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Thomas A. Walsh (Co-Curator), Jody Harrison Grass (Chair of the Museums Board of Trustees), Ben Mankiewicz, and Irvin Lippman (Museum Director) (photo by Lynn Becerra)
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Blockbuster Museum Show Breaks Attendance Records . . . Ben Mankiewicz, the primetime host of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), greeted hundreds of fans at the Boca Raton Museum of Arts nationally acclaimed exhibition Art of the Hollywood Backdrop, now in its final six weeks of a spectacular run. I am honored to have been invited by the Boca Raton Museum of Art to be part of the Art of the Hollywood Backdrop, before this stellar museum experience concludes its successful debut, said Ben Mankiewicz. There are so many avid film lovers and TCM fans in South Florida who love seeing this museum exhibition, a testament to the power of classic Hollywood films. Watch the video at  https://vimeo.com/780243676. Through this singular exhibition, art lovers and film fans of all ages are embracing this collection of Hollywood backdrops that were ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities, Pre-Columbian, Ethno, Fine Art sale on Dec 15, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, Jewelry, more! Fossilized Rhinoceros Full Skull - Chilotherium Wimani. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| In Harlem, a playful new youth center is an instant landmark | | New acquisitions unite important murals by two of the most significant artists of the 20th-century | | Ateneum Art Museum opens in April 2023 after a one-year break with a new collection exhibition | 
Dwayne Smith-Malcolm and Asia Black of Urban Architectural Initiatives, a New York-based, minority-owned architecture firm, which oversaw the design of the new home of the Brotherhood Sister Sol youth center in the West Harlem area of New York, July 25, 2022. (Ike Edeani/The New York Times)
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK, NY.- The new home of Brotherhood Sister Sol is an architectural showpiece on a quiet street of old tenements in West Harlem. In 1995, two childhood friends, freshly minted college grads, founded the social justice and youth development organization to help underserved Black and Latino boys. Three years later its work expanded to include girls. BroSis, as its also known, has now provided generations of 8- to 22-year-olds with a wide variety of classes, job training, college prep, mental health support, arts instruction and daily meals. Until 2018, the nonprofit operated out of an overstuffed century-old brownstone along West 143rd Street, sandwiched between a derelict lot, which BroSis acquired in 2007, and a popular community garden ... More | | 
John Piper, The Englishmans Home, 1951 (detail) © The John Piper Estate, Courtesy of Liss Llewellyn.
WADDESDON.- The Rothschild Foundation has acquired both The Englishmans Home by John Piper (1951) and The English Pub by Edward Bawden (1949 -1951) and plans to display the works by two of the most important artists and designers of the 20th-century at Waddesdon Manor. John Pipers (1903-1992) monumental mural The Englishmans Home is the largest surviving mural from the Festival of Britain 1951, covering almost 5m x 16m. The Englishmans Home consists of 42 plywood panels, painted with house paint - many have a complex surface with multiple finishes combining impasto with scumbled glazes and incised lines. The mural was installed on the river side of the Homes and Gardens Pavilion in a prominent place on a main route through the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank in London. The composition is an imagined street scene including a highly personal and impressionistic selection of buildings, both grand and domestic ... More | | 
Simberg, Hugo: Auntie; The Artist´s Aunt (1898), National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Picture: National Gallery / Kari Soinio.
HELSINKI.- Ateneum will reopen to the public on 14 April 2023. The museum was closed in March 2022 for ventilation renovation. Other changes include the refurbishment of the Ateneum Museum Shop, toilets, atrium (between the old museum shop and the restaurant) and Ateneuminkuja entrance. The spaces will be made more accessible and inviting, as the museum wants to continue to serve as the meeting place of choice and a building where visitors wish to spend time. Next year will see the launch of three exhibitions. The first, opening together with the museum in April and remaining open for several years, is the new collection exhibition A Question of Time. The content of the exhibition will be updated and works on exhibition changed as necessary over time. A Question of Time looks at Ateneums art collection comprising works from four centuries, with a fresh focus particularly on how the collection has formed over time. ... More |
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| Ketterer Kunst is best auction house in Germany with record figures, breaking the €100 million barrier | | Items from the Roy Elvis Collection of Indian Arms and Armour realise strong prices | | Prix Pictet to release photo book "Collage": New work by women photographers from around the world | 
Robert Ketterer selling Das blaue Mädchen in der Sonne from the Gerlinger Collection for a result of 4,750,000*, a new European record** for a work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
MUNICH.- Ketterer Kunst completed the most successful auction in the companys history this December. With total proceeds of 59 million* for the second half of 2022, the company scored the German industrys best season result for the ninth consecutive time. At the same time, the auction houses figures cracked the 100 million. With an annual total of 103 million, it not only once more confirmed first place in the German art auction ranking, but also consolidated its top position among the international competitors. Some 13 results beyond the million euro mark and an additional 163 works sold for six digit prices complete the sensational performance. Everything was perfect to the smallest detail, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. The art market remains strong and the vast array of top quality ... More | | 
A rare 16th/ 17th century South Indian mail and plate helmet sold for £25,000.
LONDON.- A rare 16th/ 17th century South Indian mail and plate helmet sold for £25,000 - five times its pre-sale estimate - in Thomas Del Mars sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14. Bought by a member of the trade, it was one of 87 lots in the sale from the Roy Elvis Collection of Indian Arms and Armour (1944-2022) [lot 70]. Five of the top 10 prices were achieved by items from the Roy Elvis Collection which sold for a total of £313,400 (including premium), four times the pre-sale low estimate. A very rare late 15th century South Indian sword fetched £21,250 more than 26 times its pre-sale estimate. It was bought by a Collector [lot 8], while a very fine and rare 17th century North Indian mail and plate shirt otherwise known as a zereh bagtar realised £15,000. Bought by a collector, it was probably made in Bijapur ... More | | 
Alex Prager (Afternoon), 2021. Courtesy of Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New
York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London, Collage, Prix Pictet / gestalten 2022.
LONDON.- New and recent work by contemporary female photographers will feature in a new book by Prix Pictet, the leading global award in photography and sustainability. Showcasing some of the finest photographers creating powerful imagery around the world today, Collage features the recent work of 64 women photographers on the theme of sustainability who have previously been shortlisted or nominated for the prize. Together the images address the most urgent environmental and social problems facing the planet today, from the aftermath of the war in Ukraine to human trafficking across the Gulf of Aden to childrens education in post-industrial England. Featured photographers include Mandy Barker, Joana Choumali, Gohar Dashti, Rena Effendi, Rinko Kawauchi, An-my Lê, Alice Mann, Chloe Dewe Mathews ... More |
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| Decades after the Central Park jogger attack, a city marks its mistake | | Rare silver 'Pavilion' dollar brings record $576,000 to lead Heritage World & Ancient Coins Auction to nearly $8 Million | | Arts On Main's inaugural exhibition, Timothy J. Clark, American Master, is set to close with a lecture by Dr. M. Bailey | 
A worker chisels letters onto a stone panel that is set to be part of Central Parks new Gate of the Exonerated, in New York, Dec. 5, 2022. (Flo Ngala/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- They entered the northeast corner of Central Park one night in 1989 and were later falsely prosecuted for the brutal attack and rape of a woman who was jogging. Now five Black and Latino men, who went to prison as teenagers and spent years behind bars for a crime they did not commit, are being honored by the city, which is renaming a gate to the park for them. The Gate of the Exonerated, it will be called. The men, who came to be known as the Central Park Five, were cleared in 2002. Ever since, society has tried to understand and make amends for a mistake that cannot be undone. The men received $41 million in a settlement with New York City. Their case was the subject of a 2012 documentary, a Pulitzer Prize ... More | | 
Republic Hsu Shih-chang Specimen "Pavilion" Medallic Dollar Year 10 (1921) SP63 PCGS, L&M-956, Kann-676b, WS-0102. Reeded edge, without lower legend on reverse variety. Among the most attractive Republican-era Dollars this cataloger has handled, and the first Medallic "pavilion" issue we've seen since 2017.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- A rare Specimen Medallic Pavilion Dollar sold for a record $576,000 to lead Heritage Auctions World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction to $7,969,537 Dec. 7-9. The price paid for the Republic Hsu Shih-chang Specimen Pavilion Medallic Dollar Year 10 (1921) SP63 PCGS, from the Ta Han Collection, set a new record for a silver Pavilion Dollar; the prior record was set in October 2021, when a European firm sold an example for approximately $285,000. This is the first Medallic Pavilion issue without lower legend we have offered at Heritage Auctions in the last five years, and the condition is extraordinary the second-finest of all examples in the conditional censuses, says Cris Bierrenbach ... More | | 
The Black Bicycle, Collection of the Laguna Art Museum, California
VAN BUREN, ARK.- Arts On Main, a state-of-the-art exhibition and education center, will close its inaugural exhibition, Timothy J. Clark - American Master, with a celebration lecture by noted art historian and Director at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Gallery of Art & Design, Dr. Matthew Bailey. The event will take place on Thursday, December 15, at 6:00pm, and is free and open to the public. Dr. Bailey will share his insight into the influences and inspirations of Clarks art, from Sargent and Homer to his celebrated African American portraits, one of which has recently been acquired by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Clark, who has studios in California and Maine, is an artist of renown, whose work has been described by art writers and historians as poetic realism; and unwavering representational imagery, with a decidedly unorthodox bent. Mr. Jean Stern once wrote ... More |
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| Stora Enso makes major furniture donation to Alvar Aalto Foundation | | Noonans to sell the Nobel Prize Medal of Archer Martin | | Fundación Ama Amoedo announces inaugural Curator and new cohort of artists for its FAARA Residency | 
Nojatuoli. Valokuva Maija Holma © Alvar Aalto -säätiö. Arm Chair. Photo Maija Holma © Alvar Aalto Foundation.
HELSINKI.- The Alvar Aalto Foundation has received a significant furniture donation from Stora Enso. It comprises a total of 121 free-standing furnishing elements furniture and light fittings that were part of the interior originally designed by the architect Alvar Aalto for the Enso-Gutzeit Headquarters office building (Kanavaranta 1, Helsinki, 195962). Completed in a central position on the South Harbour in 1962, the buildings architecture and interior design form an integrated whole whose main features have been well preserved. The interior incorporates models from Arteks range and unique objects pieces of furniture and fittings individually designed for the building. Most of the donated objects belonged to the interiors of the office buildings Directors floors (5th and 6th), which exuded a dignified aura. The buildings façades and some of the interior spaces are protecte ... More | | 
Nobel Prize medal awarded to Archer Martin. Photo: Noonans.
LONDON.- The Nobel Prize medal awarded to the astonishing and inspiring chemist Archer Martin in 1952 will be sold by Noonans on Thursday, February 2, 2023 in a sale of Coins and Historical Medals. It is being sold by his family and expected to fetch £100,000-150,000. As Peter Preston-Morley, Special Projects Director in the Coins department at Noonans commented: Archer Martin was a brilliant scientist whose discoveries led to extraordinary advances in medicine and other fields and won him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1952, but cruelly could not help his own mental decline. He was a fearless guinea pig for drug testing to transform the lives of Alzheimers sufferers and delighted researchers when his condition improved. The public first became aware of Archers genius when he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1952 with Richard Synge for their ground-breaking invention of Partition Chromatography, an effective ... More | | 
Portrait of Laura Hakel. Photographed by Rosana Schoijett. Laura Hakel joins Fundación Ama Amoedo as the inaugural Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects and will work with the Foundations leadership to deepen its mission to support Latin American art and artists.
JOSà IGNACIO, URUGUAY.- Fundación Ama Amoedo appoints Laura Hakel as the Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects of Fundación Ama Amoedo, joining Director Verónica Flom and the Foundations leadership team to continue the Foundations mission to advance and support art from Latin America. In this position, Hakel will continue building Amoedos collection and expanding its reach towards contemporary Latin American art. Founded in 2021, Amalia Amoedo conceived Fundación Ama Amoedo to bring together her arts patronage and philanthropic endeavors under a single organization. With the mission of creating a lasting impact on the Latin American contemporary art ecosystem by expanding its visibility, the Foundation ... More |
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 Exceptional examples from Shiro Kuramata, Diego Giacometti, and Vladimir Kagan featured in Bonham's NY Design SaleNEW YORK, N.Y..- Today, December 14, Bonhams presents its final Modern Decorative Art + Design sale of the year in New York, which will feature a strong selection of works from design masters such as Diego Giacometti, Shiro Kuramata, Charlotte Perriand, and Vladimir Kagan. Highlighting the sale is an incredible Carcasse a la Chauve-Souris table by major Swiss designer Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), best known for his fantastical sculptures of animals. Estimated at $300,000 500,000, this exceptional example was crafted circa 1965 and incorporates patinated bronze bats. Additionally featured is an iconic Miss Blanche chair by Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991), one of the most important Japanese designers of the 20th century ... More  The Barnes Foundation announces Assistant Curators, Corrinne Chong & TK SmithPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, today announced the appointments of two new Assistant Curators at the Barnes Foundation, Corrinne Chong and TK Smith. Corrinne Chong is an art historian, curator, and educator from Toronto, Canada. She served as research consultant for the 2021 Barnes exhibition Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel and has taught Barnes courses including The Nude in France and Hearing Painting, Seeing Music. Prior to the Barnes, she worked in the curatorial department at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, where she developed the 2020 exhibition Delacroix and Faust: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and served as a key member of the curatorial team for the 2019 exhibition Early Rubens. In addition to her curatorial projects ... More  National Portrait Gallery announces Michael Hussey as its new Director of History, Restorative History and ResearchWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced Michael Hussey (he/him) as its new director of history, restorative history and research, effective Dec. 5. Hussey comes to the Portrait Gallery from the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), where he led the development of NMAIs groundbreaking Native Knowledge 360° educational initiative. At the Portrait Gallery, he will set the historical framework within which the museum operates with an emphasis on understanding how individualsboth past and presentshape national history and culture. We are particularly looking forward to having Michael lead the history department in uncovering the stories of people ... More  The V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project launches international photography prizeLONDON.- Today the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project launches a brand-new photography prize dedicated to supporting and championing contemporary womens photography which will run for three years. The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, organised in partnership with Peckham 24, is a career-enhancing opportunity open to all women photographers from across the globe. Also announced today is the inaugural theme for this years prize, Agents of Change, alongside the selection panel for the prize. The prize celebrates the outstanding talent of women photographers and provides a powerful platform to showcase the work of innovative artists working in the field of contemporary photography. The five winners of the prize will have their work displayed at Peckham 24 south Londons vibrant three-day contemporary photography festival ... More  Art Fund and Garfield Weston announce exhibitions supported by Weston Loan ProgrammeLONDON.- Art Fund and Garfield Weston Foundation have announced the latest round of exhibitions to be supported by the Weston Loan Programme the first UK-wide grant programme designed to directly fund and empower smaller museums to borrow major works from national or major lending museums and galleries. At a time of increasing pressure on museum finances the scheme supports practical costs associated with the display of nationally important works in places across the UK, often where they have a particular relevance for local audiences. The thirteen new recipients include: Crantown Museum in the Highlands, for an exhibition on the areas influence on the Victorian painter Edward Landseer; The Box in Plymouth, for their celebration of the tricentenary of Joshua Reynolds who lived in Plymouth for a time; and North Hertfordshire Museum ... More  Alan Charlton exhibition currently on view at A arte Invernizzi galleryMILAN.- The A arte Invernizzi gallery opened a solo exhibition of works by Alan Charlton on December 1st, which will continue through February 15th, 2023. Charlton has been creating monochrome works since 1969 and the only colour he uses is grey. His works are a radical zero-resetting of all expressive traits as well as an investigation into the huge potential of monochromes through the use of light. His works interact with their settings, and are thus subject to continuous changes brought about by modulations in the lighting. On this occasion, the English artist has created an exhibition that gives rise to a dialogue between the two floors of the gallery, with recent works linked to those that were shown in his last solo exhibition in 2018. The works are characterised by a trapezoidal shape consisting of three elements ... More  Helsinki Biennial 2023 announces preview list of artists and title: New Directions May EmergeHELSINKI.- Helsinki Biennial 2023 reveals "New Directions May Emerge" as the title of its second edition, which will bring together around 30 established and emerging artists and collectives from Finland and across the world from June 12 - September 17,2023. Curated by Joasia Krysa, the biennial reflects on some of the major issues of our time that appear irresolvable, such as environmental damage, political conflict and the effects of technology. Working with both human and nonhuman agencies, Krysa has invited five arts, research, and technological entities as curatorial collaborators: Critical Environmental Data, Museum of Impossible Forms, TBA21-Academy, ViCCA @ Aalto Arts, and an A.I. Entity. Comprising of over 50% new commissions and site-specific works, the first participants to be announced include: ... More  A powerful new art anthology imagines how we can build community through simple actionsVANCUVER, B.C.- Independent curator and writer Joni Low will launch the anthology What Are Our Supports? at 2pm on Jan. 21, 2023 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The book, co-edited with art historian Jeff OBrien, highlights the need to reinvigorate sustainable and alternative support networks for artists and art communities during times of uncertainty and change from the infrastructural and funding supports that make art possible to the more intangible emotional and cultural supports that are at the core of all communities. The publication is a bold new look at how individuals can shape the future of living in diverse, complex societies through simple daily gestures, and what we can learn through the quests of art. The anthology is both an archive and a continuation of the ideas that originated in the innovative 2018 project of the same name curated by Low ... More  Fernando Daza: Estructuras en papel (Paper Structures), first solo exhibition in the United StatesNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is now presenting Fernando Daza: Estructuras en Papel, the Spanish artists first solo exhibition in the United States. The show, that began on December 10th, features newly created works on paper and will run until January 21st, 2023. Dazas works are adroit investigations of form, color, light, shadow, and texture. His medium of choice is monochromatic Casson paper, which he meditatively tears by hand before precisely mounting onto canvas. Arranged in overlapping layers, the sheets form simplified geometric shapes that create dialogues with juxtaposed structures. Squares within squares, rectangles positioned perpendicularly to one another, or lines cutting across circles are among his modernistic configurations. Daza enhances his visual vocabulary by rendering the shapes with chromatic interactions ... More  P·P·O·W opens an exhibition of works by Anton van DalenNEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Doves: Where They Live and Work, Anton van Dalens third solo exhibition with the gallery. Since moving to New York in 1966, and settling in the East Village, van Dalen has served as witness, storyteller, and documentarian of the dramatic cultural shifts in the neighborhood, through his masterfully honed and singular iconography. As critic John Yau writes in his essay for the recently published monograph, Anton van Dalen: Community of Many, van Dalens work arises out of a meticulous draftsmanship in service of an idiosyncratic imagination merged with civic-mindedness.[2] Bringing together new and historical works, Doves: Where They Live and Work juxtaposes van Dalens lifelong commitment to exposing inequality amidst the societal influences of technology, war, and capitalism with his personal and artistic dedication ... More  The $312,500 sale of Erika Jayne's diamond earrings led Moran's Fine Jewelry & Timepieces auctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Everyone from bidders to Bravo fans tuned in to Morans Fine Jewelry & Timepieces sale to see the diamond stud earrings once owned by The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Erika Jayne. While they were the definite stars of the show, there was also major interest in the 170+ other diamond treasures, as well as tanzanite, sapphire, and ruby jewelry, and timepieces from makers such as Patek Philippe, Cartier, and Rolex. The excitement was centered around lot 30, a pair of princess-cut diamond stud earrings worn by Erika Jayne. Thomas Girardi, Jaynes estranged husband, purchased the earrings in 2007 at a retail value of $750,000. After GIA reports were done in Oct 2022, it was determined that the market value of the earrings was estimated to be $250,000-350,000. Molly Burns Keith G.J.G., Jewelry director at Morans ... More  Samara Joy's voice (and social media) is helping jazz find fresh earsNEW YORK, NY.- Samara Joy was kicking off an encore engagement at the citys storied Blue Note club in November, just days before her 23rd birthday, when sparks began to fly. It was my first set, and I was in the middle of telling a story, she recounted a few weeks later. I was building up this whole scenario that was going to get me into the song, and then I closed my eyes and when I opened them, five seconds later, there was all this smoke coming up. (A woman seated by the stage got a bit too close to a flickering candle; the fire was swiftly extinguished.) Nothing like that had ever happened to me before, Joy said, giggling softly. Just a week later, she had another, more traditional first, picking up two Grammy nominations for Linger Awhile, her second album and Verve Records debut. The album teams her with noted musicians guitarist Pasquale Grasso, pianist Ben Paterson ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter George Rodrigue died December 14, 2013. George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 - December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame.In this image: Wendy and Me.
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