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New York artist Audrey Flack, a pioneer of the Photorealism movement, died on June 28 in Southampton, New York, at the age of 93. Her death was confirmed by her former dealer, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, and her current dealer, Hollis Taggart. “We mourn the passing of a true artistic legend who has left an indelible mark on the history of American art,” said Hollis Taggart, founder of the eponymous gallery. “Audrey’s boundless creativity defined her seven-decade career, as she constantly innovated and found new ways to express herself.”Born in New York City in 1931, Fleck was educated at Cooper…

James Alexander Simpson’s Portrait, Probably the Mary Ann Tritt Cassell (1839), on long-term loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art (Photo by Mitro Hood, courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Art) More than a decade ago, Dorita Sewell of Florida and her late mother, Doris, received a painting from a distant relative. It was an unsigned portrait of a fair-skinned woman with dark curly hair. The painting had been passed down through generations of family members, and they speculated that it belonged to an ancestor from the early 1800s. For the next decade, the mysterious painting sat wrapped in protective…

During a rescue highway excavation in the Czech Republic, a team of archaeologists from the University of Hradec Kralove (UHK) discovered a prehistoric monumental cemetery. Located on the border of the villages of Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s East Bohemia region, this ancient mound is approximately 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its widest point. Believed to date back to the 4th millennium BC, it is one of the earliest known burial sites in Europe. The structure is also likely the longest of its kind in the region. related articles “This type of mound is found…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabGlenn Pushelberg and George Yabu with the Gao brothers Miss Mao No.1 (2006). Image courtesy of Yabu Pushelberg.One afternoon last fall, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg stopped by 125 Newbury Gallery on their way to their offices in Tribeca. The couple had been drawn to the gallery’s Peter Hujar exhibition, “Echoes,” which examined queer life in New York City from the Stonewall riots of the 1970s to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The two were unfamiliar with the artist at first, but they soon became avid collectors and advocates of his work. “That period was very interesting,”…

AllergicThe monthly opportunity listings provide resources for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox every month, sign up here! If you found this list valuable, please consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us achieve this goal each month. Residencies, workshops and fellowships Bryn Du – Artist-in-Residence Program 2025To strengthen local arts participation in Granville, Ohio, Bryn Du offers $2,000 for an 8-week residency and $3,000 for a 12-week residency to artists from all fields in the United States. The application fee is $15.Deadline: August…

The former director of the British Museum, one of many institutions in London that offers free admission, recently suggested that foreign visitors should pay a £20 ($25) admission fee, a move he said could help raise extra funds. “The money has to come from somewhere,” Mark Jones, who served as interim director last year, told The Sunday Times June 30th. Jones told The Sunday Times While museums should be free for British taxpayers and foreign visitors under 25, visitors from abroad should pay general admission fees to institutions such as the British Museum and the Natural History Museum. related articles…

Barbara Gladstone, an art dealer with one of New York’s most influential galleries, died on Sunday at the age of 89. Her eponymous gallery confirmed her death in an email and Instagram post “after a brief illness” in Paris. “Barbara was a visionary leader who had an indelible impact on the artists she worked with, her gallery colleagues, her many friends, and the art world at large,” her partners Max Falkenstein, Carolyn Loos, Paula Tsai, and Gavin Brown wrote on Instagram. “Barbara valued her relationships with artists above all else and always supported them. She championed artists who were breaking…

Yesterday (June 30), the New York Police Department (NYPD) detained 10 people protesting for Palestine during the New York City Pride Parade and briefly stopped the march just a block from the Stonewall Inn. The historic parade commemorates the 55th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which was a protest against a police raid on the gay bar of the same name. This year’s event was no exception, with many participants seizing the opportunity to focus on issues such as abortion rights, protections for members of the transgender community, and fair contracts for union workers. But overall, Israel’s ongoing attacks…

June Leaf, a beloved artist whose mesmerizing, uncategorizable work explored the limits of the human body, died Monday in New York. She was 94. New York Times She had reportedly been battling stomach cancer. It is almost impossible to pin down Leve’s work to a specific interest, as it takes many forms: unusual remakes of famous art historical images, surreal monuments to women, self-portraits, mechanical sculptures of recluses in small spaces, etc. Leve’s obsession with the human figure permeates all of his work, even at a time when abstraction was being revered by critics. related articles Although Liv’s work has…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabPortrait of Jack Shainman. Photo by Vincent Tullo. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Diederick Brackens, How to Approach a Foal2024. © Diedrick Brackens. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. “First, you have to really believe in art and love art,” Jack Scheinman tells Artsy from The School, the gallery’s 30,000-square-foot project space in Kinderhook, N.Y. The School, which opened in 2013, embodied Scheinman’s large-scale approach to project planning, a practice he will continue with his newest space in Tribeca, a 20,000-square-foot space in an Italian Renaissance-style building.The new space, which opens on…