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A replica corned beef sandwich at a traveling exhibit on the Jewish delicatessen, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, June 15, 2022. Ill Have What Shes Having is a look back at a vibrant institution fueled by immigration and irresistible food. Joel Barhamand/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The colors are fading, but the photograph of the Carnegie Deli from 2008 still calls up a world of heaping pastrami sandwiches, pungent smells of brine and smoke, and tourists lined up out the door onto Seventh Avenue in New York. A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle barrel and a battered traveling valise used by immigrants from Lithuania are lined up against a wall. They conjure the Lower East Side of a century ago, bustling with Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, in the midst of creating a cuisine and a new kind of restaurant. This attics worth of artifacts sprawls through Ill Have What Shes Having: The Jewish Deli, an exhibit chronicling the rise of that restaurant culture in America. It is by all indications the most sweeping survey of this culinary institution attempted by a major museum. (Why that name? Do you have to ask?) The museum, though, is far from the tenements of lower Manhattan: The Skirball Cultura ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold their CLEARANCE | Warehouse Finds & Dazzling Deals on Jul 21, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for a fabulous clearance sale featuring amazing discounts and many new items! Huge Roman Stone Mosaic Intricate Star Pattern. Estimate $12,000 - $18,000.
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| Almine Rech to extend its Paris gallery at 18 Avenue Matignon, doubling its size | | Alison Knowles on how to make a salad and other Fluxus events | | Asia Week New York and Joan B Mirviss LTD, present Listening to Clay: The Artists, Curators, and Collectors Who Listen | 
The inaugural show at Almine Rech Paris | Matignon will be a solo exhibition of Vietnamese artist Mai-Thu, titled Inventing Tradition A Vietnamese Painter in France opening in early September, 2022.
PARIS.- The gallery will keep its address at 18 Avenue Matignon in the 8th Arrondissement in Paris. The expansion is set to take place in early September. The extension of the gallery symbolizes Almine Rech's ambition to keep growing in the French capital in a community that has been instrumental in shaping the gallery since its inception in 1997. The addition to the existing space will be located in the elegant Haussmann building and will provide greater visibility to the roster of international artists the gallery represents. Almine comments: With the changes in Parisian traffic in recent years, we decided it was necessary to establish our presence on both sides of the Louvre in order to be closer to all of our collectors. Avenue Matignon has always been a neighborhood of art galleries, as it is close to the museums of the 16th Arrondissement, the auction houses, and the Grand ... More | | 
Alison Knowles: 99 Red North (detail), 1970; performance at the House of Dust, 1970; California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Burbank, California. Photo: California Institute of the Arts Institute Archives.
by Jori Finkel
BERKELEY, CA.- Visitors to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will soon be seeing red. To mark the opening of By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (19602022), the artist is taping a large grid on the museum floor and inviting visitors on Saturday to place one red object in each square. Its a reprisal of a work she conceived in 1962 called Celebration Red (later titled Homage to Each Red Thing for Hans Ulrich Obrists influential show of artists instructions Do It.) Its also one of Knowles most famous and vivid participatory artworks in a long history of making them. Best known as a member of Fluxus, a loose group of avant-garde artists who embraced the use of chance and intermedia or interdisciplinary forms in the 1960s, Knowles, 89, has continued ... More | | 
Hayashi Yasuo (b. 1928) Small Talk, 2014. Glazed stoneware. 8 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 7 in. Courtesy: Joan B Mirviss LTD
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New Yorkin partnership with Joan B Mirviss LTDwill celebrate the publication of Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists, which coincides with the gallerys exhibition on view from July 19th to August 26th. To register for the webinar, held on Tuesday, July 26 at 5:00 p.m. (EST), click here: Moderated by Joan B. Mirviss, the authors, Alice and Halsey North and Louise Allison Cort, will have an in-depth discussion about their personal relationships with the sixteen artists that formed the basis of their book. From their perspective as collectors, they offer a behind-the-scenes look at these artists gleaned over many years and share valuable insights into the artworks by these men and women. They are joined by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator of Japanese decorative arts Monika Bincsik, who recounts the importance of the Norths' g ... More |
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| P·P·O·W announces Tribeca expansion new gallery set to open in September | | Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater unveil design for the new Milwaukee Public Museum | | Claes Oldenburg captured a carefree (and consumerist) America | 
Rendering of 390 Broadway. Courtesy P·P·O·W and StudioMDA.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W announced the opening of an additional gallery in Tribeca, on the second floor of 390 Broadway, adjacent to its primary gallery. Designed by StudioMDA, the firm responsible for P·P·O·Ws ground floor space, this expansion nearly doubles the gallerys footprint in Tribeca. A floor-through 4,000+ square foot loft, the warm oak floors, cathedral style windows, recessed lighting, and other architectural details will complement elements at 392 Broadway. This space will open in September with a solo exhibition of new works by Astrid Terrazas, her first one-person presentation in New York. When an opportunity came up to expand our space into the adjacent building, it seemed like a perfect opportunity, said P·P·O·W Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff. The space immediately reminded us of our SoHo galleries in the 1990s and we felt entirely comfortable in a 2nd floor loft that will give us expanded exhibition possi ... More | | 
The team of Ennead Architects (Design Architect) and Kahler Slater (Architect-of-Record) developed a design that reflects Wisconsin's rich natural history, while creating a welcoming new community anchor and an indispensable educational destination for lifelong learners of all ages and backgrounds.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Together with the Milwaukee Public Museum, Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater today unveiled the design for the new 200,000 square foot museum building, set on a 2.4 acre site in the burgeoning Haymarket neighborhood of Milwaukee. Four core principles influenced the design community, nature, education, and the preservation of the museums vast collections. The new building is slated to break ground in late 2023 and open in 2026. The team of Ennead Architects (Design Architect) and Kahler Slater (Architect-of-Record) developed a design that reflects Wisconsin's rich natural history, while creating a welcoming new community anchor and an indispensable educational destination for lifelong ... More | | 
Braselette, 1961, by Claes Oldenburg at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on April 8, 2013. Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times.
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Of all the major American pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was the only one who was born in Europe. He was still in grade school when his father, a Swedish diplomat, moved the family to this country. They settled in Chicago, a city that has a much-lauded architectural history and calls itself, not unjustly, the birthplace of the skyscraper. This no doubt mattered to Oldenburg, whose work possesses the outsiders disbelief at American size and scale. His sculptures look back to a moment of Eisenhower-era self-satisfaction, a time when Americans constructed the tallest buildings and drove cars with fins and ate big, cheese-draped, cholesterol-rich hamburgers rather than little Swedish meatballs a carefree age before concerns about carbon footprints or a national obesity ... More |
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| Morphy's August 9-10 Toys & Collectibles Auction yields bonanza of rare robots, space toys, banks and more | | Artissima announces the galleries and artists participating at the 29th edition of the fair | | Filipino gallery Silverlens opens first New York space this September | 
Extremely rare S.Y. (Japan) battery-operated Electroman Robot. Bump-and-go action. Fresh to the market from a European collection. Estimate $50,000-$100,000.
DENVER, PA.- Many a great toy and bank collection is highlighted by rarities acquired from Morphys, which still holds the world record for the highest-grossing one-day toy auction of all time. Many would recall the record-setting event: Morphys 2007 sale of the legendary Stephen and Marilyn Steckbeck bank collection, which drew national TV crews to the Pennsylvania gallery and knocked down an astonishing $7.7 million. Since then, Morphy Auctions has continued to bring exceptional toys to the marketplace with price points to please both advanced collectors and motivated beginners. The fun will continue on August 9-10, 2022, as Morphys hosts an exciting Toys & General Collectibles auction featuring the types of antique and vintage ... More | | 
Installation view.
TURIN.- Taking place in Torino from 4 to 6 November 2022, under the theme Transformative Experience, Artissima is the only fair in Italy exclusively focused on contemporary art. From Friday 4 to Sunday 6 November 2022, the large, luminous spaces of the Oval in Torino will welcome the four flagship sections of the fair Main Section, New Entries, Monologue/Dialogue and Art Spaces & Editions and three curated sections Disegni, Present Future and Back to the Future with the participation of 174 Italian and international galleries, including 35 monographic projects. The 29th edition of Artissima will offer specific initiatives, confirming its unique position on the European cultural scene and its ability to attract the most interesting galleries, artists, collectors and curators on an international level, with the promise always kept of an experimental, cutting-edge event. ... More | | 
Silverlens co-owners Rachel Rillo (left) and Isa Lorenzo (right).
NEW YORK, NY.- This September, Silverlens will plant its flag with a gallery space in New York for the first time, shedding light on an underrepresented population of artists from southeast Asias 11 countries with rich diversity, culture, and history. The new gallerya 2,500 square-foot space with 20-foot ceilings located on the ground floor at 505 W 24th Street in Chelseawill open this September 8th with inaugural exhibitions by artists Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann. The trans-continental move from Manila to New York signifies the gallerys growth (which started in Isas apartment in 2004) and the need for more visibility around southeast Asian artists. Isa and Rachel see the New York space as the bridge that connects the gap between outsider artists and the mainstream contemporary art dialogue. Silverlens, who represents artists ... More |
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| Phillips announces 'David Hockney' - A dedicated auction of works to be offered in London | | The Italian Cultural Institute of New York opens 'Italian Light: Skies and Waters' | | The lonely work of picking the Universe's best astronomy pictures | 
David Hockney, Afternoon Swimming, 1979 (detail).
LONDON.- Phillips announced David Hockney, a dedicated auction of Contemporary Art, Editions and Photographs this September. Featuring a broad spectrum of rare to market works, David Hockney will celebrate one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, his innovation with technique and endless fascination with exploring how we see and make art. Leading the sale is Hockneys Afternoon Swimming from 1979, an iconic, swimming pool composition that demonstrates the artists skill with lithography. The works will go on public view from 6 to 13 September before the auction on 13 September at 30 Berkeley Square. Robert Kennan, Head of Editions, Europe, said, This sale looks to celebrate the achievements of David Hockney to date with a vibrant selection in all media. The auction is an opportunity to acquire a Hockney work at all prices points, from entry level works priced at £1 ... More | | 
Curated by Marco Bertoli, established Art Advisor and promoted by Professor Fabio Finotti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, the exhibition project aims to investigate the study of light in the landscape between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fontanesi, Ciardi, De Nittis, Previati and Morbelli: these are some of the Italian painters who will be exhibited in New York in a new exhibition this summer. The Italian Cultural Institute of New York announces Italian Light: Skies and Waters, on view from July 20 September 14, 2022. Building on the Institutes tradition of exhibiting distinguished works of Italian culture and artistry to the American public, Italian Light: Skies and Waters, will showcase landscape paintings created throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from different Italian schools and movements who exhibit exemplary use of light. Curated by Marco Bertoli, established Art Advisor and promoted by Professor Fabio Finotti, director of the Italian ... More | | 
Astronomer Amaya Moro-Martin, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, on July 12, 2022. Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times.
by Joshua Sokol
BALTIMORE, MD.- After the image flashed up on the projector, a few quiet beats ticked by, punctuated only by a soft wow. Everyone was processing. Then more wows bubbled out, and people were talking over one another, laughing. Suddenly two astronomers, Amaya Moro-Martin and Karl Gordon, were out of their chairs, sticking their noses closer to the space fantasia onscreen, agog Its a jet! This is full of jets! at the crisp, hallucinatory grandeur of new stars sprouting from a nebula like seeds from a flower bed. The screen zoomed in toward a jutting promontory many light-years long that stands out in sharp relief. Oh, my God, someone said only that someone was me, accidentally. Welcome to the team, someone else responded. On ... More |
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 The Untitled Space opens a solo exhibition of works by artist Philip A. Robinson Jr.NEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting Old Talks with New Icons a solo exhibition of works by artist Philip A. Robinson Jr. on view from July 8th August 28th at the High Line Nine galleries in Chelsea, New York presented in collaboration with Chashama. Old Talks with New Icons presents a collection of life-sized figurative wood mixed media wall sculptures as well as a series of hand-cut works on paper by the award-winning multi-media sculptor and conceptual artist. The exhibition will mark the second solo exhibition of artwork by Robinson presented by The Untitled Space, who is represented by the gallery. Robinson uses wood to symbolize temporality within natural cycles of time and geography to amplify the narrative of identity within popular and marginalized cultures. Through thoughtful selection of materials and the science of ... More  Felipe Romero Beltrán: 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize winnerNEW YORK, NY.- Aperture will present Felipe Romero Beltrán: 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner, an exhibition hosted by Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York from July 27 through August 27. Romero Beltrán was awarded the 2022 Portfolio Prize for his series Dialect, a project about young immigrant men navigating legal limbo in Spain. As Kaelen Wilson-Goldie writes in Aperture, Dialect delves into the routines, memories, and experiences of a small group of young immigrants who crossed into Spain from Morocco as minors and are living in a refugee center, awaiting the normalization of their legal status. Comparing Romero Beltráns work to projects by leading artists, including Yto Barrada, Hassan Khan, and Bouchra Khalili, Wilson-Goldie also notes Romero Beltráns deep collaboration with his subjects: Rather than presenting types, tropes, or tragic cases, Romero B ... More  Jawole Willa Jo Zollar wins Gish PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, a choreographer who communicates cultural identity and issues of equity through dance, was awarded the 29th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize on Monday. The award, which comes with about $250,000, is given to U.S. artists who, as described by renowned actress Lillian Gish, have made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to peoples understanding and enjoyment of life. I dont think about trying to have impact or trying to be recognized or seen, Zollar said in a phone interview. I think its in my social DNA to think beyond myself. The leader of the selection committee, Kay Takeda, said the panel had received more than 100 nominations and chose Zollar in response to her community building and the engagement birthed through her creative work. She brought movement vocabularies ... More  Heritage's Auction for the Ages: Debut historical platinum event realizes $4 millionDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' first Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction proved historic indeed. The finely curated, nearly sold-out 52-lot auction, held Saturday, realized $4,031,625 in just under two hours. More than 430 bidders from around the world vied for offerings that spanned centuries of human achievement. "This was the first such auction in Heritage's history, and the end results made it the milestone we believed it could and would be," says Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. "The results were extraordinary across the board for items ranging from some of the most historic moments and accomplishments in American history to landmarks from English literature to Beethoven and Mozart's handcrafted magic. We were honored to offer these momentous selections and are already looking forward to the next one." Leading ... More  1907 Rolled Rim Ten Dollar leads Heritage U.S. Coins Auction to nearly $18 millionDALLAS, TX.- A 1907 Rolled Rim Ten Dollar MS66 PCGS sold for $810,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Long Beach Expo/Summer FUN US Coins Signature® Auction to $17,958,884 July 14-17. The auction was a virtual sellout by any metric, generating sell-through rates of better than 99.9% both by value and by lots sold for the event that drew 3,686 global bidders in pursuit of 1,921 lots. The top lot, from The Cody Brady Collection Part IV, is exceptionally rare. The magnificent specimen is one of just 13 graded 66 (two of which are 66+), and there are but four carrying higher grades. "This is a beautiful and rare coin, scarcer than all issues in the Indian eagle series except the 1933, and it is prized by pattern collectors and series specialists alike," says Mark Van Winkle, Chief Cataloger at Heritage Auctions. "The 1907 Rolled Rim Ten is one of a surviving ... More  SN37 Gallery presents 'Luke Gilford: National Anthem'NEW YORK, NY.- SN37 announced the fourth show in their not-for-profit gallery at the Seaport in New York City: National Anthem by Luke Gilford. The exhibition, Gilfords first solo show in New York, is on view from July 14 through August 28, 2022. The work Gilford is presenting is the result of years documenting the unique subculture within the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) the organizing body for the LGBTQ+ cowboy and cowgirl communities in North America. Gilfords father was a member of The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association so he spent his youth around the rodeo, but it wasnt until he discovered the IGRA that he was able to see himself as part of that community. His National Anthem work aims to recognize and bring to light thriving queer communities in rural areas around the United States, and the deep kinship therein. ... More  Four museums acquire works by gallery Wendi Norris artistsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has procured two goauche drawings from Alice Rahons extraordinary Crystals in Space series. Rahon described these drawings from the 1940s as a type of enchantment
They become more and more aerial, faint, complicated, like the secret labors of an insect. Founded in 1929 with an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, MoMAs collection has grown over the last century to more than 200,000 pieces, constituting one of the worlds most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern and contemporary art. MoMA has also acquired MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons Secrets of the Magnolia Tree (2021). Presented as three vertical fragments rooted into the ground and towering up ten feet, Secrets
is among the artists most important and comprehensive artworks ... More  LNS presents "In the Company of Women: At Large"MIAMI, FLA.- This summer, LnS Gallery is presenting a group exhibition, In the Company of Women: At Large, curated by Dainy Tapia of ArtSeen365. This community-oriented exhibition highlights the work of 17 Miami-based women artists who have been prompted to work at large by presenting pieces in a sizeable format, or exploring new mediums and themes. The exhibition showcases the contributions of women within the arts through a localized lens, capitalizing on the expanse of space through the creativity brought by the group. Maritza Lacayo, Curatorial Assistant & Public Coordinator at the Perez Art Museum Miami, provides the featured exhibition text within the accompanying catalogue. The exhibition includes 17 Miami-based women artists working in various mediums from painting, drawing, and photography, to sculpture, video, and ... More  A behind-the-scenes eminence shapes a festival's futureAIX-EN-PROVENCE.- On a recent Monday afternoon, the Grand Théâtre de Provence here was almost empty, a few hours before a concert performance of Monteverdis opera LOrfeo. An organ was being tuned onstage, letting out a fluteish wheeze. In the wings, someone was warming up with the dashing brass fanfares at the start of the score. And Pierre Audi, the general director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, which runs this year through Saturday and presented the Monteverdi, was painstakingly adjusting the lighting. Warmer; its very dead, he said to members of the festivals technical staff as he stared at the glow on the back wall of the stage. The first act of LOrfeo takes place in a meadow, which the performance would suggest with some treelike blurs of green behind the musicians. Audi wanted the color to be ever so slightly subtler, paler, ... More  Perrotin announces the opening of second outpost in Seoul SEOUL.- Perrotin announced the opening of a second exhibition space in Seoul. Located in the district of Gangnam, Perrotin Dosan Park will open on August 27th, 2022 with an exhibition by Emma Webster, marking the British-American artists debut with Perrotin. Situated in the heart of Seouls luxury shopping district between Dosan Park and Horim Art Center, Perrotin Dosan Park is in the vicinity of the flagships of major global brands such as Maison Hermès Dosan Park across the street and Maison Louis Vuitton Seoul, and two major Korean auction houses. The building, comprising two floors and offering exhibition space of about 190 square meters (2,060 square feet), is designed by KIAS (Kentaro Ishida Architects Studio) in collaboration with Yoki Design and Kenny Ho. One of the first international galleries to establish an exhibition space ... More  Alexandre Biaggi to present "Arts of Gabon" PARIS.- On the occasion of the auction of Dr. Jean-Claude Arnaults exceptional collection of African art, which will be sold off on September 28th at Drouot, Charles Ãdouard Delettrez wished to rediscover the spirit of a great collector by soliciting the talents of Alexandre Biaggi, who spontaneously signed up to the role of curator, decorator and art lover with his sensitivity and skill. By drawing from the treasures of the decorative arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, the antique dealer and furniture editor has created the perfect environment to exacerbate the fascination of these works of art from Gabon. What better setting than Alexandre Biaggis gallery, located in the heart of the Parcours des mondes - an international exhibition of extra-European, Asian and archaeological art, to which he responds with the courtesy and politeness he never fails to show. Appraised by Bernard ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Lucian Freud died July 20, 2011. Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. In this image: A Sotheby's employee holds British Artist Lucian Freud's 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' during a Sotheby's auction preview in London.
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