Billy Grant, left, and Jamian Juliano-Villani, two of the owners of the gallery O’Flaherty’s, and Juliano-Villani’s dog Timothy, in Manhattan, July 17, 2022. With the once-bold Downtown scene replaced by slickness, a democratic open call at the gallery welcomed hundreds of artists desperate for exposure and recognition. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK, NY.- By 8:30 p.m. July 14, just a half-hour after the exhibition opened, the line to get into “The Patriot,” an unclassifiable and, frankly, deranged group show at the gallery O’Flaherty’s at 55 Avenue C had stretched around the corner down East Fourth Street and was flirting with Avenue B. By the time the New York Police Department arrived, with at least a dozen officers and several patrol cars, rough estimates placed the crowd somewhere near 1,000 people, and it was totally conceivable that many of them were waiting to see their own work. About four weeks ago, the gallery issued a democratic open call: no work under 3-feet square turned away. It was answered exuberantly. By last count, the show features 820 pieces of art crammed into the gallery’s modest storefront space, most hung salon-style with impressively little breathing room, but also creeping onto the ceiling, splayed on the floor and colonizing the bathroom. In the New York art world, the summer group sh ... More
A statue of Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett at Kauffman Stadium, where it has stood since 2001, in Kansas City, Mo., on June 12, 2012. Brett spent 21 seasons with the Royals. Steve Hebert/The New York Times.
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COOPERSTOWN, NY.- The unofficial greeters at the Hall of Fame stand together, in bronze, by the ticket booths in the museum lobby. They are multicultural monuments to strength, sacrifice and service: Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. “Those three represented so much more than what they did on the field,” said Josh Rawitch, the president of the Hall of Fame. “It was the way they went about life off the field in terms of helping other people, leading the way for other people, and ultimately just being the perfect example of what it means to have character and courage.” The Hall of Fame will welcome seven new members Sunday, including three who are living: David Ortiz, Jim Kaat and Tony Oliva. All will be recognized ... More
PARIS.-Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold a sale of nearly 200 prints from the archives of the famous LIFE magazine on 22 September 2022 in Paris. For only the second time in Europe, unpublished photos from this mythical magazine will be exhibited and offered at auction. The Golden Years of LIFE is the result of specific research in the magazine's archives on the iconography of America's golden years, from the end of the 1929 stock market crash to the end of the 1960s. Estimates range from €1,000 to €4,000. This sale is conceived and organised by BITL under the direction of Agnès Vergez. Created in 1936 by Henri Luce, an American press magnate and co-founder of Time Magazine, LIFE magazine was published weekly and then monthly until the 2000s. It is considered the absolute reference for photojournalism in the world. With more than eight million copies printed, the magazine became the most ... More
Tyama at Melbourne Museum. Source Museums Victoria. Photo: Eugene Hyland.
MELBOURNE.- Tyama (Cha-Muh) is an exciting new exhibition, developed by Museums Victoria exclusively for Melbourne Museum. This multisensory digital experience takes visitors on a journey across Victoria’s nocturnal landscapes through the eyes of creatures we share Country with. A museum exhibition that breaks the mould, Tyama positions both objects and visitors as protagonists inside various story worlds informed by First People’s knowledge and Museum Victoria’s collections. The word Tyama is the Keerray Woorroong language word meaning ‘to know’. It is about knowing, not just with our minds but with our whole body and all our senses. It recognises that knowledge is precious, it is earned through deep engagement with the world around us. A unique museum exhibition that utilises technology at a scale that is unparalleled, Tyama presents interactive worlds that respond to movement and sounds, providing visitors ... More
Erik Parker, Good things going, 2014. Acrylic on canvas 243,84 x 203,2 cm.
MALAGA.-Over the Influence celebrates Erik Parker’s museum retrospective, Easy Freedom, presented at The Contemporary Art Center of Málaga (Málaga, Spain), on view through August 28, 2022. Curated by Fernando Francés, the exhibition features a selection of over forty artworks in a variety of techniques spanning 1999 to the present, the most comprehensive presentation in Europe. Inspired by American subculture: underground comics, graffiti, and the raucous, hallucinatory palette of vintage counterculture. Parker creates powerful explosions of color ranging from idealized landscapes to scenes of social commentary. The result is boisterous, irreverent, and immediately recognizable. Like a visual freestyle, Parker’s work seamlessly combines elements of contemporary culture into a narrative flow of politics, music, internet memes, hallucinatory dreams, conspiracy theories, and the hieroglyphics of various subcultures. Rebelli ... More
BERLIN.- From July 22 to October 23, 2022 the Gropius Bau presents The Woven Child, the first major retrospective of Louise Bourgeois to focus exclusively on the works that she made with fabrics and textiles during the final chapter of her storied career. This is the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in Berlin, with many works that have never been shown before in Germany. “I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.” —Louise Bourgeois Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing up until her death in 2010, Bourgeois created an astonishingly inventive, and psychologically charged, range of sculptures using domestic textiles, including clothing, linens and tapestry, often sourced from her own household and personal history. This departure from traditional ... More
Rhea Storr, 'Uncommon Observations: The Ground that Moves Us', 2022. Notting Hill Gate station. Photo: Thierry Bal.
LONDON.-The Art on the Underground presents an ambitious multi-site artwork by London based artist Rhea Storr exhibited in four London Underground stations; Stratford, Bethnal Green, Notting Hill Gate and Heathrow Terminal 4. Central to Rhea Storr’s photographic and film work is her writing and research around the production and circulation of images of Black subjects. This research asks how can an image share knowledge? How might it be a call to come together as a community? How can an image challenge or confront its audience? Can it be a projection of joy and liberation? This new work was created using an outdated military surveillance photographic film called aerochrome. Aerochrome film turns reflections of infra-red light into vivid shades of red and pink and in contrast centres bodies, drawing focus to human movement. The photoshoot played with who ... More
William Kentridge, Garibaldi, twenty lift ground aquatint etching printed on 100% Hemp Phumani handmade paper, mounted on raw cotton cloth folded (as a map) and housed in a handmade box covered in raw cotton cloth, item size: 165,5 by 153cm, R 700 000 - 800 000.
JOHANNESBURG.-Strauss & Co is currently hosting two exciting auctions that explore the impact and legacy of South Africa’s art scene in the 1970s. On the occasion of renewed global focus on the work of artist William Kentridge, Strauss & Co is pleased to present William Kentridge: In Print, a single-artist timed-online auction spanning works made between 1981 and 2016. Concurrent with its timely Kentridge sale, Strauss & Co is hosting a general online-only auction of modern, post-war and contemporary art that includes a standalone session devoted to art from 1970s. Kentridge’s large-scale work Garibaldi (estimate R 700 000 – 800 000), a 20-part etching linked to the artist’s 2016 Triumphs and Laments frieze on the walls of the Tiber River in Rome, leads the selection of works in William Kentridge: In ... More
Jimmie Mannas, What Future?, 1964. Gelatin silver print.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This is the first major exhibition about the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers formed in New York in 1963. Members of the group produced powerful images, sensitively registering Black life in the mid-20th century. The exhibition explores Kamoinge’s photographic artistry in the 1960s and 1970s, celebrating the group’s collaborative ethos, commitment to community, and centering of Black experiences. Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop is organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, VMFA. This is the first major exhibition about the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers formed in New York in 1963. Members of the group produced powerful images, sensitively registering Black life in the mid-20th century. The exhibition explores Kamoinge’s photographic artistry ... More
Dorothy Wilding, HM Queen Elizabeth II, 15 April 1952. The Queen wears the Diamond Diadem and the Nizam of Hyderabad necklace.
LONDON.- Dazzling jewels from The Queen’s personal collection and iconic photographs of Her Majesty will go on display at Buckingham Palace from today (Friday, 22 July) as part of a visit to the Summer Opening of the State Rooms, open for the first time since 2019. The special display Platinum Jubilee: The Queen’s Accession celebrates the start of Her Majesty’s historic reign and centres around 24 official portraits of The Queen taken by the photographer Dorothy Wilding. For the first time, Wilding’s original hand-finished prints are shown alongside items of jewellery worn by Her Majesty for the portrait sittings, some of which have never been on public display before. Dorothy Wilding began taking photographs of members of the Royal Family in the 1920s. In May 1937 she became the first official female royal photographer when she was appointed to take the portraits at the coronation of King George VI and ... More
David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983-84, acrylic and collaged paper on gelatin silver.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W introduces The David Wojnarowicz Foundation. In the 30 years since his life was cut short, the voice of David Wojnarowicz has continued to resonate in museums, galleries, classrooms, protests, and visual celebrations of beauty and defiance and love. The Foundation's work begins with the launch of a dynamic website celebrating David's work and legacy. We welcome you in exploring this growing resource and beginning a relationship with the Foundation and its mission in the years to come. As one of its first initiatives, the David Wojnarowicz Foundation, in collaboration with P·P·O·W, created the interactive website, onedaythiskid.com. Please join us today in commemorating the 30th anniversary of David Wojnarowicz's passing with a visual chorus of solidarity and protest. Created shortly before his death, the original artwork Untitled (One Day This Kid...) features a boyhood image of Wojnarowicz ... More
LONDON.- How do we find a way to expand the fabric of space and time? Can we defy the physics of reality through the innate drive of desire? Rather than create a world apart from our own, the exhibition Machines of Desire summons a vision of a parallel universe that exists as a palimpsest on our current reality, writing and rewriting the codes of memory and existence through art-making across different generations. Curated by Emilia Yin and Kat Sapera, the group exhibition Machines of Desire pursues the idea of “the desire machine” as a metaphor for the transcendent, glitch-triggering effect that art in the modern era can engender. With a focus on both historical and contemporary artists whose works play with and complicate familiar aesthetic languages and functions, Machines of Desire seeks to encourage a reading of art as a mode of contemporary mythology or folklore, a space where shared documents of memory metamorphose into forms ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Christie's announced ‘Sculpting Paradise’, a series of exceptional auctions of works by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, to be held in New York from mid-November 2022. This will be the first sale of this scale ever held in the United States of America for this unique creative couple. The works originate from the collection of Madame Marie Lalanne, daughter of the artists, an artist herself, a French-American citizen and long-time resident of the United States of America. Approximately 250 lots will be auctioned, in a prestigious sale to be held at Rockefeller Center and in an online sale. The works will be displayed in their entirety in Christie’s galleries at Rockefeller Center prior to the sales. The collection will offer a glimpse into the Lalannes’ poetic world and exceptional creativity, with major sculptures such as the Grand Requin, the Console Gorille, the Grand Poisson Paysage and the Choupatte as well as numerous piec ... More
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A sleeping beauty for 30 years 1965 Morris Mini Cooper S '1071' (Mk1) emerges at classic car auction LONDON.- An amazing find – a rare 1965 Almond Green ‘1071’ Mini Cooper S with just 39,141 miles from new and 56 years in the same ownership has just emerged from 30 years in hibernation. When new it cost £778. This British icon is a much-loved family friend which is finally back on the market for the first time in almost six decades – for sale with Classic Car Auctions on September 24 for an estimate of £28,000 - £32,000. The 1071cc MK1 Cooper S was the First Cooper S produced by BMC, and the first of the Minis to succeed at the Monte Carlo Rally. Like all versions of the original Mini Cooper S, the 1071cc is a highly desirable car. This one is a UK-supplied, right-hand drive car. Richard Greenhalgh who consigned the car for Classic Car Auctions, says: “The vendor from near Kidderminster is in his 80's now. Of course, when he bought the Mini Cooper it ... More
Another successful sale from Poster Auctions International totals over $2.4M NEW YORK, NY.-Poster Auctions International's second sale of the year, on July 12, finished at $2,487,120. Rare Posters Auction LXXXVII saw continued enthusiasm for rare and never-before-seen lithographs from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, “I am consistently delighted by the enthusiasm demonstrated by our consignors and bidders, especially at this time of instability in the world. It is always hard to predict how our sales will perform, but time and again, our fellow poster lovers help us break previous sales records and prove that the poster is as powerful a medium as ever.” A number of designs sparked a flurry of bidding, leading to sales that well exceeded the estimated prices. These include Marcello Dudovich’s extremely rare ca. 1925 Michelin, which sold for $26,400 (est. $17,000-$20,000); Geo ... More
After mocking France's literary elite, a fraught invite into the club PARIS.- For African writers living in France, there is a dream they will never acknowledge publicly, a character says in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel, “The Most Secret Memory of Men.” That dream — “our shame, but also the glory we fantasize about” — is to be praised by France and its literary establishment. The post-colonial relationship between France and its former African colonies is a deeply fraught one. Even six decades after their independence, France looms large not only in their politics and economies, but also in their imagination. “The relationship with Paris is very strong because, in the end, there is only Paris,” Sarr said. “When we meet anglophone African writers, they’re surprised that the relationship with France is still so strong.” France remains omnipresent for many francophone African authors like Sarr, 32, who grew up in Senegal ... More
'The Kite Runner' trips from page to stage NEW YORK, NY.- Unsurprisingly, the most memorable image in “The Kite Runner,” which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on Thursday night, is of the kites. They’re miniature, attached to thin poles that several actors wave, white tissue-paper flitting, birdlike, over their heads. The paper crinkles as the kites part the air with a soft swish. If only the rest of this stiff production, adapted by Matthew Spangler from the popular 2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini, exuded such elegance. A redemption story about an unlikable — sometimes downright despicable — protagonist, “The Kite Runner” opens in 2001, with Amir (Amir Arison), a Pashtun Afghan who explains that a cowardly decision he made at 12 years old shaped the person he is today. He doesn’t tell us what it was immediately; he steps back in time to show us scenes of his life in Kabul, with his ... More
Kennedy Center to honor Gladys Knight, George Clooney, U2 and others NEW YORK, NY.- Gladys Knight performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021, paying tribute to one of the honorees, Garth Brooks, with a rendition of his song “We Shall Be Free.” But when she returns to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this December, she will have a different role: She will be seated in the balcony, wearing a medal designating her as one of this year’s five honorees. “Y’all blowing my mind,” Knight, the esteemed R&B, pop and soul artist said of her recognition by the Kennedy Center. She will be celebrated at a gala Dec. 4 at the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors along with actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Amy Grant; Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León and the band U2. Deborah F. Rutter, the president of the Kennedy Center, said that making the choices ... More
1973 Rolls-Royce owned by Maurice Gibb for sale with Silverstone Auctions LONDON.- The next Silverstone Classics Auction on August 27 will not be short of glamorous cars and none more so than this beautiful classic 1973 Rolls-Royce Corniche owned for three decades by Maurice Gibb of Bee Gees fame and his family. Arwel Richards of Silverstone Auctions, who consigned the car, comments: “When Rolls-Royce launched the two-door version of the Silver Shadow in 1966, the international jet set began to clamour for attention at the dealerships. These hugely desirable motor cars began to change hands at significant premiums over list price and one can imagine the hushed negotiations over the green baize of the gaming tables at Crockfords and Aspinalls.” The Drop Head Coupé that followed in 1967 was even more exclusive, and waiting lists ran for years. Rolls-Royce could not have predicted the Swinging Sixties, or those ... More
Only known first-print copy of 'Duck Hunt' takes aim at Heritage Auctions August 5-7 DALLAS, TX.- Serious bidders will zero in on the highest-graded sealed copy of one of the most popular NES games of all time when it is offered in Heritage Auctions' August 5-7 Video Games Signature® Auction. Some of the most iconic NES games are among the launch titles for the console. When first offered, the NES Deluxe set included the console, all "necessary" accessories, and one copy each of Gyromite and Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt is the second best-selling game on the console, and has roughly 10 package variants. This context puts into perspective how extraordinary the Wata 9.2 A++ Sealed [Matte Sticker, First Production], NES Nintendo 1985 USA copy of Duck Hunt offered in this sale is. "The matte Nintendo sticker sealing the game indicates this copy is from the first ... More
Tired of waiting for their dream workplace, these writers made their own NEW YORK, NY.- About halfway through 2021, Christopher Robbins had had enough. Laid off from a job he had cared about deeply after witnessing multiple media organizations in New York City collapse over the years, Robbins was ready to free himself. “There’s just a vanishing amount of good jobs,” Robbins, 36, a former editor at Gothamist, said. “And the freelancing terrain is just so brutal.” His frustrations were shared by Nick Pinto, 44, and Max Rivlin-Nadler, 34. All three said they had chosen to leave or been pushed out of various jobs over the years because of some combination of mismanagement, lack of funding and budget cuts. “There’s got to be a better way, because these organizations can’t just keep bleeding reporters,” Rivlin-Nadler said. The group kept returning to a tantalizing idea: What if there were a lean, mean news publication owned ... More
New York's last movie clerk knows more than you do NEW YORK, NY.- As the founder and sole employee of Film Noir Cinema, Will Malitek appears to be the final movie rental clerk left in New York City. While his industry collapsed, Malitek flourished. Film Noir began in 2005 as a walk-in closet of recondite DVDs angled into a Brooklyn commercial drag. In 2017, it became a spacious den of films and film memorabilia attached to a 54-seat cinema. Malitek, 55, who has worked in New York movie rentals for more than 20 years, perpetuates a way of life that faded with the closure of rental and record shops. He is the storefront scholar, the working-class aesthete, the connoisseur whose respect must be earned but also the enthusiast whose recommendations might change your life. A review of five lists published between 2014 and 2018 of New York City’s remaining movie rental places indicates that all except Film ... More
Art Gallery of Western Australia unveils inaugural Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art program PERTH.- Today, The Art Gallery of Western Australia revealed the inaugural program for their new, major creative and curatorial initiative, the Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art. From Hong Kong to Tokyo to Shanghai to the Persian Gulf – the State Gallery is set to showcase some of the most exciting contemporary Asian artists of today, while simultaneously exploring cultural thinking across Asia and its diaspora communities from 22 July 2022 – 30 July 2023. Generously supported by a philanthropic partnership with the Simon Lee Foundation, SLF ICAA is a five-year-project, set to strengthen connections with Asia and its artists by exhibiting, collecting, and fostering the exchange of art and ideas ... More
Exhibit by talented young artist shines in the Garment District NEW YORK, NY.-The Garment District Alliance is providing a young aspiring artist with a platform to shine as part of its latest public art exhibit titled Wanderlust, featuring 18 mixed-media works created by Philadelphia-based student Norah Swartz. Located in a street-level window at 215 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through September 2nd. Wanderlust is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations and over 17 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. “We are proud to present Swartz’s dynamic exhibit as part of our series of public art installations,” said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. “The installation features wonderful pieces by an aspiring artist that are sure to spark creativity in all who pass by. We ... More
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On a day like today, German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born
December 23, 1777. Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 - 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.
