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Original NASA videotape of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, to be sold at Sotheby’s.
At the Met.
Art aficionados in the NY/Boston area might enjoy an excursion to the New Britain (CT) Museum of American Art, to see The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, which closes on June 2.
If post-modern art is about self-expression through performance art (selfies on instagram), then O’Keeffe can be seen as one of its progenitors.
With Pelosi and Trump accusing each other of being “crazy,” Americans are finding the only thing that unites them is mental illness. Enter Misfit Hive, a comedy troupe in Woodside that features (self-professed) mentally-ill comedians, performing and raising money for their like-minded neighbors.
Artwork: Jeff Koons
Frank Stella at Christie’s.
With the theme: Uniting-Inspiring One Dance at a Time, Ballet Hispanico held their 2019 Carnaval Gala last evening at the Plaza. Lourdes Lopez, Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet, was honored.
At the Park Avenue Armory through May 7.
The ongoing story with Asian art, especially Chinese art, is the restrictiveness on the part of various parties as to what is acceptable.
Ready-made busted on Park.
Billed as “the nations most respected and longest running art fair,” The Art Show is at the Park Avenue Armory through March 3.
One of the works presented at C24’s “Transfigured” exhibition was Abortion Goddess, by Jaishri Abichandani.
Would that the 50 million+ babies aborted in the US (since 1973) had their own #Me Too movement.
Would that feminists understood, that ultimate power and liberation are from the Spirit — rather than reducing it to just their body, which only leads to new forms of slavery.
The Winter Show, formerly the Winter Art & Antiques Show, is underway at the Park Avenue and runs through Jan 27.
This year’s show includes a loan exhibition: Collecting Nantucket, Connecting the World, with fine examples of paintings, craft and folk art from the Nantucket Historical Association.
As always proceeds from the show benefit the East Side House.
Whimsical gallerist Laurel Seidl (second from bottom), has created a serious venue for art in Wonder Valley, CA.
Works by Rene Magritte (top) and Ludwig Meidner, in upcoming sales.
On this Day of Remembrance, the effects of radical liberalism and nationalism (including Zionism) continue to plague society — with people unwilling/able to see their wrongheadedness, and be oriented to a more truthful way of living?
“And the fire on the hearth, which has burnt low throughout the scene, leaps up into sudden brightness.”
The American Art Fair, at Bohemian Hall, through Nov. 13.
At the Park Avenue Armory through November 12.
Gallerist David Gill shared a pic of a chair that he and Daniel Libeskind created.
The engraving, made by French/German printmaker Alfred Johannot (c.1830), around the time of Delecroix’s: Liberty Leading the People, depicts a black Catholic nun in Morocco dialoguing with a ‘liberty’ scholar. She seems to be skeptical of his notions (see her eyes and hands), perhaps having found true freedom and enlightenment in communion with her God.
Coincidentally, there is presently an exhibition at Columbia University on the role played by black women in Modern 19th-century French art: Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet and Matisse to Today, at the Wallach Art Gallery.
For this and other important Old Master Prints, visit Woodside Fine Art.
At the Park Avenue Armory through October 31.
International Fine Print Dealers Association Show at the Javits Center through October 28.
Being able to see four Vermeers in one room is especially noteworthy.
‘Art’ made with the help of algorithms, will be included in the October 25th Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s.
The #MeToo movement has exposed some bad behaving men (and boys), but also a lot of discombobulated and unhinged women — made more so by their activism.
Artist: Sarah J
Gallery Night at the Fuller Building — September 12, 2018
Highlights included works by Jungin Lee, David Ligare and Burt Glinn.
Back in class.
Craig Fox and his crew of comedy misfits are working it out in Woodside — at the Project For Living Artists — in a collaboration that offers a platform for arting of all types.
The City of New York is seeking female candidates, to honor with a statue in Central Park. We recommend the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), who spent several decades of her long and fruitful life in NYC — and as a true feminist worked hard, was excellent at what she did, and helped men to be better.
The photo is from a recent Georgia O’Keeffe talk at the New York Botanical Garden.
In 1939, the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe spent 3 months painting in Hawaii, as part of an artist series commissioned by the Dole Pineapple Company. Two of her Hawaii pictures (out of 20 made) were used in print ads for the company. The New York Botanical Garden has recently brought together the fruits of O’Keeffe’s time in Hawaii, in a show that runs through October 28, 2018.
Especially noteworthy are the “Waterfall” paintings, which seem more personal, prefiguring O’Keeffe’s important “Black Place” paintings of the 1940s.
Anselm Kiefer in Rockefeller Center.
The man’s “I Am Safe” t-shirt belies the proliferation of copies and fakes being sold by NYC auction houses these days. Copies and fakes have always been around, what’s new is the extent to which auction houses are centering their businesses on bogus lots, while opting not to present more legitimate works.
The Indo-American Arts Council is presenting the 18th New York Indian Film Festival this week, at Village East, with seven days of screenings (78 films), post-screening discussions, panels and after-parties. This year’s line-up includes tributes to Sridevi and Shashi Kapoor, along with Oscar winning filmmaker James Ivory.
At the Park Avenue Armory through May 8.
Artwork (top): John Currin, Gagosian Gallery; (bottom): Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), a leading figure in modern art, was an innovator — but very much rooted in tradition. His contribution to the world of art offers access to the world of grace, for the sensitive observer.
Several years after Degas’ passing his friend Henri Riviere (also a painter and printmaker) reproduced 100 Degas works, in a tour-de-force project of 250 portfolios. Woodside Fine Art has one of the portfolios — with 77 original reproductions. Subjects include the full gamut of Degas’ oeuvre: from ballet dancers to bathers; cabaret singers to cotton traders.
