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Walter Iooss, Michael Jordan (Detroit, Michigan 3/87). Photograph, 23 x 23 inches. Signed, and titled; also signed, dated, and numbered 1/23 on the reverse.
NEW YORK, NY.- Capturing light may sound like a magical concept⦠and in many ways, it is. You may be thinking of some kind of science fiction, but in reality, weâre simply talking about taking a picture⦠a photograph⦠a snapshot of a single moment in time; an immediate recording of every drop of light. And while the process in and of itself is magical, these still frames provide an enchanted window to the past â not as a memory, but as it was, in all its glory and triumph. Some of the most unforgettable moments in modern times involve a particular set of individuals we hold dearly; you could even go as far as to say some worship these icons â our sports heroes. With that, Rehs Contemporary announced the offering of artwork by renowned sports photographer Walter Iooss â an original collage featuring 27 individual basketball images, as well as a special limited edition in-game photograph of a young Michael Jordan. Dubbed the Rembrandt of Photography ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Arms & Armor | Antiquity to Present Day sale on Thu, Jan 14, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-6. This specialty auction featuring axes, mace heads, swords, spears, various types of armor, and more! Many different cultures and price ranges. Great for first-time buyers, seasoned collectors, dealers. In this image: Rare Mid-15th C. German Steel Wall Gun w/ Wood Carriage. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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| Colby College Museum of Art receives collection of more than 500 photographs | | Researchers announce world's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies | | Colonial Williamsburg receives its most significant American decorative arts bequest in its history | 
Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 18791973), U.S. Navy Starts Out on Patrol Duty, January 1943. Gelatin silver print, 6 Ã 4⅞ inches.
WATERVILLE, ME.- A transformative gift to the Colby College Museum of Art of more than 500 photographs from the private collection of Dr. William Tsiaras 68, P03 and Nancy Meyer Tsiaras 68, P03 will significantly expand and deepen the Museums photography holdings. This collection, inspired by the gift of a camera to William (Bill) as a young émigré and shaped by his photographer patients, expands the Museums holdings in ways that advance its ability to tell alternate narratives of American art, enhancing its position as the nations leading college art museum. Highlights from this collection are the focus of a major publication, Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection ($50), released by the Colby Museum in fall 2020. A selection of photographs will be represented in a 2022 exhibition of the same name. This remarkable gift from Bill and Nancy Tsiaras ... More | | 
The ~70-million-year-old fossil in question: an adult oviraptorid theropod dinosaur sitting atop a nest of its eggs. Photo: Shundong Bi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- A multinational team of researchers has announced a first for the world of paleontology: a dinosaur preserved sitting atop a nest of its own eggs that include fossilized babies inside. The scientific paper describing the discovery was recently published in the journal Science Bulletin. The primary authors are Drs. Shundong Bi, professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and research associate at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), and Xing Xu, paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. The research team also includes CMNH co-interim director and lead dinosaur paleontologist Dr. Matt Lamanna. CMNH scientific artist Andrew McAfee produced illustrations for the paper. Dinosaurs preserved on their nests are rare, ... More | | 
Coffeepot. Richard Humphreys (working ca. 17711791), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ca. 1775. Silver; wood. Bequest of Joseph H. and June S. Hennage. Photo: Courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Theirs was a love story of many dimensions: a love for one another, a love of America and its decorative arts and a love of Colonial Williamsburg. The culmination of Joseph and June Hennages passion and evidence of their extraordinary philanthropic generosity is the bequest of their entire American decorative arts collection, which they amassed over 60 years, to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The Hennage Collection is a singular gift that will transform the already renowned American furniture and furniture miniatures, silver and ceramics collections at Colonial Williamsburg. Totaling more than 400 objects of various media, the Hennage Collection also includes paintings, prints and antique toy animals, vehicles and figures. To honor ... More |
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| Niger museum is eclectic national 'mirror' | | Krannert Art Museum hosts photographer, book artist Bea Nettles for exhibition and artist events | | Doyle to auction Old Master paintings and English & Continental furniture | 
A general view of a dinosaur skeleton at the National Museum of Niger (MNN) or Boubou Hama Museum, which is also a zoo, in Niamey, Niger, on December 29, 2020. Issouf SANOGO / AFP.
by Patrick Fort
NIAMEY (AFP).- There can be few museums in the world to rival the National Museum of Niger. It has displays covering art, history, dinosaurs, nuclear energy, craftwork and music as well as live animals, for it is also a zoo. Its clientele is similarly diverse, encompassing visitors who have trekked to the capital Niamey from across the country, school groups, well-heeled foreign tourists and street urchins. The cultural gem of the world's poorest country, the 24-hectare (59-acre) museum survives on a budget that for rich counterparts is the equivalent to money found down the back of the sofa. Yet it charges a rock-bottom entrance fee -- around 10 US cents -- so that even the most impoverished can walk in and have access to exceptional things... including wild animals. "Fauna and culture," ... More | | 
Bea Nettles, Star Lady, August 1970. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of the artist. © Bea Nettles.
CHAMPAIGN, IL .- For 50 years, artist Bea Nettles has made innovative use of alternative photographic processes, incorporating handmade details and a range of techniques in her work. The first large-scale retrospective of her career explores the artists experimental approaches to art-making across recurring themes of motherhood, nature and mythology. Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is on view through March 6. Nettles will give virtual artist talk on Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. in the gallery, where she will be in conversation with KAM Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell. The talk and conversation will be broadcast via zoom. On Feb. 25 at 4 p.m., Nettles will be in conversation with Mary Statzer, PhD, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the New Mexico Art Museum. This virtual discussion is organized by the McKinley Foundation. Nettles ... More | | 
John Hoppner (British, 1758-1810), Portrait of Rear Admiral John Sprat Rainier in Naval Uniform, The Estate of A. Edward Allinson, Palm Beach. Est. $8,000-15,000. Lot 66.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will present an auction of English & Continental Furniture, Silver & Decorative Arts and Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 10am. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, January 16 thru Monday, January 18 from Noon - 5pm and by appointment at other times. Safety protocols will be in place. Doyle is located at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan. View the catalogue and place bids at Doyle.com Showcased among the paintings and drawings are fine landscapes, still lifes, portraits and religious subjects by European artists from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Highlights include a portrait of Rear Admiral John Sprat Rainier by John Hoppner and a portrait of a gentleman attributed to John Hoppner, both property from the Estate of A. Edward Allinson, Palm Beach. ... More |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon launch interactive Virtual art experience | | How a Vogue cover created an uproar over Kamala Harris | | Cuomo outlines plans to 'bring arts and culture back to life' | 
Virtual installation view of The Met Unframed, 2021. Nature Gallery. Image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon today launched The Met Unframed, an immersive virtual art and gaming experience with enhancements powered by Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and featuring more than a dozen one-of-a-kind digitally rendered galleries and nearly 50 works of art from across The Met's vast collection. At a time when access to one of the world's greatest art collections is limited, The Met Unframed brings a creatively reimagined Met experience to people wherever they are. TheMetUnframed.com invites online visitors to explore digital galleries and play games that unlock augmented reality (AR) versions of the art on view that can then be displayed virtually at home. The Met Unframed is accessible from any 4G or 5G smart device and is available for free for a limited five-week run. Within the experience, four of the AR works of art are enhanced with activations accessible to users on Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband. ... More | | 
An image provided by Vogue shows Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the cover of the magazine's February 2021 print issue. Tyler Mitchell/Vogue via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Though it might seem, in light of all that is going on in Washington, D.C., the least of the matter, on Sunday a leaked shot of Vice President-elects Kamala Harris Vogue cover set off an unexpected firestorm. Februarys issue features Harris in a dark jacket by Donald Deal, skinny pants, Converse and her trademark pearls. She stands against a leaf green backdrop bisected by a spill of pink curtain, colors meant to evoke her Howard University sorority, caught in what seems like mid-laugh, hands clasped together at her waist. The image was shot by Tyler Mitchell, who, in 2018, became the first Black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover (his subject was Beyoncé) and is known for his unstudied aesthetic. Though Gabriella Karefa-Johnson receives credit as the sittings editor, aka the fashion editor in charge, Harris chose and wore her own clothes. The selected photo is determinedly ... More | | 
Theaters in New York, Sept. 13, 2020. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that New York urgently needs to bring the arts back not only to help jobless artists, but to make sure that New York City survives. Daniel Arnold/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Declaring that New York urgently needs to revive its arts and entertainment industry if it is to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the state would begin taking a series of interim steps to help to bring back some cultural events in the short term and put more unemployed artists back to work. We must bring arts and culture back to life, Cuomo said as he continued a weeklong series of policy addresses outlining his agenda for the state. The governor said that bringing back art and culture was crucial not just to help artists, who have suffered some of the worst unemployment in the nation, but to keep New York City a vital, exciting center where people will want to live and work. Cities are, by definition, centers of energy, ... More |
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| Alice Rose George, a 'photographer's dream editor,' dies at 76 | | PM/AM presents 06: A group exhibition | | Exhibition capturing Bhangra through light painting on view online now at Yorkshire Sculpture Park | 
Alice Rose George in her Manhattan apartment near Washington Square Park in 2012. Susan L. Stewart via The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Alice Rose George, a Mississippi-born poet, curator and photo editor who was an ardent promoter of famous and unsung photographers for over 50 years, and whose unerring eye for visual details made her a fixture in New Yorks magazine world, died on Dec. 22 in Los Angeles. She was 76. Her partner, Jim Belson, said the cause was a concussion. Witty and urbane with a love for whiskey and a wisp of a Southern accent, George, known to her friends as Pi, cultivated relationships with scores of photographers and collectors, gallerists and magazine editors, helping to knit together a community just as the very nature of photography was undergoing rapid change, including new directions in photojournalism and the efflorescence of art ... More | | 
Ittah Yoda, Lilah, 2020. Polyurethane, thermal pigment, polyamide structure. 35 x 20 x 21 cm.
LONDON.- The first effects of the pandemic hit Europe late in the winter of 2020, furthering the development of a global crisis that has defined the year. The enemy that was dominating headlines may once have felt invisible and distant in the Western world, yet has now infiltrated our lives in ways we could never imagine. At that point the extent of the disruption and suffering it would go on to cause was for many still not known, and subsequently neither were the deeper and more abstract ways it would affect our lives. In early spring, in an attempt to understand these effects from the perspective of the expressive mind, PM/AM initiated a discussion between a group of artists, opening up an exchange that brought a number of topics into the unique frame of pandemic life the art world, productivity, politics, society, psychology, media, technology, domestic life. As the conversation went on, a set of sincere insights b ... More | | 
Hardeep Sahota, Bhangra Lexicon, 2021. Hardeep Sahota, Pumbiri. Photo © Tim Smith.
WAKEFIELD.- Bhangra Lexicon is the worlds first visual dictionary of movements found within this beautiful artform, carefully compiled by World Bhangra Day founder, the Huddersfield based dancer, Hardeep Sahota. Bhangra is an energetic form of dance and music that originated in the Panjab, by farming communities during the spring harvest festival of Vaisakhi. Its driving force is the Dhol, a large double-sided, barrel-shaped drum. Sahota has explored, documented and catalogued 300 dance movements and gestures from Bhangra and its sub-genres to create a unique record that gathers together a rich body of knowledge, ensuring its preservation for future generations. This new exhibition grew out of Sahotas initial research and gives vibrant visual form to dance movements through the fascinating medium of light painting. Dancers from a number of different disciplines including Irish dancing and ... More |
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 Oklahoma City Museum of Art brings the museum to you with new art kitsOKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- Thanks to the SONIC Foundation, OKCMOA will distribute 500 art kits through select Metropolitan Library System locations and Oklahoma Childrens Hospital at OU Health. All the instructions and materials people need to make three sculptures at home are inside the box. The projects inside the kits take inspiration from OKCMOAs extensive Dale Chihuly collection as well as the Museums upcoming exhibition, Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies. Kits also contain two complimentary adult admission tickets to the Museum. Childrens admission to the Museum is always free. This kit will help kids who may not have access to high-quality art-making supplies or art experiences explore different kinds of sculpture, said Amanda Harmer, OKCMOA manager of family and access programs. They will learn ... More  RISD Museum announces Interim Director Sarah Ganz BlythePROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum announced that Sarah Ganz Blythe has been named Interim Director of the RISD Museum upon the retirement of John W. Smith at the end of December 2020. Joining the RISD Museum in 2009 as Director of Education, Sarah Ganz Blythe has served as the Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Education, and Programs for the past 6 years during which she has collaborated with artists, students, and scholars to realize exhibitions, programs, and publications. Her work critically investigates the complicated histories of museums, art pedagogy, and interpretation practices. She was previously Director of Interpretation and Research at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ganz Blythe has a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. ... More  Barry Goldsmith, who escaped, dropped out and came back, dies at 82NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tsvi Hirsch Goldschmidt planned to escape alone from the Jewish ghetto in Iwje, Poland, on New Years Eve, 1942. News was spreading that the Nazis, who had forced the citys Jews into the ghetto a year earlier, were planning to liquidate it. But then his youngest son, Dov Baer, began to cry. He picked him up and ran into the forest, leaving his wife and two older children, Pesach and Chaya Pesha, behind. They were ultimately murdered. That one heartbreaking decision made possible a life, Dovs, that encompassed much of the modern American experience, from immigration and the promise of postwar abundance, through the tumult of the 1960s, to the search for meaning in a secular society and finally, in the early 21st century, to the ravages of a pandemic. It was a life of struggle that ended with a modicum ... More  Israeli court bans screening of 'Jenin, Jenin' documentaryJERUSALEM (AFP).- An Israeli court has banned screenings of a controversial documentary film about 2002 clashes in the occupied West Bank by prominent director Mohammed Bakri, in a ruling seen by AFP Tuesday. Bakri enraged the Israeli establishment and Jewish public with his documentary film "Jenin, Jenin" about April 2002 clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in which 52 Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. The film was banned in Israel after a few screenings, but the supreme court later overturned the ban. An army colonel who participated in the Jenin operation, Nissim Meghnagi, then filed a defamation suit against Bakri after he was accused in the film of stealing money from an elderly Palestinian man. In a ruling late Monday, the district court in Lod found in favour of Meghnagi and banned "the broadcasting and screening ... More  Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of Danny Fox's new paintingsNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills. This exhibition runs by appointment only at the gallery, 1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10075. Danny Foxs new paintings capture the conflicting spirit of the Hollywood Hills through boldly-rendered expressive portraiture, mystical elements, and allusions to smoke and fire. Fox blends domestic imagery with influences from his natural surroundings to create eerily striking articulations of the human psyche. In the shows namesake 2019 painting The Sweet and Burning Hills, a figure lets a mask hang below her chin to reveal her face, seemingly indifferent to the fire-teeming background. The ghost-like transparent outline of her body suggests her transience within the burning environment, or perhaps she exists as a distant ... More  Shpilman Photography Prize awarded to Sara CwynarJERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem has awarded Sara Cwynar as winner of the 2020 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. The Canadian artist will receive an award of $40,000 in recognition of her powerful activation of the photographic medium and her original critique of its political histories and to support the research, production, and post-production of a multi-platform video and photography project. Honorable Mentions were also granted to Penelope Umbrico (USA) and Lebohang Kganye (South Africa). This year the Shpilman Prize was dedicated to the theme of Action, exploring the tension between camera work that arrests action and the actual activities of cameras in current social and cultural spheres. The suspension of human movement that the COVID-19 crisis has inflicted globally only underscores ... More  Scottish Contemporary Art Network appoints Moira Jeffrey as its new DirectorGLASGOW.- Scottish Contemporary Art Network announced the appointment of Moira Jeffrey as director of the organisation. Scottish Contemporary Art Network is a not-for-profit charitable organisation that connects and champions Scotlands contemporary art community. SCANs 225 members work at the heart of communities from Shetland to the Scottish Borders and from East Lothian to the Western Isles. A trusted voice and respected leader in the contemporary art community, Moira has more than 20 years of experience in the visual arts in Scotland including roles in arts journalism and broadcasting, public funding, development work and research. This appointment follows on from her previous role at SCAN as Advocacy and Development Lead. Moira joined SCAN in 2017, working across public affairs and advocacy as well as leading on development ... More  Romanian director snubs award to protest crisis facing film industryBUCHAREST (AFP).- Romanian director Alexander Nanau, who won global praise for a documentary about a 2015 fire disaster, on Tuesday spurned a national award to protest the crisis facing the film industry in his country. Romania had promised aid for cinemas and the film industry like the help extended to the hospitality sector during the coronavirus pandemic but has yet to fulfil that pledge. "It would be hypocritical on my part to accept this award while the film industry is in a state of clinical death", Nanau wrote in a letter to President Klaus Iohannis. The 41-year-old was to receive the Cultural Merit medal on January 15, Romania's Day of Culture. Nanau's documentary, "Collective" recounts the corruption and incompetence in Romania's healthcare system in the aftermath of a fire in a Bucharest nightclub killed 64 people in 2015. The director ... More  Highest-graded copy of Michael Jackson's rare 'Moonwalker' Sega Genesis game to be offered at auctionDALLAS, TX.- The highest-graded copy of one of the rarest Sega Genesis games could spark competitive bidders among video game collectors and collectors of the King of Pop in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction. The Jan. 14-17 event that will bring some of the most coveted video games in the market to the auction block. It has been confirmed that Wata has yet to encapsulate a finer example of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, GEN Sega 1990 USA, one of the rarest sealed games for the Sega Genesis, making it the single highest-graded copy of the side-scrolling adventure starring the King of Pop. "Locating a factory-sealed copy poses an intense challenge for Sega Genesis collectors, regardless of its condition." Heritage Auctions Video Games Director Valarie McLeckie said, "It can not be overstated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine was born January 13, 1893. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants
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