RICHMOND, VA.-The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced that the museum has deaccessioned and returned 44 works of ancient art following an investigation by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security into the global trafficking of looted or stolen antiquities. On May 1, 2023, VMFA received a summons from the Department of Homeland Security and the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office pertaining to a group of 28 ancient art objects in the collection that had been identified as possibly looted or stolen. The museum was asked to supply all documents and photographs related to sales receipts, invoices and bills of sale; shipping and storage records; import and export documents; consignment agreements; appraisal documentation; provenance and provenance research; catalogues, brochures and marketing materials; and any correspondence re ... More
Three-part Garden Landscape window for Linden Hall, Designed by Agnes F. Northrop (1857–1953), Tiffany Studios (1902–32), New York, 1912. Leaded Favrile glass. 124 × 82 inches; 88 3/4 × 81 5/8 inches; 88 3/4 × 81 5/8 inches; center panel: 124 × 82 in. (315 × 208.3 cm); side panels: 88 3/4 × 81 5/8 in. (225.4 × 207.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.-The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of a monumental Tiffany three-part window, Garden Landscape. The window—over ten feet wide and nearly seven feet tall—was designed by Agnes Northrop in the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the attribution of which is based on a signed design drawing for the center panel that resides in The Met collection. As part of the Museum’s American Wing 100th anniversary, the window will be installed in the Charles Engelhard Court beginning November 2024. The window will be dramatically framed by the columns from Laurelton Hall, Tiffany’s Long Island country estate. The acquisition is made possible by Alan Gerry Gift; 2023 Benefit Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and ... More
Frank Lloyd Wright Windows from Northome, the second Francis W. Little House, Wayzata, Minnesota, set of six. Estimate: $20,000-30,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Early 20th Century Design auction at Toomey & Co. on Tuesday, December 12th, will showcase fine furniture, lighting, metalwork, glass, pottery, and more. This includes a range of works from Thomas S. Monaghan, Domino’s Private Collection, such as historic windows and further notable examples by Frank Lloyd Wright. Other highlights in the sale are a Charles Rohlfs Rare and Important revolving desk, a Dirk van Erp Rare and Early Warty table lamp, and a Greene & Greene Hanging lantern, as well as works by Gustav Stickley, The Roycrofters, Josef Hoffmann, Tiffany Studios, Teco Pottery, Gustave Baumann, and more. The sale on December 12th boasts various lots from Thomas S. Monaghan, Domino’s Private Collection, highlighting the groundbreaking impact that Frank Lloyd Wright had on 20th century architecture and design. Included in this important offering are a range of historic windows, doors, textiles, books ... More
Mark Kostabi, Sailing to Byzantium Regatta. unframed acrylic on canvas, 1992, signed. Estimate $1,500-$2,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auctions NY is presenting its first auction of the Winter season on Saturday December 16th, 2023 at 10am with items from multiple estates and will feature over 150 lots of Art & Memorabilia from a prominent New York art world insider’s private collection, including contemporary pieces by Mark Kostabi, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenny Scharf, Gregory Gillespie and more, along with artist autographs and many collectible items. The auction will also feature hundreds of lots of Fine Art, Decorative Arts, 20th Century Modern, Antique & Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Asian Art, Decorative Arts, and Lighting. Previews will be held on Thursday, December 14th 10am - 6pm & Friday, December 15th 10am -6pm. In one of Roland’s most popular arenas, Contemporary Art, they are offering a Mark Kostabi (American, b. 1960) World Trade Center “Moving On”, unframed acrylic on canvas depicting ... More
Todd Pitman and his father, Peter Pitman at Peter’s home in St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 1, 2023. (Erica Dischino/The New York Times)
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ST. PAUL, MINN.- Ask Minnesotans about the state’s official flag, and prepare for a crush of critiques. Start with legibility. Viewed from afar, it is difficult to make sense of the jumble of dates, stars and the state slogan, in French, which rings the centerpiece image. Aesthetically, it is, well, not a marvel, many a Minnesotan will tell you, with Midwestern restraint. Zoom in on the scene depicted at the core, which happens to be the state seal, to understand why a lawmaker who led the latest effort to retire the flag calls it “a cluttered genocidal mess.” In the foreground is a pioneer using a plow next to a tree stump, which features a rifle and an ax. Behind him is a Native American man on horseback, spear in hand, riding beside a sunset. “It’s literally a Nativ ... More
The Grand Mosque at the Dubai International Financial Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 5, 2023. (Katarina Premfors/The New York Times)
by Jenny Gross and Katarina Premfors
NEW YORK, NY.- Dubai is full of futuristic, glazed skyscrapers. That’s problematic, from a sustainability perspective, in a city where temperatures regularly climb past 100 degrees Fahrenheit for several months each year. Air conditioning can be so strong in the summer that some people wear jackets and scarves inside. But a growing number of architects in the city in the United Arab Emirates, which is currently hosting the United Nations climate summit, are now designing buildings in more sustainable ways, using the latest technology but also reintroducing age-old construction techniques that made buildings livable long before air conditioning existed. Those methods include orienting buildings away from the sun, building in accordance with wind patterns to increase natural ventilation, ... More
An animation still from work by master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. (via The New York Times)
by Maya Phillips
NEW YORK, NY.- Few filmmakers can claim the same heights of whimsy, artistry and storytelling as writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, whose modern-day fables seem to prove that having one’s head in the clouds isn’t a fault, but a virtue — in more ways than one. From his 1988 breakthrough “My Neighbor Totoro” to his 2001 Oscar-winning animated feature, “Spirited Away,” the sky is one of Miyazaki’s favorite playgrounds, where flight is about more than just elevation; it’s about transcendence. Characters in flight often traverse physical and spiritual realms. They move between worlds and states of being. And in the case of Miyazaki’s latest, “The Boy and the Heron,” flight even serves as a gateway between life and death. Miyazaki’s protagonists are often children or young adults ... More
A neon restaurant sign in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong, on Oct. 2, 2023. (Anthony Kwan/The New York Times)
by Hannah Beech
HONG KONG.- It was never just about the neon, that cubist, consumerist razzle-dazzle cantilevered over Hong Kong’s streets announcing pawnbrokers and mooncake bakers, saunas and shark’s fin soup shops. It was never just about the signs, shining on teahouses offering the finest Iron Goddess of Mercy brew and on hotels paid for by the hour, or on Chinese medicine emporiums bursting with wooden drawers of sea horses and on mahjong parlors clickety-clacking with manicured nails hitting hard tiles. Because while the government’s crackdown on the neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, the campaign evokes the fading of Hong Kong itself: the mournful allegory for an electric city’s decline, the literal extinguishing of its brash flash. Nights in Hong Kong these days feel as if still in the pall of a plague, or a deep political malaise. Many of the tourists and resident foreigners ... More
The Queensbridge Houses in Queens, Sept. 9, 2022. (Timothy Mulcare/The New York Times)
by Anna Kodé
NEW YORK, NY.- From the beginning, the lyrics and culture of hip-hop have been entangled with home, in every sense of the word — the physical, emotional, visceral, aspirational and existential. An area code becomes an identity. “7-1-3, 2-8-1, 8-3-2,” Megan Thee Stallion shouts out in the chorus of “Last Week in H Tx.” “Still got love for the streets, reppin’ 2-1-3,” Dr. Dre boasts in his 1999 hit “Still D.R.E.,” featuring Snoop Dogg. A city becomes a living being, a guardian. “I met this girl when I was 3 years old / And what I loved most she had so much soul,” Kanye West says of his hometown, Chicago, in “Homecoming.” With “Hello Brooklyn 2.0,” Jay-Z pays tribute to his borough: “Like a mama you birthed me / Brooklyn you nursed me.” “There’s an importance to home for hip-hop artists because you want your point of view, you want your neighborhood, your community, your city represented,” said Kille ... More
Film still showing work by Japanese painter Kaori Miyano.
ST AUSTELL.- To mark Tokyo Park's first exhibition of Japanese modern art outside the UK, Ninjin Art Productions has unleashed a new music-driven film that details Tokyo Park's Onna No Ko exhibition at the Old Street Gallery in London's Shoreditch this past June. Entitled 'Onna No Ko: New Visions of Beauty', the music-video-esque short film has a run time of 5 minutes 10 seconds and features an electro house soundtrack produced by the film's director and award-winning animator Ignatius Rake. "The Onna No Ko exhibition was excellent," Ignatius says. "Japanese modern art is without doubt the most vibrant, uplifting and accessible around. The nine artists shown exemplified this perfectly, marrying together a diverse range of styles, media and influences, including elements of manga, anime and Showa kitsch, using acrylic, oils and watercolours on canvas, paper and wood." While the art shown ranged from the stylistically simplistic to the highly intricate and ultrarealistic, the result was a unified who ... More
LUXEMBOURG.- Introducing A Model, Rayyane Tabet (b. 1983, Ashqout, Lebanon) was invited to conceive a site-specific project for the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion. An architect by training, the artist attaches great importance to the context in which his projects are embedded. His installations consider the historical framework of the architecture of the museum, revealing its particularities alongside its contradictions. Tabet’s body of work builds upon the analysis of sociocultural contexts, combining historical and subjective memory to offer an alternative reading to the official narrative of his object of study and open it up to new meanings. For the pavilion, the artist devised Trilogy, an installation that unfolds around pivotal moments of contemporary and Luxembourg history in dialogue with his personal memory. This installation includes Sanatorium Paimio (bedroom furniture), a central work of the Mudam ... More
Pair of faience (tin glazed earthenware) pottery vases, featuring two distinct scenes of a Hen House and a Duck House, marked with “E. G.” (for Edward Gilles), 11 ½ inches tall (est. $750-$1,500).
DOUGLASS, KAN.-Woody Auction will ring in the New Year on Saturday, January 6th, with an automated online-only antique auction, with Internet bidding on LiveAuctioneers.com. The sale, starting at 9:30 am Central time, will feature Haviland Limoges in presidential style, headlined by a private collection out of Colorado offering an array of quality Haviland Limoges and other fine pieces. These will include American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG), KPM, Lalique, Haviland terra cotta, Meissen, R. S. Prussia and more. The prize piece is an 1880s President Rutherford B. Hayes White House fish platter with presidential seal, made specifically for private sale. “It’s one of the most important pieces of Limoges Woody Auction has ever sold in public auction,” said Jason Woody. The Rutherford B. Hayes White House fish platter with historical presidential seal is exceedingly rare and is ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Gladstone announced its representation of contemporary American artist, Carrie Mae Weems. The gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work in New York during the fall of 2024. Carrie Mae Weems is celebrated internationally for her groundbreaking and highly distinctive practice comprising photography, text, audio, installation, video, and performance spanning the past four decades. Her incisive and influential multidisciplinary work invites sustained contemplation of race, gender, social injustice, and economic inequity throughout American history to the present day. Guided by her experiences as a Black woman, Weems is a poignant storyteller whose work simultaneously constructs narratives that bear witness to complex, painful histories and searches for new, nuanced models to live by. In welcoming Carrie Mae Weems to the gallery, Barbara Gladstone stated, “The opportunity to work with Carrie Mae Weems at thi ... More
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National Gallery of Art acquires work by Todd Gray WASHINGTON, DC.- Los Angeles-based artist Todd Gray (b. 1954) explores the Diasporic dislocations and cultural connections between the West and West Africa. The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by the artist, Atlantic (Double Dutch) (2022), an example of Gray’s “photo-sculptures,” in which two or more framed photographs are arranged to create large-scale, three-dimensional tableaus. Combining images of grand, baroque architecture in Europe and the United States with those of historical sites and landmarks in West Africa, Gray’s Atlantic series alludes to the slave trade and colonialism as the historical source of European and American wealth and power. The layered images in Atlantic (Double Dutch) come from Gray’s recent travels through Europe, the US, and Ghana, his second home. From ... More
The Icon Museum and Study Center appoints Justin Willson as its new Curator CLINTON, MASS.- After a national search, The Icon Museum and Study Center has appointed Justin Willson as its new curator, effective February 2024. Justin is a specialist in late Byzantine and early Russian art with a doctorate from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. His interests range widely from connoisseurship to the history of icons in Byzantium and the Slavic world with a special focus on Muscovy. “Justin arrives at a pivotal point in our museum’s history as our recently renamed institution enters a renewed phase. He brings a wonderful vision and strong academic background, as well as a fresh and energetic perspective to interpreting and presenting our collection,” said Simon Morsink, director of the Museum. “He will play an important role in shaping the leading institute for icons and Eastern Christian ... More
The Korean Cultural Centre UK opens '1883: A Journey Through the Archives' LONDON.-The Korean Cultural Centre UK is presenting ‘1883: A Journey Through the Archives’ to commemorate the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and the United Kingdom. The exhibition features a wonderful array of materials that presents the encounters between Korea and the UK in the early period of diplomacy in 19th century Joseon. As Korea began to open its ports in the 19th century, in 1883, Korea and the United Kingdom formally concluded a treaty of friendship and commerce. The exhibition sheds light on the era of initial diplomacy between the two nations, centred on facsimiles of the ‘United Kingdom-Korea Treaty of 1883’, provided by the National Library of Korea and the National Archives of the UK. Moreover, in collaboration with experts in the history of Korea-UK relations, the exhibition examines ... More
Heritage offers broadcaster Eric Nadel's original handwritten note calling the team's first World Series win DALLAS, TX.- Eric Nadel, for 45 years the radio voice of the Texas Rangers, can’t pinpoint the moment it happened — just sometime on Nov. 1, a few hours before the Rangers faced the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 5 of the 2023 World Series. The Rangers, who had never won a single title in the team’s long history in Washington, D.C., and then Arlington, Texas, were up three games to one against the National Leaguers from Phoenix. One win from glory. “At some point during the day, I became aware I felt like I was in a dream because I was so convinced the Rangers were going to win the World Series,” Nadel says a few weeks later. “And then I started thinking, ‘This couldn’t possibly be real.’” That’s because Nadel had been there before, on Oct. 27, 2011, when the Rangers came this close to clinching their first World Series win ... More
Anozero'24 - Bienal de Coimbra unveils the title of its fifth edition COIMBRA.- Curators Ángel Calvo Ulloa and Marta Mestre are delighted to announce The Phantom of Liberty as the title for the forthcoming edition of Anozero - Bienal de Coimbra. The Bienal is set to unfold across the city of Coimbra from 6 April to 30 June 30 2024, the year that marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. In the imperative milestone of the celebrations of the fifty years of 25 April, we recall the revolutionary process that overthrew an authoritarian regime in Portugal that lasted almost five decades and put an end to the Portuguese Colonial War, paving the way for a democratic transition in the country. As Ángel Calvo Ulloa and Marta Mestre propose: “The fifth edition of Anozero – Bienal de Coimbra explores the idea of liberty and the strategies of contemporary art to challenge, displace, and inhabit it. The title ... More
Creators of the Long-running, award-winning 'Zits' offer their original comic strip art and sketches at Heritage DALLAS, TX.- Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman selected all 103 pieces that make up Heritage’s inaugural Zits Comic Art Showcase Auction on January 4. They wanted to pick out “the good ones” to offer fans of their 26-year-old, award-winning strip Zits, which has appeared in more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide since its introduction in July 1997. Some good strips. Some good sketches. Some good book covers. “And we had a hard time picking out the good ones,” Scott says, “because we think a lot of them are good.” He and Borgman laugh. They’re not bragging. Far from it, as both are sweet, thoughtful men whose insight into family life has entertained and enlightened generations of readers. ... More
The book world still isn't diverse. Dhonielle Clayton is trying to change that. NEW YORK, NY.- One evening this fall, a crowd of writers and publishing professionals mingled in a speakeasy-style lounge in Manhattan. The party, hosted by a new company called Electric Postcard Entertainment, was the kind of lavish affair that’s become rare for the book business in an era of corporate consolidation and cuts. Guests traded industry gossip and sipped potent signature cocktails with names like Timeless Love and Immortality Serum — phrases that alluded to the company’s coming romance and fantasy projects. The crowd included Sony executives, film agents and producers, book scouts, novelists, and editors and publicists from publishing houses like Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and William Morrow. The company’s sales pitch was delivered stealthily via gift bags stuffed with candles, a branded sweatshirt ... More
National Gallery unveils Body Sculpture by renowned contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson CANBERRA.-The National Gallery of Australia unveiled Body Sculpture, the highly anticipated new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Jordan Wolfson and a major acquisition for the national collection. This is the first solo presentation of Wolfson’s work in Australia and features the world premiere of Body Sculpture. Jordan Wolfson is an American artist whose work reflects the situation of the world today. As with Wolfson’s previous animatronic works Female Figure 2014 and Colored Sculpture 2016, this new work combines sculpture and performance to generate emotional and physical responses in the viewer. His art positions the audience in a physical and moral confrontation with issues facing society and our own place within them, acting as a witness to the darkness within the human condition. Wolfson said: ‘The intention is that the movement of [Body S ... More
Alexander Harrison joins Kasmin NEW YORK, NY.-Kasmin announced its representation of Alexander Harrison (b. 1993, Greenville, S.C.) The gallery presented a new work on paper by the artist at Art Basel Miami Beach this past week. Harrison's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Big World, was mounted in New York in January 2023. Nicholas Olney, President of Kasmin, comments: "We’re thrilled to announce representation of Alexander Harrison, an artist who has emerged as a singular voice in American painting. Combining technical virtuosity and pictorial innovation, Harrison’s interconnected body of work reveals a storyteller’s gift for calling attention to salient details that reveal larger truths." Edith Dicconson, Executive Director, adds: "On first seeing Alexander’s paintings in 2019, I was immediately captivated by their powerful command of narrative. ... More
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On a day like today, American painter Mark Tobey was born
September 11, 1890. Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and William Cumming, Tobey was a founder of the Northwest School.
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