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The exterior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, July 15, 2019. Curators at the Guggenheim Museum sent its leadership a letter Monday, June 22, in which they urged it to reform a culture that, they said, enables racism. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A letter signed The Curatorial Department of the Guggenheim Museum was sent Monday to the institutions leadership, demanding immediate, wholesale changes to what it described as an inequitable work environment that enables racism, white supremacy, and other discriminatory practices. We write to express collective concern regarding our institution, which is in urgent need of reform, said the letter addressed to Richard Armstrong, the museums director; Elizabeth Duggal, the senior deputy director and chief operating officer; Sarah G. Austrian, the general counsel; and Nancy Spector, the museums artistic director and chief curator. The letter comes as cultural institutions are being called to account for what critics describe as their role in perpetuating systemic racism. Amid protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd, museums are looking more seriously at issues of equity in their hiring, governance, exhibitions and acquisition ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Clearance Sale featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, and Fine Art. In this image: Early 20th C. African Wood Mask - Classic Bassa. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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 | | Nationalmuseum Sweden returns a painting to a Polish museum | | Life hatched from soft eggs, some a foot long, in dinosaur era | | Venus Over Manhattan announces worldwide representation of the Estate of Roy De Forest | 
The School of Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Lamentation of Christ. Photo: Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Following a request for restitution from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw, Nationalmuseum has written a letter to the Swedish Government recommending that a painting in the museums collections should be returned to Poland.Documentation that has been presented shows that the painting is almost certainly identical to the one being requested and is therefore stolen.The return of the painting to Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu in Poland is therefore in keeping with the international conventions in this area. Nationalmuseum has recommended to the Swedish Government that the painting The Lamentation of Christ by the School of Lucas Cranach the Elder, should be returned to Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu in Poland.The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Warsaw has submitted a request for restitution of this work, which was ... More | | 
An image provided by the American Museum of Natural History, a fossil from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia contains the remains of six protoceratops embryos in a curled position, as though still contained in eggs, but no fossilized egg shells. M. Ellison/American Museum of Natural History.
by Lucas Joel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is a problem with dinosaur eggs: A lot of them are missing. Dinosaurs dominated land from about 245 million years ago until an asteroid extinguished them some 66 million years before our time. But their eggs, a lot like those of other reptiles that lived on the planet during that time, are mostly absent from the first half of their fossil record. A new study published in Nature, showcasing baby dinosaur remains from Mongolia and Argentina, offers a reason: The very first dinosaurs laid soft eggs, the way turtles do today, and their eggs decomposed long before they could ever turn into fossils. In a second study ... More | | 
Portrait of Roy De Forest by Mimi Jacobs. Roy De Forest papers, 1916-2015, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan announced its worldwide representation of the Estate of Roy De Forest. This news follows the gallerys critically acclaimed March 2020 survey exhibition, the largest presentation of De Forests work in New York City since the artists 1975 mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Roy De Forests freewheeling vision his vivid and hallucinatory fantastical voyages, complete with dots and dogs -- made him a hero of the Northern California artistic community for more than fifty years. Born in 1930 to migrant farmers in North Platte, Nebraska, De Forest and his family fled the Dust Bowl for Washington State, where he grew up on the family farm in the lush Yakima Valley, surrounded by farm animals and canine companions. In 1950, De Forest received a scholarship to the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art ... More |
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| | Swiss Made UNLOCKED: Sotheby's launches a brand-new multi-disciplinary online auction | | Jack Kirby anchors Comics & Comic Art Auction filled with iconic pieces | | Mike Childs, A Journey of Grids, Color and Curvilinear Forms 2004 to 2020 on view at David Richard Gallery | 
Artist Robert Rauschenberg is featured in the sale thanks to a striking collage from 1979 (22 Carats, 1979, lot 57, est. CHF 70,000 90,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
ZURICH.- Shaking up the conventions of category and calendar, Sothebys Switzerland is to launch a brand-new cross-category online sale, bringing together art and rare objects from 13 fields of artistic creation. Embracing the interdisciplinary approach which many collectors take when assembling their collections, the online auction will juxtapose Old Masters, Swiss Art, Impressionist & Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Photographs, African & Oceanic Art, Jewellery, Watches and more. This innovative online sale will be open for bidding on sothebys.com from the 23rd to the 30th of June. All of the lots on offer showcase the astonishing diversity of art in and from Switzerland. They include masterworks by Switzerlands blue-chip painters, led by Ferdinand Hodler, Félix Vallotton, Albert Anker and Cuno Amiet. Challenging ... More | | 
Jack Kirby and Paul Reinman X-Men #4 Splash Page Original Art (Marvel, 1964).
DALLAS, TX.- Most of them are here, their creations spread far and wide among the more than 500 pieces of original comic-strip and comic-book art found in Heritage Auctions July 9-12 Comics & Comic Art event -- the greats, as well as The Greatest Who Ever Was. The estimable roll call includes The Pioneers: Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, Wally Wood, Dick Tracys Chester Gould, Charlie Browns father Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman. The Revolutionaries: Moebius, Frank Miller, Todd McFarlane, Chris Ware. The Freaks: Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Zippys Bill Griffith and Peter Bagge. The Icons: Frank Frazetta, Joe Kubert, Curt Swan, Neal Adams, John Buscema. And Jim Davis, who has unleashed more than two dozen Garfield strips that until now have never been out of his sight. Thats to name but a few of the many artists here who breathed life into superheroes, gave flight to writers fancies and continue to ... More | | 
Mike Childs, Attachment A, 2019. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. © Mike Childs. Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Mike Childs. The presentation includes 28 paintings that survey the subtle, but important transitions in formal concerns and compositional elements in the artists paintings from 2004 through 2020. This is not intended to be a comprehensive retrospective, but rather a survey of paintings that touch on several key aesthetic themes that have been prevalent in Childs work over a couple of decades to varying degrees of emphasis. The real focus is on his consistent and dedicated path to exploring non-objective abstraction within the parameters of color, geometry and dynamic compositions, yet always evolving and pushing the depths of his compositions and range of aesthetic elements. The exhibition is on view by appointment only from June 17 through July ... More |
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| | Eli Wilner Frame Restoration Grant awarded to the Museums at Washington and Lee University | | The Bruce Museum announces major new donation to its mineral collection | | Prodigy musician Maxim donates new artwork to 'United for Change' an anti-racism fundraising exhibition | 
Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 1779, 49 x 40 inches, originally commissioned by George Washington to hang in Mount Vernon, in the collection of the Museums at Washington and Lee University.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company has announced that the Museums at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington Virginia, has been chosen to receive the Eli Wilner Frame Restoration Grant. An independent panel of five jurors selected the Museums' proposal to restore the frame for a 1779 portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 49 x 40 inches, originally commissioned by George Washington to hang in Mount Vernon. The following jurors kindly lent their expertise in making this selection: Annette Blaugrund, former Director of the National Academy of Design Museum and board president of ArtTable. Doreen Bolger, former Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. James F. Dicke II, private collector, Chairman Emeritus at the Dayton Art ... More | | 
The gift of prized new mineral specimens from Robert R. Wiener will elevate the museums collection to world-class standards.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum announced a significant new gift of minerals from the renowned private collection of Robert R. Wiener. The recent donation follows the gift of nearly 100 world-class minerals Wiener pledged to the Museum in 2018 and includes a number of exceptional and exceptionally large museum-quality specimens. Mr. Wiener is the chairman of MAXX Properties, a family-owned real estate company based in Harrison, N.Y. An Honorary Trustee of the Bruce Museum, Wiener has also made a $500,000 contribution to the Campaign for the New Bruce, the Museums transformative renovation and expansion project. These magnificent minerals will be permanently highlighted along with selections from the Bruce Museums existing collection of gems and minerals in the new Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery when the New Bruce opens in 2022. Robert ... More | | 
Prodigy musician Maxim, whose artist moniker is MM, has collaborated with WLS on a new limited edition giclée print of a grenade containing a heart © Maxim X WLS.
LONDON.- United for Change is an anti-racism exhibition featuring artists who support equality and inclusivity in the contemporary art world. Curated by London-based Curator Lee Sharrock,this exhibition is being held online artnet by Galstian Advisory LLC, an art advisory based in Los Angeles. At least 75% of the proceeds will be donated to the three nominated charities; the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust in the UK as well as the Underground Museum and For Freedoms in the USA. Lee Sharrock and Robert Galstian are collaborating with Catalina Guirado, who is organising a series of webinars related to the exhibition. The featured artists are; Andreas Stylianou, Catalina Guirado, Jermaine Francis, Jon Daniel, Maxim x WLS, Misia-O, Hayden Kays, Juan Antonio Guirado and Todd Williamson. The exhibition is online ... More |
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| | Michael Bruno's fight to support small businesses in New York State | | Carol Rowan's exquisite graphite renderings now on view at Sam Shaw Contemporary | | Narine Arakelian's performance art introduces Empathy Aesthetics, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic | 
Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park, NY.
SLOATSBURG, NY.- Art and design world veteran, 1stdibs founder, and owner of Valley Rock Inn , Michael Bruno recently launched a new online platform, Tastemakers Guide, which is aimed at supporting small businesses in Upstate New York. The site features a curated selection of more than 300 businesses including shops, art galleries, inns, restaurants, historic sites, and parklands, that now more than ever are dependent on support from their local communities. As the world begins to carefully reopen, the guide will make it easy for residents and visitors to keep up-to-date on the status of their favorite businesses, and begin to wander and dream once again. Tastemakers receives a constant stream of business updates from the field, and is now expanding to new areas of New York, including the capital region and the Adirondacks. As the reopening process has begun unevenly across the state, t his service, which is being offered to businesses free of ... More | | 
Carol Rowan, Being Restored, 2013. Graphite and Gouache on Paper, 35 x 14.
NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME.- Sam Shaw Contemporary has announced a solo show of artist Carol Rowans works on paper that was installed earlier this week, and will run through July 8th. Owing to Covid-19 restrictions, the gallery will not be hosting their traditional opening reception for the artist, however, the show will be open to the general public for viewing during regular gallery hours, and also by private appointment for collectors and clients. Rowans show marks the official kick-off of the gallerys annual summer season, which features an ambitious program of rotating exhibitions of artists with regional and national reputations. Titled Exquisite Graphite Renderings, the exhibition is composed of more than a dozen works, not only in graphite, but also gouache, and a small selection of oil paintings on panel. A world traveller who draws upon her experiences at home and abroad, Rowan is known for her exceptionally ... More | | 
Narine Arakelian, an emerging artist, refuses to let present conditions form our current and future emotional reality.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It is now largely certain that our lives in this world will compel us to experience an increasing general sense of disbelief, and a fading out or disconnection from reality. In large degree we may attribute this sense of alienation to the inherent paradox of identity construction in social media and virtual spaces. This paradox is echoed in the nature of these mediums, the greater the connectivity and number of followers, the less likely it becomes that a unique and meaningful reciprocal bond will form with an individual someone. Our feelings of greater distance, in the context of greater connectivity are causal of the growing cultural tendency to polarize. These are all signs of the erosion of our ability to maintain a level of subjectivity that permits the development of critical thought beyond the need to fulfill transactional relations. The more we represent ourselves digitally, ... More |
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Rishika Assomull on Fascinating Stories from Southeast Asian Art
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 Christie's partners with Asian Cultural Council to auction three important artworksHONG KONG.- Christies is partnering with the Asian Cultural Council in presenting three important artworks by three major Chinese contemporary artists to be auctioned in the Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 10th July, 2020. Proceeds will benefit ACC, a nonprofit foundation that provides artists, scholars, and arts professionals opportunities for international cultural exchange in Asia and the United States. Through fellowships, grants, achievement awards, public programs, alumni engagement, and other cultural exchange initiatives, ACC invests in individuals whose work advances international dialogue, understanding, and respect across borders. The three artworks have been donated by esteemed ACC alumni and supporters. Cai Guo-Qiang arrived in New York in 1995 for his year-long ACC Fellowship. Liu Wei received an ACC Fellowship ... More National Endowment for the Arts announces 2020 National Heritage Fellowship recipientsWASHINGTON, DC.- As part of the National Endowment for the Arts work to support and celebrate our nations rich traditional arts heritage, the agency is announcing the 2020 recipients of its National Heritage Fellowships. These lifetime honor awards of $25,000 are given in recognition of both artistic excellence and efforts to sustain cultural traditions for future generations. Each year the Heritage Fellowships highlight the distinct living traditions of communities around our nation, as well as how our fellows instill a sense of pride, beauty, and cultural continuity through their art, said Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to recognize these outstanding artists with a National Heritage Fellowship. The 2020 National Heritage Fellows are: ... More Will the last Confederate statue standing turn off the lights?RICHMOND (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Until three weeks ago, Lee Circle, which is named for the 130-year-old statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands some 60 feet high at its center, attracted few visitors beyond the occasional tourist or weekend sunbather. But as protests over police brutality and racism, ignited by the killing of George Floyd while he was in policy custody, have spread across the country, and Confederate monuments have been torn down in many cities, crowds of people have been showing up to this little park on Monument Avenue every day. At first it was to protest. Now the crowd resembles something of a block party. Children and families mill about and take photos. Food stands, voter registration tents, portable basketball hoops and a lending library have popped up. And there is often music and dancing: On a recent ... More Stedelijk Museum opens interdisciplinary exhibition "In the Presence of Absence"AMSTERDAM.- In the Presence of Absence shows a selection of artworks and design projects that challenge the idea of collective knowledge and public consciousness through stories that remain unseen, have been ignored or may be told more often within large public institutions. Spanning more than 14 rooms, the interdisciplinary exhibition In the Presence of Absence presents a selection of (counter) narratives that challenge fixed ideas about our society and question how history is written. When not addressed by organizations such as schools, libraries, archives, and museums, the absence of these stories forms knowledge gaps within the public debates that shape our collective consciousness and memory. The selected projects include personal, intimate subjects as well as large socio-historical topics. Handwritten letters, for example, address an intangible ... More Anti-racism protests turn spotlight on icons of US historyWASHINGTON (AFP).- As the wave of anti-racism protests rocking the United States brings down monuments to figures linked to the country's history of slavery, the spotlight is shifting to other prominent people long considered untouchable. Although protesters initially focused on removing statues of Confederate generals, the movement has begun to turn its focus to icons of US history, including the nation's founders Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and President Theodore Roosevelt. On Monday night, it was the turn of Andrew Jackson, the populist slaveholding soldier-president admired by US President Donald Trump. Protesters attempted to pull down a statue to the seventh US president in Lafayette Square near the White House, spray-painting the word "killer" on the stone plinth and throwing ropes around it before being driven away by police ... More A 1978 play plucked from the slush pile gets a timely new readingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Playwright Kermit Frazier has been sticking close to home, so its fortuitous that the protests have come to him Black Lives Matter demonstrations at Grand Army Plaza and outside the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which he can see through the front window of his apartment in Park Slope. Yet Frazier, whose little-known first play, Kernel of Sanity, will get a profile boost Thursday night when it leads off the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogels new online reading series, hasnt headed out to march. The author of 25 works for the stage including a docudrama about the covered-up police killing of a young black man in 1958 Milwaukee, which Frazier noted comes to mind every time we get into this kind of situation has poured his activism straight into his writing. Thats how ... More England hospitality and tourism sector to reopen from July 4LONDON (AFP).- Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced a further easing of coronavirus restrictions in England from July 4, as part of plans to kickstart hospitality, culture and tourism. Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to reopen, as will hotels, bed and breakfasts, self-catering accommodation and campsites, alongside cinemas, museums and galleries. Two separate households will also be allowed to meet up indoors for the first time since March. "Today we can say that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end," he told parliament, calling the lifting of restrictions a return to a "sense of normality". "After the toughest restrictions in peacetime history, we're now able to make life easier for people to see more of their friends and family and help businesses get back on their feet and get people back into work," he told ... More Christie's Classic Week Online totals $13.4 millionNEW YORK, NY.- A Roman marble bust of a goddess circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. achieved the top price of the Ancient Art from James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, selling for $300,000. Additional top lots included a Roman marble portrait bust of a man, circa mid 2nd century A.D., that totaled $250,000, and a Roman marble portrait bust of the Empress Crispina as Omphale, circa late 2nd century A.D., which sold for $237,500, against an estimate of $70,000-90,000. Earning the top lot of Classic Week was a Greek Bronze Corinthian Helmet, Archaic Period, circa 525-475 B.C. which sold for $855,000, against an estimate of $300,000-500,000. An Attic Black-Figured neck-amphora and lid attributed to the Bareiss Painter, circa 530-520 B.C., achieved the second top lot in the sale selling for $137,500, above its estimate of $40,000-60,000. Achieving the top ... More A $3.7 million record haul thanks to Walt Disney, Charlie Brown, The Simpsons and other animated favoritesDALLAS, TX.- By all accounts, Mary Blair was Walt Disneys favorite artist. She was a definite favorite, too, of the more than 4,100 worldwide bidders who pushed Heritage Auctions June 19-21 Animation Art event past the $3.7 million mark, making it whats believed to be the single largest Animation Art sale ever. Its certainly a record for a Heritage animation event, the third consecutive record-breaking Animation Art Auction for Heritage Auctions. And the $3.7 million realized was almost twice the pre-auction estimate. Fourteen of the sales top 20 lots were painted by the expressionistic Blair, whose works have filled books and traveled in Disney-compiled exhibitions. For a decade, from 1943 to 1953, she worked for Disney and defined some of the studios finest works; she gave them their style, breathed into them their life. Blair saw the world ... More Christie's to offer works from the Suñol Soler CollectionLONDON.- As part of ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century, Christies will present a selection of works by Spanish and international masters from the Suñol Soler Collection in London on 10 July. Encompassing modern and post-war painting and sculpture, the works are being sold to benefit the Fundació Glòria Soler and the Fundació Suñol, both established by the collector Josep Suñol Soler in his native Barcelona. Working together as a single entity, the foundations are committed to furthering Josep Suñol Solers belief in civic responsibility and social transformation, uniting art and philanthropy in order to bring about vital global change. The group will be led by Alexander Calders mesmerising mobile Une lune bleue (1971, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000) which is presented alongside Pintura No. 5, a powerful large-scale example ... More Jean Raspail, whose immigration novel drew the far right, dies at 94NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jean Raspail, an award-winning author best known for The Camp of the Saints, a novel that envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries and that was embraced as a cautionary tale by white-supremacists, far-right political figures and a member of the Trump administration, died June 14 in Paris. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by one of his publishers, Ãditions des Ãquateurs. His funeral Wednesday at the Church of Saint-Roch in central Paris drew more than 1,000 people, including many conservative public figures. Raspail, a writer initially known for his travelogues, influenced generations of far-right readers with The Camp of the Saints (1973), in which he describes in denigrating detail how a million frazzled migrants from India reach the French Riviera and eventually ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Stuart Davis died June 24, 1964. Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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