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Precious Okoyomons augmented reality piece, Ultra Light Beams of Love (2021), that offers colorful flowers with faces that recite Okoyomons poetry, along the High Line in Manhattan, June 10, 2021. In their first collaboration, The Looking Glass, the High Line and the Shed invite the public to a sculpture hunt, in augmented reality. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a torrid afternoon in June, Emma Enderby, chief curator of the Shed, and Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of High Line Art, walked side by side between their respective bailiwicks on the West Side of Manhattan, plotting the configuration of their first collaborative exhibition. They were exultant. No night install, Alemani said. No cranes. Thats the best. Nothing would be decided until right before the opening. We didnt have to think about engineering or weight loads, Enderby said. You can just spend a leisurely day placing them. The exhibition, The Looking Glass, which runs from Saturday through Aug. 29, is a show in which all of them the sculptures on view are virtual, existing only in augmented reality, or AR. Using an app developed by Acute Art, a London-based digital-art organization, a spectator can point a phone at a QR code displayed at one of the sites the giv ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities | Asian | Ethnographic Art Auction on Thu, Jul 01, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. Featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, more! In this image: 19th C. Polynesian Samoan Fiber Tapa Eventail. Estimate $8,500 - $12,750.
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| Joan B Mirviss LTD opens summer group exhibition | | Freud portrait of Hockney sells for £14.9 mn | | One of Norway's most famous painted images to be offered by Sotheby's | 
Minegishi Seikō (b. 1952), Faceted vessel with hexagonal mouth, 2019. Celadon craquelure glazed stoneware, 11 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- The latest exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD showcases the many ways that earth, through fire, can appear to transform into completely different materials. The featured artists take advantage of this elemental change to shape clay into strikingly inventive sculptures. Some go further in exploiting these unexpected transformations by adding textures or patterns to evoke wood, metal, rubber, glass, stone, or textile. Through the use of a rare type of gray clay and multiple firings, Itō Tadashi (b.1952) creates sculptures that have the appearance of antique metal. The large geometric works of Imai Hyōe (b. 1951), with their hemispheres of concentric black bands, suggest the elasticity of rubber. Rectangular decorations in matte glazes on the tiered block form by Sawada Hayato (b. 1978) emphasize its wood-like appearance, as if it were hewn rather than molded. Celadon glaze has long been prized for its translucent quality remini ... More | | 
Painted at the height of Lucian Freuds career, this portrait of David Hockney provides a fascinating window into the narrative of a long episodic friendship that had started forty years earlier. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A portrait of British painter and printmaker David Hockney by his friend and contemporary Lucian Freud sold Tuesday at auction in London for nearly £15 million. The high price for portrait -- £14,905,200 ($20,700,000, 17,400,00 euros) -- was driven by competing bids by five collectors as the work made its debut at auction. It last appeared in public during a 2012 exhibition of Freud's work at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the international auctioneer Sotheby's said in a statement. The stark painting of Hockney, rendered in Freud's distinctive and expressive style, was the product of more than 100 hours of sittings between the pair in 2002. Hockney, 83, and Freud, who died in 2011 at the age of 88, first met in 1962 and ascended to the top of the international art world during their long careers. Both have been feted as two of the greatest artistic talents of the last century. The younger ... More | | 
Harald Sohlbergs Watercolour of his Iconic Landscape, Winter Night in the Mountains. Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg first saw the Rondane mountains during a skiing trip in 1899. The magnificent sight of the rounded snow-covered peaks of the Rondeslottet and the Høgronden against a dark azure sky would have a career-defining effect, inspiring a subject that would preoccupy him for over a quarter of a century and give rise to a series of iterations in oil and watercolour, in addition to a series of hand-coloured lithographs of the composition, his most ambitious print project. Voted the National Painting of Norway, Winter Night in the Mountains would become arguably the most famous painted landscape in, and of, Norway, both an icon of the countrys pristine natural beauty and a powerful expression of Sohlbergs interior response to the natural world. Of the group, only one work has ever appeared at auction, more than thirty years ago. Now, one of just a handful of finished watercolours will be offered ... More |
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| VMFA announces international firm SmithGroup will design the museum's new wing | | Exhibition at Marian Cramer Projects focuses on the depiction of modeling materials and their spatial properties | | Selling exhibition features works from the collection of Peter O'Toole | 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Photo by Travis Fullerton, © 2013 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- Following its recent Board of Trustees meeting, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced that the integrated design firm SmithGroup has been selected to design the museums upcoming $190 million expansion and renovation project. The decision follows a comprehensive international search. SmithGroup will be charged with designing a new wing at VMFA with state-of-the-art gallery spaces for African art, photography and 21st-century art, as well as a second major exhibition space and a special events space with dining facilities that can seat up to 500 guests on the garden-level ground floor. The new wing will also provide a welcoming entrance to and from the E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden to encourage visitors to enter and enjoy the museum. In addition to the new wing, large parts of the existing building will be renovated to include improved gallery ... More | | 
Mariah Ferrari, Chromatic Crush, 2020. 122 x 100 cm. Oil on canvas.
AMSTERDAM.- Utilizing the materiality of paint and the viscosity of oils has been a key element for painters' practices over the centuries. Starting with Titian in 16th century Italy or Peter Paul Rubens in Belgium, elaborated by Diego Velázquez in Spain, and Rembrandt or Johannes Vermeer in The Netherlands, the need to accentuate the physical attributes of the imagery has been driving the progression of techniques and feeding the sprouting of new painterly styles and movements. The works comprising PAINT DOH are elevating such efforts to new heights by exclusively focusing on the depiction of the modeling materials and their spatial properties. Sculpted into recognizable, pop culture icons (Ron DeFelice), molded into the cast of peculiar characters from artist's own universe (Jonny Green, Peter Opheim), used to abstract human form (Einar LúðvÃk Ãlafsson), or employed as a connecting element between abstraction ... More | | 
Milton Avery, Bird by Wild Sea, 1961 (detail). Image courtesy of Phillips.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Phillips announced Milton Avery: A Sense of Place, an exhibition at Phillips Southampton from July 1st through July 31st, with works available for both private sale and at auction. Curated by the artists grandson, Sean Cavanaugh and Waqas Wajahat, and featuring works directly from the Milton Avery Trust, Phillips will present a selection of approximately 50 works spanning three decades of the artists career and focusing on the different locations that served as his inspiration. Works included in the exhibition will be offered through both Phillips private sales platform and at auction in Fall 2021. Among the works to be offered in Phillips October Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in London are three works from the collection of Academy Award® Winner Peter OToole. Robert Manley, Deputy Chairman and Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, Milton Avery is one of the most ... More |
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| Picasso painting found in Greek gorge years after heist | | Sculpture from around the world in online selling exhibition | | One of two known 'hero' phasers from the original 'Star Trek' series beams into Heritage Auctions | 
Portrait photograph of Pablo Picasso, 1908.
ATHENS (AFP).- Greece on Tuesday said it had recovered a Picasso painting personally donated by the Spanish master to the Greek people, almost a decade after it was stolen alongside two other artworks in an audacious heist at the National Gallery. "Head of a Woman", gifted by Pablo Picasso to Greece in 1949, was recovered in Keratea, a rural area some 45 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of Athens, officials told a news conference. Police said a 49-year-old builder had confessed to stealing the artworks in 2012 and had been arrested. The man said he had initially hidden them in a home but had recently stashed them in thick vegetation at a local gorge. "Today is a special day, (a day of) great joy and emotion," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni told reporters. Mendoni said the painting would have been "impossible" to sell as it had a personal inscription by Picasso on the back -- "For the Greek people, a tribute by Picasso." The artist had given ... More | | 
Jeff Koons, Acrobat, 2003-2009. Polychromed aluminum, galvanized steel, wood, and straw © Jeff Koons.
NEW YORK, NY.- An ambitious selling exhibition of large-scale sculpture will be held online across the summer by Christies Private Sales team. This will be the second iteration of Dream Big, Christies online selling exhibition of large-scale sculpture and it will led by Jeff Koonss sculpture Acrobat from 2003-2009, in which an inflatable lobster pool-toy transformed into aluminum, balances atop two readymades: a trashcan and a chair. Other works include pieces by Ugo Rondinone, Barbara Hepworth, Marc Quinn, Barry Flanagan, Aristide Maillol, Gaston Lachaise, Fernand Léger, Giacomo Manzu, Roy Lichtenstein, Anish Kapoor, Salvador Dali and Niki de Saint Phalle. The exhibition will run online from 25 June through until the end of September and the works will be sold in-situ from their current homes around the world. Adrien Meyer, Global Head of Private Sales, said: ... More | | 
Star Trek: The Original Series Extremely Rare Hero Type-2 Phaser Pistol (Paramount, 1966-1969).
DALLAS, TX.- This auction is set to stun. Fifty-two years after NBC canceled Star Trek, one of its most sought-after and rarest pieces of prop-culture comes to auction for the very first time: a detailed, ready-for-its-close-up Type-2 phaser. The pistol making its auction debut at Heritage Auctions during the July 16-18 Entertainment and Music Memorabilia event is isnt one of the foam vacuum-formed plastic props handed out to redshirts, but one of only two original-series hero phasers known to have survived the shows three-season run. This is something right out of Captain Kirks arsenal, down to the last detachable detail. Designed by Treks first art director and production designer Matt Jefferies, the man responsible for the U.S.S. Enterprise, this Type-2 phase is called the hero for a reason. It consists of three components: the palm-sized Type-1 phaser inserted into the Type-2 pistol ... More |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts acquires The Stewart & Stewart Archive | | Christie's to offer works by six artists from an important private collection | | Museum appoints Alphonso Atkins as Miller Worley Deputy Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access | 
Janet Fish, American, b. 1938, Treille, 1996, 11-color screenprint, sheet: 29-3/4 x 21-3/4 in. Gift of the Graphic Arts Council.
DETROIT, MICH.- The print archive of Stewart & Stewart, a printer and publisher of fine art prints since 1980, has been acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts for the museums permanent collection. The Stewart & Stewart Archive represents more than forty years of printmaking and publishing in Michigan. It brings 199 newly acquired prints together with seventeen prints previously in the DIAs collection for a total of more than two hundred prints by thirty-four artists. Established in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1980 by Master Printer Norman Stewart and his partner and wife of 53 years Susan Stewart, Stewart & Stewart produces primarily screenprints and more recently archival pigment prints, in collaboration with artists of national and international renown. The artists include Jack Beal, Richard Bosman, Nancy Campbell, Susan Crile, Martha Diamond, Connor Everts, Janet Fish, Sondra ... More | | 
Julio González, Homme gothique (1937, estimate: £400,000 - 600,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- As part of Christies 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, a group of six artists from an Important Private Collection will be presented: Alexander Calder, Theo van Doesburg, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Joan Miró and Bridget Riley. The 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 30 June brings together iconic works by artists who defined the diverse and influential movements that shaped the 20th century, situating them alongside those working throughout the last 20 years who have continued to radicalise artistic practice in the 21st century. The London to Paris Livestreamed Evening Sale Series, incorporating Christies salerooms in Hong Kong and New York, will encompass the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale, 20th/21st Century: Collection Francis Gross, and the 20th/21st Century: Paris vente du soir. The selection of works offered as part of an Important Private Collection will be led by Alberto Giacometti ... More | | 
He will arrive from the University of South Carolina Upstate where he is Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Alphonso Atkins Jr. as the Miller Worley Deputy Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA), effective August 16, 2021. In this newly established position, Atkins will be responsible for developing and overseeing a comprehensive strategy to achieve the institutions goals of becoming more inclusive and creating a more equitable workplace culture that better reflects the diversity of Philadelphia and the global communities that the museum serves. He will arrive from the University of South Carolina Upstate where he is Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion. In Philadelphia, Atkins will play a leading role in developing and implementing policies to advance these values across all aspects of the museums work. A member of the senior ... More |
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 New book offers a fresh look at the stories behind the art and history of tarot decksNEW YORK, NY.- The History of Tarot Art (Epic Ink / September 28, 2021 / US $50.00) offers a fresh and accessible look at the art styles, artists, and history behind more than a dozen of the worlds most noteworthy tarot decks. Guided by Holly Adams Easley and Esther Joy Archer, hosts of the popular Wildly Tarot podcast, this deluxe collectors book provides a fresh look at the influence of tarot from its beginnings to today. The elegant slipcase, 24 removable Sola-Busca tarot cards, and illustrated fold-out timeline with important dates in tarot development make this package a must-have for any tarot fan. The History of Tarot Art shows how tarot morphed from a fifteenth century card game to a popular modern activity. Learn more about the stories behind the art of tarots most influential decks, like Rider-Waite-Smith and Aleister Crowleys Thoth Tarot, as well as t ... More  Scott Kahn featured in Almine Rech's exclusive One by One online viewing roomNEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech is presenting One by One: Scott Kahn, featuring the painting House in Chester from 1990, marking his first collaboration since he joined the gallery. One by One is a series of exclusive online viewing rooms dedicated to extraordinary individual artworks. Established to further refine the experience of online exhibitions, One by One features works by artists from the gallery's program on a regular basis. Massachusetts-born Scott Kahns studio is located in Brooklyn, but his artistic fancy surfaces from a larger subjective and geographical space, one that transcends the material and the immaterial. Kahn pinpoints dream-like testimonies, found in his daytime and nighttime reveries. In psychoanalytic theory and practice, dreams and the subtext beneath our conscious awareness, or the "latent" content, are crucial to what directly ... More  From tattoos to tokens at Tokyo's first crypto art showTOKYO (AFP).- Tokyo tattoo artist Ichi Hatano's usual business has dwindled during the pandemic, but now he's keen to mine a new stream of income at Japan's first crypto art exhibition. Hatano's ink featuring Japanese folk creatures was especially popular with foreign visitors until Japan closed its borders to tourists due to Covid-19. Hatano has now gone digital, selling his designs as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), virtual objects that have taken the art world by storm. "It's great for artists to have a new market, it opens a lot of possibilities," said the 44-year-old, who has five digital artworks on sale at the show, which opened last weekend in Tokyo. Using the same blockchain technology behind cryptocurrencies, NFTs transform anything from illustrations to memes into virtual collectors' items that cannot be duplicated. They rocketed into the mainstream this year ... More  DC Moore Gallery exhibits a new body of work by Joyce KozloffNEW YORK, NY.- Joyce Kozloff charts physical and diplomatic terrain, creating places, real and imagined, to dramatize the intersections of culture and politics. DC Moore Gallery is presenting a timely new body of work, Joyce Kozloff: Uncivil Wars, on view from June 24 - August 13, 2021. Uncivil Wars incorporates US Civil War battle maps - created by officers and soldiers from both the Confederate and Union armies - to depict a history that is currently still contested. Viruses erupt throughout the battle maps, reflecting the pandemic that locked down state, national, and international borders, symbolizing the viral racism and xenophobia that permeates our country. Barbara Pollack, in her conversation with the artist, notes that Kozloff has a knack for picking maps that are historical but coincide with contemporary issues. Pollack then points out that about 620,000 soldiers ... More  Over 800 lots will be in Nye & Company's Summer Chic & Antique Estate Treasures auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers will be closed the week of July 5th but will re-open strong with a solid, two-day, online Chic & Antique Summer Estate Treasures auction on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21st and 22nd, starting promptly at 10 am Eastern time both days. The diverse offerings are certain to delight collectors, designers, dealers and institutions alike. The catalog boasts a wonderful selection of blue-chip artists names and a large selection of both traditional and modern furniture, rugs and lighting from private New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Long Island households. A Philadelphia gentleman who never discovered a cure for collecting consigned a lot of his trove as he relocated to North Carolina. Over the years, esoterica caught his eye while whimsy tickled his funny bone. As a result, the sale includes large balls of ... More  Baltimore Museum of Art receives major gift to support acquisitions for its African Art CollectionBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that it has received a $550,000 gift from longstanding museum supporters Amy Gould and Matthew Polk for the exclusive purpose of expanding the museums African art collection and related research and publications. The BMAs collection includes approximately 2,500 works from Africa, and is particularly strong in figurative sculpture from western and central areas of the continent as well as beadwork from its eastern and southern regions. The generous gift arrives as the museum continues to implement its collections roadmap, a multi-year strategic plan that expands the BMAs efforts to tell more polyphonic narratives and histories and rectify critical artistic omissions across all of the museums collecting areas. The gift, which will be referred to as the Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund in ... More  The Royal Scottish Academy presents an exhibition of interior objects and furniture EDINBURGH.- Interior Landscapes, curated by Robin Webster RSA, is an exhibition of domestic objects and furniture designed by Royal Scottish Academicians and invited architects and artists. The exhibition considers the direct relationship between ideas, materials and manufacture, whether through handmade craft or state-of-the-art machining. Curator, Robin Webster RSA, says: 'The idea for this exhibition was originally motivated by wanting to highlight some of the work done by architects which goes beyond the design of a building and includes the detailed conception of more intimate and sometimes transitory objects that relate to and may be an integral part of the whole design. The idea of a gesamtkunstwerk (literally "total work of art") covers the entire designed environment in an integrated concept, from the building, including the furnishings, down to ... More  Galeria Jaqueline Martins celebrates its 10th anniversary with a show developed around Rafael FrançaSAO PAULO.- Marking three decades since his death, the exhibition Requiem and vertigo pays tribute to the life and work of Rafael França (1957-1991). Ten videos by the artist, made between 1983 and 1991, are the guiding thread for an exploration of how vertigo (which, in his work, is requiem and eroticism) imposes a change in the bodies, which are dismantled, reassembled, crossed, fragmented, dissolved, sickened, they persist and they are pulverised like relics across images. Rafael Franças work is recognised as one of the most coherent and systematic works among Brazilian artists who work with moving images. Leaving aside the use of video as a simple recording device, his work continued (and took even further) the experiments carried out by the video art pioneers of the 1960s. The narrative of his videos, elliptical and discontinuous, explored ... More  Sargent's Daughters opens the first solo presentation of the work of Victoria DuggerNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Out of Body, the first solo presentation of the work of Victoria Dugger, an MFA candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. The exhibition will include paintings, mixed media works, and sculptures made by the artist during the past year. Working across these forms, Dugger produces objects that blur accepted categories, exploring novel modes of self-expression and embodiment. Out of Body includes a series of self-portraits in which the artist dissects her identity as a Black, disabled woman through a blend of playful imagery and grotesque forms. As she wrote in a recent essay, Its easy to be overlooked when you dont have a seat at the table, but thankfully I always bring my own chair. As a disabled Black woman, I have a desire for people to accept or appreciate me for ... More  La Scala seeks new audiences with outdoor concerts MILAN (AFP).- Milan's La Scala theatre is venturing outside its hallowed walls to offer free, open-air concerts at venues around the northern Italian city in mid-July, director Dominique Meyer announced Tuesday. "It's a sign of recovery, going to meet the public," he told reporters at a press conference, adding that "opera, music and ballet is for everyone". From July 11 to 13, the orchestra, choir and ballet of La Scala will put on 14 concerts around Milan with a repertoire running from jazz to Vivaldi and Donizetti, via Brahms, Bach and Rachmaninov. All will in some way pay tribute to Argentine composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionised tango by incorporating elements of classical and jazz music in the 1970s and 80s, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. On July 14, the concerts will conclude with an open day at the theatre comprising a ... More  The Boss is back on Broadway. The workers are coming back, too.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jim Barry, masked and ready, perched at the top of the theater stairs, cupping his hands around the outstretched smartphones so he could more easily make out the seat numbers. How you doing? Nice jacket. Go this way its an easier walk. Do you need help sir? The bathrooms right there. It was Saturday night at the St. James Theater. Bruce Springsteen was back on the stage. Fans were back in the seats. And, 15 months after the pandemic had shut down Broadway, Barry, who has worked as an usher at the St. James for 20 years, was back at work, doling out compliments and reassurance as he steered people toward the mezzanine, the restroom, the bar. Springsteen on Broadway is essentially a one-man show, but its return has already brought back work for about 75 people at the St. James ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Stanley Spencer was born June 30, 1891. Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. In this image: Sarah Tubb and the Heavenly Visitors, 1933 by Stanley Spencer © Estate of Stanley Spencer, Bridgeman Images, London.
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