"Compassion" by Yucef Merhi. Photo courtesy of The Bonnier Gallery. Photo by Michael R. Lopez with Zachary Balber.
MIAMI, FLA.- On view through November 20 in Miami, the new exhibition “Yucef Merhi: Open” is presented by The Bonnier Gallery. “This new show will allow people to experience digital art that is of substance, as opposed to the speculative NFTs that seem to dominate that conversation,” says Grant Bonnier, the curator of this show and owner of The Bonnier Gallery. “Yucef Merhi has packed the equivalent of several lifetimes leading up to this critical mid-career point of his trajectory. This pioneer digital artist is poised at the leading edge of the technology and art.” Merhi was selected by MIT for its prestigious fellowship, the Open Documentary Lab. In 1985, when pioneer digital artist Yucef Merhi was only eight years old and growing up in Caracas, he reverse-engineered his ATARI 2600 and turned it into a programmable computer. He used the Atari Video ... More
Max Malini, Malini the Magician. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Prepare to be amazed by the most important collection of objects spanning the history of magic illusionism, popular entertainments, and other curiosities to ever appear at auction: Sotheby’s today announced that property from the collection of Ricky Jay – one of the world’s greatest sleight of hand artists who has captivated audiences worldwide with his one-man shows and his film and television appearances, including David Mamet’s House of Games, HBO’s renowned series Deadwood, the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and many more – will be presented in a dedicated auction in New York on 27 & 28 October. One of the premier collectors of material related to the history of magic, circus arts, gambling, con artistry, unusual entertainments, and the art of deception, the highly-anticipated auction of Jay’s renowned collection of books, pamphlets, posters, broadsides, handbills, ... More
Arthur Tress (American, b. 1940), “Girl with Doll, Keystone, WV,” 1968. Fiber-based gelatin silver print. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gifted by Dr. Pat and Patricia Kennedy. GMOA 2020.2026.
ATHENS, GA.-The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received a gift of nearly 3,000 photographs with a current appraised value of nearly $8 million. The gift dramatically expands the museum’s collection of photography and establishes the institution as a major repository for 20th-century works in this medium. “The University of Georgia is incredibly grateful for this transformative gift to the museum,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “We are proud to be home to this significant collection of photography, which will benefit scholars and visitors from across Georgia and the U.S. and elevate our state’s official museum of art to a new level.” The gift came from three sets of donors: • J. Patrick (Pat) and Patricia A. Kennedy, of San Leandro, California, who donated 2,884 ... More
Phyllida Barlow at Hauser & Wirth London, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: Alex Delfanne. Works by Phyllida Barlow are on show at Hauser & Wirth in London until 18 September 2021. hauserwirth.com
LONDON.- For more than 50 years British artist Phyllida Barlow has continuously challenged the conventions of sculpture. A presentation of the artist’s work is on display in the North Gallery at Hauser & Wirth London, including a large-scale sculpture and a series of twelve works on paper. The sculptural intervention ‘untitled: postscorral’ (2014) consists of a series of over 100 brightly coloured triangular cement posts that extend over 20 feet high, forming a circular barricade that fills the entire gallery space. The expansive work blocks visitors from inhabiting or traversing the space in the casual way they normally can. Instead, it forces circumnavigation, resulting in a new engagement for visitors to the ... More
EAST HAMPTON, NY.-Pace is presenting an exhibition of four paintings by Zhang Huan at its East Hampton gallery from September 2 to 19. The show, titled Living towards Nothingness, will feature works from Zhang’s celebrated Ash Painting series, which the artist began in 2005 as part of his explorations of ephemerality. Drawn from a body of 30 paintings featuring semi-abstracted depictions of the sea rendered in incense ash on linen, this grouping includes works from 2011 and 2012. Zhang, who has collected ashes from temples in Shanghai and nearby provinces and maintains a warehouse for the material, has said that “incense burning awakens the spiritual impulse embedded deeply in our subconscious.” In Zhang’s belief, incense ash “speaks to the fulfillment of millions of hopes, dreams, and blessings” and serves as a material embodiment of prayers ... More
STOCKHOLM.-Nationalmuseum has added two unique silver artefacts from 1715 to its collection. The acquisition of the pieces was made possible by a generous financial donation from Märta Christina and Magnus Vahlquist through the Friends of Nationalmuseum. The artefacts were latterly part of Lars Bellman’s silver collection, which was recently sold at auction. The first of the two silver artefacts acquired by Nationalmuseum is a chocolate serving pot made in 1715 by Petter Henning in Stockholm. This was a new type of artefact, designed for hot chocolate. The first occurrence of the word choklad (‘chocolate’) in the Swedish language was in 1688. The drinking chocolate of the time would not be recognisable to us today, but was a viscous mixture containing chocolate, egg, milk, sugar, vanilla and various spices. As the mixture had to be stirred vigorously, chocolate pots had a hole in the lid so that a whisk ... More
PARIS.-David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new work by Andra Ursuţa (b. 1979), on view at the gallery’s Paris location. This is the Romanian-born, New York–based artist’s debut solo presentation with David Zwirner since the gallery announced representation in July 2020, and her first solo exhibition in France. Over the past decade, Ursuţa has gained recognition for her inventive sculptural work that mines the darker undercurrents of contemporary society. Drawing from memory, nostalgia, art history, and popular culture and employing a variety of media, the artist transforms commonplace objects and materials into viscerally evocative sculptures and installations that give new, redemptive form to subjective experience. The exhibition features a group of new cast-glass sculptures that build upon a body of work the artist debuted at the 58th Venice ... More
Man Ray, Perpetual Motif, metronome with lenticular printed eye, 1970–71. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.
NEW YORK, NY.-Swann Galleries is set to open the fall 2021 season with the sale of the Virginia Zabriskie Collection on Tuesday, September 21. The special single-owner sale is comprised of Zabriskie’s personal collection, built during a pioneering career spanning more than five decades, marked by audacity and innovation in a field that was seldom encouraging to professional women. Zabriskie acquired her New York gallery in 1954; by the 1980s the gallery had expanded to three locations, including a space in Paris which opened in 1977. The two New York spaces specialized in painting and sculpture, respectively, while the Paris location was a first of its kind—joining an exhibition space for photographic works with a bookstore devoted to selling photo-related literature. In her impressive 54 years of owning the gallery, Zabriskie was responsible for both launching the careers of artists and for ... More
KAWS X Karimoku, PINOCCHIO, 2018. Wood, 39 x 19 x 18 cm. Estimate: HK$500,000 - 700,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.-Phillips Asia will present the third iteration of INTERSECT, a cross-category online sale with a one-stop lifestyle concept that embodies the idea of art-meets-luxury. Open for bidding from 16 to 23 September, INTERSECT features 128 lots of tightly curated selection of contemporary artworks, alongside trendy timepieces and coveted jewels. Leading the sale is a superlative Patek Philippe reference 5370P-001 platinum split seconds chronograph wristwatch with black enamel dial (Estimate: HK$1.17-1.95 million). The Patek Philippe reference 5370, made in extremely low numbers and discontinued in 2020, is considered by many watch collectors as one of the most desirable watches made by the famed manufacturer in recent years. Other sale highlights including a broad and exciting range of wristwatches from the finest watchmaking brands including Rolex, F.P. ... More
Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Sixteen-part Vertical Construction), c.1987/2020.
BRUSSELS.-Fondation CAB is presenting Fred Sandback, a solo exhibition featuring sculptures and reliefs by the renowned American artist (1943–2003). The exhibition includes artworks shown in historic exhibitions and other sculptures never previously exhibited. It traces the different periods of the artist’s oeuvre, featuring linear sculptures in acrylic yarn, elastic cord, and steel rod. Fred Sandback spent most of his life in his native New York. Aged only twenty-six, he had his first solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer’s gallery, Düsseldorf, in 1968 and his first solo museum exhibition at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, in 1969—both while completing his MA at Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven. There, the artist presented his Minimal sculptures whose manifestation of clarity, in both form and intent, presciently examined the relationships between art, architecture, and viewer by addressing volume, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will open its third solo exhibition of paintings by Beauford Delaney (American, 1901–1979), which contextualizes the artist’s highly personal portraiture practice in relation to his compelling body of non-objective abstractions. Featuring 25 portraits and 7 abstract works, Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney explores the preeminent status portraiture held in the artist’s life and work, following the trajectory of his career from his “Greene Street” period in New York through his ardent embrace of pure abstraction after his relocation to Paris in 1953. By exhibiting Delaney’s portraiture alongside his abstractions, the exhibition seeks to reveal the common intention with which the artist approached both genres of ... More
The exhibition occupies two different spaces of the Fondazione. Photo: Polys Peslikas and Marlen Rau.
MILAN.-Fondazione ICA Milano announces the exhibition "Cheerfully Optimistic About the Future", the first solo show in Italy dedicated to Michael Anastassiades (Cyprus, 1967). The London-based designer opened his studio in 1994. His practice explores the contemporary notions of culture and aesthetic thought a combination of disciplines such as product design, interior design and environmental design, often transcending the distinctions between the different fields of creativity. The ideation of the show, curated by Alberto Salvadori and developed by Anastassiades and his studio during the last year, has been accompanied by the desire to build a project characterized from the strong “hand – made” feature for the realization of the works, involving in first person the artist and his collaborators. The exhibition occupies two different spaces of the Fondazione: the external room and the ground ... More
Emma Webster, A Setting Scene, 2021. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. Photo: Marten Elder.
NEW YORK, NY.-Alexander Berggruen is presenting Emma Webster: Green Iscariot. Emma Webster: Green Iscariot presents vibrant landscapes that combine painting’s rich history of illusion with frontier optics of virtual reality. In her humanless scenes, Webster signals that landscape—and the natural environment as a whole—merits respect. In these new species of space, nature has her own agency and power well beyond that granted by humankind. Webster’s Iscariot—the surname of Judas the Betrayer—points the finger at humans, for it is we who have betrayed Nature. Or perhaps the traitor is the color green itself. Slippery and fresh, green is the color of sustainable politics, youth and naivete as well as of sickness, envy and jealousy. It may also represent the camouflage of the Chroma Key (or green screen)—a clear deception, a fake promise of what could be, leaving the viewer to ask: is green symbolic of a solut ... More
Quote I don't work after nature, but before nature and with her. Pablo Picasso
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announces Renee Coppola as Sales Director, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.-Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced the appointment of Renee Coppola as Sales Director for the Los Angeles gallery. Ms. Coppola is bringing unique institutional experience to this key role, having previously worked at the gallery’s New York space from 2010 to 2015. More recently, Coppola served as Director of Sales for Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles for the past six years. She was the Deputy Director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, and also Curatorial Assistant at The Broad Art Foundation (now The Broad Museum). Coppola started her professional career at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Arts and an MBA in Management and Marketing from Rutgers University. “We are delighted to welcome Renee back to the gallery. She will play a vital role in the planning ... More
Rockefeller Center installs Paula Crown's virtual 'message in a bottle' interactive artwork 'Emanare' NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Paula Crown’s interactive piece, EMANARE has been installed at Rockefeller Center, encouraging visitors, both in-person and virtually, to send messages of positive intention emanating into the world. Inspired by Buddhist prayer wheels, the artwork is activated when viewers collaborate by sending messages to benefit the whole. Emanare, the Latin word for emanate, means to flow out, to send forth, and to emit. Using the available QR code, participants are prompted to write a positive message that they wish to share. Affirmations including “Take it easy on yourself”, “You are made of strong stuff” and “Time to eat right” begin to appear in a digital scroll against a backdrop of colors taken from the artist's skyscape paintings. Eventually these messages layer, conjoin and merge into one another, transforming the work into ... More
Bocelli serenades Venice's Rialto Bridge after restoration VENICE(AFP).- Venice celebrated the completion of a full restoration of its Rialto Bridge Tuesday, with tenor Andrea Bocelli singing opera atop the gem of Renaissance art spanning the Grand Canal. With its elegant low arch and distinctive arcades, the gleaming white bridge spanning the Grand Canal at its narrowest point is one of Venice's most photographed tourist attractions -- and until the mid-19th century, the only way to cross besides by boat. The 5-million-euro ($6-million) head-to-toe restoration of the bridge, funded by Diesel founder Renzo Rosso, was completed in 2019 after beginning in 2015, organisers said. But a planned inauguration ceremony twice had to be delayed because of Covid-19. "This bridge is the bridge of Venice," Luca Zaia, president of the Veneto region of which Venice is the capitol, told invited guests at the bridge's ... More
Toni Servillo, Italy's everyman, in limelight at Venice VENICE(AFP).- He's one of Italy's most familiar faces, but even by Toni Servillo's standards it has been a busy week, with no less than three films premiering at the Venice Film Festival. The 62-year-old's expressive face has lent itself perfectly to everything from larger-than-life politicians like Silvio Berlusconi to a mob boss in "Gomorrah". He is perhaps best known abroad for his decades-long collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino, including his starring role in the Oscar-winning "The Great Beauty". Sorrentino, who describes Servillo as an older brother, cast him once again in his latest film, "The Hand of God", which premiered to strong reviews in Venice last week. It sees Servillo take on the role of the director's father in the autobiographical film set in Naples during the heady years when football legend Diego Maradona delivered big dreams to the gritty ... More
Abu Dhabi Art launches an initiative to support growing Emirati arts scene ABU DHABI .- Abu Dhabi Art today announces the formation of Friends of Abu Dhabi Art – an initiative created to facilitate new models of public cultural philanthropy and help support the dynamic art eco-system in the UAE through Abu Dhabi Art. Launching with an inaugural group of more than 40 dedicated art enthusiasts, Friends of Abu Dhabi Art will this year support Abu Dhabi Art’s Beyond: Emerging Artists, curated by guest curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Founders of Art Reoriented, a multidisciplinary curatorial platform. Dyala Nusseibeh, Director, Abu Dhabi Art, said: “We are hugely grateful to our Friends of Abu Dhabi Art members, who will play an integral role in supporting emerging artists from the UAE this year and engaging the wider public with their work. As a group of cultural philanthropists brought together by a shared ... More
France set for rare national tribute to film star Belmondo PARIS(AFP).- France will this week pay film star Jean-Paul Belmomdo the rare honour for an actor of a tribute at its national memorial site, the presidency said on Tuesday, as colleagues and public mourned the passing of one of the great icons of French cinema's golden age. Over six and a half million people in France watched special TV screenings of Belmondo films after his death was announced Monday, audiovisual data showed, as schedules were cleared for an actor whose swaggering smile and one-liners are inscribed in the national consciousness. Fellow French film legend Brigitte Bardot, who starred with Belmondo in several movies including the 1961 "Famous Love Affairs", said in a statement to AFP she felt "great grief" and was "thinking of him". "I feel great grief just like his dog Chipie who was his last and so faithful companion," said Bardot, ... More
Afghan art activist defiant as Taliban erase Kabul murals SEOUL(AFP).- Afghan activist Omaid Sharifi's art collective spent seven years transforming stretches of Kabul's labyrinthine concrete blast walls with colourful murals -- then the Taliban marched in. Within weeks of the Islamists taking the capital, many of the street art pieces have been painted over, replaced by drab propaganda slogans as the Taliban reimpose their austere vision on Afghanistan. The images of workers rolling white paint over the art were deeply foreboding for Sharifi, whose ArtLords collective has created more than 2,200 murals across the country since 2014. "The image that comes to my mind is (the Taliban) putting a 'kaffan' over the city," he told AFP in a phone interview from the UAE on Monday, referring to the white shroud used to cover bodies for Islamic burials. But even as the Taliban erase the work of the ArtLords and despite ... More
Mexico to replace Columbus statue with indigenous woman MEXICO CITY(AFP).- A statue of Christopher Columbus in the heart of Mexico City will be replaced by one of an indigenous woman, authorities said Monday, days before the country's 200th independence anniversary. The figure of the Italian navigator, which was removed from Reforma Avenue last year as protesters vowed to topple it, will be moved to "a safe, dignified" place, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said. It will be replaced by a sculpture of an indigenous Olmec woman made by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. "It is precisely indigenous women who have perhaps had the greatest burden in the history of Mexico and to whom the least recognition has been given," she said. The decision also represents an act of "social justice," Sheinbaum added, as well as recognition of 500 ... More
'The Box' gets inside Mexican sweatshop at Venice film festival VENICE(AFP).- Getting access to a "maquiladora", one of the hundreds of factories that line Mexico's border with the United States, was the biggest challenge of shooting Lorenzo Vigas' latest film at Venice, the director said Monday. "The Box" is in competition for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, to be announced on Saturday. It was shot in Chihuahua, the site of hundreds of foreign-owned factories assembling cheap goods and apparel for the United States just across the border, and one of Mexico's most violence-plagued states. The cheap labour that fuels the maquiladoras has made Mexico a major exporter, but at the cost of its poor and uneducated workers, many of whom work in sweatshop conditions for rock-bottom wages. "How do you put a camera inside a real maquiladora? It's nearly impossible," the Venezuelan director, ... More
Ben Brown Fine Arts presents a new body of work by Enoc Perez HONG KONG.-Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting More Than This, the first solo exhibition of Puerto Rican-American artist Enoc Perez to be held at the Hong Kong gallery, taking place between 7 September - 13 October 2021. Comprising oil paintings, this largely new body of work is reflective of Perez's deep interest in architectural spaces, a signature and ongoing source of inspiration within his art. Featuring classic architectural works and striking modern interiors, the works in this exhibition explore the metaphorical significance of architectural spaces all over the world - particularly poignant at a time when we have been so confined and limited to our own personal spaces. Widely travelled and based in New York, Perez's imagination is as much stimulated by international landmarks as by the modernist skyscrapers of his home city. From ... More
In literary organizations, diversity disputes keep coming NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A rescinded award. Board members resigning in anger. And many public apologies. This has been some of the fallout over accusations of racism or exclusion at several literary organizations over the past year and a half, including the Romance Writers of America, the National Book Critics Circle and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In each instance, these organizations have bumped up against a moment in the country when greater accountability is being demanded, perhaps especially in an industry that is generally both fairly liberal and largely white. “These literary organizations are a microcosm of our larger society with all kinds of viewpoints and life experiences contesting for influence,” said Suzanne Nossel, CEO of the free-speech organization PEN America. “Just as is happening ... More
Exhibition of quilted works by Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way opens at Mount Stuart ISLE OF BUTE.-Mount Stuart Trust is presenting Gather And Arrange, a new collaboration with artists Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way. This includes an exhibition of quilted works by the artists presented across the historic house, and a project working with island communities on Bute to weave their own stories into newly created quilted pieces, also to be displayed in the house. A third element of the project will see the artists making and constructing a large scale tablecloth to cover the dining room table in the Dining Room at Mount Stuart. A partnership between Sheelagh Boyce and Annabelle Harty, Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way focuses on a shared interest in architecture, art, food and fashion through the creation of handsewn, architectural quilts and reconstructed fabric works. These are put together from personal loved ... More
With a mess of fabrics, Broadway's costume shops return to work NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The workspaces at Parsons-Meares Ltd., one of New York City’s premier costume shops for Broadway shows, tend to be a spectacular confusion of satin and silk, lace and lamé, milliskin and muslin, scraps of brown paper in unique and strange shapes. Each surface seems on the verge of being inundated by leftover materials of varying hues and textures. “It’s kind of a big mess, because the work creates mess,” said Sally Ann Parsons, the shop’s owner and the only costume-maker to receive a Tony Award. “But I happen to find the mess interesting.” If Parsons-Meares and the dozens of other costume shops like it in the city are a bit cluttered lately, it’s a happy return to form after more than a year of inactivity. When the pandemic shuttered the theater industry in March 2020, Broadway’s dressmakers, tailors, ... More
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On a day like today, French artist, sculptor André Derain died
January 08, 1954. André Derain (10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In this image: A Christie's employee poses with a 1905 painting 'Bateaux a Collioure' by Andre Derain on display at the auction house in London, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The painting, last seen in public in 1965, was auctioned at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Feb. 9 with an estimated price of 4 to 6 million pounds ($6.5 to 9.7 million or 4.7 to 7 million euro).
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