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Mexico will attempt to stop New York auction of pre-Hispanic artifacts The online auction by Sotheby s lists 26 Mesoamerican pieces
Published on Saturday, May 15, 2021
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The Mexican government said it will take legal measures to stop an auction of pre-Hispanic artifacts by Sotheby’s New York auction house. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said the artifacts are part of Mexico’s cultural history and should not be sold.
The online auction “Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas” began on May 11 and lists 26 Mesoamerican items available for bidding. The auction closes on Tuesday.
The most valuable of the Mesoamerican pieces is a Mayan stone carving from A.D. 550 to 950 with a starting price of US $38,000. The piece belongs to the Albright-Knox Gallery and is expected to sell for as much as $70,000.
Solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass opens at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
Pelle Cass, Women s Water Polo at Harvard 2018. Inkjet print on heavy matte rag paper 13 x 19 in. (Ed. 4 - 15), 24 x 36 in. (Ed. of 10), 40 x 60 in. (Ed. of 3).
BOSTON, MASS
.-Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is presenting Crowded Fields, a solo exhibition of photographs by Boston-based artist Pelle Cass. This exhibition features work from two recent series in which the artist combines thousands of images to form one dynamic composition of a sporting event. Working in opposition to traditional sports photography, Pelle Cass aims to capture not the emotion of a moment, but the chaos and physicality of the entire game, evoking a Baroque-like sense of movement and angle in his compositions.
Exhibition at Marc Straus presents a new body of work by Marie Watt
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Marie Watt (b.1967, Seattle) is a citizen of the Seneca Nation, the largest of six Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy. Mythologies and history from her Native American heritage inform her process and are seamlessly interwoven in her art with commentary on international politics and pop culture references.
Her layered points of influence are often reflected in her use of text elements featuring language drawn from Indigenous knowledge and Iroquois proto-feminism, the matriarchal structures of certain Native American tribes, the rise of social activism throughout the 20th century, and the anti-war and anti-hate content of 1960s and 1970s music- such as the Marvin Gaye song, Whats Going On. Messages of both longing and hope from the past that still resonate today.