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In an undated image provided by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Arizona has allowed its museums to remain open despite a deadly outbreak, while in cities and states with far fewer cases, the doors have been closed. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
CHICAGO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a recent afternoon outside the Art Institute of Chicago, there was no trace of the line that typically snakes down the museums granite steps and along Michigan Avenue as visitors wait to enter the grand home of Edward Hoppers Nighthawks and Grant Woods American Gothic. Every so often a passerby paused on the desolate sidewalk to take a selfie with one of the bronze lions guarding the museum, but there was no reason to go further: The doors were locked. In New York, a strikingly different tableau was playing out on Fifth Avenue outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the front doors was propped open to welcome a steady stream of visitors.Teenagers sat in chatty clusters on the front steps. Couples and families paused for temperature checks before entering the bustling lobby. The contrasting scenes illustrate the diverging approaches that cities, states and individual institutions have taken toward museumgoing at this stage of the pande ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Clearance Sale of Asian | Antiquities | Ethnographic Art on Thu, Feb 04, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features discounted pricing on Asian art, classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more. In this image: Iron Age / Hallstatt Gold Bracelet w/ Apotropaic Eyes. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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| Napoleon's brother lived in New Jersey. Here's what happened to the estate. | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition of works by Tursic & Mille | | Europe court faults Turkey over British artist's conviction |
Peter Tucci, a lawyer who has spent years, and by his count more than $200,000, collecting Bonaparte memorabilia, stands by a bridge that was part of Point Breeze, an estate that Napoleon Bonapartes older brother Joseph built, in Bordentown, N.J. Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times.
by Daniel E. Slotnik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The name Bonaparte brings to mind many locales: Corsica; Paris; Alexandria, Egypt; Waterloo, Belgium; and, finally, St. Helena. New Jersey? Not so much. Napoleon, the French emperor, never stepped foot in the state, but New Jersey was home to another Bonaparte: Napoleons older brother, Joseph, who was once the king of Naples, Italy, and then Spain. Bonaparte built a sumptuous estate in 1816 called Point Breeze in Bordentown, New Jersey, just south of Trenton, between the power centers of New York City and Philadelphia. He constructed atop a promontory that allowed him to see any hostile forces and perforated the grounds with tunnels that allowed quick escape, if necessary, to a boat on Crosswicks Creek and from there to the Delaware River. Now the state, Bordentown and a land preservation ... More | |
Tursic & Mille, Le souvenir (d'après Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1787-1789), 2020, Oil on wood, 60 x 50 x 5.2 cm, 23 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches © Tursic & Mille - Courtesy of the Artists and Almine Rech.
by Venus Lau
PARIS.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting La Rencontre / The Encounter, the fifth solo exhibition of Tursic & Mille with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view until March 6, 2021. Experiencing Tursic & Milles art is like swimming in a swamp of images. There is no hierarchy between the two; both of them call the shots, and the various elements in the pictures are results of conversations and mutual resistance. But there are more voices and exchanges than just their own. They also incorporate others visual languages: many of the paintings and sculptural works appropriate existing images (it was reported in Artforum that the duo has a collection of more than 140,000 images); besides using images found online, they also cut out pages from magazines, and allow these to collect paint and dust in the studio, effectively producing new traces and destroying the images. In turn and before long, the images cease to exist as fast m ... More | |
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech as he holds a press conference following the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on February 1, 2021. Adem ALTAN / AFP.
STRASBOURG (AFP).- The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Turkey violated a British artist's freedom of speech by convicting him of "insulting" Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was prime minister. It was one of several incidents that have raised alarm over a crackdown on individual rights under Erdogan, who became president in 2014. Michael Dickinson had been living in Turkey for some 20 years when he took part in a 2006 protest against the government's support for the US war in Iraq. He showed a collage with Erdogan's head attached to the body of a dog held by a leash in the colours of the American flag, prompting an inquiry and trial where he again displayed the work, landing him several days in jail. Initially Dickinson was acquitted, but in 2009 the ruling was overturned, and the following year he was ordered to pay a fine of around 3,000 euros ($3,600) for what the court termed an attack on Erdogan's honour. "I was only making a political statement which people should be allowed to do," he ... More |
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| 'Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens' now on view at Asheville Art Museum | | Freeman's announces highlights included in the European Art & Old Masters sale | | Anger in Cyprus after church demolishes protected buildings |
John Sharman, Interior, circa 1914, oil on canvas, 30 Ã 26 inches. Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, Gift, George D. Horst.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lensdrawn mostly from the collection of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PAexplores the path to Impressionism through the 19th century in France. The show examines the relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed. The exhibition is on view in the Museums Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall January 22 through April 19, 2021. More than 75 paintings and works on paper help tell the story of the new style of painting which developed at the end of the 19th centuryone that emphasized light and atmospheric conditions, rapid or loose brushstrokes, and a focus on brightly colored scenes from everyday life. Scenes include both urban and rural settings from when artists preferred to paint outdoors and capture changing ... More | |
Lionello Spada, Rest on the Flight Into Egypt (Lot 9, $25,000-40,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's will hold its latest European Art & Old Masters auction on February 23rd. The sale presents fine art from across the continent, celebrating a multitude of movements and their major artists. Two founders of the Vienna Secession, Carl Moll and Gustav Klimt, headline the auctionhighlighted by an elegant interior scene by Moll. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jakob Schikaneder, and Maurice Utrillo are among the 19th and 20th-century European artists represented. The sale will also offer notable pieces by Old Masters, including recently rediscovered works by Valentin de Boulogne, Lionello Spada and Carlo Dolci. Freeman's announced the landmark sale of a major, recently rediscovered painting by Carl Moll. Executed in 1905, WeiÃes Interieur (White Interior) (Lot 56, $300,000-500,000) has never appeared on the market before. The canvas is presented with one of the highest price ranges ever given to a work by the ... More | |
A picture taken on February 1, 2021 shows rubble from four listed buildings that were illegally demolished next to a new cathedral the Cyprus' Orthodox church is building in the capital Nicosia. Emily IRVING-SWIFT / AFP.
NICOSIA (AFP).- The powerful Church of Cyprus has sparked anger on the Mediterranean island by demolishing four listed buildings next to a new cathedral it is building in Nicosia's historic old city. The interior ministry said Tuesday it was "deeply troubled and concerned over the arbitrary and illegal demolition of the preserved buildings" in the capital the previous day. It said that while the houses were on church-owned land, their demolition violated laws protecting cultural heritage. The Cypriot Orthodox Church has considerable political clout on the island, but its decision to demolish the buildings sparked a public outcry against Archbishop Chrysostomos II. Nicosia's Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis told state radio CyBC on Tuesday that the demolitions were illegal and took place without any prior permit issued by the ... More |
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| Bringing stages to storefronts in a theater-hungry city | | 'Carlos Rosales-Silva: Sunland Park' opens at Ruiz-Healy Art, New York | | Thames & Hudson to publish 'Todd Webb in Africa: Outside the Frame' by Aimée Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan |
Michel Hausmann, the artistic director of Miami New Drama, inside one of the storefronts where his company presented Seven Deadly Sins in Miami, Jan. 31, 2021. Scott McIntyre/The New York Times.
by Jordan Levin
MIAMI (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the final performance of Miami New Dramas Seven Deadly Sins ended Sunday night, the actors streamed onto Lincoln Road, thanking the companys artistic director, Michel Hausmann. They had spent months performing separately, inside adjacent vacant storefronts on this South Beach pedestrian mall, to an audience that watched and listened from a distance. Whooping and hugging each other, they gathered around the gregarious Hausmann at the outdoor bar lit by a neon Purgatory sign. They continued celebrating, even as the glowing red signs, reading Lust, Greed, Wrath and more, flickered off and the block turned dark. The pandemic closed the city March 13, the eve of the opening of Miami New Dramas first musical. ... More | |
Diablo en el Jardin, 2019. Crushed stone, acrylic paint, and acrylic plastic on custom shaped panel, 43 x 29 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, is delighted to presenting Carlos Rosales-Silva's first solo show in NYC. A recent MFA graduate from New York Citys School of Visual Arts and a participant in Brooklyns Residency Unlimited Program, Rosales-Silva uses an abstract approach to explore the complex identity of the ever-expanding histories of Brown people in the United States. The exhibition, titled Sunland Park, opened on January 27th, 2021, and will be on view until March 27th, 2021. The title of the exhibit, Sunland Park, hails from the artists childhood neighborhood in El Paso, Texas. Named after the local 1950 racetrack, the city of Sunland Park was formed in the 1980s when three neighboring townships incorporated and adopted the name of the racetrack. Sunland Park is home to Mount Cristo Rey, a regional catholic pilgrimage site, and various Indigenous Peoples such as the Tiwa, Manso, and Piro. Most recently, the city w ... More | |
Todd Webb Untitled (44UN-8002-165) Togoland, (Togo) 1958. Attendant at Texaco station. © 2021 Todd Webb Archive.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1958, photographer Todd Webb, best known for his remarkable images of the everyday life and architecture of New York and Paris, as well as photographs of the American West, was commissioned by the United Nations Office of Public Information to document the progress of industry and technology in what were then eight different African nations, either recently independent or on the cusp of gaining independence in the aftermath of World War II. Over the course of four months, Webb traveled through Togo, Ghana, Sudan, Somalia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia (which are now Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe), Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now merged as Tanzania), and Kenya. Outfitted with three cameras, he amassed approximately 2,000 images in that time, but only 22 of them were published by the U.N., in black & white, in a 7-page brochure. The remainder ... More |
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| Exhibition of new artifacts by Eric Standley opens at Dinner Gallery | | Proyectos Monclova opens an exhibition of works by Verónica Gerber Bicecci | | Montreux Jazz Festival to livestream future events |
Eric Standley, Omnia (detail), 2021. Cut paper, wood, pins, gold leaf, watercolor, 36 x 38 x 14 in (91.4 x 96.5 x 35.6 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Dinner Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dinner Gallery, formerly VICTORI + MO, is presenting Songs for the Living, an exhibition of new artifacts by Eric Standley. This show marks his first solo exhibition with the gallery, which opened February 2nd and will be on view through March 20th. Calling his works artifacts, Standleys process is similar to an archeologist as he uncovers objects. He arranges multi-layered laser cut paper in complex formats to create pieces that allude to those already in existence but not yet found. Each layer is strategically placed to conceal or reveal color, line and form creating captivating and expansive moments with seemingly infinite details. His pieces are based on personal visualizations of paradoxes that speak across time, cultures, religions and politics. By using familiar arches and geometric designs, particularly visual cadences from Gothic cathedrals and Muslim prayer niches, Standley focuses on the fact that there is more i ... More | |
Verónica Gerber Bicecci, La resistencia (No volveremos a la normalidad porque la normalidad era el problema), 2020. Ceramic, metallic wire, cardboard and ink. Overall dimensions: 5.51 x 7.48 x 3.94 in. 14 x 19 x 10 cm.
MEXICO CITY.- Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Mexico City, 1981) auto-classifies herself as a visual artist that writes since a work is categorized by the tension between the visual and the literary. This exhibition, Descalzos los pies, los campos en ellos, sentiré al acreedor de la tierra en mis plantas desnudas (Barefoot feet, the fields in them, I will feel the creditor of the land on my bare soles) reunited five projects that dialogue with rewriting, the voices of the past and translation. Gerber Bicecci considers the question over and over again about the accumulation, in all the possible translations, including here that exerted by the passage of time and the attraction of space. Gerber insists that a work is an appointment to which we arrive, if we want, both the readers and the materials and the author, at the same time. Here we have stayed to see, in the materiality of the book or the ... More | |
In this file photo taken on July 15, 2011 US singer Liza Minnelli performs during the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- The Montreux Jazz Festival, which was forced to cancel last year's edition due to the pandemic, said Tuesday it was moving towards a hybrid model, including livestreaming concerts. Organisers said they had reached a deal with Qello Concerts by Stingray for livestreaming, allowing live events and digital projects to be combined. "Streaming is a crucial medium for securing the continued success of the festival: if people cant come to the Festival, we will bring it to them," said Nicolas Bonard, head of Montreux Media Ventures. They are also creating a new brand, MJF Spotlight, dedicated to promoting emerging talent through digital content. Taking place in the idyllic Swiss town of Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, the summer event has over the past half century become a magnet for big names and rising stars. The jazz label has been retained despite an expanding repertoire over the years, bringing in the likes of Nina Simone, Johnny ... More |
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France's 'universal' Oscar pick explores elderly lesbian romance
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- An elderly lesbian romance with an Italian first-time director and a veteran German star, "Two of Us" is certainly a daring choice for France's entry to this year's Oscars. Director Filippo Meneghetti "didn't expect it for sure" when his film was selected for the honor, fending off heavyweight contenders such as Maiwenn's "DNA" and Francois Ozon's "Summer of 85." The movie, shot on a limited budget, drew strong reviews for its originality and subtlety on its French release last February, but sold fewer than 50,000 tickets on a limited theatrical release. According to Meneghetti, the film's surprise success may lie in its relatable themes -- even despite its seemingly unusual subject matter. "While the film tells the story of two aging women, I tend to see that the film speaks to different people in different places," Meneghetti told AFP ahead of the film's ... More
Sibongile Khumalo, South Africa's 'first lady of song,' dies at 63
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sibongile Khumalo, a virtuoso vocalist whose ease of motion between opera, jazz and South African popular music made her a symbol of the countrys new social order after the end of apartheid, died Thursday. She was 63. Her family wrote on Instagram that the cause was complications of a stroke, and that she had endured a long illness. The post did not say where she died. Fleet and precise across a wide vocal range but particularly elegant in the upper register, Khumalos voice had the hall-filling power of an operatic mezzo-soprano and the directness of a pop singer. After making her debut as Carmen in a production in Durban, she earned wide acclaim for her roles in South African operas and plays, including UShaka KaSenzangakhona, Princess Magogo KaDinuzulu and Gorée, all of which toured ... More
New walking tour and film explores NYC's 1863 race riots by Kamau Ware
NEW YORK, NY.- The Shed presents Fighting Dark, a new audio tour and film by artist and storyteller Kamau Ware (Founder, Black Gotham Experience). This two-part project features an online audio tour and a short film that explores Manhattan and Brooklyns 19th-century history of racial violence and resilience. Fighting Dark is commissioned in conjunction with Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, an exhibition currently on view at The Shed, and connects to Pindells investigation of the legacy of racial violence in the United States. Fighting Darks audio walking tour is streaming for free on The Sheds website (theshed.org/fightingdark). The film will debut on theshed.org in the coming weeks. Collectively our country has focused on the racial violence inflicted on free Black communities in the South after the Civil War, specifically ... More
H&H Classics to offer two rare World War II survivors
LONDON.- The next H&H Classics Live Auction Online on March 24th features a 1938 Morris Super Six 'G2SW' Taxi, one of only three believed to survive, estimated to sell for £23,000 - £27,000 and a 1936 Vauxhall BXL Grosvenor Limousine, one of only nine survivors estimate, £9,000 - £11,000. Paul Cheetham, Classic Car Specialist for H&H Classics who sourced both cars comments; We are pleased to be able to bring such scarce examples to market. Whoever buys these wonderful survivors buys a classic part of British Automotive history which can only add value to them. The 1938 Morris Super Six taxi would have operated throughout the Second World War in London, and one can only wonder what stories this car could tell if only it could speak about its history. It has undergone a comprehensive body-off restoration between 1981 and 2005, with minimal ... More
British artist Andy Burgess to create bespoke artwork for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
LONDON.- British-born, US-based artist Andy Burgess is creating a series of site-specific artworks for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The project, which was initiated by CW+ - the official charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - and facilitated by Cynthia Corbett Gallery, which represents the artist internationally, aims to improve and enhance the NICU environment for patients, relatives and staff. Working in close collaboration with the NICU team, Burgess will be reminiscing on the hospitals neighbourhoods and its iconic views, sights and buildings in collaboration with hospital staff. The selected London scenes will be transformed by the artist in his unique, abstract, geometric style and printed on medically compliant vinyl to then be installed in corridors ... More
Office for Contemporary Art Norway opens large-scale group exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus
OSLO.- Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade. It has driven new thinking focused on countering systemic failures and outright abuses related to climate, economy, surveillance, health, gender and race amongst other issues. Actions of Art and Solidarity considers the central role that artists play within this historical shift in the new millennium, drawing parallels to synergic cases of the twentieth century. Office for Contemporary Art Norways large-scale group exhibition Actions of Art and Solidarity presents 76 works by artists, activists, collectives and thinkers from around the world, including Norway, catalysing cultural, socio-political and environmental solidarity across different geographies and contexts from the 1950s to the present day. Looking back in time and forward into the future, the exhibition displays ... More
'Whiplines, Waterfalls And Worms': Exhibition of works by Ed Moses opens at JD Malat Gallery
LONDON.- JD Malat Gallery will present Whiplines, Waterfalls and Worms, a solo exhibition by the legendary Post-War West Coast artist Ed Moses (1926 2018). Opening on 4 February 2021, Whiplines, Waterfalls and Worms, presents a dynamic start to the year by bringing together the late works of Ed Moses. Born in Long Beach, California, Moses is renowned for his eclectic body of work which engages with the varying possibilities of abstraction. Moses was among the first generation of artists to be shown at Ferus Gallery, L.A., in 1957, where he started the Cool School of artists which included Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Edward Kienholz, John Altoon, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston. Curated in collaboration with the Ed Moses Estate, and accompanied by an essay by Richard Davey, the writer and friend of the late ... More
Pivotal: New paintings by Nicole Cooper on view at Fontbonne University Fine Art Gallery
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Nicole Cooper's exhibition entitled Pivotal, of new life-sized figurative oil paintings, explores humanity as a living, evolving force. Humanity is going through a pivotal time. There are profound changes and developments that can affect humanity, either positively or adversely. Cooper's paintings are vivid manifestations of the feelings and life force inside our flesh and blood body. This is Cooper's third solo exhibition and features nearly a dozen paintings. Rise (2020) is a diptych of multiple figures simultaneously emerging and moving toward a fiery landscape. The rate of global warming is mimicked by the steep curve of the billowing mountain of excess that reaches above the figures and onto another panel of the diptych. The steep curve is at the exact angle of incline from 1983, the year of Cooper's birth, to the present day. Movement ... More
The historic kitchen where Queen Victoria sent her chef to hone his skills featured in new online exhibition
AYLESBURY.- In February 2021, the history and secrets of Waddesdon Manors kitchen and the people who worked in it are revealed in a fascinating new online exhibition. A grainy black and white photograph, taken around 1900, not only shows just how accurately Waddesdon Manors impressive kitchen was restored in the 1990s, but also prompts an intriguing question; who are the people gathered around the very table that the photo is now displayed on? Catherine Taylor, Head Archivist, says: We dont know for certain who the staff in the photo are, but Im fairly certain that Alice de Rothschilds Chef at the time the photo was taken was M. Bonnar, who died in 1915 in a car accident while in Brighton, where Miss Alice was spending the war. According to the records, the other kitchen staff members at the time were Annie Gough and Susan Smith, both cooks, Susan Cole an ... More
American Bottle Auctions announces sale of the Don Dwyer Collection of Bitters and Soda Bottles, Part 1
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.- American Bottle Auctions will present Part 1 of the Don Dwyer collection of bitters and soda bottles in online auction #70, starting on February 26th and ending on March 7th. Part 2 will be announced in the coming weeks. Part 1 will contain about 250 bottles, nearly all from the Dwyer collection but to include an assortment of related go-withs. Bidders can register and bid at the American Bottle Auctions website: www.americanbottle.com. Don Dwyer has spent decades putting together a collection of bitters that had just about every example made for and sold in the West, said Jeff Wichmann of American Bottle Auctions. In addition, his interest in Western soda and mineral water bottles added greatly to his huge entire inventory. Because he liked to collect color runs and made sure he had most variants, we will be presenting ... More
Hal Holbrook, actor who channeled Mark Twain, is dead at 95
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendor and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night. Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in All the Presidents Men (1976); an achingly grandfatherly character in Into the Wild (2007), for which he received an Oscar nomination; and the influential Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln (2012). He played the 16th president himself, on television, in Carl Sandburgs Lincoln, a 1974 miniseries. The performance ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell was born February 03, 1894. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. In this image: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Four Freedoms, 1943. Assemblage. Story illustrations for four February- March, 1943 issues of The Saturday Evening Post, Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. ©SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.
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