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An 1841 birthday note from Emily Brontë to her sister Anne, part of a collection of manuscripts to be sold at Sothebys in July 2021. A trove of manuscripts acquired from the Brontë family in the 19th century, all but unseen for the past century, will be auctioned at Sothebys. Via Sothebys via The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Brontë artifacts have a way of making dramatic reappearances. In 2011, a miniature book created by 14-year-old Charlotte Brontë prompted a bidding war that climbed past $1 million. In 2016, the Brontë Parsonage Museum announced that it tracked down a book filled with doodles and inscriptions by the Brontë children (including an unknown poem by Charlotte) that had once survived a shipwreck. And now, a trove of Brontë family manuscripts all but unseen for a century will be auctioned by Sothebys as part of what the auction house is billing as the sale of a legendary lost library of British literature treasures. The Honresfield Library, a private collection assembled by two Victorian industrialists that vanished from public view in the 1930s, contains more than 500 manuscripts, letters, rare first editions and other artifacts from a number of canonical authors, including the manuscripts of Walter Scotts Rob Roy and Robert Burns ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a CLEARANCE | Antiquities & Ethnographic Art sale on Thu, May 27, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale features discounted pricing and many new items! Asian art, Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East...plus Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons & Enamelware, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more!
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| French artist Jackie Matisse passes away | | Exhibition at The Georgia Museum of Art rediscovers a talented lithographer | | Artist Leonora Carrington's Mexico home becomes museum | 
Jackie Matisse was the eldest of the three children of Pierre Matisse and Alexina Duchamp. Photo: Serge Bailhache.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery announced that Jackie Matisse passed away peacefully at home on May 17, 2021. She leaves a glorious legacy of artworks that float and fly, exploring the freedom of shape, material, and color in motion and at rest. Flexible and unpredictable, developed in collaboration with the elements of nature, her art evades conventional markers of permanence, authority, or importance. While in no way autobiographical, Jackies lifetime of work balances gentleness and strength with the same grace as its creator. Jackie was born in 1931 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, daughter of the art dealer Pierre Matisse and his wife Alexina Sattler Matisse. The family soon moved to New York City, where Pierre would establish an eponymous art gallery. The eldest of three children (brothers Paul and Peter), Jackie grew up in New York and New Jersey and attended the Brearley School. At a young age she was plunged into the artistic milieu ce ... More | | 
Victoria Hutson Huntley (American, 1900 1971), On the Top (also known as Three Friends), 1943. Lithograph, 11 7/16 x 7 15/16 inches. Private collection.
ATHENS, GA.- A well-known lithographer in the 1930s and 1940s, Victoria Hutson Huntley made works that were popular with museums and collectors. Her lithographs highlighted subjects including landscapes, human figures and the natural world. In the middle of her career, she spent several years in Florida, and she often featured the Everglades and its flora and fauna in her work. She was a meticulous creator, first painting an image, then making a drawing, a redrawing, a redesign to reduce the drawing in scale and finally a lithograph. Her work fell out of fashion in the 1950s, with the rise of abstract expressionism, which sidelined realistic approaches to art. After a one-year delay due to the global pandemic, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley from May 22 to August 15. As a testament to her skill, the second lithograph Huntley ever made ... More | | 
The late Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington's typewriter and other personal objects are seen at her Mexico City home, which will open as a museum. CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP PHOTO.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- The Mexico City home of renowned British-born Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington will open to the public as a museum displaying some of her works and possessions, the managers announced Monday. "This space contains the daily life of the Weisz Carrington family, who lived here for more than 60 years. We have cataloged more than 8,600 objects," said Alejandra Osorio, cultural director of the Autonomous Metropolitan University. Pablo Weisz Carrington, son of the late painter and sculptor, sold the house to UAM for half a million dollars on the condition that it be converted into a museum. In exchange, on May 19 he donated works of his mother valued at three million dollars. The museum in Colonia Roma houses 45 sculptures and hundreds of objects that Carrington used while living there, including her food seasonings and makeup. The ... More |
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| Taschen publishes the official illustrated history of Depeche Mode by Dutch artist Anton Corbijn | | Kentaro Miura, creator of epic manga 'Berserk,' dies at 54 | | Pace Gallery to stage a rare performance from Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar | 
Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn. Anton Corbijn, Reuel Golden Hardcover, 24,3 x 34 cm, 3,67 kg, 512 pages ISBN 978-3-8365-8670-2
NEW YORK, NY.- In November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: Id like to thank Anton Corbijn who thank God came in at the right time and actually made us look cool. Also in the fall of 2020, TASCHEN released the limited edition Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn (8118) signed by Depeche Mode and Anton Corbijn, and it became one of the fastest selling collectors editions in the publishing companys history. This equally epic, but more wallet friendly XL edition, is a testament to Corbijns unique vision, and indeed cool as Gahan acknowledged so movingly in his speech; a detailed illustrated history of how Corbijn, who became in 1986 the bands de facto creative director, and helped cement Depeche Modes reputation as the biggest cult band in the world. Featuring over 500 photographs from Corbijns extensive archives, some never seen before, including formal and inf ... More | | 
Guts, the main character in Kentaro Miuras epic manga, Berserk. Dark Horse via The New York Times.
by Alex Traub
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Kentaro Miura, who reached a worldwide readership for more than 30 years with his Japanese manga series, Berserk, which set the standard for artistic originality and narrative boldness in the fantasy media industry in card games, comics, video games and animated series died May 6. He was 54. Kate Jay, a spokesperson for Dark Horse Comics, Miuras English-language publisher, said the cause was acute aortic dissection, a tear in the aorta branching off from the heart. She did not say where he died. According to Dark Horse Comics, Berserk has sold about 50 million books worldwide and about 3 million in the United States. It originated in a Japanese magazine in 1989 and soon became a book series, in multivolume hardcover editions and single-volume paperbacks small enough to fit into a coat pocket. Since appearing ... More | | 
Le Patibulaire (costume worn by a dancer) during the exhibition Coucou Bazar at Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2013. Artwork © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021. Photo © Archives Fondation Dubuffet, Paris. Photo: Luc Boegly for the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery will stage a rare capsule performance of two characters from Jean Dubuffets Coucou Bazar on loan from the Fondation Dubuffet, which form an essential component of the artists definitive Hourloupe cycle. On the occasion of London Gallery Weekend, this special programme will take place on 4 June, outside the entrance of Pace Gallery at 6 Burlington Gardens. There will be three performances held throughout the day, with activations beginning at 10am, 2pm and 6pm. Fragments: Coucou Bazar is the realization of Dubuffets long-term ambition of creating a living painting and marked the first time the artist brought his pioneering Hourloupe alphabet into three dimensions. The work calls attention to absurdity, blurring the boundaries between art and life. Just as his paintings sought to merge figure ... More |
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| Miles McEnery Gallery opens a group exhibition curated by Rico Gatson | | Morphy's mid-May auction series of American amusements tallies $5.4M, led by $87,600 gas pump | | Joel Chadabe, explorer of electronic music's frontier, dies at 82 | 
Miles McEnery Gallery, Light curated by Rico Gatson, 13 May 19 June 2021 Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting Light, curated by Rico Gatson. The exhibition opened on 13 May and will remain on view through 19 June 2021. Light is the inaugural exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallerys newly renovated Chelsea location at 511 West 22nd Street. Light is energy, power, radiance, illumination, color, play, promise and hope. Its transcendent. Its the organizing force behind the exhibition which includes the work of twelve multidisciplinary artists. Rico Gatson The impetus for Light derived from a quote by twentieth-century German-American painter Hans Hofmann, proclaiming In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. This exhibition articulates a belief in the fundamental power of light, in its various forms, to convey the magic of art. Motivated by an enduring appreciation for these artists, Gatson brings together a diverse ... More | | 
Outstanding 10-gallon visible gas pump with oil dispenser restored in Stanocoloa Gasoline livery. Blue-tint glass cylinder with unique metal gallon markers and 16 individual glass cylinders for oil disbursement. Sold for $87,600 against an estimate of $25,000-$50,000.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions gallery was a hive of activity prior to the companys May 11-15 marathon auction series that grossed $5.4 million. The attraction was a 3,400-lot array of rare antique and vintage items that ran the gamut of American amusements, from 19th-century railroad memorabilia and coin-op machines to mid-20th-century petroliana and automotive signs. The five-day event opened with 937 high-quality lots of railroadiana, including train and station signage, lanterns, whistles, bells, clocks, waiting-room furniture, and every imaginable item used in transit, from railroad-branded dining car tableware to smoking accessories. Bidders competed aggressively for a Union Switch subway/transit signal with green, amber and (two) red lenses. It ended up selling for $14,400 ... More | | 
Joel Chadabe circa 1970, during his tenure at the State University of New York at Albany, where he had been hired at 27 to run the universitys electronic music studio. Luther Smith via The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joel Chadabe, a composer who helped pioneer electronic music in the 1960s, later developing compositional software programs and founding the Electronic Music Foundation, an advocacy organization for electronic music, died May 2 at his home in Albany, New York. He was 82. His wife, Françoise Chadabe, said the cause was ampullary cancer, a rare form similar to pancreatic cancer. In 1965, when Chadabe was 27 and computer music was in its nascence, he was asked by the State University of New York at Albany to run its electronic music studio. He had recently graduated from Yales music school, and his sensibilities lay with jazz and opera, but he needed a job, so he accepted. From his perch at the university, Chadabe began to explore the wonders ... More |
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| Allison Glenn is named new Senior Curator & Director of Public Art | | Nine-metre-high tree sculpture by Giuseppe Penone installed in the Arsenale | | Museum of Arts and Design collection exhibition highlights craft's advancements from 1950s to today | 
New CAMH Senior Curator and Director of Public Art, Allison Glenn. Photo by Rena Young.
HOUSTON, TX.- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces the appointment of Allison Glenn as Senior Curator and Director of Public Art, the latest addition to CAMHs executive leadership team. In her new role, Glenn will provide senior leadership for CAMHs curatorial team, encompassing exhibitions, public projects, and artist-driven initiatives in the public realm; both within and beyond the walls of the Museum. Glenn will join CAMH on August 1, 2021. CAMH Executive Director Hesse McGraw said, CAMH is thrilled to welcome Allison to lead our curatorial and public art initiatives. Allison brings one of the most vital international curatorial voices to Houstonher vision is uniquely rooted both in deep trust of artists and care for community. Allison will chart an adventurous path for CAMH that elevates artists, authentically engages diverse audiences, and achieves meaningful civic impact. I am thrilled ... More | | 
Giuseppe Penone, The Listener installation view at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2021. © photography by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, courtesy Vuslat Foundation and artist Giuseppe Penone.
VENICE.- Marking its public launch, Vuslat Foundation presents The Listener, a monumental installation by leading Italian artist, Giuseppe Penone at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, running 22 May to 21 November 2021. Penones nine-metre-high sculpture in the form of a tree has been submerged in the Venetian Lagoon at the Gaggiandre in the Arsenale. Responding to the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021, How will we live together?, Vuslat Foundations presentation, in close collaboration with Chus MartÃnez, opens a global conversation about how we can create spaces for listening in 21st century society. The Listener is a new edition of Penones widely celebrated series of works Idee di Pietra - Olmo (Ideas of Stone - Elm), a sculpture ... More | | 
Peter Voulkos, Cross, 1959. Stoneware, low-fire glaze; hand-built, 30 1/2 x 23 x 10 in. (77.5 x 58.4 x 25.4 cm). Photo: Ed Watkins.
NEW YORK, NY.- Once at the margins of the art world, today craft is front and center in art galleries, museums, and fairs, widely recognized for its expressive potential and cultural significance. On view at the Museum of Arts and Design from May 22 to Feb. 13, 2022, Craft Front & Center brings together more than 70 iconic and lesser-known works, assembled from the eclectic richness of the Museums permanent collection, to highlight key touchpoints in crafts history that have led to the current moment. Craft Front & Center captures the creative revolution in materials, processes, and subject matter that has transformed our understanding and expectations of art, said Elissa Auther, MADs Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator. Like craft itself, the exhibition is down-to-earth and democratic. We want ... More |
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 Apollo 11-flown American flag and mission patch lead $1.8 million Heritage Space Exploration auctionDALLAS, TX.- An American flag and embroidered mission insignia patch from the private collection of NASAs first Flight Director soared to $137,500, more than doubling its pre-auction estimate, to lead Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction to $1,819,639 in total sales May 21-22. This was an extraordinary sale, with sell-through rates of 96.2% by value and 98.2% by lots sold, Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Director Michael Riley said. The flag and patch that led the event represent a one-of-a-kind piece of space history. Bidders also actively pursued items from the personal collection of former Johnson Space Center Director Chris Kraft, many of which sailed far beyond their pre-auction estimates. The significance and historical importance of lots like these explain why the demand for elite space exploration collectibles has ... More  John Michael Kohler Arts Center presents a major survey of work by Bernard LanglaisSHEBOYGAN, WI.- The first major survey of the artists work outside of Maine, Bernard Langlais: Live and Let Live, is on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from April 4 through October 3, 2021. Spanning his 30-year career, the exhibition explores the intertwined nature of Langlaiss art and his living and working environments in Maine. Presenting monumental wooden animal sculptures from the 1970s, as well as his early, expressionistic landscape paintings, and the wood reliefs that started his career at the Leo Castelli Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in the New York in the 1960s, Bernard Langlais: Live and Let Live considers the artists deepening sense of place as key to his evolution. Live and Let Live traces the trajectory of Bernard Langlaiss (1921-1977) life and work from Old Town, Maine, where he was born, to his ... More  Restart of Broadway accelerates as 'Hadestown' plans its returnNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hadestown, the last show to win a Tony Award for best musical before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the theater industry, announced Monday that it is planning to resume performances on Sept. 2, nearly two weeks before any other Broadway shows have set their reopening date. The shows producers said they had consulted with the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as well as the Broadway League, on their plan. They said tickets would go on sale June 11. One of the themes of the show is imagining how the world could be, and we think its important to bring that hope and optimism to Broadway in this moment, said Mara Isaacs, one of the shows lead producers. She said Hadestown wanted to open in early September for logistical reasons the creative team is juggling the Broadway ... More  Review: The charms and pitfalls of Dancing the Gods on cameraNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Since 2011, the World Music Institutes Dancing the Gods festival has consistently delivered high-quality Indian dance to New York. Last year, like so much else, it was canceled. This year, like so much else, its virtual which means that another stage experience is being mediated by cameras, with all the attendant possibilities and pitfalls. In at least one respect, classical Indian dance should benefit from the cameras eye. One of its glories is storytelling, often concentrated in facial expressions details that close-ups can magnify. But just as a stage actors performance pitched to the second balcony can seem too broad, too loud, when it fills a screen, so can a dancers. Thats what I came to feel about Rama Vaidyanathans contribution. Vaidyanathan appears on a porch in Delhi, embodying ... More  After tragedy, an Indianapolis theater stages a comebackINDIANAPOLIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a breezy, 80-degree evening, the sun still in the sky, actor Chandra Lynch walked to the center of the Fonseca Theatre Companys outdoor stage-in-the-round. At her back was a semicircle of oversized blocks, each with printed words that together formed the sentence Blackness iz not a monolith. She turned to face a section of a dozen mostly white audience members, part of the sold-out opening night crowd of 50. White folks call what Im about to do exposition, she said, her mouth visible through a clear face shield. But the Black folks in the audience know Im about to preach. The Fonseca Theatre, located in a working-class neighborhood on the citys west side whose actors are more than 80% people of color, staged its first show Friday night since its founder, Bryan Fonseca, died ... More  Countering the coup, one verse at a timeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- After the first and second poets were killed, the third poet wrote a poem. They shoot at heads/But they do not know/That revolution lives in the heart. After the third poet was killed, the fourth poet wrote a poem. Dont let your blood run cold/Pool your blood for this fight. After the fourth poet was killed, his body consumed by fire on May 14, there was no verse. At least for a moment. Poetry remains alive in Myanmar, where unconventional weapons are being used to fight a military that has killed more than 800 people since it staged a coup on Feb. 1 and ousted an elected government. For some democracy activists, their politics cannot be separated from their poetry. Sensing the power of carefully chosen words, the generals have imprisoned more than 30 poets since the putsch, according to the National ... More  Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen opens an exhibition of works by Alfredo Aceto and Denis SavaryST. GALLEN.- The artistic practices of Alfredo Aceto and Denis Savaryboth of whom live in the Romandie and maintain friendly relationsare as close as they are different. What they have in common is that they twist existing forms or imagine new ones across different media and charge them with unexpected meanings. In their first joint exhibition Ambarabà Ciccì Coccò, the two artists create a fragmentary installation in which different layers of cultural signs are brought together. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from an Italian counting-out rhyme, is a linguistic expression of what permeates the spaces: An arrangement of myriad signs that evoke associations and condense into narratives. The works slipperily elude clear designation andlike the fantasised words ambarabà ciccì coccòfeed on their multiple levels of meaning. Forms ... More  Museum receives donation of Gruppé painting, At Your Service, from VNA Care GLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Cape Ann Museum announced that VNA Care has recently donated its painting, Always at Your service by Emile A. Gruppé to the Museum. This donation not only assures the preservation of this important artwork and the publics access to it but also reflects the collaborative spirit that has developed between the two organizations in recent years, says Oliver Barker, Director of the Cape Ann Museum. We are honored to welcome this painting in our collection. It is an important gift that CAM hopes will inspire others to contribute to the strategic growth of the Museums collections between now and CAMs 150th anniversary in 2025. Always at Your Service was executed from one of Gruppés favorite vantage points in Gloucester at the top of the stairs that link the east end of Main Street to Friend Street and Portuguese ... More  Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts spans the last seven years of Michael Armitage's workLONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict. Born in Kenya in 1984, Michael Armitage graduated from the RA Schools in 2010 and now works between Nairobi and London. In his paintings, Armitage reflects on his experiences in Kenya and on current events, while drawing on contemporary East African art and European art history. Bridging artistic traditions, he looks towards the work of Jak Katarikawe, Meek Gichugu and Chelenge van Rampelberg as well as Titian, Francisco de Goya and Paul Gauguin. In his rich and multi-layered narrative paintings, Armitage questions social norms, religious ideology, politics and cultural clichés. The exhibition includes 15 of the artists recent large-scale works, alongside a selection of around 35 works by East African artists chosen by Armitage. Michael ... More  Solo exhibition of James Welling opens at the MACSGRAND-HORNU.- Four years after Metamorphosis, the retrospective exhibition which the S.M.A.K. devoted to James Wellings work by revisiting some twenty series of his photographs created since 1970, the MACS has now invited the American artist to present his current photographic work on architecture and ancient Greek and Roman statuary. The exhibitions title, Cento, refers to the ancient practice of assembling fragments of various poetic or musical works. This latest series began in 2018 at the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York, when James Welling photographed the bust of a Roman empress of Syrian origin, Julia Mamaea, which he then printed in a range of colours based on the early photographic printing method of collotype. Moved by the fluidity of the dyes imbuing the portrait and the statues stone and returning ... More  Samson Kambalu's largest solo exhibition to date opens at Modern Art OxfordOXFORD.- For his largest solo exhibition to date, Oxford-based Malawian artist Samson Kambalu (b. 1975) creates a powerful installation that suggests an initiation ceremony for a utopia of international racial justice that values each person equally. His concept of a New Liberia, marks a tidal change in attitudes generated by the pandemic and the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Samson Kambalu: New Liberia runs at Modern Art Oxford from 22 May until 5 September 2021 and admission is free. Interweaving Malawian culture and European philosophy, Kambalus work is articulated with colour, humour and intelligence. This exhibition combines video, film, texts and sculptures. His work is rooted in the eclectic beliefs and events of his childhood in Malawi, watching makeshift cinema, Nyau dances (a secret society of the Chewa ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895. Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Couple Seated on Porch, Gunlock, Utah, 1953, Gelatin silver print, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds donated by Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley. ©Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
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