Sahar Te, Listening Attends, 2021. 2003 Toyota Tacoma, speakers, black satin cover. Courtesy the artist. Photo Toni Hafkenscheid (installation view MOCA Toronto, 2021).
TORONTO.-The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) launched Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21), a triennial survey. The first edition brings together 21 energizing artists and art collectives who work in the Greater Toronto Area or have direct connections with the city. Spanning all three floors of the Museum, the exhibition is a new triennial survey defined by MOCA’s pledge to support the work of Toronto artists and the commissioning of new projects that add to local and global discourse. The exhibition title plays on Greater Toronto Area, the name of the city's broad metropolitan area, addressing the ever-expanding notion of what Toronto might be and where it extends by exploring the practices and perspectives of a diversity of artists. GTA21 is on view through January 9, 2022. Organized by guest curator Daisy Desrosiers, Adjunct Curator Rui Mateus Amaral, and MOCA Artistic Director November Paynter, the exhibition includes new works by: Ashoon ... More
Researchers tried multiple methods to unveil the content of the redactions, before X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy prevailed. CRC via The New York Times.
by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- The year was 1791, and while Marie Antoinette may not have had the favor of the people of France, she did have a pen pal. Her confidant, Axel von Fersen, was a Swedish count, and one of the French queen’s close friends. Between the summers of 1791 and 1792, though the queen was kept under close surveillance after a botched escape attempt, she still managed to sneak letters to von Fersen. He copied the letters, which are now held in the French national archives. But between the time the letters were written and the time they arrived at the archives, some mysterious actor censored the letters, scrawling out words and lines with tightly looped circles of ink. The content of the censored lines — and the identity of the fastidious scribbler — eluded historians for nearly 150 years. In a paper ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- 'Marcel Duchamp' became the go-to book on the legendary artist for many decades following its publication in late 1959, when editions in French and English were simultaneously released. After being out of print for more than sixty years, the Grove Press English edition is now back in circulation with Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ fully authorized facsimile of Duchamp’s seminal first monograph and catalogue raisonné. This iconic title is the culmination of many years of Duchamp’s collaboration with its author, art historian and critic Robert Lebel. To this day, the book’s texts, which include chapters authored by Duchamp, H.P. Roché, and André Breton, remain just as relevant and impactful, as does Duchamp’s book design. Hauser & Wirth Publishers reanimate 'Marcel Duchamp' with its faithful reproduction of the 1959 ... More
Andy Warhol, Grevy’s Zebra from Endangered Species, 1983. Estimate $50,000-70,000.
OAK PARK, IL .- On Wednesday, October 13, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will present its first sale dedicated exclusively to Prints & Multiples, featuring nearly 300 lots with lithographs, screenprints, etchings, woodcuts, and other works on paper by major figures from the 19th century to the present. Some of the important artists included in the auction are: Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Salvador Dalí, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Ed Paschke, Paul Cadmus, Thomas Hart Benton, Frances Hammell Gearhart, Gustave Baumann, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. On Thursday, October 14, Toomey & Co. will conduct its fall Interiors auction, which includes a wide variety of fine art, early 20th century and modern furniture, pottery, glass, lighting, and more. Much of the material in Interiors is by renowned artists and makers, but the price points are generally more affordable, which allows collectors and designers greater access to desirable objects. In Prints & Multiple ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Claude Monet’s Au jardin, la famille de l’artiste, 1875 (estimate: $12 Million - $18 Million) will be a leading highlight of Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale this November in New York. Publicly exhibited only a handful of times since its creation, the painting was last seen at auction in 1984 and has remained in the same collection ever since. Au jardin, la famille de l’artiste will be exhibited in Hong Kong from 7 - 12 October, in London 18 - 21 October, and on display in Christie’s New York galleries ahead of the auction in November. Keith Gill, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s London: “Created just a year after the first Impressionist Exhibition introduced the public to the artist’s revolutionary plein-air aesthetic and modern subject matter, Au jardin, la famille de l’artiste dates from a key moment in Monet’s career. Offering an intimate glimpse into the qui ... More
In New York, 33 of the state’s cultural organizations and three grant-making programs will receive a total of $16.2 million. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
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NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library, the USS Constitution Museum in Boston and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, are among more than 300 beneficiaries of new COVID relief grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, it was announced Monday. The grants, which total $87.8 million and are supported by $135 million in funding allocated to the endowment under the American Rescue Plan Act, which was signed into law in March, will provide emergency relief to help offset pandemic-related financial losses at museums, libraries, universities and historical sites in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Northern Marianas. The endowment distributed the first $52.6 million in June. Adam Wolfson, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery presents New York artist Li Trincere and her newest body of work, Painting Zero, in her third solo exhibition with the Gallery. This new series of hard-edge paintings was created during the Covid pandemic and confinement to her studio in 2021 with the help of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. This presentation includes ten paintings, each acrylic on canvas in a square format and measuring 54 x 54 inches. This is a departure for Trincere whose paintings historically have been shaped canvases and rarely of uniform size. Her titles are usually descriptive, generally limited to the colors and shapes of the individual paintings. However, this new series differs in that the titles are not descriptive but convey an attitude, almost a return to an 80s punk sensibility that is edgy, gritty and a little tough and unapologetic. The titles include: Blood and Guts, ... More
The Guggenheim museum has appointed a new chairman, the billionaire collector J. Tomilson Hill.
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is working to address charges from within its own ranks that it is “an inequitable work environment that enables racism,” the museum Monday appointed a new chairman, billionaire collector J. Tomilson Hill, and elected its second ever Black female trustee, poet, playwright and essayist Claudia Rankine. “He’s a prescient collector and a very gifted convener,” Richard Armstrong, the museum’s director, said in a telephone interview. “I think he feels strongly about the role of art inside contemporary civilizations.” Hill joined the board in 2019, the same year he opened the Hill Art Foundation, a public exhibition and education space in Chelsea. He will become the Guggenheim’s chairman as of Nov. 1, succeeding William L. Mack, who served for 16 years and has been elected chairman emeritus. “You have to go where your passion lies,” Hill said, adding that his was in modern and contemporary ... More
Russian actress Yulia Peresild poses during an interview with AFP in Moscow. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP.
by Anastasia Clark
MOSCOW.- A Russian actress and director on Tuesday arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in a bid to best the United States and film the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX. Actress Yulia Peresild, 37, and film director Klim Shipenko, 38, took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan as scheduled. But they belatedly docked at the ISS at 1222 GMT after veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov switched to manual control. "Welcome to the ISS!" Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Twitter. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship for a 12-day mission at the ISS to film scenes for "The Challenge". The movie's plot, which has been mostly kept under wraps along with its budget, was revealed ... More
Forensic technicians work at the scene outside the town Markaryd in Sweden, on October 4, 2021, where two policemen and the Swedish artist Lars Vilks died in car accident. Johan NILSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Lars Vilks, an artist and free speech activist whose cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog in 2007 made him the target of numerous assassination attempts, was killed in a car crash in Sweden on Sunday, police said. Vilks, who had been under police protection since 2010, was headed toward his home in southern Sweden when the civilian police vehicle he was traveling in veered across the median and collided head-on with a truck, killing Vilks, 75, and his two bodyguards, police said. The truck driver was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. “We are looking at the possibility that it was a tire explosion,” Stefan Sinteus, a regional police official, said during a news conference Monday. “There is nothing at this ... More
1946 Delahaye Type 135M Cabriolet. Coachwork by Graber - only two such made.
LONDON.- Two Delahayes with Swiss Graber coachwork coming to the market at the same time is a most unusual coincidence - RM Sotheby’s sold theirs for £235,500 in St Moritz and just nine days previously H&H Classics sold theirs in Duxford for a not dissimilar price. Damian Jones Head of Sales for H&H says: “The buyer of ‘our’ car wishes the price paid to remain confidential but I can say that it was very close to what RM achieved.” A true Grande Routiere that would grace any collection this exquisite Delahaye is believed to be one of just two such examples made (and sister to the RM Sotheby’s car - chassis 800320 - which has been pictured in various marque histories). This lovely machine was offered for sale by H&H Classics at the Imperial War Museum Duxford on September 8th with an estimate of £250,000 to £300,000. In the event it changed hands after the auction for a figure within range of the lower ... More
The Gold Glass Dress NFT designed by Dolce & Gabbana and constructed by UNXD, a digital marketplace. Photo: UNXD and Dolce & Gabbana.
NEW YORK, NY.- The digital world’s cancellation of Dolce & Gabbana after a series of offensive statements about race, sexuality and size, which reached its apogee in 2018 when the fashion house released a video in China featuring a Chinese model clumsily eating spaghetti with chopsticks, appears to have reached a multimillion-dollar end. How else to interpret the fact that the brand announced Sept. 30 it had sold at auction a nine-piece collection of digital NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, alongside some actual couture for a total of 1,885.719 Ether (Ethereum cryptocurrency), or the equivalent of nearly $5.7 million. Collezione Genesi, conceived with and auctioned by UNXD, a curated marketplace for digital luxury and culture, was said to be the most complex fashion NFT created and offered so far. Since the announcement, the ... More
LONDON.-Phillips partnered with the UK rapper and actor Kano ahead of the 20th Century & Contemporary Art auctions in London on 14 and 15 October. Kano has selected a series of 11 seminal works by both established and emerging artists. The Day Sale will be held on 14 October at 2pm, followed by the Evening Sale on 15 October at 5pm. A full-scale preview exhibition will go on view to the public at 30 Berkeley Square during Frieze Week from 6 to 15 October. Kano said of his selection, "I am excited to partner with Phillips and to have curated a selection of eleven works from their upcoming 20th Century and Contemporary auctions. It has been an incredible learning exercise as well as a fun experience, discovering these important artists. As a storyteller, myself, in a different medium, it's inspiring to see these contemporary artists using their art to address issues and speak up for their communities. I am very ... More
Quote Michelangelo Buonarroti was a good man, but he did not know how to paint. El Greco
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Picasso's Mousquetaire à la pipe II highlights Christie's 20th Century Art Evening Sale NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christie’s 20th Century Art Evening Sale in New York will be highlighted by Pablo Picasso’s Mousquetaire à la pipe, 5 November 1968 (Estimate on request; in the region of $30,000,000). A leading example of the musketeer series that came to be highly definitive of the artist’s late career, this work is remarkable for its inventiveness and variety, its vibrant palette and rich brushwork, dynamism, and overwhelming joie de vivre. Max Carter, International Director and Head of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Department, remarked: “In 1968, while much of the world looked anxiously at the future, Picasso, then in his 88th year, harnessed the glories of the past to create his grand, culminant series of musketeers. This November we are honored to offer Mousquetaire á la pipe II, one of its outstanding examples, ... More
Adams and Ollman opens a solo exhibition of new work by Stefanie Victor PORTLAND, OR.-Adams and Ollman is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Stefanie Victor. For this exhibition, the artist’s second at the gallery, Victor explores gesture and form as it relates to her affective experience with domestic objects, space, time, and studio processes through six different types of works installed in subtle spatial rhythms around the gallery. In doing so, Victor investigates the capacity for discrete elements to collectively map a kind of language of private experience. The exhibition is on view through October 31. Small in scale and carefully adapted to the gallery space, the sculptures relate to the body and its movements, as well as interior infrastructure and hardware in Victor’s apartment. Made from a range of raw materials including cement, glass, metal, and clay, their forms often belie their materiality. Rather than hard and still, ... More
An acclaimed playwright on masks and the return to the stage NEW YORK, NY.- In the theater, we smile. We smile because the show must go on. We smile, to quote Nat King Cole, even when our hearts are breaking. Unless we are performers in a tragedy, we put on some glitter and we sail out into the night, toward the theater district. Even writers, the least performative of the lot, smile. I didn’t want to be an opaque, judging playwright at auditions; I wanted to mirror the actors’ joy, or sadness, and partake of the strange communion between performers and their first audience. I never expected that one day, during a pandemic, we would all come to the theater masked. About a decade ago, I was nominated for a Tony Award for my play “In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play.” I was thrilled with the news, but you wouldn’t have known it from looking at my face. A month earlier, after giving birth to twins, I’d been diagnosed ... More
Venice, overwhelmed by tourists, tries tracking them VENICE.- As the pandemic chased away visitors, some Venetians allowed themselves to dream of a different city — one that belonged as much to them as to the tourists who crowd them out of their stone piazzas, cobblestone alleyways and even their apartments. In a quieted city, the chiming of its 100 bell towers, the lapping of canal waters and the Venetian dialect suddenly became the dominant soundtrack. The cruise ships that disgorged thousands of day-trippers and caused damaging waves in the sinking city were gone, and then banned. But now, the city’s mayor is taking crowd control to a new level, pushing high-tech solutions that alarm even many of those who have long campaigned for a Venice for Venetians. The city’s leaders are acquiring the cellphone data of unwitting tourists and using hundreds of surveillance cameras to monitor ... More
Kensett painting soars to more than $1 million at Cottone Auctions GENESEO, NY.- A truly sublime painting titled Singing Beach & Eagle Rock, Magnolia, Massachusetts by American landscape artist John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), was the top lot in Cottone Auctions’ Fine Art, Antiques and Clock auction held on Saturday, September 18th. The painting saw trade competition into the high six figures, and easily surpassed its estimate, selling to a private collector by phone for $1.08 million. Overall, the sale grossed $3.7 million. The Kensett painting was purchased in 1955 by Mrs. Adrian Smith (formerly Lusyd Wright Keating) of Buffalo, New York, from Victor D. Spark of New York, and bequested to her daughter Cynthia Doolittle in 1971. It was previously twice exhibited at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, first in 1958 and again in 1983. “It has been a privilege to market the painting,” said Matt Cottone of Cottone Auctions. ... More
Louisiana Art & Science Museum announces newest exhibition, "Iridescence" BATON ROUGE, LA.-The Louisiana Art & Science Museum announces its latest fine art exhibition, Iridescence, open from July 17, 2021- July 31, 2022. The Louisiana Art & Science Museum has partnered with Dr. Nathan Lord, Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and Director of the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, his students, and his colleagues from several departments at LSU, including the School of Textiles, Apparel Design, and Merchandising and the School of Art. The exhibition will explore natural and man-made iridescence, the different structures that must occur for the phenomenon to exist, and will feature STEAM-based educational content, virtual tours, and hands-on activities designed by staff and partners to explore the art and science that merge within iridescence. Through works of art by Karl Gaff (Ireland), ... More
Nobel Literature Prize yet to deliver its diversity promise STOCKHOLM.- After almost a decade of exclusively Western authors, will the Nobel Literature Prize broaden its horizons? The bestowers of the prestigious award have a chance on Thursday to deliver on their diversity pledge. A #MeToo scandal caused the 2018 prize to be postponed, and there has been recurring criticism over the choice of male and Eurocentric laureates. And it is two years since the Swedish Academy that awards the prize promised new criteria that would lead to a more global and gender-equal literature prize. Since then, two women have taken home the honour: Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk for 2018, and the American poet Louise Gluck last year. But the 2019 winner, Austria's Peter Handke, was a controversial pick. His pro-Serbian positions extended to backing Serbia's former president Slobodan Milosevic, who was ... More
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art showcases the work of three contemporary fiber and mixed-media artists GREAT FALLS, MT.-Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents Beyond Intention, an exhibition that showcases the work of three contemporary fiber and mixed-media artists: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Ashley V. Blalock and Jennifer Reifsneider. The exhibition is comprised of work that features vintage archetypal characters sewn onto idyllic or dystopian scenes, an installation of brightly colored looming crocheted environments, and beautifully complex grid like patterns that tempt chance through order. Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, explained that via the presentation of the artists’ work, Beyond Intention, aims to address the concept of intention as it relates to the practice of contemporary ... More
Classic 7" single artworks revisited in new book by artist Morgan Howell LONDON.- British Artist Morgan Howell’s Homage to Iconic Singles Have Been Collected into One Book. This Month Black Dog Press are launching Morgan Howell at 45rpm, brings together a series of 3D paintings from Morgan Howell’s cult favourite series of SuperSizepaintings of 7” singles, blown up to 70cm by 70cm. This book shrinks them back down to fit perfectly on a record shelf. A who’s who of the music world, this compendium is a list of the most must-have records of the last century. Howell’s paintings are not perfect reproductions of the single artwork, but careful replicas of real-life albums, with the creases, rips and rubbed corners which happen to every truly loved record included to create completely unique pieces of art. As Howell says, “Many people come to me with a specific physical copy of a single from their past — it may have names ... More
Swing today: 'Our dance is modern because we're alive right now' NEW YORK, NY.- Choices picked out of a hat: It’s a gambit of magicians and improv comedians, a way of showing an audience that chance is at work and that performers are creating on the fly. That’s the effect it has in “Sw!ng Out,” a new swing-dance show that opened a two-week run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. At one point, cast members play a game called Luck of the Draw. A pair of performers’ names are picked out of a hat, then they dance the next tune together. It sounds simple enough, but the game encapsulates several ways that “Sw!ng Out” is distinct, even groundbreaking. Since the selected dancers must improvise with each other to a song they haven’t chosen, they must be fluent speakers in unrehearsed social-dance communication. This isn’t a choreographed simulation. And since the names aren’t segregated by gender, ... More
SoHo catered to free-spending tourists. What happens without them? NEW YORK, NY.- In the chic neighborhood of SoHo, more than 40 stores have closed during the pandemic. More than a quarter of the offices, once among the most desirable and expensive in New York City, are empty, the highest vacancy rate in Manhattan. The international tourists who fueled the area’s economy vanished a year and a half ago. Perhaps no neighborhood in the American city hardest hit by the pandemic’s financial devastation has been hurt more than the picturesque district of ornate cast-iron buildings, art galleries and designer boutiques that made it one of the country’s hippest neighborhoods. As New York climbs out of the depths of an economic free-fall, it has notched some major milestones lately. In-person classes have resumed at the city’s schools, Broadway theaters have reopened and 300,000 municipal workers have returned ... More
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On a day like today, Swiss architect Le Corbusier was born
March 06, 1887. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier." He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. In this image: French architect Georges Le Corbusier, left, and French writer Jules Romains are shown during a session of the conference of artists from around the world in the Palace of the Doges in Venice, Italy, in Sept. 1952.
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