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The final painting on canvas of The Death of Socrates (1787), one of the most famous works of French neoclassicism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 15, 2022. A landmark exhibition of drawings at the Met brings us into the studio of the French Revolutions chief propagandist, and stages the ultimate showdown of culture and politics, the New York Times critic Jason Farago says. Clark Hodgin/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- You are young, you brim with ambition, you want to change the world; you are an artist. Youve been admitted to your fields most prestigious institute, and won the favor of the top collector in the land. But your country is plagued by social inequality and galloping inflation. Political crises cascade one atop the other. Is art enough, right now? Or should you turn your art into something else something more engaged, more dogmatic, more like propaganda? And when the world changes, then how far will you go? Perhaps all the way into the halls of power, where you will adopt a zeal no one foresaw. When your allies execute their foes, youll cheer them along. When they get murdered themselves, youll glorify them as martyrs. Youll end up in prison, pleading for brushes and pencils, and reemerge in a country eager to forget what youve done. In 2022, our museums and streaming services deliver daily sales pitches of cultures power and & ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones Auction on Feb 24, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-6. Join them for a very special auction featuring fabulous fossils, rare and unique depictions of fauna and flora, and everything in between! From petrified wood, and marble to Victorian era jewelry and Fine Art, this is one you won't want to miss! In this image: Rare Fossilized Giant Short Faced Bear Lower Jaw Bones. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000.
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| Boijmans collection brings explosion of light to Fries Museum | | Eli Wilner & Company reframes Claude Monet's "The Palazzo Ducale" for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | | Eli Klein Gallery opens a group exhibition of 10 Chinese contemporary artists | 
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Fries Museum are collaborating to place work of the impressionistic world elite in a new daylight.
ROTTERDAM.- Together with the Fries Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is organising a major exhibition about the influence of the French light in nineteenth-century painting. The exhibition 'à la campagne: the French light from Maris to Monet' can be seen in the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden. The exhibition makes a journey along the artistic development of this 'French view' of the landscape - from the Barbizon school to (post) impressionism. The renovation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen provides a unique opportunity for the collection of impressionists - which indisputably belongs to the world top - to make a once-in-a lifetime trip. The exhibition features more than 90 paintings and works on paper, some of which have been specially restored in the brand-new depot. On show are leading French artists such as Daubigny, Rousseau, Millet, Sisley, Cézanne, Pissarro and Renoir, Belgian painters such as Van Rysselberghe and Wytsman ... More | | 
Claude Monet, The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur), 1908, oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 39 9/16 inches, on view in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by David Heald.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company announced the creation of a new replica frame for Claude Monets The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur, 1908, oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 39 9/16 inches, on view in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wilner began the frame selection process based on a reference image provided by the Guggenheim Museum that indicated the general aesthetic approach they recommended for the Monet painting. The staff at Wilner consulted their own extensive inventory of period frames to locate an original frame that could act as a primary physical study. Due to ongoing Covid-19 related restrictions, the usual in person reviews of the frame suggestions were limited, but the Wilner and Guggenheim project teams were able to settle on some early decisions through individual profile ... More | | 
Yang Bowei, Flower petals pinned on the window, 2020. C-print, 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (31 x 25 cm) Edition of 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Renew - A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography, a group exhibition of 10 Chinese contemporary artists representing a diverse range of generations, featuring 18 works that aim to update and reimagine the medium of photography, as well as the relationship between the Photographers, their Ways of Seeing, and the Photographsall within the current socio-political and technological climate. Photography, despite countless rounds of technological updates, has, at its core, always remained one of the most accessible and prominent mediums to freeze the present and immortalize the past. While Nicéphore Niépce, one of the pioneering fathers of photography, considered his invention to work as an artificial eye, what the medium is capable of expressing has long surpassed simply likeness and accuracy. Featured in this exhibition are a multitude of explorations that expand and reinvent ... More |
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| Rare work by the African artist Clara Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu comes to Bonhams | | Captain Kirk's uniform from the first season of 'Star Trek' commands $125,000 at Heritage Auctions | | Sabrina Amrani opens the first solo show in Spain of the artist duo :mentalKLINIK | 
Clara Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu (Nigerian, 1921-1996), Dancers. Estimate: £20,000-30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- No work by Clara Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu (1921-96), the legendary female Nigerian artist has ever appeared at auction. A recently discovered rare artwork is to be offered in the Modern & Contemporary African Art sale on 9 March at Bonhams New Bond Street. Dancers, which depicts two figures intertwined in a complex architectural composition, is an exceptional example of Ugbodaga-Ngu's unique blending of Nigerian motifs with a semi-abstract style. The geometric elements of the composition create a lively sense of movement that, along with the paintings vivid palette, present an individual confidence and purpose in the moment following Nigerian independence. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. Clara Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu was born in Kano in 1921, and first taught art in mission schools before receiving a scholarship from the colonial administration to study art at Chelsea School of Art in London. Teaching with the Nigerian College of Arts, S ... More | | 
William Shatner "Captain Kirk" Tunic and Pants from Season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series (Paramount TV, 1966-1969).
DALLAS, TX.- It wasn't the Federation-Klingon War, but it was close enough: A fierce tussle over Captain Kirk's command tunic and black pants, worn during the first season of Star Trek, drove the final price of that historic outfit to $125,000 at Heritage Auctions on Tuesday. The auction house's 75-lot Star Trek Hollywood & Entertainment Signature® Auction realized $723,138, led by some of the most recognizable outfits worn during The Original Series. Among the auction's top lots were two outfits from the beloved "Mirror, Mirror" episode: Kirk's shiny gold vest made of lurex and adorned with the Terran Empire's requisite sash and medallions, which sold for $50,000; and the bearded Spock's slate-blue sateen wool tunic, which fetched $55,000. Both outfits had been displayed in 1998 at the California State Fair. Lt. Sulu's red, sashed tunic from "Mirror, Mirror" brought $18,750 during the event, as did Mr. Chekov's ... More | | 
:mentalKLINIK, Faker 2102, 2021. Tempered glass, micro- layered polyester solar films, artist frame; coated aluminium. 61 x 46 x 2 cm. Courtesy of the artists and Sabrina Amrani.
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting HYPERMOODY, the first solo show in Spain of the artist duo :mentalKLINIK, presenting works that defy the definition of 'Painting. Tempered glass, polished aluminum panels, water-based emulsion, liquid polyurethane with different glitters, silver confetti, robot vacuum cleaners, ASMR audio and air diffusers spritzing champagne scented essence. Welcome to HYPERMOODY, a show by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK, oxymoronically titled to underscore the split between life as lived and as advertised. Mobilizing these and other elements :mentalKLINIK creates an object-laden, digitally-aided, gallery-wide sensorium. The environments ostensible payload: dozens of paintings that, in point of fact, are not (conventional) paintings at all. Foursquare wall-hanging objects the artists have dubbed showoff paintings, each series ... More |
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| Indiana University opens the Mies Van Der Rohe Building of its Eskenazi School Of Art, Architecture + Design | | Pre-Beatles Quarry Men drum kit & Madonna's iconic Material Girl music video ensemble headline sale | | Exhibition brings together the works of many of the most influential artists of the 1960s until 1970s | 
The Mies Van Der Rohe Building. Image courtesy the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University. © Hadley Fruits.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- Peg Faimon, Dean of Indiana Universitys Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, today announced that the Schools Mies van der Rohe building has opened to students, faculty, and the public for the spring semester. The building, which serves as a shared facility for the School, is the realization of a recently rediscovered 1952 design that Mies created for the Bloomington campus. The design has been sensitively adapted for contemporary use by the architectural team of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Lecture, workshop, student collaboration, administrative and office program spaces are included. Originally commissioned for an IU chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, which subsequently abandoned the project, the Mies design was all but forgotten for some sixty years. It re-emerged in 2013 when Sidney Eskenazi, a member of the former chapter, informed IUs then- ... More | | 
Madonna's pink satin dress with bustier top and oversized pink satin bow designed by white faux fur stole from Edwards-Lowell of Beverly Hills pink satin opera gloves and rhinestone bracelets is estimated at $100,000 - $200,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced two important and historic pieces from the early career defining eras of the Beatles and Madonna will be the world-record breaking auction house to the stars marquee headliners of their premiere music auction event Music Icons, taking place Friday, May 20th, Saturday, May 21st, and Sunday, May 22nd 2022 live at Hard Rock Cafe® New York and online at juliensauctions.com. The original drum kit used in the Quarry Men, the pre-Beatles group formed by John Lennon and Madonnas iconic Material Girl pink gown ensemble, will headline a lineup featuring over 1,000 spectacular collectibles and memorabilia owned and used by some of the worlds most influential and music artists of our time will be offered. Formed by John Lennon in Liverpool, England in 1956, the Quarry Men ... More | | 
Installation view of Party for Oeyvind. Photo: Daniel Spehr.
BASEL.- Museum Tinguelys Party for Ãyvind, which opened 16 February and runs until 1 May 2022, is an exhibition centred on the life and work of Ãyvind Fahlström (19281976). In the course of his all too short career, he created an oeuvre that overstepped boundaries in every respect. Starting in the 1950s, he built up an international network of friends and fellow artists, over eighty of whom are also represented in the show. Their works in disciplines as varied as poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, performance, and film reveal just how mutually inspiring their biographical and artistic trajectories and the connections between them were. Fahlström was working at a time when change was in the air, when a young generation began to venture along new paths in the political, social, and personal spheres and to actively oppose the colonialist, patriarchal politics of the preceding generations. Fahlström and his friends belonged ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of works by Phyllida Barlow | | Iconic production cel from 'Akira' races to forefront of Heritage's International Art and Anime Auction in March | | Sixth round of Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund recipients announced | 
Phyllida Barlow, untitled: attic 2; 2019 (detail), 2019. Hessian scrim, PVA, plaster, plywood, steel, timber, 199 x 79 x 73 cm / 78 3/8 x 31 1/8 x 28 3/4 in © Phyllida Barlow. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: ©2020 Alex Delfanne, All Rights Reserved.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- British artist Phyllida Barlow has continuously challenged the conventions of sculpture. Infusing humble materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, and cement with a boundless energy, she persuades the viewer to experience form on its own terms rather than to reflexively project meaning onto it. glimpse, the artists first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in her celebrated five-decade career, is an ambitious presentation of new large-scale works assembled on site and in response to the gallerys physical adaptation of the historic Globe Mills, a collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings. Here Barlow responds to, manipulate, and punctuate the distinctive architectural features of the complex with her sculptures, yielding an intimate and confrontational encounter between form, environment, ... More | | 
Akira Kaneda Iconic Vertical Pan Production Cel D/C6 End (Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1988).
DALLAS, TX.- If there is an indelible image from the 1988 classic anime film Akira , this is it: Shōtarō Kaneda atop his famous motorcycle, headed straight toward the viewer. The image of Kaneda on his motorcycle is one of the most popular and iconic from the film, forever captured in an Akira Kaneda Iconic Vertical Pan Production Cel D/C6 End (Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1988) that will be among the top draws in Heritage Auctions' International Original Art and Anime Signature® Auction March 11-13. Beyond the significance of the film for which it was made, this cel (estimate: $50,000+) is in exceptionally high demand because it almost was destroyed. The studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha nearly discarded all production artwork from Akira to conserve space, before it was salvaged at the last second by its North American distribution company Streamline Pictures for the cost of shipping. " Akira is an important anime film, beloved by generations of fans," ... More | | 
Edward Burne-Jones, Study of a Womans Head, turned to the Left, 1868, Red and black chalk on textured paper, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
LONDON.- Exquisite drawings and watercolours by the Pre-Raphaelites, Antony Gormleys The Brick Man, important archival material about Thomas Hardy and costume designs by Isabel Rawsthorne are among the exciting items being lent in this latest round of forthcoming exhibitions supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. These will go to the sixth round of successful applicants to the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund announced today, which are: Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Watts Gallery Artists Village in Compton, the Wessex Museums Trust and Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham. A total of £105,811 has been awarded in this round, bringing the total so far to almost £1 million across 65 organisations since the scheme began in 2017. Thirteen striking costume ... More |
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 Photo London and the World Photography Organisation announce new partnershipLONDON.- The founders of Photo London announce a new partnership with the World Photography Organisation, bringing together two of the leading global photography organisations dedicated to the development and cultural enrichment of the medium. The move follows the World Photography Organisations (World Photography Awards Limited.) acquisition of 25% in Photo London. The Fair returns to Somerset House from 12-15 May 2022 for its seventh edition, presenting a roster of noted international galleries and photography dealers alongside an acclaimed public programme of exhibitions and talks. Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad explain the thinking behind the move: Photo London is widely regarded as a key global cultural event and fixture in Londons creative calendar, yet the years since its launch in 2015 have been eventful ... More  bitforms gallery SF opens Bill Fontana's first solo exhibition with the gallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- bitforms gallery is presenting Bill Fontanas first solo exhibition with the gallery, Sonic Visions. On view at bitforms gallery SF, the exhibition reveals recent and remastered works within three sites: the gallery, an immersive black box media room, and the atrium of Minnesota Street Project. Sonic Visions demonstrates the artists use of time as a material through a masterful unification of sonic and visual recordings. Fontanas practice is rooted in composition as a tool to immortalize moments of listening, a hyperfocus he describes as hearing with both eyes and ears. Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns was created using sound mapping, a process of placing microphones in diverse locations to combine sound from all angles. At its debut in 1981, the acoustics of San Francisco Bay were procured from eight different sites as a live audio ... More  Fairhill Auction announces online-only 142-lot auctionELKTON, MD.- More than 140 lots of rare and vintage posters mainly World War II German and American propaganda posters and war bonds posters will come up for bid in Vintage Poster Auction #105, slated for Thursday, March 10th, by Fairhill Auction, starting promptly at 11 am Eastern time. This will be an online-only auction with no live in-gallery bidding available. The German WWII propaganda posters originate from one consignor's decades-old collection and contain some of the rarest examples out there, mainly held by institutions and archives in the United States and in Europe, said Andreas Kornfeld, president and owner of Fairhill Auction. Mr. Kornfeld added, This was an exciting project for us. It took over a year to finalize the German propaganda collection. While the catalog is small in scale it contains some real gems that are very difficult ... More  La Guardia's new Delta Terminal to be defined by New York artistsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Delta Air Lines rebuilt Terminal C, expected to open this spring as one of the last big features of La Guardia Airports $8 billion transformation, will be defined by six new large-scale, site-specific permanent artworks. We want public art to be a significant part of the appeal, inspiration and sense of place at a major new civic facility, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the airport. The Port Authority, together with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Delta Air Lines, has partnered with the Queens Museum to commission Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo and Fred Wilson all New York-based artists to create installations throughout the arrivals and departures hall and associated concourse. The overall budget ... More  'Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy' on view at the Getty Research InstituteLOS ANGELES, CA.- For centuries, artists and scientists have been fascinated by the structures of the human body. Featuring works of art from the 16th century to today, the Getty Research Institute exhibition Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy explores the theme of anatomy and art and the impact of anatomy on the study of art. Flesh and Bones celebrates the connection between art and science and the role of art in learning, said Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. This exhibition draws on the Getty Research Institutes rich and varied holdings to tell the story of two disciplines that have long been intertwined. I believe visitors will find meaningful connections with the way artists and scientists have inspired one another for centuries. From spectacular life-size illustrations to delicate paper flaps that lift to reveal the body's ... More  Lund Humphries publishes 'Creative Leadership: Born from Design'LONDON.- Based on a decade of research and 20 years of collaboration between designers and business professionals, this book argues that creatives should play a role in defining much needed new forms of leadership in society. The changing realities of our time - especially the unprecedented situation in 2020 - calls for leadership that moves beyond outdated models or frameworks that are driven by the tired rhetoric of management, business or patriarchal notions of commandment. There is a need for new forms of leadership that are more empathetic and expansive, conversational and communal, and above all, creative. This informative and accessible book examines whether designers can actually be leaders and, if so, whether they can be better leaders because of their creative capability. It then examines how the tools of design, ... More  First exhibition to chart evolution of Eamon Ore-Giron's practice opens at MCA Denver DENVER, CO.- Exploring the complex layering of identities, histories, and artistic legacies that have influenced Eamon Ore-Giron's approach to painting, Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relampágo at MCA Denver marks the first presentation to examine the artist's trajectory over more than 20 years of creative practice. On view February 16 to May 22, 2022, the exhibition follows the progression of Ore-Giron's paintings since 2002 with an emphasis on recent works in abstraction that place this painting tradition within a broader and more complicated history of form in the Americas. Featuring more than two dozen works, most of which have not been seen publicly before now, Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relampágo culminates with an immersive presentation of six new paintings ... More  Celebrating love and joy in Black cultureNEW YORK, NY.- In a section of Kyle Abrahams latest evening-length work, An Untitled Love, four women sit on a pink plastic-covered couch, a patterned rug at their feet, gesturing in cool, flirtatious unison: crossing their ankles, rolling their shoulders, flicking a hand into the air. Every so often, they erupt in chatter, or saunter over to other dancers strolling by. The steady, sultry groove of DAngelos One MoGin animates the scene. Since founding his New York-based company now called A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2006, Abraham, 44, has often made work about the struggles, past and present, of being Black in the United States. His propulsive, deeply musical dances, for his own troupe and larger companies like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, have confronted issues of police brutality, mass incarceration and other legacies of slavery. ... More  Internationally acclaimed Scottish artist Craig Black lands residency at CheekwoodNASHVILLE, TENN.- Scottish visual artist Craig Black has been selected as Cheekwoods 2022 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence (AIR) recipient. The AIR series is an initiative focused on bringing innovative, dynamic and intriguing artists to the city of Nashville. For the first time, Cheekwood hosted an open call for artists to apply for the coveted four-week residency, which provides the opportunity to create on the estate for a full month and display interpretive site-specific works in an indoor/outdoor exhibition at one of the citys leading art institutions. Its an honour to have been selected for the Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence program, says Black. It is going to be a special occasion to practice and develop my art at the beautiful and historic grounds of the Cheekwood Estate. I cant wait to showcase my one-of-a-kind acrylic fusions ... More  Beatles, Dylan, Stones and other legendary rock record rarities take a spin at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- For David Swartz, it started with the Who. Then it became about the why. In addition to making him a lifelong fan of the band, hearing the band's 1971 Who's Next album for the first time sent Swartz on a journey that has resulted in one of the greatest record collections in the world. Over the past three decades, the New York-based collector has amassed thousands of pieces of music memorabilia, including a trove of vintage concert posters and a jaw-dropping assortment of rare records. The treasures in Swartz's vinyl collection run the gamut from white label promo copies meant only for radio station DJs to limited-run pressings on colored vinyl, with records by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and a festival's worth of other music luminaries. But the Who is who started it all. "The music of the Who resonated with ... More  Christie's announces 'View Over St. James's Square: A Private Collection 'LONDON.- A visual feast, View Over St. Jamess Square: A Private Collection reflects the diverse interests of a couple whose passion for quality and craftsmanship brought together paintings, furniture and works of art from a broad range of cultural influences and geographies. This online sale will go live to view on 24 February, ahead of being open for bids from 3 until 17 March. Highlights will be on public view at 8 King Street from 9 to 17 March. At the core of the collection is a group of Old Master paintings and European decorative arts from the 18th and 19th centuries. They range from a pair of Italian temple capricci attributed to Pier Francesco Garoli (estimate: £50,000-80,000), a pair of Mediterranean coastal landscapes with fishermen by Carlo Bonavia (estimate: £50,000-80,000) and a three-quarter Portrait of Bartolomeo Compagni ... More |
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Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich was born February 23, 1878. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 - May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling.In this image: Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1908 or 1910-1911. Gouache on paper, 27 x 26.8.
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