT) and the Enfield based Learning for Life Charity (LFLC), will restore these buildings back to their former glory and enable them to become an education space once more. The project has received initial support* of £289,838 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to allow it to progress its plans to apply for a full National Lottery grant at a later date. A further grant of £33,650 has been given by the Architectural Heritage Fund. The long-term future for the buildings will be secured thanks to the project, providing learning and training opportunities for young people in Enfield with special educational ... More  François-Xavier Lalanne and Gio Ponti to lead Phillips' London Design Auction on 26 AprilLONDON.- Phillips announced highlights from the London Design auction, taking place on 26 April. This sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century design, including, among others, designs by François-Xavier Lalanne, Gio Ponti, Hans Coper, Børge Mogensen, and Paul Dupré-Lafon. Comprising 140 lots, highlights from the sale will be on view at Phillips London galleries on Berkeley Square galleries from 20 April until the auction on 26 April at 2pm. On the following day, 27 April at 1pm, there will be an auction dedicated to Casa Fornaroli. Domenico Raimondo, Head of Design, Europe, Senior International Specialist, and Senior Director, said, We are delighted to present our Spring auction in London which encompasses a varied and exceptional selection of objects. From the fantastical creatures by François-Xavier Lalanne and exquisite ... More  In this 'Grease' prequel series, pink is the wordNEW YORK, NY.- If youre into musicals, you may often find yourself wondering: Why should sci-fi fans be the only ones to enjoy ever-expanding franchises? I know a lot of people who get so much joy from Marvel and Star Wars and all the iterations of those universes, said Annabel Oakes, the television writer and producer (Atypical, Minx). I have always been a little jealous of that. So when Grease came as an opportunity to me, I realized that Rydell High is a universe I wanted to spend a long time living in and exploring. What resulted was the 10-episode prequel series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, premiering Thursday on Paramount+. (Oakes is the creator and showrunner.) Set in 1954, four years before the events of the hit 1978 film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John itself an adaptation of the 1971 stage musical Pink Ladies ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Pforr was born April 05, 1788. Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 - 16 June 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement. Pforr did not live long enough to see his art acknowledged. He died of tuberculosis in Albano Laziale, Rome at age 24. In this image: Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810.
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