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The TSX, S&P 500 and the Dow all hit all-time highs on Thursday as worries about rising inflation subsided, while a bigger-than-expected fall in weekly U.S. jobless claims and the signing of a massive stimulus bill reinforced expectations of a strong recovery.
The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed up 154.57 points, or 0.83%, at 18,844.57. Energy stocks gained 0.94% as oil prices rose more than 2% on a weaker U.S. dollar and expectations that a crude glut would be short-lived due to a steep fall in U.S. fuel stocks and a resumption of operations by Texas refiners.
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2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award honors artists who work in wood
Michael Hurwitz, Twelve Leaf Resin Table, 2012, Ash, wenge and epoxy resin, 16 x 40 x 40 in.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- The 2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award will be presented to two wood artists, David Ellsworth for his turned wood objects, and Michael Hurwitz for his wood furniture. Their selection was announced today, March 10, by Smithsonian Womens Committee President Nancy Newkirk.
Ellsworth and Hurwitz will receive their Award during the Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night Benefit Wednesday, Oct. 27,at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Established in 2014, the Smithsonian Visionary Award is given annually to American artists deemed by experts in the field to have achieved the pinnacle of sculptural arts and design in their individual medium. Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, Toots Zynsky, Dale Chihuly, Faith Ringgold, Joyce J. Scott and Patti Warashina are previous recipients.
Infinity Net motif. Both were created in 1960, and offered
each with an estimate of $3,000,000 – 5,000,000. These early works are exceptionally rare due to Kusama s use of the colour red - almost all her other works of this period are white. The third painting in the collection,
Untitled, is a very early example of Kusama combining vibrant colours and the scale of the work lends an immersive quality, something that foreshadows the artist s later work such as her
Infinity Rooms.
The eight works on paper, executed by Kusama before she arrived in the United States in 1957, are corner stones of the artist s practice, laying the aesthetic groundwork for her career to follow. Painted when Kusama was in her twenties, the works show the genesis of her