Hindman s Spring Fine Art sales to feature important works by Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and others
Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992), Untitled, 1989. Estimate: $500,000-700,000.
CHICAGO, IL
.- This May, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring nearly 500 works of art. The auctions will kick-off with American and European Art on May 3, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on May 4, and conclude with Prints and Multiples on May 5. Outstanding collections and artworks will be featured including important works by Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Alexander Calder, and others. Mitchells extraordinary Untitled, 1989 (lot 32) will headline the three sales and will be offered at $500,000-700,000. Untitled, 1989 is from a Private Collection (Atlanta, Georgia) and was purchased from Cheim & Read in New York in 2012.
Jaynie Miller Studenmund joins Getty Board of Trustees
Jaynie Miller Studenmund. Photo: Nick Boswell.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The J. Paul Getty Trust Board of Trustees has elected business executive and independent board member Jaynie Miller Studenmund to its Board.
Jaynies extensive leadership experience across many different fields will serve the Getty well, said Dr. David L. Lee, chair of the Getty Board of Trustees. She has deep knowledge from service on both non-profit and corporate Boards. We welcome her to the Board, where she will help us guide one of the worlds leading cultural organizations into a new, post-pandemic era.
Daisy Desrosiers named director of Kenyon s Gund Gallery
Desrosiers currently serves as director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art.
GAMBIER, OH
.-Kenyon Colleges Gund Gallery announced today that Daisy Desrosiers, an interdisciplinary art historian and curator, will join its community as director and chief curator, effective June 1, 2021.
Desrosiers currently serves as director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art, an incubator of research and artistic practice within the Colby College Museum of Art. In that role, she oversees the institutes collaborations with artists and, with others at the institute and the museum, generates structure for its community initiatives, publications, exhibitions and public programming. She also leads outreach efforts among local and global audiences and creates opportunities for engagement with diverse communities.
Exhibition documents Christopher Wilton-Steer s four-month journey along the world s oldest trade route
Agra, India. Photo: Christopher Wilton-Steer and AKDN.
LONDON
.-The Aga Khan Foundation announced The Silk Road: A Living History, an open-air photography exhibition by travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer. The exhibition documents Wilton-Steers journey along the historic trade route undertaken in 2019. Over a period of four months, he travelled 40,000 km overland by car, bus, train, ferry, horse and camel from London to Beijing traversing sixteen countries. He began his journey from Londons Kings Cross where the show is being staged from 8th April 2021 and runs until 16th June. The exhibition has been arranged around Granary Square and is presented in partnership with Kings Cross.
The healing power of music
Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist in New York, uses guitar music and visualization exercises to help calm patients undergoing medical treatments. Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing. John Smith via The New York Times.
by Richard Schiffman
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Focus on the sound of the instrument, Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist and researcher, said as he strummed hypnotic chords on a Spanish-style classical guitar. Close your eyes. Think of a place where you feel safe and comfortable.
Music therapy was the last thing that Julia Justo, a graphic artist who immigrated to New York from Argentina, expected when she went to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Union Square Clinic for treatment for cancer in 2016. But it quickly calmed her fears about the radiation therapy she needed to go through. The fears were causing her severe anxiety.