A visitor looks at “Woody,” 1973, Barkley L. Hendricks’s depiction of a dancer at the Frick Madison in New York on Sept. 23, 2023. An underground virtuoso, always being discovered in bits and pieces, the portraitist solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick — its first ever for a Black artist. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
by Yinka Elujoba
NEW YORK, NY.- One day, in the late 1970s, while walking the streets of Pigalle in Paris, American painter Barkley L. Hendricks noticed several well-dressed Black men and women. As Hendricks later explained, he was particularly struck by the fashion sense of two African men. He spent time photographing them in different postures and situations, as was his habit with models he painted, laying the foundation for work that would end up on his canvas. The resultant painting — “APB’s (Afro-Parisian-Brothers)” — is eternally modern even in our time, relentlessly cool, and luxuriously vibrant, qualities that radiate through his ongoing exhibition of portraits at the Frick, where he is the first artist of color to have a solo show in the museum’s 88 years of existence. It is a posthumous glory: Hendricks died in 2017, at age 72. In 1966 — the year he turned 21 — Hendricks spent time in Europe funded by the Cresson scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art ... More
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, c. 1568. Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is staging its new exhibition Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Rijksmuseum in autumn 2023. With Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen closed for renovations, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see the museum’s exceptional collection in Amsterdam. This show of about 90 works of art includes The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas and Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (Floor Show). This exhibition takes a journey into human existence, through art from the middle ages to today. While so many aspects of human life are universal - birth, youth, growing up, sexuality, ageing and death - we have experienced them differently across the centuries." - Friso Lammertse, curator of 17th century Dutch painting Rijksmuseum. INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED COLLECTION. The collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, largely as ... More
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Soy una fuente (I Am a Fountain), 1990, oil and vinyl lettering on panel, ceramic and metal. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 2023.73. Image courtesy of the artist.
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced today the recent acquisitions of five major works by contemporary artists, reflecting the DIA’s ongoing commitment to collect and present the art of our time and to support the vision and practices of today’s groundbreaking artists. Each of these five works—four of which were made in the last year—offer great insight and perspective on urgent issues of today, addressing politics and representation, landscape and memory, and colonialism and cultural identity. Together, they exemplify the DIA’s efforts to introduce into its galleries a broad range of global perspectives on issues immediately relevant to Detroit audiences and communities. “The DIA is proud to acquire these five dynamic contemporary works which draw upon different geographies, contexts, and artistic styles,” said DIA Director ... More
Eugène Leroy, Sur la terre, 1977. Huile sur toile. Signée et datée en bas à droite. Signée et titrée au dos. 195 x 130 cm. Estimate: 80 000 / 120 000 € İ Adagp, Paris, 2023.
by Aurelien Breeden
PARIS.- The near-entirety of an art collection belonging to Gérard Depardieu, the prolific French actor whose career was clouded in recent years by accusations of sexual assault and harassment, was sold at a two-day Paris auction this week that brought in 4 million euros, including fees, or about $4.2 million. More than 230 items went under the hammer Tuesday and Wednesday at a sale organized at the Hôtel Drouot by the Ader auction house, including paintings by Alexander Calder and sculptures by Auguste Rodin, whom Depardieu played in the 1988 movie “Camille Claudel.” About 100 people crammed into the auction room Tuesday night for the sale of the collection's most prominent items, including a small oil painting of a flower vase by Odile Redon, which sold for 50,000 euros, and the three small Rodin sculptures, which sold for ... More
“I congratulate you upon the glorious successes of our Arms in the north, an account of which is inclosed – This singular favour of Providence is to be received with thankfulness and the happy moment which Heaven has pointed out for the firm establishment of American Liberty ought to be embraced with becoming spirit.”
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Raab Collection announced that it has discovered, acquired, and is offering for sale for the first time ever a letter of great importance in the history of the Revolutionary War and the country, one in which George Washington thanks God and Heaven for American victory in the Revolution. Written in October, 1777, just days after the Battle of Saratoga’s end, with Washington praising God for His support of the Revolution and urging his fellow Americans to rally to the cause. The Raab Collection was unable to find any other such letter of Washington having reached the market in which he directly ties a great American victory to “Heaven.” This original letter, signed by Washington, was not believed to have survived. Raab recently ... More
A photo of Serge Gainsbourg and his wife Jane Birkin at their home in Paris, as it was when he died in 1991 and now open to the public, on Sept. 19, 2023. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times).
by Roger Cohen
PARIS.- Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre. Jane Birkin, his great love, was a “baby alone in Babylon.” Asked once on a TV show how he would like to die, Gainsbourg shot back: “I would like to die alive.” Now, 32 years after his death in Paris at age 62, Gainsbourg feels very much alive at the Maison Gainsbourg, his Left Bank home that opened to the public last week, along with a museum nearby. Nothing has moved — not the Steinway piano, the Gitanes pack, the Zippo lighter, the empty bottle of Château Pétrus, the typewriter or the framed spiders. All the walls are draped in black fabric. Gainsbourg preferred black, he once said, “because in psychiatric ... More
Francesco Manacorda, new Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea.
TORINO.- The Board of Directors of Castello di Rivoli announces the appointment of Francesco Manacorda as Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. The new Director will take up the role starting from 1 January 2024. Francesco Manacorda has been Artistic Director of V-A-C Foundation (2017–22); Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool (2012–17), Director of Artissima (2010-12) and Curator at Barbican Art Gallery (2007- 09). From 2006 to 2011 he was Visiting Lecturer in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London. He has co-curated the 2016 Liverpool Biennial and in 2018 the 11th Taipei Biennial. Francesco Manacorda was chosen at the end of a public selection process by a Judging Committee chaired by Francesca Lavazza, President of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, and composed of Richard Armstrong, who was Director of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation fro ... More
The director Wes Anderson at the opening of “Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures,” an exhibit he curated at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Nov. 5, 2018. (Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times)
by Kyle Buchanan
NEW YORK, NY.- Fifteen years ago, while director Wes Anderson was adapting Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” into a stop-motion animated film, the author’s widow, Felicity, asked whether he saw cinematic potential in any of Dahl’s other tales. One came immediately to Anderson’s mind: “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” a short Dahl published in 1977 about a wealthy gambler who learns a secret meditation technique that allows him to see through playing cards. Many filmmakers had inquired about adapting “Henry Sugar” over the years, but Dahl’s family was happy to set it aside for Anderson. There was just one problem. “I never knew how to do it,” he said. The 54-year-old filmmaker typically works at a prodigious pace, putting out distinctive comedies like the recent “Asteroid City” and “The French Dispatch” (2021) every two or three years. But he has spent nearly half his career trying to crack “Henry Sugar.” ... More
Noam Dover and Michal Cederbaum, left: SOFT INTERPRETATIONS IN PINK, NO. 8, 2023. Blown glass, 12 1/2 x 11 x 11 in. (32 x 28 x 28 cm). Heller Gallery inventory # 451-0012. Right: SOFT INTERPRETATIONS IN PINK, NO. 2, 2023. Blown glass, 20 3/8 x 7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (52 x 19 x 19 cm). Heller Gallery inventory # 451-0006.
NEW YORK, NY.-Heller Gallery is now presenting Vessels of Knowledge: Reimagining Amphorae, the first US exhibition of new work by Israeli Swedish designers and artists Noam Dover and Michal Cederbaum. Dover & Cederbaum question the traditional boundaries between design, crafts and production, address the cultural origins of materials and techniques, and create objects that tell the story of their making. They consider their work as part of a chronology of craft knowledge, looking to create a synergy between traditional craft and contemporary possibilities of digital fabrication, open sourcing, and collaboration. This methodology and the cultural heritage of their immediate surroundings – their studio in Ein Ayala is near one of the largest Roman Empire glass studios found in Israel – prompted them to spotlight one of the oldest known human-made storage and shipping containers: the amphora. From the Dressel Table, ... More
U.S. President Joe Biden visiting the John Sidney McCain III Memorial in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 11, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
by Peter Baker
PHOENIX. AZ.- President Joe Biden plans to announce Thursday that he will devote federal money to create a library and museum dedicated to his old friend and adversary, Sen. John McCain, seeking to embrace a Republican who stood against former President Donald Trump. After stops in Michigan and California this week, Biden arrived in Phoenix on Wednesday night before a speech at the Tempe Center for the Arts on Thursday morning, when he intends to honor the legacy of McCain, who represented Arizona in the House and Senate for 35 years before dying of brain cancer in 2018. The McCain project was compared by people familiar with the plan to a presidential-style library and museum for a man who tried twice to reach the White House but never did. In affiliation with Arizona State University, the new institution would house McCain’s papers as well as offer exhibits about his life, including possibly a reproduction of the so-called Hanoi Hilton, where he was held ... More
Lavinia Angus, oil and encaustic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Artist, rancher and storyteller, Theodore Waddell, is one of the West’s most celebrated and recognized contemporary artists. His signature style of bold brushstrokes, textures, and generous layers of impasto capture the beauty and harshness of ranch life in the high plains and mountain valleys of the Rocky Mountains. The paintings in this exhibition are grounded in Ted’s profound and inextricable connection to the land and animals he loves. Western art is often characterized as nostalgia. Waddell’s paintings are much more about the contemporary West and his immediate experience as a rancher. Living in Montana is not merely existing; it is a vital experience. It is difficult to survive here, requiring a special kind of person. The weather, isolation, and geography are tough, individual, and independent. My art’s all part of the process of living on a ranch. You ... More
Hans Coper (1920-1981), Early and large ‘Thistle’ form, circa 1952. Estimate: £50,000-70,000.
LONDON.- From Michelangelo to Henry Moore, Carrara marble has been considered one of the most sought-after materials by sculptors for centuries. Following in this tradition is Zaha Hadid’s (1950-2016) monolith ‘Luna’ table, made from Bianco Carrara marble, which will star in Bonhams’ forthcoming Design sale on 3 October at New Bond Street, London. Weighing approximately 4 tonnes, the monolithic ‘Luna’ table was executed from a singular block of Carrara marble and has an estimate of £70,000-90,000. Dame Zaha Hadid was one of the most innovative architects of the 21st century, transforming notions of materiality through her manipulation of concrete, steel, and glass. In 2004, she was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. Marcus McDonald, Director of Design, commented: “The ‘Luna’ table is emblematic of Zaha Hadid’s pioneering design style which itself has bee ... More
Arthur Szyk 1894-1951, Poland, France, UK, Canada, and the United States. The Silent Partner. "In this game, Adolph, two aces is more than three kings." New York, 1941 Watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper Taube Family Arthur Szyk Collection, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley, 2017.5.1.69
FAIRFIELD, CONN..- Arthur Szyk’s compelling political cartoons placed Nazi genocide, tyranny, and antisemitism on the covers of America’s most popular magazines during World War II. Today, his pioneering examples of graphic storytelling have renewed relevance in a new exhibition at the Fairfield University Art Museum. This is the largest exhibition of Szyk’s work in the Northeast in over 50 years. In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights will be open to the public September 29 through December 16, 2023 at Fairfield University Art Museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries, with an adjunct exhibition entitled Szyk: The Interactive Experience opening on ... More
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Works by Canadian artist Elizabeth Magill now on view at Annely Juda Fine Art LONDON.-Annely Juda Fine Art is now hosting the gallery’s first exhibition of recent paintings by London-based Irish artist Elizabeth Magill (b. 1959). Magill’s paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre. The title of the exhibition ‘By This River’ is in homage to Brian Eno’s song of the same title, with each painting named after a line from the song. Rich with fragmented forms and kaleidoscopic patterning, the images are formed by Magill’s imagination, memories and photographs. The term ‘inscape’ has been used to describe Magill’s works - landscapes not conceived by direct observation but imbued with a sense of self and reflection. Though they have a cinematic beauty, her paintings are eerie and foreboding: trees or telephone wires conceal the view, birds flock in the night sky, silhouetted human figures against backdrops of hills, roc ... More
Crow Museum of Asian Art names Natalia Di Pietrantonio, PH.D. as museum's new curator DALLAS, TX.- After a national search, the Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas has named Natalia Di Pietrantonio, Ph.D., as the Museum’s new curator. Di Pietrantonio joins the Crow Museum from the Seattle Art Museum, where she served as inaugural curator of South Asian art, caring for their South Asian, Southeast Asian and Islamic art collections, while also serving as an affiliate art history faculty member at the University of Washington. Known for her creative and progressive leadership, Di Pietrantonio has garnered acclaim as an interdisciplinary art historian with expertise in global contemporary and historical Asian and Islamicate art. Di Pietrantonio arrives at a pivotal point as the Crow ... More
Andrew Lloyd Webber, darling of the avant-garde? NEW YORK, NY.- The closing of “The Phantom of the Opera” this past spring left a chandelier-sized hole in New York. And as of this summer, for the first time in 44 years, there is no Andrew Lloyd Webber musical running on Broadway. But now comes an unexpected new chapter in the career of one of musical theater’s most successful, if not always appreciated, composers: Several adventurous contemporary directors are declaring they love his work and want to put their stamp on it. Ivo van Hove, a Belgian director known for his profuse use of video and viscous fluids, is tackling “Jesus Christ Superstar” in Amsterdam, while Jamie Lloyd, the British auteur with a penchant for Pinter and an aversion to scenery, is sharpening “Sunset Boulevard” in London. Meanwhile, in the United States, Sammi Cannold is putting a feminist stamp on “Evita,” ... More
Review: 'Purlie Victorious' throws a comic funeral for racism NEW YORK, NY.- Two years before he made his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. attended the 100th performance of “Purlie Victorious” at the Cort Theater on Broadway. He knew the playwright, Ossie Davis, and his wife, Ruby Dee, from their work in the civil rights movement. Now the couple were starring in Davis’ raucous comedy about a stem-winding Black preacher from Georgia. It would not have been lost on the stem-winding King, likewise from Georgia, that he and “Purlie Victorious” had something in common. They were, after all, in the same fight against racism — in the play’s case by laughing it to death. And yet, did it die? If it did, why are we still laughing? The “Purlie Victorious” that opened Wednesday at the Music Box — unaccountably its first Broadway revival — is every bit as scathingly ... More
Own a piece of 'Tron,' the movie that changed the movies forever DALLAS, TX.- The moment Tron begins, it's literally off to the races. Just one minute into the 1982 film that transformed cinema, the audience is dropped into a sequence unlike any other in moving-picture history: A videogame player in "the real world" drops a quarter into a machine, grabs a joystick, then begins steering one beam of light against another illuminated on the screen. The camera pushes in, and suddenly, we're inside the game as two Light Cycles roar along a stark, colorful digital grid, each trying not to crash into the other or the light trails left in their wake. It's climax as introduction and a warning, too: Strap in and hang on. Tron, written and directed by Steven Lisberger with the assistance of hundreds of fellow revolutionaries, didn't hide his intention to dazzle and delight. Watching the movie about "programs" using digital frisbees ... More
Keith Haring's iconic take on Andy Warhol leads Heritage's Prints & Multiples event DALLAS, TX.- As a rising art star, Keith Haring was always open about his reverence for Andy Warhol. The two hit it off once Haring hit the commercial scene in New York – Haring spent time at the Factory and the two often traded work, and Warhol made it clear in his famous diaries that he genuinely liked Haring and his work. While the two shared a philosophy on Pop Art's profound resonance and the power of mass media to create the conditions that could make "art for everyone," in Haring's eyes Warhol was more of an icon than a mere mortal. In 1986, after opening his Pop Shop downtown, solidifying his powerful graphical sensibility, his gift for recognizable motif-making and his bold use of color, Haring created a portfolio many consider to be from an artist at the very top of his game, and he did it to honor his hero. Andy Mouse is a set of four screenprints ... More
Treasure trove of vintage James Dean photos from 1957 documentary lead Heritage's October Photographs event DALLAS, TX.- When the 24-year-old James Dean died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, an up-and-coming director named Robert Altman was in the middle of making a documentary about the young movie star. Altman, along with the documentary's co-director and producer, his friend George W. George, were as stunned as the rest of the world by the tragedy, with the added shock that Dean's death ground their project to halt mid-production. Following Dean's meteoric rise via his starring role in East of Eden (the much-anticipated Rebel Without a Cause and Gianthad yet to be released), the world was hungry for this filmic profile and Altman and George had Dean's full participation. Now their subject was gone. George's ... More
America's Black cemeteries and three women trying to save them WASHINGTON, DC.- The child’s headstone is inscribed simply “Nannie,” marking the grave of a 7-year-old girl who died May 18, 1856. She is buried in one of Washington’s oldest Black cemeteries, in a neglected corner of Georgetown. For years, she has touched visitors who have left toys, dolls and birthday cards at her grave. This year on Juneteenth, the June 19 holiday commemorating Emancipation, 200 people visited the Mount Zion-Female Union Band Society cemeteries to see Nannie’s grave and others buried there. The crowd was a big one for the long-struggling burial grounds, adjacent to one another and separated by only a battered cyclone fence from the neighboring Oak Hill Cemetery, the premier final address for Washington’s largely white elite. “It was amazing” that such a large, multiracial group had come, said Lisa Fager, the executive ... More
Pearl Bowser, expert in early Black filmmakers, dies at 92 NEW YORK, NY.- Pearl Bowser, a film historian, curator and collector who was instrumental in preserving and bringing to light the works of Black filmmakers from early in the last century, especially those of Oscar Micheaux, whom one writer described as “the Jackie Robinson of American film,” died Sept. 14 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. She was 92. Her daughter Gillian Bowser confirmed the death. Bowser developed an interest in the forgotten works of early Black filmmakers in the 1960s when, while working as a researcher on a colleague’s idea for a book about Micheaux, she traveled to California from New York to interview aging actors who had been in movies made by Micheaux decades earlier. She began hunting down and collecting movies by Micheaux and other Black filmmakers from the early decades of the 1900s — works ... More
Christie's Hong Kong announces the auction debut for Sanyu's first major nude painting HONG KONG.- On 28 November, Christie’s Hong Kong will present the auction debut of Sanyu’s pioneering masterpiece, Nude on Tapestry — the first major nude painting by the artist, as a leading highlight of the 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale. Painted almost a century ago in Paris and residing in private hands to this day, the sale will mark the first time the painting has appeared in Asia. An exceptionally rare work and one of Sanyu’s earliest and finest reclining nudes of this composition, Nude on Tapestry has an outstanding provenance and comes directly from the prestigious Dreyfus Collection. As the auction market leader for Sanyu masterpieces, this sale continues Christie’s track record of presenting the artist’s most iconic and celebrated themes. • Fresh-to-Market with Preeminent Provenance: Currently sitting in the Dreyfus ... More
Phillips announces two October selling exhibitions in New York at 432 Park Avenue NEW YORK, NY.-PhillipsX will present two concurrent selling exhibitions in the month of October, Nature, Myth, Identity: The Saar Assemblages and Written In The Sky: Works by Ed Ruscha. Each of these shows will be on view at 432 Park Avenue from 4 – 13 October. The Saar collection comes to Phillips in conjunction with Trotta-Bono Contemporary and features works by Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar, collected over the course of a few decades by Jan and Dr. Richard Baum. This grouping of artwork reflects a familial narrative and the significant impact the Saar’s had on one another as well as the art world, particularly in the areas of African American art, feminist art, and assemblage. Alongside this is Written In The Sky: Works by Ed Ruscha featuring a variety of pieces from the artist, including the large scale masterpiece Alvarado to Doheny. ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Tintoretto was born
September 29, 1518. Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. In this image: A man looks at 'The Coronation of the Virgin, The Paradise' a painting by 16th century Venetian artist Tintoretto, on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
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