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The swastika on the floor of a studio at the Kunststätte Bossard, in Jesteburg, Germany, on Aug. 3, 2020. The discovery of the Nazi symbol in the mosaic floor of the museum has prompted bitter debate about its creators past and the institutions role. Gordon Welters/The New York Times.
by Thomas Rogers
JESTEBURG (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1911, Swiss artist Johann Bossard came across an empty property in the grasslands near this small town south of Hamburg. Inspired by the location, he purchased the land and together with his wife, Jutta, spent decades building his lifes great project: three esoterically shaped art-covered buildings and a landscaped garden. Since 1997, the site has been a museum known as the Kunststätte Bossard, and an off-the-beaten-path destination for fans of expressionist art and architecture. But in 2017, Alexandra Eicks, an employee on the site, made a discovery that threw the project in a more sinister light. Eicks was preparing for a childrens art class when she noticed a geometric shape on the studios mosaic floor that nobody at the museum had seen before: a swastika. Because the tiles had been installed after the Nazis rise to power, it raised the possibility that the Bossards held more troubling views than had previously been known. Three years later, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a sale of Fine Antiquities, Ethnographic & Fine Art on Thu, Aug 13, 2020 9:00 AM CDT. 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, and Fine Art. In this image: Near-Miniature Anatolian Bronze Chariot w/ Oxen Pulling. Estimate $18,000 - $27,000.
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 | | A Black nurse saved lives. Today she may save art. | | Enrico Navarra, art world visionary, is dead at 67 | | Drawings from the Marron Collection co-presented by Acquavella Galleries, Gagosian, and Pace Gallery | 
An image provided by UCSF Archives and Special Collections shows a detail of Bernard Zakheim's mural History of Medicine in California. UCSF Archives and Special Collections via The New York Times.
by Carol Pogash
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In June, Laura Voisin George, a graduate student, was writing a scholarly article about a series of Works Progress Administration frescoes at the University of California, San Francisco. The 10 panels of History of Medicine in California, completed in 1938 by Bernard Zakheim, a Polish-born muralist, show such scenes as Native Americans offering herbs to doctors and a trapper inoculating someone with the smallpox vaccine. Voisin George recognized a central figure in one of the vivid social realist tableaus. Biddy Mason, a Black nurse, is depicted alongside a white doctor as they treat a malaria patient. Mason, a woman who was born into slavery in 1818, went on to become a midwife, a nurse, a philanthropist and a founder of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. Voisin George, who ... More | | 
Enrico Navarra in an undated photo with monograph on Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom he played a crucial role in establishing as more than just a chic artist of the moment. Photo: Raul Higuera.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Enrico Navarra, a gallerist, collector and art-book publisher with a visionary instinct who promoted artists, especially Jean-Michel Basquiat, before the rest of the art world had fully appreciated the importance of their work, died July 21 in Le Muy, France. He was 67. Justine de Noirmont of his gallery, Galerie Enrico Navarra in Paris, said the cause was emphysema. Navarra was a charismatic behind-the-scenes figure whose career was defined by not being afraid to believe in something no one else was believing in, Grégoire Billault, head of the contemporary art department at Sothebys in New York, said in a phone interview. Basquiat, the Brooklyn-born artist who started as a graffitist and became a hot commodity before his overdose death in 1988 at 27, was already receiving attention when Navarra bought his first Basquiat in 1986. But Navarra helped establish him ... More | | 
Fernand Léger, La Roue (Projet d'affiche pur La Roue D'Abel Gance), 1920. Watercolor on paper, 16-3/4" à 12-1/8". Fernand Léger © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy the Donald B. Marron Family Collection, Acquavella Galleries, Gagosian, and Pace Gallery.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Acquavella Galleries, Gagosian, and Pace Gallery announced a joint exhibition of works on paper from the esteemed Donald B. Marron Collection, belonging to one of the twentieth and twenty-first centurys most passionate and erudite collectors. The exhibition will be on view August 1220, 2020, at Paces recently opened gallery in East Hampton, New York. In a continuation of the three galleries partnership with the Marron family to handle the sale of the private collection of the late Donald B. Marron, this intimate presentation offers a glimpse into the coveted Marron estate of over 300 masterworks acquired over the course of six decades. The exhibition will feature almost forty works on paper including sketches and studies as well as fully realized paint and pastel pieces. Works on view range from early modern masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, and Fernand Léger; to nature ... More |
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| | China promotes its 'heroic' battle against virus in new exhibition | | Lisson Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Bernard Piffaretti | | Benin restores slavery monuments to testify to brutal past | 
This photo taken on August 5, 2020 shows people looking at hazmat suits signed and donated by medical teams from Guangdong and Hainan. Hector RETAMAL / AFP.
by Patrick Baert
BEIJING (AFP).- Chinese workers raise their fists beside a red communist flag in a painting displayed at a Beijing museum, one of nearly 200 works put together for a propaganda exhibition that hails, not the Maoist past, but the "heroic deeds" of frontline medics fighting the coronavirus. Since the discovery of the deadly contagion in Wuhan at the end of last year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to model itself as the vanguard in the fight against COVID-19. Outside China, Beijing has been the target of Western criticism over accusations that it covered up the initial outbreak, silencing early whistleblowers -- including doctor Li Wenliang, who alerted colleagues to the virus in late December but was reprimanded by local authorities. But inside the country, the CCP ... More | | 
Bernard Piffaretti, Untitled, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, 47 1/8 x 47 1/8 in © Bernard Piffaretti. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernard Piffaretti presents Coda for his second exhibition with Lisson Gallery. Frequently used in music, a coda is a unique passage at the end of a score, concluding a piece of music often by creatively repeating a passage heard before but expanding on the theme to create a familiar, yet new, finale. For this exhibition, Piffaretti takes a step back in time to an earlier moment in his career, presenting a selection of paintings made between 1989 and 1999. As an addendum to this survey, the exhibition also features a series of new works, recently completed by the artist in his Paris studio. While the new works revisit previous themes and feature the characteristic Piffaretti system, they are layered and intensified. This chronological shift functions in much the same way as a coda in a piece of music or literary work, in that it is both a summary of what went before and also a conclusion. ... More | | 
Visitors to Ouidah's Brazil Houseare seen at the 2020 exhibition on the kingdom of Savi in Ouidah on August 4, 2020. Yanick Folly / AFP.
by Josué Mehouenou
OUIDAH (AFP).- As Western cities see statues of slaveholders and colonialists toppled, Benin's coastal town of Ouidah is going the other way, restoring monuments to the painful era of the slave trade. During the 17th and 18th centuries, European slavers held more than one million African men, women and children in Ouidah's Portuguese Fort before shipping them across the Atlantic in abominable conditions. Ouidah, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Benin's economic hub of Cotonou, was one of the main slave staging posts to the Americas, according to research at Yale University. It ranked alongside "slave coast" ports in modern-day Ghana and the swathe of Central Africa that today encompasses Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Benin, coveted for slave trade ... More |
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| | Works by Marcia Hafif, Carol Rama, and Mario Schifano on view at Fergus McCaffrey's St. Barth location | | Sperone Westwater announces an online viewing of Jitish Kallat's new installation | | Garvey│Simon opens an Artsy-exclusive exhibition curated by Louisa N. Pancoast | 
Mario Schifano, Coca Cola, 1978. Oil on jute and wrapping paper, 43 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches.
ST. BARTH.- Fergus McCaffrey is presenting Marcia Hafif, Carol Rama, Mario Schifano: Selections from 19581981, on-view through August 20, 2020, at the gallerys St. Barth location. Marianne Moore, the acclaimed modernist poet, explores the notion that although an artwork can be approached, approximated, purchased, and enjoyed, it can never be possessed in a manner that divests it of the spiritual forces of its creation. In her poem, When I Buy Pictures, Moore describes herself as an imaginary possessor because she is not only imagining the process of buying a painting, but also realizing that she can never own the spirit of the work and its genesis.1 The idea Moore is interrogating is one of perceptionan idea particularly relevant to three artists working in Italy in the 1960s: Marcia Hafif (19292018), Carol Rama (19182015), and Mario Schifano (19341998). Carol Rama, working in T ... More | | 
Installation view of Jitish Kallat's exhibition "Terranum Nuncius" at Famous Studios, Mumbai, 9 January 22 January 2020. FAM photos: Installation view of "Jitish Kallat: Return to Sender" at Frist Art Museum, 2020. Image courtesy of Frist Art Museum, Nashville. Photo: John Schweikert. Sketches: Working sketch for Covering Letter (terranum nuncius), courtesy Jitish Kallat.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting an online viewing of Jitish Kallats new installation Covering Letter (terranum nuncius). On view in the artists solo exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, this immersive installation brings together select sounds and images from NASAs Golden Records, originally composed for expedition into interstellar space as a planetary message to extraterrestrial life. The title comes from Galileo Galileis astronomical treatise Sidereus Nuncius, published in New Latin meaning "starry messenger," inverted by the artist as Terranum Nuncius or "earthly messenger." At a time when we find ourselves in a deeply ... More | | 
Timothy Hursley, Untitled Keith Haring Backdrop at Palladium 1, 1985. C-print mounted on Dibond, 24.5 x 20.75 in. Ed. of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting Bodies and Buildings: The Dwellings of Dance, an Artsy-exclusive exhibition curated by Louisa N. Pancoast. Culled from Garvey|Simons roster of artists, this diverse selection of works are united by their current of kinesthetic energy, and interest in marrying performance with permanence. Whether painting or photography, figurative or abstract, each piece considers the dynamism and duration of movement, and how it impacts the body and its spatial surroundings. Bodies and Buildings: The Dwellings of Dance features work by Danielle Riede, Bentley Meeker, Ray Kass, Joel Shapiro, Linda Lindroth, Tamiko Kawata, Timothy Hurlsey, David Morrison, Peter Drake, Joshua Flint, and Elizabeth Mead. The exhibition will be on view on the Garvey|Simon page on Artsy.net from August ... More |
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| | Artist Glenn Kaino directs "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by Deon Jones ft. Jon Batiste | | Nohra Haime Gallery opens an online exhibition of works by Hugo Bastidas | | Jutta-Annette Page to retire from the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University | 
All-star team of social activists, artists and musicians update U2 anthem for the ongoing fight for progress and equality. 100% of proceeds go to Fair Fight Georgia. Photo: Courtesy of Glenn Kaino Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Inspired by the global protests of summer 2020, artist Glenn Kaino and creative change agent Deon Jones gathered an all-star team to record an updated version of the civil rights anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday. More than an anthem, the song is an artwork. Sunday Bloody Sunday is the first component of Glenn Kainos exhibition In the Light of a Shadow, which will open at MASS MoCA in February 2021. It is a hopeful gesture, offering the promise of new possibilitya desperately needed emotional experience in this anxiety-ridden moment. 100% of proceeds of the song will go to Stacey Abrams Fair Fight, which promotes fair elections in Georgia and around the country. The song is now available on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube. How long ... More | | 
Hugo Bastidas, Walking Toward The Deep, 2019 (detail). Oil on linen, 16 x 24 in. 40.6 x 61 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Onslaught is a virtual exhibition of recent paintings by Hugo Bastidas. Born as reaction to the onslaught of wave after wave of struggle, from the pandemic to racial reform, these small works reflect the mood of the artist, and perhaps, the country and world. Onslaught embodies the same tongue and cheek, irony and deadpan approach as the artists previous works, this time on a smaller, more intimate scale to provide respite from larger ongoing projects. We see Bastidas shift from his limited palette of black and white to include small pops of color in the majority of Onslaught. One such work, Everywhere (2019), shows a young girl blissfully skipping under the soft blue sky, until closer inspection reveals a surprising twist of ferocity. Another, Looking Through The Guise (2019), brings utter confusion and frustration as the viewer tries to process an ordinary scene through ... More | | 
Page, an internationally renowned expert in glass sculpture and decorative arts, has had an illustrious career of more than 27 years working in top museums.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Barry Art Museum's executive director, Jutta-Annette Page, has announced her retirement effective Oct. 1. Page, an internationally renowned expert in glass sculpture and decorative arts, has had an illustrious career of more than 27 years working in top museums. The highly sought-after curator became the Barry Art Museum's inaugural executive director in March 2017. The 24,000-square-foot museum was made possible by a donation of funds and art valued at $37 million from Richard and Carolyn Barry the largest gift in Old Dominion University's history. "Jutta was instrumental in transitioning Richard and Carolyn Barry's art collection from private to public and in establishing the museum as an interdisciplinary educational resource, President John R. Broderick said. The collection has significant ... More |
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 ICA at VCU and VPM announce initiative to launch a new community media center at the ICARICHMOND, VA.- The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and VPM, Virginias home for public media, today announced a joint initiative creating a new media center inside the ICA for the production of audio content by VCU students, local community members, and VPM professionals. Through this innovative partnership, the ICA and VPM will also launch a multi-year educational and media-making program comprised of VCU academic seminars, youth media programs, and public seminars, workshops, and symposia. Leveraging the ICAs connections to VCU students and faculty as well as local creatives; VPMs resources, expertise, and dedicated listener base; and the vibrancy of the Richmond community, the VPM + ICA Community Media Center will create new opportunities for storytelling, train and educate the next ... More International Center of Photography presents #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global CrisisNEW YORK, NY.- On March 20, the International Center of Photography announced an open call for imagemakers around the world to post and tag imagery of their experiences as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. The hashtag #ICPConcerned was named in recognition of ICPs founding principle to champion concerned photographysocially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Then, on May 25, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer and millions came out of isolation to gather in anger and defiance of centuries of systemic racism and white supremacy. Thousands of #ICPConcerned images of the demonstrations were shared. Photojournalism and documentary pictures sit with staged and more metaphorical photographs. Amateur smartphone pictures are being uploaded alongside ... More Simon Allford elected RIBA PresidentLONDON.- Simon Allford has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Simon will take over the two-year presidential term from Alan Jones next year (1 September 2021); from 1 September 2020 he will officially become RIBA President Elect. The role of RIBA President was established in 1835 and is the highest elected position in UK architecture. The President Chairs RIBA Council, which acts as the representative body for the membership. Simon is a founding director of AHMM (where he leads a design studio of 200 architects), a frequent writer, critic and advisor; a visiting professor at Harvard; a previous chairman of the Architecture Foundation; and currently a trustee of the London School of Architecture and the Chickenshed Theatres Trust. Speaking today, Simon Allford, said: It is a privilege to have ... More For Greece's theaters, the coronavirus is a tragedyEPIDAURUS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As dusk fell here on a Saturday late last month, a white-robed chorus filed onto the sparse stage of a limestone amphitheater for the National Theater of Greeces production of The Persians, the worlds oldest surviving dramatic work. In 472 B.C., when Aeschylus play was first performed, the actors would have been wearing masks. This time, it was the audience. The show, part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, was livestreamed to an audience around the world and was hailed as theaters return to the place where it all began after the coronavirus lockdown darkened stages across Greece. To abide by restrictions set by health authorities, visitors wore masks to enter and leave the amphitheater, and ushers in plastic visors and surgical gloves enforced social distancing. The theaters usual 10,000-seat ... More Bright for Brighton: Colourful, rainbow works in gallery and city suburbs revealedBRIGHTON.- A new work - A Simple Act of Wonder - by artists Walter & Zoniel celebrates human connection and our experiences of joy in unprecedented times. Audiences can now see it unfold across a series of outdoor spaces across the suburbs of Brighton (Moulsecoomb and Bevendean) and via a city centre exhibition that is now installed but which will never be seen in real life by the public but can be viewed by a series of digital initiatives online. Colourful, outdoor artworks are now displayed in the Brighton suburbs of Moulsecoomb and Bevendean - these can be seen painted on peoples homes, on The Bevvy community pub, on a shop (The Good News Brighton) and St Georges Hall. A large painting also now sits on the grass of The Green, stretching out across this popular leisure area. The artists have used brightly coloured house paint ... More Preston Evans announces a colossal four-day auction eventBYRON, GA.- Preston Evans of Preston Opportunities is very good at many things like collecting and being an auctioneer but hes terrible at retiring. I tried to retire, he said from his home in South Georgia, and it worked until I was motivated to get back in the auction ring. I found it impossible to sell all my collections in the time I spent trying to put together an event. That was four years ago. Since then, at least five important collections have fallen into Evanss lap (including the estate of his longtime friend and fellow collector, Buddy Austin, recently deceased). Those items, plus Evans leftover inventory never before offered for sale, all add up to one thing: a major auction for all of it, planned for four days, the weekend of Sept. 4th thru 7th. The auction will be held at the Big Peach Antiques Mall in Byron, Georgia, 12 miles south of Macon, off exit 149 of I-75, ... 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More The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opens online exhibition of works by Elias SimeKANSAS CITY, MO.- While the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's physical doors must remain closed, beginning today you can now explore the work of contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime virtually, thanks to the museum's partnership with Google Arts & Culture, and go behind-the-scenes to learn more about this artist and his work through the latest app tours (available in English and Spanish), including Cuseum's Augmented Reality (AR) powered Museum from Home feature which allows users to virtually place works by Elias Sime on your own walls. Once the museum is able to reopen, Elias Sime: Tightrope will remain on view through January 31, 2021. The first major museum exhibition to focus on the work of contemporary artist Elias Sime (Ethiopian, born 1968), Tightrope features more than two dozen works of art in varying scales and showcases ... More Line up announced of 23 new artists commissions and projects for first Brent BiennialLONDON.- Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture will present the first Brent Biennial taking place in public spaces, libraries and streets across the Borough, running from 19 September 13 December 2020. The programme includes 23 new commissions and projects that will be presented in locations across the Borough and features international and Brent based artists. The featured artists are: Pio Abad (lives and works in London): Kilburn High Road Barby Asante (lives and works in London): Gatherings online and in Brent Rasheed Araeen (lives and works in London): The Library at Willesden Green Ruth Beale (lives and works in London): Kilburn Library David Blandy (Grew up in Brent. Lives and works in Brighton and London): Harlesden Library Plus Helen Delany and Brenda Aherne: Electronic Sheep (live and work in Brent): Kilburn ... More The Book of Everything by Mary Ellen Mark to have U.S. release this SeptemberNEW YORK, NY.- Conceived and edited by film director Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark's husband and collaborator for 30 years, The Book of Everything celebrates in over 600 images and diverse texts Marks extraordinary life, work and vision. From 1963 to her death in 2015, Mark told brilliant, intimate, provocative stories of characters whom she met and engaged withoften in perpetuity. There was nothing casual or unprepared about Marks approach; she unfailingly empathized with the people and places she photographed. For this comprehensive book Bell has selected images from Marks thousands of contact-sheets and chromesfrom over two million frames in total. These include her own now iconic choices, those published once and since lost in time, as well as some of her as yet unpublished preferences. Bell complements these with a few ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died August 12, 1988. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. In this image: A gallery assistant poses with US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Warrior" at Sotheby's auction house in central London on June 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL.
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