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People walk by Anton Refregiers mosaic tile mural on the front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center on West 43rd Street, the former headquarters of 1199 S.E.I.U., in New York on Feb. 14, 2021. The architect David Adjaye spurred a painstaking re-creation of a doomed artwork for its new home and added a homage to the unions place in social justice history. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times.
by James S. Russell
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Not far from Times Square I walked west from Eighth Avenue on a recent afternoon to view a mural I had noticed on several occasions but never truly paused to appreciate. This artwork, mounted on the front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center, at 310 W. 43rd St., is a rarity: a monumental social-realist narrative of labor union progress bustling with human figures rendered in colorful glass mosaic that harks to the techniques roots in Byzantium. The murals arresting central image depicts two hands, one Black and one lighter-skinned, exchanging a leaflet inscribed with a quotation from abolitionist Frederick Douglass, If there is no struggle there can be no progress. We are very proud of being a labor organization and a social justice union, said George Gresham, the president of Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, which commissioned the 1970 work for a sheltered recess built into its 15-story headquarters. The artist, Anton R ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its American Frontier | Ethnographic | Tribal Art sale on Thu, Feb 25, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. In this image: 19th C. Polynesian Samoan Fiber Tapa Eventail. Estimate: $9,000 - $18,000.
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| Christie's announces New York Asian Art Week March 2021 | | Federico Carasso's descendants bequeath collection to Boijmans | | A donor's ties to Epstein are criticized at MoMA and Dartmouth | 
The Luboshez Gong ($4,000,000-6,000,000), a magnificent and highly important bronze ritual wine vessel. Dating to the 13th-12th century BC, the vessel combines a pouncing tiger with a standing owl to form a powerful, fantastic creature. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from March 4-19. This season presents seven auctions featuring over 750 objects from 5,000 years of art spanning all epochs and categories of Asian art from Chinese archaic bronzes through Japanese and Korean art to modern and contemporary Indian painting. Highlights include Shang: Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes from the Daniel Shapiro Collection led by The Luboshez Gong, an exceptional and highly important bronze ritual wine vessel and cover from the late Shang dynasty, 13th-12th century BC ($4,000,000-6,000,000). Also featured in the week of sales are important Gandharan sculptures from a private Japanese collection, including a magnificent 3rd to 4th-century gray schist figure of Buddha Shakyamuni ($1,500,000-2,500,000); a significant ... More | | 
In the 1980s, some 20 boxes containing the most representative works on paper were compiled by the artists son, Dedalo Carasso, who is a cultural historian and curator.
ROTTERDAM.- In 2020 the descendants of the Italian-Dutch artist Federico (Fred) Carasso (18991969) decided to bequeath a substantial portion of his oeuvre 514 works on paper to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. This bequest of the Federico Antonio Carasso Foundation is now definitive. Back in 2011 the Rotterdam art museum organised an exhibition of Carassos drawings, which were barely known to the public, in its Print Room. The drawings presented in Fred Carasso A Sculptors Works on Paper form part of the bequest and complement the museums collections of Pop Art, Surrealism and sculpture. Since the exhibition, these works have remained with the museum as a long-term loan. Deirdre Carasso, chair of the Federico Antonio Carasso Foundation The family is very proud and grateful that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen wishes to preserve a representative selection of Fred Carassos drawings. His drawings ... More | | 
Edward Munch's painting The Scream at auction by Sotheby's in Manhattan on May 2, 2012. Jennifer S. Altman/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin and Matthew Goldstein
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The artist Ai Weiwei said he would ask the Museum of Modern Art to remove his works from its collection if the museum refuses to part ways with its chairman, investor Leon Black, given recent revelations about the Wall Street executives close professional association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Photographer Nan Goldin joined more than 150 artists who have also called for Blacks removal from MoMAs board. And at Blacks alma mater, Dartmouth, there are growing calls for his name to be removed from the colleges visual arts center. The pressure is building at a time when institutions are being held to account for everything from the diversity of their staffs to the professional ties and actions of their trustees. But its also coming at a moment when colleges, museums and nonprofit institutions are starved for revenue and donations because of the economic ... More |
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| Artcurial to offer furniture from Cartier boutiques around the world | | Exceptionally rare Chinese huanghuali furniture headlines Bonhams 'The H Collection' sale | | Christie's Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites totals $4,351,750 - 100% sold by lot | 
The sale will be held to the benefit of Cartier Philanthropy, created in 2012, which is committed to improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable particularly women and children in the most deprived regions of the world.
PARIS.- 240 lots from Cartier will be offered at auction at Artcurial. More than seventy emblematic lots will be exhibited in the salons of the Hôtel Dassault before they go on sale on 3 March 2021. The second part of Cartier at home will be presented through an Online Only sale from March 1st to March 8th 2021. In accordance with the taste of Louis Cartier (1875-1942) and Jeanne Toussaint (1887-1976) for French classicism, this furniture was carefully chosen for its high quality and style. The sale will be held to the benefit of Cartier Philanthropy, created in 2012, which is committed to improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable particularly women and children in the most deprived regions of the world. « This furniture reflects a part of Cartiers identity. Clear lines, a sense of proportion, harmony of shapes. The French 18th century and classicism ... More | | 
An Extremely Rare Huanghuali Low-Back Continuous Yokeback Armchair, Guanmaoyi, 17th century. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will offer at auction The H Collection: Chinese Furniture, Archaic bronzes and Japanese Art. The remarkable collection includes over 80 pieces, comprising an important group of rare classical huanghuali furniture, early archaic bronze ritual vessels, ceramics, jades and scholars works of art, as well as Japanese screens, works of art, arms and armour. Selected highlights will be on preview in Hong Kong from 26 March to 8 April 2021, and in London from 8 to 12 May, before going under the hammer at Bonhams London New Bond Street saleroom on 13 May. The distinguished European private collection was formed to the highest aesthetical and collecting standards setting a benchmark of quality and refinement, exuding elegance and fluidity through the classical furnitures simple silhouettes and austere forms, conveying the owners tenacious pursuit of understated sophistication and stylistic excellence, perfectly blendi ... More | | 
The Most Beautiful Extraterrestrial Substance Known End Piece of the Fukang Meteorite. Estimate: $3,500 4,5000 (No Reserve). Price Realised: USD 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites, an online-only sale of rare meteorites, shattered records totaling $4,351,750, with 100% of the lots sold. 72 of the 75 lots offered sold for more than their high estimate. A record number of bbidders participated in the category from 23 countries across 5 continents, and for 73% it was the first-time. James Hyslop, Head of Science and Natural History, Christies, commented: This record-breaking sale reached a wider audience than ever before for the category. Clients from nearly two dozen countries confirmed the universal appeal of these otherworldly works of art; and that the meteorite market is on the rise. Meteorites cut into slices and carved into spheres provided many of the sales highlights. Leading the sale was the fourth largest slice of the Moon cut from the famed Tisserlitine 001 lunar meteorite. Estimated to sell for $250,000 - ... More |
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| Cowan's African Americana sale sees incredible engagement from institutional buyers and exceeds estimate | | Venus Over Manhattan opens the first United States solo exhibition of Shinichi Sawada's ceramic sculptures | | French film giant Gerard Depardieu charged with rape | 
An archive of materials mostly related to abolitionist George H. Hoyt's work as an attorney for John Brown. Presale Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000. Price Realized: $43,750.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The February 18th African Americana auction at Cowans, a Hindman company, realized over $250,000 with institutional and international bidders showing strong interest in a range of historically significant lots. A number of influential figures including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Madam C.J. Walker, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and Angela Davis were represented in the first dedicated various owner auction for the category. The sale included books, manuscript archives, early photography, posters, and more. Leading the auction and receiving outstanding interest was the archive of Lieutenant Colonel George Henry Hoyt (lot 46) which ultimately realized $43,750, more than ten times its presale estimate. Hoyt is known for serving as one of John Brown's attorneys when the martyred abolitionist stood trial for the raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. The archive features a ... More | | 
Shinichi Sawada, Untitled, 2001-2014. Pasteboard, newspaper, colored paper, wrapping paper, water-based ink pen, oil-based ink ben, cellophane tape, paste, glue; 2 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. Courtesy the artist, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Jennifer Lauren Gallery, Manchester.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thirty-eight year old Shinichi Sawada has kept the same schedule for nearly twenty years. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, he attends Nakayoshi Fukushikai, a social welfare facility in Japans Shiga prefecture, where he spends the morning working at the in-house bakery, making bread. He spends the afternoons working with clay. Sawada first attended this facility, one of many similar institutions in Japan designed to support people with intellectual disabilities, when he was eighteen years old, shortly after he was diagnosed with autism. In the two decades since, his ceramic beasts sometimes ghoulish, always fantastical, and deeply redolent of ancient mythologies still coursing through Japanese culture have attracted the attention of critics and connoisseurs worldwide, notably after a presentation at the 55th Venice ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on February 18, 2018, French actor Gerard Depardieu poses during a photocall for the second season of the French TV show "Marseille" broadcasted and co-produced by US streaming video giant Netflix in Marseille, southern France. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP.
by Guillaume Daudin and Benjamin Legendre
PARIS (AFP).- French film giant Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday, the latest in a string of such allegations against prominent figures in France. Depardieu, one of the most famous actors of his generation, is accused of assaulting and raping an actress in her 20s in 2018. An initial investigation into the rape accusations against the 72-year old Depardieu was dropped in 2019 for lack of evidence. But it was reopened last summer, leading to criminal charges being filed in December, the judicial source said. The actress accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home on two separate occasions in August 2018. Depardieu's lawyer Herve Temime told AFP that the actor, who is free but und ... More |
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| Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka opens an exhibition of works by Joan Mitchell and Carl Andre | | The King and Queen of Spain to officially inaugurate Spain's newest contemporary art museum | | Gabriella Hirst's Darling Darling premieres at ACMI | 
Joan Mitchell. Cypress, 1980. Courtesy of the Fondation Louis Vuitton © The Estate of Joan Mitchell.
OSAKA.- For its inauguration, the Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is presenting Fragments of a landscape, an exhibition gathering the works of two major American artists: Joan Mitchell, who began painting in the 1950s and is representative of post-war Abstract Expressionism, and Carl Andre, a sculptor who was an active member of the Minimalist movement in the early 1970s. This presentation, part of the Fondation Louis Vuittons Hors-les-murs programme showcasing previously unseen holdings of the Collection at the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Venice, Beijing, Seoul and now Osaka, carries out the Fondations intent to mount international projects and make them accessible to a broader public. Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She travelled to Paris in 1948, where she remained until 1949. When returning to New York, she took part in the Artists Club (also known ... More | | 
Helga de Alvear portrait, 2021 in front of Descending Light, 2007, Ai Weiwei. Photo: Andy Solé.
CACERES.- His Majesty, the King of Spain, Felipe VI, and Her Majesty Queen Letizia will officially inaugurate the Helga de Alvear Museum, Spains newest contemporary art museum, set in the heart of the historic city of Caceres in Southern Spain on Thursday 25 February 2021. One of the most important new contemporary art museums in Europe, the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, has been created to house Spains most significant private collection of international contemporary art developed over 40 years by the leading gallerist and collector, Helga de Alvear. The collection of more than 3,000 works by more than 500 artists acquired over her lifetime has been donated by Helga de Alvear to Extremadura, one of the most generous personal gifts of art ever made. It includes outstanding work by Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Joseph Albers, Paul Klee, Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Anish Kapoor, Philippe Parreno, Gordon ... More | | 
Gabriella Hirst. Photo: Micha Otto.
MELBOURNE.- ACMI and The Ian Potter Cultural Trust announced the world premiere of Darling Darling, by Gabriella Hirst, as the first solo art exhibition in the new ACMI. Darling Darling is a two channel video installation exploring hierarchies of care, romanticism and the enduring colonial gaze upon the Australian landscape and the devastation of Australias third largest waterway, the Barka Darling River. The installation presents two contrasting perspectives of the same body of water: the detailed work by art conservators to restore the 19th century painting, The flood in the Darling, 1890, by colonial painter WC Piguenit, and the environmental crisis facing the Barka Darling today, as a result of drought, climate change, and severe water mis-management. Presented simultaneously, the sounds from these two contrasting locations leak into one another, blurring the boundaries between these two seemingly distinct treatments of care and implicating the viewer in the contradictions of the Gallery ... More |
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 Warhol Superstar Gerard Malanga set to release his latest book of poetryNEW YORK, NY.- Gerard Malangas newest book of poetry The New Melancholia & Other Poems is set to be released on March 9, 2021. Published by Bottle of Smoke Press, the 148-page book will be available at Bottle of Smoke Press website, Amazon and select bookstores. Gerard Malanga is a lifelong poet, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and was Andy Warhols assistant and closest associate from 1963-1970. With my poetry, I have been channeling the people Ive been writing about. I talk to them as if they are sitting across from me. The poems are not about the person its talking to the person. The New Melancholia & Other Poems marks over a dozen poetry books authored by Malanga. His most recent book Cool & Other Poems was released in 2019. Gerard Malanga has always been a keen observer, from his earliest days clutching his first prized Kodak Brownie i ... More  Buckingham Palace garden explored in new Royal Collection Trust book featuring tips from the Head GardenerLONDON.- Royal Collection Trusts latest publication follows a year in the life of the famous garden at Buckingham Palace, giving readers a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes management of this hidden oasis in the heart of London. Written by garden writer Claire Masset, the book offers insights into the gardens rich history and its use today as part of a working royal palace. Atmospheric images by the award-winning photographer John Campbell reveal how the garden changes and develops over the course of a year. Throughout the book seasonal gardening tips are provided by Mark Lane, Head Gardener at Buckingham Palace. The 39-acre garden at Buckingham Palace fulfils many roles. It is Her Majesty The Queens private London garden ... More  New exhibition at Pera Museum deals with kitschISTANBUL.- Pera Museums new exhibition A Question of Taste is now open to the public. The exhibition deals with kitsch, a concept whose meaning has shifted since the 19th century, and the intimate relationship this concept has established with today's visual culture as well as its critical role in shaping taste. Curated by Ulya Soley, the exhibition includes works by 13 artists and collectives using different media such as installation, collage, video and photography. A Question of Taste can be viewed at Pera Museum until June 6. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is pleased to present its new exhibition A Question of Taste. The exhibition raises a number of questions while exploring the rich uses of the concept of kitsch today: In this era when diversity, ambiguity, and ineffability are sanctified, can kitsch be a tool to carry these values forward? Could thinking about ava ... More  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet who nurtured the Beats, dies at 101NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and political iconoclast who inspired and nurtured generations of San Francisco artists and writers from City Lights, his famed bookstore, died Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 101. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his daughter, Julie Sasser, said. The spiritual godfather of the Beat movement, Ferlinghetti made his home base in the modest independent book haven now formally known as City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. A self-described literary meeting place founded in 1953 and located on the border of the citys sometimes swank, sometimes seedy North Beach neighborhood, City Lights, on Columbus Avenue, soon became as much a part of the San Francisco scene as the Golden Gate Bridge or Fishermans Wharf. (The citys board of supervisors designated it a historic landm ... More  Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2021GLASGOW.- Glasgows GoMA, the most visited modern and contemporary art museum in Scotland, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2021. Housed in an iconic building located in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow, the venue opened to the public on 30 March 1996 and was formally opened by HM The Queen on 3 July 1996. GoMA has a unique position in Glasgow as a collecting institution of contemporary art, as a civic space that is enjoyed by a broad demographic of visitors, and as a key tourist attraction for the city. Since opening its doors 25 years ago, GoMA has staged over 200 exhibitions with diverse artists from all over the world, as well as collecting powerful work by local, UK and international artists and developing an award-winning learning programme for all ages, abilities and interests. While the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are in place GoMA remains clos ... More  New exhibition showcases the Chazen's holdings of Susan Caporael's prints and paintingsMADISON, WIS.- American artist Suzanne Caporael (b. 1949) is inspired by the natural world. Suzanne Caporael: The Nature of Things features nearly 70 artworks, spanning three decades, drawn from the Chazens permanent collection. It is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinÂMadison from Feb. 23 until fall 2021 in the Pleasant T. Rowland Gallery. The exhibition includes paintings as well as prints created at UWÂMadisons Tandem Press. Suzanne Caporaels long relationship with UWMadison makes creating and touring this exhibition particularly special for the Chazen, said Amy Gilman, director of the museum. In addition, the scientific underpinnings of her work make them incredibly relevant as we all confront issues of global climate change and our relationship with nature. We are looking forward to sharing her artworks on campus and around ... More  Rare Israeli Bedouin audio archive sheds light on nomadic societyJERUSALEM (AFP).- Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's Negev desert. Bailey's unique Arabic audio archive is now being transcribed and digitised by Israel's National Library, a project aimed at enriching Bedouin scholarship in Israel, the Arab world and beyond. "I find that in understanding Bedouin culture... you understand human nature, how people adjust to living under very difficult circumstances," Bailey told AFP. There are some 250,000 Bedouins living in Israel, part of the mainly Palestinian-Arab community that stayed in the Jewish state following its creation in 1948. Impoverished and often living on the margins, Bedouin culture is understudied in Israel, a problem Bailey's recordings will help address, said Raquel Ukeles ... More  Portland welcomes monument (origin unknown) to Black man who reached Pacific in 1805PORTLAND (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Over two years, a man named York trekked some 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Northwest and back, hunting, tracking, foraging and, at least once, voting as a Black man held in bondage by another, more famous member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Last weekend, almost 215 years after the group made it back to Missouri, a large bust of York was raised in a Portland, Oregon, park without fanfare or explanation, on the spot where a statue of a prominent conservative had been toppled last year. City leaders, acknowledging that they had no idea who put the monument to York there, said it looked great. This is what were calling guerrilla public art, but it was a pleasant surprise, said Adena Long, the director of Portlands Parks Bureau. York, she said in an interview, is a figure that in my mind that we need to do a better job of proa ... More  Douglas Turner Ward, pioneer in Black theater, dies at 90NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Douglas Turner Ward, an actor, playwright and director who co-founded the celebrated Negro Ensemble Company, a New York theater group that supported Black writers and actors at a time when there were few opportunities for them, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The death was confirmed by his wife, Diana Ward. Ward was establishing his own career as an actor in 1966 when he wrote an opinion article in The New York Times with the headline American Theater: For Whites Only? If any hope, outside of chance individual fortune, exists for Negro playwrights as a group or, for that matter, Negro actors and other theater craftsman the most immediate, pressing, practical, absolutely minimally essential active first step is the development of a permanent Negro repertory company of at least off-Broadway size and dim ... More  Kohn Gallery announces representation of Kate BarbeeLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery announced the representation of the Los Angeles-based painter and multimedia artist Kate Barbee. This February, Barbee debuted her first solo exhibition, Feral Flora, at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition is currently on view through March 25, 2021 Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Barbee makes forcefully expressive large-scale paintings, whose abundance of colors, gestures, abstract forms, and layers of mixed media converge in dream-like images of figuresmostly womenin domestic tableaux. At once intimately personal and yet evocative of universal experiences of emotion and connection, Barbees works are relational, environmental portraits that favor sensation over precision. She captures the moods, vulnerabilities, desires, and power struggles of her subjects, working with an open-ended, responsive process that calls to ... More  Toronto Biennial of Art announces change of dates for second editionTORONTO.- The Toronto Biennial of Art today announced that its second edition is being postponed in response to the current global pandemic. Originally scheduled for fall 2021, the Biennial will now take place March 26June 5, 2022. The Biennials Board of Directors and Executive Director Patrizia Libralato, along with the Biennial team, decided to postpone the event for six months to help ensure the health and safety of participating artists, collaborators, partners, supporters, the public, and Biennial staff. The artists invited to participate are developing projects that require many of them to travel to Toronto, undertake site visits months in advance, and manage on-site installations just prior to the opening of the event. These activities require their presence in the city. As travel and shipping continue to be disrupted by the pandemic, the ability of artists to realize their projects as conceived ... 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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and theorist Charles Le Brun was born February 24, 1619. Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 - 22 February 1690) was a French painter, art theorist, interior decorator and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. In this image: A Christie's employee looks at an oil painting by 17th century artist Charles Le Brun.
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