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ALPHA OMEGA ARTS By  Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton Max Beckmann's "The Prodigal Son" (1949); Oil on canvas; Sprengel Museum (Germany - Hanover) When Ernest picked today's Gospel representation for St. Luke 15:11-32 ,  he picked it because it captured his spirit during his sixth week with a broken heel . It’s been a busy but glum week, looking backward to days before daily icing and raising his swollen foot above his heart. In the painting, the son glumly spends his inheritance with laughing harlots. Is he thinking back to better times in his father’s house? We are huge fans of  Max Beckmann , and his  Expressionist style , and that’s why Max Beckmann’s “ Prodigal Son ” is our Lenten art of the week.

THE NEW YORK TIMES By M.H. Miller Kasseem Dean, a.k.a. Swizz Beatz (second from left), at his home in New Jersey with some of the artists whose work is in his collection (from left): Nina Chanel Abney, Kaws, Jordan Casteel and Cy Gavin. Above them is Kehinde Wiley’s “Femme Piquée par un Serpent” (2008). Hip-hops interest in contemporary art is, by now, something of a cliché. American materialism has been at the center of rap lyrics since at least 1982 when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rhymed about stolen TVs and “double-digit inflation.” There was the hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz, who had his first hit single in the late ’90s while still a teenager, and who used the money to buy an Ansel Adams photograph. Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, lives in a house in Englewood, N.J., that used to belong to Eddie Murphy. [ More ]

ARTDAILY Stanley Spencer, St Veronica Unmasking Christ, 1921, oil on canvas, 994x840mm © Estate Stanley Spencer & Bridgeman Images, London. Courtesy of the Stanley Spencer Gallery. COOKHAM--- David Bomberg , Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Mark Gertler are amongst the seventeen artists featured in Counterpoint - Stanley Spencer and his Contemporaries , an exhibition that seeks to offer new perspectives on Spencer’s work and contextualise his place in the history of Modern British art. The presentation, which marks the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death, is comprised of thirty-nine works – twenty from the Stanley Spencer Gallery and nineteen spectacular loans from the Ingram Collection. The loans include works by many of the leading lights of twentieth century British art, as well as highly deserving pieces by less well-known figures such as Glyn Philpot and Dod Proctor. [ More ]

ARTDAILY Mahmoud Sabri, The Death of a Child, 1963, oil on canvas, 137 by 196cm. Est. £350,000-500,000. Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON.- Appearing on the market for the first time since it was acquired directly from the artist in the 1980s, this powerful masterwork by celebrated Iraqi artist encapsulates the artist’s avant-garde style and unique subject matter – rendered on an impressive scale. The poignant painting will now be offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s bi-annual 20th Century Art / Middle East sale on 30 April, with an estimate £350,000-500,000. Born in Baghdad in 1927, Sabri took a subversive stance against the era’s repressive Ba’athist regime, writing a manifesto that would lead to a long period of exile for the artist. His openly political works provide insights into the socio-political issues of the time, as he engaged in several paintings that sought to depict the suffering and plight of the Iraqi populace. [ More ]

ARTDAILY This colossal head of Shakyamuni Buddha is outstanding for its monumental size and powerful countenance. Est. HK$6,000,000 - 8,000,000/ USD 765,000 - 1,020,000. Courtesy Sotheby's. HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will present Curiosity V on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. In its fifth instalment, the sale offers an eclectic and thought-provoking assemblage of works ranging across time and geographical space, from Ice Age Siberia, to Bronze Age China, Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe. Highlights include an important Neolithic jade cong from the Liangzhu culture formerly in the distinguished collection of Duan Fang (1861-1911); a monumental stucco Buddha head dating from the Liao dynasty in the 10th-12th century; a rare complete skeleton of a Pleistocene period mammoth; and a principal springer mullion from the south window of Canterbury Cathedral. [ More ]

ARTDAILY Roman School, ca. 1603 - 1620, Saint Bartholomew, oil on canvas, 109.5 x 85 cm, Auction 30 April 2019, estimate € 80,000 - 120,000. VIENNA.- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was one of the most influential artists of all time, profoundly inspiring painters from all over Europe with his innovative, dramatic use of light and his fresh realistic presentation of his subject matter. The followers of his style, the so-called Caravaggisti, encountered his bold approach and several important works painted by the earliest of the Caravaggisti are to be offered in Dorotheum’s Old Master Paintings sale on Tuesday, 30 April 2019. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Hanya Yanagihara Alec Soth, “Dan-Georg. Dusseldorf,” 2018. I had never met Alec Soth, and yet — in the artificial way that we feel we know something of the person who has created a work of art we’ve consumed and, in my case, returned to again and again — I felt I had. I first encountered Alec’s debut project, “Sleeping by the Mississippi,” several months before it was shown in New York City, in 2004. That work, a series of 47 images of people and places taken as Alec followed the sweep of the country’s second greatest waterway, which meanders and swells from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, remains the visual equivalent of an American songbook. [ More ]

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS By  Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton Giovanni domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804) "Christ and the barren fig tree" ; oil on canvas; 33 x 75 in. (Courtesy of Christies in June 2015) It’s been five weeks since Ernest’s foot fracture, but as the heel heals, his calf muscle weakens. We could cry about the calf, but instead, Christ’s patience teaches us to plan for running soon. In the late 1700s, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo depicted an angry Christ destroying a fig tree that did not produce fruit. However, in this week’s Gospel on the 3rd Sunday in Lent, we explore Christ’s great expectations for us, but also his patience (13:1-9). That's why Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s “ Christ and the barren fig tree " is our  our  Lenten  art of the week.

THE NEW YORK TIMES Show Us Your Walls By Warren Strugatch Brian Phillips in his living room with, from left, “Black Goo, White Lace” (2015) by Torbjorn Rodland and “Loon” (2011) by Wyatt Kahn. When Brian Phillips came to New York in 1998, he quickly gravitated toward the downtown art and fashion scenes and, through internships at Paper, Elle and Visionaire , connected with other aspiring, boundary-smudging tastemakers and haunted contemporary art hot spots. He also found mentors who guided him. Although he arrived to study architecture at Columbia, his career took a different turn and he founded Black Frame, an agency that represents clients in the arts, architecture and fashion. As a collector, Mr. Phillips favors contemporary art and photography, often created by artists he has met, including Paul Lee and Matt Saunders. His taste in art is strikingly personal and he has acquired several homoerotic pieces. [ More ]

TEEN VOGUE By Vanessa Taylor Add caption In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim bias incidents and hate crimes had increased 83 and 21%respectively from April 1 to June 30 of that year compared to the first quarter. It’s tempting to blame the presence of Islamophobia in the United States on the Trump administration, or to trace its systemic origins to anti-Muslim sentiment that grew across the nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Both are contributing factors, but neither fully laid the groundwork for violence we see today. [ More ]

JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK  Hanukkah Lamp, India, end of the 19th-20th century. Copper alloy: pierced, engraved, traced, punched, and cast. 18½ x 15¾ x 4¾ in. (47 x 40 x 12.1 cm). The Jewish Museum, New York. Purchase: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney L. Quitman, by exchange, 1998-57 NEW YORK---For the first time in 25 years, the Jewish Museum presents a major new exhibition of its unparalleled collection. Scenes from the Collection transforms the entire third floor with nearly 600 works from antiquities to contemporary art, many of which are on view for the first time at the Museum. Art and Jewish objects are shown together, affirming universal values that are shared among people of all faiths and backgrounds. The Jewish Museum’s collection spans more than 4,000 years through nearly 30,000 objects, including painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, ceremonial objects, antiquities, works on paper, and media. Viewed through a contemporary lens, the collection is a mirror of ...

MET MUSEUM NEW YORK---The landmark exhibition The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East, which opens March 18, 2019, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will focus on the remarkable cultural, religious, and commercial exchange that took place in cities including Petra, Baalbek, Palmyra, and Hatra between 100 B.C. and A.D. 250. During this transformative period, the Middle East was the center of global commerce and the meeting point of two powerful empires—Parthian Iran in the east and Rome in the west—that struggled for regional control. [ More ]

MET MUSEUM Devi in the Form of Bhadrakali Adored by the Gods, folio from a dispersed Tantric Devi series,ca. 1660-70 NEW YORK---Focusing on early painting styles that emerged in the regional courts of the Punjab hills of North India during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this exhibition examines innovative ways of depicting the Hindu gods. By juxtaposing devotional images with emotionally charged narrative moments, the paintings provided fresh means for royal patrons to forge a personal connection to the divine through devotion (bhakti). Highlights include an early nineteenth-century temple banner that has never been shown publicly. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Colin Moynihan The Metropolitan Museum of Art was allowed to change its pay-as-you-wish policy last year and charge out-of-state visitors $25. The City of New York announced on Monday that $2.8 million it had received as a result of allowing the Metropolitan Museum of Art to change its admissions policy would be allocated to more than 175 other cultural organizations. Among the institutions that will benefit are El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. “This agreement with the Met has paid dividends for NYC’s cultural community,” said the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, Tom Finkelpearl. [ More ]

ARTDAILY This year is extra special because Asia Week New York celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, a champagne reception was held in the Patron’s Lounge at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to congratulate the 10 honorees, all of whom have made significant contributions to advancing Asian art in North America. Photo: Annie Watt. NEW YORK--- Asia Week New York got off to a roaring start last week, when 48 galleries, 6 auction houses–Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sotheby’s and 16 museums opened their doors to collectors, curators and connoisseurs who converged in New York to get their annual eyeful of what’s on offer at the galleries and auction houses now through March 23rd. This year is extra special because Asia Week New York celebrates its 10th anniversary. To mark this milestone, a champagne reception was held in the Patron’s Lounge at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to congratulate the 10 honorees, all of whom have made significant contri...

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Fayemi Shakur “Freedom of Worship” (2018) by Hank Willis Thomas, Emily Shur, Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery. Image courtesy of For Freedoms Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series presented an image of America intended to bolster patriotic spirit during World War II. It was, however, a selective celebration. Using Rockwell’s paintings as a starting point, Hank Willis Thomas has reimagined the illustrator’s vision by recreating scenes that include faces that reflect this country’s complexity and diversity. Mr. Thomas — whose previous projects have examined race, commerce and advertising — enlisted the photographer Emily Shur, the video artist and activist Eric Gottesman, and the photographer Wyatt Gallery to produce the work exhibited in “ For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? ” now at the International Center of Photography Museum. [ More ]

THE YORK TIMES By Osman Can Yerebakan For his latest body of work, the artist Angel Otero reuses pieces of earlier paintings he has stored at his Brooklyn studio. Dressed in all black, in contrast to the radiant colors that surround him, the artist Angel Otero emanates warmth as he stands in his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, right off the high-spirited Avenue of Puerto Rico (also known as Graham Avenue). His expansive high-ceilinged work space is currently occupied by a group of sprawling mixed-media paintings — made partly from collaged cutout pieces from his earlier works — that will soon depart for his coming exhibition, “Milagros,” at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Manhattan. “ Angel Otero: Milagro s” is on view from March 7 through April 20, 2019 at Lehmann Maupin gallery, 501 West 24th Street, New York. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Alina Tugend “The Crucified Land,” by Alexander Hogue (1939), will be on display at the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment.” Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa Saving the planet. It’s not just the subject of passionate political debate. It’s at the heart of a growing number of museum exhibitions this year, including the works of old masters and exhibits built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and a desire to respond to environmental challenges. Among the shows: The much-anticipated “Hudson Rising” at the New-York Historical Society; “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,” in Salem, Mass., which looks at 300 years of American art through an environmental lens; “Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present and Future)” in Boulder, Colo. And more.  [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Ruth La Ferla The Rev. Mesrob Lakissian placed gilded coronets on the heads of the bride and groom, an Armenian tradition anointing the couple as the rulers of their domestic kingdom. Marriage, they say, is a negotiation, a protracted conversation built on trust, shared goals and infinite reserves of tact. It’s a concept not lost on Yelena Ambartsumian and Miroslav Grajewski, who, well before they traded vows Jan. 19 at St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Manhattan, had already mastered the art of the deal. Two years ago, Ms. Ambartsumian, 30, an associate in the law firm Milbank, and Mr. Grajewski, 28, an engineer and executive with Zuvic Carr and Associates, embarked on a courtship sparked by a mutual passion for contemporary art. That shared appetite led them to invest piece by piece in a jointly held collection. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Andrew Ferren "The Baptism of Christ," by El Greco, in Gallery 9B. Spurred by his culturally enlightened second wife, Maria Isabel de Braganza, Ferdinand created the Royal Museum of Paintings in Madrid in 1819. Today, vastly expanded and known as the Prado , the museum is one of the world’s great repositories of Western art. To honor its bicentennial, the museum has organized a yearlong celebration, starting last November with three days of “puertas abiertas” (free admission) that drew nearly 30,000 people. There are special exhibitions in the museum galleries, in parks and plazas around Madrid, and in museums across Spain. The Prado is even recreating the painting and furniture arrangement of “their Majesties’ retiring room,” complete with Ferdinand’s personal toilet. [ More ]

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS By  Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton Denis Du Mikhaylov's "Transfiguration" (2015); acrylic on canvas;  59.7 x 90 cm This past week, Ernest's  surgeon  immobilized him for 4-8 more weeks, but he also removed 11 stitches. Even in moments of darkness there is light. Just look up. On this second Sunday of Lent, and 25-days after Ernest broke his heel, we look at Denis Du Mikhaylov's " Transfiguration " (2015) inspired by Raphael’s “ Transfiguration of Christ " (1516-1520). By anchoring this work in the past, the painter portrays our dark present (bottom) but also points to a divine future (top). That makes Denis Du Mikhaylov's "Transfiguration" our  Lenten   collector's pick of the week.

WHATCOM TALK By Anne Black Accomplished international artist Jyoti Duwadi was born in Nepal and moved to the United States in 1971 to attend school in Missoula, Montana, on a scholarship. But he didn’t come here to study art. He had an undergraduate degree from Kathmandu in political science and public administration and planned to pursue an advanced degree in political science. He then moved to California to seek his Ph.D., also in political science. In fact, his route to art – and, eventually, Bellingham – is peppered with fortuitous circumstances. Sitting with him in his Bellingham studio, politician is the last thing you’d imagine. Duwadi is casual, comfortable, humble, and kind. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Elaine Sciolino A frieze with archers, among the artifacts from the Darius palace in the Near Eastern Antiquities collection at the Louvre. PARIS — I visited the ancient Persian city of Susa only once, in 1982, on a trip to Iran’s western border during the Iran-Iraq war. The Iraqis had attacked a huge swath of Khuzestan Province, where Susa is, and the Iranians wanted to show the destruction to the outside world. These days, the Louvre considers the remnants of Susa among its most prized holdings. But unlike its blockbusters, including the Mona Lisa (the museum’s most-visited work of art, for which it has placed signs from the main pyramid entrance to the painting itself), and the Islamic collection (which has its own 30,000-square-foot modernist wing), the Darius palace rooms are little-visited and hard to find. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Perri Klass, M.D. iStock Mariale Hardiman, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, where she directs the neuro-education initiative.... her studies have focused on children’s memory for academic subjects, comparing what children remembered 10 weeks after material was taught. “Arts integration should not replace arts education,” Dr. Hardiman said. She suggested a “three-legged stool,” with one leg being arts education, including dedicated classes in visual and performing arts, and the second arts and cultural offerings, such as artists coming into the school or visits to museums. The third leg would be the integration of the arts into the teaching of other subjects. [ More ]

ARTDAILY The painting was previously stolen by local criminals in 1979. ROME (AFP).- Thieves in Italy were left red-faced on Thursday after it emerged that the Flemish masterpiece they stole from a rural church was in fact a copy swapped by police. "Currently the thieves are on the run," a policewoman in the northern village Castelnuovo Magra told AFP, confirming the theft of Pieter Brueghel the Younger's "Crucifixion". Or so thieves thought when they grabbed the 17th century painting, with an estimated value of three million euros, after smashing a display case in the Saint Mary Magdalen church in northern province La Spezia. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By George Gene Gustines Detail ofhe cover of the first issue of Second Coming drawn by Richard Pace. Second Coming, a comic-book series with Jesus Christ as a character, is getting a second chance after DC Comics canceled it last month before its release. The series, written by Mark Russell and drawn by Richard Pace , will be published by AHOY Comics this summer. In the satirical comic, Jesus has a superhero roommate named Sunstar and learns what has become of his Gospel on earth. Russell said his inspiration for Second Coming was to tell a story about power, in particular about how society “has fetishized physical violence and force as being the solution to every problem.” There was no adverse reaction until January, when news about the comic was reported by outlets like the Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Headlines and Fox News. [ More ]

JEWISH EXPONENT By Selah Maya Zighelboim Nunatak Glacier #1 and #2 (Diane Burko) At this point in Diane Burko’s artistic career, she needs a little more than just the promise of an audience to get her to agree to an exhibition. So when a Congregation Rodeph Shalom board member told her about the potential educational and social programming she could have at the synagogue, Burko’s interest was piqued. That’s how The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art , located at Rodeph Shalom on Broad Street, ended up with “Repairing Our Earth (Tikkun Olam),” an exhibition of paintings and photography around the theme of climate change. The exhibit is now open through April 2. A synagogue is not her usual venue, Burko noted. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Ted Loos Jacopo Tintoretto’s “The Madonna of the Treasurers” (1567) is among the works included in “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice” at the National Gallery of Art. Image courtesy of Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali, Art Resource, N.Y WASHINGTON — Imagine a business-minded artist on deadline, working in a studio with an army of assistants to produce huge works. He’s savvy about publicity and about developments in technology that make it easier for him to get his images out into the world. If that sounds like a superstar artist of today, maybe so. But it also describes Jacopo Tintoretto , the Venetian painter born 500 years ago who stormed the Western world with his emotionally resonant religious scenes, mythological canvases and revealing portraits. An exhibition here at the National Gallery of Art opening March 24, “T intoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice ,” aims to clarify and deepen knowled...

THE HINDU By Rupa Srikanth Kalakshetra artistes performing 'Maha Pattabhishekam', a dance drama, at the Kalakshetra Art Festival | Photo Credit: M_Moorthy The Bharata Kalakshetra Auditorium, a high-ceilinged structure, a Kerala Koothambalam-inspired design with natural ventilation — without fans or air-conditioners — was a dream performance space for dance-dramas built by the Kalakshetra founder-visionary Rukmini Devi Arundale in 1982. It fell into disrepair and the re-built auditorium was recently inaugurated on the eve of her 115th birth anniversary during the annual ‘Remembering Rukmini Devi Festival 2019.’ The concluding programmes of the festival, two gems from her Ramayana series of dance-dramas ‘Choodamani Pradanam’ and ‘Maha Pattabhishekam’ were staged there subsequently. [ More ]

THE GUARDIAN By Peter Chappell ‘Sombre and contemplative’: Six Prayers by Anni Albers. Photograph: © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London At a glance, Annie Albers’ s With Verticals (1946) is like a painting, hung on a gallery wall. The richness of its colour is remarkable; a shade just lighter than blood, the woven cotton gives a depth to the red, an attractive warmth that makes your eye linger over it. I noticed many people held by its orbit. Albers’s gravitas is inherited from weaving’s indelible ancient purposes. Ancient Writing (1936) is etched with similar graphic striations, a record of a language long forgotten. The work was made on Albers’s first trip to Mexico, and reflects the inspiration she took from the indigenous cultures of South America. [ More ]

THE GUARDIAN By Sean O'Hagan Nancy, Cincinnati. In 2016, while on a working trip to Helsinki, the American photographer Alec Soth underwent what he calls “a full-on mystical experience” that precipitated a year-long sabbatical from work. “It was pretty far out, to the point where I find it embarrassing to talk about,” he says. When I press him, he recounts the story of sitting down by a lake to meditate, then having “this sudden realisation that everything in the universe was connected”. He pauses to gather his thoughts. “I know it sounds hippy-dippy, but it was incredibly intense. I was tearful and simultaneously filled with this almost overwhelming sense of joy.” In the wake of his Blakeian epiphany in Helsinki, Soth also found himself thinking a lot about the power dynamics of portrait photography. [ More ]

THE NEW YORK TIMES By Robin Pogrebi Detail: "Crucifixion" by Gaspar Núñez Delgado (1599); ivory, ebony, mahogany, silver, and polychrome, IMA 1995.24 Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their Rembrandts to their bedroom slippers. So now, many American museums are bulging with stuff — so much stuff that some house thousands of objects that have never been displayed but are preserved, at considerable cost, in climate-controlled storage spaces. At the Indianapolis Art Museum ....it embarked on an ambitious effort to rank each of the 54,000 items in its collection with letter grades. Twenty percent of the items received a D, making them ripe to be sold or given to another institution. [ More ]

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS By  Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton Bartolomé Esteban Murrillo's "Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda" (1670); oil on canvas; National Gallery, London After emergency foot surgery, Ernest returned to work wearing a fracture boot and riding a knee scooter. All week, he felt tentative and diminished but on Saturday, a movie scene reminded him of John 5:1-9 when Christ healed a lame man. In an instant, the man was healed, and Jesus said, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” What won’t Jesus do for us? Last night, Ernest finally asked Jesus to heal him, and he felt instantly stronger. That’s why Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's “ Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda ” is our our  Lenten  art of the week.

THE WASHINGTON POST By Vanessa H. Larson Ambreen Butt’s mixed-media artwork, “Shoaib (8),” takes its title from the name and age of a young victim of an American drone strike. (Photo by Kevin Todora/Ambreen Butt) Ambreen Butt makes a striking first impression. In the Pakistani American artist’s first solo exhibition in Washington, two large images hang on the wall just opposite the entrance to her show, “Mark My Words,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Concurrent with Butt’s show at the NMWA, the Smithsonian’s N ational Portrait Gallery is coincidentally also showcasing several etchings by a kindred spirit: Shahzia Sikander, a 2006 MacArthur Fellow who had a well-regarded solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1999 and 2000 devoted to paintings inspired by Indo-Persian miniatures. [ More ]

ARTDAILY Zeng Fanzhi, Untitled, 2018 (detail), oil on canvas, 98 7/16 × 137 13/16 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Dominic and Ellen Ng, artist © Zeng Fanzhi 2019 LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the acquisition of Zeng Fanzhi’s Untitled (2018) to its permanent collection. The museum purchased the painting with funds generously donated by Dominic and Ellen Ng. In the past year the museum has strengthened its holdings in Chinese art with major acquisitions including the promised gift of Gérard and Dora Cognié’s collection of global contemporary ink paintings and calligraphy. The addition of Zeng’s painting will further strengthen the museum’s growing contemporary Chinese art collection. Zeng’s painting will be on view at LACMA March 2019 in the Ahmanson Building. [ More ]

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS DOMENICO PULIGO (FLORENCE 1492 - FLORENCE 1527)Madonna and ChildOil on panel, 64.6 x 49.5 cm (25½ x 19½ in) MAASTRICHT--- TEFAF Maastricht (MARCH 16-24) is widely regarded as the world's premier Fair for fine art, antiques and design. Trinity Fine Art is one of the 275 prestigious dealers from some 20 countries showcasing for the finest art works currently on the market. Established in 1984, Trinity Fine Art has earned a reputation as a leading destination for exceptional works of art. As a dealer and consultant specialising in Master Paintings, Sculpture and Works of Art from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, our clients include many of the world’s major museums as well as most leading private collections.

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ALPHA OMEGA ARTS By  Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton Shamira Wilson's "How Does Your Garden Grow?" (2019) Shamira Wilson's work is rooted in storytelling. She is an emerging visual artist, and was featured at the 23rd annual  Art & Soul  celebration in Indianapolis. She is also a recent graduate of the Herron School of Art . Wilson works in a variety of media, including furniture, sculptural work, paintings, and prints. During this week’s Artist Talk, she explained that much of her work is related to maternal imagery, and specifically “African American maternal imagery.” That makes Shamira Wilson's "How Does Your Garden Grow?" our collector's tip of the week.

ROLLINGSTONE By Patrick Dole Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings Track Listing In January 1972, Aretha Franklin went back to where it all started. Over two days at Los Angeles’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, she gave audiences – which included Clara Ward and Mick Jagger – a glimpse of what she learned in the Detroit church of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin. The resulting live album, Amazing Grace, sold 2 million copies and won a Grammy. Executive producer Jerry Wexler, himself an atheist, said the album “relates to religious music in much the same way Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel relates to religious art. In terms of scope and depth, little else compares to its greatness.” Before the release, on March 10th, CBS will air Aretha: A Grammy Tribute to the Queen of Soul . [ More ]

GLASS TIRE By Patrica Mora This is NOT a Refuge 1, 2019 - lasercut, resin coated aluminum and lightbulb, 8 x 6 x 4 feet Anila Quayyum Agha’s newest work, on view at Talley Dunn in Dallas, emerges as a small, quiet spectacle that operates with intelligence and sensuous resonance, and it deploys shimmer and shadow to deliver some of the best art I’ve witnessed — at any time or on any continent. In part, this is due to the fact that it inflects space with a distinct reminder that a gracious cosmography is not only possible, but perpetually operative. The show, titled Itinerant Shadows , conjures a meditative state, and it manages to do so with big “B” Beauty. The show offers a array of mixed media pieces that are gorgeous. Their beauty causes us to reflect upon interior versus exterior / solid versus void / dark versus light, and all other binary ways of perceiving the world. [ More ]

THE JERUSALEM POST By Nadine Wojakovski For a bespoke recreation, artist Shemariyahu Black was provided with an original picture of the buyer’s grandfather, the Dayan of Dinov.. (photo credit: RAPHAEL CHAIM ROSENFELD) At just 17, Raphael Chaim Rosenfeld knew he was destined to be an art dealer. It was on his year off after high school, the only British student in an American Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Old City, when his calling came. Every day, during the very long lunch breaks while the students were playing baseball and eating burgers, he would walk through the gardens of Yemin Moshe, captivated by the pine trees and Montefiore Windmill. Rosenfeld, 24, grew up in London in an artistic family. His mother Naomi, who studied with sculptor Anish Kapoor at the Chelsea College of Arts, is an accomplished sculptress who has exhibited at Christie’s auction house. His father Clive, one of the founders and former co-chair of charity One Family UK, is a professional photographer. [ More ]

FULLER  STUDIO By Maria Fee Maria Fee, a PhD candidate at Fuller, is an artist with an MFA in Painting and MA in Theology. As an adjunct professor, she delves into theology and art through courses like Visual Arts and the Christian and Capstone Theology and Art. See her work at mariafee.net. Pairing the investigation of art and theology exercises a whole-body intellect that includes the somatic and affective realm. Because of the concrete nature of art making, these thesis projects fill a void left by disembodied practices of the Christian faith. These nascent theologians ask, why do believers profess one thing but do the opposite or nothing at all? Why is theology often abstract to the point of ignoring actual human circumstances or experiences? Ethicist James McClendon once expressed that Christians have falsely believed that ethics has nothing to do with “our bodies, their environment, our mutual needs, our delights and horrors, our organic selfhood in context.” [ More ]

ARTNET NEWS By Matt Stromberg Art collector Dean Valentine in Santa Monica, California. Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Under gray skies, a light drizzle was falling over the pool area at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel , but Dean Valentine wasn’t fazed. Sporting a baggy, blue hooded sweatshirt over his thickset build, Valentine could have been mistaken for one of the art handlers unloading artwork , rather than one of LA’s most prominent collectors of contemporary art. The TV mogul—a former president of both Disney TV and UPN—has long been a champion of emerging artists, especially Angelenos, searching out undiscovered talent rather than established names. “I have much more fun with art that hasn’t been validated yet, because I get to be part of that validating process,” he told the Robb Report in 2011. [ More ]