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Tickets to Fords Theater for the night when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth were sold at auction for $262,500. Photo: RR Auction.
by Victor Mather
NEW YORK, NY.- On the evening of April 14, 1865, playgoers settled into their seats at Fords Theater in Washington to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. It was an exciting night, because President Abraham Lincoln was in attendance, sitting in a private box with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Around 10:15 p.m., actor Harry Hawk, playing Asa Trenchard, said the line, Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal; you sockdologizing old man-trap! It got a big laugh, as it did every night. And masked by the noise, an assailant, John Wilkes Booth, fatally shot the president. It was a momentous night in American history. And afterward, the theater lovers in seats D41 and D42 decided to save their tickets. Those tickets were sold at auction on Saturday by RR Auction of Boston for $262,500, including the auction house fee. The house had listed the estimated sale price before the auction as $100,000+. The auction house said the seller was ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Philipp von Rosen Galerie is currently showing their second solo exhibition with South Korean artist Cody Choi, Animal Totem + NFT. Generally concerned with transculturality and cultural hybrids, Cody Choi extends his exploration of the relationship between East and West to digital culture - and has been doing so since the early 1990s; he is thus considered a pioneer of digital art.
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| 'Breughel: The Family Reunion' presents five generations of works from 1550 - 1700 | | Hindman to offer Judith and Philip Sieg Collection of Fine Art & Modern Pottery in New York | | A Brooklyn artist interrogates NYPD surveillance films | 
Anna Maria Janssens, A garland of flower around a medaillon with the Holy Family and a music-making angel, 1620-1668, oil on panel, 78 x 59 cm, © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerpen.
HERTOGENBOSCH.- Het Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) has brought together around eighty works by five generations of Brueghels, in the exhibition Brueghel: The Family Reunion. Enterprising, innovative and world-famous, the Brueghel family played a pivotal role on the European art scene from around 1550 to 1700. Five generations of Brueghels produced paintings that are admired for their humorous and entertaining compositions, universal messages, and exceptional quality. The subjects range from wedding celebrations, familiar proverbs, and Biblical stories to awe-inspiring landscapes and studies of animals, insects, and flowers. This exhibition reframes one of art historys most famous families by taking a closer look at connections between the different generations and devoting attention to the Brueghel women for the first time. The works in Brueghel: The Family Reunion come from renowned collections throug ... More | | 
James Abbott McNeill Whistlers (1834 1903) watercolor Peasant Women Standing Under a Tree (estimate: $80,000 - $120,000) is emblematic of Whistlers later works, depicting a small group of women in a non-descript field below a single, barren tree.
NEW YORK, NY.- As a part of its inaugural fall season in New York, Hindman will offer Canvas & Clay: The Collection of Judith and Philip Sieg as a single owner auction on Thursday, October 26 in its New York saleroom. Select highlights of fine art will be on public view in New York at Sterling | Boos from October 3-5, and the full collection will be on view at 21 Greene Street from October 10-25. Over the course of their lives, the Siegs assembled an exceptional collection of fine art and modern pottery headlined by significant pieces from some of the most important American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Philip Sieg was an innovative businessman, real estate developer, traveler, and collector. A proud Pennsylvania State alum, Sieg was highly engaged with the university, supporting many programs such as the Schreyer Honors College, ... More | | 
Neal, an artist in residence with the citys Department of Records, was struck by the power dynamics between the watchers and the watched. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- For two decades, plainclothes intelligence officers from the New York Police Department used hand-held 16-millimeter cameras to film people without their consent, producing footage of Vietnam War protesters and Black Panther activists, of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. Those thousands of black-and-white reels from the tumultuous 1960s and 70s then collected dust in a storage room in police headquarters, disregarded for so long that salt stalactites formed on the ceiling. They were eventually rediscovered, in 2015, and are now the focus of a video installation titled Down the Barrel (of a Lens), by Brooklyn artist Kameron Neal. In the large, dark room of the exhibition, which is on view in the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center until Tuesday night, surveillance clips appear on opposing screens as an ominous ticking noise plays in the ... More |
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| Exhibition marks Harmony Korine's first presentation in Los Angeles in over eight years | | Qiu Xiaofei joins Xavier Hufkens | | Galleria Campari and Magnum Photos open 'Bar stories on camera' | 
Harmony Korine. ZION'S LAMENT, 2023. Oil on canvas, 182.2 x 123.8 x 4.1 cm / 71 3/4 x 48 3/4 x 1 5/8 in 187 x 128.6 x 6.7 cm / 73 5/8 x 50 5/8 x 2 5/8 in (framed) Photo: Keith Lubow.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For his debut solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER, American artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine presents a new series of acid-hued paintings drawn from his forthcoming film Aggro Dr1ft. This unprecedented fusion of Korines painting and filmic practices expands the irreverent polymaths exploration of the aesthetics of gaming and their seepage into the wider culture. Korines oeuvre is both deliberate and erratic, figurative and abstract, and, like his films, the artists paintings blur boundaries between high and low in ways that simultaneously attract and repel viewers with their hypnotic, otherworldly atmosphere. Marking Korines first presentation in Los Angeles in over eight years, the exhibition opened 15 September ... More | | 
Qiu Xiaofei, Soviet Emissary, 2020-2021.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens has announced the representation of Chinese artist Qiu Xiaofei. Best known for his evocatively coloured paintings, Qiu draws on both Eastern and Western aesthetics across generations, using memory, allegory, and a dream-like narrative. The artist will be included in the gallerys presentation at Paris+ par Art Basel this month. In June 2024, Xavier Hufkens will present a solo exhibition of works by the artist. Xavier Hufkens: From the very first encounter, Xiaofeis enigmatic paintings left a lasting impression on me. His works brilliantly combine elements of dream-like reality, the psychological and the uncannyspeaking to deeply personal yet collective sentiments. We are thrilled to welcome Xiaofei to the gallery.
Qiu Xiaofei: It felt like Xavier and I were old friends right from the beginning. Hes an outstanding leading gallerist, and Ive always been impressed by ... More | | 
Donna che prepara Campari con Seltz, Svizzera, anni Trenta / 1930s, Archivio / Archive Galleria Campari.
MILAN.- Galleria Campari presents Bar Stories on Camera. Galleria Campari / Magnum Photos from today Wednesday 4 October 2023 until Tuesday 30 April 2024 will be on view in the Galleria Campari spaces in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan. The exhibition, curated by Galleria Campari, presents 90 photographs from the 1930s to the early 2000s recounting the history of the world of the bar through 48 images from the Galleria Campari Historical Archive and 42 shots by 24 international photographers from the Magnum Photos agency, including Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Martin Parr and Ferdinando Scianna. Bar Stories on Camera. Galleria Campari / Magnum Photos is the first exhibition to be staged by Galleria Campari in partnership with Magnum Photos. Split into three thematic sections Sharing Moments, Bar Campari and The Icons the exhibition features images that put together a narrative ... More |
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| Celebrate anime's milestones in Heritage's Sweeping Animation Art event | | Fall at Michaan's returns to Meissen, American art, and rare Asian antiques | | Beverly Willis, 95, dies; Architect and advocate for women in the field | 
Cowboy Bebop "The Real Folk Blues: Part 2" Spike Spiegel Production Cel (Sunrise, 1999).
DALLAS, TX.- Sixty years ago, a black-and-white cartoon called Astro Boy, exported from Japan, hit the television airwaves in the United States. Viewers couldnt have guessed that it would kick off a formative aesthetic a mood, an entire state of mind that by 2023 would evolve to captivate millions worldwide. Astro Boy, adapted from an earlier manga, was the worlds introduction to anime. The American adaptation of Japans Mach GoGoGo, what we call Speed Racer, followed four years later, and American kids (and plenty of adults) would sit down in the afternoons in the 1970s to watch the adapted interstellar adventures Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers. The genres combination of giant eyes, explosive action and high drama settled into the psyches of pop-culture fans everywhere and has never lost its grip. This year as many young people organize their identities around contemporary anime stories and characters ... More | | 
18th Century Chinoiserie Tall Case Clock, $600/1,000.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans October Gallery Auction is an esoteric grouping ranging from an Electric Automaton Drinking Bear to fine examples of Meissen Porcelain. A beautiful map engraving from the 1600s alongside a modern acrylic resin sculpture, Two Waves, by Shlomi Haziza. The jewelry section is shining with brand names like Tiffany & Co. and Rolex. There is also an amazing collection of fine Asian porcelains, coral and Huanghuali furniture. The Furniture and Decorative Arts section has a large collection of Silver with one of the top lots being an American Thauvet Besley Marked Sterling Silver Teapot ($1,500/2,500). There is also a plethora of beautiful, traditional Meissen pieces; a pair of busts of Prince Louis Joseph de Bourbon (1751-1761) and Princess Marie Zephirine de Bourbon (1750-1755) estimated at $1,000/1,500. Michaans has also had the good fortune of receiving deaccessioned property from the Filoli H ... More | | 
Beverly Willis, architect, wearing a hard hat at a construction site in 1982. (Library of Congress via The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- Can you name five female architects? That question was posed repeatedly and pointedly by Beverly Willis, an architect who helped women break through her fields glass ceiling by running her own accomplished firm in San Francisco and creating a foundation in New York for promoting womens contributions to the industry. She died at 95 Sunday at her home in Branford, Connecticut, where she was in hospice care, her spouse, Wanda Bubriski, said. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease. In San Francisco, Willis created several destination buildings. She won acclaim for her 1965 conversion of three Victorian homes into a retail and restaurant complex an early example of finding a modern purpose for a historic building, a practice now known as adaptive reuse. In 1983, she completed the San Francisco Ballet Building, ... More |
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| Anglo Dutch painter Nick Goss presents his exhibition 'Smickel Inn' at Ingleby Gallery | | "Impossible Music" bridges sounds, scores, sculptures, video, archival materials, and live performance | | Unraveling takes us on escapade into different layers of possible realities at Ontsteking | 
Nick Goss, Smickel Inn, 2023, Distemper. Oil and silk screen on linen, 210 x 140 cm (canvas). Photograph: Peter Mallet.
EDINBURGH .- Nick Goss (b. Bristol, 1981) is an Anglo Dutch painter whose (essentially figurative) paintings suggest apparently contradictory readings. On one hand there is the recognisable specificity of objects and environments rooted in factual, documentary reality: a photographic starting point perhaps, or an archival image offering an intensely palpable sense of place or experience. On the other there is always something more liminal at play - an uncertainty and otherness that never quite explains itself. As Goss puts it, I love that permanence and instability, it is what Im really interested in. The sense that the past is very close, that you can almost touch it. It is in this ambiguity and sometimes dreamlike strangeness that these images reveal their power and presence. They have an unreliable relationship to time, being connected to memory and a kind of nostalgia, and yet existing precisely in their ... More | | 
Nikita Gale, MARMI, 2022. Cast marble cassette, magnetic tape, stereo audio with manipulated field recordings taken from Henraux Foundation quarry, Querceta, Italy Side A: 7 minutes Side B: 7 minutes 9 seconds, 2.25 x 4 x 0.5 in. (5.7 x 10.2 x 1.3 cm). Edition of 8 + 2AP Courtesy of the artist; Petzel Gallery, New York; and Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- As of September 30 at the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Impossible Music brings together sounds, scores, sculptures, video, and live performances to extend discourses on conceptual and experimental music and explore its intersections across different art forms. Marking the first joint curatorial collaboration of curator Candice Hopkins and artist, composer Raven Chacon, with curator, researcher, Stavia Grimani, the interdisciplinary group exhibition features work by boundary-defying composers, artists, and collectives including Terry Adkins, Black Quantum Futurism, Benvenuto Chavajay, Nikita Gale, Sarah Hennies, Tom Johnson, Conlon Nancarrow, Aki Onda, Christine Sun Kim, and Spencer C. Yeh. ... More | | 
Willem Boel, Installation View, A well balanced painting #05 and #06, 2023. Paint on canvas, 225 x 130 cm.
GENT.- Ovid Metamorphoses - Book XV 176-198 "Eternal Flux" "Since I have embarked on the wide ocean, and given full sails to the wind, I say there is nothing in the whole universe that persists. Everything flows, and is formed as a fleeting image. Time itself, also, glides, in its continual motion, no differently than a river. For neither the river, nor the swift hour can stop: but as wave impels wave, and as the prior wave is chased by the coming wave, and chases the one before, so time flees equally, and, equally, follows, and is always new. For what was before is left behind: and what was not comes to be: and each moment is renewed." -Ravel Ravel. The verb to ravel allows us to assume that our subject matter has the ability to present itself as different variants of its true form or meaning. The act of unraveling takes us on an escapade into the different layers of possible realities. These, sometimes endless perspectives inherently carry the notion of change within their ... More |
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 'The Fabric of Democracy' on view at The Fashion and Textile MuseumLONDON.- The Fashion and Textile Museum is showing the exhibition The Fabric of Democracy, an exploration of printed propaganda textiles.The industrial age mechanised the textile industry, revolutionising print techniques. Elaborate imagery on cloth could now be produced with more detail and at a faster pace than ever before. These increasingly affordable processes democratised textile decoration, allowing governments, regimes, and corporations to harness the power of print to communicate, from wartime slogans to revolutionary ideals. Curated by design historian Amber Butchart, The Fabric Of Democracy, opening 29 September 2023, explores how fabric designers and manufacturers have responded to political upheaval from the French Revolution through to Brexit, illuminating visitors on how textiles have been used as a tool of the state across ... More  'Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation' at Bellevue Arts MuseumBELLEVUE, WA.- Bellevue Arts Museum opened the exhibition, "Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation," which showcases the exceptional work of contemporary women artists who employ fragmentation as a powerful tool in their creative process. This engaging exhibition that started on September 30, 2023 will captivate art enthusiasts with over 200 prints created by 21 female contemporary artists, each exploring the concept of fragmentation in their unique way. This exhibition is a testament to the diversity and creativity of contemporary women artists and emphasizes the underrepresented voices of women artists of color who have often been overlooked in museum collections and exhibitions. This extraordinary collection features artists who use fragmentation, the deconstructing and reassembling ... More  Gauri Gill wins 10th Prix Pictet, world's leading photography and sustainability awardLONDON.- Indian photographer Gauri Gill was announced this past September 28th as the winner of the tenth cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award for photography and sustainability, receiving the prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs. Gill was selected from a shortlist of 12 photographers by an independent jury. Gills work emphasises her belief in working with and through community, in what she calls active listening. For more than two decades, she has been closely engaged with marginalised communities in the desert of western Rajasthan, Northern India and for the last decade with Indigenous artists in Maharashtra. Her winning series Notes from the Desert began in April 1999 when she set out to photograph village schools in Rajasthan. Having grown up mainly in cities, she soon realised that rural schools were a microcosm of a complex reality she knew nothing about. ... More  Gabriela Wiener does not care if you don't see her writing as literatureNEW YORK, NY.- When Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener was a child, she dreaded school trips to museums in Lima, the capital. As her class approached the display cases containing the pre-Columbian ceramic statues known as huacos retratos, she would start shaking. The figurines faces, which are believed to represent notable members of the Mochica culture, had an undeniable resemblance to hers. Mockery and insults would inevitably follow: Theres Gabriela, she remembered her classmates would shout. Indian face, huaco face. To look Indigenous, to be brown and not white in Peru in the 1980s, meant to be ugly, undesirable or at least that is what she felt for a long time. Colonialism is not something that just happened in the past. It continues to pulse in our lives, our beds, our families, our society, Wiener said in Spanish during a recent visit to New York, ... More  Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' film coming to movie theatersNEW YORK, NY.- Beyoncés 56-show Renaissance World Tour ended over the weekend without the release of any much-anticipated visual component tied to the singers shimmering 2022 dance album. Beyoncé, however, may have had a plan all along: Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé will be released in movie theaters Dec. 1, the singer announced Monday, immediately following the tours final show in Kansas City, Missouri. Be careful what you ask for, cause I just might comply, Beyoncé whose two previous solo releases, her 2013 self-titled album and Lemonade, from 2016, were billed as visual albums wrote on Instagram, quoting the Renaissance song All Up in Your Mind. The singer has previously released concert films, documentaries and extravagant music video collections via DVD (I Am
Yours, 2009), HBO (Life Is but a Dream, 2013, ... More  The town with a song in its heartMOUNTAIN VIEW, ARK.- A merciful evening breeze kicked up, swatting away the Arkansas heat and giving wing to the melodies coming from two of the gazebos in the grassy park. In the larger one, a dozen people were playing the last strains of Barbry Allen on fiddles, mandolins, guitars, a stand-up bass, dulcimers, banjos and even a dulci-banjo. A pretty tune I did not recognize drew me over to the smaller group. But I never got to ask what it was because, just as I approached, they stopped. Then their fiddler lowered his instrument and, in a clear, bold bass, started singing Ive Been Everywhere all of it, even the often neglected opening verse that name-checks Winnemucca. With the others playing along, he gave a performance Johnny Cash would have admired, no stumbles or stutters and not a single -burg, -ville or -ton forgotten. I did wonder, though, ... More  Here are the finalists for the 2023 National Book AwardsNEW YORK, NY.- A dystopian novel about a private, for-profit prison system in which inmates compete for their freedom in death matches that are broadcast live. A history of Native American people and the development of American democracy. And a graphic novel about a Muslim familys road trip to Disney World. These books are some of the 25 finalists for this years National Book Awards, which were announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation. The winners will be named Nov. 15. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was nominated for Chain-Gang All-Stars, the novel about the for-profit prison system. Justin Torres was a finalist for Blackouts, which follows a dying man who passes along his research into queer history to someone he met at a psychiatric hospital. Another nominated book, Aaliyah Bilals Temple Folk, is a debut story collection about the varied ... More  Allegra Kent conjures 'Messages From the Air, the Atmosphere'NEW YORK, NY.- It was the first ballet that made sense to her. There was mystery, passion, pain. The music, by Vittorio Rieti, after themes from Bellini operas, swept her into another world. I was 11, said Allegra Kent. My heart was broken. Kent, the former New York City Ballet principal, was just a child when she attended a performance by Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Los Angeles. The final work on the program was Night Shadow, George Balanchines 1946 ballet, later called La Sonnambula. Kent had no idea who Balanchine was. But just four years later, she would join New York City Ballet, the company he had formed with Lincoln Kirstein. And not long after that, in 1960, Balanchine revived the ballet, casting Kent as its mysterious Sleepwalker. This season, as part of the companys 75th anniversary, Kent, 86, was brought in as a guest coach for La Sonnambula, ... More  India's early electronic music from the '70s is finally being releasedNEW YORK, NY.- When musician and artist Paul Purgas was invited in 2017 by the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, to play some of the music hed found in its archives that year, he was initially very keen. These were tapes that had been hidden from the public for decades; they proved the existence of a fertile avenue for electronic music in 1960s and 70s India, and he was determined for people to hear them. But as he went to use the institutes aging reel-to-reel machine, he got a nasty surprise: an electric shock. I think that sobered me up, he said in an interview. The project, he realized, was about to become a bit of a lifetime journey. Purgas, 43, is a London-based sound artist and curator, and half of the electronic music duo Emptyset. Initially, he had been on the trail of the lost Moog synthesizer that tAmerican experimentalist David Tudor used while in India, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet was born October 04, 1814. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. The exhibition "Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern ArtJean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art" opens today at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In this image: Jean-François Millet, 'The Angelus', 1857-1859, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (bequest of Alfred Chauchard, 1910).
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