Schiffer Publishing announces City Hall by Arthur Drooker
Los Angeles City Hall (1928). Photography copyright Arthur Drooker from the book City Hall published by Schiffer.
NEW YORK, NY
.-City Hall by Arthur Drooker is the first book to feature striking photographs of the most architecturally distinctive and historically significant city halls in the United States of America. Organized chronologically, this stunning volume presents fifteen remarkable city halls from across the nation, covering the evolution of American civic architecture from the early nineteenth century to the present day and representing a diversity of styles, such as Federalist, art deco, beaux-arts, and modern. Among the city halls documented in the book are New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and Boston, the first major brutalist building in the US.
One of world s best copies of Captain America Comics No. 1 heads to auction
Captain America Comics #1 (Timely, 1941) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white pages.
DALLAS, TX
.- Captain America turned 80 years old this week. He still doesn t look a day over 30. It must be the experimental serum. Or the ice bath.
Though the date on Timely s Captain America Comics No. 1 reads March 1941, the first issue to feature Steve Rogers, sidekick Bucky and forever-enemy Red Skull actually arrived on newsstands on Dec. 20, 1940. To commemorate the landmark occasion, Heritage Auctions offers one of finest known copies in the Jan. 14-17 Comics & Comic Art event.
The Captain America Comics No. 1 in this auction is graded VF+ 8.5 by Certified Guaranteed Company one of only three copies to receive such a mark, with only six known to be in better condition. In almost 20 years, Heritage has offered only two finer than the one that is showcased in an event that also features the best-known Batman No. 1 ever
TBA21 presents an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Yeo Siew Hua, An Invocation to the Earth, 2020. Co produced by NTU CCA Singapore and Thyssen - Bornemisza Art Contemporary, TBA21 for st age. Photo Courtesy the artist.
MADRID
.- Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation is presenting How to Tread Lightly. st age expanded, an exhibition, co-organized with the Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, where it is being exhibited until January 17, 2021.
How to Tread Lightly. st age expanded, an exhibition reframes the challenges raised by the Covid-19 crisis in terms of supporting artistic practice. It not only asks how commissioning can be developed in a more caring and meaningful manner, but demonstrates how it can adapt to emerging scenarios. The exhibition, curated by Soledad Gutiérrez, is a physical-world extension of the artists projects currently being presented during Season 1 of st age, an online commissions initiative launched in September 2020 by Th
The Studio Museum in Harlem s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition on view at MoMA PS1
This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920, MoMA PS1 December 10, 2020March 14, 2021. Photo: Kris Graves.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
.- The Studio Museum in Harlems annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition is on view at MoMA PS1, moving this presentation outside the Studio Museums walls for the second time as part of a multiyear partnership with the Museum of Modern Art and PS1. This Longing Vessel features new work by the 201920 cohort of the Studio Museums signature residency programartists E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI)whose artistic practices span new media, performance, and painting. With a title that suggests radical intimacy, a vessel to hold and to be held by, this exhibition presents the intersection between queerness and Blackness as a waypoint to yearn from, reach toward,
Print article Alaska’s state-owned economic development corporation on Wednesday agreed to spend up to $20 million to buy leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain in an effort to support future oil exploration and drilling there. The seven-member board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority unanimously granted the corporation’s director permission to bid following 90 minutes of public comments, a two-hour private meeting and a final 30-minute public session. The proposal faced broad public opposition, including complaints that the measure was being rushed through with little public review two days before Christmas. But several board members, in describing their support for the measure, said money from oil that flows from the refuge can support much-needed jobs in Alaska and pay for renewable energy projects that opponents of the investment have said they preferred.