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A photo provided by the Cambridge University Library in England shows one of the two notebooks of Charles Darwin that were anonymously returned 22 years after they went missing. Pictured is Darwins famous tree of life drawing, which maps out how related species could diverge from a common ancestor. Cambridge University Library via The New York Times.
by Daniel Victor
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-two years after a pair of notebooks filled with Charles Darwins early musings went missing from the Cambridge University Library, they were anonymously returned in good condition last month along with a note to the elated librarian: Happy Easter. Happy scarcely begins to describe the reaction of Jessica Gardner, the university librarian who spearheaded an international publicity blitz in 2020 to recover the notebooks. Filled with Darwins scrawled handwriting and sketches from 1837, including the famous tree of life drawing, the notebooks recorded his thought process as he began sketching out ideas that would later develop into world-famous theories still revered and studied today, including the theory of natural selection. On March 9, outside her office in an area of the library with no cameras, someone placed a bright pink gift bag. Gardner and her colleagues first recognized the original blue box that had been taken from the arch ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Size Matters: Minute to Mighty Artifacts Auction on Apr 07, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-5. They're going to extremes with this sale! Think art that's big enough to fill that blank space on your wall or that empty corner in your den. Plus many smaller objects perfect for those last little spots left in your display case. Also featuring larger examples of commonly smaller objects. Many cultures from ancient to modern day with great price ranges suitable for new buyers, and seasoned collectors. This is one you won't want to miss! In this image: Fossilized Apatosaurus Dinosaur Coracoid Bones (pr). Estimate $6,500 - $9,750.
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| Major Milton Avery retrospective comes to the Wadsworth Atheneum, where artist got his start | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art PROJECTS opens a solo exhibition featuring recent series of AnalÃa Sabán's graphic works | | Chinese amber fish carvings, bronzes & porcelain figures shine in strong National Museum of Play single-owner sale | 
Boathouse by the Sea, 1959. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. Milton Avery Trust. © 2021 The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Victoria Miro and Waqas Wajahat.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Beginning in Hartford in the early 1900s, American painter Milton Avery (18851965) forged a staunchly independent path as an artist. Today, Avery is celebrated as a preeminent modern painter and one of the greatest colorists of the twentieth century. The first large-scale survey on the artist in three decades, Milton Avery traveled to Hartford after its debut at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX, and is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art March 5June 5, 2022, before its final showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition brings together nearly 70 works of art representative of Milton Averys signature themes including serene landscapes, portraits, and large-scale abstractions. Its presentation at the Wadsworth is a significant homecoming, considering the artists long-standing ties to the museum and the state. ... More | | 
AnalÃa Sabán, Circuit Board #2, 2-color aquatint etching with hardground and drypoint.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art PROJECTS is presenting AnalÃa Sabán: Recent Prints, a solo exhibition featuring recent series of the artists graphic works. The show, which runs March 26th- May 21, has been made possible with the generous collaboration of master printmakers Gemini G.E.L. in New York City. Sabán is known for reconfiguring traditional notions of painting and printmaking, often using the actual material as the subject of the work itself. Her work plays with art historical references and traditions of techniques and technology, creating experimental and witty dialogues between the mediums and processes she is working on. The artists fascination with line work is evident in her Circuit Boards and Transcending Grids, her most recently produced series of prints. These etchings reference different systems of fabrication and artistic mediums. In the Circuit Boards etchings, Sabán integrates computer-designed ... More | | 
Two Chinese Amber Carvings and An Agate Carving of Double Fish, 18th Century. Price Realized: $62,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Property from The Strong National Museum of Plays collection realized more than $821,600, doubling its expected estimate with extraordinary prices achieved for Chinese amber fish carvings, bronzes, porcelain figures and Japanese inro. Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play spotlighted works from prominent collector and philanthropist Margaret Woodbury Strong, whose passion for learning and scholarship developed through her unique upbringing and global travel. Strong assembled one of the largest and most unique private collections of the 20th century, inviting visitors to her home as early as 1948. Her collection of over half a million objects formed the foundation of what would come to be known as The Strong National Museum of Play. Strongs mother, Alice Motley Woodbury, was a passionate collector of Chinese and Japanese objects dart, and bidders were eager to secure items from her collection. Bidders had particular enthusiasm for the large collection of ... More |
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| Polk Museum of Art announces $6 million expansion and renovation project | | Thaddaeus Ropac London opens Rosemarie Castoro's first solo show in the UK | | A rediscovered Michelangelo drawing to be sold in Paris on 18 May 2022 | 
The two-story addition will be located on the northwest side of the present building.
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College announced plans for a $6 million expansion and renovation of the Museum. The expansion will add more than 10,000 sq. ft. of gallery, classroom, and art laboratory space, more than tripling the Museums main gallery space. Construction on the new addition is expected to begin late this year, with a projected completion in the spring of 2024. We are elated to build upon the legacy of this impressive museum of fine arts and, through the affiliation of FSC and the Museum, now pursue an expanded agenda to offer exhibitions of our treasured permanent collection and welcome an increasing number of visiting exhibitions from the great museums of the world, said Dr. Anne B. Kerr, president of Florida Southern College and member of the PMoA Board of Directors. We are proud to be a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum, and this expansion will also enable ... More | | 
Rosemarie Castoro, Shadow Flasher, 1979. 250 x 74 x 84 cm. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. © The Estate of Rosemarie Castoro. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul.
LONDON.- The first solo presentation in the UK of works by Rosemarie Castoro (19392015), a central figure in New Yorks minimal and post-minimal art scene, spans four decades of her multidisciplinary practice. The exhibition focuses on her giant Brushstrokes and gesso sculptures from the 1970s, shown alongside a site-specific recreation of her architectural intervention Cracking and a grouping of important late works in welded metal. Taking its name from art critic and curator Lucy R. Lippards essay Working Out (1975), the exhibition emphasises the physicality of Castoros approach to art-making, which was informed by her background in dance. She found early inspiration in experimental dance and choreography while a student at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and in ... More | | 
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), A nude young man (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures. Pen and two shades of brown ink, 13 x 7 7/8 in. Estimate on request.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the sale of a previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo, A nude young man (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures, executed early in his career. This exceptionally rare work, one of the very few drawings by Michelangelo still in private hands, will be auctioned on 18 May during the Paris sale Maîtres anciens et du XIXe siècle. Tableaux, dessins, sculptures (Old Masters and 19th Century Art: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures). It will be offered with an estimate on request; in the region of 30 million. Coming to the market from a private French collection, the work was designated a French National Treasure, originally preventing its export from the country for a period of thirty months. The French Government recently removed this designation and has ... More |
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| Seminal de Kooning painting will highlight Christie's New York 20th Century Evening Sale | | Hamiltons Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Erwin Olaf | | Lakeland Arts acquires two drawings by Charmaine Watkiss | 
Willem de Kooning, Untitled XXI, signed 'de Kooning' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 70 x 80 in. (177.8 x 203.2 cm.) Painted in 1977. Estimate on Request.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will offer Willem de Kooning's Untitled XXI as a leading highlight in the 20th Century Evening Sale taking place during Spring Marquee Week at Rockefeller Plaza (Estimate on Request; in excess of $20 million). Untitled XXI is fresh to the market, having been in the same important private collection for more than 30 years. This spring presents buyers with a rare opportunity to acquire a de Kooning of exceptional quality and significance. Untitled XXI was painted in de Koonings studio in East Hampton in 1977, a historic year when he turned out a group of radiant, large-scale abstractions that had a new level of mastery about them. Art historians regard 1977 as a highpoint of his career, his annus mirabilis, or miraculous year, as the British critic David Sylvester wrote. The art market has confirmed that view: three of de Koonings top four ... More | | 
PORTRAT III, 2020.
LONDON.- Im Wald is a new series by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, and it is the first of his series to be photographed purely on location. In The Forest is set in the beauty of the Bavarian and Austrian Alps; it draws attention to several global issues, including climate change, wanderlust, immigration and the COVID19 pandemic; directly investigating natures impact on our lives. Olaf highlights the role of people in isolation, staging them in visually astounding settings and examining their relationship to nature. Both the vastness of the landscape by comparison to the subjects, but also the subjects empathy with the natural environment, are dramatized by the scale of the images. Several of the works are inspired by the artistic movement Romanticism. The genre which peaked in Northern Europe, in particular Germany in the 19th Century celebrates the individual, human emotion and the wonder of nature. In one of Olafs images, we see a young ... More | | 
Charmaine Watkiss, Tenacity Serves the Warrior Well. Courtesy of the artist.
KENDAL.- Two contemporary drawings by British artist Charmaine Watkiss join the outstanding art collection at Lakeland Arts. Tenacity Serves the Warrior Well and Warriors Inhabit Mind, Body and Spirit have been acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for Abbot Hall, Lakeland Arts. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Charmaine Watkiss creates works on paper which explore her extensive research into the diverse cultural heritages of the African Caribbean diaspora. Working mainly with pencil and paper, Watkiss incorporates other materials such as watercolour and ink to draw out additional layers of meaning and fields of reference. Her recent work has focused on the interconnectivity between history, botany, and cosmology. While she draws her life-sized images from reference portraits of herself, they are not self-portraits; rather, they are characters with which to navigate ... More |
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| NYU Provost Katherine E. Fleming named President and CEO of J. Paul Getty Trust | | Julian Gaines has a question: 'How do I paint Oregon Black?' | | SFMOMA announces the appointment of five new trustees | 
As CEO, Dr. Fleming will oversee all local, national, and global operations of the 1,400-employee Getty Trust and its four component programs.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Dr. Katherine E. Fleming, an accomplished academic leader and internationally recognized scholar of Mediterranean history, religion, and culture, will be the next President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Board of Trustees announced today. Dr. Fleming, the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization and Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at New York University, comes to the Getty after serving as the NYU Provostthe universitys chief academic officersince 2016. She will join Getty August 1, succeeding Jim Cuno, who will retire this summer after more than 10 years as Getty President and CEO. Katy Fleming is a distinguished scholar and educator. She is a visionary, experienced leader, with an extensive understanding of global cultures and their importance in uniting all of us, said Getty Board Chair David Lee. ... More | | 
Artist Julian Gaines, who grew up in Chicagoland, in Forest Grove, Ore., Nov. 8, 2021. Amanda Lucier/The New York Times.
by Sandra E. Garcia
NEW YORK, NY.- In a cavernous studio on a weed farm in Forest Grove, Oregon, about halfway between Portland and the Tillamook State Forest, Julian Gaines, an artist born and raised in Chicagoland, is creating a body of work devoted to Black American life. He starts his workday at 9 a.m. and goes until the work tells him hes done, creating images of the civil rights movements heroes and martyrs, including James Baldwin and Malcolm X, in a state where Black people make up roughly 2% of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. I cant complain about an environment that Im in but not actually try to change it, said Gaines, 30, who left Illinois in 2016. I get out here and I see that Oregon is culturally inept. It is identical to a blank canvas. I think, How do I leave my lasting mark here? How do I plant my ... More | | 
Carrie Mae Weems. Photo by Audoin Desforges.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces the recent appointment of five new members to its Board of Trustees. David Huffman and Tucker Nichols were elected to the museums board at its September 2021 meeting; Bill Fisher was elected at its December 2021 meeting; and Katie Rodan and Carrie Mae Weems were elected at its March 2022 meeting. Huffman, Nichols and Weems will serve as the museums newest Artist Trustees. Serving critical roles on SFMOMAs board, Artist Trustees represent the artist community and provide essential counsel to the museum and its leadership. The esteemed group of new trustees brings a wide breadth of skills and experience to the board and a deep dedication to the arts, education and community engagement. Native Bay Area artist David Huffman was raised in Berkeley and Oakland with a family active in the Civil Rights Movement, including his mother who was an artist for the Black Panther Part ... More |
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 Recalling one activist group's outraged art at the height of the AIDS crisisNEW YORK, NY.- The revolution would not be televised, but slathered with wheat paste. Do not underestimate the importance of this starchy makeshift adhesive in the history of AIDS awareness back when a poster was not someone writing anonymous comments online but public relations on paper, in the actual town square. As described in Jack Lowerys new book, It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful, wheat paste was something like a holy substance for activists, enabling the circulation of their righteously angry art. They hired a snipping company with possible ties to the Mafia to stick up posters around Manhattan that bore pink triangles taken from the Nazis symbol for homosexuals: inverted because of an organizers faulty memory but looking boldly intentional. The posters tagline, Silence = Death, became ... More  Lygia Fagundes Telles, popular Brazilian novelist, dies at 98NEW YORK, NY.- Lygia Fagundes Telles, one of Brazils most popular writers, whose stories of women trapped in unsatisfying relationships could also be read as allegories of her countrys political situation, died Sunday at her home in São Paulo. She was 98. The Brazilian Academy of Letters announced her death. One of the first Brazilian writers to address female sexuality from a womans perspective, Telles was also the rare writer whose work appealed to both intellectuals and the general public. Trained as a lawyer she was one of only six women in her class of more than 100 at the University of São Paulo Law School she was acutely aware that she was a trailblazer in both her chosen fields, but did not overtly identify as a feminist. Despite her literary success, she continued working as a lawyer in civil service for much of her ... More  2022 programme for Wellington Arch announcedLONDON.- A programme of exhibitions curated by Vigo Gallery is on display at Wellington Arch from April. The historic site, which is in the care of English Heritage, is hosting the exhibition in its Quadriga Gallery from April 2022 to January 2023. This includes a series of epic paintings by Australian artist Jordy Kerwick, a group of never-seen-before works by Ibrahim El-Salahi created in the run up to his solo retrospective at Tate Modern, the much-anticipated exhibition of new paintings by #ArtistSupportPledge founder Matthew Burrows and an exciting exhibition of specially commissioned work by YBA favourite Marcus Harvey. This partnership offers a new way for contemporary art to reach a larger audience and to encourage engagement with this important landmark in a new way. ... More  Exhibition explores the complex relationships between Arthur Wellesley and the women who were closest to him LONDON.- Through letters, portraits and much more, on loan from public and private collections, Wellington, Women and Friendship presents an intimate picture of a very public life; revealing Wellington's social circle, his marriage and how his friendships with women could sometimes provoke rumour and gossip. From the moment he secured victory at the battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Wellesleys legendary status was assured. He was not only a military hero but also a hugely influential figure in the high society of his day. As Sir Thomas Lawrences portraits attest, with his high cheekbones, aquiline nose and piercing blue eyes, the Duke was often the centre of female attention. In 1806, ... More  David Eustace celebrity photographs premiered at Marchmont HouseGREENLAW.- Portraits of Hollywood stars and leading figures from the worlds of art, theatre, film and design will be exhibited for the first time at two intimate events in the Scottish Borders. Photographer David Eustaces eclectic collection of portraits will be on public view on 8 April at Marchmont House, a restored 18th-century Grade A listed Palladian mansion near Greenlaw, which is a home for artists, makers and creative enterprises. The exhibition will feature 25 photographs including ones of Hollywood actor Harry Dean Stanton, Irish actor Ciaran Hinds, controversial artist Tracey Emin, and author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal and artist and promoter Richard Demarco. Scottish photographer and director David Eustace has called his collection Friends and Artists, A Quiet Portrait. He said: I wanted to create a very simple ... More  Exhibition puts local sporting communities in focusBIRMINGHAM.- An exciting new photographic exhibition celebrating local sporting communities opened at multiple venues across Birmingham and Sandwell on 4 April as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival. People, Place and Sport by award-winning artist, Jaskirt Boora, in collaboration with community arts organisation Multistory, shines a light on twenty-five individuals and hubs where grassroots sport take place. People, Place and Sport is a collection of photographic portraits and recorded conversations with individuals who take part in everyday sports across the West Midlands. From 4 April to 31 August the portraits will be on display in eight leisure centres and outdoor spaces across the West Midlands region including: Bournville Green, Birmingham Coach Station, Moseley Road Baths, St Pauls Square ... More  LAXART unveils plans to establish its first permanent home in Los Angeles in fall 2022LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAXART announced plans to open its first dedicated home in Los Angeles. Set to open in fall 2022, the new space will build on the organizations legacy of artist-centered programming and leadership, while more than doubling its exhibition space. It will establish LAXART as an anchor in a growing neighborhood of Melrose Hills that is seeing an influx of new businesses and commercial galleries. LAXARTs current space will close to the public at the end of June 2022. Today, we begin the next chapter in LAXARTs life. A permanent home gives us the opportunity to reimagine what an alternative art space can be while putting down roots in an evolving cultural capital like Los Angeles, shared Hamza Walker, director of LAXART. The uncertain, early days of the pandemic instigated some institutional soul searching, ... More  Huong Dodinh joins Pace GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced worldwide representation of Huong Dodinh. Born in Vietnam in 1945 and now based in Paris, for nearly six decades Huong Dodinh has devoted her painting practice to three central tenets: clarity, density, and transparency. Her paintings explore the fluidity of line, form, and negative space to create elegant minimalist compositions. Inspired by classical dance, Dodinh places great importance on the rhythm and grace of her gestures as she paints freehand, allowing her forms to be an extension of her body in motion. The French-Vietnamese painter will be presented this April by the Musei Civici di Venezia at Museo Correr, curated by Amin Jaffer and Hervé Mikaeloff, in parallel to the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Dodinhs first exhibition at Pace is slated for ... More  The Ringling welcomes Jean Evans as new Deputy Director of The John & Mable Museum of ArtSARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art announced the appointment of Jean Evans as Deputy Director. Evans comes to The Ringling from the University of Chicago where she served as the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute (OI). At the OI, Dr. Evans oversaw the complete renovation of the OI Museum and day to day operations of the Institute. Evans joined the OI in September of 2016 as its Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions and was appointed as the OIs Deputy Director in 2019. Prior to her position in Chicago, Evans held a postdoctoral fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and worked as assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Evans holds a Ph.D. in Art History from New York Universitys Institute of Fine Arts and was ... More  Camille Ann Brewer appointed Director at San Jose Museum of Quilts & TextilesSAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Board of Directors today announced its unanimous decision to appoint Camille Ann Brewer as the new Director of the Museum. Ms. Brewer will shape the Museums vision and strategic direction, and guide the Museums overall operations, including exhibitions and programs, collections, donor relations and community engagement. Ms. Brewer brings extensive museum and arts-sector experience to the position, having served as the Curator of Contemporary Art for the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., and Executive Director for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium at the University of Chicago, among her long list of accomplishments. She also owned and operated her own business, CAB ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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