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An undated handout photo shows untitled 2022 (tomorrow is the question, rénmÃn rìbà o, march 24, 2022) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, 2022. The Frieze art fair takes on a whole new continent this fall, showcasing more than 110 galleries in the South Korean capital. Rirkrit Tiravanija/Gladstone Gallery, photo by Yang Hao via The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
SEOUL.- High-end art fairs have been giving themselves global brand extensions for years, and the latest one, Frieze Seoul, is among the more ambitious. Frieze which staged its first fair in London and then proliferated to New York and Los Angeles takes on a whole new continent with the Seoul fair, running Saturday through Monday at the Coex and featuring more than 110 galleries. Frieze has been looking at Asia for a while, said Patrick Lee, the fairs director. It can be seen as Friezes answer to Art Basel Hong Kong and not to be outdone as far as expansions go, Art Basel is extending its reach to Paris, with a new fair debuting in October. (Launched in Basel, Switzerland, in 1970, the fair expanded to Miami Beach in 2002 and then to Hong Kong in 2013.) Lee, formerly the executive director of Gallery Hyundai and once a partner in One and J. Gallery, both in Seoul, said that collectors will be impressed with the local offerings. When people com ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery's Antiquities, Ethnographica, Fine / Visual Art sale will be held on Sep 01, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. 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, and so much more! 10th C. Indian Sandstone Relief Brahmanical Triad. Estimate $24,000 - $36,000.
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| Whitechapel Gallery presents Out of the Margins, an archival display mapping key histories of live art in London | | Robots and space guns were unstoppable at Morphy's $1.5 million Toys & Collectibles Auction | | The Fralin Museum of Art commemorates the work of leading American artist Joseph Cornell | 
Out of the Margins: Performance in Londons Institutions from the 1990s 2010s.
LONDON.- Out of the Margins: Performance in Londons Institutions 1990s-2010s explores Londons art scene during this pivotal period in which live performance moved from an underground artform to one acknowledged by the establishment. Prompted by a new wave of programming by visual arts institutions, performance and live art gained more mainstream appeal and their resulting popularity gave rise to several organisations dedicated solely to developing performance art. Through rarely seen archive material, photo documentation, films of performances, and references to key artists, theoreticians, and cultural practitioners, Out of the Margins revisits this history, mapping seminal moments within the development of the live art scene in London. The exhibition examines the creation of the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), launched in 1999 by Lois Keidan and Catherine Ugwu, whose successful advocacy ... More | | 
Scarce 1950s Italian gumball vending machine in the form of a 54-inch-tall full-figure robot with prizes visible through the glass window in its chest. Working coin mechanism, original key for lock. Sold for $48,000 against an estimate of $4,000-$8,000
DENVER, PA.- It was playday but it was also payday for those hoping to acquire rare robots and space guns at Morphys August 9-10 Toys & Collectibles Auction. The sale took in $1.5 million, with big-ticket items that included a boxed Machine Man Robot, a whimsical Electroman Robot, and an Italian robot-man gumball machine that prompted ferocious bidding before landing at six times its high estimate. The toy market is very strong, and we saw that at this sale, especially with the robots, space guns, model kits and playsets, said Tommy Sage, Head of Morphys toy division. Overseas bidders were competitive, as they always are, but in the end, it was American bidders who ended up with the top pieces. The win, place and show robots are all staying in the USA. To no ones surprise, a boxed example of perhaps the ... More | | 
Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Harlequin Jumping Jack) ca. 1935-1938 Box construction, 13 7/8 x 12 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. 13 7/8 in. 12 1/8 in.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), one of Americas most important and enigmatic artists, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has organized an exhibition of his work. Joseph Cornell: Enclosing Infinity, on view June 26, 2022-Feb. 12, 2023, is curated by Matthew McLendon, the Museums J. Sanford Miller Family director. The intimate, focused exhibition will feature six boxes from The Fralins collection, inviting visitors to enter Cornells world of fantasy. Cornell worked in collage and film, though he is best known for his signature shadow box constructionssmall worlds unto themselves made of the bric-a-brac he collected as he wandered through New York Citys dime stores, used book merchants and purveyors of back copies of newspapers and magazines. The Fralin is home to several important Cornell box constructi ... More |
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| The African Artists' Foundation announces two new exhibitions | | Photojournalist Adrian Fisk documents the frontline of Britain's environmental protests of the late '90s | | Francis Alÿs to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2023 | 
Sarfo Emmanuel; Courtesy of African Artists' Foundation.
LAGOS.- Lagos-based African Artists Foundation, established in 2007, announces two new exhibitions as part of their 2022 fall program, encouraging the expansion of African art on its continent and beyond. The AAF organizes a variety of exhibitions, both locally and internationally, festivals, and educational activities and community outreach programs to drive social change as its core ambition. Through their programming, the AAF supports emerging and established artists in Africa cultivating and promoting contemporary African art production. Dig Where You Stand on view from September 2 October 9, 2022, marks the first exhibition of a traveling show, taking place in several locations across Africa. The announced locations include: Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale, Ghana, The African Artists Foundation (AAF) Lagos, Nigeria, White Cube, Lusanga, DR Congo, Palais de Lomé, Togo and ... More | | 
Adrian Fisk will also show large- scale images of his work in a week- long exhibition running from 8 - 15th September.
LONDON.- Adrian Fisk is to British counterculture and environmental protest what Don McCullin is to war. Prior to Extinction Rebellions next action across London (10-13 September), Adrian Fisk will publish his first ever photography book on 8th September, which will launch at the Islington Climate Centre. With a foreword by world-renowned author and activist Jay Griffiths, Fisks photography traces the early period of climate protest, from 1995-1999. Adrian Fisk will also show large- scale images of his work in a week- long exhibition running from 8 - 15th September, charting the roots of the British environmental movement. As part of the launch, a panel discussion will take place as a conversation between environmental activists from across the decades on changing priorities and practices, with names to be announced soon. Three years ago, Fisks ... More | | 
Portrait Francis Alÿs, 2022. Photo: Roberto Ruiz, © Francis Alÿs.
COLOGNE.- Francis Alÿs (b. 1959 in Antwerp) will be awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2023. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on 14 November 2023 at 6:30 pm, on the eve of Art Cologne 2023. The decision was made by the jury consisting of Matthias Mühling, Director of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, and the board members of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst: Mayen Beckmann (Chairwoman), Gabriele Bierbaum, Sabine DuMont Schütte, Yilmaz Dziewior (Director, Museum Ludwig), Jörg Engels (Treasurer), and Robert Müller-Grünow. Of course I am much honored, and in these polarized times, receiving such an award is significant and invigorating as it makes me feel that there is some coincidence of my own preoccupations and the publics, and that a dialogue is possible. Guest juror Matthias Mühling on the choice of the recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2023: ... More |
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| Panorama Monopoli: A city-wide exhibition curated by Vincenzo de Bellis | | Artcurial to offer 'Robert William Burke, an American in Paris' | | Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents artworks from noted California artist | 
Giovanni Lanfranco, Il bacio di Angelica e Medoro, 1633-34, olio su tela, 168 Ã 182 cm. Courtesy Alessandra Di Castro. Photo: Arrigo Coppitz.
MONOPOLI .- ITALICS is the first consortium in Italy to bring together over sixty of the most authoritative galleries of ancient, modern and contemporary art throughout Italy. From Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 September 2022 in Monopoli (Bari), it is presenting the second edition of the city-wide exhibition Panorama, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Director, Fairs and Exhibition Platforms of Art Basel and Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Panorama, the special story that ITALICS dedicates periodically to some of the most extraordinary places in the Italian landscape, launched its first edition last year on the wonderful island of Procida, offering a new itinerary of ancient and contemporary art and architecture, accompanied by a schedule of informative side events, performances and special projects open to the ... More | | 
On 25th October, Artcurial will be selling the unique collection of Robert William Burke (1948-2020), an American collector and gallery owner who was closely associated with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Gilbert & George.
PARIS.- On 25th October Artcurial will be auctioning the collection from Robert William Burkes flat. An American by birth, he chose to settle in Paris where he meticulously preserved the collection he had painstakingly accumulated over the course of his career and through his artistic friendships. Many specialities are represented in this collection: contemporary art, photography, prints and books (Andy Warhol, Gilbert & George, Cy Twombly, Sol Lewitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Sarkis, Christopher Makos, Michel Comte, David Seidner, Robert Demachy, Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst), design (Jacques Adnet), as well as primitive arts, archaeology and Oriental arts, old paintings and Asian art. Alongside a previously unseen silkscreen ink on canvas by Andy Warhol ... More | | 
Artist: Eleen Auvil (1927 - 2022). Title/Subject: "#110 Short Journey." Size: 48in. x 24in. Year Created: 2002. Signature: Signed, dated, titled on stretcher. Medium/Ground: Patinas and brass on copper panel. Condition: Light surface scratches. NOTE: Large/heavy for shipping. Estimate $800-$1,200.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present The Art of Eleen Auvil (1927-1922), a noted California artist, on September 17, 2022, at 10:30 am PDT. Featuring over 120 lots from the artists estate, the auction includes a diverse selection of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, copper and bronze wall art, and more. Auction proceeds go to the Spirals Benefit Store in Pacific Grove, California, serving local seniors thru the Alliance on Aging. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding now. The auction will be featured live on multiple platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, iCollector, ... More |
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| Terremoto, CDMX announces new Executive Director Helena Lugo | | Fine Art Asia 2022 showcases the vibrant Hong Kong art scene 5 - 8 October 2022 | | Now open: The Roman Villa Museum | 
Helena Lugo (México, 1989) is an art historian, researcher and curator based in Mexico City. She received her MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College and has been Research Coordinator at MMAC Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca (Mexico) and Associate Curator at Chalton Gallery, (London). Photo: Pável Mora.
CDMX.- Asociación Terremoto, the not-for-profit civil association based in Mexico City which has been publishing the namesake bilingual magazine since 2013, is happy to announce the arrival of Helena Lugo as Executive Director. At Terremoto, Lugo will be taking over Founding Director Dorothée Dupuis executive responsibilities, and will oversee new not-for-profit projects such as an upcoming program of artistic and curatorial residencies organized in Mexico City and abroad. Dupuis will go on to become President of the Executive Board of Asociación Terremoto, and focus on expanding sister company and publishing house Temblores Publicaciones activities. "As we celebrate our tenth anniversary, we can no ... More | | 
Butterfly brooch by Cartier, Paris , c.1960. Onyx, diamonds. H.4 x W. 6.8 cm. Palais Royal Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- Asias leading international fine art fair, will be held from Wednesday 5 October to Saturday 8 2022, with a Preview on Tuesday, 4 October 2022, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Hong Kong art scene has remained strong throughout the challenges of the pandemic. This October, Fine Art Asia 2022 will deliver another vibrant art fair featuring a wide range of collecting categories. On display will be art works spanning over 5,000 years of cultural history, from ancient Chinese bronzes through to contemporary art. Due to ongoing travel restrictions, the focus will once again be on Hong Kongs excellent art and antiques galleries, as well as its outstanding art institutions. Fine Art Asia was founded in 2006 by Hong Kong art experts and has earned a reputation in the international art world as the most distinguished annual fine art fair in the region. Over the years, the fair has increasingly attracted le ... More | | 
Installation view.
SOMERSET.- In Somerset (UK), the excavation of the fourth-century Roman Villa Ventorum is the basis for a new cultural experience: the Roman Villa Museum. Here, you step into the life of a wealthy farmer and landlord in the year 351 CE. A visit consists of two parts: a museum full of information and original objects and a reconstruction of the Villa Ventorum. How does your life compare to that of a Roman in Britain 1600 years ago? It might not be as different as you may think... Welcome to the Roman Villa Museum! You'll find the Roman Villa Museum at The Newt estate, where we previously designed The Story of Gardening and Beezantium. Remarkable archeological discoveries were found on the estate's grounds: everyday objects, human remains and an entire villa from the height of the Roman Empire in Great Britain. Most of the villa remains underground. A small part has been excavated and can be admired in the museum, which i ... More |
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Meguru Yamaguchi in His Element
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 The Art of the Climate Action: Wave Farm partners with SunCommon to solarize ACRA, NY.- Wave Farm, a non-profit arts organization and pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, has collaborated with SunCommon, an innovator in the realm of renewable energy, to solarize its 29-acre campus, including a Study Center and a dozen media art installations, as well as its FM broadcast tower site by replacing non-renewable energy sources with clean, renewable energy to the tune of more than 58,000 kilowatt hours annually. On September 6, Wave Farm unveils a new installation: Solar Radio (2022), an automated radio sculpture powered by the sun by Peter Courtemanche, a contemporary sound and installation artist, and Anna Friz, a radio, transmission, and media artist and scholar. SunCommon, an iSun company and B-Corp based in Rhinebeck, NY, is also an underwriter of Wave Farms radio station and recently produced a series of short films capturing the creativity of Wave Farms site-specific installations. The solar company has ... More  Dane Mitchell : Post hoc joins permanent collection at Skulpturenpark KölnCOLOGNE.- Unknown Affinities by Dane Mitchell might be considered the first wing of The Museum of Without a museum of proxies and gaps an unhinged museum held together by its hermeneutical framing practices alone. This enormous and ambitious project directly displays techniques of enclosure and addresses the museums grasp of its artifacts and actively asks: what might a museum without artifacts be? What might a collection of losses hold and what might hold it? The installation presents a sketch of such absences. It is a scattered monument of mounts, or armatures, each made to scale, to grasp every known extinct Aotearoa New Zealand bird species; holotype, fossil, and full skeletal remains alike. Through this apparatus, which underwrites containment and reveals the museum as a place that presupposes the absence of what ... More  For FRONT 2022, Cleveland-born artist Renée Green has conceived Contact, her first major exhibition in the cityCLEVELAND, OH.- This exhibition presents the work of the fifteen prizewinners of the 2021 International Photography Competition, organized annually by the Photo Review, a critical journal of national scope and international readership. Selected by juror Christopher James from more than 1,500 entries, the photographs on view represent a range of creative processes, from tintype, invented in the nineteenth century, and a rare chlorophyll print, to traditional black-and-white gelatin silver prints and modern archival pigment prints. Since its founding in 1976, the Photo Review has been especially open to the work of women, artists of color, and young and emerging artists, and has worked to promote ... More  A star maestro, fighting brain cancer, finds peace in musicLENOX, MASS.- Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, during his half-century career in music, has led many performances of Beethovens Ninth Symphony, with its rousing Ode to Joy finale. But when he took the podium Sunday at Tanglewood, the summer music festival here in the Berkshires, Thomas felt different. It had been more than a year since he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, which has drained him of energy and forced him to confront his mortality earlier than he expected. He has emerged with new appreciation for the wonder in Beethovens music and the electricity of live performance. It feels really great, Thomas, 77, said after the performance. It feels restorative. Thomas, the former music director of the San Francisco Symphony, who has spent his career as a musician studying questions ... More  With 'Tár,' Todd Field returns to directing. where has he been?NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe Todd Field isnt ready to reappear just yet. After launching his directing career with the auspicious one-two punch of In the Bedroom (2001) and Little Children (2006), Field all but vanished from view. His first film in 16 years, the Cate Blanchett drama Tár, will make its highly anticipated premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. But a few weeks ago, when Field signed on to Zoom to discuss his long absence from movie theaters, I found myself interviewing an empty screen. Sorry about that, the 58-year-old filmmaker said, explaining that the laptop hed shipped to his Maine home after a family vacation hadnt yet arrived. Im at home on my desktop machine, and youre talking to a filmmaker with no access to a camera. Its a predicament Field knows all too well. After his first two movies both drew Oscar nominations, ... More  A leading choreographer joins the war effort, with classical balletTHE HAGUE.- Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky was leading a newly formed ballet company of Ukrainian dancers who have fled the war in a run-through of Giselle, a 19th-century classic, in a repurposed conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, where the dancers have been rehearsing, and some living, since April. He seemed to be everywhere at once, fine-tuning the corps de ballet (Feel the geometry between the hand and the leg), correcting a soloist (That jump was not very good you have to push into the floor), and honing the acting of a male lead (Imagine that you are in a dark forest, and then run because you see something, not because you are supposed to run at that moment). He was working to turn this ad hoc group of dancers of varying skill into a first-class company that could project Ukrainian excellence to the world. I ... More  HANDMADE: On the Social Dimensions of Craft opens at Art Space Pythagorion SamosSTHENS.- EΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens is presenting its collaboration with the non-profit Schwarz Foundation, as part of its new policy of creating synergies and partnerships with other institutions in Greece and abroad, and of showcasing its collection outside the museum, beyond its metropolitan context, in other regions of Greece. Within this framework, HANDMADE: On the Social Dimensions of Craft will be presented in the Schwarz Foundation venue Art Space Pythagorion, situated on the Greek island of Samos. The group exhibition, which runs from 5 August - 25 September 2022, features nine artists and includes works from the museum's collection. Participating artists: Nikos Alexiou, Bertille Bak, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Maria Louizou, Jennifer Nelson, Natalia Manta, Eleni Mylonas, Sphinxes, Maria ... More  Wales Contemporary announces shortlistPEMBROKESHIRE.- Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes , is an international open competition inviting artists from all around the world to enter work in 2D or 3D in any subject matter. Developed in 2019 by the Waterfront Gallery with the support of the Welsh Government, Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes, has established a strong reputation for championing and rewarding contemporary artists and their diverse practices, throughout a wide range of prizes and a touring exhibition promising to inspire wide audiences of art lovers. For its 2022 edition, Wales Contemporary received close to 2,000 entries from 1,000 artists living across 42 countries including the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. After much deliberation, a shortlist of 143 works by 116 artists ... More  Heritage Auctions shattered ANA-week record with $85.7 million in combined sales DALLAS, TX.- The $85,749,443 in total sales by Heritage Auctions, an Official Auctioneer Partner of American Numismatic Association Worlds Fair of Money, marked the largest combined sales ever by any auction house at an ANA-sanctioned auction. Led by an exceedingly rare 1927-D Double Eagle MS66 PCGS, part of The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part IX, that soared to a record $4.44 million, Heritage accounted for $67,901,923 in sales at its US Coins Signature® Auction August 22-28;
The worlds finest certified example of the Meiji gold Pattern 10 Yen Year 3 (1870) MS66 NGC sold for a record $564,000 to lead Heritage Auctions World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction $17,847,520 August 25 and 27-28. The previous record for combined sales by a single firm at ANA or ANA-adjacent events ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Helen Levitt was born August 31, 1913. Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time. She lived in New York City and remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years. New York's "visual poet laureate" was notoriously private and publicity shy.
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