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Emma Amos, "Targets," 1992. Acrylic on canvas with African fabric borders on linen, 57 à 73 1/2 inches. Amos Family, courtesy RYAN LEE Gallery. © 2020 Emma Amos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
ATHENS, GA.- Emma Amoss journey to become a distinguished artist is nothing short of extraordinary. She was interested in art from a young age, even though segregation prevented her from being able fully to enjoy and experience the arts in museums and other public separate-but-equal spaces. Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, a retrospective solo exhibition organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, not only shows her presence and growth as an artist, but also highlights the social change for which Amos fought. Emma Amos: Color Odyssey will be on view at the Georgia Museum of Art January 30 through April 25, 2021, before traveling to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute from June 19 to September 12, 2021, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 9, 2021, to January 2, 2022. The exhibition includes over 60 works Amos made over the course of her career, with the earliest f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Animals in Art | Antiquity to Present Day auction on Thu, Feb 11, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-6. From beloved pets to dedicated servants and vital livestock to symbolic imagery from many religions, animals frequently show up in the art of all cultures, ancient times to the present. In this image: Huge Fossilized Rhinoceros Skull Chilotherium Species. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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| Director of SFMOMA steps down | | Frick Madison to open March 18, 2021 | | Eli Wilner & Company announces 2021 fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity for museums |
Neal Benezra, the longtime director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Benezra is stepping down, SFMOMA announced on Feb. 9, 2021. Christina Nielsen/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- After nearly 20 years at the helm, the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Neal Benezra, is stepping down, the museum announced Tuesday. Benezra, 67, said he was leaving because 19 years is a long time, and the time feels right to begin our succession planning. What we are announcing is the beginning of a transition, he added, not a departure. But his decision comes at a challenging moment in the 86-year history of the museum, which Benezra helped expand into one of the largest contemporary art institutions in the country. Over the past year, SFMOMA has had to reckon with what employees have called structural inequities around race. Its senior, and longest-serving curator, Gary Garrells, resigned ... More | |
Jean-Henri Riesener, secretaire, ca. 1780 and 1791, oak veneered with various woods including ash, bloodwood, and amaranth; gilt bronze, leather, marble, 56 3/8 Ã 45 1/2 Ã 17 1/4 inches, The Frick Collection, New York; photo: Michael Bodycomb
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced today that it will open the doors to Frick Madison, its temporary new home, on Thursday, March 18, 2021. Located at the Breuer-designed building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, former site of the Met Breuer and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Frick Madison will welcome visitors Thursday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Timed entry tickets will need to be purchased in advance, with online sales beginning February 19. The Frick Collection will operate Frick Madison for approximately two years while its historic buildings on East 70th Street undergo renovation. This temporary relocation enables the Frick to provide public access to its celebrated collections during a time when the museum and library would otherwise be closed. Details about member previews and a virtual ... More | |
An original Stanford White frame restored by Eli Wilner & Company for the Maryland State Archives.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company extends another fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity to museums and other non-profit cultural institutions. Frame restoration projects are often among the last initiatives considered for inclusion in often limited conservation budgets, especially during the past year with the impact of pandemic related revenue losses. In 2020, Wilner awarded two fully-funded grants to museums for important historical framing projects. The first grant was also open specifically to frame restoration projects, and was awarded to the Museums at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington Virginia, for the frame on a 1779 portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 49 x 40 inches, originally commissioned by George Washington to hang in Mount Vernon. The second winning project was a grant for the creation of a period-appropriate replica frame for the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, to reframe ... More |
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| The sinking of a bust surfaces a debate over Denmark's past | | Mary Wilson, an original member of the Supremes, dies at 76 | | Hindman Auctions establishes new Detroit office & appoints Pam Iacobelli as Business Development Director |
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, a professor who was fired after she admitted to taking a replica bust of an 18th-century Danish king and sinking it in the harbor as a political statement, in Copenhagen, Jan. 11, 2021. Carsten Snejbjerg/The New York Times.
by Cara Buckley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For a while it seemed no one had noticed that something rather prominent was missing from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the prestigious institution housed in a palace on the edge of one of Copenhagens canals. It was a bust of Frederik V, 18th-century king of Denmark-Norway and duke of Schleswig-Holstein. Largely known as an affable if ineffectual leader and an alcoholic, Frederik V was the academys founder, and a likeness of him had for years been on display in the institutions Assembly Hall. Midway through the autumn, it vanished, though it wasnt until early November that school officials finally realized it was gone. A few days later, the busts fate was revealed. An anonymous group ... More | |
In this file photo singer Mary Wilson arrives for the Ryan Gordy Foundation 60 Years of Motown Celebration at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills on November 11, 2019. Mark RALSTON / AFP.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, the trailblazing vocal group that had a dozen No. 1 singles on the pop charts in the 1960s and was a key to the success of Motown Records, died Monday at her home in Henderson, Nevada. She was 76. The death was confirmed by her publicist, Jay Schwartz. No cause was given. The Supremes' other original members were Diana Ross and Florence Ballard. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, said in a statement that the Supremes had opened doors for other Motown acts. I was always proud of Mary, he said. She was quite a star in her own right, and over the years continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the Supremes. She was the only original member still with the Supremes ... More | |
Most recently, Iacobelli served as Director of Business Development and Marketing at Bodman PLC, a Michigan law firm.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman announces the appointment of Pam Iacobelli as Business Development Director in Detroit. Iacobelli will establish Hindmans first office in Michigan and lead the auction companys growth efforts across the state. With the opening of this location, Hindman now has 13 offices nationwide. We are thrilled to have Pam lead our expansion in Detroit given her extensive background in business development within the community, said Alyssa Quinlan, Hindmans Chief Business Development Officer. Michigan is a very important market for Hindman, and we are delighted to open an office in Detroit where Pams talent and expertise will round out our team and focus on further growth in the region. Iacobelli brings nearly three decades of experience in corporate and nonprofit marketing and business development. Most recently, Iacobelli served as Director of Business Development and ... More |
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| Soviet spy gadgets to go under hammer in Beverly Hills | | Former Christie's and Sotheby's auctioneer launches mobile-first digital auction app | | French far-right mayor reopens museums, defying Covid closure |
A sculpture of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, former chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin, is displayed during an auction preview for "The Cold War Relics Auction - Featuring the KGB Espionage Museum Collection" at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California on February 8, 2021. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
by Laurent Banguet
BEVERLY HILLS (AFP).- Cyanide-filled fake teeth and cigarette packs concealing cameras are among the Soviet spy gadgets going under the hammer at a Beverly Hills auction this week. Many retro espionage devices in the sale by US-based Julien's Auctions -- known for Hollywood and pop culture memorabilia -- would not be out of place in a classic James Bond movie, including microphones hidden within pens, ashtrays and porcelain plates. "The people that actually created these things were the pioneers of miniaturization," said director of gallery operations Kody Frederick. "Everybody now carries ... More | |
Queen Vic (signed) Sold for: £46,000.
LONDON.- ARBY hosts mobile-first, daily digital auctions backed by seasoned auction professionals. Auctions hammer at the same time each day (2pm GMT, 9am EST, 10pm HKST. Founded by Richard Brierley, a near 25-year veteran auctioneer of art, wine and collectibles. Brierley explains Despite everyone spending a lot more time at home, attention is the real prize in engaging with collectors and passionate professionals. By limiting each auction to just a handful of lots, at most, ARBY requires just a few moments of your time each day at the same time but always something new. The goal is to make ARBY a fixture in your daily calendar. You dont have to sort through hundreds of lots to find a treasure! As an auctioneer for over 20 years, I started ARBY with a desire to bring the back and forth competition of a live auction to a mobile world. The daily auctions are best experienced on the app; ... More | |
French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot speaks to the press at the Hyacinthe-Rigaud art museum. RAYMOND ROIG / AFP.
PERPIGNAN (AFP).- A far-right mayor in France threw down the gauntlet to the central government on Tuesday by reopening his city's museums in defiance of coronavirus rules. Arguing that the French needed access to culture despite the threat of Covid-19, Perpignan Mayor Louis Aliot, deputy leader of the far-right National Rally, officially reopened four museums that had been closed since October 30. "There is a virus and it will be with us for a long time... There are treatments, there are vaccinations, there are precautions we can take. Let's get used to it and start by trying things out," Aliot told reporters at the Hyacinthe-Rigaud art museum. Cultural venues across the country are desperate to reopen -- even partially -- to give the French some enjoyment after months without ... More |
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| 'Cyrano' and 'Tin Drum' screenwriter Carriere dies at 89 | | Robert L. Herbert, 91, dies; Saw impressionism with a fresh eye | | S. Clay Wilson, taboo-breaking underground cartoonist, dies at 79 |
In this file photo taken on September 24, 2001 French writer and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere poses at his home in Paris. Jean-Claude Carriere passed away aged 89, AFP reports on February 8, 2021. JEAN-PIERRE MULLER / AFP.
by Emilie Bickerton / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- Legendary French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who penned some of the most memorable movies of the last half century including "The Tin Drum" and "Cyrano de Bergerac", has died at the age of 89, his daughter told AFP. Carriere, best known for his work with Luis Bunuel and Milos Forman, died in his sleep late Monday at his home in Paris, said Kiara Carriere. A prolific writer whose career spanned six decades, Carriere created some of the most memorable and provocative scenes in European cinema, including tying a young Catherine Deneuve naked to a tree. "Belle de Jour" was one of the fruits of his 19-year collaboration with the subversive Spanish director Luis Bunuel, who revelled in shocking audiences. The pair won an Oscar in 1972 for "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise", adding to the Oscar Carriere had won in 1963 for best short film. Carriere's work ranged across cultures, ... More | |
A family photo shows the pioneering art historian Robert Herbert in 1972. The Herbert Family via The New York Times.
by Richard B. Woodward
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Robert L. Herbert, a pioneering scholar of 19th-century art whose 1988 history of impressionism, viewed through a social lens, delivered a robust transfusion to the study of that period, died Dec. 17 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was 91. His wife, Eugenia W. Herbert, said the cause was a stroke. In a teaching career that spanned six decades, 34 years of which were spent in the Yale University art history department, Herbert was a prolific writer, editor and curator. His books include studies of paintings by David, Seurat, Monet and Renoir. At the same time, he advised generations of undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom, like Paul Hayes Tucker and Molly Nesbit, became outstanding scholars themselves. Another one, Kenneth E. Silver, now a professor of art history at New York University and a 20th-century specialist, described Herbert in an interview as a moral figure for all of us, but not with a capital M. He wasnt oppressive, S ... More | |
The artist S. Clay Wilson in San Francisco in 1998. Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 1960s, died at home in San Francisco in Feb. 7, 2021. Tim Forcade via The New York Times.
by J. Hoberman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 1960s, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco. He was 79. His wife, Lorraine Chamberlain, said the cause was deteriorating health arising from a traumatic brain injury more than 12 years ago. He had experienced a number of serious health problems in recent years. Violent, obscene and scatological, Wilsons hyperbolic stories full of corny puns and incongruously decorous dialogue, and populated by such unsavory, anatomically distorted characters as the Checkered Demon, Captain Pissgums and his Pervert Pirates, the Hog Riding Fools and Ruby the Dyke are all but indescribable in this newspaper. Interviewed in the early 1990s for The Comics Journal by ... More |
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Shapero Rare Books launch new Islamic department led by Roxana Kashani
LONDON.- Shapero Rare Books, internationally renowned dealers in antiquarian and rare books, has launched a new Near East and Islamic department. Shapero specialists have over 250 shared years of experience in the book world, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, Judaica, travel and voyages, natural history and more. Under the specialist eye of Roxana Kashani, the new Islamic department will feature fine and rare works spanning the broad and varied expanse of this collecting area, from the Arabic, Ottoman, Persian and Indian worlds. Kashani has worked in rare books and manuscripts for over a decade and now brings her expertise in Middle Eastern and Indian printed books, manuscripts and miniatures to Shapero. The books sourced by the department ... More
Renowned director removed from top Moscow theatre
MOSCOW (AFP).- Acclaimed Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who was at the centre of a fraud scandal last year, confirmed Tuesday that Moscow officials had ended his term leading a top theatre. The development comes months after the outspoken stage and film director was given a three-year suspended sentence following an embezzlement conviction his supporters denounced as politically motivated. Serebrennikov, 51, posted on his Instagram account a copy of a letter he received from the Moscow city cultural department notifying him that his contract at the Gogol Centre, which expires February 25, would not be renewed. "The Gogol Centre as a theatre and as an idea will live on," Serebrennikov wrote in an accompanying caption. "Do not be discouraged. In despondency there is neither life nor freedom," he added, nearly a week after ... More
Anne Feeney, fierce and tireless protest singer, dies at 69
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anne Feeney, a fierce and tireless folk musician who played more than 4,000 shows over a 30-year career, appearing at peace protests, picket lines and fundraisers for progressive causes, died Feb. 3 at a hospital in Pittsburgh. She was 69 and carried a business card that read Performer, Producer, Hellraiser. Her daughter, Amy Sue Berlin, announced her mothers death on Facebook. She said the cause was COVID-19. Feeney, whose first public appearance came in 1969 at a demonstration against the Vietnam War, served as a link between the protest singers of the 1960s and the younger generations that emerged around the anti-globalization and anti-war movements of the early 2000s. Her admirers included both Pete Seeger and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, and she was ... More
FSC names endowed chair to further strengthen ties between Polk Museum of Art, local arts community
LAKELAND, FLA.- Florida Southern College has named Dr. H. Alexander Rich as an endowed chair in the Department of Art History and Museum Studies. Dr. Rich, who was named the George and Dorothy Forsythe Endowed Chair in Art History and Museum Studies, is associate professor of art history and chair of FSCs Department of Art History and Museum Studies. He also is executive director and chief curator of the Polk Museum of Art and director of the Melvin and Burks Galleries on the Florida Southern campus. It is wonderful that the George C. Forsythe Family Foundation, through this endowed chair, recognizes the significant work of Florida Southern College and the Polk Museum of Art as we continue to strengthen ties with the local arts community, said FSC President Dr. Anne B. Kerr. We are excited to work ... More
Pérez Art Museum Miami raises over $1.4 million at Art + Soul
MIAMI, FLA.- On Saturday, February 6, 2021, Pérez Art Museum Miami hosted the eighth annual Art + Soul Celebration, virtually, in support of PAMMs renamed Fund for Black Art, which allows the museum to purchase and showcase contemporary art by African Diaspora and African American artists for its permanent collection, ensuring that these artworks will be enjoyed by Miamis community for generations to come. The reimagined virtual event featured a reveal of the funds newest acquisitions: Untitled, Harlem, New York, a photograph by Gordon Parks; Dance in Heat II, a painting by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones; and Untitled (AJASS Model on Black Background), a photograph by Kwame Brathwaite. The addition of these three dynamic artworks expands the representation of the Black experience in PAMMs collection and draws important ... More
Thames & Hudson is to publish 'Napoleon's Plunder: The Theft of Veronese's Feast' by Cynthia Salzman
LONDON.- Cynthia Saltzmans expertly researched and deftly told new book, Napoleons Plunder, chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds new light on the complex origins of what was once called the 'Musée Napoléon', now known as the Louvre. As Napoleons conquering army cut a swathe through Europe, he demanded of his defeated enemies their most valuable statues and paintings. In Italy, the young commander, with the guidance of French commissioners, stole with great taste, aiming for the most magnificent works of the High Renaissance by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian and Veronese, as well as the Vaticans celebrated collections of ancient sculpture. This unrivalled haul from the great cities of Rome, Milan, Venice and, later Berlin and Vienna was placed ... More
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art opens a survey exhibition of the artist Kathy Goodell
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz announces Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop, Selections 19942020, a survey exhibition of the artist Kathy Goodell. Infra-Loop explores Goodells work over the last 30 years, examining an artist who is constantly challenging and reinventing her practice. The exhibition is on view from Feb. 6 July 11 in The Dorskys Morgan Anderson Gallery and Howard Greenberg Family Gallery. It is guest curated by Andrew Woolbright. Infra-Loop examines throughlines in Kathy Goodells practice across painting, drawing and sculpture, examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts and generations. Associated with many movements and contemporaries, Goodells career charts a path and fills in the gaps of what we think about art in the 90s, 00s and the present day. Her practice has determined itself through ... More
Online exhibition features prints by four female artists
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is presenting Experiments on Stone: Four Women Artists from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, continuing the Museums online exhibitions and programming. Drawn from the Museums collection, the exhibition explores the prints produced by Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Gego, and Louise Nevelson at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles during the 1960s. The exhibition is live at MCASD.digital. Experiments on Stone explores the four artists distinct inquiries into printmaking, underscoring the importance of this experimental time in each of their careers. Recognizing that these artists worked in media outside of printmaking for a majority of their careers, this exhibition places their lithographs in direct dialogue with examples of their sculptural and textile work. In ... More
What's a dance theater without an audience?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side, the seats are empty but the stage is crowded. The audience is gone, banned by pandemic restrictions, yet since last summer the stage has been covered every Tuesday in hundreds of bags of groceries, lined up to be delivered by stagehands, theater staff members and artists to nearby housing projects and senior homes. Converting a theater into a food pantry is only one way to respond when audiences arent allowed. NYU Skirball hosted early voting in its lobby. New York Live Arts offered bathrooms and supplies for Black Lives Matter protesters last summer. The Brooklyn Academy of Music served its neighborhood as a distribution center for meals and hygiene products and as a training center for census workers. Closed theaters ... More
Enrico David's first solo show at Gió Marconi opens in Milan
MILAN.- Gió Marconi is presenting Cielo di giugno, Enrico Davids first solo show at the gallery. The work in the exhibition manifests a distinctive pull towards both lightness and a craving for the horizon, in part following the and reacting to Davids Venice experience: original material such as notes, drafts and drawings that are typically at the core of all of his work were conceived during the conceptual stages of the Italian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Cielo di giugno marks a threshold in Davids practice, in that it is his first exhibition composed exclusively of graphic works, of beginnings and clues which in different circumstances would have migrated to other media and modes of expression. The sequence of works, oscillating between proximity and distance, sinking and gliding, underlines Davids position as a painter and ... More
New project launched to engage youth in arts and culture across the UK
LONDON.- Where we are... is a new innovative national programme for young people aged 1624 to co-design meaningful local arts and cultural projects around the UK. Running from 2021 until 2025 and supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the programme aims to give young people agency within their own local communities by creating cultural projects. Launching a national open call to partner organisations today, the programme hopes to inspire cultural and third sector organisations throughout the UK to help co-deliver these projects as part of the British Museums National Programmes. There are so many barriers that prevent young people being able engage with arts and culture locally, from a lack of relevant offers to understanding how to get involved. This funded programme aims to help bridge this gap by working collaboratively ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier died February 10, 1879. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867 - 1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales.
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