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Robert Frank, Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955. © Robert Frank from The Americans, courtesy Pace/MacGill.
by Maggy Donaldson
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Robert Frank, a trailblazing documentary photographer whose raw, piercing aesthetic placed him among the 20th century's greats, has died, according to his gallery. He was 94 years old. The Swiss-born photographer rose to fame with the publication of his landmark book "The Americans," an unflinching look at US society that proved hugely influential. A spokesperson from the Manhattan gallery Pace/MacGill told AFP that Frank died overnight of natural causes in Inverness, Nova Scotia. His seminal book -- published in France in 1958 and in America one year later -- emerged out of a series of road trips across the United States with his family in the mid-1950s, a journey akin to those made by his friend and writer Jack Kerouac and others from the "Beat Generation." Eschewing classic photographic techniques, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this file photo taken on January 29, 2015 Mexican painter Francisco Toledo poses during an exhibition called "The corn of our sustenance" at the Zapata subway station in Mexico City. Mexican expressionist artist Francisco Toledo, famous for his deep content, social denunciation and activism for environment, died on September 5, 2019 at 79, the government informed. Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP
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 | | Christie's France to offer masterpieces from Africa, Oceania and North America | | Ugo Rondinone & Sotheby's to present 'Stop Bladder Cancer' as part of the Contemporary Curated Auction | | Painting by Joseph Anton Koch returns to the Städel | 
Last seen on the market in the early 1990s this beautiful Baule mask rested quietly for almost three decades until its recent rediscovery in a private collection. Estimate: 300,000-500,000 © Christies Images Ltd, 2019.
PARIS.- Christies announced their fall sale season with two important sales in Paris. The Avant-Garde sale will feature several major African masterworks offered alongside works of Modern and Post-War Art on October 17, coinciding with the opening of Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain (FIAC) week. On October 30 in Paris we will proudly offer: Splendors Masterpieces from Africa, North America and Oceania featuring works from a Princely Collection and a Distinguished American Private Collection. This exceptional sale of 50 masterworks features important African and Northwest Coast works of art from two private collections in one of the highest concentration of top quality offerings to come to market in several seasons. A celebration of transformative beauty, the North American offering focuses on a unique group ... More | | 
Adam McEwen, Hotel, 2018. Graphite i. 11 1/4 by 7 by 3 in. 28.6 by 17.8 by 7.6 cm. ii. 3 5/8 by 2 1/3 in. 9.21 by 5.40 cm. Estimate $25/35,000. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Ugo Rondinone is being joined by 14 other artists who are donating significant works for Stop Bladder Cancer a benefit auction to raise funds for critical research for bladder cancer. Rondinone, who was diagnosed with high-grade bladder cancer in May of 2017, is joining forces with Sothebys, who have organized this sale as part of Sotheby's Contemporary Curated auction on September 26 in New York. The Contemporary Curated pre-sale exhibition will be open to the public from 2025 September. The artists who contributed significant works to the auction are: Joe Bradley, Carroll Dunham, Latifa Echakhch, John Giorno, Peter Halley, Shara Hughes, Sarah Lucas, Chris Martin, Adam McEwen, Oscar Murillo, Elizabeth Peyton, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, Pat Steir, and Franz West. All Works Sold to Support Critical Funding for Bladder Cancer ... More | | 
Joseph Anton Koch (17681839), Landscape with the Prophet Balaam and his donkey, ca. 1832 (detail). Oil on canvas, 74 x 102 cm. Photo: Städel Museum.
FRANKFURT.- The painting Landscape with the Prophet Balaam and his donkey (ca. 1832) by the artist Joseph Anton Koch (17681839) is returning to the Städel Museum. The work from the museums collection was considered lost in 1945 and was recently rediscovered in a private collection. Thanks to the generous gesture of returning the work from private ownership, it is now once again on view in the Städel. For its presentation within the collection of nineteenth century art, the painting was carefully restored and newly framed by the museum. It is thus once again part of the Städels extensive collection of works by Joseph Anton Koch. A total of three paintings, thirteen drawings and forty-nine prints provide profound insight into the oeuvre of the artist, whose impact on German art in the nineteenth century cannot be overestimated. We are indebted to the former owner for the extraordinary gesture and ... More |
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| | Spectacular stained-glass windows from the Whitney Museum of American Art's original home rediscovered | | Tokyo Chuo Auction launches new logo in celebration of a new milestone | | Christie's announces nearly 300 works to be offered in two live auctions | 
The restorers Thomas Venturella and Jim Murphy will speak October 8 for the Art Glass Forum | New York about Robert Winthrop Chanler's newly reunited set of seven windows made between 1918 and 1923 for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture studio on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village.
NEW YORK, NY.- A long-dispersed set of spectacular stained-glass windows from the Whitney Museum of American Art's original home has been rediscovered and reunited, and it is now undergoing repairs. The windows' demanding original client was the philanthropist, sculptor and museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The windows' charismatic designer, Robert Winthrop Chanler, had a varied career painting and sculpting murals, folding screens, wall reliefs and portraits while using up his inheritance from Astor ancestors and occasionally serving as a county sheriff. Between 1918 and 1923, for Whitney's sculpture studio on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village (later adapted into the Whitney Museum of American ... More | | 
The new logo reflects the companys business philosophy and culture.
HONG KONG.- Tokyo Chuo Auction today announced the launch of the new logo, marking a new milestone of the company. Chairman of Tokyo Chuo Auction, Mr. Ando Shokei remarked, Since the foundation in 2011, Tokyo Chuo Auction expanded its business to Hong Kong six years ago. Based on the principle of offering artworks from reliable sources with traceable authenticity, the company holds auctions twice a year and has achieved great success; in October 2018, the company was successfully listed on the Main Board; in 2019, the Tokyo Chuo Auction launches a new trademark in celebration of the beginning of a new era. The new logo reflects the companys business philosophy and culture. It resembles the character East, inspired by Tokyo Chuo Auctions endeavours to offer the finest artworks of the Oriental culture in its auctions held in Asia, presenting a wide collection of ancient and modern Chinese ... More | | 
Laurie Simmons, b. 1949. How We See/Anmari, Pink/Black Shirt, 2015. Estimate: $12,000 18,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the sale of Photographs in New York on 2 October 2019, offering a broad overview of the mediums history with examples spanning from the 1840s to contemporary works (total pre-sale estimate: $6,000,000 9,000,000). The auction will include iconic property by historically significant artists in the category from Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston to Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank alongside contemporary artists from Richard Misrach and Vik Muniz to Larry Sultan and Peter Beard, among others. Photographs will also include a spotlight section of works by Helmut Newton from the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties as well a grouping of Andy Warhol Polaroids featuring 20th century Pop icons including Diana Ross, Jerry Hall, Grace Jones, Truman Capote, and Bianca Jagger. Additionally, a special selection of fifty-four ... More |
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| | Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year nominees | | Hamiltons Gallery exhibits two rare portfolios by Richard Avedon | | Sculpture and abstraction shines in October 8 sale of African-American Fine Art | 
Fashion Statements by Viktor & Rolf.
LONDON.- The Design Museum announced the 76 nominees for the twelfth Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards revealing the most innovative designs of the last 12 months Nominees include a meme inspired dress collection by Viktor & Rolf, a data generated proxy address system created to reduce homelessness, the worlds first hands free breast pump, Adidass collaboration with designer Ji Won Choi, as worn by Beyoncé, food sharing app OLIO and The Sheds extendable building in New York. Accessible designs represent a major theme in this years awards, as seen in IKEAs ThisAbles collection, Tommy Hilfigers Adaptive clothing range and Chromats AW19 fashion collection. Costumes designed by Sandy Powell for Oscar winning title The Favourite and the worlds first silent and hands-free breast pump; the Design Museum in London announces the most international and gender balanced ... More | | 
Carmen, evening dress by Patou, Au R éveil, Paris, August 1957. © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
LONDON.- To mark Hamiltons Gallery being appointed an official representative of The Richard Avedon Foundation in the UK, Hamiltons is presenting Richard Avedon: Portfolios from 9 September to 13 November 2019. Throughout his 60-year career, the photographer Richard Avedon created only a handful of portfolios which he presented as complete bodies of work meant to be displayed as one group of photographs. Hamiltons is exhibiting two of these rare portfolios, La Passante du Siècle and Made in France, marking the first time either portfolio has been exhibited in its entirety. Made in France is a portfolio by chance. It was assembled after Avedons re-discovery of an intact group of 27 of his original engraver prints from the glory years that were 1950s Harpers Bazaar. During this time Avedon became an ascendant force at the magazine and travelled to ... More | | 
Elizabeth Catlett, Seated Woman, carved mahogany, 1962. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, October 8 Swann Galleries will offer its African-American Fine Art sale, featuring a robust offering of sculpture and abstract paintings, as well as a fine selection of contemporary figurative works in a variety of mediums. A scarce example of Elizabeth Catletts early 1960s sculpture, Seated Woman, carved mahogany, 1962, is expected to bring $100,000 to $150,000it is the earliest wood sculpture by Catlett to come to auction. Further highlights in sculpture are two of Augusta Savages best-known works: Gamin, painted plaster, circa 1929, estimated to bring $20,000 to $30,000; and Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp), metal cast with patina, circa 1939, a miniature of her commission for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair, available at $15,000 to $25,000. Sargent Johnsons circa-1934 painted terra cotta sculpture, Head of a Negro ... More |
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| | albertz benda opens fall season with exhibition of works by Conrad Egyir & Patrick Quarm | | National Portrait Gallery celebrates first season of new podcast, "Portraits" | | A survey of William Bailey's work includes some of his finest and rarely exhibited paintings | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda opened their fall season with Conrad Egyir & Patrick Quarm: Anansesem, exploring the palimpsestic nature of identity in an increasingly globalized society. On view from September 5 through October 5, 2019, the exhibition comprises new bodies of work by both artists, drawing from their respective experiences growing up in post-colonial Ghana and currently living in the United States. Conrad Egyir (b. 1989, Ghana; lives and works in Detroit) has an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been featured in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and Grand Rapids Art Museum (MI). Paintings have been acquired by the Rennie Collection (Vancouver, BC), the Jimenez-Colon Collection (Puerto Rico) and the Cranbrook Art Museum (MI). Recent solo shows include Successions and Reflections: Heirs of a New Country, Library Street Collective, Detroit ... More | | 
Episodes are available at npg.si.edu/podcasts and through Apple Podcasts, Google Play, PRX, Radio Public, Spotify and Stitcher.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery celebrates the first season of Portraits, a new podcast in which art, biography, history and identity intersect. The Portrait Gallerys director and host Kim Sajet chats with artists, historians and thought leaders about the big and small ways that portraits shape the world. The first season features the stories of remarkable women through the lens of portraiture. Episodes are available at npg.si.edu/podcasts and through Apple Podcasts, Google Play, PRX, Radio Public, Spotify and Stitcher. The National Portrait Gallery is a destinationa cultural hub located in a historic landmark in the nations capital, but the community and identity of the museum extends far beyond its walls, Sajet said. Our new podcast gives us a way to share the stories of remarkable individuals with everyone across the country ... More | | 
William Bailey, Turning, 2003. Oil on linen. Private collection. © 2019 William Bailey / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- William Bailey: Looking through Time considers the career of William Bailey (b. 1930, b.f.a. 1955, m.f.a. 1957), the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art at Yale University, through a focused survey of the artists paintings, drawings, and prints. Special emphasis is given to Baileys still-life paintings in oil, including the Yale University Art Gallerys Still LifeTable with Ochre Wall (1972), an outstanding example of the artists signature style. Known for his meditative canvases depicting objects and figures painted from memory and imagination, Bailey is one of the artistsincluding Audrey Flack, Alex Katz, and Philip Pearlsteinwho defied the prevailing taste for abstraction at mid-century and instead committed themselves to representational painting. His works have been compared to visual poems, a fitting ... More |
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 Dennis Oppenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright among artists featured in Heritage Auctions' Design AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Works from the personal archive of renowned artist Dennis Oppenheim that were donated to the only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright are coming to auction for the first time in Heritage Auctions Design Auction Oct. 1 in Dallas, Texas. Oppenheim was a pioneering conceptual artist whose offered collection includes models and works on paper that were donated to the Wright-designed Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where it was shown in the exhibition Dennis Oppenheimer: Indoors, Outdoors (2005). Oppenheim was an unconventional and unpredictable artist, Heritage Auctions Design Director Brent Lewis said. These thoughtfully rigorous objects, made throughout five decades of his career, reveal the vigor he undertook in approaching complex issues. Their simplicity, and in many cases their aesthetic appeal ... More  Marie Selby Botanical Gardens retires long-term debt with help from their Living Museum modelSARASOTA, FLA.- Last week, the Board of Trustees at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens approved the final payment on the organizations long-term debt. In 2008, Selby Gardens carried debt and a line of credit totaling more than $2 million. Today, Selby Gardens has zero long-term debt and a zero balance on its line of credit. Leadership attributes the financial turnaround to two primary operational changes: the implementation of The Living Museum operational model and the creation of revenue sharing partnerships for ancillary services. Over the past four years, these changes have resulted in a 70 percent increase in earned revenues from admissions, membership, rentals and retail. For non-profits to be sustainable in the long-term, it is important for them to diversify their revenue streams and ensure they are prepared for the future ... More  MOCA North Miami opens South Florida Cultural Consortium ExhibitionMIAMI, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami launched the fall season with the 2019 South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition. On view Sept. 5. to Oct. 20, 2019, this exhibition is made possible in cooperation with Miami-Dade Countys Department of Cultural Affairs. MOCA has enlisted Amy Galpin, chief curator of the Frost Art Museum, to curate this dynamic exhibition which presents works by artists exclusively from South Florida who live and work in Broward, Martin-Monroe, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties. The South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) is the largest government-sponsored grant program in the U.S. for artists living in Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Hundreds of artists apply each year. This years exhibition showcases 13 artists including: Nellie Appleby, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle ... More  Artists contribute to charity auction at Bonhams in aid of National Saturday ClubLONDON.- Bonhams and the National Saturday Club are collaborating on a charity auction as part of the Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale in London on Thursday 3rd October 2019. Sixteen lots will be for sale, generously donated by renowned contemporary artists, such as Frank Auerbach, Antony Gormley, Edmund de Waal, Bridget Riley, Phyllida Barlow and Richard Long. Proceeds raised from the auction will be used to enable many more 1316-year-olds in the UK to study creative subjects for free at their local Saturday Club, where they can discover their talents and raise their aspirations. Frances, Lady Sorrell OBE and Sir John Sorrell CBE, Co-Founders and Trustees of the Saturday Club Trust, said: The idea for the National Saturday Club came from experiences we both had of free Saturday classes at our local art schools when we were ... More  Elephant West hosts a series of adventurous and immersive installationsLONDON.- To coincide with the London Design Festival this September, Elephant West, the innovative new art space in West London, is hosting a series of adventurous and immersive installations, exploring the idea of home and what it means in todays world and in our increasingly digital future. As current ideas of who we are, what we should be doing and how we should live are all under question, our idea of home has changed significantly at both an individual and collective level and yet home, or the idea of home, remains the place we turn to for both healing and restoration. From a dining room of the future that brings people together from different realities, times and places, to a bedroom that shields us from the ever pervading digital world, to a Halotherapy room that exudes well-being in the form of a rococo salt cave, to a Microflora Pharmaroom that acts ... More  Annet Gelink Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Anders DicksonAMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the first presentation by Anders Dickson (1988, Wisconsin, US) in The Bakery. In the past year Anders Dickson has exchanged narrative themes for intuitive actions. The results of these actions become the leading forces in delineating how the works come together in its presentation and relevance within the exhibition framework. For Bone Orchard the cool blue and green palette sets the ambience for the pictorial elements to be triggered. In the largest painting Bluefall a pallid dusk scene implies figures voyeuristically peering from behind a bush towards an expansive color field. The work is originally inspired by Ãdouard Vuillards painting The Album (1895) but also gained influence from impressions from scenes by Hieronymus Bosch and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. This is reflected in the sketches of an image ... More  The Fundació Joan Miró opens the photography exhibition Cunningham, Cage & Tudor (Sitges, 1966) BARCELONA.- On the night of 29 July 1966, the Casino Prado Theatre in Sitges staged a performance of contemporary dance and experimental music by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, John Cage and David Tudor. Two years earlier, Joan Miró had been to one of their performances in Paris. Excited by what he saw, he asked the company to include Spain on a future tour, putting them in touch with his friends at Club 49. This group of Catalans, including Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, Carles Santos, Joan Miró and Joan Brossa, who were interested in the artistic movements of the moment, sought to recapture the spirit of the artistic avant-garde that had flourished during the Republic and been cut short by the Civil War. In the absence of institutional support, Ricard Gomis turned his house in La Ricarda pine forest in El Prat de Llobregat into a site ... More  Tarik Kiswanson's second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in ParisPARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Vessels, Tarik Kiswansons second solo exhibition with the gallery. Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) advanced a theory for child cognitive development marked by four stages. Around age 12, in the final stage, children gain the capability for abstract thinking. This moment of development is a central preoccupation of the artist Tarik Kiswanson, whose most recent work extends his reflection on his own coming of age as a first-generation immigrant in Sweden through an engagement with adolescents who share similar experiences of social alienation and adaptation. Through conversation, performance, and process, Kiswanson has developed new bodies of work about what it means to come of age and to comprehend the abstract layers of ones own self: hybrid identities, multiple languages, and memories ... More  'Listen to the Hum': Alice Black opens a group exhibitionLONDON.- Alice Black is presenting Listen to the Hum, a group exhibition featuring El Anatsui, Miriam Austin, Ivan Black, Simon Callery, Jodie Carey, Rachael Louise Bailey, Tristan Pigott, Nina Royle, Victor Seaward and Nicholas William Johnson. Listen to the Hum is an artistic response to the ultimate conflict of our era - that between mankind and nature. A conflict which has been raging, until now virtually unchecked, across all the worlds land mass, deep in our oceans and high in the sky. Listen to the Hum comes at a time when the available science tells us that there is little we do that is without environmental consequence and those same capacities of cognition that saw us exert our control and destroy must now be employed to restore and renew. In this context it is the role of art to do what science cannot to help us reconnect with the natural world spiritually ... More  The Fahey/Klein Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by photographer Paolo RoversiLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery is presenting Intangible Presence, a solo exhibition of works by renowned photographer Paolo Roversi. This exhibition features commanding portraits, nudes, and interior studio still lifes that underscore his deep and direct connection with his subject matter. Whether nude, or adorned in haute couture, Roversi is able to strip down his subjects to their bare essentials, drawing forth pure abandon, and creating photographs that contain more softness and sensuality than precision and literalness. Roversis gift of capturing the intimate and deep presence of his subjects, many of whom he has repeatedly photographed over the years, is underscored with the works on view. Paolo Roversi is a photographer best known for his striking, intimate portraiture and classical visual language. His photographs occupy a realm ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island September 11, 1609. September 11, 1609.- Henry Hudson (c. 1560s/70s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. In this image: Undated engraving of Henry Hudson
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