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Holabird announces Wild West Relics Auction, April 6-7 and 13-14
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC plans to hold a massive, four-day Wild West Relics Auction split between two weekends – April 6th-7th and April 13th-14th – in which 2,300 lots will be up for grabs in a wide range of collecting categories. The auction will be held online as well as live in Holabird’s gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Ste. 308) in Reno. “This sale closely follows a timed auction two weeks ago that saw a lot of action, with some good rarities as well as some great buys,” said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. “We find ourselves moving the rare collectibles into our live sales, and the rare lesser expensive items to the timed sales, which are getting more popular by the month.” He added, “April is no exception, with hundreds of lots up for grabs, featuring many one ... More

After 25 years, a singer is the 'Heart and Soul' of the Met
NEW YORK, NY.- Many boxes of pizza had been delivered to the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday afternoon, and were stacked on a table in the hallway between some dressing rooms and the stage. They were a gift from one of the singers appearing in the matinee performance that day: bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi, who is having attention-grabbing success in the modest but meaty role of Fra Melitone in a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” which concludes its run Friday. That performance, remarkably, will be Carfizzi’s 459th with the Met. “It’s a huge gift to be here as often as I’ve been here,” he said Sunday as he put on his makeup and costume and warmed up. “You just keep working. It’s step by step by step.” Melitone doesn’t appear until the second act. So, as the opera began, Carfizzi was getting ready in a dressing room next t ... More

Memories of a friendship with Prunella Clough come to auction
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- A cache of original works by the artist Prunella Clough (1919-99) comes for sale at Sworders Modern and Contemporary Art sale in the spring. The 18 lots in a range of different media form part of the estate collection of antique dealer Christopher Bangs (1951-2022). Clough, a celebrated painter of Modern British art and Bangs, a specialist in medieval and later metalware, had first met when in 1972 when he was young gallery manager at the New Art Centre in Sloane Street and she was the subject of a forthcoming solo exhibition. They formed not just a good working relationship, but also a deep friendship. For more than two decades, Bangs was a frequent visitor to Clough’s homes in Fulham, first in Moore Park Road and then at Salisbury House in Sherbrooke Road. Together they purchased ... More

Pace opens Josef Koudelka's first solo show in New York in nearly a decade
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents an exhibition of work by Josef Koudelka at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from March 29 to April 27, this is the artist’s first solo show in New York in nearly a decade, bringing together six large-scale panoramas he created between 1987 and 2010 as part of a project titled Industries. The exhibition also includes a display of small-scale, accordion-style maquettes of Mission Photographique Transmanche, Beyrouth Centre Ville, The Black Triangle, Reconnaissance-Wales, Lime Stone, Teatro del Tempo, Camargue, Piemonte, WALL, Ruins, and Solac. This presentation at Pace coincides with the release of Josef Koudelka: Next, the definitive and only authorized biography of the artist, copublished by Aperture and Magnum Foundation. The book will be available ... More

Rebecca Hall redefines stardom
NEW YORK, NY.- Rebecca Hall stood in front of an easel, her face contemplative. She moved a paintbrush gently on a palette, then applied the paint to the canvas. This was in her studio, a converted barn next door to where Hall lives in upstate New York with her husband, actor Morgan Spector, and their 5-year-old daughter, Ida. When she’s not acting, Hall paints as a way of channeling her creativity. Her father, Sir Peter Hall — who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company — once warned her about dividing her talents. “He said that it’s very hard to do more than one thing, which really haunted me for a really long time,” Hall said. “Increasingly, though, I refuse to stay in one lane.” This, in many ways, is Hall in a nutshell: unwilling to be boxed in, an artist at heart. At 41, Hall is considered by some to be one of her generation’s ... More

Kate Banks, children's author who wrote about grief, dies at 64
NEW YORK, NY.- Kate Banks, who, despite personal tragedy and debilitating illness, became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels that captured the wonder of youth while also confronting fear and grief, died Feb. 24 in Basel, Switzerland. She was 64. The cause was medically assisted death, following a Stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer diagnosis in 2022, her sister Amy Banks said. Kate Banks had mast cell activation syndrome, a disorder of the immune system, and had been unable to undergo standard cancer treatments or take most medications, including those for pain. Despite the ailment, which she had suffered for decades, and the lingering trauma from the murder of her father when she was in college, Banks was prolific, having published more than 50 books since the late 1980s. A ... More

Overlooked no more: Henrietta Leavitt, who unraveled mysteries of the stars
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 20th century, when Henrietta Leavitt began studying photographs of distant stars at the Harvard College Observatory, astronomers had no idea how big the universe was. Debate raged over whether all of the objects visible through the telescopes of the day were within our own Milky Way galaxy, or whether other galaxies — or “island universes,” as they were then called — might exist somewhere out in space. Leavitt, working as a poorly paid member of a team of mostly women who cataloged data for the scientists at the observatory, found a way to peer out into the great unknown and measure it. What’s now commonly called Leavitt’s Law is still taught in college astronomy courses. It underpinned the research of other pioneering astronomers, including Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley, whose ... More

Treasures from Planet Hollywood bring more than $15.6 million in historic event at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Blockbuster season started early at Heritage Auctions. The $15.68 million Treasures From Planet Hollywood auction began Wednesday morning and wrapped Sunday night, and the list of highlight results from the almost 1,600-lot event is seemingly endless. From start to finish, most of the lots shattered expectations thanks to the more than 5,500 bidders who participated worldwide, from as far away as Tokyo to the auction room in Heritage’s world headquarters. In the end, Treasures From Planet Hollywood will go down as one of the most successful auctions of props and costumes from some of cinema’s most beloved and influential films, toppling Heritage’s previous record of $13.6 million set by the auction of model-making legend Greg Jein’s collection in October. Treasures of Planet Hollywood is now second ... More

Review: A new dance at Trisha Brown examines the act of a fall
NEW YORK, NY.- As the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues on without Trisha Brown — the great postmodern choreographer who died in 2017 — the group has staged works on and off the proscenium stage, and even relocated her works to a beach. But a company can only get so far with its founding choreographer’s dances. It has entered the inevitable phase of needing to commission new works, and for its latest season at the Joyce Theater, which began Tuesday, the group tapped French choreographer Noé Soulier to create a premiere, its second by someone other than Brown. Soulier’s “In the Fall” is part of a season dedicated to Steve Paxton, who died last month. In the new work, Soulier presents a finely wrought response to Brown’s vocabulary, deconstructed painstakingly as he places it under a microscope. ... More

It's a statue of Prince Philip. Really. But now it has to go.
NEW YORK, NY.- The bronze statue in Cambridge, England, is 13 feet tall. The figure wears academic robes and a mortarboard. It doesn’t exactly have a face, since its head appears to be wrapped in a twisted cloth. Who does this statue, titled “The Don,” allegedly depict? It’s, uh, Prince Philip. Sure enough, a plaque under the sculpture reads: “H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 1977-2011.” But the artwork has not conjured up thoughts of Philip, who died in 2021, for many who have seen it. And the statue has also not met with the international acclaim accorded to Michelangelo’s David or China’s Terracotta Army. To say the least. In 2014, the year the statue was erected, Nadine Black, the Cambridge City Council’s public art manager, called it “possibly the poorest quality work that has ever been ... More

Rare early Maud Lewis paintings sell for $87,400 -far above estimate range
SAINT JOHN, NB.- Two rare 1940s period paintings by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1903-1970) were sold at a New Brunswick auction house on March 24, 2024. Jones Auction House, Saint John, NB, held its 2024 Winter Collection auction on March 10-24, 2024. This auction included six paintings by Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, two created in the artist’s early career (1940s) and four from the 1960s. The 1940s paintings, Winter Sleigh Scene and Skiing at Sandy Cove, were held in a New York estate likely since the late 1940s or early 1950s, and had been in storage until recently. These were part of the same collection of early works sold by the auction house in December 2023. The 1940s Lewis paintings were estimated to fetch $25,000-$35,000 each. The final sale prices were $90,850 (Winter Sleigh Scene) and $87,400 (Skiing at Sandy Cove). The other 1960s L ... More

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