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Gallery view of Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (December 10, 2021March 6, 2022). Photo by Paul Lachenauer, Courtesy of The Met. © Disney.
NEW YORK, NY.- Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts is the first-ever exhibition at The Met to explore the work of Walt Disney Animation Studios hand-drawn animation. It draws new parallels between the magical creations of the Disney Studios and their artistic models, examining Walt Disneys personal fascination with European art and the use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks. Sixty works of 18th-century European decorative arts and designfrom tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sèvres porcelainare beng featured alongside 150 production artworks and works on paper from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Walt Disney Archives, Walt Disney Imagineering Collection, and The Walt Disney Family Museum. Selected film footage illustrating the extraordinary technological and artistic developments of the studios during Walt Disneys lifetime and beyond is also being shown. The exhibition highlights references to European visu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its VARIETY SALE | Antiquities & Ethnographic Art Auction on Dec 16, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. Featuring 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, more! In this image: Group of 6 Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablets. Estimate $1,800 - $2,500.
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| Tracey Moffatt creates a new site-specific art installation | | Nelson-Atkins donor gifts enhance European collection | | Danziger Gallery announces representation of the Lora Webb Nichols Archive |
Tracey Moffatt will display A Haunting from now until the end of 2023.
ARMATREE.- Internationally acclaimed Australian artist Tracey Moffatt has created a new site-specific art installation entitled A Haunting, which is an abandoned farm house that pulses red light. A Haunting is situated on the Castlereagh highway, just outside Armatree, New South Wales, within Wailwan country. The work, which the artist describes as a lighted vigil, utilises a rundown 1920s house to invoke issues around settlement, domesticity, landscape and the worldwide pandemic. Moffatt has said that A Haunting can also read like a crime scene. Moffatt developed this artwork prior to lockdown when only travel to regional areas was possible. The artist sought to create a work that encouraged people to travel inland rather than to the edges or beyond. Working with the local community to realise the work, the artists commitment to its placement within the region will see it displayed for the next two years. I ... More | |
Louis Valtat (French, 18691952), Wheat Field with Poppies, 1915 (detail), oil on canvas, 21 5/8 Ã 25 5/8 inches (54.93 Ã 65.09 cm, Gift of Min-Hwan and Yu-Fan Kao, 2021.16.2.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Two paintings by French Impressionist artist Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) and two paintings by his near contemporary, French artist Louis Valtat (1869-1952), have been accepted as gifts by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, deepening the museums holdings of Impressionist and Fauve works. The four paintings are already on view in the Bloch Galleries. Guillaumins Morning-Rouen, 1904 was given by Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch; donors Dr. Min-Hwan and Mrs. Yu-Fan Kao gave Guillaumins Moret-sur-Loing, Evening Effect, 1896 as well as two paintings by Valtat, Wheat Field with Poppies, 1915 and Two Bouquets with Daffodils, Snowdrops, Daisies, and Pansies, painted around 1927. Collectively, these wonderful gifts bring depth to our collection, said Julián ... More | |
Lora Webb Nichols, Madel Wilcox and Button, 1902.
NEW YORK, NY.- Danziger Gallery announced its exclusive representation of the archive of Lora Webb Nichols. The recent discovery of Nichols turn of the century frontier work has been met with the acclaim of such other out of the mainstream photographers as Mike Disfarmer, Seydou Keïta, and Vivian Maier. Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment ... More |
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| 1 million records of archaeological finds made by public now recorded | | Unraveling how an extinct mollusk got its strange shell | | Denis Weil appointed Director of Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
Unique gold cross with runic inscription. Photo: Durham County Council.
LONDON.- Today at the British Museum, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, launched the Treasure Annual Report for 2019 and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) Annual Report for 2020. These show that 49,045 archaeological finds were recorded throughout the first year of the pandemic. This number is lower than previous years as opportunities for metal-detectorists to record their finds were limited due to lockdowns and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The counties recording the most PAS finds in 2020 were East Yorkshire (5,584 finds), Norfolk (5,206) and Suffolk (4,048). For the same year, the areas where most Treasure was reported were Norfolk (104 cases), Hampshire (71) and Suffolk (57). These reports outline the work of the PAS in England and Wales, and the success of the Treasure Act 1996 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The 1 millionth record logged on the PAS database was a copper-alloy medieval ... More | |
A photo provided by the Mikasa City Museum in Japan shows a fossilized ammonite, N. mirabilis, from the late Cretaceous Period, left, alongside a computer reconstruction. Daisuke Aiba/Mikasa City Museum, Japan via The New York Times.
by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- If youve seen one ammonite, you may think youve seen them all. Most of the 10,000 species of the extinct cephalopods sported tightly coiled shells with polite mouthfuls of tentacles. Enter Nipponites mirabilis, a species of ammonite straight out of an M.C. Escher painting. In place of the classic, coiled-snake shell design, it substituted something far more ludicrous: a convoluted shell twisting into itself with no obvious beginning or end. It looks like a chunk of rope that someone threw out a window, said Kathleen Ritterbush, a paleoecologist at the University of Utah. The first time you look at it, its just this tangled mess, said Derek Moulton, a mathematician at the University of Oxford. And then you start to look ... More | |
Weil has worked extensively in the public and philanthropic sectors. Photo: John Faier.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum announced today the appointment of Denis Weil as the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director. Currently Dean and Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Weil brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in public and private sectors to the institution. He was unanimously elected by the Museum's Board of Directors following an extensive search that included candidates from Israel and abroad. Weil assumes his position at the Museum on March 1, 2022. Weil has worked extensively in the public and philanthropic sectors, including roles at Bloomberg Philanthropies, Year Up, Mercy Corps, and Sanergy. Weil has also held leadership positions in innovation, design, and digital technology at McDonald's, Interactive Media Group, Procter and Gamble, and IDEO. "Throughout his career, Denis has been an innovator who has led scholars and creatives in research-driven inquir ... More |
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| Toledo Museum of Art offers viewers new experience of artist Stan Douglas film Doppelgänger in the metaverse | | World Coins and World Paper Money Auctions combine to top $13.8 million | | Kraftwerk Berlin presents a major site-specific installation by Robert Irwin |
Doppelgänger in Decentraland. Image courtesy of Toledo Museum of Art.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art launched Doppelgänger in Decentraland, an immersive new facet of artist Stan Douglas acclaimed film on the metaverse platform Decentraland.org. Doppelgänger (2019), which is on view at the Toledo Museum of Art through May 15, 2022, has evolved into a digital dimension in the metaverse, enabling audiences to unlock a novel experience of the artists visionary work. Avatars in Decentraland are able to teleport into Doppelgänger and the spaces where critical parts of the films narrative unfold. Just as Doppelgänger is inspired by science fiction, the metaverse allows audiences to think beyond physical limitations and imagine new possibilities. Doppelgänger in Decentraland was produced in partnership with the artist, creative development studio Parameta and metaverse building firm Polygonal Mind. We at the Toledo Museum of Art believe it is important to engage emerging experiential opportunities in the digital realm, responding to the shiftin ... More | |
A Republic Chang Tso-lin silver Pattern Mukden Tiger Dollar Year 17 (1928) MS62 NGC soared to $2,160,000 more than four times its high pre-auction estimate and the third-highest price ever paid at auction for any Chinese coin.
DALLAS, TX.- The popularity and demand for Asian numismatics has soared recently. Nowhere was that more evident than at Heritage Auctions HKINF World Coins Signature® Auction December 11-13 and HKINF World Paper Money Signature® Auction December 11, which combined $13,810,122 in total sales. Two Chinese coins from the early 20th century sold for more than $1 million each to lead the HKINF World Coins auction to $11,229,343, and a 1949 China People's Bank of China 200 Yuan note more than doubled its pre-auction estimate when it led the World Paper Money event to $2,580,779. This represents Heritages most successful Hong Kong Coin & Currency auction to date, beating the firms prior record by over 30% in total prices realized, which was set just this past June. The events were hugely popular, as both events generated near-perfect ... More | |
Robert Irwin, Light and Space (Kraftwerk Berlin), 2021. Commissioned by LAS (Light Art Space). © Photo: Timo Ohler. VG Bild-Kunst, 2021.
BERLIN.- LAS announced Light and Space (Kraftwerk Berlin), a major site-specific installation at Kraftwerk Berlin by pioneering American artist Robert Irwin (b. 1928, Long Beach). LAS brings one of the most prominent figures of the Light and Space movement to the centre of Berlin. Commissioned by LAS, the installation is the largest work by Irwin to be exhibited in Europe to date and forms part of the artists Light and Space series. Over his prolific, six-decade career, Irwin has become best known for site-conditioned artworks that use the effects of light to explore human perception and use of space. An early proponent of site-specific installations, he creates large-scale experiential works, using minimal means that challenge our perceptions and reimagine our environments. As the artist puts it, My ambition is, in a sense, to make you see a little bit more tomorrow than you saw today.1 For Light and Space (Kraftwerk Berlin) Irwin intervenes in the impressive, ... More |
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| The Armory Show announces curatorial team for the fair's September 2022 edition at the Javits Center | | Shulamit Nazarian opens a solo exhibition of new textile sculptures by Maria A. Guzmán Capron | | The Donum Collection acquires Rehearsal by El Anatsui |
Mari Carmen RamÃrez will chair the fifth annual Curatorial Leadership Summit. Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
NEW YORK, NY.- For its September 2022 edition held at the state-of-the-art Javits Center, The Armory Show announces its curators for the Focus and Platform sections and the Curatorial Leadership Summit. For the first time in the fairs history, The Armory Show will bring together three curators with similar fields of curatorial practice, that of Latin American and Latinx art, offering a distinct, unified vision for the fairs initiatives. Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, will curate the Focus section; Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate, London, will curate the Platform section; and Mari Carmen RamÃrez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will chair the fifth ... More | |
Maria A. Guzmán Capron, SÃgueme.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian is presenting Celaje, a solo exhibition of new textile sculptures by Oakland-based artist Maria A. Guzmán Capron. This is the artists first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Through a combination of hand-sewn textiles and paints, Capron joins together an array of patterns and striking colors to fashion bodily forms. Merging figuration with abstraction, these works explore cultural hybridity, pride, and the competing desires to assimilate and to be seen. Caprons shaped wall-works are rooted in her background as an immigrant. Born in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents and later relocating to Texas as a teenager, Capron recognizes the challenges of toggling between various cultures and geographies. Her practice explores how clothing is used as a marker of class, gender, and cultural identity. The artist shares, As a non-English-speaking immigrant, I was always aware of visual lang ... More | |
El Anatsui, Rehearsal, 2015 (detail). © The Donum Collection and the artist. Photo: Robert Berg.
SONOMA, CA.- Donum, one of the leading California Pinot Noir producers, has installed Rehearsal, a monumental wall hanging sculpture by El Anatsui. Created out of aluminum liquor bottle caps, joined together by copper wire, the 4-metre artwork hangs within the white cube conservation space at the Donum Estate that houses Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeois. Placed within one of Donums bespoke architectural facilities, Rehearsal joins The Donum Collection, a growing collection of monumental sculptures that live harmoniously across the 200-acre Carneros Estate nestled between Napa and Sonoma wine regions. Mei and Allan Warburg, Owners of The Donum Estate, said: We have been looking for the right Anatsui work for many years. We have seen many of his works around the world, one of the first being in Hong Kong nearly a decade ago. We ... More |
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Hundred Heroines announces 25 new additions to its prestigious list of global women photographers
GLOUCESTER.- Hundred Heroines, the pioneering charitable organisation that promotes and celebrates the diversity of women working globally in photography today, announced on 14th December the names of an additional 25 inspiring women photographers joining its ever-growing list celebrating women in photography. This next cohort represents a myriad of cultures, countries, approaches, and aesthetics, which is key to the ethos of Hundred Heroines. The new tranche of 25 comprises photographers from Australia to India, South Africa to Chile. The additions and the full list can be found in its entirety at hundred heroines.org. Hundred Heroines originally unveiled the first 100 photographic heroines on 14 December 2018, commemorating 100 years since (some) women secured the vote in Britain. Now, that list has doubled ... More
Anna Laudel Düsseldorf presents a solo exhibition of works by Anke Eilergerhard
DUSSELDORF.- Anna Laudel Düsseldorf presents Anke Eilergerhards solo exhibition titled Hysterical Balance'' between 25 November 2021 - 12 February 2022. The exhibition showcases works created during the pandemic for the first time in addition to the titular, three-part and room-filling sculpture ensemble HYSTERICAL BALANCE. Although Eilergerhard uses the same vocabulary typical of her work, noticeably new texts have emerged. "The neologism HYSTERICAL BALANCE is, like all the names of my artworks, part of the artistic material and describes for me best the new pandemic feeling of life that can be perceived in me and around me." - Anke Eilergerhard. Anke Eilergerhard is critically acclaimed for her artistic position, which is unique in the world. Presented in numerous museums and at international art fairs, her works ... More
In 'Flying Over Sunset,' getting high with the stars
NEW YORK, NY.- To a perpetual square, nothing is as mystifying as another persons high. Or so I learned in college, during the heyday of chemically induced inner journeys and again at the Vivian Beaumont Theater the other night. Though sometimes mesmerizing, Flying Over Sunset, the new musical about LSD that opened there Monday, is mostly bewildering, and further proof that transcendence cant be shared. It admits as much in its structure, which throws into one scenario (by James Lapine) three famous seekers who never actually got high together. We meet them separately, starting with philosopher and novelist Aldous Huxley (Harry Hadden-Paton), tripping at a Hollywood drugstore in the late 1950s. Next comes the greatest of all male movie stars, Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck), demanding the drug then legal from his ... More
Suzette Winter, who documented Hollywood's Golden Age, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Suzette Winter Feldman, who wrote and produced a series of more than 30 documentaries chronicling the life of Hollywoods biggest stars, often rendering them in the golden light of Hollywoods heyday, died Dec. 1 at her home in Sleepy Hollow, New York. She was 90. Her daughter Zara Janson said the cause was aspiration pneumonia. Winter, who used her birth name professionally, worked with her husband, Gene Feldman, to create rosy film portraits of Grace Kelly, Gregory Peck, Shirley Temple and many others under the rubric "The Hollywood Collection. As a team she as a co-writer and co-producer while he also directed they earned an Emmy nomination in 1994 for Audrey Hepburn Remembered (1993). Shes projected as a three-dimensional personality a person, in fact under the cover girl face, The Boston ... More
Women's Museum announces monumental mural project by MISS CHELOVE
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts has commissioned artist MISS CHELOVE to create a large-scale mural for the building façade. On view from March 25 through July 31, 2022, the installation Lookout: MISS CHELOVE will be the first in a series of three public art installations presented while the museum is temporarily closed for a major renovation. NMWAs Lookout series will debut powerful artworks across the building scaffolding through fall 2023, as the museum continues to promote art by women and signals the powerful transformation underway throughout the building. NMWAs commitment to public art positions us to fulfill our mission with enthusiasm and creativity, said NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling. Using our façade as a canvas, Lookout will offer a dramatic opportunity to view new works created by women ... More
Mutina for Art awards This Is Not a Prize 2021 to Shirana Shahbazi
MILAN.- Mutina for Art announced that This Is Not a Prize 2021 award has been assigned to artist Shirana Shahbazi (Tehran, 1974). This Is Not a Prize is not just an annual award but also Mutinas commitment to support a future project of the selected artist: from an exhibition to a collaboration with an international institution, a publication or the production of a new artwork. Shirana Shahbazi has been selected by the Mutina team, by its CEO Massimo Orsini and by the curator of Mutina for Art Sarah Cosulich, for the vast multidisciplinary territory to which her photographic research taps into. This Is Not a Prize 2021 recognizes Shahbazis ability to constantly rethink the image and its implications through unsettling compositional devices. Shirana Shahbazis photographs are intriguing, ambiguous and challenging of the space they are interacting ... More
LAUNCH F18 features the work of Howard Fonda, B.D. Graft, Scooter LaForge and Wendy White
NEW YORK, NY.- LAUNCH F18 is presenting a four-person exhibition focusing on the work of Howard Fonda, B.D. Graft, Scooter LaForge and Wendy White. Drawing on inspiration from Alexander Calder, For Calder (In Motion) is an exhibition focusing on four unique painters that will rotate artworks once a week. The idea presents a new form of the exhibition weekly, and allows the show to be viewed not just through one lens, but through a multitude of shifting perspectives. Each iteration of the exhibition will include three artists on view at a time, totaling five unique viewings throughout the duration of the exhibition. Taken from Calders idea of composing motions this exhibition is meant to serve as an open and sequential experience, connecting the motion and pace of each individual artwork to the performance of each week, presenting the exhibition ... More
Important masterpieces by Tyeb Mehta to lead AstaGuru's upcoming Modern Indian Art Auction
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru to host its upcoming Modern Indian Art auction on December 27-28, 2021, featuring artworks by the avant-garde of the Modern Indian Art world such as Tyeb Mehta, M F Husain, F N Souza, Jehangir Sabavala, S H Raza, Ganesh Pyne, Ram Kumar, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Prabhakar Barwe amongst the others. On the upcoming Modern India Art Auction, Ms. Sunny Chandiramani, Vice-President, AstaGuru, states that, We are excited to host our December Modern Indian Art Auction. The Indian auction market has witnessed tremendous growth in the past year hence our catalogue has been carefully curated in tandem with our collectors sentiment to acquire distinctive and rare artworks to enhance their art collection. It gives us immense delight presenting to our collectors such rare and unique works by notable ... More
GreatCollections and Heritage Auctions complete $4.75 million transaction for Ultra High Relief gold coin
DALLAS, TX.- One of America's greatest coins, the 1907 Saint-Gaudens Ultra High Relief, has changed hands for a record $4.75 million in a private transaction between GreatCollections Coin Auctions of Irvine, Calif., and Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas. The 1907 Saint-Gaudens Ultra High Relief PCGS Proof-68 CAC is among the finest examples known, and last appeared in a 2007 Heritage auction where it realized $1.84 million. "After our display of the legendary 1933 Saint-Gaudens at the ANA in August, we had been searching for a superb Ultra High Relief for the same owner as the 1933 Saint. Twenty years ago, he set his goal to own both of these coins and today he realized his dream," said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, after purchasing the coin from Heritage. The coin was owned by Bob R. Simpson, founder of XTO Energy and ... More
A witty mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero comes home
NEW YORK, NY.- It was 1976, and the Jerome Robbins ballet Dances at a Gathering was still a hit, seven years after its premiere. Everyone wanted to see it, choreographer Peter Anastos recalled in a recent interview. I thought, Boy, this thing is completely ripe for a parody. As a founder of the comic, all-male company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, which humorously twists the classics and features dancers performing en travesti, Anastos was always on the lookout for fodder. Yet on the opening night of Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet, his response to Robbins Dances, he found himself racked with insecurity. I was absolutely convinced that it was the worst ballet I had ever done, he said. A total dog. But like the ballet it was modeled on, Yes, Virginia was a hit and an enduring one at that. All this time ... More
Intersect Palm Springs to take place February 10-13, 2022, in person
NEW YORK, NY.- Intersect Palm Springs, a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of modern and contemporary art and design galleries, announces its 2022 edition, beginning with an Opening Night Preview on Thursday, February 10, followed by General Admission from Friday, February 11 through Sunday, February 13. Says Becca Hoffman, Managing Director of Intersect Palm Springs, We are thrilled to kick off 2022 being in person in Palm Springs in February and are pleased to see resounding support from our galleries, cultural partners, and the local South California and Palm Desert communities. Tim von Gal, CEO of Intersect Art and Design, adds, Intersect Palm Springs will be an excellent opportunity to reconvene in person in one of the most beautiful places in the country. Our hope is to repeat the success we had at Intersect ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was born December 15, 1907. Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012)---known as Oscar Niemeyer---was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for BrasÃlia, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
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