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In this file photo visitors stroll through the Rubin Museum of Art in New York on Oct. 19, 2004. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art announced on Monday that it would return two sculptures to Nepal after researchers working for the museum concluded that smugglers had stolen the carved wooden artifacts from religious sites. We are deeply grateful, Nepals acting consul general, Bishnu Prasad Gautam, said in a statement. The proactive response and thoughtful collaboration from the Rubin have positively contributed to Nepals national efforts to recover the lost artifacts. The museum credited a nonprofit called the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign for playing a role in the repatriation by calling attention to questions about the history of the items. In September, a Twitter account affiliated with the recovery campaign had posted concerns that the wooden relics had been stolen. The recovery campaign had a role in the return of at least seven relics last year from cultural institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. The Rub ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Pre-Columbian | Tribal | Oceanic Auction on Jan 13, 2022 11:00 AM GMT-6. Featuring Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, so much more. All items legally acquired, legal to sell and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Convenient in-house shipping. In this image: Estimate $30,000 - $40,000.
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| Selling Melania Trump, one NFT at a time | | Who is Ednah Schwartz? | | Bonhams announces acquisition of Bukowskis | 
First lady Melania Trump during a welcome ceremony at the White House on April 24, 2018. A year after leaving the White House, the former first lady tests the water for her brand. Tom Brenner/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- On Jan. 11, not quite a year after Donald and Melania Trump left the White House and less than a week after the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol that took place in his name, four years or so after putting her trademarks on ice and shuttering her QVC jewelry line and her skin-care line, Melania Trump returned to the public eye with a new kind of personal brand and a new kind of merch to go with. The vehicle: a 14-day auction on melaniatrump.com of three pieces that comprise what is called the Head of State Collection. The name is presumably a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to the star lot: what the website describes as an iconic broad-brimmed, ... More | | 
According to Ednah, Painting is a conversation with myself, with you - the viewer, and with the universe.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ednah Schwartz is a fascinating Jewish Israeli artist. While Ednah was born in New York City, she grew up mainly in Israel with her parents and older brother. Later, Ednah married and settled in Kfar Blum - a Kibbutz located in the Upper Galilee (the northern valley region of Israel). There she raised her three children, all of whom served in the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces), and this is where she resides and works as an independent artist to this very day. Ednah embodies art. She views it as a way of life and an integral part of who she is. It is an extension of herself and a reflection of how she views the world. For Ednah, pursuing her art was a conscious choice and it created an intersection where her passion and her profession merge and thrive. Ednahs art reflects her values and her experiences. While some of the ... More | | 
Bonhams HQ in New Bond Street, London. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams, the global auction house, has acquired Bukowskis, the leading auction house in the Nordic region. Financial terms are not being disclosed. Established in 1870, Bukowskis, with its flagship saleroom in Stockholm, is a renowned company throughout Scandinavia. During recent years, it has built on its foundations as a much-loved and respected brand to transform itself into an innovative digital presence that attracts more than one million users every month. Last year, Bukowskis sold 11 out of the 15 most valuable artworks in the Swedish market including achieving the highest price for a Swedish artwork ever sold at auction as well as several prestigious collections. In addition to selling fine art and collectables at its salerooms in Stockholm and Helsinki, Bukowskis has extended its global reach digitally ... More |
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| Romancing the royal portrait | | Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman on a quarter | | René Magritte's "L'empire des lumières" to make market debut at Sotheby's | 
The Duchess of Cambridge by Paolo Roversi, 2021 © Paolo Roversi. Released to mark the occasion of The Duchesss 40th birthday in January 2022.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the commoner-turned-royal formerly known as Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, mother of a future king, has turned 40. In honor of the event, three new portraits have been unveiled to the world, to go on display in three locations before becoming part of the permanent collection of Londons National Portrait Gallery, there to remain for posterity. Taken by Paolo Roversi, the Vogue photographer known for his soft-focus time-out-of-time style and high romanticism, the Catherine portraits show the duchess in three different Alexander McQueen gowns a choice that not only ticks the box of wearing British, but also continues Catherines relationship with Sarah Burton, the designer who made her wedding gown. According to British Vogue, the dresses, custom-made for the duchess, were created from fabric left over from previous McQueen collections, adding a frisson of sustainability to the shoot. ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by The United States Mint shows the reverse side of a United States quarter featuring the likeness of the writer Maya Angelou. The Department of Treasury via The New York Times.
by Livia Albeck-Ripka
NEW YORK, NY.- Writer and poet Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the quarter, the first in a series of coins commemorating pioneering American women that began shipping this week, the U.S. Mint announced Monday. It is my honor to present our nations first circulating coins dedicated to celebrating American women and their contributions to American history, Ventris Gibson, the deputy director of the Mint, said in a statement. Maya Angelou, she added, used words to inspire and uplift. Angelous landmark 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, documented her childhood in the Jim Crow South and was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century Black woman to reach a wide general readership. In it, she writes, there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Angelou recited a poem at President Bill Clintons first inauguration, ... More | | 
Painted for Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, who appears in many of Magrittes greatest works, the enigmatic 1961 work has remained in her family ever since. To be offered in March 2022 with an estimate in excess of $60 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of the most desirable works of modern art in private hands, and among the definitive images of Surrealist art, René Magrittes Lempire des lumières captures the visual paradox that lies at the heart of the artists originality. The instantly recognisable work was created in 1961 for Baroness Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, the daughter of Magrittes patron the Belgian Surrealist collector Pierre Crowet, and has remained in the family ever since. Anne-Marie embodied Magrittes aesthetic ideal, even before he actually met her. Uncannily, her likeness is found in a number of works executed before their first meeting, when he famously said to her: Tu vois, je te peignais déjà avant de te connaître. Thereafter she became a lifelong friend of Magritte and his wife Georgette, appearing in many of the artists most significant paintings. With an estimate in excess of $60 million, this masterpiece of twentieth century art will be offered as the star of ... More |
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| Mitchell-Innes & Nash represents Tiona Nekkia McClodden | | Rob Lyon's harmonic landscapes on view at Adams and Ollman | | Richard Klein to conclude tenure at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | 
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, TNM_ [CLUB - 2018], 2021. Polished leather boots on metal stand. 21 ¼ x 16 x 16 in. / 54 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm. © Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announced its representation of Tiona Nekkia McClodden, a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, photography, sculpture, and sound installations. Her work addresses and critiques issues at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary, exploring shared ideas, values, and beliefs within the African Diaspora, or what she calls Black mentifact. In 2017, her seminal work, Brad Johnson Tapes, X-On Subjugation, was included in Meg Onlis Speech/Acts at ICA Philadelphia and would go on to enter the collection of MoMA. That same year, McClodden won the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award ahead of her critically reviewed curation of Julius Eastmans work ... More | | 
Rob Lyon, Triangulation Point, 2021. Oil on linen, 11 13/16h x 9 7/8w in. 30h x 25.08w cm.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting paintings by Rob Lyon (b. 1982, Lancashire, UK; lives and works in West Sussex, UK) for his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Since 2014, Lyon has been painting the unique landscape of the South Downs in England where he grew up and later returned to raise his family. Inspired by long walks amongst its distinct ridges of wooded rolling hills and valleys, dramatic skies, and sweeping vistas, the artist works methodically and meditatively to capture and inscribe the unique spirits encountered there. Common motifs of birds, hills, trees, and other foliage, depicted in expressive colors, strong lines, and patterned brushstrokes, assemble on the canvas in simplified forms, repeating and reassembling, held in harmonic tension as though briefly caught between moments of entropic flux. Various combinations of dots, lines, and shapes create a graphic language that is sometimes consistent, but often not. ... More | | 
Klein has worked at the Museum for over three decades, holding the position of Exhibitions Director since 2004. Photo: Mary Kenealy.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announced today that Richard Klein will conclude his administrative duties as Exhibitions Director in June 2022 and organize his final exhibition at the Museum in February 2023. Klein has worked at the Museum for over three decades, holding the position of Exhibitions Director since 2004. Klein said: Looking back, other than art, whats kept me engaged with the Museum has been the incredibly talented and passionate people Ive had a chance to work with. Obviously there have been the artists who have taught me so much but there are also the staff, volunteers, members and trustees who have inspired me over the years and helped me realize my vision of what a contemporary art museum should be. Board Chair Diana Bowes shared: Over his thirty-year plus tenure, Richard Klein has helped The Aldrich build a strong ... More |
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| Intersect Palm Springs announces exhibitors for 2022 edition | | National Endowment for the Humanities announces $24.7 million in new grants | | Milestone's Jan. 29 Winter Antique Toy Spectacular unleashes high-condition American and European rarities | 
Carole Feuerman, Kendall Island. Oil on resin with 24K gold leaf cap, 70 x 21 x 38 in. 177 x 53 x 96 cm. Melissa Morgan Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Intersect Palm Springs, a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of more than 50 emerging and established contemporary and modern art and design galleries, announces its exhibitor list and special exhibitions for the 2022 edition. An Opening Night Preview on Thursday, February 10 will be followed by General Admission from Friday, February 11 through Sunday, February 13. Works from the Fair will also be online at Artsy.net, Intersects exclusive online marketplace partner, from February 10 through March 3, 2022. Focus on Form: Sculpture Garden will provide a spotlight on sculpture at the entry to the Fair, featuring large-scale works by such artists as Stephanie Bachiero (Peter Blake Gallery), Michael DeJong (New Discretions), Andy Dixon (Over the Influence), Tara de la Garza (bG Gallery), Richard Hudson (Michael Goedhuis), Robert Indiana (Galerie Gmurzynska), Dominique Labauvie (Bleu Acier), Robert Raphael ( ... More | | 
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, on June 18, 2019. The museum will receive $30,000 to support a digital mapping project exploring the history of jazz and hip-hop in the borough. Calla Kessler/The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- A living history museum based on the life of Dred Scott, digitization of books and manuscripts dispersed from the Philippines in the 18th century, a Cherokee translation effort, and an exhibit on the history of jazz and hip-hop in Queens, New York, are among 208 projects across the country that are receiving new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grants, which total $24.7 million, support individual scholarly projects and collaborative efforts, including initiatives and exhibitions at cultural institutions ranging from local history sites to behemoths like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The awards are part of the agencys regular cycle of grants. Last year, the agency also distributed more than $140 million of additional grants supported ... More | | 
Marx prototype Red Cross windup motorcycle, 10½ in long, with hand-painted details. Marked on bottom to indicate its origin as being Marxs Erie, Pa., factory. Estimate $6,000-$8,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- Antique and vintage toys played a major role in Milestone Auctions success in 2021. Their October 2nd toy event rocketed to $768,000, a house record for the suburban Cleveland, Ohio, company. Milestone is on track to keep that positive momentum going in 2022 with an 867-lot Winter Antique Toy Spectacular on January 29. The motor pool will be ready to spring into action when the sale commences at 10 a.m., with top-notch examples of American, European and Japanese cars, racers, trucks, vans, buses, fire toys and work vehicles awaiting their new owners. The demand for toy motorcycles has been insatiable, and strong prices continue to be paid for rare, early examples in superior condition. The January event includes nearly 130 tempting bikes, including many that have their original factory boxes. Leading the pack is a Marx windup Indian motorcycle with sidecar. All original and in like-new condition ... More |
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 Bill Staines, folk music mainstay, dies at 74NEW YORK, NY.- Folk singer Bill Staines used to tell a story about the oddest line in his best-known song, A Place in the Choir, whose lyrics celebrate the diversity of the animal kingdom and, by implication, the human one. Thanks to numerous cover versions and a bestselling picture book, countless children and adults could sing you the chorus: All Gods critters got a place in the choir,Some sing low, some sing higher,Some sing out loud on a telephone wire,Some just clap their hands, or paws, or anything theyve got. But what about the line that ends one of the verses? The otter hasnt got much to say, and the porcupine talks to himself. Whats up with that porcupine? The line, as Staines often related, came from a camping trip he and his wife, Karen Elrod Staines, took to the Tobacco Root Mountains in southwest Montana. Lying awake in their tent at 4 a.m., he heard an odd ... More  Ayyam Gallery opens its first solo exhibition featuring Sharjah-based sculptor Muatasim AlkubaisyDUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery is presenting to you (t)irony the first solo exhibition featuring Sharjah-based sculptor Muatasim Alkubaisys work. (t)irony features Alkubaisys largest body of work yet, composed of a selection of figures, portraying those that have been ruined by power. These non-deserving and corrupt characters utilize their positions to suffocate and belittle the common man. The artist transforms misery and discrimination into sophisticated and intricate characters through a delicate yet deliberate touch. He magnifies and exaggerates traits creating caricatural portraits, presenting a sarcastic consciousness, and exposing the arrogance of their behaviors and practices. The figures are merely cartoon characters with puffed bellies and swollen jugular veins. Concealed by dress, their physical deformities, malignancy, and evil schemes still show through the bronzes smooth surfaces. The ... More  Group exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery features artists whose work reflects on the human bodyNEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting Body Language, a group exhibition including six international artists whose work reflects on the human body. In their diverse practices, the artists included do not utilize the body for its physical form, but instead, as a conduit to explore both internal and political dimensions. Acknowledging that our bodies are constantly subject to cultural, and identity-based readings, the artists in the exhibition utilize these preconceptions in order to explore the bodys political dimensions, and to encourage deeper understandings of its humanity. In Sara Issakharians (b. 1983, Tehran, Iran) work, ghostly, chimerical figures are embellished with vibrant colors and marks that waver between disciplined, figurative illustration and frustrated outbursts of childlike, violent scribbling. Issakhraians expressionistic imagery dwells on adversarial relationships such ... More  Carved wood, Thai furniture and fine antiques headline Stevens Auction's saleABERDEEN, MISS.- Beautiful carved and root built Thai furniture from a Texas estate, antique furnishings from an estate home in Eutaw, Alabama, and items decommissioned from a private museum in New Orleans will all come up for bid the weekend of January 14th and 15th by Stevens Auction Company, online and live in the Aberdeen gallery at 609 North Meridian Street. The Friday, January 14th session, starting at 4 pm Central time, will feature items from the estate of Philip Parker (1946-2000), who dotted his east Texas Greek Revival home with antiques and other pieces. Mr. Parker owned an oil field services company in Iraq and became a world traveler. He made frequent trips to Thailand, where he purchased wonderful furniture items. These will include highly detailed carvings on a teakwood tree trunk that have to be seen to be believed. Carved animals, birds and flowers ... More  Smithsonian continues collecting artifacts from Jan. 6 Capitol attackWASHINGTON, DC.- To mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Smithsonians National Museum of American History has announced it is continuing collecting efforts to document the day and its larger impact on American democracy. The museum followed its rapid-response protocol on Jan. 7, 2021 to collect ephemeral materials such as rally signs, posters and flags, along with a whip and a wooden pole used as weapons, which were discarded on the National Mall. During the past year, curators from the Division of Political and Military History and the Photographic History Collection have collected additional materials that represent various aspects of the attack and its aftermath. Among those newly acquired artifacts are a black protective vest worn by freelance photographer Madeleine Kelly, which was slashed by a knife-wielding rioter, and her ... More  United States Artists announces Judilee Reed as President and CEOCHICAGO, IL.- Following an extensive national search, United States Artists Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Judilee Reed as its new President and CEO. Reed currently serves as Program Director of Creative Communities for the William Penn Foundation. There, she oversees the Foundation's arts, culture, and great public spaces grantmaking portfolios in Philadelphia, PA, as well as the organizations national initiatives. The opportunity to lead USA, particularly during this challenging moment for artists, is an honor, said Reed. I am thrilled to join an organization that supports artists through direct funding and considers not just the art that is created, but the artists themselves. As we consider the past, navigate the present, and dream of the future, artists across career stages will continue to play an essential role in their communities and beyond; I look ... More  Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opens an exhibition of works by Natasha MistryBOULDER, CO.- Natasha Mistry describes the act of painting as an adventure into ones quiet, intuitive inner world. The artists abstract ink drawings, oil paintings, and watercolors activate the deeply sacred space of the subconscious. Mistry is inspired by the remarkable similarities between the geometric patterns found in the natural world and those she observes during meditation. Her colorful and vibrant works are as lively and playful as they are meditative and still. She follows an intuitive creative process and invites viewers to be present and attuned to the experience of interpreting what they see. Mistrys graphic and sometimes minimalist abstractions are unique, personal expressions of color, pattern, and saturation. Natasha Mistry creates colorful, abstract oil paintings, watercolors, collages, and black-and-white ink drawings. Her paintings are whimsical and playful yet meditative ... More  Theaster Gates and Anthony Gallery announce a yearlong partnership to highlight African American artCHICAGO, IL.- Rebuild Foundation and Anthony Gallery today announced a yearlong partnership to present a series of exhibitions spotlighting the importance of Black space, Black art and Black artists at the Stony Island Arts Bank in 2022. Run by Chicago native Isimeme Easy Otabor, Anthony Gallery, which is located in the Fulton River District of Chicago, will collaborate with artist Theaster Gates Rebuild Foundation to highlight emerging and established contemporary artists working in the field of African and Black American identity. Rebuild Foundation and Anthony Gallery will kick off the series on January 20th with Is where its at!, a special exhibition from Chicago-based Nigerian American artist Adeshola Makinde. Is where its at!, a presentation of new and existing works drawing upon the celebrated EBONY and JET Magazines, pays homage to the Johnson Publishing ... More  Dix Noonan Webb to sell rare London Blitz George Cross awarded to a Birmingham-born manLONDON.- An extremely rare, if not unique George Cross that was presented in 1940 for bomb disposal during the London Blitz will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Estimated to fetch £30,000-50,000, it is being sold by the recipients family. The group of five was awarded to Sub-Lieutenant J. B. P. Duppa-Miller, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was awarded the George Cross for his courage and skill in disarming a highly sensitive and dangerous magnetic mine in Barking Creek on September 23, 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Sub-Lieutenant Miller and Able Seaman Tuckwell worked up the creek on the last of the ebb in a small rowing boat, and reached the mine by wading in the filth which one of Londons main sewers pours into Roding River. The bomb-fuse and primer holder were taken out ... More  San Francisco Ballet appoints Tamara Rojo as new Artistic DirectorSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Ballet today announced the appointment of Tamara Rojo, its first new artistic director in nearly four decades and first woman to lead the internationally-recognized company that has balanced an innovative focus on new and contemporary choreography with a deeply held dedication to classical ballet for nine decades. Rojo comes to San Francisco from Londons English National Ballet (ENB), where she has served as artistic director and lead principal for nine and a half years, raising the companys profile through excellence and innovation, garnering awards and accolades, and championing female choreographers. In her new role in San Francisco, Rojo will helm Americas oldest professional ballet company, a trailblazer in dance that nurtures emerging choreographers and the development of new works, contributes to the international dance ... More  Guggenheim launches first-ever Poet-In-Residence programNEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, announced today that Taylor Johnson has been selected as the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for 2022. This new initiative builds upon the institutions legacy of engaging forms of abstraction in the visual arts and beyond, as well as its history of poetry events, and continues the Guggenheims commitment to amplifying diverse voices and perspectives within its programming. The launch of the Poet-in-Residence program was announced at an event celebrating the life of artist and writer Etel Adnan (19252021) that featured readings of her poems and original works by Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Stephen Motika, Asiya Wadud, and Anne Waldman. The Poet-in-Residence initiative will introduce encounters with poetry throughout the Guggenheim. In his new ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera was born January 12, 1591. Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. In this image: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint James the Lesser, ca. 1632.
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