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Mira Lehr with one of her new works, Norweky, from the series Planetary Visions (acrylic, ink, burned and dyed Japanese paper, ignited fuses, and handwriting on canvas), 2020. Photo by Michael E. Fryd. From the collection of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- During the pandemic quarantines, the celebrated artist Mira Lehr created more work now than ever before in her six decades of artmaking. Her new series, called Planetary Visions, represents a bold departure for the artist. Her new exhibition has been extended through Feb. 6 due to strong sales and popular demand, with several new additional works by the artist being added to the show at Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery in Boca Raton, Florida. The gallery features online initiatives to allow art lovers from all over the world to experience Lehrs new work across digital platforms. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of Lehrs visionary founding of Continuum, one of Americas first women artist co-ops which she pioneered in 1960. This is a major turning point for humanity. Because of the global pandemic, for the first time in human history, the entire population of the planet is thinking about th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient / Ethnographic Art Through The Ages auction on Thu, Jan 07, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! In this image: Huge Costa Rican Stone Flying Panel Metate w/ Snake. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
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| Exhibition explores the formal and visual affinities and contrasts between Josef Albers and Giorgio Morandi | | San Francisco's top art school says future hinges on a Diego Rivera mural | | Almine Rech pays tribute to Kim Tschang-Yeul |
Giorgio Morandi, Fiori (Flowers), 1947 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Albers and Morandi: Never Finished. On view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location, the exhibition explores the formal and visual affinities and contrasts between two of the twentieth centurys greatest painters: Josef Albers (18881976) and Giorgio Morandi (18901964). Both Albers and Morandi are best known for their decades-long elaborations of singular motifs: from 1950 until his death in 1976, Albers employed his nested square format to experiment with endless chromatic combinations and perceptual effects, while Morandi, in his intimate still lifes and occasional landscapes, engaged viewers perceptual understanding and memory of everyday objects and spaces. Albers and Morandi: Never Finished will put each artists distinctive treatment of color, shape, form, morphology, and seriality in dialogue. Looking specifically at the stunning ... More | |
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City by Diego Rivera, on display at the San Francisco Art Institute. SFAI via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The San Francisco Art Institute was close to losing its campus and art collection to a public sale last fall, when the University of California Board of Regents stepped in to buy its $19.7 million of debt from a private bank, in an attempt to save the 150-year-old institution from collapse. The agreement provides a lifeline, but the future of a beloved artwork a mural by Diego Rivera worth $50 million, which officials say could help balance the budget is still up in the air, and faculty and former students are outraged. The 1931 work, titled The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, is a fresco within a fresco. The tableau portrays the creation of both a city and a mural with architects, engineers, artisans, sculptors and painters hard at work. Rivera himself is seen from the back, holding a palette ... More | |
Portrait of Kim Tschang-Yeul.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced the passing of Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929-2021). Kim Tschang-Yeul is one of the greatest Korean painters. Born in 1929 in the north of the then unified Korea, he migrated to the south to escape the communist regime. He subsequently left for New York to pursue his artistic dreams before finally settling in Paris in 1969. There, he began to nurture, over a period of forty years, a unique motif: the drop of water. The waterdrop was the starting point for a singular and iconic body of work, which stands at the confluence of lyrical abstraction, Pop art and Chinese calligraphy. This simple and limpid uvre subtly fuses Taoist wisdom, modern conceptual irony and the tragedy of war. Kim Tschang-Yeul is considered one of the pre-eminent figures in the establishment of contemporary Korean art on the international scene, alongside Nam-June Paik and Lee Ufan. His work has been shown around the world for more than fifty ... More |
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| Oversize limited-edition book is the first to feature Julian Schnabel's work in all media | | Carnegie Museum of Art announces three new senior leadership appointments | | Grammy awards postponed until March over Covid-19 |
Julian Schnabel. Edition of 1,000. Hans Werner Holzwarth, Louise Kugelberg. Hardcover in clamshell box, 33 x 44 cm, 7.83 kg (17.23 lb), 570 pages, numbered and signed by Julian Schnabel ISBN 978-3-8365-8161-5 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German.
NEW YORK, NY.- I want my life to be in my work, crushed into my painting like a pressed car. If its not, my work is just some stuff. Julian Schnabel said this on the eve of his first solo exhibition in New York in 1979 that made him an overnight success. Since then, he has been synonymous with paintings return to new relevance. Schnabel finds his materials in the fabric of the everyday. His plate paintings use broken crockery to form an improbable picture, ground in everyday materials, while he also paints on velvet, market stall covers, army tarps, kabuki theater backdrops, and boxing ring floorsmaterials that lend their history to a painterly exploration, often discovered on his travels or around his outdoor studios. Place is important to Schnabel, both ... More | |
Dana Bishop-Root, photo by Jonathan Castillo.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announced today three new senior leadership hires. The museum named Ronald Lee Newman as Deputy Director; Dana Bishop-Root as Director of Education and Public Programs; and Aryn Beitz in the role of Director of Design and Publishing. I am delighted to welcome Ronald, Dana, and Aryn to our senior leadership team, said Eric Crosby, the museums Henry J. Heinz II Director. Since I began as Director in March 2020, I have been committed to building a collaborative and inclusive senior leadership team that reflects exemplary experience and diverse backgrounds and points of view. As Carnegie Museum of Art embarks on its next chapter of change and growth, I am confident that Ronald, Dana, and Aryn, along with our colleagues across the entire museum team, will discover innovative ways to realize our mission and serve our audiences through new programs, practices, and partnerships. As CMOA ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 28, 2018, Grammy trophies sit in the press room during the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in New York. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Grammy awards celebrating music slated for January 31 in Los Angeles have been postponed until March due to Covid-19, which has been rapidly spreading in California. The Recording Academy behind the gala did not immediately respond to AFP inquiries but updated the events listing on its website, setting the ceremony's new date as March 21. The 63rd annual ceremony's delay comes less than a month before it was set to take place in the shadow of the pandemic, which has dealt devastating blows to the music industry. The organization had said the show set for late January would be mostly virtual, but had not released specific plans. Beyonce, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift and rapper Roddy Ricch are the top nominees at the normally star-studded gala. Comedian Trevor Noah was set to host the 2021 show, and it wasn't immediately clear if that was still the plan. The ... More |
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| Tony Hart auction reveals how his work on another BBC show years before inspired the Blue Peter Ship emblem | | Ronin Gallery partners with Oracle to launch new online gallery | | Yinka Shonibare CBE RA to receive Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2021 |
Galleon, believed to be the inspiration for the Blue Peter logo and badge designed by Tony Hart, ink and watercolour on paper. Signed Tony Hart and dated 52. Measures 14.5 x 14.5cm. Created by Tony for Hooray for Humpty-Dumpty on Saturday Special, BBC TV 1952. Estimate £800-1,200. Courtesy of Ewbanks Auctions.
LONDON.- Copies of original 1950s designs for the Blue Peter ship emblem by TV artist and presenter Tony Hart will come to auction at Ewbanks in Surrey on January 29. Consigned from the collection of Harts close friend and agent Roc Renals (1922-2014), the 55-lot sale is expected to raise close to £20,000. It also includes artwork and correspondence spanning the Vision On and Take Hart presenters career from the 1950s onwards, including superb ink and watercolour views of the Montserrat home and AIR studio of Renals friend, Beatles producer George Martin, not long before they were destroyed in a 1989 hurricane. The studios had hosted recording sessions for Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, ... More | |
Hiroshige, Mountain River on Kiso Road, 1857 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronin Gallery will launch an all-new online experience in January 2021. Over the past nine months, they have worked to bring their website and backend systems to the same best-in-class level as their new physical gallery at Bryant Park Place. What can visitors expect from the new site? Here are some of the highlights: Optimized Search From saved searches to granular search filters, theyve made it easier to explore the collection your way. Top-of-the-line Security With any online purchase, security is tantamount. Through partnerships with Oracle, Cybersource, and Chase Paymentech Global, they have implemented the most up-to-date security systems available today. Design Refresh Enjoy a streamlined online experience, from their homepage to their revamped education section. A Commitment to Quality You can continue to expect the same dedication to quality, ... More | |
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, 2014, Photo: James Mollison.
LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery announced that Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, UK) is the eighth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award, generously supported by the Swarovski Foundation. On Monday 22 March 2021, the award will be presented during a virtual gala celebration hosted by Iwona Blazwick OBE (Director, Whitechapel Gallery), and feature an exclusive musical performance from four-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo. To protect the safety and welfare of all attendees, the event will be hosted on a digital platform and will celebrate the Gallerys continued commitment to youth programmes and educational activities through an evening of live presentations. An online auction of artworks donated by leading contemporary artists will also take place, hosted by Phillips Auction on www.phillips.com. All funds raised will help support ... More |
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| 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner Dannielle Bowman opens exhibition at the Camera Club of New York | | Tanya Roberts, a Charlie's Angel and a Bond girl, is dead at 65 | | Prominent French intellectual falls to accusations of incest |
Dannielle Bowman, Vision (BumpNCurl), 2019 © Dannielle Bowman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation presents the exhibition Dannielle Bowman: 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner, hosted by Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. Bowman was awarded the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize for her series What Had Happened (2019ongoing). Apertures creative director, Lesley A. Martin, praised the series for making excellent use of the pleasures of photographic space, described in elongated tonal gradations of black, white, and maximum greys balanced against compositions etched sharply by California-noir shadowsRobert Adams meets Maya Deren in the Los Angeles suburbs. In this new exhibition, Bowman presents an expanded version of What Had Happened, with new works produced over the course of the last year. Standing outside traditional forms of documentary photography, her work aims at mapping Black American histories that have remained mostly unspoken, blending into them her own family histo ... More | |
This archive photo shows actress Tanya Roberts arrives for the 5th annual TV Land awards held at Barker hangar in Santa Monica, California on April 14, 2007. Chris DELMAS / AFP.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tanya Roberts, the breathy-voiced actress who found fame in the 1980s as a detective on Charlies Angels and as a brave earth scientist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, has died in Los Angeles. She was 65. Her death, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, was confirmed by her companion, Lance OBrien, on Tuesday morning. He said she had died overnight. Her publicist, who was given erroneous information, had announced her death to the news media early Monday, and some news organizations published obituaries about her prematurely. The publicist, Mike Pingel, said Roberts had collapsed on Dec. 24 after walking her dogs near her Hollywood Hills home and was put on a ventilator at the hospital. He did not give the cause of death, but said it was not related to COVID-19. He said she had not been noticeably ill before she collapsed. ... More | |
In this file photo taken on May 19, 2016, Olivier Duhamel, French political specialist and newly elected as the head of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP), poses at the Sciences Po school in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Roger Cohen
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the latest of several scandals to test French attitudes toward sexual abuse of minors, a prominent political scientist, radio show host and television commentator has quit his media and university posts after being accused in a new book of committing incest with his teenage stepson more than 30 years ago. Olivier Duhamel, a French public intellectual, said in a Twitter post Monday that he had decided to step down as a result of personal attacks against him, and out of a determination to preserve the institutions in which I work. These included the Sciences Po university, where Duhamel, 70, headed the body overseeing the renowned Paris institution. Camille Kouchner, in a book ... More |
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William Link, co-creator of 'Columbo' and 'Murder, She Wrote,' dies at 87
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- William Link, a prolific screenwriter who created classics of American television like Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, doing so in a writing partnership with a friend from junior high school that lasted nearly 40 years, died Dec. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 87. His wife, Margery Nelson, confirmed the death, at a hospital. Links stories about unkempt detectives and persistent private eyes shaped the mystery and crime-drama television genre. With his partner, Richard Levinson, he also created shows like Mannix, Jericho and Blackes Magic. Murder, She Wrote starred Angela Lansbury as a mystery writer who solves crimes in the fictional Maine town of Cabot Cove. Network executives were initially skeptical of the idea of a female protagonist who wears reading glasses. But after they were sold ... More
How pop and jazz wrapped up the past in 16 boxed sets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them. Alive with isolated, collagelike layers and exuberant ad-libs (Now, the tambourine!), Raw Like Sushi, Swedish pop artist and rapper Neneh Cherrys cult classic debut album, is a remixers dream. This 30th-anniversary set contains a vibrant remastered version of the original LP, along with two entire discs of imaginative remixes: Massive Attack transforms the synth ballad Manchild into a snaking, meditative groove, while early hip-hop producer Arthur Baker reworks two different extended club mixes of Cherrys ebullient hit Buffalo Stance, furthering its eternal cool. Cream Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and Ginger ... More
Adam Wallacavage opens solo exhibit of new work
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- HOTBED is presenting, After Forever, a solo exhibition of surreal sculptures by renowned artist, Adam Wallacavage, and curated by James Oliver. The iterative installation will evolve every week with new sculptures introduced every Friday of the exhibition. After Forever will present work in an immersive fantastical environment from two ongoing series, Octopus Chandeliers and Kitsch Collaborations. After Forever uncovers the intricacies of Wallacavages practice and gives a closer look into the artists unrestrained techniques. The exhibition will be open to the public from December 18, 2020 through March 6, 2021. The Octopus Chandeliers are a study in form, function and whimsy; candy-colored bulbous octopi with puckered tentacles. Mixing Art Nouveau, Surrealism and a lifetime fascination with the sea, Wallacavages ... More
Without tourism, life in a Tuscan village slides back in time
CASTELLINA IN CHIANTI (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For decades, the rolling hills of Chianti in Tuscany have been a holiday destination for tourists from all over the world. Nearly year-round, visitors take on the regions winding roads in their rental cars, admiring the landscape laboriously sculpted by farmers, where vineyards blend into olive groves, and forests of oak trees give way to cypress-lined drives. For me, this is home. I remember strolling through the streets as a young girl in the summers, surrounded by northern European visitors. My first job was at a local tourism office, where I helped travelers with their assorted accents look for paper maps of the area. Hotels filled up quickly in those days. More than 114,000 tourists passed through my village in 2019, and the number was even higher in previous years. But the pandemic which ... More
Lynn Tomaszewski appointed Chief Academic Officer at Moore College of Art & Design
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Lynn Tomaszewski has been appointed chief academic officer/academic dean at Moore College of Art & Design, the first and only historically all-womens art and design school in the nation. In her new role, Tomaszewski will work in partnership with the entire campus community to move the College into the next significant and promising new phase of the institutions history, and contribute to the inspiring work of establishing Moore as one of the best art and design colleges in the country. She will oversee development of new curricula, new programs and new organizational structures, cultivating a vibrant and holistic student experience. She will also play a significant role in BFA recruitment and enrollment efforts, will help to identify compelling funding initiatives and will take an active role in Moores alumni ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery announces Winter Estates Auction, Jan. 16-17
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A bronze sculpture by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (American, 1876-1973), a 155-piece set of Tiffany sterling flatware in the Harlequin pattern, and a French Empire style figural mantel clock and pair of four-light candelabra are just a few top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys live and online Important Winter Estates Auction slated for January 16th-17th. The gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, will be open for exhibitions beginning Thursday, January 7th, from 10-5 Central time, by appointment only (excluding Sunday). A live Saturday preview will be held January 9th, from 9am to 1pm, also by appointment only. Start times both auction days are 10 am Central time. The sale will be headlined by items from the Estate of John C. McNeese, New Orleans, LA; property deaccessioned from the private ... More
Bruce Museum receives grant from Connecticut Humanities COVID Relief Fund
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum has received a grant of $45,456 from Connecticut Humanities (CTH), the states affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and counterpart to the states Office of the Arts. The allocation is part of a relief package to 50 Connecticut museums and other nonprofit humanities organizations totaling $1.5 million, approved by the CTHs Board of Directors on December 21, 2020. CTHs COVID Relief Fund for Museums helps non-profit museums and other 501c3 non-profit humanities organizations with full-time staff and annual operating budgets of at least $450,000 recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants range from $22,727.25 to $45,456.00. Dr. Jason Mancini, Executive Director at Connecticut Humanities, stated, Like performing arts venues, museums ... More
Pandemic rains on Spain's glittering Epiphany parades
(AFP).- For children, it's the most wonderful time of the year, when Spaniards turn out to welcome the gift-laden Three Kings. But this year's glittering parades have been torpedoed by the pandemic. In Spain, it's not Father Christmas nor Christmas Eve that beguiles the children, but Melchior, Caspar and Balthasar who arrive bearing gifts on the night of January 5. Every year, millions flock to the streets across Spain to watch fairytale parades welcome the royal visitors with music, dancing and bucketloads of sweets that are hurled into the excited crowds. But with all outdoor gatherings banned to slow the spread of the virus this year, officials across the country have been scrambling for creative ways to keep the magic of "Reyes" alive. In Barcelona, organisers had been working on a detailed plan since the summer, fearing even back ... More
Lee Breuer, adventurous theater director, dies at 83
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The director Lee Breuer, who over an influential half-century in New Yorks downtown theater scene blended genres in productions of extravagant experimentalism, often with Mabou Mines, the avant-garde troupe he helped to found, died Sunday at his home in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He was 83. His wife and artistic partner, actress Maude Mitchell, confirmed his death. A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel at Colonus Breuer flourished in the scrappier realm of off-off-Broadway, even as the scale of his works and ambitions took him to larger stages, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Delacorte Theater in Central Park and the Comédie-Française in Paris. How much of the game do you have to play, and how much can you play against the ... More
She's starring opposite Tom Hanks. She'd never heard of him.
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When director Paul Greengrass was gearing up to make his new film, News of the World, about a Civil War veteran in 1870s Texas who escorts an orphaned girl to her relatives across the state, he was anticipating one major challenge. This is the first film I made with a child actor at the heart of it, he said recently by phone. The casting would be difficult on multiple levels, he realized. Although the character is on-screen for much of the movie, she has only a few lines of dialogue. Tom Hanks had already signed on as the lead, so she would have to go toe to toe with a superstar, Greengrass said. It was a very, very hard ask. One of the first children he saw during the casting in 2019, however, was Helena Zengel, a then 11-year-old from Berlin with a tomboyish energy and platinum hair. She was the only ... More
Eager bidders add to their collections at Holabird's 5-day Holiday sale
RENO, NEV.- A portfolio of five aquatint etchings by the Chilean artist Sebastià n Matta sold for $3,750, a pictorial letter-sheet from 1856 illustrating all the major types of gold mining done in California by 1855 brought $3,500, a monumental 12-volume railroad survey report published from 1855-1860 compiled to find the best rail route to the Pacific coast realized $3,125, and a pair of Chinese publishing company stock certificates from the 1920s fetched $2,125 at a five-day Holiday Auction held December 17th-21st by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. The auction was held live in the Holabird gallery at 3355 Airway Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno, as well as online via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. The sale was packed with hundreds of lots of mining collectibles, philatelic material, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 x 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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