For those in the art game this is a must read: At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market, Graham Bowely, New York Times /614/ Via Flip

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At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market

By GRAHAM BOWLEYJUNE 14, 2015

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A Warhol “fright wig” self-portrait sold at Art Basel last year for around $34 million.CreditHarold Cunningham/Getty Images

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The hundreds of gallery owners who apply each year to secure a coveted booth at Art Basel, the Swiss art fair, spend weeks on their admission applications. They describe the evolution of their galleries, track the history of their exhibitions and list the biographies of their artists. Then there is the matter of the “mock booths,” intricate sketches, miniature models, even virtual tours, of their planned exhibition spaces, complete with tiny reproductions of the exact works they hope to exhibit.

All to impress the fair’s selection jury, six fellow dealers who have become among the most powerful gatekeepers — and tastemakers — in the art world.

“It is like the Olympics,” said the New York dealer Fergus McCaffrey, “or the European Champions League, and every good gallery and their artists wants desperately to compete.”

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GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE: October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016

GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE First Exhibition in the United States in Over 35 Years Devoted to the Italian Artist  Exhibition: Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York Location: Full rotunda Dates: October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016 (NEW YORK, NY–June 10, 2015)—From October 9, 2015, to January 6, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a major retrospective—the first in the United States in more than thirty-five years and the most comprehensive in this country—devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). Exploring the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works, the exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World War II art and revises traditional narratives of the cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the 1950s and ’60s. Burri broke with the gestural, painted surfaces of both American Abstract Expressionism and European Art Informel by manipulating unorthodox pigments and humble, prefabricated materials. A key figure in the transition from collage to assemblage, Burri barely used paint or brush, and instead worked his surfaces with stitching and combustion, among other signal processes. With his torn and mended burlap sacks, “hunchback” canvases, and melted industrial plastics, Burri often made allusions to skin and wounds, but in a purely abstract idiom. The tactile quality of his work anticipated Post-Minimalist and feminist art of the 1960s, while his red, black, and white “material monochromes” defied notions of purity and reductive form associated with American formalist modernism. Bringing together more than one hundred works, including many that have never before been seen outside of Italy, the exhibition demonstrates how Burri blurred the line between painting and sculptural relief and created a new kind of picture-object that directly influenced Neo-Dada, Process art, and Arte Povera.  Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting is organized by Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Guest Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with support from Megan Fontanella, Associate Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the collaboration of Carol Stringari, Deputy Director and Chief Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.  View the full release. #1394 June 10, 2015 3Fineartmagazine

Garis & Hahn presents: Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015 / July 1-August 8th

Garis & Hahn presents: Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking Graduates 2015  Sarah Faux, Untitled, 2015, oil on canvas, 56 x 50 inches A Group Exhibition Curated by David Humphrey Exhibition Dates: July 1-August 8, 2015 Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 1st | 6-8 p.m. June 10, 2015 (New York, NY) – Garis & Hahn is pleased to present Yale MFA Painting and Printmaking MFA Graduates 2015, a group exhibition curated by Yale critic and professor, David Humphrey. The 21-person exhibition will present new painting, sculpture, and video works by: Henry Chapman, Maria Cornejo, Brandon Cox, Katherine Davis, Sarah Faux, Sean Fitzgerald, Marcela Florido, Danielle Friedman, Patrick Groth, Camille Hoffman, Fox Hysen, Marisa Manso, Johanna Povirk-Znoy, Luke Rogers, Tschabalala Self, Martha Tuttle, Samantha Vernon, David Walsh, William Warden, Kyle Williams and Luyi Xu. The gallery will host a reception at 263 Bowery on Wednesday, July 1st from 6 to 8 p.m. Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA Graduates 2015 is unorthodox in presenting an entire MFA class in a New York City gallery exhibition upon graduation and a special opportunity for New York audiences to see a curated selection of work by this fresh group of artists emerging from the highly influential Yale MFA program. Curator David Humphrey further contextualizes the show, stating, “MFA programs are a rolling social experiment engaged in a conversation about what matters. No one can know how the two-year chemistry will play out, but it will surely be unpredictable and new art will happen.” Abstract and abstracted figurative painting make up the majority of the work in the exhibition, with many of the artists mixing the two approaches in various ratios. Sarah Faux, who exhibited previously in Garis & Hahn’s Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York 2013 survey of New Casualism, visually articulates the boundaries between the abstract and figurative in her work. Through unfocused, re-arranged, and disembodied anthropomorphic constructions she examines the human body and the viewer’s psychic connection to it rendered in painting. Her newest Untitled paintings depict a mix of recognizable forms, but ultimately only give the impression of a body, making the paint itself and the artist’s gestures the primary subject. Brandon Cox, who has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in New York already, is known for a body of work that examines contemporary issues surrounding identity, racial, sexual and institutional politics. His mixed-media works selected for this exhibition include upwards of 10 materials used in one piece alone, including handmade paper, glitter, and linen in abstract compositions both earthen and urban, reminiscent of the late 1960s and early 1970s Italian Arte Povera movement.  Tschabalala Self takes a similar approach, filtered through an individual's sense of identity within a community, referencing her own and other black female bodies to contextualize the iconography they represent within contemporary culture. The roughed out quality of her work makes garish Western culture’s voyeuristic tendencies toward the gendered and racialized body, and the duality of fetishization and censure directed at it.  When considering how best to interpret this body of work selected from such a diverse and varied group of artists, Humphrey draws on an analogy of states of matter, with each student represented as a particle, “well separated and moving freely at high speeds when in a gas state, sliding past each other in a liquid state and tightly packed into a regular pattern, vibrating without movement when solid.”  For the occasion of this exhibition, these artists are packed together in one final solid state, just before they ultimately break out in their liquid or gaseous futures. About Garis & Hahn Garis & Hahn is a gallery-cum-Kunsthalle that mounts exhibitions focused on conceptual narratives and relevant conversations in contemporary art. By displaying an array of carefully curated artists, the gallery endeavors to provide accessibility, education, awareness, and a market to the art while engaging both the arts community and a broader general audience. Location: Garis & Hahn 263 Bowery New York, NY 10002 Contact: P. 212.228.8457 F. 917.720.9851 info@garisandhahn.com Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11-7* *Starting July 1st through August 8th the gallery will be open Tuesday – Saturday, 11-6 #fineartmagazine

ANNUAL WAREHOUSE SALE, Sag Harbor, 6/13th &14th Look like fun !

ANNUAL WAREHOUSE SALE

Paintings, Prints, Ceramics, and Photos  sale next Saturday and Sunday
 June 13th and 14th from 9am to 3pm
6 Bay Street Sag Harbor, NY

 located in the side garage of 6 bay streetKEYES ARTSWWW.JULIEKEYESARTS.COM917-509-1379

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Patrick Heide Contemporary Art: Diana Sirianni, June5-August

In the Taos area: The 11th Annual Gala Exhibition and Auction (on display from June 30 through August 28)

FREE TO ENTER CALL FOR ARTISTS: Deadline May 30 JURIED EXHIBITION AND AUCTION The Taos Art Museum at Fechin House is situated in the historic home that Russian painter Nicolai Fechin created and ornamented for his family from 1927 to 1933. The 11th Annual Gala Exhibition and Auction (on display from June 30 through August 28) will showcase artists from across the US and abroad who find inspiration in Fechin’s legacy, Taos, and the creative traditions of the Southwest.  Juror: Nedra Matteucci Born in a small farming community in southeastern New Mexico, Nedra Matteuccihad a passion for art from an early age and learned about the art world by working in the gallery she now owns. At the time it was known as the Fenn Gallery. She opened her own gallery on Canyon Road in 1986 and two years later purchased the Fenn Gallery, renaming it Nedra Matteucci Galleries. Widely recognized for its outstanding standards of quality and professionalism, the gallery specializes in 19th and 20th-century American art, including artists of the American West and Taos Society Artists. Who Should Apply Artists who are inspired by the American Southwest and wish their artwork to be seen by a nationally recognized curator/juror. Media Drawing Painting Photography Printmaking Craft Sculpture Promotion Accepted artwork will be promoted in the Museum’s press and Gala program literature and online, and sold in festive live and silent auctions at the Gala. Terms and Conditions No submission fee Original artwork only Maximum number of submissions per artist: 3 All art must be framed, dry, and exhibition-ready at time of submission Artwork must not exceed 3’ in any dimension, or 50 pounds All accepted artwork will be for sale Minimum reserve price: up to 50% of retail value, maximum Artist’s commission: up to 40% of sale price Artist is responsible for return shipping costs for unsold artwork Shipped artwork must be sent in reusable materials that will serve for return Taos Art Museum reserves the right to reproduce accepted artwork Term of payment: 30 days from end of event Juror’s decisions are final, no late submissions, revisions, or changes. Key Dates In-person submission dates: Friday 5/29 and Saturday 5/30, 11 am – 5 pm Deadline for electronic submissions: Saturday 5/30 Notification: Thursday 6/4 and Friday 6/5 Pick-up declined submissions: Thursday 6/11 and Friday 6/12, 11 am – 5 pm Delivery deadline for accepted, shipped artwork: Tuesday 6/26 Pick-up unsold artwork: Friday 9/4 and Saturday 9/5, 11 am – 5 pm Return of shipped artwork: week of 9/7 Please note: all artwork must be retrieved on pick-up dates. Artwork not claimed by September 9 will become property of the Museum. How to Submit In person: 1. Download Entry Form in PDF or Word: See the website for form links. 2. Fill out two copies of Entry Form for each submission (one copy will serve as your receipt) 3. Bring forms and submissions to 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte on 5/29 or 5/30, 11 am – 5 pm Online: 1. Download Entry Form in PDF or Word: See the website for form links. 2. Fill out one Entry Form for each submission 3. Provide one jpg image, no larger than 1 MB, for each submission (no details, please) 4. Attach Entry Form(s) and image(s) to one email with subject line “Gala Submission” 5. Send Gala Submission email to taosartmuseumgala@gmail.com

Cristina cox at Buca de Peppi wash DC

STEVE Alpert Artists At the Catholic Museum of Art an History

With Susie Dyer Randy , Dorathy  Devin

The Piatia

The Catholic Museum of Art  and library

Jim Trigg with the Illustrated St John's Bible At

The National Museum of Catholic Art ND Library

NMCAL’S 4thAnnual Roman Gala ~ “Celebrating Families and Love is our Mission, May 13, 2015 at the Embassy of Italy, DC

Timothy Barton, Christina Cox

NMCAL’S 4^thAnnual Roman Gala ~

“Celebrating Families and Love is our Mission”

His Excellency, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council of Families to be honored on Wednesday evening, May 13, 2015 at the Embassy of Italy, DC with a host of Ambassadors and Washington Business Leaders

(April 22, 2015 - Washington, DC): Ambassadors, Senators and Congress members, Roman Catholic Clergy, artists, business leaders and patrons of the arts will gather under the Patronage of the Ambassador of Italy to the United States and Mrs. Claudio Bisogniero and under the Patronage of the Order of San Martino and Knights, honoree Prince Lorenzo Maria Raimondo de Medici from Rome will come together to celebrate this springtime gala on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima.

It will be held at the Embassy of Italy on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 6:30 P.M. to 10:30 PM. Hosted by the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Catholic Art and Library, Honorary Gala Chairs US Ambassador Raymond and Kathleen Flynn and Gala Chairs, Christina Cox, NMCAL Founder and NMCAL Chairman, Timothy Barton and President JMJ Development of Dallas, TX will be fundraising to support a new museum.

The NMCAL’S Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to honoree Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family; Former US Secretary of Veterans James Nicholson, Former US Ambassador to the Holy See and Former Republican National Committee Chairman, Thomas Prasil, Former Senior Vice President of Investments at Paine Weber, UBS. The Environmental, Peace and Justice Award will be presented to Daniel Misleh, Executive Director, Catholic Climate Covenant. Monsignor Rossi, Rector of The Basilica of The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will say the innovation this evening.

NMCAL Patron of the Arts Award will be given to Johnessco Rodriguez.  Steve Alpert will receive the National Military Artist Award, Luis Peralta will receive the Portrait Award for his painting of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Paul Gatto will receive the International Artist Award for his painting of The Morsel and his many artworks donated to NMCAL. We will be exhibiting Michelangelo’s St Peters’ Pieta, a life-size marble reproduction sculpture from the Vatican Observatory by Arte Divine, and donated by art collector Thomas Prasil.

. International Claudia Hecht and David Newren, President of Arte Divine will donate several sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Jesus to The Pontifical Council of the Families. The National Museum f Catholic Art and Library is presently fundraising for their new space near Catholic University of America.

Contact: to purchase tickets and for information: Catherine Welker or Christina Cox

NMCAL: www.nmcal.org

Office: 202-450-5707

Cell: 917-750-0014  (Christina) / 240-432-4637 (Catherine)

GALA DETAILS BELOW

WHAT:  4th Annual Roman Gala ~ “Celebrating Families and Love is Our Mission”

WHO:  Leaders from business, politics, religion and the arts, plus patrons of the arts  

WHEN:  6:30-10:30 pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2015

WHERE:  Italian Embassy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW, Washington, DC 20008

DRESS:  Black Tie, Formal Long Dress

SUPPORT:  Limited space is available; contact NMCAL

CONTACT:  Ms. Christina Cox, NMCAL (202)-450-5707 office, 917-750-0014 cell; catholicart@aol.com)

For Tickets Prices and to reserved tables: $1000 VIP, $500

Tables: $50,000, $25,000, $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000
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