Paintings and illustrations pile up at the Savers thrift store in Manchester, N.H., in September 2023. A woman found a rare N.C. Wyeth illustration while rummaging though frames at a Savers in New Hampshire — now the piece is expected to draw a significant sum at auction. (Joe Klementovich/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- You can walk out of the Savers in Manchester, New Hampshire, with a shirt for as little as $4.99. There are $2 rings for those interested in costume jewelry. Framed artworks too big for shelves lean invitingly against one of the walls. The thrift store’s manager says that shopping there is like a personal treasure hunt, which was certainly the case for one woman who made the find of a lifetime in 2017. While pushing a metal cart through the Savers on a hunt for home décor, she spotted a dusty painting with a substantial wooden frame amid a stack of posters and prints. Two women in the image appeared to be in a standoff, the elder displaying stern disapproval. The shopper was taken by the painting — Who were the women? Why did they seem so tense? — and clunked it into her cart. Minutes later, she was wheeling out an authentic oil panel by N.C. Wyeth, one of the premier American illustrators of the 20th century, known for bringing to life classic stories such as “Trea ... More
DRESDEN.- At this year’s Grisebach summer auction in Berlin, some outstanding pieces were acquired for the Kupferstich-Kabinett, part of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), thanks to the generous support of several sponsors. A group of eleven cut-paper works by the famous North German Romanticist Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) were purchased with the help of substantial funding from Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, HERMANN REEMTSMA STIFTUNG, Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung (supporting art, culture, science and the conservation of monuments), the friends association Verein der Freunde des Kupferstich-Kabinetts Dresden e. V. and private sponsors, alongside the SKD’s own funds. Runge gave the pieces to the family of Johannes Michael Speckter (1764–1845), close friends of his who played ... More
PARIS.- Looking forward to the 2024 Olympics, the Musée des Arts décoratifs (Paris) presents Fashion and Sports: From one Podium to Another (20 September 2023 – 7 April 2024), an exhibition on the fascinating interconnections between fashion and sports from the Ancient World to the present day. This major exhibition illuminates the shared social concerns and focus on the body of the apparently unrelated worlds of fashion and sports. 450 items of clothing, accessories, photographs, sketches, magazines, posters, paintings, sculptures and videos illustrate the evolution of sportswear and its influence on contemporary fashions. Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin, Gabrielle Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli were some of the interwar fashion design pioneers who found inspiration in the world of sports. The exhibition shows how they made sportswear fashionable in a wider range of contexts, including in everyday wardrobes. The importance of comfortable cloth ... More
Norman Lewis (1909-1979), Carved Bobbin (Guru), 1935. Pastel on sandpaper. Photo Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.-Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is now showing Norman Lewis: Give Me Wings To Fly, the gallery’s sixth solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. A vital member of the first generation of abstract expressionists, Norman Lewis (1909–1979) executed hundreds of works on paper throughout his career, considering the medium to be of equal importance to his pursuits on canvas or board. Give Me Wings To Fly features sixty works dating from 1935 through 1978 that collectively trace the major developments of the artist’s visual language and reveal his immense range in subject, technique, and style. The exhibition is accompanied by an online catalogue publishing new scholarship by art historian and Norman Lewis expert Ruth Fine. Now an independent curator, Fine retired from her position as a curator at The National Gallery of Art in 2012, after four decades at the museum. In 2015, she curated the critically acclaimed travelin ... More
Pier 97 at Hudson River Park in Manhattan, Sept. 8, 2023. (Lucia Vazquez/The New York Times)
by Jane Margolies
NEW YORK, NY.- Twelve hundred tons of sand arrived last month in Hudson River Park, the sliver of green space on the western edge of Manhattan, and it took only a quarter-century to get there. In 1998, when Gov. George Pataki signed the law authorizing the creation of the park, he vowed it would have a beach. Now, on the 25th anniversary of the Hudson River Park Act — which turned a strip of dilapidated warehouses and rotting piers along the city’s mightiest river into a sprawling park network — West Siders will finally get to wriggle their toes in the sand. The beach is part of a larger effort to complete the park and knit together its disparate sections, which have been developed in bits and pieces over the years. The newest projects expected to open soon are Gansevoort Peninsula, a recreational area off Gansevoort Street that includes the beach as part of a $73 million overhaul, and Pier 97, a $47 million project off 57th Street that will have a big ... More
Attendees at the opening night gala at the Perelman Arts Center in New York, Sept. 14, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK, NY.- The first public events at the new $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center, the opulent theater near the World Trade Center site, are deliberately laden with symbolism. The center is opening its doors with five shows running Tuesday through Saturday, collectively titled “Refuge: A Concert Series to Welcome the World.” Each concert offers a different kind of refuge as its theme: Home, Faith, School, Family and Memory. Home (Tuesday) presents musicians who gravitated to New York City from around the world; Family (Friday) has sibling and multigenerational groups. School (Thursday) features musicians who have made education an integral part of their work. The series affirms the city’s diversity with an international lineup that includes Grammy-winning stars — Angélique Kidjo on Tuesday, Common on Thursday, José Feliciano on Saturday — along with lesser-known musicians dedicated to preserving and extending deep-rooted ... More
A young visitor watches Methuselah, an Australian lungfish, in her tank at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on Sept. 14, 2023. The nonagenarian lungfish has lived in a tank in San Francisco since 1938. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
by Soumya Karlamangla
NEW YORK, NY.- In the fall of 1938, the Golden Gate Bridge had been open for a year, the United States was still recovering from the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as president. World War II had yet to begin. And in the cargo hold of a steamship, a young lungfish arrived from Australia to a new home at an aquarium in San Francisco. She’s still alive today. In a delightful piece of California trivia, what is believed to be the world’s oldest fish in human care can be found in Golden Gate Park, at the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences. I recently met Methuselah, as the fish is known, and can attest that she’s a particularly charming celebrity. With a torpedo-shaped body covered in mossy green scales, she glides through her ... More
Robert Zandvliet, Paradaidha Pontis, 2023, Egg tempera and oil on linen, 270 x 203 cm | 106 1/4 x 79 7/8 in.
LONDON.-GRIMM announced the UK representation of Dutch artist Robert Zandvliet, whose expressive work occupies a space between abstraction and figuration in its response to the natural world. His self-reflective practice captures the gesture of painting itself through examining the essential components of landscape, objects and colour. GRIMM will present new work by Zandvliet at Frieze London in October 2023, and in a solo presentation in the London gallery in April 2024. Zandvliet (b. 1970, Terband, NL, based in Haarlem, NL) is an artist concerned with the combined act of observation and introspection. Over the course of nearly thirty years, Zandvliet has presented his work across Europe and the US, and been the subject of major solo exhibitions with the Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL),the De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL) and the Kunstmuseum, ... More
DALLAS, TX.-Heritage Auctions' Sept. 14-17 Comics & Comic Art Signature ® Auction abounded with history — on the page and behind the podium. Records were set throughout the nearly sold-out four-day event, which realized $13,021,591 and drew more than 5,100 bidders worldwide who competed for abundant books and works that had never before been to auction. Nineteen of the 1,300 lots realized six-figure results, among them a low-graded copy of The Most Important Comic Book Ever Published that soared to a record finish. Action Comics No. 1, the 1938 book that introduced Superman, birthed the superhero genre and ushered in the Golden Age — for starters. That's why this issue, graded CGC PR 0.5, sold for $408,000, making it the most valuable copy of the comic in the grade. Up, up and away it went, even without its back cover, to become the first comic book with a CGC 0.5 grade to sell for six figures. Several comic books set new auction record ... More
Pokémon "Pikachu" Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics CGC Trading Card Game Gem Mint 10 (The Pokémon Company, 1998).
DALLAS, TX.- To the victors go the spoils. The adage applies not only to conquering military heroes, but also to the winners of illustration contests presented by CoroCoro Comics. The winners of three contests held in 1998 received an ultra-rare Pokémon "Pikachu" Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics CGC Trading Card Game Gem Mint 10 (The Pokémon Company, 1998), one of which is in play at Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Platinum Session and Signature® Auction September 23-24. "The words ‘holy grail' describe the most valuable and desirable item available, and this card is just that," says Jesus Garcia, Trading Cards Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. "The card's rarity, combined with its Gem Mint 10 grade makes this example an instant centerpiece for any collection. Only 23 were awarded at the first contest, ... More
Academy POSITIONS 2023. Photo: Natalia Carstens Photography.
BERLIN.- The 10th edition of the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair was a great success! More than 28,000 visitors showed interest in the broad artistic spectrum that the 100 international galleries presented this year in the hangars of Tempelhof Airport. The Directors of POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair Kristian Jarmuschek and Heinrich Carstens look back euphorically on the past few days: "Berlin is an art metropolis. We felt the energy of the fair from the first to the 28,000th visitor. More than in previous years, POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair was an integral part of the art scene and Berlin Art Week. Curiosity and joy could be felt among the international exhibitors and collectors, institutional visitors and all those interested in art. Joy in networking and curiosity to present and discover artworks." With 100 galleries from 20 countries, this year's POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair presented itself as a prominent meeting point for the industry, both for the international art ... More
Anna Ancher, Sunlight in the Blue Room, 1891, Skagens Kunstmuseer.
CHARLOTTENLUND.- In the autumn of 2023, continuing the exhibition series on artists’ homes, Ordrupgaard will be highlighting one of the most renowned and beloved Danish artist couples: Anna and Michael Ancher. This is the first time in recent years that an exhibition sets out to address both the artists and their partnership that blossomed in their Skagen home. The exhibition examines the artistic dialogue and sheds light on the similarities and differences between the two artists. The starting point will be the painting Appraising the Day’s Work from 1883, which the artist couple painted together. In this picture, they depict themselves as practising artists of equal standing – entirely true to their real-life situation. A harmonious and respectful artistic partnership always emanated from their home, initially in the Garden House behind Brøndum’s Hotel and later at the address ... More
Tiziano Cruz. Photo credit: Mariano Barrientos.
KUOPIO.-ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival announced Tiziano Cruz as the 2023 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. The festival, which took place from 12 – 17 September in Kuopio, Finland, celebrates innovative live art that is performative, participatory and embedded in the present moment. The jury comment: “Tiziano’s work accounts to the consequences of the colonial violence in Argentina and its consequences that currently affect indigenous, racialized and marginalised communities through different degrees of invisibilization, discrimination, epistemicides and deterritorializations that at large signal a form of governance that favours disappearance of difference toward whiteness as norm – an operation that takes place, in different degrees, through the Americas and beyond. The work of Buenos Aires-based interdisciplinary Tiziano Cruz also gives testimony to the resilience ... More
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The man who wrote everything NEW YORK, NY.- Gay Talese has a tic. I want to get this out of the way because in general I have such tremendous admiration for the man: that debonair eminence of ye olde New Journalism who is both a living landmark of Manhattan and his own best character. It’s a writerly tic, the retro habit of referring to women by the color of their hair, but as noun rather than adjective. “A slender and attractive brunette.” “A slender and stylish honey blonde in a ponytail.” “A gregarious young brunette.” “A perky and heavily perfumed brunette in a red cocktail dress.” At least silver foxes, of which the natty Talese, 91, is a prime example, get the courtesy of being compared to a clever animal. If occasionally feeling as if you’re trapped in a Peter Arno cartoon is the price of admission to a new work by Talese, sign me up. But only one chunk ... More
Helene Appel's exhibition 'Letters' on view at the Drawing Room, Hamburg HAMBURG.- Things lying on the floor. Or on the table, perhaps. Objects or loose substances resting horizontally on the surface, entirely at the mercy of gravity. Or so it seems. But here, the thing is a picture. The flat ground is tilted by 90°, together with the subject, and hangs on the wall as a painting. This gesture, simple as well as literally ground-breaking, enables Helene Appel to bring the (illusionary) space of representation into her painting, into the classic panel painting – while at the same time revealing the illusion. In her veristic depiction of mostly everyday objects, the artist, who studied with Olav Christopher Jenssen at the HfbK Hamburg, has been pursuing a form of painterly realism for almost two decades now, simulating her subjects both blatantly and effectively. Withdrawing all perspective – the images are frontal, the horizon ... More
Hollywood strikes send a chill through Britain's film industry LONDON.- What do “Barbie,” “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” have in common? Besides being the summer’s big-budget movies, they were made in Britain, filmed in part at some of the country’s most esteemed studios. Big Hollywood productions are a critical part of Britain’s film and television industry. For years, they have brought in money, jobs and prestige, and helped make the sector a bright spot in Britain’s economy. But now, that special relationship has brought difficulty. The strikes by actors and screenwriters in the United States, which have ground much of Hollywood to a standstill, are also being strongly felt in Britain, where productions including “Deadpool 3,” “Wicked” and Part 2 of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” stopped filming. Throughout the late summer months, when ... More
Mosaic artwork by Glendalys Medina enlivens Grand Street Station in Brooklyn NEW YORK, NY.-MTA Arts & Design announces a dynamic new mosaic artwork commission by artist Glendalys Medina for the Grand Street station in Brooklyn. Two panels, one on each platform mezzanine, comprise Gratitudes off Grand. The installation totals around 340 square feet of glass mosaic fabricated and installed by Miotto Mosaic Art Studios, including a 40- foot-wide panel on the Brooklyn-bound side. The Grand Street station is receiving ADA accessibility upgrades, including new elevators, completed this month, and other improvements. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Medina began a practice of taking 15-minute walks to get outside and cultivate gratitude. Upon returning to the studio, the artist documented colors that were observed to create a series of studies. The resulting works extend the artist’s practice inspired by Taíno ... More
'Swing State' review: All is not well in Wisconsin NEW YORK, NY.- It’s immediately clear what kind of flinty, progressive woman lives in the converted farmhouse depicted onstage in “Swing State,” the play by Rebecca Gilman that opened Sunday at the Minetta Lane Theater. Well, not so much “depicted” as “duplicated.” You can just about sense the recycling bins beneath the working sink and the Obama memoirs in the book-filled sitting room of Todd Rosenthal’s cozy set, a throwback to the hyper-naturalistic style that has for decades dominated American social drama. Indeed, as the play begins, Peg Smith, whose name alone lets you know she’s plain and real, stands cracking eggs at her kitchen island to make the homeliest food ever devised: zucchini bread. But all is not well among the baskets, birdhouses and earthenware bowls. For one thing, there’s a container of human ashes ... More
'The Absence of Mark Manders' in Woning Van Wassenhove SINT-MARTENS-LATEM.- The Absence of Mark Manders unfolds in the Woning Van Wassenhove. This is a post-Brutalist house for a bachelor designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. In jarring contrast to prevailing depictions of clean and mostly empty Brutalist interiors, the original occupant, Albert Van Wassenhove, who lived there until his passing in 2012, stuffed the house to hoarder-like proportions. The Absence of Mark Manders treats Lampens’s architecture with the dignity of the permanent sculpture that it is, while also putting forth Van Wassenhove’s logic of accumulation. Although Manders has hardly touched some spaces, he treats the bed, office, and kitchen as stages for aggregation in line with the original occupant’s mindset: drawings, architectural proposals, photographs, artworks, paint pots, and seemingly wet clay are piled ... More
Ikon Gallery presents major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris BIRMINGHAM.-Ikon Gallery welcomes the major solo exhibition by British artist Mali Morris 'Calling' which includes nearly 30 works from the last 25 years and documents a notable change in Morris’ artistic practice from the late 1990s when she considered new painterly directions. Morris’s first solo exhibition was held at Ikon Gallery, John Bright Street, in 1979 and she now returns to Ikon, Brindleyplace, in 2023 to transform the gallery’s spaces into fields of colour and light. Mali Morris has been exploring the possibilities of abstract painting for over 50 years. Her recent paintings create visual arenas, where colour moves through space and space moves through colour. Glowing circles call to each other through painted structures that are both fluid and geometric. Opacity and translucency are important, as are the ways the touch ... More
'Luca Locatelli: The Circle' opening at Gallerie d'Italia, Turin TORINO.-Intesa Sanpaolo Gallerie d’Italia will be presenting 'Luca Locatelli: The Circle', the world premiere of a new series of photographs by the 2020 World Press Photo Contest winner and internationally renowned reporter Luca Locatelli. For the last years, Locatelli has been travelling around many different countries – Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland to cite a few – to document practices and stories that could shed light on that model of production and consumption known as the Circular Economy. This exhibition at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin presents more than 100 photographs made by Locatelli in the last two years of his research journey around Europe, along with new video works and infographics, offering insights into contemporary, experimental sustainable practices and initiatives: from the world's ... More
'Un·Tuning Together: Practicing Listening with Pauline Oliveros' at Bétonsalon PARIS.- This group exhibition is inspired by a unique concept of listening that the American experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) refers to as Deep Listening, which, in her words, "involves going beneath the surface of what is heard." At the heart of this practice is an acute awareness of the fact that there is always more to hear "beneath the surface" of the audible, in the recesses of the acoustic environment. The Deep Listening experience is open to new forms of sensoriality and represents a commitment to continue developing our listening skills through scores that, rather than guiding the interpretation of music, suggest attentional strategies and ways of listening to ourselves, others and the environment. In Oliveros’ work, the practice of attention is most often conducted in a collective setting. In most of her compositions, ... More
Watercolour landscapes by Turner and Bonington in new Wallace Collection exhibition LONDON.- The Wallace Collection invites visitors to embark on a journey – from the rugged Yorkshire Dales to the grandeur of Venice, pausing en route to enjoy the bucolic delights of crab fishing on Scarborough’s beach and to marvel at the gothic splendour of Rouen cathedral from the dockside. This odyssey is undertaken through a one-room display of watercolour landscapes by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828), the first time the works have been on display in 17 years. The display brings together ten works by the two artists: with four views of Yorkshire by Turner and five scenes of Normandy and Venice by Bonington. Turner was, of course, a British artist, while Bonington was born in Britain but was brought up and received his artistic training in France and is considered Anglo-French. In a manner that was ... More
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On a day like today, American glass artist Dale Chihuly was born
July 20, 1941. Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. In this image: Dale Chihuly sits in front of a wall featuring his drawings in the cafe during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Seattle. The new, permanent 1.5 acre exhibit is located near the base of the Space Needle. It looks at the career of Chihuly and features an eight-gallery exhibition hall, conservatory and garden as well as a cafe with a selection of Chihuly's collections of vintage accordions, radios, clocks and other mid-century memorabilia.
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