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Sothebys employees load Mark Hermans painting, likely done by Chuck Close, into a van he rented, in New York, July 17, 2023. Hermans efforts to authenticate what would be an early work by the artist kept running into roadblocks but a discovery by an archivist at the University of Massachusetts may change that. (OK McCausland/The New York Times)
by John Leland
NEW YORK, NY.- In March 2022, Mark Herman, a dog walker and recreational drug enthusiast in upper Manhattan, New York, came into possession of a dog, a painting and a story. The dog was Phillipe, a 17-year-old toy poodle that belonged to Hermans only client, an 87-year-old retired law professor named Isidore Silver. The painting, which belonged to Silver, may be a lost work by artist Chuck Close, whose canvases once sold for as much as $4.8 million. Or it may not. Therein lies the story. On a recent afternoon in his cluttered apartment, Herman offered a broken chair and began a circuitous account of friendship, loss and a commercial art market not meant for people like him. In 1967, Close was an instructor at th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Andreas Gursky's exhibition at Fondazione MAST, in Bologna / Italy. Photo: Luca Capuano.
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| How to preserve priceless documents at the National Archives | | This fossil is a freeze-frame of a mammal fighting a dinosaur | | What Benjamin Franklin learned while fighting counterfeiters | 
Yoonjoo Strumfels, a senior conservator, de-silks and mends a document in a lab at the National Archives main operations center in College Park, Md., April 21, 2023. (Jared Soares/The New York Times)
by Charlie Savage
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Archives and Records Administration is devoted to preserving the priceless records of the United States, including handwritten parchment from President George Washingtons era to 20th-century typewritten documents and modern electronic files. More than 1 million schoolchildren and adults each year come to the National Archives to view the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, while historians and other academics visit its reading rooms to pore over its broader holdings, including an estimated 13.5 billion pieces of paper, 40 million photographs and enough film to circle Earth more than three times. A quiet agency, the National Archives drew unusual attention over its monthslong effort to retrieve public records that former President Donald Trump kept at his Florida estate and club, which led to criminal charges against him. By law, government records from his White House belong to the agency. ... More | | 
A photo provided by Gang Han shows a fossil found in 2012 in the Chinese province of Liaoning, which appears to show a Psittacosaurus, a plant-eating Triceratops relative, entangled with a Repenomamus, a smaller mammal. (Gang Han via The New York Times)
by Kate Golembiewski
NEW YORK, NY.- The work of a paleontologist is often like solving a puzzle with no picture on the box and most of the pieces missing. From scattered bones and teeth, scientists studying fossils extrapolate entire long-dead creatures, and even relationships between different species. But every so often, researchers get a lucky break in the form of nearly complete skeletons, their bodies preserved in a way that offers a glimpse into their behavior in life. This could be the case with a newly described fossil of a badger-like mammal and a Labrador retriever-size dinosaur, locked in what appears to be an eternal brawl. A mixed team of Canadian and Chinese researchers published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports, along with a section of the study devoted to addressing concerns that the fossil is a fake. The prehistoric skirmish took place around 125 million years ago, in whats now northeastern China, ... More | | 
A currency note printed by Benjamin Franklin. (Department of Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame via The New York Times)
by Veronique Greenwood
NEW YORK, NY.- When Benjamin Franklin moved to Philadelphia in 1723, he got to witness the beginning of a risky new experiment: Pennsylvania had just begun printing words on paper and calling it money. The first American paper money had hit the market in 1690. Metal coins never stayed in the 13 colonies long, flowing in a ceaseless stream to England and elsewhere, as payment for imported goods. Several colonies began printing bits of paper to stand in for coins, stating that within a certain time period, they could be used locally as currency. The system worked, but haltingly, the colonies soon discovered. Print too many bills, and the money became worthless. And counterfeiters often found the bills easy to copy, devaluing the real stuff with a flood of fakes. Franklin, who started his career as a printer, was an inveterate inventor who would also create the lightning rod and bifocals, found paper money fascinating. In 1731, he won the contract to print 40,000 pounds for the colony of Pennsylvania, a ... More |
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| German bank agrees to return a Kandinsky to heirs of a Jewish family | | Multiple records set in Heritage's $12.5 million Long Beach/Summer FUN US Coins event | | 'Beetlejuice 2' props are stolen from set, police say | 
A German government advisory panel on Nazi-looted art recommended that the bank return the work, which had been exhibited in a Munich museum for decades.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a Jewish family that suffered persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The bank, BayernLB, said in a brief statement that it had decided to follow a recommendation issued last month by the German governments advisory panel on Nazi-looted art. The panel advised the bank to restitute the 1907 tempera painting, Colorful Life, to the heirs of Emanuel Albert Lewenstein, the director of a sewing machine factory, and his wife, Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann. Every restitution is important to the families of persecuted victims as it provides them with a sense of healing, justice and dignity, said James Palmer, who represents the heirs. The Lewensteins owned an ... More | | 
1841 $2 1/2 VF35 PCGS. Struck from the JD-1 proof dies (the only dies known), High R.6.
DALLAS, TX.- More than 40 bids poured in for a prized rare coin, one of just 15 examples traced, until it climbed all the way to $150,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Long Beach/Summer FUN US Coins Signature ® Auction to $12,546,757 July 20-23. The event marked the first time in 45 years that the 1841 Quarter Eagle VF35 PCGS. Struck from the JD-1 dies, High R.6 had reached the auction block; longtime numismatic expert Norman Stack tagged the coin with the "Little Princess" nickname in the description for a 1954 Davis-Graves auction, and the moniker has remained ever since. "This is a magnificent result for a magnificent coin," says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "After former Mint Director James Ross Snowden mentioned the 1841 quarter eagle in his 1860 report on the Mint Cabinet, numismatic author Edgar Adams said that he knew of two examples, a revelation that sparked a surge in popularity and demand." The 1841 Quarter Eagle ... More | | 
In an undated image provided by Vermont State Police, a sculpture that was stolen from the set of the movie Beetlejuice 2, which is being filmed in Vermont. (Vermont State Police via The New York Times)
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK, NY.- Juno, the shrewd, chain-smoking caseworker in the movie Beetlejuice in 1988 said it best, Never trust the living. An investigation is underway in Vermont after a lamppost and an art sculpture were stolen from the set of Beetlejuice 2, which is being filmed in East Corinth, about 25 miles southeast of Montpelier, the state capital, Vermont State Police said last week. Early on July 14, state police received a report that someone had removed a lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration and loaded it into the back of a pickup truck, covered it with a tarp and fled the scene. Three days later, movie officials reported a second theft: a 150-pound abstract art statue that was stolen from the vicinity of a cemetery. The original film, a comedy-horror classic directed by Tim Burton, follows a dead couple who haunt their own ... More |
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| 'Imagiro' outdoor art installation of Origami animals by Mr Brainwash pops up on Rodeo Drive | | Treasures from the Adolphe & Philippe Stoclet's collections will be auctioned at Bonhams | | Samantha Robinson promoted to Heritage Auctions' Chicago Director of Decorative Arts & Design | 
Installation view of Red Bird part of Mr Brainwash Imagiro on Rodeo Drive, photo by Mr Brainwash Studio, courtesy the Rodeo Drive Committee.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The Rodeo Drive Committee unveiled a new and vibrant, outdoor public art installation Imagiro by internationally acclaimed Mr Brainwash, the moniker for Thierry Guetta, the French-born, street artist with worldwide recognition, whose new Beverly Hills contemporary art museum opened in December 2022. Organized in partnership with the Rodeo Drive Committee, Imagiro comprises nine large-scale, six to 10 feet high, brightly-colored, metal sculptures of pink, green, red, blue, orange and yellow origami animals, including birds, a bear, an elephant, a dog, a rabbit, and more, on view along the length of Rodeo Drive through September 25. The vibrant, photo friendly, interactive public art project is free and open to all. Origami has been an art form that has nearly defined beauty for centuries. The elegant process of creating something magical with material as simple as paper brings together ... More | | 
From Galerie Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, Untitled is an acrylic and plexiglass from 2005 by Daniel Buren (born 1938). Photo: Bonhams.
BRUSSELS.- Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr announced the auction of treasures from the Adolphe and Philippe R. Stoclets collections on Sunday 23 October 2023 in Brussels. The Palais Stoclet is considered a pearl of Viennese Art Nouveau in Brussels. A work of art in itself, it was built in Brussels by architect Josef Hoffmann, and embodies the peak of the Vienna Secession, an art movement founded by Gustav Klimt . Designed in 1905, it was completed in 1911 for the Stoclet family, who then occupied it as their private residence. Adolphe Stoclet, Société Générales director, rail and coal magnate, art lover and patron, turned to Vienna when he decided to build his own private mansion and commissioned the architect Josef Hoffmann, the main driving force behind the Wiener Werkstätte. The mansion was located on Avenue de Tervueren, an area particularly favoured by the upper middle classes. Listed as a historic monument in ... More | | 
The Decorative Arts & Design expert has secured top prices for Tiffany Studios, Art & Studio Glass, Industrial Design and more.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has promoted Samantha Robinson to Director of Decorative Arts & Design at its Chicago office, where she will continue to oversee the category she has helped turn into an auction-world triumph. Robinson first joined Heritage in 2018 as an Associate Specialist in the category and was named Consignment Director in 2020. Robinson's expertise in late 19th and early 20th century decorative arts has elevated and solidified Heritage's relationship with Art Glass, Art Pottery, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and more. During her three years as Consignment Director, her careful eye, academic rigor and thoughtful work with consignors have led to the top five sellers in Heritage's Pursuit of Beauty category a Signature ® Heritage category Robinson co-created alongside Nick Dawes, Senior Vice President of Special Collections. "Heritage is a collectors' auction house and I am a collectors' specialist," says Robinson. ... More |
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| Pollock-Krasner Foundation announces July 2022 - June 2023 grants amounting to nearly $2.7 million | | The Sanders Collection of milled coins achieves hammer price of £546,315 at Noonans | | International arts expedition sets sail for the Marshall Islands | 
Oliver Lee Jackson receives 2023 Lee Krasner Award in recognition of lifetime of artistic achievement.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced that it has awarded $2,657,400 to 93 artists and nonprofit organizations during its July 2022-June 2023 grant cycle, providing essential support to U.S.-based and international artists. From Austin, Texas to New York City, and from Argentina to India, the latest grant and award recipients comprise artists from 14 states and territories and 15 countries. The Foundations Lee Krasner Award, given in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement, is awarded to Oliver Lee Jackson. Jackson is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and draftsman who is recognized for his innovative multi-disciplinary practice over the last six decades. Since the Foundation was established in 1985, it has awarded more than 5,000 grants totaling over $87 million in 79 countries. Providing funding to professional artists around the globe, the grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation ... More | | 
Lot 127: Pattern Threepence Elizabeth. Photo: Noonans.
LONDON.- An important collection of early milled coins, with many dating from the reign of Elizabeth I, sold for a hammer price of £546,315 at Noonans Mayfair on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Comprising around 350 coins, it was started by Peter Sanders in the 1940s and later added to by his son Robin. Robin passed away last year, and the collection is being sold by the family. The two highest prices of the collection was a very rare Pattern Halfcrown produced during the Commonwealth Era of 1649 to 1660 in 1651 by David Ramage which sold for a hammer price of £60,000 against an estimate of £40,000-£50,000 - there are believed to be 10 known examples, four of which are in museums [lot 244], while from the reign of Elizabeth I (1558- 1603) was an extremely rare Pattern Threepence dating from 1575 which realised a hammer price of £22,000 [lot 127]. These were both bought by a dealer in the room. As Tim Wilkes, Head of the Coin Department at Noonans ... More | | 
The expedition is being launched by Cape Farewell, the cultural programme founded by artist David Buckland in 2001 to highlight the urgency of climate change.
PALO ALTO, CA.- "The Tomb" on Enewetak Atoll, a concrete bunker holding more than 3.1 million cubic feet of US-produced radioactive soil and debris, is cracking due to rising sea levels and temperatures, dumping plutonium into the Pacific. This August, 30 international, Oceanian and Marshallese artists, writers, scientists, and filmmakers will sail 450 nautical miles around the 29 atolls that make up the Marshall Islands for Kõmij Mour Ijin, the Marshallese for Our Life is Here. The expedition is being launched by Cape Farewell, the cultural programme founded by artist David Buckland in 2001 to highlight the urgency of climate change. He and fellow artists photographer, oceans activist and bookmaker Michael Light and Marshallese poet, Climate Ambassador, performance artist and educator Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner will lead the mission to explore the two crucial issues ... More |
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 The Art Students League presents year-long outdoor art exhibition at Riverside Park and Riverside Park SouthNEW YORK, NY.- The Art Students League of New York in partnership with NYC Parks Art in the Parks program and the Riverside Park Conservancy is proud to announce the participating artists for the 2023 Works in Public program. Featuring new large-scale artworks by League artists Helen Draves and Susan Markowitz Meredith the sculptures will be installed at Riverside Park South in Manhattan in a year-long public exhibition beginning in July 2023. Two additional projects, which will be installed at Riverside Park in Manhattan, will be unveiled in fall 2023 by artists Sophie Kahn and Marco Palli. Works in Public, formerly known as Model to Monument, is a professional development program founded in 2010 in ... More  Biennale of Sydney announces 2024 exhibition: 'Ten Thousand Suns'SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney has today announced the curatorial vision and first 39 artists for the 24th edition, titled Ten Thousand Suns. This major international contemporary art festival will be open to the public from 9 March to 10 June 2024, presented in various locations across Sydney. Led by Artistic Directors Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney proposes celebration as both a method and a source of joy, produced in common and broadly shared. With an exhibition of contemporary art at its core, the event will draw inspiration from histories of queer resistance and of coming- together to thrive in the face of injustice. In partnership with Phoenix Central Park, a program of contemporary music will be presented alongside the exhibition, responding to the works on display and complementing Costinaș ... More  'Werner Herzog: The Ecstatic Truth' on view at Eye FilmmuseumBERLIN.- Since 18 June, Eye Filmmuseum has been presenting an exhibition and extensive film programme around the work of celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog, who last year reached the age of eighty. With an unorthodox oeuvre of more than seventy features, documentaries and shorts, Herzog has fascinated audiences with unforgettable stories, images and characters for more than half a century. His films grant us insights into human existence and man's relationship with the endless indifference and vastness of nature. In his work, Herzog seeks out those places on our planet that seem most other-worldly. From the rim of an active volcano to the world beneath the polar ice; from the jungle to burning oil fields; from the Sahara to death row. He points his camera at people who live and survive in extreme circumstances from scientists ... More  First solo exhibition by artist Ming Smith surveys work from the early 1970s to the presentHOUSTON, TX.- Ming Smith: Feeling the Future on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston explores artist Ming Smiths unparalleled career and is Smiths first solo exhibition at a major institution to survey her work from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smiths vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the heartbeat of Black life in the United States. Drawn from the full complexity of Smiths oeuvre, Feeling the Future places works from the artists five-decades of creation in conversation with one another, and the cultural movements she witnessed and participated in. Exploring themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation and social examination, the exhibition offers a guided tour into unperceived moments of life as captured by one of the most ... More  Musèe Marmottan Monet presents 'Engraving the Light: The engraving in one hundred masterpieces'PARIS.- The Musée Marmottan Monet is currently hosting a remarkable collection of engravings belonging to the Swiss Fondation William Cuendet & Atelier de Saint-Prex. With over one hundred masterpieces on display, the exhibition showcases an ensemble of works ranging from the 15th to the 21st century, including Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Corot, Manet, Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard... The works of the great masters will be displayed in a dialogue with creations by contemporary artists. By hosting this exhibition devoted to the history of engraving and its various techniques, the Musée Marmottan opens its doors to one of the most popular means of communication from the 15th century onwards, until it was replaced by the newspaper industry and photography. Nevertheless, the art of the engraving remains one of the arts that ... More  Springfield Art Museum has opened exhibit focused on Chinese blue-and-white wareSPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum is now presenting Blue on White in the Hartman Gallery. This is the second of three guest-curated exhibitions mounted in this space during 2023. These special exhibitions are the result of collaborations between Museum staff, and staff and students at Missouri State University. These collaborations range from providing space and resources to mount exhibitions, to the study of permanent collection objects, to hands-on learning opportunities in museum work, including art curation, interpretive activities, and public programs. Blue on White is a special exhibition focused on Chinese blue-and-white ware (青花; qīng-huā) which examines its complex history including its connection to Persia (modern day Iran), the use of important Chinese symbols in its decoration, and its eventual appropriation ... More  Robert Kipniss: acclaimed painter & printmaker: new exhibition & book anniversaryNORTH ADAMS, MA.- The Artist Book Foundation is now presenting its latest exhibition, Robert Kipniss: Shades of Nature, in coordination with the 10th anniversary of the publication, Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 19501964. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of acclaimed painter, printmaker, and poet Robert Kipniss, and showcases his early works from the 1950s and 1960s as well as pieces from his later career. ROBERT KIPNISS: Shades of Nature delves into two significant periods of Kipnisss artistic evolution. The exhibition opens with a visual exploration of the young poet and painter discovering his artistic voice during the 1950s and 1960s. These early drawings and paintings offer a profound insight into this critical phase of Kipnisss career when he made the pivotal decision to devote himself entirely to painting, storing away his passion for poetry. ... More  American Ballet Theater steadies itself for its next actNEW YORK, NY.- It was more heart-wrenching than usual when Mercutio finally keeled over and died at the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday night. Of course, this is how it goes in Romeo and Juliet the jocund pal of Romeo is stabbed by Tybalt, which leads Romeo to kill Tybalt, which leads to the lovers suicides. But it was Mercutios death that was the most tragic moment in this American Ballet Theater production. After that scene, there would be no more Jake Roxander. Remember his name! This corps de ballet member has been dazzling all season, beginning with a standout performance in the peasant pas de deux in Giselle with Zimmi Coker, another luminous corps dancer. (Why isnt she a soloist? And how long till they are the leads in Giselle?) Sharing the Neapolitan Dance with Jonathan Klein another rising talent in Swan ... More  Stories like Norman Rockwell paintings, if Rockwell painted guillotinesNEW YORK, NY.- Steven Millhauser was the surprise winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Martin Dressler (1996), a syntactically bracing reverie about a young entrepreneur in 19th-century New York. For many readers at the time, the response was: Steven who? The New York Times sent a reporter to Saratoga Springs, New York, where Millhauser taught at Skidmore College, to find out more. The ensuing profile ran under the headline Shy Author Likes to Live and Work in Obscurity. Here was not a Norman Mailer manqué. He said he had written for many years in his parents attic. Shy people who live and work in obscurity are commonplace in Millhausers fiction, his short stories especially. (The best of these are collected in We Others: New and Selected Stories.) Millhauser cuts the ground from under their feet. Aliens ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ignacio Villarreal Junco founder of ArtDaily died  July 26, 2019. Ignacio Villarreal Junco (December 20, 1941 - July 26, 2019) Journalist, graphic designer and publicist between the 1960s and 1990s, creator of concepts, images, slogans, logos, campaigns and founder of ArtDaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net. As editor he published the magazines: Gala (1965), Creatividad (1972-1977), Espacio (1983-1984), Museos (1995-1996). For ten years he made the Agenda del Arte (1987-1997). He made the serigraphic editions titled: 1976-Calendario Gráfico, 1977-Alfabeto Gráfico. He also edited serigraphs with the visual artists: José LuÃs Cuevas, Juan Soriano, Juan Genovés. Corporate Identities: 1968 - Hylsa, 1970 - Universidad de Monterrey, 1974 - BanpaÃs, 1978 - Akra, 1985 - Ãbaco, 1990 - Club de Fútbol Monterrey, 1991 - Socrates Rizo Campaign, 1992 - ConfÃa, 1993 - Mexlub, 1993 - Rogelio Montemayor Campaign, 1996 - Monterrey400 (Fourth centenary of the city), 2002 - UANL Tigres Soccer Club. As a publicist, he received 18 national awards: Teponaxtlis de Malinalco and as founding editor of ArtDaily, an art newspaper that has received 51 awards or distinctions.
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