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The artist Faith Ringgold at her dining table in Englewood, N.J., surrounded by her works from California Dah #3, 1983, Feb. 21, 2020. I always have to feel something to paint it, said Ringgold. Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019, painter Faith Ringgold traveled to the Rikers Island jail complex so that she could see how her first public art commission, a 1972 mural called For the Womens House, was faring. Not so good, she decided, and the artist, who is 91, continued to quietly wage her campaign to see her work, which hung in a forlorn hallway behind Plexiglas where few could see it, relocated to the Brooklyn Museum. On Tuesday, city officials granted her request. The Public Design Commission agreed to a long-term loan of the vibrant work from the Department of Correction to the museum. It followed a request by Mayor Bill de Blasio, in the final days of his administration, that the mural be lent to the cultural institution. I feel that there has been a careful effort to ensure that this is being placed and loaned to an institution that already acknowledges the great work of this artist, said Signe Nielsen, president of the design commission. We are all going to breat ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Warehouse Finds | Ancient & Ethnographic Art Auction on Jan 20, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-6. Featuring Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, so much more. They´re switching over their inventory system and look what they´ve found! Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. In this image: 19th C. Polynesian Samoan Tapa Eventail / Fan. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.
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| You can still own a Caravaggio, but it comes with a house (and a hefty price) | | Judy Glickman Lauder makes transformative promised gift to the Portland Museum of Art | | Scholars doubt new theory on Anne Frank's betrayal | 
A much anticipated auction for a $500 million villa in Rome that boasts a Caravaggio ceiling fresco failed to get any offers.
ROME.- It was heralded as the real estate deal of the century. Up for sale was a 16th-century, 30,000-square-foot villa in downtown Rome complete with a landscaped garden and a masterpiece painted on its ceiling by Caravaggio. But when the Villa Aurora went up for auction Tuesday, the hefty price tag 471 million euros, or $533 million kept prospective buyers away. There were no offers at the minimum bidding price, according to the notary overseeing the sale. Aside from Caravaggios fresco Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, which he painted for the villas first owner, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, in 1597 the villa has ceiling frescoes by other Baroque masters, including Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino. His fresco in the main hall of the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, gave the villa its name. The villa has been the property of the Boncompagni Ludovisi family for 400 years. But an inheritance dispute betw ... More | | 
Irving Bennett Ellis (United States, 1902-1977), Louise Ellis, circa 1936, gelatin silver print, 9 x 7 inches. Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection. Image courtesy of Luc Demers. © Judy Glickman Lauder Collection.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art announced that Judy Glickman Lauderphotographer, collector, humanitarian, advocate, philanthropist, and community builderhas made a monumental gift of more than 600 works of art to the museum through a Promised Gift, immediately transforming and cementing the PMA as an international destination for photography. Anchored by works from some of the most beloved and influential photographers of the 20th century, including Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee, the collection will become the center of a photographic collection at the Portland Museum of Art that will thrill audiences from around the world. The collection also includes photographs by critical contributors to the mediums history, such as Irving ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by Proditione of Pieter van Twisk, left, who assembled a team to investigate the question of who betrayed the Frank family. Van Twisks team used modern crime-solving technologies, like artificial intelligence, big-data analysis and DNA testing. But ultimately, high-tech tools played a minimal role in their findings. Proditione via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM.- Who betrayed Anne Frank? is a common question visitors ask at the Anne Frank House, a museum built around the secret annex where the teenage diarist hid from the Nazis for more than two years. New clues hadnt surfaced in decades, but Pieter van Twisk, a Dutch media producer, was sure that modern crime-solving technologies like artificial intelligence, big data analysis and DNA testing could arrive at better conclusions than previous investigations. Six years ago, van Twisk assembled about two dozen researchers for a so-called cold case team, with Vince Pankoke, a retired FBI detective from South Florida, taking the lead. Ultimately, ... More |
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| Paul Sacaridiz named Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art | | Bowdoin College Museum of Art receives gift of 16 photographs by Irving Penn | | Andy Warhol and Billy Schenck Western Pop art exhibit opens at Southern Utah Museum of Art | 
Sacaridiz brings 25 years of experience to Cranbrook, with a background that includes art making, teaching, administration, and leadership in higher education and the nonprofit sector. Photo: Dan Rajter.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- The Cranbrook Educational Community Board of Trustees announced today that, following a comprehensive national search, Paul Sacaridiz has been named the next Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. He will succeed Susan R. Ewing, who retired in May of 2021. Current Chief Operating Officer Rod Spearin has been serving as Interim Director of the Academy. Sacaridiz will begin his tenure in May of 2022. The announcement was made today by President of Cranbrook Educational Community Aimeclaire Roche, Chair of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum Board of Governors Jennifer Gilbert, and Search Committee Co-Chairs, Jim Berline and Nancy Tellem. The Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum Board of Governors and the Cranbrook Educational ... More | | 
Sewer Cleaner, New York, 1951, gelatin silver print by Irving Penn. Gift of Robert A. Freson Family, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. © Condé Nast.
BRUNSWICK, ME.- The BCMA announced the recent acquisition of sixteen photographs by Irving Penn (American, 19172009). These photographs are a gift of Robert Freson, formerly studio assistant and manager at Penns studio, and now a resident of Bailey Island, Maine. Selected with special assistance from representatives at the Irving Penn Foundation, this group of photographs provides a rich overview of Penns career. Penn was one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. This gift includes portraits made over more than forty years. Penn had a special interest in artists, and the collection includes likenesses of Pablo Picasso, Georgia OKeeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacob Lawrence, who is pictured alongside his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight. Other notable portraits include Louis Armstrong ... More | | 
Billy Schenck (b. 1947), The Last Sunset, 2016 (detail), 40 x 40 in., oil on canvas.
CEDAR CITY, UT.- Southern Utah Museum of Art is presenting Andy Warhol: Cowboys and Indians, featuring works by the legendary artist that portray iconic Western images, and Billy Schenck: Myth of the West, by the contemporary artist who founded the Western Pop movement. The exhibit begins January 19 and runs through March 19, 2022. Andy Warhol is considered the undisputed leader of American Pop art, a movement characterized by artists use of household items, advertising images, other low art forms, and commercial printing techniques in an effort to democratize art. Cowboys and Indians was Warhols last project before his death in 1987. Warhol inspired many artists including Billy Schenck, one of the original founders of Western Pop art. With his signature reductivist style, Schenck transformed traditional Western images from a realists replica of detail into flat, sharply defined, simplified areas ... More |
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| Hossein Valamanesh remembered as a powerful and poetic international artist | | Olympic memorabilia featuring nearly 200 lots up for auction | | Taymour Grahne Projects opens an online a solo exhibition of new paintings by Dave Walsh | 
Hossein Valamanesh. Photo: Saul Steed.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia remembers the life and career of leading Iranian-born Australian artist Hossein Valamanesh (born 2 March, 1949), who passed away suddenly on Saturday 15 January 2022. AGSA Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM says, Hossein's passing leaves us all deeply shocked and saddened at AGSA it has been a great privilege for AGSA to work so closely with him over decades and to witness the extraordinary impact he has had nationally and internationally. We have lost a true poet.' Born in Iran in 1949, Hossein entered the Tehran School of Art at the age of 15, graduating in 1970 with a focus on political and socially charged work. Hossein immigrated to Australia in 1973 and graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1977. Drawing on the cultural and natural worlds of his birthplace and his adoptive home of Australia, Hossein explored the entwined spheres of love, spirituality, and nature w ... More | | 
Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics Silver Winner's Medal. Now At: $11,583 (6 bids). Estimate: $40,000+ Ends on 01/20.
BOSTON, MASS.- Boasting an unprecedented selection of winner's medals, rare torches, and outstanding ephemera, RR Auction's January 2022 Olympic auction is set to be a record-breaker. Highlights include Daniel Frank's St. Louis 1904 Olympics silver winner's medal for long jump. Silver, 39 mm, 39 gm (51 gm with bar and chain), designed and minted by Dieges & Clust, New York. The front, inscribed "Olympiad, 1904," depicts a victorious athlete holding a wreath in front of an ancient Greek athlete frieze and the Acropolis. The reverse pictures a Standing Nike and bust of Zeus, engraved with the event's name within a wreath, "Running Broad Jump." Includes a period leather case for the medal, and an impressive period leather scrapbook. A Jewish member of the New West Side Athletic Club in New York City, Dan Frank made the United States' track and field team at ... More | | 
Dave Walsh, Big Trees Lodge, 2021 (detail). Oil on canvas, 163 x 183 cm. / 64 x 72 in.
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne Projects is presenting Stereograph, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Philadelphia-based artist Dave Walsh, opening online on January 18, 2022. A stereograph is a pair of images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image when viewed in a stereoscope. Historically used as a way for people to see landmarks and landscapes without the need to visit. These images emphasised the natural beauty of the untouched lands while bolstering the erasure of their dark past. In this show, Walsh doubles, triples, or pairs vistas of Yosemite and Mariposa Grove to produce a more in-depth cultural understanding of American Landscape mythologies. Initially granted as protected wilderness areas by Abraham Lincoln, these were some of the first sites in United States history designated for public use and preservation. ... More |
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| Ali Mitgutsch, revered German children's illustrator, dies at 86 | | Artist salvages discarded glass to create intricate sculptures, shares process at Brunnier Art Museum | | Topical Cream appoints critic Laura McLean-Ferris as 2022 Editor-in-Residence | 
In an undated photo from Anja Koehler, Ali Mitgutsch with one of his illustrations in 2010. Anja Koehler via The New York Times.
by Christopher F. Schuetze
NEW YORK, NY.- Hippies dance to the Beatles while the downstairs neighbor uses her broom trying to get them to turn down the music. Several apartments up, a boy with a bad toothache is waiting for the dentist. The mailman is forced to climb the stairs because the kids have taken over the elevator. In the flat below that of a man with a broken leg, a married couple has just moved in. For Ali Mitgutsch, who died in Munich on Jan. 10 at 86, all these stories happen on a single teeming page, each of them told not with words but through pictures. And pages like it filled his childrens books. They have lined the bookshelves of generations of children in Germany, where he became a household name, and where he was celebrated as the father of what Germans call ... More | | 
Grotto of the Rosalene Fountain, 2021 by Amber Cowan. Powder coated aluminum frame. On loan from the collection of the artist and Heller Gallery. Photo by Matthew Hollerbush.
AMES, IA.- Amber Cowan has developed a unique artistic process based around the use of recycled, upcycled, and second-life American pressed glass to create intricate glass sculptures. On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, the exhibition Mythical Bounty: Glass Sculptures by Amber Cowan will open at the Brunnier Art Museum, second floor of the Scheman Building, 1805 Center Drive, Ames, Iowa. University Museums is excited to have the opportunity to host glass artist Amber Cowan on January 19th, along with celebrating her remarkable new commission created for the permanent collection of glass that began with the donations of Ann and Henry Brunnier and continues to grow through the Iowa Questers, said Adrienne Gennett, curator of the Brunnier Art Museum. Cowan is an important and unique contemporary glass ... More | | 
Laura McLean-Ferris, Topical Cream 2022 Editor-in-Residence. Photo by Lyndsy Welgos.
NEW YORK, NY.- Topical Cream, the New York arts organization whose mission is to support the work of women and gender non-conforming individuals in contemporary art, is pleased to announce the appointment of critic Laura McLean-Ferris as its 2022 Editor-in-Residence. McLean-Ferris will assume editorial direction of Topical Creams features, including commissioning interviews and criticism. She succeeds Topical Creams 2021 inaugural Editor-in-Residence Nora N. Khan. As the world continues to recover from COVID-19, we are thrilled to bring Laura McLean-Ferriss humanistic vision of supporting the work and legacies of women and gender non-conforming artists to the Topical Cream Editor-in-Residence program in 2022, said Topical Cream Founder and Director Lyndsy Welgos (she/her). Criticism and writing are essential elements of our artistic ecosystem; they are sites of response, exchange, and ... More |
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 Ryan Sarah Murphy joins C24 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced that they are now representing New York City-based artist Ryan Sarah Murphy. Her body of work, which includes sculptures, videos and drawings, provides a multi-dimensional deconstruction of the intuitive, creative process, as expressed through different mediums and technologies. Murphys sculptures are generated from the random discovery of discarded pieces of cardboard that she finds throughout the streets of New York City. Initially drawn to these materials because of their color, she strips them of any identifiable markings such as logos or lettering, then cuts and layers the torn pieces into raw, elegant constructions that allude to cross sections of buildings or overhead maps. The works act as visual meditations on geographical location, placemaking and spatial awareness, fueled by the pure, energetic ... More  The Cleveland Museum of Art promotes Key Jo Lee to Associate Curator of American Art CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announces Key Jo Lees promotion to associate curator of American art, effective July 1, 2022. Lee began her tenure at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2017 as assistant director of Academic Affairs and in 2021 became director of Academic Affairs and associate curator of special projects. She specializes in American art and visual cultures, as well as photographic history and theory. Her research interests include 19th-century photography and portraiture, interdisciplinary art histories, new materialism and Black abstraction. It has been an honor and a joy to witness Key Jos evolution as a museum professional. Her insights are keen, her writing eloquent, and her ambitions admirable. She has already made a marvelous addition to our curatorial team, and I am delighted that she will be devoting ... More  Bellmans announces auction of the late professor Bernard Nevill's estateWISBOROUGH GREEN.- Withnail and I, the British black comedy from 1987, has been described by the BBC as "one of Britain's biggest cult films" and established Richard E. Grant's film career and celebrates its 35th anniversary this spring. Set in 1969, it follows two unemployed actors as they decide they need a holiday and borrow the cottage owned by Withnail's eccentric Uncle Monty, played by Richard Griffiths. Uncle Monty's luxurious house in Chelsea was in fact the home of Professor Bernard Nevill - West House, Glebe Place - and the scenes were filmed in his living room. Bellmans is now including the furniture and works of art from this film location as part of the auction of his estate. It will be part of Bellmans' February Interiors sale of Works of Art, Furniture and Picture & Prints, held from 22nd to 24th February 2022. Professor Bernard ... More  TEFAF announces June dates for Maastricht 2022 fairMAASTRICHT.- The European Fine Art Foundation confirmed today that the 35th anniversary edition of TEFAF Maastricht will take place Saturday, June 25 Thursday, June 30, 2022 (by invitation only June 24 and until 2PM on June 25) at the MECC in Maastricht. Originally due to take place in March, TEFAF Maastricht was postponed in December 2021 due to mounting concerns around COVID-19. Since then, organizers have been working with the fairs suppliers and stakeholders to confirm the feasibility of a new edition of the fair. The dates were agreed by TEFAFs Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee, which comprises 13 dealers who represent the interests of the fairs exhibitors and seven non-dealers. TEFAF Chairman, Hidde van Seggelen, says: This was a complex situation which required the input and flexibility of many different ... More  Vigo Gallery opens an exhibition of abstract portraits by Lakwena MaciverLONDON.- Vigo Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Lakwena Macivers Jump Paintings, abstract portraits of some of the most inspiring basketball players, both past and present. London based artist Lakwena is internationally renowned for her joy- inducing palette, dynamic designs and profound, succinct messages. Her public art commissio ns and installations include those at Tate, Somerset House, The Bowery (NYC) the Southbank Centre, Covent Garden, and other large scale architectural installations in Munich, Miami, New York, LA, Dubai and London. Most recently her acclaimed
Back in the Air: A Meditation on Higher Ground has brought to life the half-acre roof terrace on top of Temple Underground Station. The origins of these Jump paintings stem from two full-size courts painted in 2020 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to honour Senator Flowers, ... More  'Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance' exhibition opens at Montserrat GalleryBOSTON, MASS.- Montserrat College of Art Gallery will present Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance, Jan. 19 March 5, 2022, at 23 Essex Street. Presented in cooperation with Pucker Gallery, Boston, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings by the acclaimed artist and Holocaust survivor. A public reception will be held on Jan. 27 from 5-7 pm. It is free and open to the public. Samuel Bak weaves together personal and Jewish history to articulate an iconography of his Holocaust experience, which he survived as a young boy. Over a long and rich artistic career, Bak has cultivated and explored a painterly visual language that retrieves historical memory with the purpose of preserving Jewish life and culture in the aftermath of unfathomable atrocity. Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance brings together over 30 paintings and works ... More  ClampArt's first solo show with Laura Stevens on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt is presenting Laura Stevens | Himthe artists first solo show with the gallery, and her first solo exhibition in New York City. Over the course of one year, Laura Stevens invited over fifty men to her home in Paris to be photographed naked. Most were strangers, and it would be the first time for the artist and model to meet. Stripping her bed to a white sheet, the artists most intimate space became the sight for the male model to be at his most intimate. An area with defined boundaries, the artist looked on while the man moved within the space. Stevens writes: Being a woman, at the age of forty, contemplating the naked male body feels curiously problematic. With representations of the male nude predominantly made by male artists, there is a lack of imagery exploring a female sensual response to male beauty. ... More  Janis Ian lets her music speak her mind (one last time)NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent morning, Janis Ian spoke expansively from her work space in Florida about a 50-year career marked by literary lyrics, social activism and major hits. Just one subject brought her up short. When pondering younger artists whove publicly cited her as an inspiration, she paused and threw up her arms. I cant think of one. So many people say, Joni Mitchell is my big influence, she said. And I thought, wait a minute. Didnt I influence anybody? She might not get the loudest shout-outs, but theres no denying that Ian has often served as a cultural clairvoyant. In 1967, she became one of the first fully self-determined female singer-songwriters in pop, having penned every track on her debut album, which was released one month before Laura Nyros, a year before Mitchells and three before Carole Kings. The ... More  Kristen Lorello opens an exhibition of paintings on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Christopher SaundersNEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Saunders. This is the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Six oil paintings on paper are being exhibited. Each painting shares a similar compositional format in a vertical orientation. A large black rectangular frame, painted as a thin outline within a white border, is divided horizontally into two or three smaller sections. The outlines create a minimalist framework of stacked rectangles into which the artist paints sections of color gradient and atmosphere. This format registers visual aspects of the environments the artist has has inhabited - the vertical stretches of streets, sidewalks, and tall buildings of urban Manhattan and the broad, horizontal swathes of farmland, treetops, and blue sky of South Eastern Virginia. An overall palette of turquoise, ... More  Olsen Gallery presents sixteen recent works by José Luis PucheSYDNEY.- The show entitled The Legacy of Water comprises 16 recent works expressly created for this exhibition in the Olsen Gallery of Sydney and curated by Kate Smith. There is no common thread either narrative or conceptual - in these pieces, where pleasure reigns supreme. Immersed in a time of pandemic that is still far from being over, the first emotional setback suffered and experienced by my generation has led me to reflect on the importance or otherwise of what surrounds us in life, on what is important and what is superfluous, on the very existence of life. In my work, water is the driver that transforms everything, the driver of my drawings, created by water splashing and pounding the paper, occasionally with some violence, as nothing new can exist without the material and visual onslaught of what had formerly been there. Water nourishes us, connects ... More  Asheville Art Museum opens 'A Hand in Studio Craft: Harvey K. Littleton as Peer and Pioneer'ASHEVILLE, NC.- A Hand in Studio Craft: Harvey K. Littleton as Peer and Pioneer highlights recent gifts to the Asheville Art Museums Collection and loans from the family of glass artist Harvey K. Littleton. This exhibition places Harvey and Bess Littletons collection into the context of their lives, as they moved around the United States, connected with other artists, and developed their own work. This exhibitionorganized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by Whitney Richardson, associate curatorwill be on view in the Judith S. Moore Gallery at the Museum from January 19 through June 27, 2022. Harvey K. Littleton (Corning, NY 19222013 Spruce Pine, NC) founded the Studio Glass Movement in the United States in 1962 when, as a teacher, he instituted a glass art program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the first of its kind ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Cézanne was born January 19, 1839. Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. In this image: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 - 1906). Recto: The Chaîne de l'Etoile Mountains (La Chaîne de l'Etoile avec le Pilon du Roi), 1885 - 1886. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper; Verso: Unfinished Landscape, undated. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (31.4 x 48.6 cm). BF650. Photo © 2015 The Barnes Foundation.
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