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The Bank of England building in London on Nov. 5, 2020. The bank has stopped displaying art depicting several former governors and directors after a review found they were connected to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Bank of England has stopped displaying art depicting several former governors and directors after a review found they were connected to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Oil paintings and busts of seven leading figures at the central bank between 1698 and 1814 James Bateman, Robert Bristow, Robert Clayton, William Dawsonne, Gilbert Heathcote, William Manning and John Pearse have been removed after it was established they had links to slavery, the bank said in a statement Friday. The move was the latest in a difficult reckoning taking place at museums, galleries and long-standing institutions in Britain and other European countries that have begun reframing their exhibitions to more explicitly acknowledge links to slavery and colonialism. Criticism that many had not done enough escalated after the Black Lives Matter protests around the world last summer following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States. The British Museum in London last year a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Summer Art Auction | Fine | Folk | Fun on Thu, Sep 02, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. Featuring visual treats from around the world, and back in time to present day - fine art, folk art, and fun artsy objects. In this image: Signed Proof - Frederic Church's Heart of the Andes. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
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| Asia Week New York announces new Chairman | | Russia's Hermitage to sell digital art as NFT tokens | | Galerie Marian Goodman opens an exhibition of works by Lothar Baumgarten | 
Dessa Goddard is Bonhams Head, U.S. Asian Art Group, Vice President, Global Head, Business Strategy Chinese Paintings.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dessa Goddard has been appointed the new Chairman of Asia Week New York, the collaboration of prominent international Asian art galleries, major auction houses, and numerous museums and Asian cultural institutions. I am deeply honored and excited to assume the chairmanship of Asia Week New York, and to be following in the footsteps of so many hardworking and talented colleagues who have founded and helped steer AWNY over the last 12 years, says Dessa Goddard, Bonhams Head, U.S. Asian Art Group, Vice President, Global Head, Business Strategy Chinese Paintings. After a challenging year and a half, I look forward to solidifying our new vibrant, digital platform for our members to showcase their art. We will use this dynamic vehicle to further promote activities which enhance awareness and enrich knowledge of the diverse fields of Asian art for our expanding audience of collectors, institutions, and academics. ... More | | 
Skateboarders pass the Hermitage Museum at 1:30 a.m. in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 22, 2018. James Hill/The New York Times.
SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP).- Russia's Hermitage Museum, the largest art collection in the world, announced Tuesday it will sell several masterpieces, including a work of Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFT). The Saint Petersburg-based museum in partnership with the Binance NFT marketplace will run the auction starting Tuesday and until September 7, the Hermitage said in a statement. An NFT is a digital object with a certificate of authenticity created by blockchain technology that underlies cryptocurrency. It cannot be forged or otherwise manipulated. In recent years, NFTs have been sought after by art collectors, with some selling for millions of dollars. The Hermitage will bring out a limited series of NFTs, including a digital copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna Litta", as well as works by Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky. The starting price for each lot has been set at 10,000 BUSD, a ... More | | 
Lothar Baumgarten, Albatros, 1968. C-print, 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (30.2 x 19.7 cm) Photo: Lothar Baumgarten Studio. Courtesy Lothar Baumgarten Studio and Marian Goodman Gallery.
PARIS.- Galerie Marian Goodman is presenting an exhibition of works by Lothar Baumgarten (19442018). As an homage to one of the most influential German artists of his generation, the exhibition focuses on his early works including his iconic film Origin of the Night (Amazon Cosmos), a selection of photographs, a slide projection, as well as several sculptural installations. His famous floor piece America Señores Naturales, originally created for the German Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984, and for which he was awarded the Golden Lion prize, will be shown on the ground floor of the gallery. This historical piece, alongside the other works in the show, encompass the founding elements of Baumgartens conceptual practice; from the emphasis on the architectural and historical context, along with the preeminence of naming and typography, to references to his anthropological investigations. ... More |
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| Michael Namingha presents altered perspectives of western landscapes from climate change in solo show | | Reynolda launches new comprehensive website | | National Pavilion UAE wins Golden Lion Award for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale | 
Michael Namingha, Installation: Altered Landscapes. Copyright © Michael Namingha. Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Altered Landscapes by Michael Namingha, a Native American artist of the Tewa-Hopi tribes from Northern New Mexico in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation includes seven new photography-based artworks that address climate change and the resulting manmade alterations to the landscape using images from two specific locations in New Mexico and a novel process for printing and presenting the images. The images are manipulated and segmented into blocky structures with bisecting and overlapping planes of varying color values. The resulting digital chromogenic prints are mounted with the face of the image to the backside of shaped and strategically angled Plexiglas that relates directly to the blocky internal shapes. This process takes the photograph out of a purely ... More | | 
Reynolda Forecourt Garden. Photo: Lauren Olinger.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda has launched a new website that combines the complete offerings of the 1917 estate of Katharine and R.J. ReynoldsReynolda House Museum of American Art, Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Villageinto one comprehensive digital portal. Katharine Reynoldss vision for Reynolda included each part of her familys estate working in harmony, unified through architectural design and horticultural abundance. This idea rings true in 2021, just as it did in 1917. The release of the website represents a critical moment for the Reynolda brand and its vision, which is to bring the entire estate together to thrive as a unified destination for learning, wellbeing and reflection. The release of reynolda.org is an exciting moment for Reynoldas future. At last we are all coming togetherthe house, gardens, shops and restaurants, states Barbara Babcock Millhouse, founding president of Reynolda House Museum ... More | | 
Wael Al Awar, Curator of Wetland for NPUAE. Photo: Andrea Avezzu. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.
VENICE.- The National Pavilion UAE was awarded the Golden Lion Award for best National Participation at La Biennale Architettura 2021 at an awards ceremony in Venice on 30 August 2021. The Golden Lion award is the Biennales top honor. Curated by Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto, Wetland, the National Pavilion UAEs tenth exhibition at La Biennale Architettura, was selected by the Biennale jury for being a bold experiment that encourages us to think about the relationship between waste and production on a local and global scale, and opens us to new construction possibilities between craft and high-technology, Kazuyo Sejima, President of this years jury said at the ceremony. Laila Binbrek, Coordinating Director of the National Pavilion UAE, said: Following ten exceptionally thought-driven and creative exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, National Pavilion UAE is honored to be chosen for t ... More |
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| The Warhol appoints Tyler Shine as Assistant Curator of Art | | Frost Art Museum FIU opens "Leonardo Drew: Cycles" | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Andreas Slominski | 
Tyler Shine, photo by Abby Warhola.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum has appointed Tyler Shine as its assistant curator of art. Shine arrives at The Warhol from the University of Pennsylvania where he is a doctoral candidate in history of art. He was also a graduate teaching fellow at the same university over the last two years. Shine assumed his role at The Warhol on August 30, 2021. I am ecstatic to be joining The Warhol as assistant curator. The museums unparalleled collections, thought-provoking exhibitions, and unique programs are endlessly fascinating in the many stories they tell. As a Pittsburgher, The Warhol has long been a special place to me, so I look forward to collaborating with the incredible staff at the museum and colleagues across the Carnegie Museums, says Shine. Shine was the inaugural Constance E. Clayton fellow in the Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2016 to 2018. While ... More | | 
Leonardo Drew (American b. 1961), CPP4, edition 2/15, 2015. Aquatint with flatbite etching, 23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU will present Leonardo Drew: Cycles, from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, from Sept. 1 until Nov. 17, 2021. Drew transforms cotton paper pulp and pigment into powerfully large yet fragile prints that test the versatility of the medium. Some resemble maps of geographical landscapes like populated cities, forests, and urban wastelands viewed from above, while others are reminiscent of the night sky and distant galaxies. Evocative of fire, soil, sky, and water, there are strong perceptions in both microcosmic and macrocosmic scale. Organic forms within the composition undulate with various textures and luminosities, pushing the boundaries of its materiality. Much like his sculptural installations in wood, Drew starts with a raw material, transforming and reconstructing its essence until it resembles debris. ... More | | 
Andreas Slominski, Untitled, 2021. Diasec Face, 130 x 84,1 x 2,5 cm (51,18 x 33,11 x ,98 in) (AS 1150) Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul © Andreas Slominski.
SALZBURG.- Traps are defining elements in the art of Andreas Slominski, both in a figurative and a literal sense. His new works include a series of motifs drawn from historical greeting and playing cards, which the artist edits, enlarges and transfers to poster sheets produced by the German company Begeisternder Wahlkampf (Captivating Campaign). Originally intended for exaggerated or even lurid political messages, the election poster is repurposed using sentimental images that invite the viewer to discover hidden poetry in the mundane. Slominski started working on the reproduction of postcard motifs onto larger formats as early as the mid-1990s, but was never quite satisfied with the print result. The latest developments in the field of printing technology, which allow for a much higher quality, prompted ... More |
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| New, large-scale outdoor installations showcase Houston artists | | Artist's first presentation in Boston features a new body of work | | Galerie Krinzinger opens its first solo show of works by Monica Bonvicini | 
Delita Martin, The Gathering, 2021. Installation view, Rice University. Photo: Jeff Fitlow.
HOUSTON, TX.- Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts, announced a new season of public art interventions opening at Rice University this fall. Three newly commissioned works by Rice and Houston artists will activate the Provisional Campus Facilities (PCFs)the tent-like structures that provide additional classroom and meeting space on campuswith site-specific installations designed to bring the community together, as we continue to navigate the global pandemic. Starting this week, large-scale works by artists Karin Broker, Delita Martin, and Charisse Pearlina Weston will be featured on the south side of campus, across from Herring Hall on Loop Road. For the second round of commissions for the PCFs, each artist was invited to respond to the current moment and the campus environment with interventions intended to foster conversation and community in the academic year ahead. ... More | | 
Raúl de Nieves, The Fable, which is composed of wonders, moves the more, 2021. Fiberglass, plastic, cultured pearls, metal, glass, glue, and resin. 95 x 29 x 65 inches (241.3 x 74 x 165.1 cm). Acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor. © Raúl de Nieves.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents a solo exhibition of New York-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and musician Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983, Michoacán, Mexico), whose multifaceted practice ranges from stained-glass-style narrative paintings to animated performances, to densely adorned figurative sculptures encrusted with bangles, beads, bells, sequins, and other everyday materials. These opulent, joyful sculptures reference traditional costumes in Mexican culture and modes of dress from drag, ballroom, and queer club cultures, while also evoking religious processional attire and the outfits worn by circus performers. All of his works share a distinctive visual language that draws from Mexican craft traditions, religious ... More | | 
Monica Bonvicini, StripLight, 2021. LED, electric cable, leather, Green-TEC, 97 x 4 x 3,5 cm and Monica Bonvicini, Bonded Eternmale, 2002. Eternit Loop garden chair, black leather covers, rivets, 80 x 54 x 60 cm © Courtesy of the artist and VG Bildkunst / Photo: Jens Ziehe.
VIENNA.- Galerie Krinzinger announced the first solo show of Monica Bonvicini in its main gallerys space. The title of the show STAGECAGE is a play on words originated from the exhibition StageCraft at Columbia University and also the title of the new sculptures, Aluminium models of family houses. Arranged in different constellation they echo the architectural installation As Walls keep Shifting, 2019. Held together by leather belts, decorated with knots of watches they create an uncanny narrativity that clashes against the exceptionally perfect and cool cuts of the aluminium structures. It explicates Monica Bonvicinis artistic involvement with architecture and the intrinsic relationship it has to history, memory, and exertions of power. The sculptures on mirror tables are ... More |
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 Clarke Auction Gallery to hold Estates Auction Sept. 12LARCHMONT, NY.- An embarrassment of riches will cross the block at Clarke Auction Gallery on Sunday, Sept. 12, at 10 am. The auction gallery always has a fine selection of objects but this important auction features especially choice offerings. Online bidding is available through ClarkeNY.com, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, and Bidsquare. Excitement among buyers has been ramping up all year and in kicking off the fall auction season this month, we have a really nice grouping of antiques, art and objects across the board from quite a few estates, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. We have great things ranging from designer items and midcentury modern furniture to beautiful jewelry and silver. Sure to be a standout is a fine jade, lapis, and enamel clock ($80/120,000), ex-Sothebys and attributed to Cartier, that features a beautifully- ... More  Items from the estates of Jimmy Musselman and Onesia Rigney headline auctionDALLAS, TX.- Two important Dallas estates, plus other fine consignments in a wide variety of categories, will come up for bid in a two-day, online and absentee-only auction planned for the weekend of September 11th and 12th by J. Garrett Auctioneers, based in Dallas. Start times both days will be 10 am Central time. Nearly 1,000 quality lots will come up for bid in the two days. Headlining the auction is the collection of oil magnate Jimmy Musselman. Mr. Musselman has a knack for finding oil, and he found accidental celebrity when he starred in the movie Big Men, produced by Bratt Pitt, said Julie Garrett VanDolen, an officer with J. Garrett Auctioneers. We are honored and privileged to be selling the contents of his Dallas mansion home in the auction. The other major estate is that of Onesia Rigney (1940-2020), the renowned interior designer ... More  New work by artist duo Goldschmied & Chiari debuts at Cody Gallery at Marymount UniversityARLINGTON, VA.- This fall, Cody Gallery at Marymount University presents the exhibition Magnifica, debuting new work by the Italian female artists Goldschmied & Chiari. On view from September 1, 2021, through December 4, 2021, Magnifica is curated by Allison Nance and organized by International Arts & Artists in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC. When I first encountered the work of Goldschmied & Chiari, I felt immediately drawn into their mysterious and provocative pieces, and found their dynamic as an artistic duo fascinating and inspiring, said curator Allison Nance. Many years in the making, this exhibition shows us vividly that, during difficult times, artists will continue to create work that inspires and challenges us all. For their exhibition at Cody Gallery, Goldschmied & Chiari present nine ... More  Art on Paper returns in September for highly anticipated seventh editionNEW YORK, NY.- Art on Paper returns to downtown Manhattan's Pier 36 this September with 75 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. Continuing the Fair's historical alignment with New York City's Arts week and The Armory Show, Art on Paper will take place from Thursday, September 9th through Sunday, September 12th. Tickets are on sale now. The renowned fair, known for its medium-driven focus, will continue to showcase unique and powerful projects in its seventh edition. The visual, experiential moments that have set Art on Paper apart in years past and established it as an important destination for the arts in New York City, will yet again be on display through a myriad of installations, both large and small, that push the boundaries of work on paper. Highlights from this years exhibitors include: a collaborative booth ... More  Tolarno Galleries announces representation of Georgia SpainMELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries announced representation of Georgia Spain (b.1993 UK), a visual artist and musician currently living and working in Sandford, Tasmania on palawa land. In the same week of June this year, Spain's paintings won the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize for Getting down or falling up, and the Womens Art Prize Tasmania for Six Different Women. In 2020 Spain was the recipient of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship. Spain's paintings explore the complexities of human behaviour; using narrative and storytelling to examine the cultural, political and personal. Her work frequently looks at ideas around human spectacle, theatricality, ritual and ceremony. She is interested in the emotional and performative exchanges between people in social and psychological spaces and in her paintings physical connection is explored ... More  The Powerhouse announces the program for Sydney Design Week 2021SYDNEY.- Sydney Design Week 2021 goes digital with a two-day Design Summit on the 1617 September 2021. A program of panel discussions and talks will centre on the theme Hyperconnectivity, exploring the ties that bind us today. Curated by writer, editor and Creative Director Stephen Todd, the program connects local and international designers and global design centres including Lindsey Adelman, Ronan Bouroullec, Design Museum London, David Flack, Yasmine Ghoniem, Adam Markovitz, Jennifer McMaster, M+ Museum featuring Tina Pang and Gary Chang, Marc Newson, Ivana Taylor and Jonathan Zawada. Sydney Design Week 2021 Creative Director Stephen Todd said: Although our full vision for Sydney Design Week 2021 cannot be presented, we are excited to be presenting a curated program on our theme, Hyperconnectivity. ... More  American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center opens fall exhibitionsWASHINGTON, DC.- Fall exhibitions opened Aug. 28 in the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Successions: Traversing U.S. Colonialism is a solo exhibition by Amber Robles-Gordon, a conceptual juxtaposition celebrating abstraction as an art form. Robles-Gordon interrogates past and current U.S. policies within Washington, D.C. and the territories (Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) that it controls. Robles-Gordon seeks to question who has access to resources, citizenship and the right to sovereignty by highlighting nuances of U.S. governance within these territories. She also uses works featured in Successions to mine the stories, personal narratives and aesthetics of the African women of the Caribbean in an effort to investigate the macro-environmental implications of placemaking, contemporary ... More  'Talking movies': The Chinese cinema bringing film to blind audiencesBEIJING (AFP).- Every Saturday, Zhang Xinsheng travels two hours for a movie date with friends, navigating Beijing's confusing subway system with his white cane and a speaking map that screams directions on his mobile phone. Zhang lost his sight in his early twenties due to a degenerative condition, but since going blind has discovered a love for cinema at the "talking film" club, where volunteers give vivid narrations to an auditorium of blind or partially sighted cinemagoers. "After I listened to a film for the first time in 2014, it felt like a (new) world had opened up for me," he said. "I felt I could understand the film despite my blindness. There were clear images forming in my mind's eye... as (the narrator) described the scenes... of laughter, the crying." Now 51, he makes the weekly pilgrimage to a theatre in Qianmen, in the heart of old Beijing, without ... More  Apple plans classical music app with buy of PrimephonicSAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- Apple on Monday announced it is buying classical music streaming service Primephonic and will launch an app dedicated to the genre. Apple did not disclose how much it paid for Europe-based Primephonic, which confirmed that it is becoming part of the iPhone-maker's music service. "We felt compelled to develop a streaming service that truly gets classical right -- so thats what we did over the last three years," the Primephonic team said in the post. "But to fully achieve the next phase of our mission, we need to bring our classical streaming expertise to millions of listeners worldwide." Primephonic will go offline on September 7, with subscribers being offered six months of free use of Apple Music, according to the companies. "We love and have a deep respect for classical music, and Primephonic has become a fan favorite ... More  Kenny Malone, premier drummer for top Nashville names, dies at 83NASHVILLE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Kenny Malone, a prolific Nashville session drummer whose skittering snare rhythms haunted Dolly Partons No. 1 country hit Jolene in 1973 and whose cocktail-jazz groove anchored Crystal Gayles crossover smash Dont It Make My Brown Eyes Blue in 1977, died at a hospital here Thursday. He was 83. A friend and collaborator, Dave Pomeroy, said the cause was COVID-19. A versatile and imaginative percussionist, Malone played on recordings by scores of country, folk, pop and rock artists, including John Prine and Charley Pride (both of whom also died of complications of COVID-19 during the pandemic) as well as Alison Krauss, Guy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and Bela Fleck, among many others. His impeccably timed cymbal work and rimshots particularly ... More  Nia DaCosta on 'Candyman' and the power of terrifying legendsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Nia DaCosta was a child in 1992 New York, you couldnt tell her that the villain in the original horror film Candyman didnt really exist. In fact, she vividly remembers the story of a woman who was killed in those days by someone who climbed through her bathroom mirror. It was something that we talked about because it happened at the projects behind my elementary school, the director said. So, for me growing up, Candyman was real. He wasnt coming from a movie. It might sound like the naive belief of a young girl, but when you reconsider the brutal back story of Candyman a 19th-century Black male artist who was murdered by a mob of white men for falling in love with a white woman the legend feels startlingly real. Its one reason DaCosta revisited that story with the new Candyman, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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