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Mourners outside Notre-Dame cathedral on Nov. 15, 2015, days after the terror attacks across the city of Paris. After a decade of traumatic attacks that killed nearly 300 people and wounded almost 1,000, a new museum project aims to build a memorial to help heal the countrys wounds. Tomas Munita/The New York Times.
by Gaëlle Fournier
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- No other country in Western Europe has suffered as much from terrorism as France over the past decade. With more than 50 attacks that have killed nearly 300 people including dozens of children and teenagers the nation has borne the brunt of some of the worst attacks in Europe. Now, France plans to memorialize this collective suffering with a new museum that will trace the development of terrorism over the ages, including the attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan concert hall in Paris that have deeply shaken the country in recent years. The move is a bold one given that the country is still grappling with the trauma of these attacks, with victims whose physical and psychological wounds are still raw. Only last fall, there were a series of new attacks, including the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on free speech. In addition to the death toll, nearly 1,000 people hav ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Odd Unusual Finds | Antiquity to Present Day on Thu, Apr 01, 2021 10:00 AM GMT-6. The sale includes ancient, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Ethnographic, American, and everything in-between Wild, weird, strange, interesting - who knows what you'll find. All pieces guaranteed to be as described. Convenient in-house shipping. In this image: Rare Theropod Dinosaur Egg Clutch / Nest - 25 Eggs.
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| Ai Weiwei mourns Hong Kong freedoms but 'proud' of Tiananmen photo furore | | Christie's results: More than €9 million achieved for the "From Caillebotte to Calder" private collection | | The Black woman artist who crafted a life she was told she couldn't have | 
In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020, Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei poses inside the Reichstag building in Berlin. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP.
by Jerome Taylor
HONG KONG (AFP).- When dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei secretly snapped a picture of himself showing a middle finger in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, he knew it was provocative. But he never thought that picture would be at the heart of rising censorship fears in Hong Kong 26 years later. The former British colony's reputation as a cultural gateway to China that is free of Communist Party interference and censorship has diminished over the past year as Beijing moved to silence the city's democracy movement. Once a place where artists never had to fear a knock on the door from China's police, it is now a city where dissent is being expunged. Beijing's crackdown following huge and often violent democracy protests nearly two years ago has focused on protest leaders and the pro-democracy opposition. But it has started to bleed into the art world thanks to a sweeping ... More | | 
The top lot of the sale was the vibrant Le petit bras de la Seine à dArgenteuil by Gustave Caillebotte which reached 3,620,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- The From Caillebotte to Calder auction totaled 9,3 million reaching its high estimate. Numerous bidders from 23 countries were registered throughout the sale to pay a beautiful tribute to the collector, a Paris lover who gathered these exceptional works for more than four decades. Antoine Lebouteiller and Laetitia Bauduin de La Brosse, Co-Heads of sale : « We are very proud with the results achieved today for this private collection. The exquisite and vibrant painting by Gustave Caillebotte which sold for more than three time its presale estimate summarizes perfectly the love of the collector for Paris and French artists. The post-war and contemporary art section included some important paintings by Serge Poliakoff, and international connoisseurs understood the sensitivity of our French collector for such great art from the 1950s, a very fruitful period in art history.» The top lot of the sale was the vibrant Le petit bras de la Seine à dArgenteuil by Gustave ... More | | 
Augusta Savage with her sculpture Realization in 1938. Andrew Herman, via The New York Public Library/Schomburg Center via The New York Times.
by Concepción de León
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1937, sculptor Augusta Savage was commissioned to create a sculpture that would appear at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair in Queens, New York. Savage was one of only four women, and the only Black artist, to receive a commission for the fair. In her studio in Harlem, she created Lift Every Voice and Sing, a 16-foot sculpture cast in plaster and inspired by the song of the same name often called the Black national anthem written by her friend, James Weldon Johnson, who had died in 1938. The sculpture was renamed The Harp by Worlds Fair organizers and exhibited alongside work by renowned artists from around the world, including Willem de Kooning and Salvador DalÃ. Press reports detail how well the piece was received by visitors, and its been speculated that it was among the most photographed sculptures at the ... More |
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| Review: Looking for crickets, and coming up crickets | | Cowan's to present Native American Art sale this April | | Getty Museum acquires recently rediscovered painting by Artemisia Gentileschi | 
Madeline Hollander (b. 1986), Flatwing, 2019 (detail). Video, color, sound, 16:25 min. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Film and Video Committee 2020.97. © Madeline Hollander.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Madeline Hollander is an artist interested in quotidian movement, habits of motion, adaptations to change. So its fitting that her art caused me to return to a once quotidian activity that I had so far avoided during the pandemic. I visited a museum the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York, which is presenting Hollanders first solo museum exhibition. Hollander is primarily a choreographer, but this isnt her first foray into the art world. For her Ouroboros: Gs for the Whitney Biennial in 2019, she made a dance out of installing segments of the Whitneys flood-mitigation system, a task that drew attention to the museums location on the Hudson Rivers edge, a precarious spot in a rapidly changing climate. The current exhibition, Madeline Hollander: Flatwing, is a video ... More | | 
Edith Claymore (Miniconjou, 1858-1910) Attributed, Cheyenne River Pictorial Tobacco
Bag. Overall length 34 in. x width 6 in. Fourth quarter 19th century. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- On April 16, Cowans, a Hindman company, will present its Native American Art auction. The sale will offer a wide selection of Native art and artifacts spanning prehistory through the 19th century. Selected highlights include a porphyry popeye birdstone, an extraordinary Cheyenne River tobacco bag, an early Sioux buffalo hide blanket strip, a Blackfeet dress, a classic Zuni manta from an estate in Sinking Spring, Ohio, and a Tsimshian carved soul catcher. Collections in the auction include the final installment of Dick Jemison's Colorful Collection of Pueblo Rattles, the U.S. Children's Center of Historical Education and Advocacy, and selections from Steven Curtis' private collection. Standout works in the sale include a Cheyenne River tobacco bag attributed to Edith Claymore (lot 109; estimate: $40,000-60,000) made of sinew-sewn, softly tanned deer hide and decorated ... More | | 
Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593- c.1654), Lucretia, About 1627.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today announced the acquisition of a major work by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1654), the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century Italy. Recently rediscovered after having been in private collections for centuries, the painting represents the artist at the height of her expressive powers, and demonstrates her ambition for depicting historical subjects, something that was virtually unprecedented for a female artist in her day. The subject, which Gentileschi painted several times over the course of her career, no doubt had very personal significance for her: like Lucretia, the Roman heroine who took her own life after having been raped, Artemisia had experienced sexual violence as a young woman. In this painting Lucretia emerges from the shadows, eyes cast heavenward, head tilted back, breasts bare, at the moment before she plunges a dagger into her chest. Although renowned in her day as a painter o ... More |
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| Art's NFT question: Next frontier in trading, or a new form of tulip? | | Artcurial to offer unseen, original creations by Kenzo Takada | | Lyon & Turnbull to offer an important collection of studio and contemporary glass | 
Beeple, Everydays The First 5000 Days, NFT, 21,069 pixels x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes).
by Scott Reyburn
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In February 1637, at the height of the speculative frenzy in the Netherlands we now know as tulip mania, a single bulb of the prized Viceroy tulip sold for 6,700 guilders, enough to buy a grand house in one of Amsterdams most desirable districts. The market for tulips collapsed later that month, with prices of more common bulbs falling by as much as 95%. Since then, tulip mania has become a byword for the irrationality of financial bubbles. So what about NFT mania? Last week, Nifty Gateway, a specialist online marketplace for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, held an auction that included a computer-generated illustration by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, whose JPG collage Everydays The First 5000 Days, was sold online by Christies ... More | | 
Kenzo Takada (Fall-winter 2007/08), Duchess satin coat featuring a floral design on a red background, with matching scarf. Estimate: 300 - 500. © Artcurial.
PARIS.- Following the sales of the Jeanne Moreau Collection and the Martin Margiela Collection, the Fashion & Luxury Accessories department at Artcurial will hold an auction on 3 to 12 May featuring items of clothing designed by Kenzo Takada. This new Online Only fashion sale will take place in conjunction with the auction of furniture from the designers apartment to be held on 11 May. Featuring some 150 items offered in 132 lots, the collection includes kimonos, coats, boleros, skirts, trousers, shorts, tops and shirts designed for every season. These items, in a range of fine fabrics such as velvet, satin, cashmere, jacquard and taffeta, were never marketed. They were all created by Kenzo Takada between 2005 and 2008 as part of a new project for the brand called Takada. With estimates ranging from 30 to ... More | | 
Dale Chihuly, Baskets, 1992.
LONDON.- In April Lyon & Turnbull will offer an important collection of studio and contemporary glass from a private European collection. The consignment, part of the Modern Made auction at the Mall Galleries, London on April 30, features works by leading names in the field from Italy, Britain, Sweden, Japan and the US. The studio glass movement is still relatively young, with its origins rooted in the 1960s. Proponents of this school aimed to move the production of glass from an industrial process to individual workshops with the focus on glass objects as works of art. Today - close to 60 years since Harvey Littleton established a glassmaking studio in the grounds of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio - it is a revered and a much-collected international art form. The present collection, to be sold in 33 lots, was put together by an international collector in the 1990s. It forms part of a 60-lot selection of modern and contemporary glas ... More |
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| Bonhams announces highlights included in the Made in California: Contemporary Art auction | | Aguttes offers the furniture of the Carlton Cannes at auction | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens a solo exhibition of new works by Markus Selg | 
Charles Fine (b. 1951) Fieldmarks I, 1991, pigment, varnish and plaster on metal and wood, 157 x 117 1/2 in. 398.8 x 298.5 cm., Estimate: $10,000 15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Eight magnificent large-scale artworks will comprise a dedicated section entitled Think Big in Bonhams Made in California: Contemporary Art auction in Los Angeles on April 14. Leading the group in magnitude and in estimate is a twenty-seven-and-a-half-foot-wide painting by Sam Francis (1923-1994), Untitled (SFP88-268), 1986-1988. It is expected to realize $400,000 600,000. The section will include an additional painting by Francis, Untitled (SFP 68-17), 1968, measuring 13 feet wide and estimated at $100,000 150,000. The six other lots in the section include two stunning paintings by Julian Schnabel and four important works by Charles Fine. In total, the Think Big section is expected to fetch between $750,000 1,120,000. Bonhams Specialist, Fine Art and Head of Sale, Sonja Moro commented, Among many things, California is known for its vastness. ... More | | 
An exceptional chandelier with 30 arms of light, decorated with foliated scrolls and acanthus leaves is one of the lots not to be missed.
PARIS.- The Carlton Cannes has entrusted Aguttes Auction House with the sale of the furniture from its iconic suites and reception rooms. This selection from the legendary 5-star hotel, will be offered at auction from 10 to 26 May 2021 on the Aguttes Online platform. Inaugurated in 1913 at the initiative of Grand Duke Michel, a member of the imperial Romanov family, with the aim of welcoming the Russian Gotha, the Carlton Cannes closes its doors until 2023 for an ambitious programme of large-scale renovation and extension. Inseparable from the Cannes Film Festival since its creation in 1939, the hotel where the biggest stars of the cinema as well as illustrious political personalities stayed, has entrusted Aguttes Auction House with the sale of its furniture. More than six hundred lots have been selected and will be dispersed without reserve price. The sale will take place entirely online for one month, from 10 to 26 May ... More | | 
Markus Selg, JERUSALEM CUBE (ULTRAWORLD), 2020. Sublimation prints on fabric on wood 45 x 45 x 45 cm I 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its eighth solo exhibition of new works by Markus Selg. Selg is one of the pioneers of digital art in Germany. Since the 1990s, the Berlin-based artist has been using the possibilities of the computer to create paintings, sculptures, videos and sounds; parts of a complete work that he likes to bring together in parcours-like, multimedia spatial installations. In recent years, he has increasingly transferred this approach to the theater stage in collaboration with theater director Susanne Kennedy. In the exhibition MIND IN THE CAVE, Selg now shows new painterly and sculptural works in the context of a walk-in installation that serves as a platform for his first virtual reality production I AM (VR). The purely virtual play, another cooperation with Susanne Kennedy, created in collaboration with Rodrik Biersteker and Richard Janssen, can be experienced exclusively ... More |
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Paula Rego 'The Aunt (Nada)' | London | Spring 2021
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 New art book: One of a Kind by Donald GrahamNEW YORK, NY.- Authenticity, honesty, and trust characterize Donald Grahams portraits. They are not simply photographic recordings. Looking at them is like seeing human beings in the flesh, revealed to us by Graham with his virtuoso technique and sensibilities. His exquisite, strongly contrasting black-and-white photographs are evidence of attitude, rather than studied gestures. Eyes and faces are not model-like masks; instead, they express the unique nature of those portrayed. Inevitably, viewers find themselves in a dialogue with the images. You wonder about the stories behind these faces; though unfamiliar, they are nevertheless an emotional experience. One of a Kind (Hatje Cantz, April 2021), the first comprehensive monograph by internationally renowned photographer Donald Graham, brings together over ... More  25 artists make new works that explore ideas of slowness and the elasticity of timeHEALESVILLE.- The TarraWarra Biennial 2021 exhibition features 25 artists from across the country making new works that explore ideas of slowness, deceleration, drift and the elasticity of time. The exhibition title Slow Moving Waters comes from the accepted translation of the local Woiwurrung word tarrawarra, after which the Museum, and its surrounding Yarra Valley area are named. Guest Curator Nina Miall says the exhibition takes shape around two related cues: the idea of slowness, and the winding course of the Birrarung (Yarra River), which flows south of the Museum grounds. In tune with the unhurried arc of the river, Slow Moving Waters proposes a stay to the ever more rapid flows of people, commerce and information that characterise the dynamic of globalisation, Ms Miall said. Against todays cult of speed with the relentless ... More  Historic 1792 Judd-13 Pattern to appear at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- One of four existing 1792 Judd-13 Eagle-on-Globe quarter dollar pattern, among the earliest pieces produced by the fledgling US Mint, appears fresh to market in Heritage Auctions' U.S. Coins Signature Auction, April 22-26 on HA.com. "As one of the hobby's most coveted patterns, we're proud to bring this piece of numismatic and U.S. history to auction," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "The inclusion of a white metal 1792 Eagle-on-Globe quarter in a sale is a landmark event." The 1792 Judd-13 pattern, NGC AU58, is recognized as the work of Joseph Wright. Wright worked with the U.S. Mint to perfect the quarter dollar spanning various metal compositions, edge devices, reeding, planchet thickness, collar usage and die alignment. The result was a pattern coin composed of white metal. Just two specimens were known ... More  Frank Frazetta's first character, The Snow Man, comes to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Frank Frazetta, the man who illustrated everyone from Buck Rogers to Conan the Barbarian to the Death Dealer to Mad Max, brought fine art to fantasy art; little wonder he holds the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots in Heritage Auctions' list of world-record-holding comic-art works. A hot and essential Frazetta lot includes, Tally-Ho Comics Unpublished Complete 10-Page Story Original Art (Bailly Publishing Co., c. 1944-45) is expected to capture the spotlight in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction April 1-4. The Tally-Ho Comics original art (estimate: $20,000+) includes 10 stunning, twice-up pages, penned and inked by Frazetta and featuring the artist's first character, The Snow Man. In 2015, Frazetta's son, Frank Jr., published the initial draft of The Snow Man to share his father's adorable first hero with fans. Although unpublished, the original issue ... More  Daata Fair announces galleries for third editionLONDON.- Daata is delighted to announced the third edition of Daata Fair, an online-only art fair dedicated to showcasing the best of international video and digital art. Taking place from 20 April - 9 May, with a preview day on 19 April, the event brings together 9 invited international galleries, each presenting a single artists video work. Daata Fair provides galleries, collectors, art professionals and art lovers a travel-free experience of screen-based art. Alexander Levy will be presenting Irma To Come In Earnest (2017), a video work by the German artist Julius Von Bismarck. Highlighting the contrasting image-making methods of televised reportage images and art, this piece documents one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recorded history as an aesthetic phenomenon. Using a high-speed camera, it features slow motion shots ... More  Gallery Parterre Berlin opens 'Drawings XVI / Worlds'BERLIN.- Drawings XVI / Worlds continues the series "Drawings" by the Verein Berliner Kabinett, which was regularly on view at the Galerie im Turm in Berlin-Friedrichshain from 1992 to 2014. The medium of drawing from the sketch to the draft to the graphic image work; the note as a preliminary stage for images and spatial projects, the cryptic uniqueness and also the working methods come into focus here. The participating artists - painters, draftsmen, sculptors and authors - were invited to participate in Drawings XVI / Worlds by contributing drawings and supplementary works. In preparation for the exhibition, they collected contributions and reflected on the theme, which allowed a perception of the respective world views and work processes. Drawing is an elementary activity for all participants; close to the written word and to the description of the world ... More  NYCxDESIGN appoints new Executive DirectorNEW YORK, NY.- NYCxDESIGN announced that Elissa Black has been selected as Executive Director to steward the newly formed non-profit at a critical moment in the organizations evolution. Driven by clear passion and purpose, Black has been deeply involved in New York Citys cultural and design world for over fifteen years with leading roles as Managing Director and Interim Executive Director at Van Alen Institute and as Senior Manager, Special Initiatives, at the Guggenheim Museum. In those organizations, she brokered high-profile collaborations between public entities and private organizations, bringing dynamic cultural programming to life in New York and internationally. Black will bring this expertise to NYCxDESIGN as it navigates this next chapter as an organization poised to promote and support New York Citys diverse creative ... More  Early Printed Books at Swann Galleries April 8NEW YORK, NY.- Early Printed Books are at Swann Galleries Thursday, April 8 with noteworthy publications relating to early printed medical, scientific and travel works, including a selection of incunabula. Scientific books lead the sale with the second edition of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Basel, 1566, by Nicolaus Copernicus, which contains Narratio Prima by Georg Joachim RheticussCopernicuss only pupilnot included with the first edition of De Revolution ($60,000-80,000); the first complete edition in English of Euclids The Elements of Geometrie, London, 1570 ($30,000-40,000); a first edition of Stanislaw Lubienieckis history of comets, Theatrum Cometicum, Duabus Partibus Constans, Amsterdam, 1668 ($8,000-12,000); and a first edition of Johann Zahns important work on the telescope, Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium, ... More  Warhol's illustrated books triumph at BonhamsNEW YORK, NY.- One of Andy Warhols most important early artist books 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy printed in New York in 1954 by Seymour Berlin, sold for US$106,562 at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts online sale in New York which ended today (Tuesday, March 30). It was one of several books in the sale illustrated and self-published by Warhol and had been estimated at US$60,000-80,000. In total the collection of Warhol books and memorabilia made US$277,537. This copy of 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy was number 110 of 190 copies (though it is thought only 150 copies were printed), signed by Warhol on colophon. It comes with a signed letter from Warhol (Andy Warhol Enterprises) inquiring as to how the purchaser, a department store in Salt Lake City, learned of the book's publication... presumably ... More  Joan Walsh Anglund, 95, dies; Her children's books touched millionsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When her family moved to New York City from the Midwest in the mid-1950s, Joan Walsh Anglund found herself profoundly lonely. Staring out at the Manhattan cityscape, she had the feeling that everyone was living in what she called separate boxes of distrust. It comforted her to imagine that behind every window was a potential friend. She jotted down her thoughts and left them in a desk drawer. Her husband found them, suggested that she include illustrations and then showed the work to a series of publishers. The first few rejected it, but when it landed on the desk of Margaret McElderry, the childrens book editor at Harcourt Brace, she was delighted. I think we have a book here, McElderry told Anglund. And so they had. That book, A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You (1958), sold more than 4 ... More  'Diana' musical sets Netflix run - and Broadway opening nightNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Diana, a new musical about the idolized but ill-fated British princess, managed to get through nine preview performances before Broadway shut down last March. Now, one year, one pandemic, and one Oprah interview later, the show is ready to try again, with a new strategy and a new context. In a first for a Broadway show, a filmed version of the stage production will start streaming before the musical opens. Diana, which was shot over a week last September in an audience-less Longacre Theater, will begin streaming on Netflix on Oct. 1, and then two months later, on Dec. 1, will resume previews on Broadway. The musicals producers announced Tuesday that they intend to open Dec. 16, which is 625 days after its originally scheduled, but pandemic-postponed, opening night. The producers are putting ... More |
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz 
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY 
Madelynn Green 
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable died March 31, 1837. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton, Photo: Bonhams.
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