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Installation view.
AUGUSTA, GA.- Music in the South celebrates the culturally diverse and richly expressive traditions of this regions musical arts in an exhibition of more than thirty-five workspaintings, drawings, prints, and photographs. The exhibition, drawn from the Morris Museums permanent collection, is supplemented by loans of musical instruments from the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, and includes many recent acquisitions. Organized by consulting curator Jay Williams, it is on view in the Coggins Gallery and the nearby stairwell though November 22, 2020. Many artists represented in the exhibition are familiar to regular visitors to the Morris Museum, including Dale Kennington, Terry Rowlett, and James Michalopoulos. Alfred Hutty, a major painter and prodigious printmaker during the Charleston Renaissance, is represented by Jenkins Band (circa 1925), a beautifully executed etching. Paintings by Bernie Fuchs (Eureka Brass Ba ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery willd its auction of Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages on Thu, Oct 22, 2020 9:00 AM CDT. The sale features ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more. In this image: Slender Female Fossilized Mammoth Tusk. Estimate $15,000 - $22,500.
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 | | Europe's museums are open, but the public isn't coming | | Sotheby's to offer Basquiat works from the Estate of Enrico Navarra | | Dix Noonan Webb to sell very rare silver penny | 
The Rijksmuseum, which is the national museum of the Netherlands, and gets about a third of its financing from the Dutch government, in Amsterdam, Oct. 14, 2020. Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Visitors to the Rijksmuseums vast, vaulted galleries of Dutch old master paintings can feel as if theyve got the whole place to themselves these days. Before the pandemic, around 10,000 people used to crowd in each day. Now, its about 800. In theory, even with strict social distancing guidelines visitors must book ahead, wear a mask, follow a set path and stay at least 6 feet apart the Dutch national museum could accommodate as many as 2,500 people a day. But the public isnt exactly jostling for those limited tickets. Across town, the Hermitage Amsterdam museum has extended an exhibition of imperial jewels from the Russian state collection that was attracting 1,100 visitors a day last ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jazz. Estimate: $4/6 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced it will auction two works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of the late Enrico Navarra, the artists great champion, gallerist and editor of the celebrated monograph on the artists work. Both executed in 1968, Black and Jazz are important works from the pivotal final years of Basquiats extraordinary life and artistic practice. Underscoring their importance, the works are illustrated on the case of Navarras monograph on the artist. Offered on behalf of Navarras estate, Black and Jazz works are estimated at $4/6 million each in Sothebys marquee Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York, which will be livestreamed to the world on 28 October. A visionary with unparalleled instinct, Navarra believed in and championed artists well before they came to fame. He was instrumental in nurturing Basquiats market, including authoring of the most comprehensive compendiu ... More | | 
The coin, which measures 19mm in diameter, was minted in York is one of only 20 surviving examples with this design and is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000.
LONDON.- An extremely rare silver penny of Baron Eustace Fitzjohn, a 12th century Yorkshire Business Magnate has been discovered recently by a metal detectorist and is to be offered by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb in a live/online auction of Coins and Historical Medals on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 10am on www.DNW.co.uk. The coin, which measures 19mm in diameter, was minted in York is one of only 20 surviving examples with this design and is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000. On August 15, Rob Brown a 56-year-old from Leeds, was using his Deus XP metal detector on a stubble field near Pickering in North Yorkshire when on arriving and walking just 20 paces he got his first signal of the day. At a depth of just two inches in a clump of soil, he saw the edge of a silver coin ... More |
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| | With Black artists' input, one gallery is 'starting to look different' | | San Antonio Museum of Art exhibits works from the Elizabeth and Robert Lende Collection | | African American History Museum displays Kobe Bryant's jersey | 
David Kordansky, owner of the David Kordansky Gallery, with Rashid Johnsons sculpture High Time at his gallery in Los Angeles, on Oct. 16, 2020. Philip Cheung/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- David Kordansky keeps one of Bob Weirs guitars and Jerry Garcias amplifiers in the office of his gallery here in Mid-City. Love of the Grateful Dead, says artist Mary Weatherford, helps explain Kordanskys approach to being an art dealer. The Grateful Dead is how Kordansky thinks, she said. There is a structure, but within the structure is improvisation. While the COVID-19 crisis has tested his capacity for improvisation, the Black Lives Matter movement has fueled Kordanskys impatience for change. So, in addition to opening his gallerys new exhibition space along South La Brea Avenue in September and adding important artists over the last seven months namely renowned post-minimalist Richard Tuttle Kordansky has used this forced hiatus to examine his own role and responsibility in helping to foster a more equitable art world. The ... More | | 
Coat. Turkmenistan, 20th century. Silk, h. 48 in. (121.9 cm) Promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende. Photo by Seale Studios.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of approximately 120 works from Elizabeth and Robert Lende's Collection, including headdresses, earrings, bracelets, and pendants, among other objects. Exquisite Adornment: Turkmen and Miao Jewelry from the Elizabeth and Robert Lende Collection explores the extraordinary aesthetic quality of these works, as well as the intricate techniques used by the Turkmen, Miao, and Hill Tribes people to produce them. The exhibition also delves into the objects social functions and importance to certain rites of passage. Exquisite Adornment will be on view through January 3, 2021. For centuries, the ethnic groups represented by works in the Elizabeth and Robert Lende collection and our forthcoming exhibition were subjugated by other dominating peoples and pushed to the most inaccessible and marginal areas. As a result, their artistry and craftsmanship have not been as well st ... More | | 
In a photo provided by National Museum of African American History and Culture, a jersey that Kobe Bryant wore during the 2008 N.B.A. finals is prepared to go on display at the National Museum of African American History. The National Museum of African American History and Culture via The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Shortly before the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened to the public in 2016, Kobe Bryant took a walk through its sports gallery, which chronicles Black athletes fight for equality and their cultural contributions. Bryant, whose $1 million donation to the museum gave him the sneak peek, later decided to donate some of his own memorabilia to the collection, including a Los Angeles Lakers uniform and a pair of shoes that he wore during the 2008 NBA Finals. Those items had not yet made it into the museums gallery, but after Bryants sudden death in a helicopter crash in January, which also killed his daughter Gianna Bryant, the museum has decided to put his jersey on display, it said Monday. Damion ... More |
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| | Lisa Williamson is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | | Spencer Davis, whose band was a hitmaker in the '60s, dies at 81 | | Exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw opens at Simon Lee Gallery | 
Lisa Williamson will have a solo exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles in 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Interested in language and its inevitable abstraction, Lisa Williamson leans into the formal considerations of sculpture to create works that are visually precise, physically resonant, and often attune to the spaces in which they are exhibited. The artists idiosyncratic practice follows a logic that is associative; compressing internal experience into forms that are both tangible and resistant at once. While there is a significant level of reduction and abstraction throughout the artists work, aspects of architecture, landscape and the figure remain visible throughout. With a unique approach to scale and proportion, in which the artist uses her own body or the surrounding environment as a measuring device, there is a particular balance and formal terseness integral to each form. This is evident in her recent series, Body Boards, which conveys the body as both a physical and psychological space. Regarding precision as an expressive gesture and calibration as a mode of produc ... More | | 
Spencer Davis played rhythm guitar in the band and occasionally sang lead vocals, lending his baritone voice mostly to blues-oriented material and never to the bands hit singles.
by Jim Farber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Spencer Davis, the leader of a rock group that had some of the most propulsive and enduring hits of the 1960s, including Gimme Some Lovin, Im a Man and Keep On Running all sung not by him but by a teenage Steve Winwood died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 81. The cause was pneumonia, Bob Birk, his booking agent and friend, said, adding that Davis had been hospitalized for the last week. Davis co-wrote Gimme Some Lovin, his groups biggest hit. He played rhythm guitar in the band and occasionally sang lead vocals, lending his baritone voice mostly to blues-oriented material and never to the bands hit singles. It was Winwood, who was only 15 when Davis discovered him, who emerged as the groups star, and he went to become an essential figure in British rock ... More | | 
Jim Shaw, Pandoras Box, 2020. Acrylic on muslin, 119.4 x 101.6 x 4.4 cm (47 x 40 x 1 3/4 in.). Photo: Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. © Jim Shaw.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw, his first at the London gallery since 2016. As the United States prepares for its upcoming Presidential election, Shaw is more analytical and daring than ever before in his satirical depictions and social commentary. Shaw is celebrated for the outlandish narratives and sharp wit with which he brings his dystopian, albeit eerily familiar, universe to life. His provocative tableaux, whether sinister, comedic, or somewhere in between, are pieced together from the artists own imagination and his prolific collection of magazine and newspaper cut outs, posters and prints, comic books and gimmicky advertisements, which he began collecting during his teenage years in Michigan in the 1960s. Shaws practice has always been inherently American, imbued with national references and critiques, some ... More |
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| | Richard Avedon, a photographer who wanted to outrun the glitz factor | | Eddie Martinez joins Blum & Poe | | Stéphane Aquin named new Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | 
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon. By Philip Gefter. Illustrated. 644 pages. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35.
by Dwight Garner
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The drama of the approaching photo insert nags at the reader of biographies. Do you skip ahead and devour the eye candy? Or do you hold off, slogging toward the photographs as if they were a small, warm inn at the midpoint of a long, pebbly hike? The issue is pressing while reading What Becomes a Legend Most, Philip Gefters wise and ebullient new biography of Richard Avedon. Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedons photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that youre thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedons actual images. They arent in this book. The two photo inserts contain, surely because of rights issues, pictures of
Richard Avedon. He was eye candy, too. He did most of his ... More | | 
Eddie Martinez, Japanese Death Poems, 2019 (detail). Oil, silkscreen ink, enamel paint, baby wipe, foot print, and debris on canvas, 72 x 108 inches. © Eddie Martinez. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe announced the representation of Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez. A solo exhibition of new work by the artist will open at Blum & Poe Los Angeles in 2021. Great art should make itself available to all sorts of oddball interpretations, and by that metric, painter Eddie Martinez surely qualifies. But hes not just a painterhes a sculptor, as well as a maniacal draughtsman. An urgency, earnest and searching, pulsates through all mediums he explores whether its a corkscrew line scratched from a ballpoint pen or a lobster buoy hopscotched into an assemblagenot so much readymade but rather something closer to objects as ruins (in the Roman sense). The paintings, rotten with spray paint ... More | | 
Stéphane Aquin. Photo: Ãliane Excoffier.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Mr. Stéphane Aquin as Director. Mr. Aquin currently holds the position of Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., which is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is considered the United States national museum of modern and contemporary art. Over the past five years with this institution, he has organized numerous exhibitions, edited several reference books, and participated in international conferences and juries. He will take up his new position in November. A native of Montreal, who grew up in the United States and Switzerland, Mr. Aquin holds a masters degree in Art History from the Université de Montréal. After an initial stay at the MMFA, from 1990 to 1992, during which he collaborated on the opening of the Jean-Noël-Desmarais Pavilion, he distinguished himself for several years as an art critic. ... More |
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 The bubble doctor is in: She keeps dance companies movingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bubble, part of the growing coronavirus vocabulary the R-factor, zoonotic, sheltering in place can be used as a noun (My bubble with 25 other dancers) or a verb (Yes, 25! We were bubbling!). Either way, bubbling has gained traction in the dance world as companies and organizations try to find ways of bringing artists together to create work in a safe environment. That involves rules, medical protocols, tests and vigilance, and it requires a presiding authority to decide what those should be. Enter Dr. Wendy Ziecheck, a New York internist, who trained with George Balanchines doctor and was the medical director for the Rockettes before taking this unlikely new career path. She is currently supervising a bubble for Dance Theater of Harlem, which recently traveled together to a secluded residency ... More Bruneau & Co.'s Fall Fine Art & Antiques auction will feature 533 lots of fine art, Asian art, furniture and moreCRANSTON, RI.- A live and online Fall Fine Art & Antiques auction packed with 533 lots of fine art, Asian arts, furniture and more is slated for Saturday, October 31st, at 10 am Eastern time by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Limited in-house seating is by appointment only, just for active bidders in the Bruneau & Co. gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. To reserve a seat, call 401-533-9980. The live, in-house bidding will involve mask requirements, social distancing and other COVID-19 protocols, per strict CDC and Rhode Island state guidelines. Otherwise, folks can bid online via LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com, bidLIVE.Bruneauandco.com and the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes or GooglePlay. Phone and absentee bids also accepted. This auction is literally packed, said Bruneau & Co. president Kevin ... More Art Gallery of NSW announces revitalisation of historic building SYDNEY.- On the eve of its 150th anniversary, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is undertaking a program of works to its historic building with leading Australian architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG). The upgrades will restore original architectural features of the building, provide more space for art and scholarship, and enhance the visitor experience and sustainable operations. The revitalisation of the 19th- and 20th-century building is a key part of the Gallerys Sydney Modern Project transformation, which together with its new SANAA-designed building is scheduled for completion in late 2022. The Gallery remains open throughout this period. The Sydney Modern Project is funded through a $344 million public and philanthropic partnership the largest of its kind to date in the arts in Australia comprising $244 million ... More Seattle arts organizations receive $9 million infusion at critical timeSEATTLE, WA.- Nine leading Seattle arts organizations have received welcome news at a critical time. The Friday Foundation today announced philanthropic gifts totaling more than $9 million to honor the lives and legacies of late art enthusiasts Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang. The gifts are intended to inspire others to discover and engage with Seattles many cultural communities and opportunities in the visual and performing arts, and find lifelong engagements as the Langs did themselves. Whether it is attending a concert or performance, volunteering with an organization, supporting an institution or discovering art, the hope is to remind the Seattle community that there are so many places and organizations for everyone of all ages to find inspiration. With lights dimmed in most theatres and museums this year due to COVID-19, these ... More Eclectic collections produce strong prices at JSE & Associates Fall Fine & Decorative Arts auctionMT. CRAWFORD, VA.- The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates October 16-17 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction was a highly anticipated event and produced robust prices in multiple categories. The two-day format consisted of 1,279 lots of high-quality material and generated very strong levels of participation for the firm, a solid indication of vigor in this diverse segment of the marketplace. Competition was intense throughout each day with nearly 5,000 registered bidders from over 40 countries participating online, by phone, in house, and through absentee. Session I on Friday started the weekend off smoothly with most lots meeting or exceeding expectations. The days offerings consisted of a wide selection of American and European art glass; over 100 miniature and fairy lamps; a fine collection of scent bottles; antique and modern paperweights; studio ... More The Duchess of Cambridge and National Portrait Gallery launch nationwide Hold Still Community exhibitionLONDON.- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have today, visited Waterloo in south London to mark the launch of the UK-wide Hold Still community exhibition, supported by the Co-op, which launched Co-operate in April to help connect vulnerable people to local and national support initiatives and has recently provided emergency relief funding to 4,500 community causes. The Duke and Duchess viewed the final one hundred Hold Still portraits displayed on billboards outside Waterloo station, one of 112 community exhibition sites in 80 towns, cities and areas across the UK. The Duke and Duchess were greeted by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Steve Murrells, Co-op Group, CEO and Sami Massalami Mohammed Elmassalami Ayad, a volunteer at a community Food Hub in Hackney, whose portrait, Sami by Grey Hutton, is ... More Wharton Esherick and George Nakashima highlight Freeman's latest Pennsylvania salePHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans renowned Pennsylvania Sale is set to return on Wednesday, October 28th. The auction is a tribute to Pennsylvanias long-standing legacy as a major artistic region. Exemplary 20th-century furniture by George Nakashima will be made available, along with work by Wharton Esherick directly from the Hedgerow Theatre Collection. Additionally, several folk portraits by Jacob Maentel offer a rare glimpse into early 19th-century Pennsylvania. In 1923, Wharton Esherick began designing furniture for the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. These pieces became an invaluable way for Esherick to refine techniques on his way to being considered the dean of American craftsmen. The 12-lot collection includes the Important "Thunder Table (Lot 139, $150,000-250,000). This trestle table was designed for the theater's ... More MACRO opens the first solo show by the Cypriot artist Phanos Kyriacou in ItalyROME.- MACRO presents at. this moment, the first solo show by the Cypriot artist Phanos Kyriacou in Italy. The exhibition is part of Supplement, a series of projects exhibitions and other initiatives that offer free digressions from the formats of Museum for Preventive Imagination, launching in December. Supplement, which started in recent months, will continue in parallel with special commissions and collaborations, both inside and outside the museum, expressing its tentacular identity. The exhibition project by Phanos Kyriacou has been created for the outdoor spaces of the central courtyard of the MACRO, where the artist presents a new group of works. From 15 October to 15 November, a community of different works conceived as a large installation will allow visitors to explore the relationships between conditions and states of matter, typical ... More Outsider Art Fair Paris opens "Sexual Personae"PARIS.- Conceived as an invitational exhibition within the 2020 Outsider Art Fair Paris, Sexual Personae will examine representations of women in the work of different generations of male, female, and gender-nonconforming self-taught, outsider and art brut artists from across the world. Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, the exhibition brings together a panoply of iconic examples of archetypes from Outsider Art: from Henry Dargers Vivian Girls to a contemporary Madonna by Elisabetta Zangrandi, to Eugene von Bruenchenheins pin-up photographs of his wife. According to Carl Jung, our human collective unconscious is populated by archetypes and universal symbols. Whether trained or untrained, artists frequently draw from this collective unconscious when creating their iconography and their representations of female subjects often revert ... More Anthony Chisholm dies at 77; acclaimed in August Wilson rolesNEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Chisholm, an actor who was among the foremost interpreters of August Wilson, appearing in dozens of productions of that playwrights works both on Broadway and in leading regional theaters, died on Friday at his home in Montclair, New Jersey. He was 77. Jeremy Katz of his talent agency, the Katz Co., announced the death. The cause was not specified. Chisholm, in a career that stretched across a half-century, was known to television audiences from his recurring role as the inmate Burr Redding in the final three seasons of the HBO prison drama Oz, which ended in 2003. But most of his work was on the stage, and he drew particular acclaim for his appearances in the plays that constitute Wilsons Pittsburgh Cycle, 10 works chronicling the African American experience during the 20th century. Four of those appearances ... More Whispers of an Italian-Jewish past fill a composer's musicNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Since early in his career, Yotam Haber has grappled with what it means to be a contemporary Jewish composer. The tentative answers offered by his music full of allusions, distortion and whispers of the past suggest that the grappling itself is a vital part of that identity. Habers most recent work, Estro Poetico-Armonico III, which juxtaposes a live mezzo-soprano and orchestra with decades-old recordings of Italian Jewish cantorial singing, dramatizes a subtle dialogue between creation and tradition. One of three composers to receive the Azrieli Foundations music prizes for 2020, Haber wrote the piece to fulfill the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music. The biennial awards of the foundation, based in Toronto, include two additional categories: the Prize for Jewish Music, given to an already existing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Domenico Zampieri was born October 21, 1581. Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino; October 21, 1581 - April 6, 1641) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, or Carracci School, of painters. Domenichino's work, developed principally from Raphael's and the Carracci's examples, mirrors the theoretical ideas of G. B. Agucchi, with whom the painter collaborated on a Treatise on Painting (Domenichino's portrait of Agucchi in York occasionally has been attributed to Annibale Carracci). In this image: Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637-38, Cathedral of Naples.
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