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Abelardo Morell (American (born in Cuba, 1948)), Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River from Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 2011. Photograph, inkjet print. Gift of the artist in memory of Robert Andrew McElaney © Abelardo Morell/Courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
by Soumya Karlamangla
NEW YORK, NY.- Ansel Adams crisp black-and-white photographs of Yosemite National Park are iconic, inescapable even. The moon glowing over the sheer face of Half Dome. The gushing cascade of Nevada Fall. The glassy waters of the Merced River reflecting evergreen trees and granite peaks. These images feel inseparable from the history of California and of conservation and national parks in the United States. But Adams, a native San Franciscan who lived most of his life in the city, photographed far more than the Golden States wilderness during his decades-long career as a photographer and environmentalist. He captured the tangled freeways of Los Angeles, Japanese Americans imprisoned at Manzanar during World War II, and the profusion of pump jacks and derricks in Long Beach after oil was discovered there in the early 20th century. These surprising and stunning images are on display in San Franc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From April 1 through September 17, 2023, Museo Jumex presents Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts, the first comprehensive survey in Mexico of the Italian contemporary artist, Jannis Kounellis (Greece, 1936 - Italy, 2017). Kounellis is best known for his central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, influencing generations of artists around the world.
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| Lee Bul on view at Thaddaeus Ropac London Ely House through May 13th | | Kunsthalle Basel presents an exhibition of works by Iris Touliatou | | 10 artists on Picasso's enduring, confounding influence |
Perdu CLVIII, 2023. Mother of pearl, acrylic paint on wooden base panel, stainless steel frame, 163 x 113 x 6,5 cm (64,17 x 44,9 x 2,56 in). (LEB 1166). Copyright: Lee Bul. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol.
LONDON.- I choose what I work with very carefully. Everything has connotations, stories, and I utilise them. I borrow the general meanings materials have and embrace them in my work. Lee Bul. Thaddaeus Ropac London presents paintings from Lee Buls Perdu series for the first time in the UK, including new works created especially for the exhibition. Conceived as single and multi- panel works, these sumptuous mother-of-pearl and acrylic paintings exemplify the artists practice by bringing together past, present and future temporalities through the materials and references they incorporate. The exhibition marks the artists first solo presentation in the UK since her landmark retrospective Crashing at the Hayward Gallery, ... More | |
Iris Touliatou, SCORE FOR HOLD TIME, 2023, detail, in: Iris Touliatou, Gift, Kunsthalle Basel, 2023, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- What is the value of a human life? For example, that of a woman, officially registered as a painter without children or a stable, regular income, who, to fulfill insurance assessment requirements, was obliged to declare that she is of sound body and mind, a non-smoker, and abstains from drugs and alcohol? The bureaucracies that measure risk and value use all of this data, and more, in their prognostic calculations; those of the Greek insurance company INTERAMERICAN, contracted by the artist, defined a specific sum for this particular life: a maximum of 100,000 euros. To obtain her Simple Annual Life Insurance, policy number 01729973, Iris Touliatou entered into lengthy negotiations. Her request was, after all, a bit peculiar: to insure her life in 2023, the year of her ... More | |
The artist Faith Ringgold at her home in Englewood, N.J., Feb. 21, 2020. (Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Georges Braque, in 1907, looked at his Spanish friends new painting, Les Demoiselles dAvignon, and felt as if someone had drunk kerosene to spit fire. Henri Matisse said he and his friendly rival from Málaga were as different as the North Pole is from the South Pole. Pablo Picasso has been getting artists talking since those first days in Montmartre, and even 50 years after his death, they are still coming to terms with his influence positive and malign, indelible either way on what art looks like and how we talk about those who make it. With the push to cubism in 1909-1910, Picasso and Braque effected the greatest break in the rules of Western painting in 500 years, and artists in the postwar era often spoke of their own breakthroughs as a ritualized exit from his ... More |
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| The Contemporary Austin presents Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting | | Last days to see 'Step Paintings' by Martin Creed at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz | | 25th anniversary edition of Art Paris was crowned with success |
Eamon Ore-Giron, Talking Shit with Amaru, 2021. Mineral paint and Flashe on canvas. 132 x 204 inches. Installation view, Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago, The Contemporary Austin Jones Center on Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas, 2023. Artwork © Eamon Ore-Giron. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Alex Boeschenstein.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Contemporary Austin is showing an exhibition of paintings from the last twenty years by groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist Eamon Ore-Giron. On view at the Jones Center on Congress Avenue since March 3 to August 20, 2023, Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago examines the trajectory of Ore-Girons paintings, and explores the complex layering of identities, histories, and artistic legacies that have influenced his art. Featuring works created between 1998 and ... More | |
Martin Creed, Work No. 3772, 2022 2023. Acrylic, gouache, pencil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.5 cm / 12 x 10 in. © Martin Creed. 2023, ProLitteris, Zürich. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Damian Griffiths.
ST. MORITZ.- On February 11th, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz opened Step Paintings by Martin Creed, Turner Prize-winning artist, performer, composer and Punk poet, which will end on April 10th. Colors can help you feel better says Creed, paintings are the arrangement of colors for pleasure. In Creeds Step Paintings, colors build up like a staircase to heaven, like a wedding cake, like favorite socks in a drawer, like a house on an island in the middle of the sea. Creed has become known for hugely varied work, which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking and beautiful. The exhibition will bring together a selection of Creeds Step Paintings from the past 12 years, alongside ... More | |
Installation View, Art Paris 2023.
PARIS.- From 29 March to 2 April, Art Paris 2023 brought together 134 galleries from 25 countries at the Grand Palais Ephémère for a 25th anniversary edition marked by lavish celebrations that was truly a resounding success. THE KEY SPRING EVENT IN PARIS FOR MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART. Art Paris is a regional and cosmopolitan art fair that focuses on discovery, while supporting the French art scene. To quote a major daily newspaper that headlined Art Paris has found its formula for success, the fair has become an unmissable event on the art calendar. The sheer quality of its selection and the works on show (not forgetting its two themes, commitment and exile, placed respectively in the capable hands of guest curators Marc Donnadieu and Amanda Abi Khalil) were widely acclaimed. Visitors pointed to the increasingly high level of the fair, both ... More |
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| Elemental: John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, Meghann Riepenhoff at Haines Gallery opens today | | The exhibition 'Gyre' by Ernesto Burgos now on view at Parrasch Heijnen | | Klaus Teuber, creator of the board game Catan, dies at 70 |
John Chiara, Avenue H, Traverse, Strawberry Hill, 2023. Unique Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, 47.25 x 38.25 inches. Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Hope Lundblad.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Join us Friday, April 7, 5pm - 7pm for the opening reception of Elemental at Haines Gallery, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw and Meghann Riepenhoff. Each of these West Coast photographers is known for their analog processes that collaborate with the natural world and explore the mediums fundamental materials of chemistry and light. Some works are abstract and painterly impressions of the landscape; others ask us to reconsider our relationship to and memory of well-known sites and monuments. Throughout, their innovative approaches to landscape and photography invite us to experience the world anew. John Chiara prints directly onto photographic paper with his hand-built, large-format cameras, resulting in landscapes that ... More | |
Ernesto Burgos, Diplomat, 2023. fiberglass, resin, wood, cardboard, oil paint, 47 x 36 x 5-1/4 inches. Photo Courtesy of Parrasch Heijnen.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As of April 1st Parrasch Heijnen opened Gyre, the gallerys first solo exhibition with Ernesto Burgos (b. 1979, Santa Clara, CA). Emblazoned with imagery derived from the natural world, Burgos organically shaped paintings exist as flowing forms relaying the illusionary and physical space of abstraction caught in mid-motion. The exhibition title references the metaphorical use of the word gyre in W.B. Yeats poem The Second Coming, as well as its definition in nature. The constant movement implied in the poem parallels the works circling around themselves, drifting upward and outward to create their own center. Burgos forms reflect a cycling of time, as a play between idea, gesture, and material. The warping motions of his multi-dimensional paintings preserve a history of movement. In flattening sculptural angles, Burgos suggests a malleable dimension by embracing the materiality of pa ... More | |
Patrons play a game of The Settlers of Catan at The Uncommons board game cafe in New York, July 30, 2014. (Jake Naughton/The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus Teuber, who 28 years ago created The Settlers of Catan, an enduringly popular board game that has spawned college intramural teams and international tournaments, been name-checked on South Park and Parks and Recreation, inspired a novel and sold some 40 million copies worldwide, died Saturday. He was 70. Catan GmbH, which publishes and licenses the game, now known simply as Catan, posted news of his death on its website. It said only that he died after a short illness and did not say where. Teuber was managing a dental lab, a job he found stressful, when he began designing games as a way to unwind. In the beginning, these games were just for me, he told Forbes in 2016. I always have stories in my head I would read a book, and if I liked it, I wanted to experience it as ... More |
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| How a tiny literary magazine became a springboard for great Irish writing | | Shin Gallery opens The Charm of the Surface and the Grammar of the Abyss today | | Pace Gallery opens Kylie Manning's first exhibition in Switzerland |
Declan Meade, a founding editor of The Stinging Fly, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, March 22, 2023. In its 25 years, the magazine has become a source of community and a launchpad for Irish writers. (Ellius Grace/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work. For Colin Barrett that career turning point arrived in 2009, with the publication of his short story Lets Go Kill Ourselves in The Stinging Fly. Four years later, Barretts debut collection, Young Skins, was released via the magazines adjacent press to international acclaim. Barrett went on to win the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. The Stinging Fly has been something of a ... More | |
Gia Edzgveradze, Hotel Pregnancy (Malfunction with Feminism), 2020, Oil on Paper, 16.5 x 10.2 in. (42 x 26 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Gia Edzgveradze, Artist, & Hong Gyu Shin, Gallerist, request the pleasure of your company for a reception to celebrate The Charm of the Surface and the Grammar of the Abyss this Friday, 7 April from 5:30 7:30 p.m at SHIN GALLERY. Gia Edzgveradzes Charm of Surface and the Grammar of Abyss is made up of a heterogeneous array of prismatic small-sized paintings and larger black-and-white canvases. The smaller works utilize brilliant colors with which Edzgveradze endows his scenographies an otherworldly spirit that is nevertheless strikingly familiar. Cerulean-blue sportive men and apple-green women in contorted figures go about their day, reading books on a toilet, balancing anonymous structures on their limbs, jovially dancing in a piano lounge, navigating serpentine corridors, or playing basketball. This is, indeed, a familiar world insofar as instruments, ... More | |
Kylie Manning is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York.
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery announces You Into Me, Me Into You, Kylie Mannings first exhibition in Switzerland. Conceived as a sister exhibition to her forthcoming prestigious collaboration with the acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the New York City Ballet, Manning presents a suite of new, highly ambitious paintings in her idiosyncratic style. Where her paintings in New York will serve as a landscape for Wheeldons ballet and inspiration for the costumes, which Manning is also collaborating on, the body of work on display in Geneva brings Mannings deeply felt cast of characters into centre stage. Mannings collaboration with Wheeldon will premiere on May 4 at Lincoln Center as part of the New York City Ballets annual Spring Gala, with additional performances on May 6, 9, 13, and 16. Rooted in the wild, sweeping landscapes of her childhood split between Alaska and Mexico and later, her time spen ... More |
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Through Bone and Marrow, the most sensitive and discomforting exhibition yet in BRUTUS
ROTTERDAM.- Since 2 April to 25 June, BRUTUS, the Rotterdam artist-driven playground, presents the most sensitive and uncomfortable exhibition to date: Through Bone and Marrow. On an area of approximately 6000 m2, twenty renowned artists show new and alternative connections between mankind, nature and technology. Through Bone and Marrow acts as a subtle wake-up call: the exhibition showcases a new aesthetic with room for discomfort, imperfection and the beauty of decay. Curator is 'atmosphere collector' and stylist Maarten Spruyt. In search of a representation of the zeitgeist, he succeeds in creating unity in diversity. Through Bone and Marrow feels like a single large organism. Visitors are admitted to the exhibition circuit one at a time and are given heartfelt advice: forget your phone, forget your agenda, ... More
Review: Kyle Abraham takes on Cunningham and, as always, love
NEW YORK, NY.- Kyle Abraham has a mission and its bigger than himself. He likes to spread the love with his company, A.I.M, and, in doing so, broaden the viewers experience of what a dance concert by a choreographer-led company can be. The A.I.M season at the Joyce Theater expands on that idea in multigenerational ways, too, with a resonant performance of Rain (1989), a solo by Bebe Miller, who began her choreographic career in 1978. She means much to Abraham, who, in his program note, writes: Her work speaks so much to the dance-maker I hope to be. Although brief, Rain, performed Tuesday by Tamisha A. Guy, has a scorching power. To music by Villa-Lobos and Hearn Gadbois, Guy stands in front of a patch of grass, moving her rounded arms and fluid fingers unhurriedly as if theyre some sort of protective barrier ... More
Finding freedom and feminism in ballet. (It's possible.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ballet requires no, demands devotion. But what is the price of that devotion, especially for women? Ballet these days is under fire in some quarters, and the very idea of devotion to it has become suspect. A myth has grown around it: That its price is physical and mental abuse, eating disorders, bloody toes, suffering, pain and blind subservience to patriarchal leaders. And its not just ballet, but George Balanchines vision of ballet, which seems to be, again, causing controversy as familiar stereotypes are revived, including the idea that he preferred extremely thin dancers with tiny heads and long legs. With the recent release of a biography about Balanchine, a memoir by a former ballet student who failed to advance at the School of American Ballet which Balanchine co-founded, along with New York City Ballet ... More
John Kander's major chord, undiminished
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not that John Kander wasnt touched by John Kander Day. The composer of the song New York, New York played at every New York Yankees home game and known worldwide from its first five notes was obviously moved when the citys mayor handed him a framed proclamation in front of St. James Theater in midtown Manhattan. Nor was he jaded, he later said, about having that block of West 44th Street, from Broadway to Eighth Avenue, christened Kander & Ebb Way in recognition of his work and that of Fred Ebb, his longtime lyricist, who died in 2004. Still, of Kanders thousands of songs, seven movie scores and 20 major musicals, including Chicago and Cabaret, not one bar was written with the idea of getting a piece of pavement named for him. If Ebb, with his brasher, needier personality, would have eaten up ... More
'Mamie Tinkler: A Troubling' opens today at Ulterior Gallery
NEW YORK, NY .- Ulterior Gallery presents A Troubling, its second solo exhibition of paintings by Mamie Tinkler. For this exhibition opening on April 7, Tinkler debuts eight paintings in watercolor and gouache. In these new works, Tinkler draws on narratives of magic and witchcraft, conjuring an atmosphere of subtle danger and ecstatic transcendence. The title A Troubling refers to a collective noun for goldfinches, but also a troubling, or disrupting, of narratives, structures, or surfaces. The objects depicted in Tinklers paintings seem poised for action, ripe with possibility, anything but still. While she deploys still life and photorealism as processes, her paintings do not fit neatly into either genre. The artist stages and photographs scenes using found and collected objects, theatrical lighting, mirrors, and painted backdrops. ... More
Forever divided over Picasso: Part 1, why I love him
NEW YORK, NY.- When I was a teenager, Pablo Picassos Guernica, that colossal anti-war painting rendered in newspaper tones of black and gray, was on loan to the Museum of Modern Art. The artist had sent it to New York before World War II to safeguard it from Francisco Franco, the dictator who ended democracy in Picassos native Spain. Guernica stayed at MoMA for more than four decades, and growing up under its spell enlarged my sense of what art could be. Art, it seemed, was not about the pursuit of refinement and social polish but an encounter with the kind of raw, screaming emotion adolescents have no trouble grasping. I remained a Picasso worshipper, even as friends decorated their dorm rooms with posters by Matisse blankly elegant images of all-blue nudes scrubbed of any detail. They enchanted but they lacked ... More
Neal Boenzi, top New York Times photographer for four decades, dies at 97
NEW YORK, NY.- Neal Boenzi, a photographer who for more than 40 years at The New York Times deftly captured aspects of city life from firefighters fleeing a falling wall to a man walking a goose, died Monday at an elder care facility in Newhall, California. He was 97. His daughter, Jeanette Boenzi, confirmed the death. Boenzis photographs usually accompanied breaking news coverage and longer articles. But they also included many so-called day shots: photographs he took when he was told to be creative and find pictures that brightened readers days. Theres an aspect of Weegee in his photographs, that grittiness of New York, but with a lighter touch, less macabre, Fred Ritchin, dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography, said in a phone interview, referring to the celebrated New York City tabloid photographer of the 1930s ... More
In 'Thanksgiving Play,' the pageantry of 'well-meaning' white people
NEW YORK, NY.- As Larissa FastHorse worked with the Broadway cast of The Thanksgiving Play, which centers on four white people trying to put on a culturally sensitive holiday production, one of the actors, Katie Finneran, spoke up in a rehearsal with a suggestion: Perhaps she could drop a swear word during one of her more exasperated lines? Im the drama teacher! Finnerans character exclaims as her plan to make a socially progressive elementary school play begins to fall apart. FastHorse politely declined. From the works conception in 2015, she had intended it to be curse-free, in the hopes of finally having a widely produced play. Her other work including the play What Would Crazy Horse Do? involved Native American characters, leading producers to call them uncastable. So, FastHorse wrote one with white ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French painter Gino Severini was born April 07, 1883. Gino Severini (7 April 1883 - 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. In this image: A visitor looks at paintings, 'Femme a la Mandoline' (L) and 'Les joueurs de Cartes' (R) by Italian futurist and neo-classic artist Gino Severini,1883-1966, at the Orangerie Museum in Paris.
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