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Installation view of Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, on view from April 4 through December 3, 2023, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Artists change, but so do critics. Welcome to my turnaround â from a fairly negative first take on the work of New York-based painter Cecily Brown, to a largely positive one. The shift in opinion â which, off and on, took the better part of 23 years â has been pushed over the finish line by âCecily Brown: Death and the Maid,â a revelatory if crowded survey of around 20 paintings accompanied by 25 drawings and prints, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was organized by Ian Alteveer, curator in its modern and contemporary art department, who focuses on Brownâs reinterpretation of the vanitas motifs over the past 25 years â skulls, skeletons, mirror-gazing young beauties and the 17th-century-inspired still lifes of tables heaped with luxury foodstuffs. Traditionally these accumulations served to remind the faithful of the inevitability of death and the sinfulness of earthly goods. The message was, in other words, you canât take it with you. And this focus in turn brings some order to B ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view « Empyrean », Mennour (28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8), 2023. Photo. Archives Mennour. Courtesy the artists and Mennour, Paris.
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| High Museum of Art opens first US museum exhibition devoted to Bruce Onobrakpeya | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions | | Empyrean: Group show opens at kamel mennour |
Bruce Onobrakpeya (Nigerian, born 1932), Crossing the Red Sea, 1968, linoleum print, Collection of Bruce Onobrakpeya. © Bruce Onobrakpeya.
ATLANTA, GA.- Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross (April 7-July 30, 2023) at the High Museum of Art marks the first solo exhibition at an American museum for the renowned sculptor and printmaker, who is recognized as one of the fathers of Nigerian modernism. The exhibition focuses on the artists creative phase from 1967 through 1978 and features more than 40 works that marry Nigerian tradition, folklore and cosmology with Catholic motifs and stories from the Bible, including an early edition of his series Fourteen Stations of the Cross from the Highs collection. Onobrakpeya is one of the most important artists in Nigeria and has played a central role in shaping contemporary art on the African continent, said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High. As an institution with an exceptionally strong and growing collection of Nigerian art, and as one of the few America ... More | |
He was meant for all things to meet, 2022. Amy Sherald (American, b. 1973). Oil on linen; unframed: 137.5 x 109.4 x 6.4 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2023.5
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include a portrait by Amy Sherald, one of the worlds leading contemporary figurative painters; an Italian bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini, a prominent Florentine sculptor of the Baroque period; a rare candlelight painting by Anna Dorothea Therbusch; a Greek red-figure vase attributed to the Kleophon Painter; a highly finished drawing by Kerry James Marshall; and a suite of 12 color monoprints by Edgar Heap of Birds, one of the most influential Native American artists working today. The CMA acquires work by Amy Sherald, one of the foremost figurative painters working today Amy Sherald is one of the leading contemporary figurative painters, widely celebrated for her portraits documenting Black American subjects. Sherald, whose distinctive style captured the attention of First Lady Michelle ... More | |
Exhibition view « Empyrean », Mennour (28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8), 2023. Photo. Archives Mennour. Courtesy the artists and Mennour, Paris.
PARIS.- The exhibition Empyrean offers a profane and contemporary interpretation of the empyrean, the name given to the highest celestial sphere in both scientific and religious contexts. From Dantes Divine Comedy to Gustave Dorés engravings, via Hieronymus Boschs polyptych Visions of the Hereafter, in art the empyrean has been the ultimate representation of the seat of divinity. These images are rare (are they so sacred as to be almost forbidden?) and yet they have one essential aspect in common: none of them attempt to capture the essence of the empyrean. Does it consist of light or fire, is it empty or full? Would it be complete darkness? Does this sphere have some actual astronomic reality or is this only a theological, symbolic reality? Artists are not bothered with the conceptual nature of the empyrean. In these representations, they are completely caught up contemplating the beings that ... More |
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| Historic American silver and fine furniture lead Hindman sale | | Praz-Delavallade opens a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Pam Posey | | Milwaukee Art Museum receives $4.4M legacy gift to expand celebrated European Art Program |
A Renaissance Revival Marble Mounted Carved and Laminated Rosewood Etagere, Attributed to John Henry Belter (American, 1804-1863), Circa 1855. Price Realized: $22,680.
CINCINNATI, OH.- A striking selection of 18th and 19th century silver and furniture achieved exceptional prices during the March 30th American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts auction at Hindman. Queen Anne, Chippendale, and Federal furniture sold for strong prices, and music players also caught the attention of bidders. Additional top lots included four Andrew Clemens sand bottles that displayed the development of the renowned artists craft. A painting by William B.T. Trego, depicting General Custer leading his men on horseback, from the collection of the Bloomington Public Library in Bloomington, Illinois, was another important lot. For years, the painting was believed to be completely lost. Silver tableware saw excellent bidding activity, highlighted by two tea and coffee services: one by Gorham Mfg. Co. ... More | |
Pam Posey, Thereabout, oil on linen, 28 x 37 in (71.1 x 94 cm), 2023.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is presenting Thereabout, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Pam Posey, opening on 15 April and running through 13 May 2023. Poseys work examines the natural world and how it can be represented through painting. Her paintings explore the idea of landscape, not just as a visual representation, but as an experience that is felt and remembered. In Thereabout, Posey reflects on her lifelong fascination with the landscape, tracing her journey from early experiments with abstraction in the 70s, to her current explorations of painting from memory, imagination, and place. As Posey explains, it's not just what I see in my head, but what I see happening as I paint that I seek to understand and depict." During the pandemic, Posey spent countless hours in her studio, looking through photos of the places shes been and using them to ignite her memory ... More | |
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 16061669), Head of an Old Man in a Cap, ca . 1630, Oil on panel, 99/16 Ã 8 in. (24.3 Ã 20.3cm) Kingston, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader,2003, acc. no. 46-031. Image courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum announced today that, with the support of a gift of $4.4 million from Bader Philanthropies, Inc. it has established the Isabel and Alfred Bader European Art Program Endowment Fund. Honoring the legacies of the late Drs. Isabel and Alfred Bader, longtime patrons and friends of the Museum, the Endowment Fund bolsters the Museums ability to serve as an essential civic, cultural, and educational resource for its community, including providing permanent support for the Museums Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art. Additionally, the gift supports the exhibition Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader, opening in September 2023, which features more than 75 exquisite ... More |
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| Gagosian is pleased to announce the representation of Cy Gavin | | Detroit Institute of Arts contributes to statewide exhibition that brings works by importnt Indigenous women Michigan | | A luminous electronic art installation presented as a futurist fantasy at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago |
Born in Pittsburgh in 1985, Cy Gavin grew up in Donora, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and earned his MFA in 2016 from Columbia University.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Cy Gavin. Following his debut solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in February 2023 in New York, Gagosian will present an exhibition of new paintings by Gavin this fall in Rome. In his recent work, Gavin paints metaphorical interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena. Composed with fluid, gestural brushstrokes in striking colors, they are at times monumental in scale. Gavin was born in Pittsburgh in 1985 and raised in Donora, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and earned his MFA in 2016 from Columbia University. Following the death of his father, he traveled in 2015 to his ancestral homeland of Bermuda to research his familys genealogy and the islands history. The paintings ... More | |
Ceramic, 20th Century, Lucy Lewis. Photo Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The Detroit Institute of Arts has organized a traveling, statewide exhibition that presents the works of important Native American and First Nations women, titled Vitality and Continuity: Art in the Experiences of Anishinaabe, Inuit, and Pueblo Women, in partnership with four Michigan museums. This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the Art Bridges Initiative. A collaboration between partner museums Dennos Museum Center (Traverse City), Bonifas Arts Center (Escanaba), Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum (Saginaw), and Midland Center for the Arts (Midland), the exhibition celebrates the major roles Anishinaabe, Inuit, and Pueblo women play within their families, communities, the art world, and beyond. Rooted in contemporary and historical artworks, the exhibition examines mothering, making, art world success, spirit ... More | |
Dragons DelusionDeparture poster, 2017, by Kongkee (Kong Khong-chang 江記; b. 1977, active Hong Kong and London). Courtesy of the artist and Penguin Lab. Copyright © 2017 the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- On view from April 14 to July 15, 2023, Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk features the work of London-based Chinese artist and animation director Kong Khong- chang, known as Kongkee. Through multi-screen videos, wall projections, neon installations, vibrant graphic works, narrative texts, and ancient Chinese objects, the exhibition tells the story of legendary poet Qu Yuan, who lived during the Warring States Period (c. 481-221 BCE), as his soul journeys from the ancient Chu Kingdom to a retro-futuristic Asia where he is reborn as an android in a psychedelic cyberpunk landscape. Originally conceived by Kongkee as a comic series in 2013, the exhibition transports viewers into an imaginary world where past and future collide. Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk is organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and curated ... More |
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| Maia Cruz Palileo: Days Later, Down River at Monique Meloche Gallery now on view | | FuturDome is now showing The Vacuum Decay a solo show by Marco Pietracupa | | 'Koho Yamamoto: 101 Springs' at Leonovich Gallery to hold opening reception today |
Installation View of Maia Cruz Palileo: Days Later, Down River at Monique Meloche Gallery.
CHICAGO, IL.- Maia Cruz Palileo: Days Later, Down River, the artists third solo show with Monique Meloche Gallery, is now on view through May 26. Palileo is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, installations, sculptures, and drawings navigate themes of migration and the persistence of tacit knowledge in the face of assimilation. The works on view map an archival, geological, and spiritual topography of the Palileo familys homelandthe Philippinesand are inspired by their recent residency at the University of Michigan, which houses one of the largest collections of Filipino artifacts outside of the country. Building off their past research at the Newberry Library in Chicago and their personal family archive, Palileo explores the Bentley Historical Librarys photographic archive of Frank C. Gates, a professor of botany at the University of the Philippines (1912-1915) and objects from the Museum of Anthropologica ... More | |
Marco Pietracupa, Untitled, 2020. Courtesy FuturDome.
MILAN.- The Vacuum Decay is a hypothetical astrophysical condition implying a self-destruction of the universe. FuturDome displays a series of images created by Pietracupa during the first lockdown in March 2020. The barn of his house, forcibly converted into a photographic set, transforms into a cosmogonic observatory where the decay of the void functions as the activator for a cycle of portraits of his family and close relatives with whom he was ineluctably living with. The faceless bodies, shot before a cinematic green screen, lie waiting for the ultimate event, decaying as a generative mass of the vacuum that will annihilate them. In physics, we define as false vacuum a theoretical, apparently stable, region of space. It can be imagined as a bubble that could potentially suddenly collapse. The walls enclosing the false vacuum, kept together by the surface tension, can expand through the process of tunneling, borrowing energy from the unive ... More | |
Koho Yamamoto. Photo: Robert Banat.
NEW YORK, NY.- Koho Yamamoto: 101 Springs, a solo exhibition of sumi-e paintings by Japanese American artist Koho Yamamoto, will be on view at the Leonovich Gallery from April 15-May 14, 2023. Curated by Jaya Duvvuri, Yamamotos long-time associate and former student, the exhibition will include seventeen works spanning fifty years of Yamamotos artistic practice and will open on the artists 101st birthday. Yamamoto uses traditional Japanese materials such as sumi ink, brushes, and rice paper to make abstract paintings. The work begins from a void and nothingness, and then emerges from the spirit of the moment through Yamamotos gestures of pure expression. She works with the speed of execution, each painting is its own unique event, and is not reworked. The balance of dark, medium, and light tones, which in Japanese is referred to as Notan, is a guiding principle, and becomes her characteristic of a lively wor ... More |
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Our Bodies, Ourselves highlights female photographers in di Rosa collection
NAPA, CA.- di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art announces its newest exhibition Our Bodies, Ourselves (April 14-July 30, 2023). The exhibition showcases female photographers in the di Rosa collection. Since the 1970s, photographers have reclaimed the female gaze, picturing womens bodies in ways not intended for male consumption. The works ask us to reconsider the camera lens as a tool of male power, raising questions about what kinds of bodies deserve depiction while centering issues of health and sexuality, body positivity and gender-based violence. As we live through the erosion of womens rights on both legal and cultural fronts, it is more important than ever to celebrate the female voices in our collection, states Executive Director Kate Eilertsen. We are committed to using our collection to elevate marginalized perspectives. ... More
Stuart Roden appointed as Chair of the Board of Trustees
The Design Museum today announces that Stuart Roden has been appointed as Chair of the Board of Trustees. He replaces Lord Mandelson who steps down in June at the end of his current term, having served as Chair since 2017. Stuart Roden has a long and distinguished business career in investment management and a strong ethic of public service in supporting third sector organisations. He currently serves as a Trustee of The National Gallery, The Centre for Social Justice and The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust; he is Chair of social mobility charity Unocking Potential and is an Independent Member of the Council of the London School of Economics. Stuart Roden joins the Design Museum Board of Trustees immediately, and takes the Chair in June 2023. Lord Mandelson, Chair of the Design Museum said:Following a wide-reaching search ... More
miart 2023 is open, Crescendo is the title and the keyword of the 27th edition
MILAN.- From 14 to 16 April 2023 miart the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan, organised by Fiera Milano and directed for the third year by Nicola Ricciardi, returns. With 169 participating galleries (a double digit increase compared to 2022 edition) from 27 countries around the world, with works by modern masters, established and emerging contemporary artists alike, this 27th edition confirms its role as a key appointment for the art public and its international appeal with almost 40% more exhibitors based abroad. At miart 2023, there will be a return to the lively internationality. In addition to the number of galleries, the quality of the projects is also growing significantly due to a combination of encouraging returns and important new entries. These include, to name but a few: 1 Mira Madrid (Madrid), ChertLüdde (Berlino), Ciaccia ... More
GRIMM opens a solo exhibition of new works by the London-based, Dutch artist Michael Raedecker
LONDON.- GRIMM is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by the London-based, Dutch artist Michael Raedecker (b. 1963, Amsterdam, NL). This is Raedeckers first exhibition at the gallerys recently-opened London space and his sixth solo exhibition with GRIMM. Depicted throughout the exhibition are images and environments populated by the artists recurrent motifs - houses, swimming pools, forests, saloon cars, treehouses and caves - that possess the uncanny quality of being familiar, even comforting, and yet simultaneously isolating or threatening. Raedeckers work is engaged with a process of re-contextualising and redefining these spaces, asking the viewer to look again at that which they think they know, lending them a disorienting quality. The spaces verge upon being hostile or even apocalyptic, dense with thread ... More
'Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts' on view at Victoria Miro starting today
LONDON.- Comprising paintings in dialogue with large-scale wall-based and suspended photographic images, A Making of Ghosts, which opens 14 April20 May 2023 at Victoria Miro, reflects on aspects of grief and the action of memory, unfolding as the viewer moves through the gallery space. Kudzanai-Violet Hwamis paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources, such as online and archival images, and personal photographs, which collapse past and present. Autobiographical in nature and dealing with internal and private curiosities, her works address how in a digitised world of infinite images we construct a sense of self, or experience and try to understand one another in a complex social reality. The artist invited Ruvimbo Gumbochuma to write two poems reflecting on aspects of the exhibition and its themes. Titled ... More
The James Museum announces Robin Nicholson as new Executive Director
ST. PETERSBURG, FL .- The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art Board of Directors announced today Robin Nicholson as the organization's new Executive Director. An accomplished Cambridge art historian and innovative 'outside the box' museum leader, Nicholson joins The James Museum, having led three American art museums in Deputy Director and Executive Director/CEO roles since 2006 and most recently as the co-founder of the startup Art Museum Strategies. Director of Development Debbie Sokolov will serve as the museums Interim Executive Director. Nicholson will start in his position on June 1, 2023. Nicholson brings extensive insight into leading a non-profit art institution and wide-ranging knowledge from working in the for-profit and gallery worlds. An imaginative strategic thinker, he has been at the forefront ... More
Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by Madeline Peckenpaugh
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Madeline Peckenpaugh: Farsight. This exhibition opened Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Maybe its her Midwest upbringing, the distinct flora and fauna that grow in the marshes and prairies of Wisconsin. Maybe its moving from that environment into urban landscapes in her adult life. Maybe its being raised by two painters, who to this day remain the artists she holds in highest regard. Or maybe its her aptitude for observation of things that others dont see, with her ability to pick up on compositions that naturally occur within the backdrop of daily life. In Farsight, Madeline Peckenpaughs visual languagea likely culmination of all influences previously mentionedoffers a new way through the unending questions surrounding the act of painting. With Peckenpaughs work, what you see is most ... More
'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' takes its final curtsy
NEW YORK, NY.- On a morning in mid-October, on the set of the Amazon comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, set dressers readied the grimy Midtown office of Susie Myerson, the talent manager played with a newsboy cap and signature glare by Alex Borstein. An animal wrangler oversaw a flock of pigeons outside a false window as a scenic artist painted on their droppings. In a haze of herbal cigarette smoke, the actors Borstein, Alfie Fuller and Rachel Brosnahan ran the scene again, again, again, until the pauses vanished and the dialogue sang. If you have seen The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the first streaming show to win an Emmy for best comedy series (one of 20 Emmys overall), you will suspect, correctly, that the lighting was gorgeous, the costumes sumptuous, the hair and makeup luxuriant. Each pigeon gleamed. (The fake ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Robert Doisneau was born April 14, 1912. Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 - 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. In this image: French photographer Robert Doisneau photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge, 1992. Photo © Bracha L. Ettinger.
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