Norman Rockwell, Tom Sawyer Portfolio suite. 1 Litho and 7 Collotypes. Estmate $4000-$6000.
NEW YORK, NY.- La Belle Epoque Auction House, is presenting “The Sizzling Summer” August 19th live auction at their stunning 7,000 square-foot space at 71 8th Avenue on the border of the Meatpacking District and the West Village in New York City. The auction, being held live in-person, begins on August 19th at 11am and will also be online through LaBelleEpoque.com, LiveAuctioneers and Bidsquare. Online previews and early bidding begins on August 7th, with in-person previews August 17th and 18th from 11am-5pm. Leading the way at the August 19th auction will be an eclectic selection of Contemporary and Modern Art of all kinds, while also offering an impressive collection of antiques, silver, mid-century modern furniture, jewelry, fashion, lighting, memorabilia, collectibles, decorative items and more. ... More
Aaron De Groft, director at the Orlando Museum of Art, with one 25 works, “Untitled (Industry Insider),” from the Thad Mumford storage locker that are said to be by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Feb. 2, 2022.
by Brett Sokol and Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- The Orlando Museum of Art filed a lawsuit Monday accusing its former director of seeking to profit from a scheme to show fake paintings that the museum had exhibited as newly discovered works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, saying that the owners of the paintings had promised him “a significant cut of the proceeds” from their eventual sale. The lawsuit also named five co-owners of those paintings who were said to have enlisted the former museum leader, Aaron De Groft, in a plan that lawyers said would advance “his own economic and personal interests” by leveraging the museum’s reputation to legitimize the fraudulent paintings and increase their value. ... More
Claude Monet's “Belle-Île, le chenal de Port-Goulphar” (1886) in a replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company. Image used with permission from The Biltmore Company, Asheville, North Carolina.
NEW YORK, NY.-Eli Wilner & Company has announced the creation of historically-appropriate replica frames for two important Claude Monet paintings in the collection of Biltmore House. Wilner was approached by Lori Garst, Biltmore’s Curator of Collections, in the summer of 2022, about the desire to reframe the paintings. Located in Asheville, North Carolina, Biltmore is the home of George Vanderbilt, the youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt. Having grown up surrounded by his father’s famous collection of paintings, George Vanderbilt inherited his father’s passion for admiring and collecting art. A lifelong patron of the arts, he supported more modern artists of his time and acquired several paintings from art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, a dedicated advocate of the Impressionists. ... More
Thomas Demand, Archiv / Archive, 1995, C-Print / Diasec, 183,5 x 233 cm.
JERUSALEM.- Marking the artist’s first retrospective in Israel, a major touring career survey dedicated to the renowned artist Thomas Demand has opened at the Israel Museum this past August 8th, 2023. Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History brings together 70 works that trace Demand’s practice over two and half decades of investigating the persistence of images and their ability to embed themselves in a society’s collective memory. The exhibition, which is the largest presentation during its international tour, takes a thematic approach to examining the arc of Demand’s career, highlighting his intensive craft and exploration of the emotional and aesthetic to his engagement with the social and political. One of the highlights of the exhibition was the unveiling of a new work commissioned by the Israel Museum, for which Demand addresses current affairs in the country. ... More
The vintage Cinerama sign of the ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles, a longtime favorite of cinephiles that has been shuttered since the pandemic, on June 17, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
by Adam Nagourney
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the November night in 1963 when the Cinerama Dome opened its doors with the premiere of “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” — drawing Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett and Ethel Merman to the sidewalks of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood — the theater, and the multiplex that later rose around it, has been a home for people who liked to watch movies and people who liked to make movies. Its distinctive geodesic dome, memorialized by Quentin Tarantino in the 2019 film “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” has become more retro than futuristic over the years, a reminder of a Technicolor past. Yet through it all, the complex known as the ArcLight Hollywood remained a cinephile favorite, with no ... More
An Amazon Fulfillment center on Staten Island in New York, May 15, 2019. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK, NY.- With mounting signs that the Federal Trade Commission is preparing to file a lawsuit against Amazon for violating antitrust laws, a group of booksellers, authors and antitrust activists are urging the government to investigate the company’s domination of the book market. On Wednesday, the Open Markets Institute, an antitrust think tank, along with the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association, sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the government to curb Amazon’s “monopoly in its role as a seller of books to the public.” The groups are pressing the Justice Department to investigate not only Amazon’s size as a bookseller, but also its sway over the book market — especially ... More
John Riepenhoffnew. Photo by Daniel McCullough.
MILWAUKEE, WI.-Sculpture Milwaukee announced it has named John Riepenhoff as its new Executive Director. Now in its seventh year, Sculpture Milwaukee is an annual outdoor exhibition of public sculpture in downtown Milwaukee. John Riepenhoff is an internationally renowned artist, curator, and gallerist who lives and works in Milwaukee. John is currently serving as curator for the 2023 Sculpture Milwaukee exhibition Actual Fractals, Act I. “I see my leadership role at Sculpture Milwaukee as an opportunity to forward the direction that was established in the first seven years of our organization, with respect for major currents in art while giving attention to undercurrents and the unexpected, with a focus on underrepresented artists,” says Riepenhoff. “Curating this year’s exhibition, I experienced first-hand the visions of our artists, the strength of our bonds with community partners, the ambitions of our founders, and th ... More
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago presents “LOVE: Still Not the Lesser” starting today. This exhibition brings together 12 international artists uniting across communities to share the ways they encounter and understand love. The exhibition is led by MoCP Associate Curator Asha Iman Veal. “LOVE: Still Not the Lesser” features artworks by: Alia Ali, Alicia Bruce, Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Tom Merilion, Salma Abedin Prithi, Modou Dieng Yacine, Yuge Zhou and the debut of Jorge Ariel Escobar. “The 12 artists explore dynamics within sensual eroticism, romantic partnership, family structures, social utopia and life and death,” says Veal. “They observe and declare circumstances of ... More
EID MAR Denarius, front side.
COSTA MESA, CA .-Stack's Bowers Galleries sold today a colossal rarity among ancient coinage in their August 2023 Global Showcase Auction. Presented from the Dr. Michael Rogers Collection, Part III, was a historic survivor of the EID MAR Denarius struck by one of Julius Caesar’s assassins—and previously one of his closest friends—M. Junius Brutus. It is a coin type that truly stands unrivalled as an icon within ancient numismatics and it sold this morning for $240,000. Struck during the late summer or early autumn of 42 B.C, roughly two-and-a-half years after the assassination of Rome’s dictator for life, Julius Caesar, the EID MAR Denarius was meant to convey Brutus’ view that Julius Caesar had been slain for the good of the Republic. The two daggers pictured on the coin ... More
Outside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center In New York on Sept. 27, 2021. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera Guild, a nonprofit that supports the storied opera house and publishes the magazine Opera News, will wind down its operations and lay off its staff this fall in the face of financial troubles, the organization announced Tuesday. The guild, which was founded by Eleanor Robson Belmont in 1935 to help the Met survive a funding shortfall caused by the Great Depression, has supported the company and its education programs ever since, bringing thousands of schoolchildren to dress rehearsals each year and working to promote interest in opera through the publication of Opera News, which became one of the leading classical music publications in the United States. Opera News will end its run as a stand-alone ... More
Andy Warhol at the Jewish Museum [1980] Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photography by Bernard Gotfryd. Reproduction number LC-DIG-gtfy-04535.
GLEN ELLYN, ILL.-College of DuPage Humanities Faculty member Julia diLiberti, PhD explores Andy Warhol and his body of work in the free lecture “Soup Can Can’t: Warhol and the Unraveling of Art” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17 at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the campus of COD. This event is part of a series of on-site programming aimed at enriching the WARHOL exhibition experience including lectures by internationally renowned authors and Warhol experts, workshops, concerts and more taking place throughout the exhibition’s run. Can (or can’t) a soup can dismantle all the conventions of art in one fell reproduction? In her exploration of this question, diLiberti will begin with a look at works by French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp, commonly regarded with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in art in the ... More
A library card featuring Jay-Z. (Roc Nation and Brooklyn Public Library via The New York Times)
by Callie Holtermann
NEW YORK, NY.- Patrons streamed toward the returns desk at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch Friday afternoon, buzzing with excitement. Several posed for pictures in the building’s lobby, which was newly plastered with images of Jay-Z, then signed up for special library cards that feature artwork from the rapper’s albums. The limited-edition library cards are the marquee souvenir from “The Book of Hov,” an exhibition honoring Jay-Z that took over the library last month. The cards are free for New York state residents and are available at Brooklyn Public Library branches in 13 different designs, each featuring the cover art from one of Jay-Z’s solo albums. Fans, who see the cards as instantly classic pieces of hip-hop memorabilia, are tracking them down with the sort of fervor usually reserved for vinyl records or concert tees. “Jay-Z being a Brooklyn native, he goes hard for Brooklyn, and his fans go hard for him,” said Chaz Barracks, ... More
Outdoor diners at a small restaurant in Athens, Greece in June 2021. A well-informed traveler can enjoy the Greek capital’s glorious past and buzzing modern life while also avoiding the worst of the tourist bottlenecks and steamy weather. (Maria Mavropoulou/The New York Times).
ATHENS.- Henry Miller once wrote, “The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.” Greece can be enlightening — and nowhere more so than its capital city, Athens. But it’s also true that, in the summer, it can feel burning hot, with an average temperature of 84 degrees Fahrenheit. And those temperatures are rising. Athens has endured record heat in recent years, and this summer is no different: Greece and much of Southern Europe have sweltered under a series of seemingly never-ending heat waves. When you combine the heat with the millions of tourists who visit Athens every year, the city can seem more overwhelming than enriching. But do not fret. Below is a guide that will help you experience the Greek capital’s glorious past and buzzing modern life while avoiding the worst of the crowds and steamy weather. Athens draws visitors with its ancient ruins, ... More
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At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony displays its Heritage and uncertain future LENOX, MASS.- Ah, Tanglewood. What a pleasure it remains to spend a weekend here: to stroll the green lawns, to sniff the flowers, to guess the music that some earnest young student is learning, as the sound of that laboring drifts through the trees from a practice room. And what a reminder a few days spent in the Berkshires can be of the fundamental, enduring quality of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which enjoys Tanglewood its summer home. Visitors last Friday through Sunday might have recalled the grand old heritage that this ensemble calls its own, as they found an old wooden seat in the Shed or listened as Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was played with almost proprietary command, nearly eight decades after this orchestra gave the work its premiere. They might have admired the group’s enduring prestige, too, as one distinguished ... More
In Ireland's 'Forgotten County,' a tiny inn does it right COUNTY DONEGAL.- The backstory of Breac House, a tiny hotel in northwest Ireland’s County Donegal, sounds like a cautionary tale: Two city slickers, accountants from Dublin, who’d never worked at a hotel or served a scone, decide to open a custom-built, designer property on a remote, wind-swept peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Cue the wizened locals ready to fleece them, the natural and human-made catastrophes, and you have all the makings of a bad sitcom, with Monocle meets Fawlty Towers as the log line. The reality is different: Cathrine Burke, 51, and Niall Campbell, 51, have managed to create a remarkable hotel, not by flying in a starchitect from London, stocking the place with fancy products and serving globalized cuisine, but by staying resolutely Donegal. Their guiding principle in selecting materials, products, craftspeople ... More
They review movies on TikTok, but don't call them critics NEW YORK, NY.- Maddi Koch loves to spread the gospel about a good movie. Her favorites are little-noted thrillers with few stars but juicy concepts or dig-your-nails-into-the-sofa plot twists. On TikTok, where Koch has 3 million followers (and goes by Maddi Moo), her review of “What Happened to Monday,” about a dystopian world where seven identical sisters share a single identity, has drawn more than 24 million views. “If I were to die tomorrow, I’d watch this tonight,” she raved. Koch, who is a senior at Virginia Tech and is sometimes paid by film companies to promote their work, said she makes videos to connect people and to spare them “the pain of arguing over finding a movie or not knowing what you’re really looking for.” (Most of her videos, including the “What Happened to Monday” review, are not sponsored.) When asked, she’ll describe herself ... More
Sullivan+Strumpf debuts first Melbourne solo exhibition of LA-based First Nations artist Jemima Wyman MELBOURNE.-Sullivan+Strumpf are now presenting the Melbourne solo exhibition debut of Palawa artist Jemima Wyman, World Cloud, opening today and continuing to Saturday 9 September 2023. An opening celebration will officially launch the exhibition on Saturday 19 August, 3pm to 5pm. Born in Sydney, raised in North Queensland (Dysart, Moranbah, Tolga, and Mackay), and based primarily in Los Angeles for nearly two decades, Wyman’s internationally acclaimed photo collage practice is informed by an ongoing interest in global activism. Her pieces often appear as a single billowing cloud of smoke, arising from a singular catastrophe, but on closer inspection, the viewer realises each of Wyman’s artworks comprise hundreds, sometimes thousands of images, documenting protests across the globe. Gleaned from online sources, visual snippets ... More
Andréhn-Schiptjenko to present first solo exhibition by Matts Leiderstam in Stockholm STOCKHOLM.- Matts Leiderstam's solo exhibition Seen Through the Grid is now opening at Andréhn-Schiptjenko. In his work, Matts Leiderstam is in constant dialogue with the history of painting and its relationship to the gaze. He methodically searches for alternative, queer, narratives connected to the act of looking at a painting and also explores how the gaze is changing over time. Since the late 1980s, Leiderstam has mainly worked with painting, often based on photographic sources. In the first half of the 1990s, his work took a political turn and his field of interest expanded to the landscape and the park as a site for gay cruising. This parallel perspective was later transferred to art history and, more specifically, to the physical space of the museum. Since then, he has studied and then paraphrased older paintings in a series of works; staging the structures that the ... More
Dovecot Studios celebrates the cultural legacy of 'The Monarch of the Glen' EDINBURGH.- A new exhibition at Dovecot Studios ‘Monarchs of the Glen’, opening on the 14th of October 2023, explores how one of the most celebrated images of Victorian Scotland has been constantly reinvented for over a hundred and seventy years and continues to inspire contemporary artists to this day. Sir Edwin Landseer’s (1802–1873) most famous work ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ (1851), a painting of a majestic twelve-point stag, was one of the most iconic depictions of Scotland in its time and has continually been adapted for use in the worlds of commerce, culture and even politics. The exhibition celebrates the many ways this classic image of Highland spirit has been inspirational in a diverse range of products ... More
"Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation" opens at Newcomb Art Museum NEW ORLEANS, LA.- On view during the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Highlighting the perspectives of contemporary Black artists, Emancipation features commissioned and recent works by Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation originates from an analysis of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman (1863), one of the first bronze statues of a Black person in the United States. Initially sculpted by Ward before the end of the Civil War, Adams’ figure is depicted on the cusp of liberation, ... More
Tolarno Galleries now featuring work by Brendan Huntley MELBOURNE.-Tolarno Galleries has now opened Brendan Huntley’s new exhibition of paintings and sculpture, True to Life. Huntley’s seventh show with Tolarno encompasses six ‘cocoon heads’ made with white raku, glaze and slip, a large (near 100) cluster of palm-sized ‘pinheads’ also in clay, and 10 paintings. Each cocoon head features a butterfly or a moth sprouting forth as an imaginative headpiece, signifying self-discovery and the acceptance of change. “The cocoon heads are self-portraits, in a way, as there is a strong autobiographical element in my work, but I also like to think of them as guardians,” says Huntley. Taught to work with clay from an early age by his mother, professional potter Italia Huntley, Brendan Huntley’s sophisticated approach sees him utilise a range of materials and techniques to realise his earthy, shape-shifting creations. ... More
Svigals + Partners blends modern style with magnetic warmth in new research headquarters NEW HAVEN, CT.- Renowned for creating inspiring, state-of-the-art laboratories and scientific research environments, the architecture, art and advisory firm Svigals + Partners has announced the completion of the first phase of a new headquarters for protein sequencing company Quantum-Si in Branford, Conn. The new research laboratory and modern workplace, which will soon consolidate two prior facilities into a single, technologically advanced research base, welcomes scientists and diverse employees in a warm, inviting setting that merges the firm’s technical edge and crisp style with engaging art, branding, and collaborative work opportunities. The multidisciplinary team at Svigals + Partners worked to create the highly efficient, comfortable headquarters to meet all Quantum-Si’s needs, following a programming exercise and prior ... More
Speed Art Museum to transform grounds into three-acre public sculpture park and community gathering space LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum has announced the Speed Outdoors, a project that will transform three acres of grounds surrounding the Museum into a vibrant public green space and cultural environment. Slated to open in late 2025, the ungated, public sculpture park will create a welcoming extension of the Museum with free and open access at all hours, inviting the public to engage with the Speed as a cultural and community anchor of Louisville while extending the Museum’s collection beyond its galleries. A bequest from Reverend Al and Mary Shands of 13 large-scale sculptures by some of the world’s leading artists—including Zaha Hadid, Sol LeWitt, Kulapat Yantrasast, and Deborah Butterfield—will ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Francesco Albani was born
September 17, 1578. Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 - 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter. Albani never acquired the monumentality or tenebrism that was quaking the contemporary world of painters, and in fact, is derided often for his lyric, cherubim-filled sweetness, which often has not yet shaken the mannerist elegance. While Albani's thematic would have appealed to Poussin, he lacked the Frenchman's muscular drama. His style sometimes appears to befit the decorative Rococo more than of his time. In this image: Baptism of Christ ca 1640 (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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