Canadian Centre for Architecture reopens with three new exhibitions
Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier. Installation view, 2020.
MONTREAL
.-The Canadian Centre for Architecture announced the reopening of their galleries and bookstore to the public, as of Wednesday, 10 February 2021. The three exhibitions in the galleries can now finally receive visitors.
The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework (through 19 September 2021), discusses how and why we should rethink the role of the architect, and explores the meaning of context today. The exhibition, presented in the CCAs main galleries, is curated by Francesco Garutti (CCA Curator, Contemporary Architecture) in collaboration with Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong) and 51N4E (Brussels). Both offices work at the seams of urbanization, with projects situated in transitional settlements in Ulaanbaatar, in the new vernacular of rural China, in the transforming centres of Western European cities and in Alba
First artworks from Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld s promised gift now on view at the New-York Historical Society
William James Glackens (1870-1938), Early Spring, Washington Square, ca. 1910. Oil on canvas; 18 x 24 in. New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection, Scenes of New York City, 2020.35. 2.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The New-York Historical Society announced that the first artworks from philanthropists and art collectors Elie and Sarah Hirschfelds extraordinary promised gift have joined the Museums collection and are now on view.. Depicting New York locations still recognizable today, the works include The Boat Harbor (Gowanus Pier), ca. 1888, by William Merritt Chase; Early Spring, Washington Square, ca. 1910, by William James Glackens; Foggy Night, New York by George Luks, ca. 19001930; and Dredging in the East River, ca. 1879, by John Henry Twachtman. The full Hirschfeld collection is slated to be displayed at New-York Historical in fall 2021 i
Art Projects International exhibits works created over the last ten years by Il Lee
Il Lee, TW-1801, 2018. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 80 x 106 inches (203.2 x 269.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Art Projects International, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
The exhibition presents paintings selected from an important body of work Lee has been developing over the last ten years, most on view for the first time. These acrylic and oil on canvas paintings feature his approach of incising a top layer of paint with line to reveal a bottom layer of ground. Lees signature lines travel the canvas edge to edge and are concentrated at intervals to create fields of edgeless forms that are intrinsically complex in their creation, variety, and interconnection. Importantly, these paintings have a parallel history with Lees well known ballpoint pen work and share the distinction of tracing their lineage to Lees early mature style of the 1980s.
Auction Offers Lincoln’s Hair and Other Presidential Oddities
The auction feeds a thriving market for private collectors. Among the items: photographs, a lottery ticket signed by Washington, a Kennedy sweater and a check from Donald J. Trump.
Locks of hair from the heads of the first United States president, George Washington, right, and his wife, Martha, left.Credit.Nikki Brickett/RR Auction, via Associated Press
Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 16, 2021
Robert Russell Crans Jr. is storing a bounty of items once owned and touched by President Abraham Lincoln and his family that represent a time in American history and politics most can only read about in history books.