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A photo provided by Łukasz Czyżewski shows the remains of a child buried in an unmarked mass cemetery at the edge of the village of Pień, near the Polish city of Bydgoszcz. The padlock placed around the childs toe is visible in the foreground. (Łukasz Czyżewski via The New York Times)
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, less disagreeably, stirring up a ruckus in their homes. In one account, from 1674, a dead man rose from his tomb to assault his relatives; when his grave was opened, the corpse was unnaturally preserved and bore traces of fresh blood. Such reports were common enough that a wide range of remedies was employed to keep corpses from reanimating: cutting out their hearts, nailing them into their graves, hammering stakes through their legs, jamming their jaws open with bricks (to prevent them from gnawing their way out). In 1746, a Benedictine monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet published a popular treatise that sought, among other things, to distinguish real revenants from frauds. Four centuries later, archaeologists in Europe have discovered the first physical evidence of a suspected child revenant. While ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Cleveland Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of Chinaâs Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, a landmark exhibition that explores the historical and cultural riches of a pivotal region known as Jiangnan. The exhibition---the first in the West to focus on this area---features more than 200 objects relating to Jiangnan which has remained one of Chinaâs wealthiest, most populous, and agriculturally fertile lands.
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| Man Ray exhibition in New York, the first of its kind | | Brendan Lynch appointed new Chairman of Asia Week New York | | A painting looted at least once, from Hitler, is on the block | 
Man Ray (1890-1976), Vénus restaurée, 1971. Plaster cast of the torso of Venus and rope 29 1/8 à 16 1/2 à 15 3/8 in. (74 à 42 à 39 cm). Credit: Photo: Damian Griffiths. © Man Ray 2015 Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luxembourg + Co., New York, is opening Man Ray: Other Objects. The first of its kind, this exhibition invites visitors to experience in person the premise of an artists practice that relied on and relished in the absence of originals. Often considered as unique artworks, Man Rays original sculptures possibly never existed. They are often only known through the artists accounts in writing, conversations, or conspicuously dated photographs. In place of these absent signifiers, however, Man Ray created alternative variations on multiples occasions throughout his career, under morphed titles, materials, and in various quantities. These he sometimes called replicas, on other occasions editions, and when something clicked and the work really evolved, he would refer to them as new originals. In either case, however, objects never emerged in Man Rays ... More | | 
London-based Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. specializes in arranging private sales of Art of the Islamic World, Indian and Himalayan Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Brendan Lynch has been named the new Chairman of Asia Week New York, the collaboration of prominent international Asian art galleries, six major auction houses, and numerous museums and Asian cultural institutions. I am honored to be the new chairman of this illustrious association of galleries and auction houses devoted to the promotion of Asian art, says Lynch, whose London-based gallery, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd., specializes in Indian, Islamic and Himalayan art, as well as Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities. As we head into our milestone 15th year, I look forward to maintaining the high standards of excellence promoted by our members. Much has been achieved in the sale and promotion of works of art and paintings from China, Japan, India, and the Himalayas, with the resulting acquisition of diverse works and masterpieces by some of the worlds great institutions. It is my intent to expand ... More | | 
In an undated image provided via Neumeister, Sermon on the Mount, by Frans Francken the Younger. (via Neumeister via The New York Times)
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK, NY.- It has become a familiar scenario in the art world: The heirs of a Jewish collector spot a painting in an auction catalog that was stolen from their relative in the Nazi era. They contact the auction house and, if all goes well, reach a settlement with the seller that ensures they receive a share of the revenue from the sale. But what happens when the rightful heirs to art probably looted by the Nazis cannot be identified, let alone located? A work by Antwerp painter Frans Francken the Younger that the Munich auction house Neumeister is offering Sept. 21 raises exactly that question. Painted in the early 17th century, Sermon on the Mount shows Christ, under cloudy skies, speaking to a huddle of people of all ages who are listening intently. The current owner brought it to Neumeister for sale nine years ago. It is known to have been stolen at least once from Adolf Hitler, a known beneficiary ... More |
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| First exhibition in North America to examine Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio's output over four generations | | Hans Josephsohn sculptures show featuring 13 works ranging from 1950-2004 at Skarstedt | | Groundbreaking exhibition at Cantor Arts Center repositions the self-taught Modern Art artist Morris Hirshfield | 
Rabbit with Jewel, 1930s1980s. Shinkai Kanzan (Japanese, 19122011). Porcelain with underglaze pink and cream glaze; 16 x 12.5 x 9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger.
CLEVELAND, OHIO.- One of the Cleveland Museum of Art's newest exhibitions, Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio, is on view in the Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery until next spring. Showcasing works in porcelain and stoneware made by the Kyoto-based studio of Seifū Yohei from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the exhibition debuts extraordinary gifts to the museums collection from the James and Christine Heusinger Collection. The assemblage was strategically acquired over the past three decades with the goal of representing the full range of forms and styles produced under the Seifū Yohei name and showcasing the work of Seifū Yohei III (18511914), the first ceramist ... More | | 
Hans Josephsohn, Untitled (Beno). Conceived in 1956, and cast in 2015 brass, 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches, 46 x 31 x 36 cm. Edition 4 of 6, with 2 AP. (Inv #8946.4).
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt is beginning fall season with a solo exhibition of the Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012). The exhibition, featuring approximately thirteen sculptures, traces Josephsohns career from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Focused on three of his most iconic formsthe reclining figure, the half- figure, and the headthis exhibition serves as a testament to the artists profound mastery of the human form. Hans Josephsohn will mark the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery and the artists first solo exhibition in New York in almost ten years. In a career that spanned over six decades, Josephsohn remained unwaveringly dedicated to the human figureits ... More | | 
Morris Hirshfield, The Artist and His Model, 1945. Oil on canvas. American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of David L. Davies, 2002.23.1. © 2023 Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center is now presenting Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered from and reintroducing a singular, self-taught artist who, against all odds, achieved international recognition in the 1940s. Curated by Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History at Stanford, the exhibition builds on ten years of research on the artist for the recently-published book, Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered (winner of the 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award), and is now returning home to Stanford following its critically-acclaimed debut at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. ... More |
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| Have you seen Paul McCartney's lost bass guitar? Tips welcome. | | 'Superunknown' an exhibition of new work by Henry Mandell opening at Anita Rogers Gallery | | A new energy is vibrating at this house | 
A series of guitars, including a Höfner Union Jack bass courtesy of Paul McCartney, in the Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, April 6, 2019. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by Isabella Kwai
LONDON.- Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles. That bass can be heard on some of the bands most famous hits, including Love Me Do, She Loves You and Twist and Shout. McCartney picked up the instrument in a Hamburg, Germany, music store in 1961, and it accompanied the Fab Four as they rocketed to stunning success, becoming the most famous band in the world. But the guitar vanished eight years later. A new campaign is seeking to find the missing instrument, and hundreds of people have responded, hoping to help solve the decades-old mystery: Where is Paul ... More | | 
Henry Mandell, Noetic 213, 2022. UV polymer on aluminum 42 in. round, 2 of 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Superunknown, an exhibition of new work by Henry Mandell. Superunknown, Mandells debut solo exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, features paintings and drawings from several bodies of work the artist began during the pandemic. Mandells studio practice is focused on the exploration of experimental artistic practices, the human condition, scientific principles and their merging effect on our lives, pioneering unique approaches to creating abstract artworks. All of the paintings in Superunknown began as stories, poems, or written data. Using digital tools, Mandell transforms line by line, letter by letter, the characters of selected source text into visually compelling abstract imagery. The first step in transforming what is known into the unknown, experimenting and painting without the use of iterative code. All creative decisions remain with the artists hand and mind, ... More | | 
Imagine (2023) by Ange Dakouo, on display in the Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, July 19, 2023. (Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times)
by Siddhartha Mitter
BERLIN.- On a bright morning in early June, German lawmakers, Berlin city officials, ambassadors and other dignitaries clustered at the door of a hulking modernist edifice, waiting for a Vodou priest to conclude a ritual under a tree. The priest, Jean-Daniel Lafontant, had come from Haiti to help reopen the House of World Cultures, Berlins distinguished but dowdy center for non-European arts and ideas. His task was to invoke Papa Legba guardian of thresholds and crossroads before the doors opened on a radically reinvented institution. The house or HKW, as everyone calls it, using its German initials is an unwieldy beast, an anachronism with promise. It has prestige and generous state funding. It has space: a 1957 congress hall with a concrete ... More |
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| Brandi Twilley's 'Crest Foods' opens at Sargent's Daughters | | The Rockwell Museum welcomes Amanda Lett as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions | | 19th edition of Edinburgh Art Festival draws to a close after first year under direction of Kim McAleese | 
Brandi Twilley, Sandy, 2021, Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Crest Foods, an exhibition of new work by Oklahoma City-based painter Brandi Twilley. For Twilleys fourth solo presentation with the gallery, she created a series of over forty small-scale oil paintings that both document and reinterpret her time working at the titular Crest Foods, a local grocery store chain in Oklahoma. These intimate works depict the difficult realities of working class life while also allowing flashes of beauty and transcendence to break through. In 2003, Twilley returned home from college in Boston to Oklahoma to recover from severe depression and insomnia. After a fire at her familys rural home, which was the second fire to destroy a family residence, they relocated to Midwest City and Twilley took a job as a cleaner at the Crest Foods, where her three brothers would also go on to work. Reflecting on this time in her life, Twilley writes, At 7 ... More | | 
Since 2019, Amanda has served a curatorial assistant in the American Painting and Sculpture department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
CORNING, NY.- The Rockwell Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Corning, NY announced the addition of Amanda Lett to its team as the new Curator of Collections and Exhibitions. With her extensive experience and deep passion for art, Lett is set to play a pivotal role in shaping The Rockwells future exhibitions, enhancing its ever-evolving collection and programs, and cultivating community connections. Amanda completed her PhD at Boston University in American art in 2019. Since 2019, Amanda has served a curatorial assistant in the American Painting and Sculpture department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. While there, she has been involved in exhibition interpretation for both the permanent American galleries as well as special exhibitions. She was also a member of the cross-departmental team who worked on a redesign and reinstallation ... More | | 
Gemma Cairney, EAF chair and EAF Director Kim McAleese.
EDINBURGH .- Edinburgh Art Festival 2023 closed on Sunday 27 August, the first festival under the direction of Kim McAleese, presenting 55 ambitious exhibitions and events, in partnership with 35 of the citys visual art community and a wide range of partners and venues. This edition saw the festival move to a new, shorter length format, taking place on new dates aligning closely with the other August Edinburgh Festivals. EAFs 2023 dates were 11-27 August. EAF 2023 focussed around three weekends - special events and projects punctuated the run of the festival, including readings, screenings, parties and live performances alongside the wider offering of exhibitions and commissions across the full period. A sold out series of festival-led commissioned performances and events this year offered a sliding scale ticketing structure for audiences, alongside a majority- ... More |
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 Hannah Traore Gallery presents "Quil Lemons: Quiladelphia"NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery opens Quiladelphia today, photographer and Philadelphia native Quil Lemons' first solo show with the gallery. In this new series, Lemons curiosity for and exploration into self allows him to offer a deeper retrospective of representations of the Black male form. His images act as intimate dissections of his own queer psyche, providing a new perspective on Black masculinity and breaking the barriers of gender and sexual orientation for his audience. Quiladelphia is an enigmatic experience that questions, reflects, and dismantles stereotypical views of what vulnerability looks like for the Black man. "I wanted to welcome folks into what it is to live life as a Black gay man. I let my camera navigate everything I see. When it came to shooting, I was letting people into my brain. It was not to make Black nudity and sex into ... More  Dovecot's major exhibition Scottish Women Artists features new commissions and contemporary worksEDINBURGH .- Dovecot is presenting major new artworks as part of their exhibition Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception with The Fleming Collection. The exhibition celebrates the works and contributions of women artists to the Scottish art scene across 250 years, including a new tapestry by Sekai Machache commissioned by Dovecot, and exciting works by contemporary Scottish artists Victoria Crowe, Rachel Maclean and Alberta Whittle. Machaches Lively Blue, commissioned by Dovecot for the exhibition, is based on an ink study by the Zimbabwean-Scottish artist, and was selected for the exhibition due to its reflection on the challenging colonial history of indigo. Machache, who has been selected to represent Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale 2024, is known for her photographic practice. The artist has ... More  Jim Nutt, represented by David Nolan Gallery, to show for first time in decade in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery is now opening Shouldn't We Be More Careful?, a solo exhibition of recent drawings by Jim Nutt, marking the first time in more than a decade that the artist has shown in New York. Titled after a 1977 Nutt painting, this is the fourth solo exhibition of the artist with David Nolan Gallery, which has represented him since the 1990s. Shouldnt We Be More Careful? will feature works on paper, all created in 2022 and 2023 and organized in close collaboration with the artist. Although Nutts name remains indelibly linked with Hairy Who, the group of Chicago artists exhibiting in the late 1960s and early 70s known for their perverse, surreal and humorous psychosexual aesthetic, his work over the past four decades has had an almost singular focus: representations of a single imaginary figure. While Nutts earlier works ... More  Jordan Ann Craig's debut show with the gallery, sharp tongue soft skin, at HalesNEW YORK, NY.- Hales is now opening sharp tongue soft skin, Northern Cheyenne artist Jordan Ann Craigs debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for her large-scale paintings, Craigs abstract compositions are characterized by a dynamic exploration and interpretation of Northern Cheyenne material culture. Craig is currently included in Patterns of Knowing at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and will have a solo exhibition at The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in 2025. New paintings made for the show are Craigs largest and most complex to date, deepening her use of color, pattern and bolder geometric schemes. In expansive compositions of repeated forms, she considers spatial relationships experimenting with framing devices to emphasize the edge of the canvas as well as making two monumental diptychs. ... More  David Krut Projects first solo exhibition with Raquel van Haver opening todayNEW YORK, NY.- David Krut Projects, New York is now hosting Rising Phoenix, the gallerys first solo exhibition with Raquel van Haver. Exploring issues relating to crime, insurance and property ownership in Johannesburg, this exhibition features a series of ten experimental monoprints created in collaboration with the David Krut Workshop (DKW) alongside a pair of large-scale, sculptural paintings inspired by the series. In her primary practice, Raquel van Haver mainly works on burlap, combining oil paint with materials such as tar, chalk, resin, hair, bottle caps and beads in heavily textured compositions extending organically beyond the borders of her monumental canvases. Resonating with her own experiences, Van Haver interweaves subjects such as identity, history, folktales and urban stories, femininity, masculinity, the politics of gentrification and religion, ... More  Edith Grossman, who elevated the art of translation, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Edith Grossman, whose acclaimed translations of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes raised the profile of the often-overlooked role of the translator, died Monday at her home in New York. She was 87. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her son Kory Grossman said. An earthy, tough New Yorker who was known as Edie, Grossman dedicated herself to translating Latin American and Spanish authors at a time when literary translation was not considered a serious academic discipline or career. Translators had long been seen as the humble Cinderella of publishing, she said in an interview for this obituary in 2021. But as she wrote in her groundbreaking book Why Translation Matters (2010), she saw the role not as the weary journeyman of the publishing world, but as a living bridge between two realms ... More  In the Faeroe Islands, art, food and fashion take a cue from natureNEW YORK, NY.- Huddled in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Scotland and Norway, the Faeroes an 18-island archipelago and self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark captivates visitors the instant they land at the airport on the island of Vágar. Silence saturates the emerald green slopes and basalt cliffs. Sheep roam the grassy expanses that are sliced vertically by dark rocky threads caused by the erosion of streams. Its hard to keep your eyes focused on the road as you behold a gauzy mist swirling around the mountains, veiling deep gorges, wide fjords, occasional turf-roofed dwellings and waterfalls. In this isolated land with its sparse population of some 54,400 people, the environments magic is pervasive one reason, perhaps, why the Faeroes also bubble with human innovation that takes its cue from nature. And getting ... More  Gallery Wendi Norris appoints Leslie Rothenberg as director based in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Responding to the needs of her global client base with a bold expansion of her gallery business model, Wendi Norris announced today that she has appointed Leslie Rothenberg as a Director to represent Gallery Wendi Norris in New York City. "I am delighted to welcome Leslie to the gallery team. Leslie embodies the cultural values instilled in my gallery accessibility, professionalism, and knowledgeability. I am thrilled to expand the gallery's presence and provide increased access to our treasured clients and artists." Rothenberg will begin her appointment September 1, 2023, in anticipation of Gallery Wendi Norriss offsite exhibition in New York, Alice Rahon and Ranu Mukherjee: Time Warriors, opening September 6, 2023. ... More  A $700 million bonanza for the winners of crypto's collapse: LawyersNEW YORK, NY.- The collapse in cryptocurrency prices last year forced a procession of major firms into bankruptcy, trigging a government crackdown and erasing the savings of millions of inexperienced investors. But for a small group of corporate turnaround specialists, cryptos implosion has become a financial bonanza. Lawyers, accountants, consultants, cryptocurrency analysts and other professionals have racked up more than $700 million in fees since last year from the bankruptcies of five major crypto firms, including the digital currency exchange FTX, according to a New York Times analysis of court records. That sum is likely to grow significantly as the cases unfold over the coming months. Large fees are common in corporate bankruptcies, which require complex and time-intensive legal work to untangle. But in the crypto world, the mounting fees have ... More  Can shrinking be good for Japan? A Marxist bestseller makes the case.TOKYO.- When Kohei Saito decided to write about degrowth communism, his editor was understandably skeptical. Communism is unpopular in Japan. Economic growth is gospel. So a book arguing that Japan should view its current condition of population decline and economic stagnation not as a crisis but as an opportunity for Marxist reinvention, sounded like a tough sell. But sell it has. Since its release in 2020, Saitos book Capital in the Anthropocene has sold more than 500,000 copies, exceeding his wildest imaginings. Saito, a philosophy professor at the University of Tokyo, appears regularly in Japanese media to discuss his ideas. His book has been translated into several languages, with an English edition to be issued early next year. Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalisms ability to solve the p ... More  Painting by Atsuko Tanaka headlines MBA Seattle Auction Houses Modernism saleRENTON, WASH.- An important untitled synthetic polymer on canvas painting by the Japanese modernist Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005), two sculptures by British artist Anthony Caro (1924-2013), and two charcoal self-portraits by Jonas Wood (American, b. 1977) are all part of MBA Seattle Auction Houses Important Modernism: Art and Object auction slated for September 28th. The online-only auction will start at 5 pm Pacific time, with online bidding available through the MBA Seattle Auction House website (bid.mbaauction.com) as well as LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. Previews will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 26-27, from 10-5 PST; and Thursday, Sept. 28, from 10-4; or by appointment. With a pre-sale estimate of $300,000-$600,000, and a real chance to finish ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German architect Elisabeth Böhm died September 06, 2012. Elisabeth Böhm née Haggenmüller (18 June 1921, in Mindelheim - 6 September 2012 in Cologne) was a German architect. Frequently working together with her husband, Gottfried Böhm, she participated in the design of numerous projects, especially their interiors. In this image: Böhm with her husband Gottfried in 2009.
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