A patron examines works by Kendra Jayne Patrick in her gallery space during Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 3, 2021. Changes to eligibility requirements enabled more diversity at the 2021 fair, which roared back for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. Alfonso Duran/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
MIAMI, FLA.- Kendra Jayne Patrick’s booth was buzzing at Art Basel on Tuesday during the VIP opening as visitors crowded in to admire — and consider buying — pieces by tapestry artist Qualeasha Wood, whose work is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the past, Patrick would not have been eligible to participate in the fair, because her New York gallery has no permanent physical space. But over the past year, Art Basel changed its admission requirements and made a concerted effort to invite previously marginalized galleries to apply. “We wanted to lower the obstacles to entry — not around quality, but around how long you had to be in business and what the nature of your business is,” said Marc Spiegler, Art Basel’s global director. “These galleries have enough hurdles without our having these regulations, which are outdated.” The shift was noteworthy, given that Art Basel’s online iteration in June 2020 did not include a single A ... More
The artist Helen Pashgian at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, Nov. 24, 2021. Angelo Silvio Vasta/The New York Times.
by Lawrence Weschler
SANTA FE, NM.- Helen Pashgian, the pioneering but long underrecognized California Light and Space artist, recently took a break from installing her full-on retrospective at SITE Santa Fe to recount one of the defining moments of her life, how around age 3 she had accompanied her family from their comfortable lodgings in Pasadena to their summer shack in a secluded cove north of Laguna Beach. She’d regularly caper down to the shallow tide pools below, when one day, she suddenly noticed the way that light shimmered off the windswept surface of the water, and then, less than a foot beneath that, the way that same light shimmered in a completely different manner off the scalloped sand. “Now granted,” she explained, “my little 3-year-old brain couldn’t really make out what was going ... More
LONDON.- A new British Library exhibition explores the creative imagination, legacy and enduring influence of one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Challenging convention and physical limitations, Beethoven defied the onset of deafness from the age of 28 to produce an output that encompasses 722 works, including 9 symphonies, 35 piano sonatas and 16 string quartets. From Beethoven’s earliest published works of three piano sonatas composed at age 11 or 12 to the Ninth Symphony, considered his crowning achievement, the exhibition draws on the British Library’s extensive collections of music to explore his life and legacy through the lens of his manuscripts. Manuscripts scrawled in Beethoven’s own hand, personal belongings, archival documents and sound recordings provide an insight into the mind ... More
Portrait Michael Ray Charles. Photo: Remei Giralt.
PARIS.-Galerie Templon announced that American artist Michael Ray Charles joins the gallery roster. With the valuable collaboration of Hedwig Van Impe, the gallery will unveil for the first time in almost two decades the complex, visually striking and often disturbing oeuvre of one of the most radical African-American artists of his generation. Templon will reveal over time his spectacular series of unseen paintings and sculptures. Born in 1967 in Lousiana, Michael Ray Charles created a sensation when he first emerged on the artistic scene in the nineties. Along side his contemporaries Kara Walker or Kerry James Marshall, he was a pioneer in exploring the representation of African-American communities within American history and pop culture. By appropriating some of the most disparaging imagery of the 20th century, his practise subverts the common perception of identity and racial discrimination. Sometimes painful but always deeply politica ... More
Abraham Ortelius Theatrum orbis terrarum, Antwerp, 1601. Starting price: € 65,000. Sold for: € 162,500.
MUNICH.- With the top result of around € 1.7 million*, the Rare Books Auction at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on November 29 exceeded the excellent spring result by ca. 20%. In the Evening Sale alone almost 90% of the objects were sold, many with enormous increases owed to the interest of at times up to 20 bidders. The stars of the evening were Abraham Ortelius and Gregor Mendel. A life without Google Maps is posssible: The analog world of Abraham Ortelius, whose atlas “Theatrum orbis terrarum“ (lot 22) was the measure of all things for all later atlases, attracted great attention - not only in the run-up to the auction and in the due to Covid regulations rather sparsely attended auction room. Phone bidders in particular, of which most were from Europe and the USA, but also various online bidders, lifted the impressive book from a calling price of € 65,000 to the excellent result of € 162,500, eventually granted b ... More
Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections Coin Auctions of Irvine, California, paid Las Vegas, Nevada collector Bruce Morelan a record $13.35 million to purchase three famous, rare U.S. coins with a combined face value of only $1.15, including this historic 1913 Liberty Head nickel. (Photo courtesy of GreatCollections Coin Auctions.)
IRVINE, CA.- A vintage silver dollar, a 19th century dime, and an early 20th century nickel with a combined face value of $1.15 have been sold by Las Vegas, Nevada collector Bruce Morelan for $13.35 million. The three historic rare coins were purchased for a record price by Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections Coin Auctions of Irvine, California. “These are the ‘Big Three’ of U.S. numismatics,” said Russell. “The coins are the finest example of the five known 1913 Liberty Head nickels, a high-grade example of one of the nine known 1894-dated dimes struck at the San Francisco Mint and one of finest of the 15 known ‘King of Coins,’ an 1804-dated U.S. silver dollar.” Morelan, acquired the coins over ... More
QUEBEC .- As Quebec prepares to celebrate in 2023 the centenary of Riopelle, one of its most illustrious artists, the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation confirmed an exceptional donation to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec with a total estimated value of more than $120 million, making it the most important donation ever announced in the history of Quebec philanthropy. This incredible donation includes well over 60 prestigious artworks from Jean Paul Riopelle, evaluated to be worth over $100 million in total, as well as $20 million in cash to enable the creation of a new world-class pavilion as part of the MNBAQ’s complex. Espace Riopelle (working title) will be nestled in the heart of the majestic Plains of Abraham, in Quebec’s capital city. Four of the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation’s founding families1, namely Michael J. Audain, O.C., ... More
BRISBANE.- ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10), featuring 69 projects by emerging and established artists and collectives, together comprising more than 150 individuals from more than 30 countries, opened at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said the tenth chapter in the Gallery’s flagship series offered an expansive, free exhibition across both galleries and incorporated a multi-strand cinema program, onsite and virtual events, seven artist projects for children and families, a two-night Up Late event in March 2022, a closing weekend Festival in April 2022 and a full-colour publication. Mr Saines said the APT had built an international reputation over almost 30 years as a challenging, dynamic exhibition which consistently highlights the most exciting and innovative developments in contemporary art from across a culturally diverse region. ‘As wit ... More
LONDON.-Almine Rech is presenting some rhapsodies radiant, an exhibition of paintings by American artist John McAllister. This marks the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery and is on view from November 23 until December 18, 2021. John McAllister presents 11 new works of oil on canvas inspired by his frequent outings into the wilderness of New England, where he lives and works. McAllister’s distinctive palette of neon hues transforms classical pastoral scenes of nature into intense and ecstatic compositions, where dense forest, rolling hills, and sky begin to blend into a single, impressionistic whole. With this, the artist attempts to relay what he describes as the “electric void” experienced in nature, at once characterized by a mesmerizing beauty and terrifying carelessness, which can only ever be simulated through representation as stylized images or feeling. Through warm and abrasive colors, applied with a ... More
TORONTO.- On his journey from residential school to art school and to boardrooms and museums worldwide, Robert Houle has changed the way we see contemporary Indigenous Art. This winter, the Art Gallery of Ontario celebrates his ongoing influence with a major career retrospective. Bringing together more than 100 artworks from the past 50 years, including large-scale installations, paintings and drawings and as well as personal and archival photos, Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful is curated by Wanda Nanibush, curator of Indigenous Art. The exhibition is free for all visitors aged 25 and under and Indigenous Peoples. An award-winning artist, writer and curator of Saulteaux Anishinabe descent, Houle (b. 1947) has been advocating for Indigenous Art’s place in contemporary culture since the 1970s. Blending abstraction, post-modernism and conceptualism with First Nations ... More
Charles Allingham, James Belcher, Bare-knuckle Champion of England, c. 1800, Oil on canvas, image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
LONDON.-The Athena Arts Foundation was launched in June 2021 with the aim of harnessing digital technology to bring pre-modern art to a wider audience. Its main platform, a hub with information about exhibitions, podcasts and other resources worldwide, is already attracting attention. Next week sees the launch of ‘Living Portraits’, a new initiative to bring historical portraits to a younger audience. This collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and immersive story-telling specialists Megaverse, uses innovative technology to allow the subject of the painting to literally come alive and tell the viewer their life story. The first of these, focuses on the portrait of the legendary 19th century bare-knuckle champion, James ‘Jem’ Belcher from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. In the short film, the Bristolian Belcher recalls the triumphs of his prize fighting career, his eyes, mouth ... More
Deborah Kruger, Ropa Pintada, 2020.
MEXICO CITY.- PRPG.mx and partner gallery Dab Art Co. (Los Angeles, Ventura, and Austin) are presenting Deborah Kruger’s Plumas on Artsy.net November 6th to February 15, 2022, and in Proyectos Galería Mexico City, November 6th to December 11th, 2021. Plumas is PRPG.mx’s premiere show in the newly expanded exhibition and residency space here in Mexico City. At this critical moment when we should all be in earnest dialogue about climate change - extinction, consumption and migration are at the forefront of Deborah Kruger’s environmentally conscious art. The international artist, who has collaborative studios in Mexico and North Carolina, has committed her entire career to giving a voice to the voiceless. Kruger’s art mainly focuses on critically endangered birds and languages through collabrative, labor intensive processes utilizing recycled plastic bags to make works of astonishing size and beauty. Her Jewish identity has served as a catalyst for her ongoing artistic investigation ... More
Isabella Pers, La radice è nell’aria (2021), installazione composta da sezioni di tronchi di abeti rossi abbattuti dalla tempesta Vaia nell’ottobre 2018, olio e tecnica mista su legno, misure variabili. Photo: Daniele Marzorati.
MILAN.- With In Common, the double solo exhibition by Isabella Pers and Nada Prlja, curated by Laura Cherubini, aA29 Project Room in Milan presents a series of recent and new works by the artists, created specifically for the gallery spaces, from December 3rd, 2021 to February 13th, 2022. With reference to the exploration of a common ground (as also reflected in the title of the exhibition), developed on the spatial and temporal axes at multiple levels of interconnection and coexistence with all living beings, the two artists - with their different yet complementary gazes - weave a dialogue and a reflection on important contemporary social and environmental issues. Starting with observations of our fragile and complex present, Isabella Pers and Nada Prlja analyze the media superstructures that influence our perception. Isabella ... More
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Landmark exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh opens in Spain A CORUÑA.- Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories, the landmark exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself shortly before his untimely death in 2019, has its first ever showing in Spain in A Coruña, Galicia, opening today and running until 28 February 2022. Lindbergh spent two years selecting 161 images stretching over his four-decade spanning career in which he immortalised some of the world’s most celebrated women in fashion, cinema and beyond, including Nicole Kidman and Charlotte Rampling to Uma Thurman and many of the models who defined the 1990s – including Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. He left an indelible mark on the worlds of both fashion and photography. With more than 150 photographs from the early 1980s to 2019, the exhibition offers new and unexpected insights into the work of this legendary photographer. ... More
Spectra, Scotland's festival of light, returns to Aberdeen in 2022 ABERDEEN.-Spectra, Scotland’s festival of light, returns to Aberdeen in 2022, creating a stunning lightscape across the city and brining four days of family friendly fun to Aberdeenshire. Scotland’s premiere light festival, SPECTRA takes inspiration from Scotland’s Year of Stories in 2022. From the Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 February, SPECTRA will once again light up the winter nights in Aberdeen encouraging audiences to get out and experience the city looking its best using interactive light sculptures, architectural projections and film to create new ways of exploring the city. As we emerge from the pandemic, Spectra is the perfect event suitable for friends and family alike, with both indoor and outdoor spaces, it makes Aberdeen the ideal destination for both visitors and staycationers in 2022. This year the works of art created in light will appear ... More
Exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together works by Ulay, Allan Sekula, and Aleksandra Domanović LONDON.- The exhibition Truth and Politics displays two historically significant artworks by Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943-2020) and Allan Sekula (1951-2013), together with three specially commissioned new sculptures by Aleksandra Domanović (b. 1981). The essay “Truth and Politics” is the first of two texts added to the expanded edition of Hannah Arendt’s book Between Past and Future that was published in 1968. Truth and Politics was a response by Arendt to the widespread criticism she received following her stunning 1963 report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann. In the book, Arendt observes that: “the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is…that the sense by ... More
Collect and gift singular works of art, design, and jewelry at Freeman's 2021 Holiday Sales PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Freeman’s will present two back-to-back auctions, Art and Design and Luxe: Boutique Jewelry, that offer many opportunities for collecting and gifting this holiday season. Art and Design, held on December 8 at 11am, is led by fine Tiffany Studios lighting from the Estate of Gabriele Lee, ironwork by celebrated Philadelphia metalworker Samuel Yellin, furniture by leading names of 20th-century design, including George Nakashima, Charles Eames, and Paul Evans, and paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples from highly sought-after artists, from David Hockney and Claes Oldenburg to Takashi Murakami and Alex Katz. The holiday edition of Freeman’s Luxe: Boutique Jewels on December 9 at 11am features works by leading names and houses, including Cartier, Piaget, Tiffany & Co., and Hermès. The sale presents a selection ... More
Lara Schnitger's first solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery on view in Amsterdam AMSTERDAM.-Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting 16 Nipples in the afternoon Lara Schnitger‘s first solo exhibition at the gallery. With her practice, Lara Schnitger (1969, Haarlem, NL) pushes the expressive power of traditional crafts. Crossing the terrain of installation, sculpture, fashion, architecture, and collage, Schnitger does not confine herself to one modus operandi. This continual elastic movement stretches categories and materials to their breaking points. Works seek variable dimension, filling an entire space while resisting to become site-specific. Renowned for her large-scale sculptures, which feature a wide variety of textiles drawn taut over seemingly haphazard wooden armatures, Schnitger plays with tension, identity, social engagement, and femininity. Techniques like dying, quilting, weaving, and sewing are reinforced by appropriated slogans ... More
Artist and filmmaker James T. Hong's first solo exhibition in Europe opens at Ikon BIRMINGHAM.- Ikon presents the first solo exhibition in Europe by Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker James T. Hong (3 December 2021 – 13 February 2022). Hong (b. 1970) has been making provocative films for over twenty years. Focusing on ideas of morality, his work prompts viewers to question their own biases through confronting and often humorous philosophical narratives. For Ikon’s exhibition he shows two films, made 10 years apart, each with animals as protagonists. Seamlessly interwoven, humans and animals in the artist’s work are one and the same: adaptable species that are equally capable of good and evil acts in given circumstances. Hong’s work The Duck of Nature/The Duck of God (2010) is presented as a large-scale projection and was originally made as an educational video commissioned by the Dutch government for children ... More
Ryan Gander appointed to create new public artwork for London LONDON.- Award winning artist, Ryan Gander OBE, has been appointed to deliver a landmark public artwork for Elephant Park in the London Borough of Southwark, conceived and developed with the local community. This autumn Ryan Gander started working with the South London Gallery on a series of workshops for local school children that will bring together their playfulness and imagination to co-create the form of the final artwork. This final work may have several elements at different locations, forming a trail around the park - a new two-acre green space in London’s Zone One – for existing and future communities and visitors to the area to discover and enjoy. Ryan Gander was invited to the role following a curatorial process led by the Contemporary Art Society. He has an established international reputation for artworks that materialise in many ... More
Football jerseys worn by Manchester United legends Cantona and Giggs attract a lot of interest LONDON.- The collection of Derbyshire-born Arsenal Player Alf Baker (1898-1955) fetched £75,590* in Graham Budd Auctions’ sale of Football Memorabilia on Wednesday & Thursday, December 1 & 2, 2021. The collection of eight items had been expected to fetch in the region of £50,000. Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Alf Baker was originally a miner and played for various clubs in Derbyshire as an amateur, including Eastwood Rangers. During World War I, he guested for Chesterfield, Crystal Palace and Huddersfield Town, although these appearances are not considered official. In 1919 he turned professional and signed for Arsenal. Highlights of the Collection included Baker's match worn red Arsenal jersey from F.A. Cup Final v Huddersfield Town played at Wembley Stadium April 28, 1930, by Bukta, long-sleeved with embroidered club ... More
Auction features sought-after comics, video games, Pokémon & other unique items RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Movie fans have a rare opportunity to bolster their film collections as vintage and unopened VHS tapes are up for sale as part of Goldin’s largest-ever Pop Culture Auction which opens today. Among the rare films in the auction are a 1974 copy of The Godfather Part II signed by Al Pacino, a 1994 Pulp Fiction copy signed by Uma Thurman and a sealed copy of The Ultimate Fighting Championship: The Beginning featuring the 1993 fights where Royce Gracie defeated Ken Shamrock and Gerard Gordeau to win the first UFC title. In addition to these rare VHS tapes, the December Pop Culture Auction boasts more than 1,000 premium and valuable video games, comic books, trading card game items and memorabilia from film, television and more, including: • More than 80 pieces of entertainment and movie memorabilia, ... More
American Bottle Auctions will offer Part 1 of the Mel Hammer Bottle Collection SACRAMENTO, CA.- Part 1 of the Mel Hammer bottle collection – an incredible hoard gathered over a 50-year span by a man who dedicated much of his adult life to the acquisition and study of antique glass – will be sold in online Auction #72 that begins on Friday, December 10th and ends on Sunday, December 19th at 8 pm Pacific time, by American Bottle Auctions. The full catalog, showing all 137 lots, will be posted on kickoff day, December 10th, on the American Bottle Auctions website, where people can also register and bid. The offerings will feature Mr. Hammer’s favorites, to include schnapps and gin bottles, bitters bottles and inkwells, many boasting 9.5 grades. Mr. Hammer died on Thanksgiving Day. “Mel was a true collector of bottles,” said Jeff Wichmann of American Bottle Auctions. “I didn’t know him as well as I would have liked, but ... More
SONG 1 opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, as part of the Doug Aitken: New Era exhibition SYDNEY.- Doug Aitken SONG 1 (2012/2015), opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Delayed due to Sydney’s recent lockdown, the 360-degree installation is presented as part of the comprehensive survey Doug Aitken: New Era, the MCA’s major summer exhibition for the 2021-22 Sydney International Art Series. One of Doug Aitken’s largest moving image installations to date, SONG 1 (2012/2015), forms a spectacular highlight of the American artist's major survey exhibition New Era on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). Presented in the MCA’s Level 1 North gallery, SONG 1 is a 360-degree video installation that takes the form of a circular suspended structure with imagery wrapping around its circumference, both inside and out. The work features varied renditions of the popular song ‘I Only Have Eyes ... More
A new vision for Edinburgh's iconic Observatory House revealed EDINBURGH.-Collective - the centre for contemporary art on Calton Hill have revived Observatory House set on their iconic site overlooking Edinburgh, as a unique destination for visitors. The 18th century historic building designed by James Craig and formerly used by leading astronomers of the age is now available to book as a short term holiday destination. Observatory House forms a prominent corner of the City Observatory site redeveloped by Collective in 2018, is a residential house dating back to the 18th century. To support its charitable mission to bring people together around new art, Collective have upgraded the house and transformed it into a self catering space creating a new, unique hilltop retreat at the heart of the Scottish capital. Booking for the main house opens today with a new apartment space in the basement becoming ... More
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On a day like today, French impressionist painter Claude Monet died
October 05, 1926. Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). In this image: A visitor looks at a painting by French artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) entitled Nympheas during a press preview in Hong Kong, China, 27 May 2011. The painting was expected to fetch in excess of 17 to 24 million GBP (19 to 27 million Euro), at auction at Christie's London Impressionist Modern Paintings on 21 June 2011.
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