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Signature Haring images, such as Radiant Baby, Barking Dog and Best Buddies, are instantly recognizable as the emblems from the 80s that Haring used to depict universal themes such as love, birth, death, and war.
NAPLES, FLA.- NAPLES ART opened its season with one of the most exciting Pop art exhibitions to arrive in Southwest Florida in years. Keith Haring: Radiant Vision (November 1, 2021 February 6, 2022) celebrates the world-renowned artist and his iconography in an energized show of more than 130 works. From his street art to gallery shows, the Pop Shop, and his commercial work, Keith Haring: Radiant Vision spans the arc of Harings all too short career, featuring lithographs, silkscreens, drawings on paper, and posters from a private collection. Harings art was born in response to the urban street scene of 1980s New York. He took inspiration from the graffiti artists markings on the city subway cars and started to draw figures in white chalk over the black paper used to cover vacant advertising panels in the subway stations. Two of these seminal chalk-on-paper subway drawings are included in Keith Haring: Radiant Vision. Signa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Charity Sale To Benefit Community Food Share Auction on Dec 25, 2021 1:00 PM GMT-6. Join them on Christmas Day for a very special fundraising auction to benefit Community Food Share, a Feeding America Food Bank that serves Boulder and Broomfield Counties in Colorado. 100% of the buyer's premium - of all lots sold - will be donated to Community Food Share. $1.00 provides 3 meals, which means that a winning bid of $100 will provide over 70 meals! In this image: Two 18th C. Spanish Colonial Polychrome Wood Cherubs. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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| The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major survey of Milton Avery's work | | Pages introducing Spider-Man's black costume swing into auction | | Gold hoard from Vindelev to be part of exhibition about the prelude to the Viking Age |
Milton Avery, Boathouse by the Sea, 1959. Oil on canvas, 182.88 x 152.4 cm. Milton Avery Trust courtesy Victoria Miro and Waqas Wajahat © 2021 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2021.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Milton Avery, a major survey of the twentieth-century American masters paintings. Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, this long overdue exhibition includes a careful selection of Averys most celebrated paintings charting his career trajectory. His last retrospective was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1982. Milton Avery will be on view November 7, 2021, through January 30, 2022, in Fort Worth, followed by the presentation at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, February 25 through June 5, 2022, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 16 through October 16, 2022. ... More | |
Mike Zeck and Others Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 Story Page 25 Black Costume/Venom Original Art (Marvel, 1984).
DALLAS, TX.- Marvel Comics Secret Wars was a comic book created to sell toys. It also forever altered the fate of Marvel Comics, the future of the entire comics industry and, most of all, the swing of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, who traded his beloved red-and-blues for an alien black costume later infused with a touch of venom. The two pages that tell the backstory of this living outfit this symbiote, in the parlance of True Believers are among the centerpiece offerings in Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction to be held Jan. 13-16. For the first time, the original art for Page 24 and Page 25 from Secret Wars No. 8 will be available to the public, each illustrated by Mike Zeck from writer Jim Shooters script. Spider-Man does whatever a spider can, such as spinning a web any size. But its these two pages sure to catch collectors just like flies. These are easily ... More | |
The Vindelev treasure hoard with its saucer-sized gold medallions made headlines all over the world in September 2021. Photo: Conservation Center Vejle.
VEJLE.- The Vindelev treasure hoard with its saucer-sized gold medallions made headlines all over the world in september 2021. Starting February 17 2022 it will be exhibited in Vejle, Denmark. The Vejle Museums exhibits the magnificent find and tells the story of the prelude to the Viking Age and Harald Bluetooth's alliances in present-day Poland.
"The stories of the Vikings' pillaging raids in England have been told countless times. We want to tell the story in depth and explore the fascinating cultural encounters and alliances that created the Danish Viking kings' power base" says Charlotta Lindblom, Archaeologist and Curator at the Vejle Museums and continues: "The upcoming exhibition in Vejle shows the very latest knowledge about the run-up to the Viking Age as well as Harald Bluetooth's eastern connections. These connections are shown in the ... More |
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| Christie's Americana Week introduces 19th Century American Art Sale | | MFA Boston unveils five newly transformed galleries for art of ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire | | Britain offers $1.3 billion in aid to hospitality and leisure businesses |
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Scene in Hartford (detail), oil on canvas, 10¼ x 15¼ in. (26 x 38.7 cm.) Painted circa 1846-47. $200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents Americana Week 2022, a series of three live and one online sales comprised of 19th Century American Art on January 19, The Collection of Peter and Barbara Goodman on January 20, Important Americana on January 20-21, and an online sale of Chinese Export Art open between January 11 February 2. Viewing is by appointment beginning January 13 at Christies Rockefeller Center Galleries. Outstanding paintings across the auctions include a masterpiece portrait by Ammi Phillips from The Collection of Peter and Barbara Goodman, majestic landscapes by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church, and portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Peale Polk. Exceptional works offered in Important Americana include a 1776 Ratzer map of New York City, a Jacob Hurd silver salver, and furniture is highlighted ... More | |
Mosaic with personifications of Pleasure and Wealth, 6th century C.E. Stone and glass tesserae. Gift of George D. and Margo Behrakis. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, unveiled an ambitious transformation in the George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing for Art of the Ancient World: five reimagined galleries for the art of ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire that tell new stories about some of the oldest works in the MFAs collection. Filled with natural light, the newly renovated spaces feature innovative displays, interactive and digital experiences created in partnership with local and international collaborators, and immersive evocations of an ancient Greek temple and a Byzantine church. Each of the nearly 550 featured objectsranging from the beginnings of Greek art (about 950 B.C.E.) through the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century and into the present daywas researched, cleaned and conserved prior to going on view. Many are on view for the first time or after a ... More | |
Empty tables outside a restaurant in London on Dec. 20, 2021. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
LONDON.- The British government has responded to pleas for help from bars, restaurants and leisure businesses amid a surge in cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus that has led to a wave of cancellations, staff shortages and closures. The Treasury said Tuesday it would provide a package of grants and other relief amounting to 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion). We recognize that the spread of the omicron variant means businesses in the hospitality and leisure sectors are facing huge uncertainty, at a crucial time, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said in a statement. The festive period is critical for the hospitality industry and often described as the golden quarter, when a substantial portion of profits are made between Halloween and New Years Eve. About 200,000 hospitality and leisure businesses will be eligible for a grant of up to 6,000 pounds per site. The government will also cover the cost of legally required sick pay for small ... More |
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| Ruby City announces 2021 acquisitions | | New permanent gallery reinstalled on floor two of the Indianapolis Museum of Art galleries | | Sandy Rodriguez unveils new pandemic-inspired works on paper in exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art |
Rick Lowe, Untitled, 2021. Acrylic paint and paper collage on canvas, 92 x 72 in. (whole component). © Rick Lowe, courtesy the artist. Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announced the acquisition of 23 works by 11 artists in 2021. The new acquisitions include works by internationally acclaimed artists as well as those with strong ties to San Antonio and the state of Texas. Together these gifts and purchases deepen the collections BIPOC and Latin American perspective, which was fostered by founder Linda Pace in her lifetime. In addition to works by artists previously represented in the Linda Pace Foundations collection, such as Jesse Amado, Arturo Herrera, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, Chris Ofili, and Deborah Roberts, the years acquisitions include the first works by Sonia Boyce, Hew Locke, Rick Lowe, Milagros de la Torre and Carrie Mae Weems to enter the collection. By welcoming these works into the collection, the Foundation continues to manifest Paces vision to represent the communities it serves with contemporary art that aims to ... More | |
Fernand Léger (French, 18811955), Man and Woman, 1921, oil on canvas, 36-1/4 à 25-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Martha Delzell Memorial Fund, 52.28 © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Embodied: Human Figures in Art opens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields on December 22, 2021. The exhibition consists entirely of artworks from the museums permanent collection and will be displayed in a newly renovated corridor of galleries that provides a pathway leading directly to the Clowes Pavilion, which is set to open in early 2022. All of the featured artworks depict the human body and are organized in a global thematic display. Embodied explores the motivations behind artworks that depict human figures and the garments that augment them. The installation asks guests to contemplate the question, How do representations of people in art help us explore what it means to be human? The artwork is arranged into six themes, including power, beauty standards, identity, gender, intimacy and remembrance. As ... More | |
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975), Humwichawa / Arbol de Josue / Joshua Tree / Yucca brevifolia, 202021, hand-processed watercolor on amate paper, © 202021 Sandy Rodriguez.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Illuminating the complexity of art-making amid a global pandemic, this December the Amon Carter Museum of American Ar is presenting Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation, a selection of new works on paper conceived by the Los Angelesbased painter during her Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency in Southern California at the height of COVID-19. The exhibition features more than 30 landscapes, protest scenes, maps, and botanical studies, created using Rodriguezs hand-processed inks and watercolors, which she derived from plants and mineral pigments native to the region. Reflecting on the ways artists have responded to past pandemics and uprisings, Rodriguezs series connects the conflicts of the past year, including the public health crisis and flashpoints of racial injustice, to ancestral healing practices, both medicinal and creative. Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation is on view at the Carter December ... More |
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| John Marx, AIA, releases first book of watercolor paintings and poems | | Heritage Auctions comes up snake-eyes in January with original 'G.I. Joe' cover art | | Clyfford Still Museum to close voting for community-curated exhibition on December 31 |
Dreams, poetry, and watercolors comprise architect's vision.
NEW YORK, NY.- ÃtudesThe Poetry of Dreams + Other Fragments (ORO Editions, February 2020), by architect John Marx, AIA, features 84 watercolors juxtaposed with 40 short poems that complement the observational and existential qualities of his art. The books design, a deep collaboration with graphic artist Jeremy Mende, has been carefully composed to explore the relationship between words and watercolors, thought and emotion, life and art. Marxs watercolors are a compelling example of how an architects thought process informs the visual arts. Subtle and quiet, they are nonetheless captivating works in how they convey notions of place, space, perspective, time, and beauty. Writes Marx: While the watercolors emphasize emotional content, there is a narrative to each of these paintingssometimes left intentionally obscurewhich invites you to craft your own storyline. In that they all originated as daydreamsof places not in existence, places invented, and so ... More | |
Ed Hannigan and Klaus Janson G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #21 Cover Snake-Eyes Original Art (Marvel, 1984).
DALLAS, TX.- Its the cover to the silent comic book that would end up making a lot of noise (history, too). G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero was, for reasons explained below, the first comic book advertised on television. As a result, it became one of Marvel Comics top-selling titles of the 1980s: The book survived on spinner racks for more than a decade unfathomable, then or now, for a toy tie-in. It also spawned one of comicdoms most famous characters and one of the 1980s most coveted covers. G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero No. 21, the first issue to feature ninja commando Snake-Eyes on the cover all by himself. The original artworkfor that iconic cover, by longtime Marvel and DC artist Ed Hannigan and inker Klaus Janson, crosses the block for the first time next month as one of the centerpiece offerings in Heritage Auctions Jan. 13-16 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. The artworks consignor, ... More | |
Clyfford Still, PH-312, 1953. Oil on canvas, 69 5/8 x 55 3/8 in. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO. © City and County of Denver / ARS, NY.
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) will close voting on its online platform for the upcoming exhibition, You Select: A Community-Curated Exhibition, on December 31. The voting site encourages the public to choose which Clyfford Still artworks they want to see in the upcoming exhibition, on view from August 12, 2022February 12, 2023 (dates subject to change). On the voting platform, participants select their favorite works for five different gallery themes: West Coast Revolution, High-Impact Color, Richmond Oils on Paper, Abstract Expressionism, and Movement. The public can vote for up to five paintings in each of the categories at clyffordstillmuseum.org/youselect. Since opening ten years ago, CSM has presented more than 950 works of art by Still in over 30 exhibitions, yet more than two-thirds of the Museums art collection remains unseen to the world, said Bailey Placzek, associate ... More |
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Layr presents an exhibition of works by Cécile B. Evans
VIENNA.- Future Adaptations is Cécile B. Evans second exhibition at Layr, Vienna. The exhibition brings together several stages from their ongoing body of work A Future Adaptation, about the struggle to adapt the Industrial Era ballet Giselle as a revolutionary eco-thriller while the modern is collapsing. The exhibition is composed of two major video installations (scenes from the ongoing adaptation) shown at altered scales, a film prop-stroke-prototype of a microbial fuel cell battery, and two collaged sketches of a future nomadic superstructure. The largest (and smallest) scale work on display is Notations for an Adaptation of Giselle (welcome to whatever forever) (2020) a six-channel video installation that serves as the lynchpin which has occupied the artists practice for the last several years. Focused on the crucial transition moment at the heart ... More
Galleria Anna Marra and Gallery Nosco join forces to open a new gallery in Brussels
BRUSSELS.- Galleria Anna Marra (Italy) and Gallery Nosco (UK - France) announced their partnership as the joint venture: MARRANOSCO Gallery. The newly Brussels based gallery will run an exhibition space in addition to those already managed abroad by the two founding partners. The partnership will enhance and expand the focus of the two galleries, which already demonstrates a highly complementary and multidisciplinary artistic program, and will create dialogues between artists from different generations and continents, as well as sign on promising emerging artists on the international scene. Its not the first collaboration of these two galleries in Brussels. In March 2021, in a moment when the art world had come to a standstill, prioritizing digital viewing rooms and virtual shows, both galleries teamed up with a third one to open a joint curatorial ... More
Despite Covid: World records and 15 works in the millions at Ketterer Kunst
MUNICH.- With total proceeds of almost 42 million in the second half of 2021, Ketterer Kunst, the leading auction house for art from 1900 to today in the European Union, realized the best season result in the industry in Germany for the seventh time in a row. At the same time, the auction house once more confirms its first place in the German art auctioneer ranking with an impressive sales total of 88 million including Online Only Auctions for the entire year of 2021. Thus Ketterer Kunst exceeds - despite Covid - the record level of the last two years by 45%. A total of 151 results with six-figure prices outshine all previous records, on top of that some 15 results landed beyond the magical million euro line - more than ever before in a single year. Numerous world records round off the sensational balance. "This record result is primarily a result of our strategy: ... More
University Archives auction has over 530 lots in a wide array of collecting categories
WILTON, CONN.- A manuscript handwritten in German by Albert Einstein, signed, with several lines of mathematical equations, a check made out to a charter airline by John F. Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign, and a handwritten document signed by the legendary lawman Bat Masterson when he was just 25 years old will all be part of University Archives next online-only auction scheduled for Thursday, January 6th, beginning promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. The Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books Plus PSA Slabbed auction features historical material from multiple collecting categories. A 201-lot subset will exclusively feature pieces that are PSA/DNA slabbed and graded. As many in the industry well know, items in this format, once solely the territory of sports cards, have taken the collectibles field to the next level, with frequent realizations ... More
The pandemic struck orchestras with underlying conditions hard
NEW YORK, NY.- For months, the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony had eagerly awaited the chance to play before full audiences after the disruption of the pandemic, gearing up for favorites like Maurice Ravels La Valse and George Frideric Handels Messiah. Then came word of budget cuts. Saying the pandemic could exacerbate long-standing financial woes, the orchestras leaders in September proposed slashing the size of the full-time ensemble by more than 40%, to 42 positions from 72, shortening their season and reducing pay by almost one-third. The orchestras musicians resisted these moves, accusing administrators of mismanagement and greed and going on strike in late September. So far, a dozen concerts in the 2021-22 season have been canceled or postponed, management has cut off the health insurance ... More
H&H Classics report a strong 2021 with sales of 85% on £16.75M
LONDON.- Despite all the challenges faced by the business world in general and the classic car auction world in particular H&H Classics have emerged from the second Pandemic lockdown year in a very good place. To quantify this one has only to consider the figures: The company sold 70% of all cars offered this year for a staggering £13.1m. Bikes sales were 80% for £3.35m, and Automobilia 97% for £300,000. This gives a total of 85% of items sold on £16.75 million. Managing Director, Colette McKay, comments: As a company we were most fortunate to have completed our planning and implementation of our online auction model which had had two very successful real world sales trials. This meant that the hold placed on face to face physical sales was not any great problem for us. It has been an outstanding year by a great team. Some years ... More
'Domestic Drama' opens at Halle Für Kunst Steiermark
GRAZ.- In 1960, Austrian-American psychologist Ernest Dichter published The Strategy of Desire, in which he presented his most important thoughts on the development of market and motivation research. On the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis, Dichter developed methods that he called the art of influence, designed to continually increase our desire for new commodities. At the center of his thinking rests the assumption that humans make decisions not on the basis of rational considerations but of emotions. The large group show Domestic Drama is an attempt to trace and conjure up the souls that Dichter described, which are allegedly resting in our everyday objects. The scene of this search is a place that is highly formed by emotions: the home. In hardly any other place than our own four walls, otherwise hardly tangible but nonetheless essential ... More
Two pianists, two recitals, two deeply personal statements
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Franz Liszt, it was rare for pianists to do solo programs. But when Liszt was preparing to perform in London in 1840, an advertisement said that he would give recitals on the pianoforte. The word confused many. How do you recite a piano piece? But Liszt had chosen deliberately: His recitals would offer not just an arbitrary mixture of scores but also, as with literary readings, a program with larger thematic threads, musical resonances and even personal significance. His idea certainly caught on. Yet too many recitals today fall far short of the Lisztian ideal; they come across as just a string of performances of this and that. But on Saturday, not one but two adventurous pianists gave recitals that harkened back to the forms origins, drawing out musical, social and deeply personal connections. In the afternoon, at Theaterlab, ... More
'A Strange Loop' won the Pulitzer. Now it's coming to Broadway.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jacksons Pulitzer Prize-winning meta-musical, is coming to Broadway this spring. The shows producers announced Monday that the musical would run at the Lyceum Theater; they did not announce specific dates, but it is planning to open before the eligibility deadline for this seasons Tony Awards, which is expected to be in late April. The show is a self-referential musical comedy about a Black gay musical theater writer trying to write a musical about a Black gay musical theater writer. Unsparingly introspective and sexually straightforward, it was staged off-Broadway in 2019 at Playwrights Horizons in a collaboration with Page 73 Productions. The New York Times critic Ben Brantley called it jubilantly anguished and said it featured an assortment of the kind of infectious, richly harmonic melodies that would ... More
'Jagged Little Pill' to close on Broadway, citing omicron
NEW YORK, NY.- Jagged Little Pill, a rock musical fueled by the songs of Alanis Morissette that wrestles with a variety of contemporary social issues, will close on Broadway, becoming the first big show felled, in part, by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. The musical stopped performing Saturday, citing a limited number of positive COVID test results. And on Monday night, the producers said it would not reopen. The causes are multiple: The show, which opened in late 2019, was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, and won two, for best book, by Diablo Cody, and best featured actress, Lauren Patten. But it did not win the prize with the most box office value, best musical, and never fully found its footing before shutting down with the rest of the industry because of the coronavirus pandemic. It restarted in October, but sales were soft through the fall. ... More
Trophy hunters to take aim at 1839 Victoria gold Proof 'Una and the Lion' in January
DALLAS, TX.- A British series rarity first issued as part of Queen Victorias delayed coronation Proof set could bring $600,000 or more when it crosses the block in Heritage Auctions NYINC World Coins Platinum Night Auction January 10. The Victoria gold Proof Una and the Lion 5 Pounds 1839 PR64 Deep Cameo PCGS (estimate: $400,000-600,000), by William Wyon, is a stunning coin pursued by collectors around the world. Indeed, it has transcended the confines of British numismatics and has become a coin type that is collected by trophy hunters worldwide. The popularity of the Una and the Lion has soared in recent years, Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President of Numismatics Cris Bierrenbach said. Widely recognized among the most beautiful British coins ever struck, this is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a magnificent coin ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 - 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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