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Pier Francesco Foschi (1502 1567), Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1550. Oil on panel, 101 Ã 79 centimeters (39.8 Ã 31 inches). Museo National Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 145 (1935.16).
ATHENS, GA.- Pontormo, del Sarto, Foschi. One of these names is much less of a household name when it comes to 16th-century Italian art, but the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia aims to change that. Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence, organized by Nelda Damiano, the museums Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, is the first exhibition dedicated to Pier Francesco Foschi (1502 1567), a highly prolific and fashionable Florentine painter whose career spanned nearly five decades. Despite his success at the time, he fell into nearly complete obscurity after his death. Wealth and Beauty, on view January 28 to April 24, 2022, offers a timely and critical reevaluation of this versatile and innovative Renaissance master. Visitors have the opportunity to discover the significant contribution of a long-forgotten but important artist who helped to shape the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its VARIETY SALE | Ancient, Asian, Ethnographic Auction on Feb 03, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-6. Join them for their first sale of February with a spotlight on two fabulous collections, one from Lumberton, Texas, and the other from Whisnant Gallery in New Orleans. These collections feature items from around the world, including Classical, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, 20th century North American, European, and more. In this image: 19th C. Chinese Qing Wood Corbels w/ Money Toad. Estimate $4,500 - $6,500.
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| Exhibition at the Lower Belvedere explores Salvador DalÃ's obsession with Sigmund Freud | | Pace Gallery announces worldwide representation of Paulina Olowska | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of sculptures and new paintings by Damien Hirst |
Salvador DalÃ, The Alert, c. 1934. The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin © Salvador DalÃ, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalà / Bildrecht, Vienna 2022 / Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
VIENNA.- Salvador Dalà and Sigmund Freud. The artist's Surrealist imagery reflects an intensive engagement with psychoanalysis. But did they actually know one another? The story is as complex as its protagonists: Dalà discovered Freud's writings in the 1920s and was spellbound, even obsessed! Under their sway, he developed a pictorial language that is still unique today. Freud, however, was very skeptical of Surrealism. In Vienna, Dalà tried to meet his idol to no avail. Their first and only meeting took place in London in the summer of 1938. Still, DalÃ's memories of Vienna form an intriguing backdrop for the exhibition at the Lower Belvedere. Stella Rollig, artistic director of the museum, says, "Exhibitions are about telling stories, and this one is about two individuals who have impacted the intellectual landscape of the 20th- century. Art and intellect, insight and passion: ... More | |
Paulina Olowska, The Mycologist, 2016. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 inches (220 x 180 cm). © courtesy Paulina Olowska.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced its worldwide representation of Paulina Olowska in collaboration with Simon Lee Gallery and Foksal Gallery Foundation. The artist, whose practice spans painting, collage, sculpture, video, installation, and performance, was also represented by Metro Pictures until the gallerys closure in December 2021. Olowskas figurative paintings often feature women in a wide range of environments, from offices and shops to farms and jungles. Deeply engaged with the political and social histories of Eastern Europe, American consumerism and pop culture, feminism, and the aesthetics of fashion advertisements, the artists paintings of women challenge and upend art historical conventions as well as traditional notions of femininity in Eastern and Western cultures. To these ends, Olowska imbues her canvases with surreal, dreamlike effects through her distinct use of color and perspective. For a new ... More | |
Damien Hirst, Minnie, 2020, (detail). Pink marble, 39.6 x 22.8 x 22.8 in. 100.5 x 58 x 58 cm. Edition of 3 + 2 AP © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Forgiving and Forgetting, an exhibition of sculptures and new paintings by Damien Hirst that have never before been shown in the United States. The presentation also marks the artists first exhibition in New York since the 2018 solo show Colour Space Paintings. Forgiving and Forgetting includes works from Hirsts Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, a project that presents sculptural relics from a fictional shipwreck off the coast of East Africa, playing fast and loose with linear time, cultural origin, and perceptions of relative status and value. Foregrounding these sculptures against an intricately woven tale of seafaring exploits, marine excavation, and laborious research, Hirst aims to invoke feelings of wonder at their meticulous physical and conceptual fabrication. The ... More |
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| Dutch publisher apologizes over disputed Anne Frank book | | An 8-year-old wrote a book and hid it on a library shelf. It's a hit. | | Americas Society opens second part of 'This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975' |
An undated photo provided by Proditione of Pieter van Twisk, left, who assembled a team to investigate the question of who betrayed the Frank family. Van Twisks team used modern crime-solving technologies, like artificial intelligence, big-data analysis and DNA testing. But ultimately, high-tech tools played a minimal role in their findings. Proditione via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM.- The Dutch publisher of The Betrayal of Anne Frank, a new book scholars have criticized for putting forward inconclusive findings, apologized for offending anyone in an email sent to its authors, and said it would delay printing more copies of the book until further notice. A more critical stance could have been taken here, wrote Tanja Hendriks, the publisher and director of Ambo Anthos Publishers, in the email, which The New York Times has seen. The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by the Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, which was published in the United States by HarperCollins, received worldwide media attention after its release on Jan. 17, bolstered by a double segment on CBSs ... More | |
A photo provided by Susan Helbig shows a page from her sons book, The Adventures of Dillon Helbigs Crismis by the author Dillon His Self. Dyland Helbig , a second-grader in Boise, Idaho, created a rich tale about Christmas and time travel which is in high demand at a local library and has inspired other potential juvenile authors. Susan Helbig via The New York Times.
by Alyssa Lukpat
NEW YORK, NY.- During his Christmas break, Dillon Helbig, an 8-year-old boy from Boise, Idaho, wrote a book that he wanted everyone to read. He had spent a long time on it four days to be exact and filled 81 pages of an empty journal with a richly-illustrated tale about how he gets transported back in time after a star atop his Christmas tree explodes. But he did not have a book deal. (Hes only in second grade, after all.) So when his grandmother took him to the Lake Hazel branch of the Ada Community Library in Boise at the end of December, he slipped the sole copy of his book onto a shelf containing fiction titles. I had to sneak past the librarians, said Dillon, who says li-berry instead ... More | |
Abdias do Nascimento, Composição no. 1 (Composition no. 1), 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 35 7/8 à 24 inches. IPEAFRO, Rio de Janeiro. Courtesy of Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Photo: Eduardo Ortega.
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents the second part of This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 19651975, a group exhibition that explores the artworks, performances, and experimental practices of this generation of artists who lived in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. Diversifying the citys artistic life, these artists helped shape New York into the global art center it is today. The artworks presented in this exhibition are central to understanding the social and political landscape in the Americas and the tensions and bridges between north and south, exploring issues of migration, identity, politics, exile, and nostalgia. For Part II, the new works on view explore the body as theme and medium, and in doing so, offer new understandings of identity. Together, the works redefined the parameters and aesthetics of so-called Latin American art. The show features more than 40 artists from Latin Ame ... More |
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| Swann opens 2022 with whirlwind auction celebrating the artists of the WPA | | Ordovas opens an exhibition of works by Bill Jacklin RA | | Nancy Um joins Getty Research Institute as Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation |
Blanche Lazzell, Cape Cod Cottage & The Coffee Pot (pictured above), double-sided woodblock, painted in color inks, 1946. Sold for $23,750.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries opened 2022 with The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27. The follow-up to an inaugural 2021 sale proved the staying power of this special offering with the auction bringing $647,891, compared to last years total of $478,990. Of the auction, Harold Porcher, specialist for the sale, noted, Six of our departments contributed to make this an informative, diverse, and curatorial assessment of an important part of American art history. The New Deal was groundbreaking in its scale and vision, giving employment to many who in turn gave us lasting riches in art, architecture, and engineering that has endured. With themes showcasing both urban and rural Americans, paintings of the era saw rapid-fire bidding drive prices past their high estimates with eager collectors vying for the works. ... More | |
Bill Jacklin RA, Photobooth. Watercolour and pastel on paper, 10 ¾ x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm.).
LONDON.- Ordovas announces Cressidas Dream, an exhibition of works by Bill Jacklin RA (b. 1943), which the artist has created in response to a novella by Simon Astaire. The exhibition will include forty-one works as well as a limited-edition artists book. This exhibition is the result of their creative dialogue during the recent lockdowns. Like many people who found new expressive outlets during this period, Astaire and Jacklin both explored fresh creative terrain in their work and conversations. Astaire, who has known Jacklin for many years, was inspired to write a fantasy while spending lockdown in England. Jacklin, who spent lockdown in rural Rhode Island, was intrigued by the story and a long-distance artistic correspondence ensued, culminating in his illustrations for Cressidas Dream. This work marks a new direction for Jacklin, who, after moving to New York in 1985, ... More | |
Dr. Nancy Um.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Dr. Nancy Um has been appointed Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. In that role, Dr. Um will oversee the Research and Knowledge Creation division, which includes the celebrated Getty Scholars Program, research projects and academic outreach, the Getty Provenance Index, digital art history, and the Getty Vocabularies. We are delighted to welcome such a distinguished scholar and administrator to the GRI, said Mary Miller, director of the GRI. Nancys commitment to public education and her long track record in digital scholarship and DEAI work will be an enormous addition to the institute. Dr. Um is currently professor of art history and associate dean for faculty development and inclusion, Harpur College, Binghamton University (SUNY). She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College and her PhD from UCLA. She will take up her post ... More |
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| Luigi Fassi is the new Director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art | | Hales Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Trenton Doyle Hancock | | Ugo Rondinone appointed Guest Curator of Sculpture Milwaukee 2022 |
Luigi Fassi has been the artistic director of MAN, the Museum of Art of the Province of Nuoro, from 2018 to 2022.
TORINO.- The Board of Directors of Fondazione Torino Musei, following the international call for the appointment of the new artistic director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Torino, has appointed Luigi Fassi as the new Director of the fair for the three-year term 2022-2024. The Board of Directors of Fondazione Torino Musei, based on the professional background and the project proposed, has selected Luigi Fassi as the ideal candidate to guide the upcoming editions of Artissima. I am certain that this appointment will lead to expansion of the role of the Fair on an international level. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Ilaria Bonacossa for her dedication in leading the fair over the last 5 years and for the engagement with multiple interests existing in the City of Torino, in a fertile and productive network of relationships. Maurizio Cibrario, President of Fondazione Torino Mus ... More | |
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Line Up Featuring Torpedoboy and TDH Properties, 2021. Acrylic, paper, synthetic fur, and fabric on canvas, 274.7 x 183.3 x 5.6 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. © the artist.
LONDON.- Hales is presenting Water Ground Hell Sky, the gallery's second solo exhibition with the legendary American artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The exhibition of new work continues Hancock's grand visual epic - a complicated and textured exploration of life's complexities and existential conundrums. The intricate story of a set of characters including Torpedo Boy (one of Hancock's alter egos), Mounds (half-animal-half-plant-creatures), their aggressors, 'Vegans,' and SKUM (a larvae species in a state of becoming) has been developed over decades, with each new work contributing to the saga. Hancock (b. 1974, Oklahoma City, OK, USA) was brought up in Paris, Texas and gained a BFA from East Texas State University and an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple Philadelphia. Hancock lives and works in Houston, Texas. ... More | |
Ugo Rondinone works across a range of media, producing works and exhibitions that encompass sculpture, painting, video, sound, photography and installation.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Sculpture Milwaukee announced today that Ugo Rondinone has been appointed as the Guest Curator of Sculpture Milwaukees 2022 exhibition. The exhibition will launch in June 2022 and run through October of 2023. Now in its sixth edition, Sculpture Milwaukee is a non-profit producing annual exhibitions of contemporary sculpture with a dedicated focus on public art practices. The exhibition, entitled Nature Doesnt Know About Us, will include thirteen works by thirteen artists who combine skeptical clarity and at times humor-tinged desire to locate the intersection of spiritual and physical presence in our daily life, according to Rondinone. He adds: The natural world serves as a doorway into a highly rarefied metaphysical realm where the sea of consciousness surges against the tangible world. Here all is in flux as ... More |
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Nina C. Pelaez appointed Associate Director of Learning and Interpretation at SCMA
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art announced the appointment of Nina C. Pelaezcurator, educator and leader in the museum field as Associate Director of Learning and Interpretation at SCMA. Nina brings deep experience in public programming and interpretation, most recently through her work as Curator of Programs and Interpretation at the Williams College Museum of Art where she has served since 2015. She joins the SCMA staff on March 7, 2022. As a member of SCMAs Senior Leadership Team, Nina will contribute to the development of educational, artistic and engagement goals for the museum, lead the team responsible for interdisciplinary teaching, learning and engagement, and oversee all aspects of academic engagement, public and student programming, K12 activities and museum interpretation. ... More
Museum Voorlinden presents a large dose of sparkling, socially engaged and funny artworks
WASSENAAR.- Lockdowns, hardening and division? Art is the antidote! Museum Voorlinden proves this with its new exhibition Art is the Antidote. With a large dose of sparkling, socially engaged and funny artworks from its own collection, the museum acts as a charging station, a place where you can build up your resistance. The exhibition is on display now. The past two years of lockdowns and restrictions have weighed heavily on our society. A hardening is taking place, divisions are increasing and the flood of disinformation is growing. Personal beliefs seem to be the only truth, while hard science is seen as questionable and thorough journalism as unreliable. Amidst all the corona measures and escalating debates, the average person becomes exhausted, underexcited and under-stimulated. Museum Voorlinden offers the ultimate antidote ... More
Brookgreen Gardens displays retrospective of works by founder Anna Hyatt Huntington
MURRELLS INLET, SC.- Brookgreen Gardens opened a special exhibition of sculptures by its founder, Anna Hyatt Huntington, as part of the sculpture gardens continuing 90th anniversary celebration. American Animalier: The Life and Art of Anna Hyatt Huntington includes over 70 objects, including sculptures, portrait paintings, historic objects, and photographic enlargements of outdoor sculptures spanning the scope of her prolific career throughout the 20th century. The exhibition, including pieces from Brookgreens collection and works on loan, is on view from Jan. 29 April 24, 2022, in the Brenda and Dick Rosen Galleries. We are committed to continuing the legacy of Anna Hyatt Huntington, the visionary of Brookgreen Gardens, says Page Kiniry, president of Brookgreen Gardens. Brookgreen is uniquely positioned to present this retrospective, ... More
Behind Neil Young vs. Spotify, a fraught relationship with musicians
NEW YORK, NY.- Spotify arrived more than a decade ago with an appealing proposition: Listeners could leave their CDs and downloads behind and stream virtually every song ever released. It made the platform a top power in the music business and ushered in competitors like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal, helping reverse the industrys nosedive. Spotify remains the biggest music streaming service. But a few years ago it pivoted to add a buzzy format to its portfolio: podcasts. The move made the service a smorgasbord of audio entertainment part music service, part news outlet, part always-on gabfest. It may have also set the company on a collision course with artists and left listeners with a less-than-complete library of songs. Last week, Neil Young kicked off a storm in the music business and on social media when he demanded ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami appoints Adeze Wilford as Curator
NORTH MIAMI, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami announced the appointment of Adeze Wilford as curator. With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wilford joins MOCA North Miamis senior leadership team during an exciting time in the museums growth. Wilford most recently served as assistant curator at The Shed, New York where she curated the New York Times acclaimed exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water in 2020. She assumes her role at the museum on Feb. 14. Inspired by its surrounding communities, MOCA connects diverse audiences and cultures by providing a welcoming place to encounter new ideas and voices, while nurturing a lifelong love of the arts. In her new role, Wilford will lead the curatorial departments dynamic program of exhibitions that highlight historically under- ... More
Alexander Berggruen opens group show "The Natural World: Part I"
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting The Natural World: Part I. This exhibition will open Wednesday, February 2 with a reception from 5-7 pm at the gallery (1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY [unceded Canarsie/Lenape lands]). This group show, presented in two parts, explores how the natural environment and the flora of domestic settings have evolved in contemporary painting, drawing, and sculpture. Certain works explore more traditional depictions of landscape and plant life, while others verge on surrealist adaptations of our known world. Part I explores historical works over the last six decades to generate rich context for the contemporary works that will be shown in Part II. For some artists, All becomes subject matter. As valid and just as ridiculous as painting a tree, as Alex Katz stated. (1) Exploring landscape as a subject, ... More
Cardi Gallery opens its first solo show dedicated to Italian artist Emilio Isgrò
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery is presenting its first solo show dedicated to Italian artist Emilio Isgrò, in an intimate display occupying the first floor of its Mayfair townhouse. Born in 1937 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Isgrò lives and works in Milan, where he moved in 1956 after a stint as an actor in Sicily. With a background in classical studies and no formal artistic training, the Sicilian artist approached the visual arts after years spent writing poetry and news reports. Through a practice focused on the encounter between word and image, this pioneering artist shook and profoundly reshaped visual language in post-war Italy. In the early 1960s, his experience as a journalist at Il Gazzettino spilt over into his first artworks, Titoli di Giornale (Newspaper Headlines), 196264, visual commentaries on the media treatment of information that highlighted the deceptive ... More
International orchestras are finally back at Carnegie
NEW YORK, NY.- What sets a cultural capital apart is not just the quality of its music-making, but also the quantity and variety. No American symphonic ensemble, for example, is better than the Cleveland Orchestra, but it stands largely alone at home. Few big groups travel to Cleveland the way they do to New York. Or did. The citys performing arts landscape has blossomed again following long pandemic closures, but virus surges, visa issues, quarantine requirements and financial concerns have meant that orchestral tours usually the meat of Carnegie Halls season are still slumbering, almost two years later. But tours, too, are slowly reawakening. The marquee offering comes later this month, when the mighty Vienna Philharmonic comes to Carnegie for a three-night stand. A landmark arrived Monday evening, however, when the Royal Philharmonic ... More
In 'Intimate Apparel,' letting the seamstress sing
NEW YORK, NY.- We begin with joyful ragtime, that musical theater fallback for telling Black stories of the early 20th century. But the sound is muffled, distorted. The party is elsewhere in the boardinghouse where our heroine, Esther, a shy, plain woman of 35, sits in her room sewing corsets and camisoles for socialites and streetwalkers. She is too serious and too ambitious to descend to the parlor and cakewalk with the revelers. So is Intimate Apparel. In musicalizing Lynn Nottages play of the same title, Ricky Ian Gordon, working with a text by Nottage herself, wants more for Esther than a quick dance and a slick tune. A woman so bent on betterment in an age that makes it almost impossible deserves the most serious and ambitious musical treatment available and gets it in the knockout Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Bartlett Sher, ... More
An opera sings of a world on the verge of ending
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the many things that came to an end in the conflagration of World War II was the great Italian opera tradition. Giacomo Puccini, its apotheosis, had died in 1924; in the conflicts wake, modernism ruled European music, and a certain strand of lyric theater was over. Which adds a bit of poignancy to the fact that Ricky Ian Gordons paean to that tradition, his new opera The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, is set in Ferrara, Italy, on the cusp of the war, amid members of the citys Jewish community who are largely blind to the tragedy that awaits them. Their coming destruction is mirrored by that of the emotive, melodic form being used to tell their story. Emotive and melodic, yes, but here also overdone and overlong. Based on Giorgio Bassanis 1962 novel of the same name, which Vittorio De Sica adapted into a 1970 ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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