An undated photo provided by the University of Manchester shows Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester with the Berlin cast, which he spotted in 2019, hidden on a shelf behind a display of ammonites and other fossils. The first full ichthyosaur fossil was thought lost to the ravages of World War II. But researchers recently identified a copy, then more started to emerge. (University of Manchester via The New York Times)
by Gemma Conroy
NEW YORK, NY.- In May 1941, the Royal College of Surgeons in London was bombed during a Nazi air raid. Among the specimens lost from its museum collection was a skeleton of an ichthyosaur — an extinct marine reptile that appeared millions of years before dinosaurs laid their first footprints on prehistoric soil. But not just any ichthyosaur was lost. The 3-foot-long “fish lizard” was the first complete fossil of the animal ever collected, and it was most likely discovered by Mary Anning, a trailblazing English paleontologist. In 1818, the ancient marine reptile landed on the desk of Everard Home, an anatomist at the Royal College of Surgeons. He named the fossil “Proteo-saurus” in a paper published in 1819. Losing the fossil to the ravages of World War II was a blow to paleontology, depriving future scientists of a specimen that would have aided study of the long-extinct animals while also being steeped in the field’s history. “At the time, they were like the real i ... More
86 internationally renowned galleries and talented young dealers will participate in what promises to be a major event in the global art market calendar.
PARIS.- In February this year, two leading French art fairs – the venerable Biennale, one of the world’s oldest art fairs (formerly known as La Biennale des Antiquaires) and the fast-growing Fine Arts Paris - announced that they had merged to create a new annual flagship event in Paris celebrating art from the Antiquity to present day. Today, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale unveils details of its inaugural edition which will take place at the prestigious Carrousel du Louvre, from 9 to 13 November, before moving to the Grand Palais Ephémère in November 2023 and the renovated Grand Palais in November 2024. 86 internationally renowned galleries and talented young dealers will participate in what promises to be a major event in the global art market calendar. A showcase of art, culture, savoir-faire and heritage, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale will present carefully selected artworks spanning no fewer than 14 categories, i ... More
SEOUL.-Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents a selection of exemplary metal works from Robert Rauschenberg’s Copperhead series, created in 1985 and 1989. This important body of paintings executed on copper supports originated with a group of 12 Copperhead-Bites, eight of which are shown together for the first time since they were created and exhibited in 1985. The first of Rauschenberg’s metal series, the Copperhead-Bites mark the artist's early experimentation with creating images directly on sheets of metal using silkscreen printing techniques, acrylic paint and tarnishing agents. The innovative techniques developed by the artist in the fabrication of the Copperhead-Bite series commenced his decade-long period of experimentation with painting on a variety of metal supports, including copper, brass, aluminium and bronze. The title of the series highlights his conceptualisation of the works ... More
The Grind, Daniel Richter, 2022, oil on canvas, 87 7/8 x 72 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.-Regen Projects begins today the presentation of Furor II, an exhibition of new paintings by German artist Daniel Richter. This marks the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery. Richter came to prominence in the 1990s with bold, gestural, colorful, and even psychedelic abstract paintings that gained attention in the wake of Germany’s neo-expressionist Junge Wilde generation. Though he found early critical success with the riotous formal language of his abstract works, Richter has continually refused to settle into any single defining style. Steeped in the canon of German painting, Richter’s own work does not so much as undertake the projects of his forebears as it dissects and cannibalizes them in his pursuit of new meaning. Toward the beginning of the aughts, influenced by Symbolists like Pierre Bonnard and James Ensor, Richter would embrace figuration, deriving his subjects from contemporary media ima ... More
The Days End, River Elaune, Normandie, 1919, by George Ames Aldrich.
LOS ANGELES, CA.-Moran’s Autumn rendition of their bi-annual California and American Fine Art sale will be taking place Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:00pm PST. The selection will feature fresh-to-the-market artworks that have been chosen from private collections throughout California, the Southwest, and beyond. Leading the sale include works by Edgar Alwin Payne, William Wendt, John Marshall Gamble, and John Frost. More contemporary highlights include works by Margaret Keane, Richard MacDonald, and Clyde Aspevig. With a wide range of subjects and time periods represented, this sale has something for every plein air collection. One of the private collections comes from the estate of George David Sturges (“Dave”). Growing up, Dave was surrounded by art, but it wasn’t until a visit to a friend’s house when he became enamored with California landscape paintings. “As soon as I arrived, I noticed five or six paintings on t ... More
Large Eclipse, 2022, LED, timer, aluminum, mirror, one-way mirror and electric energy, 86 × 86 × 13 cm, 3 7/8 × 33 7/8 × 5 1/8 in., edition of 3.
TEMPLON, NY.- In November, Chilean artist Iván Navarro returns to his New York base after five years of profound exploration, worldwide exhibition and pandemic seclusion, to unveil a new, contemplative but passionate body of work for Templon New York’s second exhibition. In Celestialand, Navarro turns his attention to the cosmic world. He celebrates the unfathomable magnificence of the universe with his dazzling, galactic skyscapes, while quietly observing the perpetual human impulse to conquer and control, in heaven as it is on earth. In this sense, these new works can be seen as the natural evolution of Navarro’s earlier works that revolved around questions of power, using electrical energy as both metaphor and material. In Celestialand, Navarro witnesses the universe, in all its infinite mystery, also as ethereal “land” claimed by earthly nations as they assign their names, as symbolic flag posts, to even ... More
Bottle suspended from a chain handle, China, Qing dynasty, (1644-1911), 19th
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DALLAS, TX.- One of the most mythical and popular beasts of Chinese folklore has landed as the Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas presents Phoenix Rising: Xu Bing and the Art of Resilience. The exhibition will run Nov. 3, 2022, through March 5, 2023, at the Crow Museum, located in the Dallas Arts District at 2010 Flora St., Dallas 75201. Phoenix Rising is organized by the Crow Museum of Asian Art in partnership with the international Asian Cultural Council. The exhibition highlights a celebrated work – Bronze Phoenix 2016 (Feng and Huang) – created by Xu Bing (b. 1955 Chongqing, China), an internationally acclaimed artist, academic and innovator whose award-winning works have been showcased in the world’s top museums and art biennales. In addition to Xu’s headlining work, Phoenix Rising includes five works from the Crow Museum’s Chinese jade collection that also celebrate the revered phoenix. ... More
Darren Almond, Night Walker, 2022 (detail), oil paint on cotton, 190 x 220 cm.; 74 3/8 x 86 5/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler.
BERLIN.-Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting the solo exhibition A Distant Silence with new works by Darren Almond at Bleibtreustraße 45, in Berlin. Testifying to Almond’s longstanding preoccupation with abstract ideas of time, space, history and memory, this exhibition considers how these concepts relate and intersect. Drawing on the vastness of nature, the cosmos, and cycles of existence, new paintings from the artist’s ‘Mono-Lith' and ‘Counter’ series are on view, alongside one of his ‘Train Plates’. The ‘Counter’ paintings elaborate on Almond’s interest in numbers as a means of charting space and time. In one work, images of the night sky are abstracted into a multi-panel composition where fragmented digits float on a dark, indigo ground. Here, the number zero – the only whole integer – assumes a particular importance: symbolising a celestial pole, it acts as a point ... More
Kieren Karritpul ‘4 Fish Traps’ 2022, Texta on art paper, 24 sheets, 106 x 98 cm framed.
MELBOURNE.- In Daly River artist Kieren Karritpul’s art there is no escaping the woven lines of inspiration. The woven form is both subject and metaphor in his work, and also to some extent part of their process. In his first solo exhibition, Karritypul, the titles of his paintings, prints and textile-based work all indicated a particular woven form including the yerrgi which is actually a pre-woven form, yerrgi being the Daly River word (Ngan’gikurrungurr language) for the ubiquitous Sand Palm (Merrepen, Livistona humilis), the main sources of fibre for Top End weavers. In essence, Kieren’s yerrgi bundles symbolise the potency of weaving and the woven form and become a metaphor for the very idea of potency. Perhaps this is an autobiographical touch from someone so young who is in the early formative stages of realising his own potential as an artist. And yet there is a delightful and seasoned ingenuity in Kieren’s choice and varied ... More
In an undated image provided via Nathan Fitch, George Booth at work in his home studio in 2019. (via Nathan Fitch via The New York Times)
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK, NY.- George Booth, the New Yorker cartoonist who created a world of oddballs sharing life’s chaos with a pointy-eared bull terrier that once barked a flower to death, and sometimes with a herd of cats that shredded couches and window shades between sweet naps, died Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 96. His daughter and only immediate survivor, Sarah Booth, said the cause was complications of dementia. In a typical Booth cartoon, a lot happens at once. A stunned dog leaps 3 feet in the air. A shocked cat bounds for an open window, knocking a newspaper from the hands of a shaken man — all as his frumpy wife stands in a kitchen doorway with blackened eyes, announcing: “Eyeliner is back!” Or, as a score of cats lounge in a parlor and a man ... More
Harding passed away overnight in his Sydney home following an extended battle with cancer.
SYDNEY.- It is with extremely heavy hearts that Olsen Gallery shared the news of the passing of beloved Australian artist Nicholas Harding. Harding passed away overnight in his Sydney home following an extended battle with cancer. Our thoughts remain with his partner Lynne, son Sam and all those who shared their love for Nicholas. He left us too soon. "Nicholas' body of work embodies the best of the landscape genre in contemporary terms and leaves us with a lifetime of spirited art-making. This is his gift to us. Nicholas will live on in this wonderful legacy." Olsen Gallery founder Tim Olsen "Nicholas Harding was a gentle man, a quiet man and quiet people notice things that others don’t and it is this that makes his paintings and drawings so fascinating. Yes, we have seen Central Station, or the landscape at sunset and have taken it for granted but Nicholas notices it for us and through his paintings we see it, as if for the first ... More
De la série « National Hero », 1991.
by Jason Farago
PARIS.- A new nation needs heroes, but when the mayhem comes suddenly, you take whatever heroes you can get. In 1991, as the Soviet Union lurched to dissolution and Ukraine prepared to declare independence, photographer Boris Mikhailov fabricated a new self-portrait, wearing a military uniform and looking straight-on like a Moscow official. But on his green jacket, traditional Ukrainian embroidery had been slapped on top of the Soviet insignia. The background was a sickly, pop-pink sherbet. The airbrushing was so over-the-top, the eyes so blue, the lips so rouged, that he looked like a porcelain doll. Here was a “National Hero” for Ukraine’s year zero, but he was not convincing anyone of his valor. A counterfeit hero: I can think of worse descriptions of Mikhailov, Ukraine’s most influential artist, and the sparkiest and most unpredictable photographer ... More
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Classic New England craft show returns for CRAFTBOSTON holiday online 2022 BOSTON, MASS.- CraftBoston™ Holiday Online 2022, the Northeast’s best-known annual craft showcase presented online by the Society of Arts + Crafts, returns November 11, 2022 through January 8, 2023, with nearly 50 artists from New England and across the country. This year’s artists offer unique handmade items and limited edition works for holiday shopping. The show features home decor, jewelry, wearable textiles, sculptural works, and basketry in a variety of price points, ranging from small gifts to spectacular showpieces. CraftBoston Holiday Online 2022 is accessible through the Society’s CraftBoston page starting November 11, 2022. [NOTE: URL "socientyofcrafts.org" will be live that day; media previews available.] Shoppers and craft enthusiasts can expect more of what makes CraftBoston Holiday a retail and programming favorite ... More
Time to check out Patek Philippe Nautilus, Rolex Daytona at Heritage Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction DALLAS, TEXAS.- The clock is ticking for those hoping to acquire a Patek Philippe watch from the coveted Nautilus series, a rare Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch with a Paul Newman dial, or any of 55 lots in an important collection of vintage pocketwatches. Each is among the top attractions in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 16 Watches & Fine Timepieces Signature® Auction. A Patek Philippe, Nautilus, Ref. 5990/1A Very Fine Dual Time Flyback Chronograph With Date, circa 2018 (estimate: $175,000+) is from the Nautilus series, which is in exceptionally high demand throughout the collecting community. Housed in a 40.5 mm stainless steel case, it includes a striped gray dial with luminous indexes, local/home time and day/night apertures, date, 60-minute register, luminous baton hands and an open baton second time zone hand. ... More
KP Projects opens 'Todd Schorr: Old Masters and New Realisms' LOS ANGELES, CA.- With recent exhibitions at The Crocker Art Museum in 2020, and Virginia MOCA in 2018, to Schorr’s epically received midcareer survey in 2009 at the San Jose Museum of Art, recognition by the museum world has solidified what the gallery and collecting public have known for decades -- that Todd Schorr is a giant in the Pop Surrealism movement. Though he shares that group’s interest in Lowbrow culture and post-illustration / 'comic' graphic style, Schorr’s operatically ambitious compositions, rich in precise detail and evocative atmospherics, plus his particular flair for wry insight and social commentary, has set him apart even among the genre’s best-known practitioners. With cinematic, fairy-tale carnivalism, satire, and sincere punnery -- Schorr confounds expectations with what critic Doug Harvey called “the willingness ... More
Liverpool Biennial reveals the theme and participating artists for the 12th edition in 2023 LIVERPOOL.- Today Liverpool Biennial revealed the theme and participating artists for its 12th edition. Titled ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’, the Biennial festival will take place 10 June – 17 September 2023, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa with Director Sam Lackey and the Liverpool Biennial Team. In the isiZulu language, ‘uMoya’ means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind. ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool; it is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2023, said: “Wind often represents the fleeting and transient, the elusive and intangible, but I remember my first moment standing at the docks in Liverpool and feeling the wind in my bones. The same wind that made Liverpool the epicentre ... More
Tokyo Park and Ninjin Art team up to promote the new wave of Japanese art LONDON.- Tokyo Park Gallery and Ninjin Art join forces to raise awareness of Japan's hottest new artists via a limited-time group exhibition in London's Shoreditch and soon-to-follow video. London, 2 November 2022: Art lovers still have until November 6 to catch the first UK glimpse of the new wave of contemporary art sweeping Japan at the Tokyo Colours exhibition in London's Shoreditch. A group show organised by London-based Tokyo Park Gallery and soon to be followed by a music-driven video produced by Cornwall's Ninjin Art, the exhibition brings together the work of SaiakuNana, Ashiya Shiguma, Mayumi Konno, Neko and TYM344, a new cadre of contemporary artists whose vision has so far remained largely unseen outside of their native Japan. "In an art world marked by conceptualism and the avant-garde, filled with hard ... More
Steve Reich, busy as ever, enters his late period NEW YORK, NY.- Steve Reich — one of our greatest living composers, with a recognizably pulsing sound and a place in the pantheon of minimalist pioneers — recently turned 86. It’s not the clean kind of age, usually in multiples of 5, that you often see observed with a concert like Carnegie Hall’s celebration in his name Tuesday night. But that’s the pandemic-disjointed world we live in. Delays aside, though, this has been a particularly eventful year for Reich, who long ago moved from the proverbial downtown scene to the classical music establishment; from performing his works while scraping together money for his $65 rent to having the ears of audiences worldwide. Yet he never abandoned the searching, experimental nature of his practice, especially in “Traveler’s Prayer,” which had its U.S. premiere at the Carnegie concert. “I’ve been saying,” Reich ... More
Ketterer Kunst announces uction of rare Brücke collectibles MUNICH.- When Ketterer Kunst will call up gems of German Expressionism from “The Gerlinger Collection – Brücke Artists (SHG)“ in its Evening Sale on December 9, art lovers, collectors and museums with a slightly smaller budget can look forward to the next day. The auction Modern Art Day Sale comprises 73 one-of-a-kind collectibles from Germany’s most important artist group: annual reports, portfolios with woodcuts and etchings, vignettes, membership card, programs, invitation cards, posters, catalogs and the Brücke chronicle. “Each of these pieces is an artwork itself and allows insight into self-conception, ambitions and development of the Brücke. This is why every single item has an art historical relevance,“ explains Dr. Mario von Lüttichau, academic consultant at Ketterer Kunst and former curator at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. The young ... More
How Takeoff and the Migos flow changed Atlanta rap NEW YORK, NY.- The Atlanta trio Migos’ 2013 breakout hit “Versace” represented a clear demarcation line between the city’s older generation of rappers and its new vanguard. The rapping — much of it delivered in triplets — was a glittery stomp. Tightly clustered syllables that landed like quick jabs. “Versace” was such an immediate sensation that Drake, at the time the genre’s most important ascendant superstar, volunteered his services for a remix, mimicking the group’s peppery flow and, by extension, introducing it to the rest of the world. By all accounts, Takeoff — who was shot and killed in Houston early Tuesday morning — was the primary engine of what came to be dubbed the Migos flow. The rapper, who was 28, was one of three people who were shot around 2:30 a.m. after a private gathering at 810 Billiards & Bowling ended ... More
Manchester Museum to reopen 18 Feb 2023 MANCHESTER.- February 2023 marks the reopening of Manchester Museum, following its ambitious £15 million transformation. The museum reopens its doors with the aim to build greater understanding between cultures, a more sustainable world and to bring to life the lived experience of diverse communities through the Museum’s historic collections and new displays. Esme Ward, Museum Director of Manchester Museum, says: “February 2023 will mark a huge moment in Manchester Museum’s rich history as we open our doors following a major transformation. We have extended the building, making room for more joy and learning and evolving into the museum Manchester needs. Beautiful new galleries and exhibitions will showcase the best of the museum’s historic collections, as well as addressing the urgencies of the present day and highlighting ... More
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On a day like today, Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born
October 03, 1560. Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. In this image: Eugenio Riccomini, curator of the exhibition of Italian painter Annibale Carracci, stands next to the painting "I macellai" (The butchers) during the exhibit opening in Bologna, Italy, Thursday Sept. 21, 2006. Carracci, who lived from 1560 to 1609 was underpaid in his lifetime and undervalued for centuries after his death and at last is having a renaissance in his native Bologna. Carracci's mastery ranged from sympathetic and realistic portraits of common folk like butchers, to magnificent frescoes adorning palatial residences in Rome.
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