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Jane Austens House, left, in Chawton, England, on Dec. 13, 2014. Austen wrote or revised her six major novels while living there in the early 1800s. Luke Wolagiewicz/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As part of the discussion over racism that followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, museums have asserted solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and begun to rethink and recast how they portray history. Among them is a museum dedicated to writer Jane Austen in the English village of Chawton, where she lived from 1809 until her death in 1817 at age 41. This month, the museum, Jane Austens House, touched a nerve when its director said that it would include details about Austen and her familys ties to the slave trade, including the fact that her father was a trustee of a sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of Antigua. The museums director, Lizzie Dunford, told The Daily Telegraph that updated displays would also explore the broader context of the time in which Austen lived, when her family members would have consumed products of the slave trade such as tea, cotton and sugar. The slave trade and the consequences of Regency- ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on March 31, 2021 shows the commemorative stamp of French Emperor Napoleon I at the French national printing house of postage stamps in Boulazac, southwestern France. The 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death will be marked on May 5, 2021. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
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| Pace Gallery announces exclusive worldwide representation of Jeff Koons | | UK teen who threw boy from Tate balcony had not been deemed a risk: report | | Phillips launches art advisory service, expanding and deepening support to collectors |
Portrait of Jeff Koons, photo by Branislav Jankic.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, today announced that the gallery will begin representing Jeff Koons exclusively worldwide. Jeff Koons is among the worlds most influential and iconoclastic living artists. Koons has become internationally renowned for his sculptures and paintings that explore meaning in our media-saturated age. Marrying rigorous conceptualism with commercial aesthetics, and spectacular displays with an unparalleled degree of technical finesse, Koons has repeatedly tested the limits of both fabrication and art history, simultaneously redefining Minimalism and Pop Art. His Inflatables, which apply Duchamps concept of the readymade to objects, rendered in stainless steel and often enlarged to monumental scale, have become emblems of our contemporary era. The mirrored finishes of sculptures such as Rabbit (1986) and Balloon Dog (19942000), as well as the more recent Gazin ... More | |
A general view shows the Tate Modern gallery on the southern bank of the River Thames in London. Daniel SORABJI / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A British teenager who threw a young French boy from London's Tate Modern gallery, causing horrific injuries, was not considered a public risk at the time, media reported on Tuesday. Jonty Bravery was jailed in June last year for attempted murder after throwing the young boy from a 10th-floor balcony of the landmark museum on August 4 2019. His victim, who was aged six and on holiday with his family, plunged head first onto a fifth-floor roof 30 metres (100 feet) below in front of stunned onlookers. The boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, suffered a broken spine, legs and arms as well as a head injury as a result and is still undergoing intensive rehabilitation. Bravery, who was 17 at the time, said in the immediate aftermath he had carried out the assault because he was not getting the appropriate care for mental health issues. But despite previous violent and ... More | |
Phillips Art Advisory to offer comprehensive and bespoke suite of services, supporting clients through every stage of collecting. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the launch of its new art advisory platform, Phillips Art Advisory (PAA). Designed to offer a bespoke suite of services to an exclusive group of private collectors around the globe, PAA gives advice on the formation of cohesive collections, based on personal taste and connoisseurship. PAA is dedicated to the philosophy of thoughtful curation and offers a customized, strategic approach to encourage the successful development of the collectors vision and goals. Edward Dolman, Phillips Chief Executive Officer, says, We are excited to offer our clients an unparalleled level of support and resources through Phillips Art Advisory. With our unrivaled experience and international presence, PAA is uniquely positioned to support our clients in this endeavor by providing guidance, research, and expertise for acquisitions, as well as long-term collection development, with ... More |
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| Kerry James Marshall's poignant painting Nat-Shango (Thunder), 1991 to be offered at Christie's | | Napoleon's bicentennial under shadow of Covid and controversy | | Pace Gallery opens an exhibition spanning three decades of Robert Mangold's career |
Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), Nat-Shango (Thunder). Acrylic, paper collage and printed paper collage on linen, 73 ½ x 55 3/4 in. (186.7 x 141.6 cm.) Executed in 1991. Estimate: $6,500,0008,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present Kerry James Marshalls powerful Nat-Shango (Thunder), 1991 in its upcoming 21st Century Evening Sale at Christies New York on 11 May (estimate $6.5-8.5M). Nat-Shango (Thunder) is an early example of the revolutionary portraits of Black figures that have established the artist as one of the most insightful and significant chroniclers in contemporary art. His paintings not only confront the place of the Black subject in the art historical canonfrom the Renaissance to 20th century American Abstractionthey also reassess important figures from Black history, and demonstrate their continued relevance today. Marshalls richly configured paintingssuch as Nat-Shango (Thunder)weave together multiple layers of the lived Black experience, referencing figures from Yoruban culture, the lives of enslaved Africans, the ... More | |
In this file photo taken on March 25, 2021 a tourist chooses a Napoleon Bonaparte bust in Ajaccio. The 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death will be marked on May 5, 2021. Pascal POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- In the Grand Hall de la Villette on the outskirts of Paris, the trappings of an emperor are gathered: magnificent outfits, weapons, medals, porcelains, a monumental wedding carriage... The question, as the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death approaches on May 5, is when anyone will get to see them. The English are once again involved in scuppering his celebrations, after "la variante anglaise" of Covid-19 triggered a fresh wave of the pandemic and sent France back into lockdown. A multitude of exhibitions, featuring everything from his private boudoir at the Chateau de Fontainebleau to the Army Museum's gathering of Christ-like portraits that proliferated after his exile, were put on hold. While the government hopes to reopen cultural sites in mid-May, epidemiologists say that may be premature. It is not just Covid creating awkward timing for the bicentennial, ... More | |
Installation View, Robert Mangold: A Survey 19812008, April 12 May 22, 2021, Pace Gallery, London. © ARS, NY and DACS, London, 2021. Photo: Damian Griffiths, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Robert Mangold at 6 Burlington Gardens, the artists first exhibition with the gallery in London. On view from 12 April to 22 May 2021, Robert Mangold: A Survey 1981 2008the artists first solo show in the UK in 12 yearsfeatures significant paintings spanning three decades, tracing pictorial developments by one of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This marks Paces final exhibition at 6 Burlington Gardens before moving to a new space at Hanover Square in Autumn 2021. Showcasing Mangolds lifelong balancing of shape, line, and colour, the paintings on view epitomise the conceptual and aesthetic rigour of his six-decade career, while also demonstrating an enduring will to challenge definitions of painting. Spanning nearly thirty years of work, this survey of Mangolds mid-career allows viewers to identify themes as they dev ... More |
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| Rubén Blades, a salsa legend, swings in a different direction: Jazz | | Modern Art opens an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix | | Baby mammoths were meals for these saber-tooth cats |
Rubén Blades in New York, April 20, 2021. Salswing!, Blades's new project with the Panamanian big band leader Roberto Delgado, celebrates the connections between Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Chase Hall/The New York Times.
by Ed Morales
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rubén Blades is a renowned vocalist, one of the emblematic singer-songwriters of 1970s salsa. But hes not always recognized for his achievements in other disciplines: Hes also a Broadway and Hollywood actor, a composer, a Harvard Law School masters graduate and a one-time candidate for president of his native Panama. And dont ever say he cant sing a swing tune like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. Were still segregated in many ways when it comes to music, Blades, 72, said in a video conversation from his home in Manhattan. Outside of a few more wisps of gray in his beard, he hasnt changed much, dressed in his typical all-black with an omnipresent porkpie hat. People think, if youre a salsero thats what youre going to do in your life. Its like youre a horse ... More | |
Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix, Will-o-the-wisp, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 23 April - 22 May 2021. Courtesy of the artists and Modern Art, London. Photo: Robert Glowacki.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix at the gallerys Bury Street space. This marks the first collaboration between the two artists. While visiting Japan between 2018 and 2019, Kantarovsky developed an edition of traditional Ukiyo‑e woodblock prints together with the Adachi Hanga Institute of Printmaking in Tokyo. Here, Kantarovskys prints are housed individually in frames fabricated out of Corian by Camille Blatrix. The frames are embedded with handcrafted wood marquetry pieces, each decorative element responding to the prints they encase. Reminiscent of bivalve shells, the frames are designed with revolving exterior faces, offering optional protection or exposure throughout the course of the exhibition. Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982, Russia) lives and works in New York State. He studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and receiv ... More | |
A rendering from a 3-D analysis of Homotherium teeth. Blaire Van Valkenburgh / Digimorph.org via The New York Times.
by Jeanne Timmons
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a landscape that would one day become a suburb of San Antonio, paleontologists paint a picture that is as bloody as it is fascinating. Mammoths were stalked by predatory cats with scimitar teeth protruding from their jaws. The cats would snatch a juvenile mammoth, blood staining the fur around their mouths and claws as it soaked into the grasses around them. Having eaten their fill, they would take the carcass back to their den. This was a meal that could be shared again later. Earlier this month, researchers published a paper in the journal Current Biology providing evidence that supported this scenario. What it also shows is that the cats had a diet unlike any other large cat, extinct or alive today. When most people think of saber-tooth cats, they think of North Americas Smilodon. But they prowled the same terrain as another ferocious but less well-known feline, Homotherium ... More |
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| Times Square Arts reveals new public art campaign "We Are More" by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya | | Phillips announces expansion to international jewellery team | | Female artists triumph at Bonhams Contemporary Art sale in London |
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya. We Are More. Courtesy of the artist and Times Square Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Times Square Arts unveils Amanda Phingbodhipakkiyas We Are More, a public art campaign that celebrates the resilience and diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in New York and around the country. The campaign also gives this community a powerful voice, responding to the stereotyping, harassment, and violence that has become increasingly severe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The 40 distinct artworks and typographic designs in We Are More will appear on Morgan Stanleys digital billboard, JCDecaux digital displays, and Big Belly receptasigns in over 120 locations across the Times Square district. As the fastest-growing immigrant population, Asian Americans often struggle with the perpetual foreigner label and many have felt confined by narrow archetypes like the straight A student, ... More | |
Sara Payne Thomeier will join the team in New York as Head of Jewels, Americas, SVP. Beginning in her role on Monday, 3 May, she will lead the Jewellery Department in New York with a focus on guiding the specialist team and implementing the companys international strategy. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced new appointments to the companys international Jewellery department, with Sara Payne Thomeier joining in New York as Head of Jewels, Americas, SVP, and Cristel Tan joining in Singapore as International Jewellery Specialist, South East Asia. The addition of these well-regarded industry leaders will strengthen Phillips team of international specialists and broaden the range of expertise the auction house offers collectors. Graeme Thompson, Worldwide Head of Jewellery, said, Over the past few years, our team has established Phillips exceptional reputation in the field of 20th century and contemporary jewellery and defined our role in bringing emerging jewellery makers to the fore. ... More | |
Genieve Figgis, Family Portrait, 2015. Sold for £60,250. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A vibrant work by the 105-year-old artist Carmen Herrera, Untitled, completed in 2013, was one of the highlights of Bonhams Contemporary Art sale today (Tuesday 27 April) in London. The work achieved £187,750. The 28-lot sale made a total of £1,610,793, with 93% sold by lot, and 99% sold by value. Head of Sale, Cassi Young, commented: Carmen Herrera is probably the worlds oldest working artist, and yet it has taken an unforgivably long time for her to finally receive the recognition she deserves having only garnered the attention of a male-dominated artworld in her late nineties. Im absolutely delighted that her work Untitled achieved such an impressive result, especially alongside a number of other wonderful works by top female contemporary artists, including Rebecca Horn, Tschabalala Self, and Genieve Figgis and record-breaking results for Suzanne McClelland and Flora Yukhnovich. Born in ... More |
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Inside Anthony Hopkins' unexpected win at the Oscars
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For months, it was considered a sure bet that Chadwick Boseman would win a posthumous best-actor Oscar for his galvanizing performance in Ma Raineys Black Bottom. The Sunday night ceremony was even rearranged around that expected outcome, scheduling Bosemans category last so his widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, could accept and end the show with a crescendo of emotion. That didnt happen. Instead, the surprise winner was Anthony Hopkins for The Father, and since the 83-year-old actor was a no-show at the ceremony, presenter Joaquin Phoenix collected the Oscar in his stead and the telecast abruptly ended. What went down? Im told that Hopkins was at home in the Welsh countryside and had offered to accept via Zoom if his name was read, but the Oscars nixed that plan. To distinguish themselves from award ... More
Lauren Applebaum appointed as curator of American art at North Carolina Museum of Art
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art congratulates Lauren Applebaum, associate curator of American art, on her appointment as curator of American art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, as of May 3, 2021. Lauren Applebaum has been a distinguished contributor to the Toledo Museum of Art, first as a Brian P. Kennedy leadership fellow and then as associate curator of American art, noted Adam Levine, the Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director and CEO of TMA. She helped broaden the narrative of art history though installations, exhibitions and acquisitions; I know she will do the same at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Applebaums most recent exhibition, entitled Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, centered the voices and experiences of underrepresented artists including women; Black, Indigenous, and people of ... More
Pomodoro sculpture brings $186,000 in Ahlers & Ogletree auction
ATLANTA, GA.- A polished bronze sculpture on a Lucite base by the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro (b. 1926), titled Sfera, titled and numbered (2 of 6) soared to $186,000 in an online Spring Fine Estates & Collections auction held March 27th and 28th by Ahlers & Ogletree, based in Atlanta. The work was the top earner in an auction that featured more than 1,000 quality lots. Pomodoro, now 94 years old, lives and works in Milan. Hes well known for having designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, which is topped with a 14-foot diameter crown of thorns that hovers over the figure of Christ. The piece in the auction, 11 inches tall (sculpture, minus base), is in the artists online catalogue raisonné. Session One contained Asian arts, Modernism, Mid-Century and Contemporary design, fine art and decorative arts, estate jewelry ... More
di Rosa Museum announces Ceramic Interventions: Provocative exhibition now on view
NAPA, CA.- On view in di Rosas Gallery 1 through July 2021, Ceramic Interventions highlights new and recent works, demonstrating that clay is a vital medium for todays emerging artists. Curated by Twyla Ruby with Kate Eilertsen, and Andrea Saenz Williams. An artist panel with the curator will be held May 22, 2021 from 4-6 pm. Tickets and information for all exhibition-related public programs, including artist walkthroughs, family programs, and community partnerships may be found at www.dirosaart.org. What do you do when the corner of your large ceramic sculpture breaks? When this happened to Nicki Green, the artist commissioned a wooden prosthetic to stand in for the missing clay. Like the other artists highlighted in this provocative new exhibition, Green embraces a spirit of ceramic intervention, fashioning an innovative practice rooted in the Bay Areas ... More
Alexander Hamilton scarf headlines single-seller Americana & Political Sale at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- One of the most important historical textiles commemorating the death of the co-author of the Federalist Papers is among the fascinating lots in an exceptional single-seller event coming May 15 to Heritage Auctions. The Alexander Hamilton: A Marvelous Large Scarf Mourning His Death at the Hand of Aaron Burr in 1804 (estimate: $20,000+), one of just two known to remain in existence, tops a trove of 438 lots in the Tom Huston Americana & Political Auction. What makes this collection so impressive is its sophistication, Heritage Auctions Americana Director Curtis Lindner said. Hustons items reflect a deep knowledge of these items historical context as well as rarity from the collectors standpoint. He has been collecting for more than 60 years, and he is still collecting. He started as a young man, and he clearly loves what he is doing that is evident in the selections we have in ... More
New book investigates the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley
LONDON.- This beautifully illustrated book is the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between two of the greatest 18th-century American artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. West and Copley have always and properly been viewed as the two greatest eighteenth-century American artists, despite the fact that, at the age of twenty-one, West left his native shores in 1760, never to return. He went on to become immensely successful in England, becoming, among other things, the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Copley spent half his working life also in England. However, before making the move across the Atlantic, he made his mark as an exceptionally talented artist, who, without any real training, painted likenesses of fellow Bostonians, including ones of figures such as John Hancock and Paul Revere, that have become icons of American history. ... More
Theodore Lambrinos, baritone with a zest for the road, dies at 85
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The baritone Theodore Lambrinos once sang 21 performances as Scarpia in Puccinis Tosca over 26 days on a U.S. tour with the barnstorming Teatro Lirico dEuropa, based in Bulgaria. I just want to sing, he told Opera News in 2002, while in the middle of another extended U.S. tour with the company. I have got my voice all lined up, and I want to use it. And use it he did: Over his 60-year career, he gave nearly 800 performances in three dozen countries in opera productions (some 60 roles) and in concerts of arias, Broadway fare and Hellenic songs (a lifelong passion). Lambrinos died March 29 in Brooklyn, New York, of pneumonia related to COVID-19, his wife Hallie Neill, a soprano, said. He was 85. He also sang with the Metropolitan Opera, a career achievement that he found hard to imagine as a Greek immigrants son in Brooklyn who hung ... More
Central States auctions surpass $47 million at Heritage
DALLAS, TX.- Fresh-to-market coins and historical rarities pushed Heritage Auctions' Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) event to $47,783,690 across several sales of U.S. coins and currency, a 42 percent increase from the auctioneer's 2020 CSNS auctions and the highest total sold in the last five years. The sales offered more than 15,800 lots April 22-25 in Dallas where the auctions were relocated after the convention itself was cancelled. "This was a season for numismatic history, said James Halperin, Co-founder of Heritage Auctions. "It's no exaggeration that this year's auctions offered a once-in-a-lifetime selection for experienced collectors, the likes of which we may not see in a generation or more. The event offered important highlights from powerhouse collections, including the Donald G. Partrick Collection and the Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part V. Three coins broke the ... More
Teresa Kutala Firmino's London debut exhibition exhibition opens at Everard Read
LONDON.- Everard Read London is presenting the London debut exhibition of Johannesburg-based multi-disciplinary artist, Teresa Kutala Firmino. Rich in symbolism, Firminos vivid paintings explore complex issues of war, colonialism and cultural heritage, as well as identity and gender violence. What does it mean to be a young black woman in the 21st century in an environment which is institutionally brutal? The act of making work is cathartic for Kutala Firmino. She believes we heal by retelling our stories and undertakes to tell African narratives from an African perspective, as honestly as possible. Kutala Firminos stories begin in her native Pomfret, a border province in North West South Africa, largely comprised of former 32 Battalion soldiers and their families, many of whom settled there after the end of the South African Border War. Colonial rule induced many African people to ... More
Selected works by 58 Israeli artists will be purchased by a $250,000 acquisition fund
TEL AVIV.- The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Foundation, which has been awarding an annual prize of approximately $120,000 to two artists since 2006, has decided, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, to reconfigure the prize this year as a dedicated $250,000 fund for the purchase of art works. The art works will be purchased for the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Israeli Art Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which comprises works by Rappaport Award winners over the years, and will be on display at a special exhibition to be opened at the Museum in August 2021. In addition, this year the Foundation has decided to fund a group exhibition of contemporary Israeli art that will be open to the general public outside the Museum, in the public sphere. The exhibition, titled Outside the Cube, will feature dozens of local artists, who will exhibit at various venues and areas throughout the city of ... More
Artcurial appoints Gerard Vidal as new representative in Spain
PARIS.- Artcurial announced the arrival in April 2021 of its new representative in Spain, Gerard Vidal. The House continues to pursue its European ambitions with the expansion of its activities in Europe and worldwide. « We are delighted to welcome Gerard Vidal to strengthen our European teams and expand our network to the Iberian Peninsula. » Martin Guesnet, Artcurial Europe Director « It is a dream for me to join the Artcurial team which, thanks to its expertise and level of excel- lence in all its fields, has always inspired me. With this new development in Spain, I wish to continue to make the name of Artcurial resound as a reference in the auctions and art world in Europe and in the world. » Gerard Vidal, Artcurial Spain Representative Born in 1987 in Figueres in the same city as Salvador DalÃ, Gerard Vidal studied art history at the Universitat de Barcelona and discovered the world of ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (French pronunciation: (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, âUntitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),â 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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