Governors Island performance dates for “History In Da Key Of G” will be October 23 and 24, 2021, at 1pm in Nolan Park, Building 10 B. Funding for “History In Da Key Of G” was made possible by a grant from the City Artist Corps. Host venue is the West Harlem Art Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the weekend of October 23rd and 24th, C Niambi Steele will perform a free theater/hip hop program for the public on Governors Island in Nolan Park called “History In D Key Of G”. “History In D Key Of G”, a transformative, intergenerational, collaborative engagement, created exclusively by Ms. Steele, explores the moments in our personal lives that lie somewhere in between the stories that might be hidden from view. During this interactive journey with Ms. Steele and “History In Da Key Of G”, each participant is encouraged to delve into their own personal universe in order to reclaim and uncover treasures of the individual spirit. Music will enhance this lively experience. Drawing from the historical, geographical beauty of the eighteenth-century housing in Nolan Park, participants will be led through lively, interactive games to share discoveries ... More
Roy Lichtenstein, Two Paintings: Craig… from 1983. Estimate $12/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, works from the collection of esteemed art collector and prescient television producer Douglas S. Cramer will highlight Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in New York. Known for producing many of the most iconic and successful television shows in history, such as The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, Wonder Woman, and Dynasty, Cramer was a passionate collector, generous Museum Trustee and extraordinary visionary who assembled a singular collection of contemporary art spanning the great masters of 20th century Post-War to artists still at the height of their practice today, creating a fascinating dialogue across media, styles, and generations. Featuring works by Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Cecily Brown, Ellsworth Kelly, and more, the selection is crowned by Lichtenstein’s Two Paintings: Craig… from 1983 (estimate $12/18 million) – the ultimate testament to the artist’s career-long exploration of ... More
Members of Taliban stand in front of the site where the Shahmama Buddha statue once stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province on October 2, 2021. BULENT KILIC / AFP.
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BAMIYAN.- Taliban gunmen now stand guard at the gaping rock cavities that once housed two ancient statues of the Buddha -- desecrated with dynamite by the Islamists during their last stint in power. The monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but their destruction was ordered in 2001 by that regime -- already infamous then after banning television and imposing ultra-strict rules governing the conduct of women -- for being against the Muslim faith. Hundreds of cadres from across the country spent more than three weeks demolishing the towering statues carved into the side of a cliff, sparking a global outcry. "The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban authorities in 2001," reads a bronze plaque set in the stone, while the white flag of the country's new leaders ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- From October 8, 2021, through January 10, 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure. This focused survey, installed along the first two ramps of the museum’s rotunda, marks the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work at a New York City institution. Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure is organized by Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art, and Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections. Over the course of a lifetime that spans almost a century, Etel Adnan’s creative and intellectual vision has been expressed in many forms. In addition to being a visual artist, she is a renowned poet, a prominent journalist, and the author of Sitt Marie Rose (1977), one of the defining novels of the modern Arab world. Adnan’s biography is notable for its rich convergence of cultural influences. She was born in Beirut in 1925 to a ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Phillips announced a tour de force three-day Editions and Works on Paper sale from 19-21 October hosted at 432 Park Avenue. The largest Editions sale to date, totaling 470 lots, contains a multitude of significant works from Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoshitomo Nara, Yayoi Kusama, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Jonas Wood and others. The Evening sale opens with five popular, large-scale aquatints by Joan Miro from the late 1960s and early 1970s, followed by a selection of classic Modern prints and multiples by Dubuffet, Picasso, Chagall, Foujita, Chadwick and a lyrical work on paper by Hans Hartung. Beginning at 4pm on 19 October, the Evening Sale represents some of the most prized editions on the market today. Over three sessions, spanning 20-21 October, the Day sale presents an impressive and extensive collection of nearly 350 lots representing over 180 emerging and established artists. This inaugural Editions sale at 432 ... More
PARIS.- British artist David Hockney has always been a workhorse, so his months of lockdown in France were a welcome opportunity to devote himself to observing nature. "I really enjoy looking," the dapper 84-year-old told AFP. "If you look at the world, it's very beautiful. But you've got to have a clear head and there's lots of things that stop you looking." Hockney was speaking to AFP at the Musee de L'Orangerie in Paris, which is displaying the stunning fruits of that period in an exhibition, "A Year in Normandy", that opens on October 13. It features a 91-metre-long frieze made up from some of the 220 pictures he created during the strange year of solitude in 2020. It is a clear nod to the 19th century masters of landscape, particularly Monet, who inhabits some of the neighbouring rooms in the museum. "When the lockdown came I didn't mind at all," said Hockney, 84, resplendent as ever in his trademark round-rimmed glasses and a checked suit. "We were ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Howard Greenberg Gallery is presenting the photography exhibition Gordon Parks: A Choice of Weapons from October 8 through December 23 in the new gallery on the 8th floor of the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street. One of the world’s leading galleries for classic and modern photography, the Howard Greenberg Gallery is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an exhibition of important work by the renowned photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Through his still images, both candid and staged, the exhibition explores the roots of Parks’ future as a filmmaker. Parks, who described his camera as his “choice of weapons," was known for his work documenting American life and culture with a focus on social justice, race relations, the civil rights movement, and the African American experience. He was hired as staff photographer for Life magazine in 1948, where over two decades he created some of ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the earlier announcement for From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends, Sotheby’s announced that more than 40 guitars personally owned and played by Grateful Dead founding member and legendary guitarist Bob Weir, by makers such as Alvarez, Ibanez, and Gibson, among others, will be offered as further highlights of the auction dedicated to celebrating the cultural and musical legacy of the famed American band. The group includes instruments played on stage while touring with the Grateful Dead and RatDog, highlighted by a selection of Weir’s famous Modulus guitars used on Dead tours in the 1980s and 1990s (estimates ranging from $2,000 – $7,000); a 1969 Rosewood Fender Telecaster (estimate $20/25,000); a Washburn acoustic played by Bob Dylan throughout the Dylan and the Dead tour (estimate $5/7,000) in 1987; and two Modulus models custom made for Jerry Garcia (estimates $6/7,000 and $8/10,000) ... More
A dystopian vision of a polarised society, Netflix smash hit Squid Game blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global.
SEOUL.- A dystopian vision of a polarised society, Netflix smash hit "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global. It features South Korea's most marginalised, including the deeply in debt, a migrant worker and a North Korean defector, competing in traditional children's games for the chance to win 45.6 billion won ($38 million) in mysterious circumstances. And losing players are killed. The juxtaposition of innocent childhood pastimes and terminal consequences -- coupled with high production values and sumptuous set design -- has proved wildly popular around the world. Within days of its release last month, Netflix's top executive said there was "a very good chance it's going to be our biggest show ever". It is the latest ... More
LONDON.- The Modern British Art Day Sale on 21 October brings together a diverse offering of British art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Highlights include Laurence Stephen Lowry’s A Man Walking (1961, estimate: £150,000-250,000), it depicts a man walking down the street, his hat pulled down over his ears and his eyes set on the pavement below him. This man is a classic inhabitant of Lowry’s world, a solitary figure from the artist’s cast of characters, widely painted from the mid-1950s onwards. In addition, Barry Flanagan’s Nijinski Five (2005, estimate: £100,000-150,000) depicts a lively dancing hare on top of a pentagon-shaped base. Here we see Flanagan as a mature sculptor at his very best, and the culmination of his experimentation with the hare that had occupied him from the 1970s onward. The Modern British Art Day Sale is offering works from a number of important private collections. This includes Hollywood ... More
Yang Joins BAMPFA from the Williams College Museum of Art. Photo: Jessica Smolinski.
BERKELEY, CA.-The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announced today the appointment of Christina Yang as the museum’s next chief curator. Yang brings to BAMPFA nearly thirty years of experience as a curator, scholar, administrator, and educator—most recently at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), where she currently serves as Deputy Director of Engagement and Curator of Education, following a fourteen-year tenure at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. She has previously held positions at The Kitchen and the Queens Museum. In her new role at BAMPFA, Yang will lead the art curatorial department at Berkeley’s premier visual arts venue, which mounts more than fifteen exhibitions annually drawn in part from the museum’s internationally distinguished collection of 28,000 artworks. As chief curator, Yang will supervise all aspects of BAMPFA’s exhibition program, working ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality, on view through January 1, 2022. Likening video technology to a “new paintbrush,” New York–based Shigeko Kubota (Japanese, 1937–2015), whose career spanned more than five decades, was one of the first artists to commit to the video medium in the early 1970s. Formally trained as a sculptor, Kubota’s varied accomplishments as an artist, collaborator, curator, and critic helped to shape a pivotal period in the evolution of video as an art form. Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality is organized by Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, with the support of Veronika Molnar, Intern, Department of Media and Performance. After making an indelible impact on the Fluxus movement in the mid-1960s, ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Christie’s New York will offer Pablo Picasso’s Femme accroupie en costume turc (Jacqueline), 1955 (estimate: $20 million - $30 million), a masterpiece that has remained in a private and important collection of a single family for three generations, since 1957 – just two years after its creation. The work was originally purchased by a collector who developed personal relationships with leading contemporary artists starting in the 1950s. The collection includes works by Picasso, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Max Ernst, among others, which were acquired either directly from the artists or through the preeminent gallerists of the time such as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Galerie Maeght, and subsequently kept in the same family for three generations. Picasso’s ... More
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The Annie et Jean Dalsace: Collections de la Maison de Verre achieves $17,754,366 at Christie's PARIS.- On 7 October 2021, the Annie et Jean Dalsace: Collections de la Maison de Verre auction realised a total of €15,332,125 / £13,093,190 / $17,754,366, more than three times the high estimate and selling 100% by lot. The collection attracted bidders from all over the world (registered bidders from 23 countries), paying one last tribute to Annie and Jean Dalsace and their avant-garde collection. This sale achieved the highest price for any Pierre Chareau ensemble and established two new world auction records for Pierre Chareau’s MB 624 desk and the MF1002 armchair. In 1918, the Dalsace’s commissioned Pierre Chareau for - what is today considered as his masterpiece - La Maison de Verre, a landmark of modern architecture inspiring generations upon generations of designers. It was a close friendship, a true intellectual and emotional affinity, an unwavering ... More
Abdulrazak Gurnah: accidental author and voice of displaced LONDON.- Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, forged a critically acclaimed 35-year career rooted in colonialism and immigration after arriving in Britain as a refugee. The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the coast of east Africa, in 1948, and began writing after moving to England as a refugee, where he is now based. "This is the last thing I would have imagined for myself," the novelist said on Thursday after discovering that he had won the prize. "I am very surprised and humbled, and of course, I'm thrilled and honoured." He welcomed the Nobel Prize as sparking greater discussion of the issues he raises in his novels, such as the plight of refugees and colonialism. "I’m constantly interested in what it is that brought us here... what are the forces and historical moments that brought ... More
Royal Institute of British Architects installation in Regent's Park by POoR Collective opens LONDON.-The Royal Institute of British Architects is marking the centenary of the ground-breaking Becontree Estate in East London with an ambitious series of art and architecture commissions, accompanied by events and a learning programme. Two of the commissions opened today: an installation in Regent’s Park ‘Bringing Home to the Unknown’, a collaboration between students from Mayesbrook Park School, an alternative provision school in Becontree, and social enterprise POoR (Power Out of Restriction) Collective and a photography display by Kalpesh Lathigra: The Tree of Man Named Beohha – Becontree Now. The exhibition ‘Lived In Architecture’ with artist Verity-Jane Keefe will open in the RIBA Architecture Gallery on 21 October. Once described as the largest council estate in the world, the Becontree Estate in the London Borough of Barking ... More
Biden restores protections stripped by Trump in wild areas WASHINGTON.- President Joe Biden on Friday restored environmental protections for two wild Utah expanses linked to America's indigenous history, and also a biodiverse area of the Atlantic, reversing his predecessor Donald Trump's move to open the national monuments to mining and fishing. Biden signed the proclamations at a ceremony on the North Lawn at the White House, restoring the full size and status at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in Utah, as well as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts area off the east coast. "After the last administration chipped away their protections, today I'm proud to announce the protection and expansion of three of our most treasured national monuments," he said. Trump downgraded the three monuments in a move popular with industry groups but outraging environmentalists ... More
A $1 billion competitor for music rights says 'content is queen' NEW YORK, NY.- It has long been a stock slogan in the media business: “Content is king.” The idea is that intellectual property is vital to distribution systems like cable TV or streaming music, so owning and controlling it can be powerful leverage and a valuable investment. But one investor, Sherrese Clarke Soares, has a twist on the old chestnut: “Content is queen.” To Clarke Soares, the founder and chief executive of HarbourView Equity Partners, a new firm looking to invest in music copyrights and other media assets, the proof is on the chessboard, where “the queen is the most powerful piece,” she said. With technology enabling new entertainment platforms all the time — think social media and gaming platforms like TikTok, Twitch and Roblox — the true ruler of the game must act nimbly and decisively, zooming in any direction as needed. ... More
'Lackawanna Blues' review: A soulful master class in storytelling NEW YORK, NY.- It takes a village, the saying goes. But if you’re one member of a motley crew of characters in 1950s Lackawanna, New York, well, then, you might say it takes a boardinghouse, and a generous woman, to keep everyone in line. That woman is Nanny, the beating heart of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s tender and vibrant autobiographical one-man show, “Lackawanna Blues,” which opened on Thursday night in a Manhattan Theater Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. It proves to be a winsome performer’s master class in storytelling, despite a few flat notes. Santiago-Hudson, who also wrote and directed the production, brings us to Lackawanna, where he grew up under the tutelage of a Ms. Rachel Crosby, the landlord and proprietor of two boardinghouses whom everyone around town knows as “Nanny.” Don’t let the ... More
The Moody Center for the Arts presents the immersive art of Kapwani Kiwanga HOUSTON, TX.- From Texan sand to Tanzanian sisal, the raw material of Kapwani Kiwanga’s enveloping and powerful exhibition activates the galleries of the Moody Center for the Arts, September 17 through December 18, 2021. Articulated through new, site-specific installations created for the Moody, together with a video work, Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow employs the artist’s research-based approach to offer an investigation into how natural materials can be interpreted as archives of shared human and natural history. In turn, this body of work inspires alternative understandings of social, economic, and environmental realities. “This fall we are delighted to share Kapwani Kiwanga’s work with Moody audiences and to explore the interdisciplinary implications of her practice through a season of public conversations ... More
Star Wars original art launches Heritage's international original art & anime event beyond $2.3 million DALLAS, TX.- The original artwork for the first of six Dark Horse Comics Star Wars comic books soared to $143,750 – more than four times its high pre-auction estimate – to lead Heritage Auctions’ International Original Art & Anime Signature® Auction to $2,346,577 in total sales Oct. 1-3. The outstanding results in Original art, as well as U.S, Franco-Belgian and Anime helped the event shatter the Heritage record, a 47% increase over the $1.56 million International Comic & Animation Auction in March 2021. Nearly 3,000 bidders from around the globe got in on the bidding in the event, which produced near-perfect sell-through rates of 99.9% by lots sold and 99.5% by value. Among the most famous images of Star Wars pop culture in both Europe and the United States, the top lot, Mathieu Lauffray Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #1 of 6 Cover ... More
African American Art at Swann brings $5M NEW YORK, NY.- “We are beyond thrilled with the results of the October 7 auction, which was a historic sale for Swann Galleries: our first auction to hammer over $4 million. Great excitement about our sale offerings resulted in auction record prices for eleven artists, including Belkis Ayón, Elizabeth Catlett and Howardena Pindell, and significant prices for many others, including Edward Bannister, Richmond Barthé and Hale Woodruff,” noted Nigel Freeman, director of African American Art at Swann Galleries. The sale totaled over $5 million, including buyers premium. Leading the auction was Hale Woodruff’s Carnival, oil on canvas, 1958, at $665,000, the highest price achieved for an abstract work by the artist. Additional abstract works of note included Norman Lewis’s Past Time, oil on canvas, 1950–51 ($233,000), and a 1970s work on paper by Lewis ... More
HENI Leviathan releases a set of four prints by JR LONDON.- The images show JR’s extraordinary installation at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The set reflects a variety of lights and scenes taken at the exact point of anamorphosis on the first days of the installation in May 2021. The monumental and participative aspects of JR’s works invite the audience to immerse itself in the art, leading to a new approach that is more accessible and interactive. Through this work JR redefines the codes of the urban landscape and invites spectators to apprehend their environment differently. The artwork renews itself according to the various lights of the day, and each moment brings another perspective on Paris’ most famous monument, the Eiffel Tower. The latter remains the central element of the composition, but the illusion of an underground city is a new myth, adding to the long list of its rich history ... More
Mexican exhibit showcases recovered ancient treasures MEXICO CITY.- Ancient Mexican artefacts recovered from abroad are among the archaeological treasures on display at an exhibition showcasing the country's cultural heritage 200 years after it won independence from Spain. Titled "The Greatness of Mexico," the exhibition at the National Museum of Anthropology and another site showcases 1,500 rare pieces, including Mayan sculptures and Aztec codices. Almost half of them are on display in Mexico for the first time, having been loaned or returned by European countries or collectors. The exhibition demonstrates "who we Mexicans are," said Yectli Hernandez, a Mexico City resident who came to the exhibit. Hernandez said she was proud of her given name's indigenous roots, as well as her Spanish surname -- a reflection of Mexico's diversity. "I'm as proud to enter a cathedral as I am to visit pyramids," ... More
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On a day like today, British artist Simeon Solomon was born
September 09, 1840. Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 No. 3 Sandys Street, Bishopsgate, London, England – 14 August 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse, Endell Street) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Examples of his work are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum and at Leighton House. In December 2005/January 2006, there was an important retrospective of his work, held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and in London at the Ben Uri Gallery in October / November 2006. In this image: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 1863.
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