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Anne-Marie Zanetti, Aisling, 2022. Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary, in partnership with Art Renewal Center, announced their upcoming exhibit, INSIGHT. Opening to the public on May 26, 2022, INSIGHT features artwork by 5 international artists of various nationalities Jesús Inglés and Arantza Sestayo (Spanish), Alexandra Klimas (Dutch), Roman Pankov (Ukrainian), and Anne-Marie Zanetti (Australian). Every artist creates their work for different reasons some look to tell a story, some want to capture a particular moment in time, while others simply want to create something. Regardless of the intention, artwork can be incredibly powerful and moving, often inspiring others
but it can also tell us a lot about the person who created the work. On one hand, INSIGHT sets out to explore the viewers connection with an artwork in a very express and direct way. In nearly all the works featured in the exhibit, the subject is making eye contact with their audience. It not only ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its CLEARANCE | Antiquities, Ethnographica, More! sale on May 26, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5 Join them for a fabulous clearance sale featuring amazing discounts and many new items! They've got it all - Asian art, Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Fine Art, Fossils, more! Rare Fossilized North American Lion Jawbone w/ Canine. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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| An art fair served up several ways | | On a remote mountain, the 'Sistine Chapel of Socialism' awaits its fate | | Christie's announces details of the full 1229 lots from the Hubert de Givenchy Collection | 
Camille Henrot, Melatonin Mind, 2014 © Camille Henrot, Adagp, Paris, 2021. Courtesy kamel mennour.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nobody ever said it would be easy to stage an art fair in a place with a complicated network of COVID-related travel restrictions and quarantines. For Art Basel Hong Kong, being held Friday to Sunday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, part of the solution is satellite booths, or spaces at the fair that are staffed by representatives from Hong Kong, for art dealers who cannot personally attend. The concept is returning this year, having debuted at the fair last May. More than half of the approximately 130 dealers are using satellite booths. Hong Kong was the first in our group of fairs that we canceled, back in 2020, and it was the first to come back, too, said Marc Spiegler, Art Basels global director. The fair currently has iterations in Basel, Switzerland, and Miami Beach, Florida, and is adding a new event called Paris+, by Art Basel in October. Spiegler credits the satellite booth with the success of last years ... More | | 
The Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, a masterpiece of brutalist architecture, in Buzludzha, Bulgaria, May 1, 2022. Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times.
by Andrew Higgins
BUZLUDZHA.- Like most Bulgarians of her generation, the young architect had little interest in or knowledge of her countrys communist past. But that changed when, during studies in Germany, she got asked about the big UFO in Bulgaria. She said she heard there was a very strange building atop a mountain somewhere but that she had no idea what it was. Her curiosity piqued, she found a photograph of the enormous, weird and, after years of neglect, crumbling concrete tribute to Bulgarias defunct Communist Party. It was love at first sight, recalled the architect, Dora Ivanova. As soon as I saw the picture, I knew I had to do something. Ivanova, 31, ditched her career as a commercial architect and, in the decade since, has poured her energy into ... More | | 
The extremely refined design and quality of this pair of candlesticks reflects the taste for sophisticated neoclassical models as well as the skill of the French bronze workshops under Louis XVI so embodied by the work of Pierre Gouthière. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
PARIS.- Christie's announced details of the full 1229 lots in the Hubert de Givenchy Collectionneur, which will be offered in auctions taking place live in Paris and online between 8 and 23 June 2022. A passionate aesthete, deeply rooted in the culture of his country, the life and work of Hubert de Givenchy embodied a constant and successful quest for an ideal, that of classical beauty. The extraordinary variety and richness of works in the Hubert de Givenchy Collectionneur perfectly represents the world renowned couturiers deep passion for objects and impeccable good taste, ensuring these auctions will be an unmissable event as well as a tribute to the great collector. The overall estimate for the collection is in the region of 50 million. Christies will ... More |
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| New displays at Tate Modern launch with Lee Mingwei's performance Our Labyrinth | | Whit Harris debuts Water Bearers at Lauren Powell Projects in L.A. | | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announces the opening of the exhibition Louisiana on Paper: Dorothy Iannone | 
Lee Mingwei, Our Labyrinth, 2015-ongoing (Performance view at Tate Modern, May 2022). Photo © Tate Photography / Oli Cowling.
LONDON.- On 26 May, Tate Modern will begin staging Our Labyrinth, a performance in the Turbine Hall by acclaimed artist Lee Mingwei. Taking place continuously over three weeks, this work is one of many new acquisitions to Tates collection which visitors can enjoy this summer at Tate Modern. Our Labyrinth transforms the simple act of sweeping into a contemplative, gestural performance, bringing a sense of ritual into the gallery. Two dancers with bells tied to their ankles move slowly as they sweep grains of rice into patterns. Over time the dancers shape the grains into a series of labyrinthine paths on a floor shaped like a pool of ink. The work is inspired by the artists experience of visiting ancient temples in Myanmar, where paths leading from huts to temples are swept by volunteers. The performance has been staged in Taipei, Shanghai, Paris, Jakarta, Berlin, New York, and Tokyo, ... More | | 
Whit Harris, Old Bay, 2022. Oil-on-canvas, 24 x 18 inches. Photo: Off Photography.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lauren Powell Projects is presenting its third exhibition Water Bearers, the debut solo exhibition by Brooklyn-born and based Whit Harris, now open through June 5th. Water Bearers includes a series of five new oil paintings, the works on paper that informed them, and a site-specific installation that transports the viewer into a sublime space of gestural mark making. The space engulfs both the audience and the artwork in an oceanic carrier for the imagination. Informed by the artists love for ancient cosmology, astrological symbolism, and the water, she depicts philosophical parables of her lived experiences as a Black woman combining her awareness and skill with narratives and symbols from the past. A recent graduate of the MFA Program at Hunter College in New York, Whit Harriss inky, surreal canvases and works on paper conjure fantastical figures in moments of vulnerable introspection in a monochromatic or ... More | | 
Dorothy Iannone in Kyoto, 1962, making collages from handmade Japanese paper Photo: © James P. Upham
HUMLEBÃK.- Over six decades, Dorothy Iannone (b. 1933) has celebrated love and freedom in a narrative universe of text and images. This summer, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will present a retrospective selection of Iannones work as part of the Louisiana on Paper exhibition series. This is the artist's first solo exhibition at a museum in Scandinavia. Freedom, liberated sexuality, ecstatic unions and eros in the broadest possible sense are central themes of Dorothy Iannones art. Merging the personal and the mythological, Iannones work is often based directly on her own life and experiences, while drawing on a wealth of historical and literary references. Text and images come together in Iannones colourful, ornamental universe. Like graphic novels, many of her works combine handwriting and images to tell the story candidly and with humour invested in visual and verbal details. Iannones works flow from myria ... More |
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| Christie's Hong Kong Handbags & Accessories Spring Auction achieved sale total of US$6,722,219 | | Joe Andoe's fourth solo show at Almine Rech opens in Shanghai | | Brown names The Lindemann Performing Arts Center | 
5% Sold by Lot | Hammer Price 133% Above Total Low Estimate. 70% of Lots Surpassed Pre-Sale High Estimates. Louis Vuitton Trunks from a Prominent Japanese Collector 100% Sold. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
HONG KONG.- On 23 May, Christies Handbags and Accessories live auction achieved HK$52,597,440/ US$6,722,219, with a 95% sell-through rate by lot, and hammer price of 133% over total low estimate. The bustling saleroom saw strong global participation from 14 countries across 4 continents, with 70% of lots sold above their high estimates, and over 40% of lots sold via Christies LiveTM. Winsy Tsang, Head of Department of Handbags & Accessories, Christies Asia Pacific, commented, We are thrilled to continue leading the global handbag auction market here in Asia, with the excellent results achieved today not only for handbags, but also for trunks and accessories. It is always a pleasure to see so many handbag lovers from all over the world, convened in our saleroom and also joining us online, and their passion in bidding on their ... More | | 
Joe Andoe, Untitled (after Xu Beihong) 1/12/22, 2022. Oil on canvas, 188 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm, 74 x 44 x 2 in © Joe Andoe. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Chinatown, Joe Andoes fourth solo show at the gallery, also his first solo show in China. Given the current health situation in Shanghai, the exhibition is currently visible via the online viewing room. American artist Joe Andoe was born in 1955 grew up outside Tulsa, where the city becomes the countryside. He draws a great deal of inspiration from this duality, which he has described as enjoying two different worlds. His art generally centers on animal themes, focusing on the flora and fauna of the Great Plains. This theme of the American wilderness can also be seen as a social critique of a world that is disappearing due to urbanization and overconsumption. Andoe likes working in series, and the grainy appearance and sometimes dark tones of his paintings evoke the atmosphere of old silver halide photographs. His unusual technique consists of solid colors applied in thick layer ... More | | 
The name for the center, set to open in 2023, honors Brown Corporation member Frayda Lindemann and her late husband, George Lindemann Sr., a longtime University supporter, business executive and art collector.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- Brown University will name its new state-of-the-art performance venue The Lindemann Performing Arts Center. The centers name recognizes a generous gift from Frayda B. Lindemann a Brown University trustee, proud Brown parent and grandparent, and president and CEO of the board of directors at the Metropolitan Opera in New York alongside her late husband, George Lindemann Sr., a longtime University benefactor, business executive and art collector who died in 2018. The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, slated to open in the heart of Browns campus in fall 2023, will build on the Universitys reputation as a premier destination for cutting-edge scholarship and performance in many artistic disciplines, including music, theater, dance, literary art, visual art and multiple kinds of experimental collaborations. The Lindemanns ... More |
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| Ewbank's reveal how censors' disgust doubled the value of Goldfinger's promo poster | | MFA Boston appoints Michael J. Bramwell as inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art | | Morris Museum partners with Art in the Atrium on 30th anniversary exhibition | 
James Bond Goldfinger (1964) British Quad film poster, Style A, art by Robert Brownjohn, starring Sean Connery, United Artists, linen backed, 30 x 40 inches. Estimate: £3,000-5,000.
WOKING.- When Sean Connery embarked on his third outing as 007 in 1964, the film was Goldfinger. One of its most famous scenes was the discovery of Bond girl Jill Masterson, her dead body sprayed entirely gold. Such was the outrage among censors in Ireland, however, that the original design for the films promotional poster, prominently showing the bikini-clad Masterson, as played by Shirley Eaton, had to be scrapped there in favour of a gold sprayed hand. The result is that while the Style A bikini design can command up to £5,000 at auction, rarer survivors from the Irish distribution of the Style B hand poster can reach double that sum at £10,000. Examples of both designs are among the highlights in Ewbanks Auctions James Bond 007 sale on May 27. It is the latest in a series of dedicated Bond auctions that have netted hundreds ... More | | 
He currently serves as Visiting Guest Curator at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has appointed Michael J. Bramwell as the inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The creation of the new position is part of an initiative designed to reanimate and reimagine the MFAs storied folk art collection for 21st-century audiences; the Folk Art Initiative is supported by honorary trustee Joyce Linde, who has served on the MFA Board since 1991. Collaborating with fellow curators, including in Art of the Americas and Contemporary Art, as well as with other departments and colleagues across the Museum, Bramwell will develop innovative exhibitions, collection displays and public programsenvisioning new ways to make folk and self-taught art accessible, relevant and important to the lives of visitors. He will begin his new role on June 1. Bramwells scholarship and research has explored the visual and material culture ... More | | 
Bisa Butler, Basquiat, 2015, Mixed media. Photographs by Elizabeth Catlett & the Morris Museum.
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- In celebration of Art in the Atriums 30th anniversary, Art in the Atrium, Inc. (ATA) and the Morris Museum announce the exhibition, For the Culture, By the Culture: 30 Years of Black Art, Activism, and Achievement. This exhibition brings together prior ATA featured artists in a group retrospective that spans 30 years and features established local and national Black artists. It will be on view May 25 through September 25, 2022, at the Morris Museum. ATA is a non-profit arts organization located in Morris County, New Jersey, that showcases fine art by established and emerging African American artists. ATAs annual Atrium Gallery show in Morristown became the largest exhibit of its kind in New Jersey. Their mission is to celebrate Black excellence, support the careers and lives of Black fine artists, and create opportunities for emerging voices in Black art. ATAs impact and accomplishments over the past 30 years t ... More |
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Art & Conversation | Anthony Lepore and the R.J. Arnold Photography Archive
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 Auction of memorabilia signed by NBA legends to benefit Bethlehem UniversityDALLAS, TX.- College coaches often talk about wanting to make an impact on the lives of students. But few back up that claim like George Felton. The one-time head coach at the University of South Carolina, and current Director of College Player Personnel for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, was talking six years ago with a friend, Father Patrick Stenson, about the Holy Land. Stenson told Felton that there is a Catholic university Bethlehem University in the West Bank and encouraged Felton to visit. Citing his deep-rooted Catholic faith, Felton went, and was drawn to the school and its mission. "I walked around, and they asked if I would talk to some of the students," Felton says. "I talked to one of the Brothers in charge of fund-raising, and Brother Peter Bray, the school's Vice Chancellor and President. I said, ... More  14th century purse with five gold coins sells or hammer price of £39,550LONDON.- A 14th century purse with five gold coins dating from the reign of Edward III (1327-1377) that had been discovered by married couple, Phil and Joan Castle, who live in New Romney in Kent have been metal detecting together for over 30 years sold for £39,550 today (Tuesday, May 24, 2022) at Coin, Medal, Banknote and Jewellery auctioneers Noonans (previously Dix Noonan Webb) at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). It had been expected to fetch £12,000-15,000. It was in October 2018, while searching one of their favourite ploughed fields at nearby Romney Marsh that Joan using her XP gold max found a broken gold coin on the surface, another signal beside it in the soil revealed a Medieval brass purse bar at eight inches down. Phil came over to help and immediately found a gold coin. Over the next ... More  Now on view: Jen DeNike: Visions of the Daughters, immersive installation with crystals and photographyNEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Visions of the Daughters, Jen DeNike's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features an immersive installation with crystals, video, sculpture, and sound, surrounded by a series of large-scale photographs. The exhibition further includes layered sound by invited guest MOTHERMARY, a retro-futurist art pop identical twin duo. The exhibition originates from a close reading by DeNike of Visions of the Daughters of Albion, an epic poem by the English writer and artist William Blake. A friend and supporter of the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Blake was deeply inspired by her revolutionary 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; published only a year later in 1793, Blakes poem folds her feminist ideology into a discursive monologue exposing ... More  Exhibition sees fashion as a phenomenon of social anthropologyRIGA.- From 25 May to 25 September 2022, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga presents the exhibition Vêtements modèles. Model Clothes the most important cultural project realised in Latvia in connection with the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The exhibition Vêtements modèles. Model Clothes has been produced in collaboration with the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Musée des civilisations de lEurope et de la Méditerranée, Le Mucem) in Marseille (France) and the French Institute in Latvia. In 2020, it was presented in Marseille to great acclaim and now is offered to the Latvian public in an expanded version. Why did the tank top, known colloquially as maika, and the blue French workers jacket become the fundament and inspiration ... More  1856 anti-slavery banner from first Republican candidate leads June Americana & Political event at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- An extremely rare two-sided banner used to promote the first Republican candidate for president could bring $100,000 or more when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Signature® Auction June 11-12. The John C. Frémont: Fabulous Anti-Slavery Folk Art Banner supported the candidate from California in the 1856 election. An explorer, military officer and California Senator, Frémont also was the founder of the states Republican party. He lost the 1856 election to James Buchanan. John Frémont was a very important figure in the history of California and the Western United States, Heritage Auctions Americana Director Curtis Lindner said. He was an outspoken opponent ... More  Carnegie Hall musters stars for a benefit concert for UkraineNEW YORK, NY.- It was not a typical chorus on the stage of Carnegie Hall: acclaimed pianist Evgeny Kissin reading from a sheet of paper as he sang Leonard Bernsteins Somewhere with a gathering that included actor Richard Gere, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and Broadway star Adrienne Warren. But there they were four members of the full company that took part in Monday nights benefit concert in support of Ukraine, an array of star power singing onstage as members of the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York joined from the aisles. Hold my hand and Ill take you there, they sang. Somehow. Someday. Somewhere. It was that kind of night at Carnegie Hall, as artists from many disciplines and the institution itself came together to speak out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and show solidarity with ... More  Holabird announces Minerals Galore & Western Americana AuctionRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will hold a four-day Minerals Galore & Western Americana Auction, June 2nd thru 5th, starting at 8 am Pacific time all four days, online and live in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive in Reno. Hundreds of collectible lots will come up for bid, at price points that will appeal to seasoned collectors and novices alike. Day 1, on Thursday, June 2nd, is notable because bargains and dealer lots which had been offered on the last day of Holabirds multi-day sales in the past have proven to be so hugely popular they will now kick off this event, with lots 1000-1155 (155 lots total). Other categories will include militaria (Civil War, World Wars I & II, etc.), firearms and weaponry, general Americana (geographically sorted ephemera), toys, collectibles, art and Native Americana ... More  Sotheby's to auction unique 'unburnable' edition of Margaret Atwood's classic novel 'The Handmaid's Tale'NEW YORK, NY.- To raise awareness about the proliferating book banning and educational gag orders in American schools nationwide, and to raise money to support PEN Americas crucial work to counter this national crisis of censorship, Margaret Atwood and Penguin Random House have partnered to create The Unburnable Book, a fireproof edition of Atwoods prescientand often bannednovel The Handmaids Tale, featuring the iconic Handmaid imagery by designer Noma Bar. In a launch video announcing the project, Margaret Atwood herself can be seen testing a prototype with a flamethrower. This single-copy special edition of The Handmaids Tale was produced by Rethink, an independent creative agency, and fabricated in Toronto by the graphic arts specialty and bookbinding atelier The Gas Company Inc. The Unburnable ... More  George Miller is at the Cannes Film Festival making 'Furiosa' (that's right)CANNES.- On Tuesday, just a few days after the premiere of his latest movie, Three Thousand Years of Longing, at the Cannes Film Festival, Australian director George Miller is heading home to direct Furiosa, the fourth installment in his phantasmagoric Mad Max series. The cast is already out there, he said Saturday. Theyve been shooting second unit. Miller has been working on Furiosa in between screenings, interviews and having what looks like a very good time at the festival. Nowadays, modern communication allows you to be there, he said, obviously pleased with his multitasking. Its really great. Miller is a Cannes veteran, but while hes served on three of the festivals juries in 30 years, only two of his movies have been presented here, both out of competition. The last time was for his masterpiece ... More  Colin Cantwell, 'Star Wars' spacecraft designer, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and WarGames, died May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 90. His partner, Sierra Dall, said the cause was dementia. Cantwells work on several influential movies reached its peak with Star Wars, George Lucas hugely successful space opera. To impress Lucas, Cantwell built two elaborate steampunk-like spacecraft models from parts he had culled from dozens of hobbyists kits. He got the job before Lucas had found a studio. Cantwell produced the original designs for spacecraft familiar to fans of Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars, Episode IV A New Hope): the X-wing, the Rebel Alliances starfighter; the TIE ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Lyubov Popova died May 25, 1924. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. In this image: Air+Man+Space, 1912, Oil on canvas, 125 x 107 cm, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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