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The Education Lab by Mark Bradford and the students from Escola dArt de Menorca at Hauser & Wirth Menorca © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Daniel Schäfer.
MAHÃN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the total wealth held by billionaires hits a high of more than $10 trillion, it is also an epic time for luxury lifestyle tourism. Only days after Virgin Galactic launched Richard Branson into interstellar travel, an unlikely art center was inaugurated Saturday on the Spanish islet of Isla del Rey off Menorca gathering contemporary art lovers to celebrate the latest project by the Swiss-owned art dealership Hauser & Wirth. While the small island, abandoned in the 1960s after serving as the site of a military hospital, is not the kind of place that traditionally attracts wealthy collectors, Hauser & Wirth is determined to change this. The international mega-gallery has been fast expanding its core business by also offering its clientele the kind of lifestyle experience that comes from visiting a remote, unique location. Dominated by its 18th-century hospital, the islet stands in the middle of the Mediterraneans largest natural harbor, 15 minutes by boat from Mahón, Menor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Summer Antiquities & Ethnographic Art Auction on Thu, Jul 22, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. Travel around the world and back in time...and be amazed at the treasures you will find! Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fossils, Fine Art, much more! In this image: 3rd C. Paracas Gold / Silver Avian Crown Finial. Estimate $8,500 - $12,750.
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| Art Dealers Association of America survey indicates ongoing impact of COVID-19 on U.S. art galleries | | Harvard Art Museums announce reopening plans for September | | Deal! Sports trading cards boom in pandemic-era US | 
The Art Show 2020, ADAA. Photo by Darian DiCianno BFA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America reports new data indicating that U.S. galleries are continuing to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and the resulting economic downturn. As of June 2021, 70% of surveyed galleries reported an overall decline in revenue for 2020, as well as staffing levels that remain below pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, the results indicate signs of resilience and a positive outlook for the gallery community for the remainder of 2021 and beyond, with the majority of respondents specifying that pivots to virtual operations and access to federal assistance programs sustained their businesses through the challenges of 2020. Looking ahead to the coming year, 65% confirmed plans to expand their artist rosters and 76% are returning to in-person fair participation. The data is drawn from a survey of leading galleries across the United States, conducted by the ADAA in June 2021, to assess the impact of ... More | | 
David Drake (American, c. 1800c. 1870), Storage Jar, 1840. Stoneware. Harvard Art Museums. Photo: Katya Kallsen; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums announced today plans to reopen to the public on Saturday, September 4, 2021. Advance reservations will be required for visitors and will be available up to three weeks in advance. Reservations can be made on the museum website beginning August 20. A limited number of tickets may also be available each day to walk-in visitors. In conjunction with the reopening plans, the museums are also pleased to announce a new Free Sundays initiative. The museums will offer preview days for members and supporters on Thursday and Friday, September 23, before opening to the general public on September 4. We are thrilled to be reopening to all visitors after the extraordinary events of the last year and a half, said Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director. I am enormously proud of the efforts of our talented and dedicated staff, who helped keep the museums ... More | | 
Traders exchange sports cards at Bleecker Trading in New York on July 06, 2021. Kena Betancur / AFP.
by Peter Hutchison
NEW YORK (AFP).- Inside an unassuming store in New York's Greenwich Village, around a dozen men unlock black briefcases, remove sports cards and begin to trade them -- a growing hobby and industry that has boomed during the pandemic. Excitement is high after a San Francisco-based investment fund announced earlier that day that it had bought a card of Golden State Warriors' basketball star Stephen Curry for $5.9 million, setting a new record. Michael Campobasso, a 38-year-old jewelry dealer, hopes that sale will spur interest in his highly graded card of Curry from the three-time NBA champion's rookie 2009-10 season. "After that card this is probably one of his more coveted cards. I'd sell it for $80,000," says Campobasso, who paid $25,000 for it last year. The sports trading card industry has been growing for several years but coronavirus lockdowns reinvigorated hobbyists and attracted new ones, with investors ... More |
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| Phoenix Art Museum opens first major exhibition of work by Marion Palfi in more than 40 years | | Exhibition looks at highly stylized visual languages featuring the repeated figure | | Unique Bowie album artwork in £75,000 sale - direct from the artist who created it | 
Marion Palfi, Saturday, Louisville, Georgia, 1949. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Marion Palfi Archive/Gift of the Menninger Foundation and Martin Magner. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.
PHOENIX, AZ.- This summer, Phoenix Art Museum will present Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfis America, the first major solo exhibition of the photographers incisive work since her death in 1978. A self-described social-research photographer, Marion Palfi observed and documented victims of discrimination over three decades, exposing the links between racism and poverty in the United States. Organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), University of Arizona, and drawing exclusively from CCPs vast Marion Palfi Archive, Freedom Must Be Lived features more than 80 prints and extensive archival materials, many of which have ... More | | 
Keisuke Ishino, Untitled, (KI1), 2018, Paper, coloured felt pen and sellotape sculpture, 11x5.5x26.5cm, 4.3x2.2x10.4 inches. Photo by Ellie Walmsley, courtesy of Flowers Gallery.
LONDON.- Flowers Gallery presents Prismatic Minds, an exhibition looking at highly stylized visual languages featuring the repeated figure, curated by Jennifer Gilbert (Director of the Jennifer Lauren Gallery) and actor, writer, and co-presenter of art podcast Talk Art Russell Tovey. Bringing together six mainly self-taught international artists, each with intensely personal and imaginative styles, Prismatic Minds presents a new discourse on the act of repetition and the desire to surround oneself with others, real or imagined. Original, raw and energetic, the works on view introduce a carnival of contemporary characters through repeated motifs that have recurred in the artists' work over many years. The exhibition questions the boundaries or ... More | | 
Colour print Bowie in Scary Monsters Makeup, for Unmade Up...publication, signed in pencil bottom right, 34 x 25 cm. Estimated at £100 - £200.
SHREWSBURY.- If youre a David Bowie fan, its your dream come true: the chance to buy original artwork, designs, portraits, sculptures and band photo shoots from the personal collection of the artist who designed the cover to one of his most successful albums. When Bowie commissioned Edward Bell to create the album artwork for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), the highly acclaimed album following the seminal Berlin Trilogy, it was the beginning of a relationship that was to last into the 1990s, taking in the rock and pop chameleons Tin Machine period too. The album marked Bowies transition to a more commercial approach to music making that was to bring him greatest success three years later with the album Lets Dance and The Serious Moonlight tour. Now Halls Fine Art of Shrewsbury have ... More |
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| Artis-Naples announces appointment of Melanie Kalnins, Vice President of Marketing and Patron Engagement | | Virginia MOCA refreshes brand | | Exhibition explores the specific state of creativity and productive constraint of the interior | 
Melanie Kalnins comes to ArtisNaples from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and starts her position on July 26.
NAPLES, FL.- ArtisNaples CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen announced the appointment of Melanie M. Kalnins as vice president of marketing and patron engagement. Kalnins will oversee the organizations comprehensive marketing, communications and patron services operations. She comes to ArtisNaples from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and starts her position on July 26. We are thrilled to welcome Melanie Kalnins to our outstanding administrative team, van Bergen said. Her 20 years of experience with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, most recently as director of marketing and business analysis, and her ability to blend creativity with highly advanced analytical skills will help us continue to grow ArtisNaples as the premier visual and performing arts organization in Southwest Florida. Her leadership will be especially important as we emerge from the challenges of the pandemic and launch a robus ... More | | 
The Shavrick & Partners team led a rigorous brand audit process including dozens of stakeholder interviews, a primary and secondary research review, and a deep dive into the websites and brands of close to 100 museums from across the country.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, a cornerstone of the arts in Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads for the past 60 years, is refreshing its brand with a new logo, website and updated mission and vision statements. Upon being accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 2010, the then Contemporary Art Center of Virginia was re-branded the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and referred to as MOCA. The identity established a decade ago has served us very well, said Director & CEO, Gary Ryan. Now as an established non-collecting contemporary art museum with a growing regional and national reputation, we saw an opportunity to emphasize the museums commitment to excellence and felt it was time to evolve the brand to meet this profile an important intention of our strategic plan. Ryan worked closely with the museum ... More | | 
Bella Foster, Mermaid Playing Ukulele, 2020. Acrylic on canvas; 40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy the artist, The Pit, and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting The Interior. Coming after a year of enclosures in the home, studio, and other interiors, this group show explores the specific state of creativity and productive constraint of the interior, broadly understood. The works featured here articulate various experiences and forms that result from being separated from the outside world, and highlight how artists approach emotional and artistic interiors through various media and modes of expression. Some works were made during a year of lockdown, and others are earlier or more recent works, but all articulate various aspects of the interior and its many possibilities. The exhibition brings together an array of emerging and established artists. The artistic approaches represented here fall broadly into three approaches of spatial, affective, or formal reflections on interiority. One body of works looks specifically to the interior as a spatial ... More |
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| KinoSaito Art Center opens in Lower Hudson Valley | | PinchukArtCentre opens a solo exhibition by Nikolay Karabinovych | | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Angie Jennings | 
KinoSaito Art Center in Verplanck, NY.
VERPLANCK, NY.- KinoSaito announced the opening of its art center in Verplanck, NY, a hamlet located along the Hudson River in Westchester County. The nonprofit art center in a newly renovated former Catholic School building consists of two large, light-filled galleries, live/work artist residency studios, a performance space, an arts education classroom and a café. A contemporary art center, it was established to recognize and extend the legacy of Japanese-American abstract painter and theater designer, Kikuo Saito (1939-2016), and to present art that honors his commitment to working across disciplines. KinoSaito will open on September 9th with a retrospective of Saitos work, a reprisal of one of his theater pieces originally performed at La MaMa, and open studios of inaugural artists in residence Alexandra Rojas and Jane Dickson. The art center will host special events from September 9 through September 12, 2021. Kikuo ... More | | 
Installation view. PinchukArtCentre © 2021. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.
KYIV.- PinchukArtCentre is presenting Vukojebina, a solo exhibition by Nikolay Karabinovych as part of PAC UA. It is PinchukArtCentres programme aimed at commissioning new works by Ukrainian artists by investing in creation and providing curatorial and institutional support. The exhibition explores the borders between humanity as a cultural definition and human defined by animalistic instincts and desires. Vukojebina is an obscene term used in the Balkans to describe the middle of nowhere, literally translated as a place where wolves go to make love. Nikolay Karabinovych offers couples of wild animals made of upcycled taxidermies, and combines them with George Michaels song Careless Whisper, sounding through the exhibition space in a repetitive manner, evoking a sense of uncomfortable and nostalgic romance with its catchy saxophone solo. This seemingly straightforward installation ... More | | 
Angie Jennings, Below the light, 2021. Colored pencil on paper, frames. 50 x 42 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Angie Jennings: Guides from the night fields. This exhibition is on view at the gallery: 1018 Madison Ave., Fl. 3, New York, NY, 10075. Guides from the night fields presents visionary plains existing just beyond sight. Here, the word guide is akin to spirit, and we see the artists continued developments speaking towards issues of visibility and the formation of speculative thought. Jennings explores the limits and structures of our visible spectrums in relation to identity and the unknown through her emanant drawings on black paper. In speaking about the drawings in the show, Jennings stated: m developing what I imagine to be spaces of escape and refuge that exist within a field of vision that we have yet to gain access to, a world where existence has the ability to transcend identity. Biomorphic forms compose tranquil spheres providing relief from loss. Multiple psychogeograph ... More |
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 Patrick Patrong named VMFA's Chief Diversity OfficerRICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Patrick Patrong to the position of Chief Diversity Officer, Assistant Deputy Director for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and HR Strategic Initiatives. Patrong comes to VMFA with more than 25 years of experience as a public service leader. Currently the lead facilitator for his consulting firm, Patrong Enterprises, Inc., he has also worked as Construction Training Manager for the Virginia Department of Transportation and Director of the Training, Education and Exercise Division for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. In addition, he led organizational diversity initiatives for seven professional schools of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, while serving as Director of Organization and Employee Development. Patrick has a solid background in implementing ... More  Copy of Marvel Comics' Avengers #1 from for $23,125 at Bruneau & Co. AuctioneersCRANSTON, RI.- A copy of Marvel Comics Avengers #1 from September 1963 sold for $23,125, a copy of Marvel Comics Amazing Spider-Man #14 from July 1964 brought $17,500, and a 1st edition, factory sealed booster box of Wizards of the Coast Pokémon Gym Challenge from 2000 made $17,500 at a Pop Culture auction held July 10th by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. The bidding action this Comic, TCG & Toy auction brought to the gallery takes me back to what was found in similar sales ten, fifteen years ago, said Kevin Bruneau, president and owner of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. The floor, phones, online were all busy. It shows what direction the business is headed in for the next generation to come. TCG stands for Trading Card Games. Travis Landry, Bruneau & Co.s Director of Pop Culture, added, This auction proved ... More  SF Camerawork announces new Executive Director Olivia Lahs-GonzalesSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- SF Camerawork announces the appointment of Olivia Lahs-Gonzales as Executive Director. Lahs-Gonzales will begin in her new role August 15, 2021. Lahs-Gonzales comes to SF Camerawork from St. Louis, where she was Director and Curator of The Sheldon Art Galleries for almost 20 years, overseeing a program of up to fifteen exhibitions annually within six gallery spaces. Drawing from international, national, and local collectors, museums, galleries, and artists, she developed an acclaimed exhibition program focused on photography and the visual arts that included major traveling exhibitions such as Bea Nettles: A Harvest of Memory (2019); Ralston Crawford and Jazz (2011); Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire -- 50 Years in Photography (2011); and Josephine Baker: Image and Icon (2006), which traveled ... More  1938 Vauxhall Trials Car had two previous lives as a butcher's van and an WW2 army truckLONDON.- A race winning Vauxhall trials car estimated to sell for £11,000 £13,000, with H&H Classics, started life as a humble butchers van, was then commandeered for active service during WW2 and then transformed into a race winning trials car. That is some serious shape shifting. The car will be offered for sale at the next H&H Classics auction at the Imperial War Museum Duxford on September 8th. It was converted into a Trials Special by Cyril Crosby, foreman of Vauxhall's Experimental Engine Test Department, during the 1940s, and uprated with a 1500cc, 12hp engine in 1948 which was then supercharged and it went on to win multiple class awards from 1947-1955. Starting life as a Bedford HC 10hp 5 cwt butchers van, this very successful trials special has a fascinating history which the vendor has been able to unearth since acquiring ... More  Rick Laird, bassist at the forefront of fusion, dies at 80NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rick Laird, a bassist who played a central role in the jazz-rock fusion boom as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, then retired from music to pursue a career in photography, died on July 4 in New City, New York. He was 80. His daughter, Sophie Rose Laird, said the cause was lung cancer. Guitarist John McLaughlin called Laird in 1971 with an invitation to join a group he was forming with the goal of uniting the jazz-rock aesthetic which McLaughlin had helped establish as a member of Miles Davis and Tony Williams earliest electric bands with Indian classical music and European experimentalism. The new ensemble, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which also featured drummer Billy Cobham, keyboardist Jan Hammer and violinist Jerry Goodman, became one of the most popular instrumental ... More  It's never too late to play the celloNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1940, at age 12, Vera Jiji found her first passion: the cello. She learned to love playing the orchestra instrument at the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. I didnt pick the cello. They assigned it to me because I had a good ear and long fingers, said the Bronx native, now 93. I loved it. Its a beautiful instrument that can sound like a human voice. It looked like a female body, with hips, breasts and a waist. Holding it and playing it was a very intimate experience. As an adult, though, she stopped playing the instrument. She became a professor and a fixture at Brooklyn College teaching English classes. She married twice and had four children. Her beloved cello, her mothers high school graduation present, sat tucked away in the back of her clothing closet. It remained untouched, almost forgotten, ... More  Royal Ontario Museum announces major gift in support of Korean art and culture at the museum TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announced a landmark partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea (MCST). The five-year agreement will provide $1 million in funding to support a Curator of Korean Art & Culture ─ a first at any museum in Canada ─ as well as funds for new research and public programming. The agreement was signed on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum by Josh Basseches, Director & CEO, and on behalf of the MCST by Sungeun Lee, Director of the Korean Cultural Centre Canada in Ottawa. This partnership marks the continuation of an important relationship between Korea, the Korean community and the ROM, says Josh Basseches. Home to one of the largest collections of Korean art and culture in North America and Europe, the Museum has a long history of raising ... More  Andrew Lloyd Webber delays 'Cinderella' musical in West EndLONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One day before Andrew Lloyd Webbers much-anticipated Cinderella musical was slated to open in Londons West End, and two days after a cast member tested positive for the coronavirus, the prolific composer and producer announced on Monday that opening night would yet again be delayed. I have been forced to take the heartbreaking decision not to open my Cinderella, he said in a Twitter statement. The impossible conditions created by the blunt instrument that is the Governments isolation guidance mean that we cannot continue. Lloyd Webbers announcement initially did not specify whether the production was closing for good or just being postponed, although a spokeswoman for him later clarified that the shows opening was delayed, not canceled, and that they hoped to open the show soon, ... More  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts appoints new DirectorNORWICH.- UEA and the Board of the Sainsbury Centre have appointed Jago Cooper as the new Director of the Centre and Professor of Art and Archaeology, who starts on Monday 15 November. Professor Cooper has spent more than 20 years working on a diverse range of cultural projects around the world, always centred on the study and communication of visual and material culture. After ten years as Head of the Americas Section at the British Museum and Director of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, these collaborations have led to a series of innovative exhibitions, artistic commissions and international exchange programmes that challenge traditional museum practice. With a particular interest in using digital technologies to reach new audiences and cut across multiple academic disciplines, his work spans the ... More  Graham Vick, director who opened opera's doors, dies at 67LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Graham Vick, a British opera director who worked at prestigious houses such as the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City and La Scala in Milan while also seeking to broaden operas appeal by staging works in abandoned rock clubs and former factories and by bringing more diversity to casting, died Saturday in London. He was 67. The cause was complications of COVID-19, the Birmingham Opera Company, which he founded, said in a news release. Vick spent much of the pandemic in Crete, Greece, and returned to Britain in June to take part in rehearsals for a Birmingham Opera production of Wagners Das Rhinegold, Jonathan Groves, his agent, said in a telephone interview. Vick was artistic director at the company, which he saw as a vehicle to bring opera to everyone. His productions ... More  Chicago comedy institution iO Theater will reopen after saleCHICAGO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- More than a year after it was announced that the Chicago improv mainstay iO Theater was closing permanently because of the financial strain of the pandemic, the theaters building and brand have been sold to local real estate executives, the institutions founder said Monday. Charna Halpern, who started iO four decades ago, said the theater would reopen under the ownership of Scott Gendell and Larry Weiner, who both run real estate companies in the Chicago area. The closure of the theater which played a crucial part in the careers of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert was a major loss for the citys community of improvisers, many of whom studied, performed and socialized there. Its a huge relief that this thing Ive been working on for 40 years is going to continue, Halpern said. In a statement, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-born American artist Arshile Gorky died July 21, 1948. Arshile Gorky ( April 15, 1904 - July 21, 1948) was an American painter of Armenian descent who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide. In this image: Arshile Gorky, "Agony", 1947. Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 1/2 in., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, A. Conger Goodyear Fund. ©2010 Estate of Arshile Gorky/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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