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Mark Bradfords 2022 mural-size text piece, 500, which comprises 60 versions of a 1913 advertisement recruiting Black families to settle in a colony in New Mexico named Blackdom, is included in the exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss. on Aug. 2, 2022. The group exhibition explores the personal legacy of the era-shaping movement from the rural South. Imani Khayyam/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
JACKSON, MISS.- Midday, midweek, in mid-90 degrees midsummer, the streets of a downtown historic district of this Southern capital are all but empty. Theyre like a film set, perfect in period detail but past use and abandoned. A patch of sidewalk embedded with the mosaicked words Bon-Ton Café marks the spot of what was, a century ago, Jacksons toniest restaurant. In the nearby King Edward Hotel, built as the Edwards Hotel in 1923 for travel swells, later a gathering spot for blues musicians, then derelict until a recent revamp, foot traffic is sparse. Across from it, trains regularly rumble into a Georgian Revival-style Union Station, but few passengers disembark or board. Decades ago, transcontinental trains and buses leaving the old art deco Greyhound depot a few blocks away did brisk business. And some of that business came from carrying Black Jacksonians northward, eastward and westward, out of a repressive and dangerous Jim Crow South, to what they hoped would be a safer a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bildmuseet in Sweden opened the doors to a rich presentation of Nancy Holt's innovative art. The exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside presents works from 1967 to 1992 and occupies five floors of the art museum. This is the artist's first major retrospective in Europe and the most ambitious exhibition of her work to date. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Nancy Holt (1938-2014) expanded the places where art could be found, embracing the new media of her time.
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| Max Hollein consolidates roles as Met Museum's Chief | | West Harlem Art Fund presents Brooklyn artist Tanika William this weekend with a new pop-up installation | | Storm King announces ambitious $45M redesign and Capital Project |
Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Sept. 4, 2019. Lelanie Foster/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will add the title of CEO, the museums board announced Wednesday, giving him full control of one of the worlds largest museums. Hollein will take on that new role upon the departure of Daniel H. Weiss, the Mets president and CEO, who last month announced that he would step down in June 2023. (Weiss has been president of the Met since 2015 and president and CEO since 2017.) Max has done a great job during his tenure as director, Candace K. Beinecke, one of the museums two board chairs, said in a telephone interview. He has inspired enormous confidence as a future leader. The move returns the museum to its single chief management structure, one from which it has departed over the years. The Mets current two-pronged leadership structure, ... More | |
As a meditation on quiet care, intention, intergenerational movement, and labor (construct)Clearing seeks to understand how we wear and repeat family patterns of silence and separation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the start of the pandemic, only during summer months, the West Harlem Art Fund hosts a residency with artists from NYC and around the country on Governors Island. Visual Muze is a unique storytelling residency and retreat. It provides visual artists, performance artists, multi-media designers, and writers the opportunity to explore narrative forms within collaborative projects, works in progress, guest lectures, and crafts. Participants can choose to work independently or in teams to create original works in print, film, public performance, or digitally for a culminating exhibition. Process, creative strategy, and inspiration is emphasized. Beginning this Saturday on August 6th, Brooklyn-based artist Tanika Williams will present her site specific installation Intrinsic Ecologies and short dance film (construct)Clearing in Nolan Park at Building 10B (NP/10) where West Harlem Art Fund resides on Governors Island. ... More | |
Rendering of new welcome sequence at Storm King Art Center. Background right: Alexander Calder, The Arch, 1975. Purchase fund and gift of the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image © Storm King Art Center.
NEW WINDSOR, NY .- Storm King Art Center is set to embark on an ambitious capital project to enhance and sustain into the future the extraordinary experience of art and nature it offers its visitors, artists, and community. Breaking ground later this year and due to be completed in 2024, the project comprises a new Welcome Sequence with consolidated parking and accessible amenities; the construction of a Conservation, Fabrication, and Maintenance Building; and a holistic approach to landscape stewardship and environmental sustainability. For more than 60 years, Storm Kings vision of art in nature has inspired visitors and artists alike. The $45 million capital project represents a significant commitment to creatively improve and preserve the Art Centers 500-acre site, securing its unique landscape for decades to come. To realize this vision, the Art Center ... More |
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| The Indra and Harry Banga Gallery presents "Hunters, Warriors, Spirits: Nomadic Art of North China" | | Two-part official charity sale of 60 lots celebrates 60 years of James Bond | | Veteran artist-respected Lalitha Lajmi works offered at Prinseps Auction house |
Installation view.
HONG KONG.- The Indra and Harry Banga Gallery of the City University of Hong Kong is presenting the new exhibition Hunters, Warriors, Spirits: Nomadic Art of North China from July 23rd through October 23rd, 2022. Chinese history and the history of Eurasia cannot be understood without looking at the central role played by the nomads. The history of sedentary states from China to Central Europe has been moulded in large measure by the ebb and flow of their relationships with the nomads, sometimes with one in the ascendancy and sometimes the other. North China generally refers to the territory inhabited by the indigenous groups commonly known under the umbrella term Hu in Chinese annals, which includes the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran and the last hunters of Chinas northern forest, the Orochen. Presented through over two hundred and fifty art objects, this exhibition tells the story of ... More | |
No Time To Die (2021), A signed clapperboard. Estimate: £5,000-7,000 / US$6,000-8,300 / 6,000-8,300. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- To mark the 60th anniversary of the James Bond films, Christies and EON Productions will hold an official two-part charity sale, Sixty Years of James Bond, in September 2022, presenting a total of 60 lots. Attendance at the live auction on 28 September is by invitation only to bid in person, with fans and collectors worldwide able to bid online using Christies LiveTM, via telephone bidding, or by leaving an absentee bid. Featuring 25 lots, the live sale will comprise vehicles, watches, costumes and props associated with the 25th film No Time To Die with the final six lots offered celebrating each of the six James Bonds. The online sale will be open for bidding from 15 September until James Bond Day on 5 October presenting 35 lots spanning the twenty-five films with posters, props, costumes, memorabilia and experiences. ... More | |
Lalitha Lajmi, Portrait of Gangubai. Etching. Signed lower right, 1982/ 9.5 x 6.5 in. Estimate INR 25,000 - 75,000.
MUMBAI.- Prinseps announces the auction of veteran artist Lalitha Lajmi's prints on 10th August 2022. The 65-lot auction navigates the themes of death, performance, and the complexities of human relationships. The Lalitha Lajmi Prints auction will be open for live bidding on 10th August 2022, 10 am, and closes on 11th August, 7 pm onwards. Lalitha Lajmi (b. 1932) is a veteran printmaker and artist who continues to paint in her Lokhandwala home at the age of 89. Her creative oeuvre traverses over five decades (and counting) and includes etching and printmaking, pen and ink drawings, oil colour, and watercolour paintings. This auction covers Lajmis work from the 1960s to the 1980s, demonstrating elements of an autobiographical narrative with a continuous presence of psychoanalysis. Born into ... More |
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| Berlin Photo Week offers a big boost for photography skills: Over 50 talks and lectures | | Rare early 12-cent U.S. postage stamp brings $19,520 at Holabird's Wild West Auction | | Nara Roesler announces the representation of artist Thiago Barbalho |
Tickets, information and registration details are all available at berlinphotoweek.com.
From Friday, 2 September to Sunday, 4 September on two stages at Arena Berlin, the Berlin Photo Week is organising a wide-ranging programme of conferences, lectures and discussions on photography every day at 12.30 p.m.
BERLIN.- Look, listen, learn and improve your photography skills: from 2 to 4 September the Berlin Photo Week is organising a wide-ranging conference programme at Arena Berlin. Highlights will include lectures by the Magnum photographers Nana Heitmann, Bieke Depoorter, Yael Martinez and Paolo Pellegrin all presented in cooperation with editors of DER SPIEGEL magazine, the media partner of the Berlin Photo Week. Tickets, information and registration details are all available at berlinphotoweek.com. From Friday, 2 September to Sunday, 4 September on two stages at Arena Berlin, the Berlin Photo Week is organising a wide-ranging ... More | |
Extremely rare early U.S. 12-cent postage stamp with a portrait bust of George Washington, graded in Fine/Very Fine condition, despite a little dirt and some crinkle ($19,520).
RENO, NEV.- An extremely rare early U.S. 12-cent postage stamp with a portrait bust of George Washington sold for $19,520 and the 1860 U.S. Army Colt revolver with a Richards conversion that once belonged to legendary lawman and gunfighter Elfego Baca (1865-1945) hit the mark for $13,750 at Holabird Western Americana Collections Wild West Auction held July 21st-24th. The auction, which was a huge success by any measure and saw new record prices established in numerous collecting categories, was held online and live at Holabirds gallery in Reno. It was headlined by the collections of Gary Bracken, who collected in a staggering 60-plus categories; and James and Barbara Sherman, whose huge collections were housed in a museum in Tucson. Hundreds of collectible ... More | |
Thiago Barbalho, 2022. Photo: Flávio Freire.
SAO PAULO.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Thiago Barbalho (Natal, Brazil, 1984). Having been based in São Paulo for over a decade, Barbalho has stood out from within the contemporary scene for his large drawings that weave intricate visual universes filled with figures from cartoons, book illustrations, artifacts from popular Northeastern culture, and also references from contemporary culture such as brand logos and product packaging, which take up the entire length of the paper in vibrant colors. Barbalho's work is marked by an abundance of shapes and materials, including graphite, colored pencils, ballpoint pen, permanent marker and acrylic, oil and pastel paints. The interest in the plurality of shapes and textures began with the artist's experiments with paint brush software. The possibility of getting closer or further away from the image, with the zoom in and zoom out tools, paved the way for the artist ... More |
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| UCCA Edge presents 'Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History' | | National Portrait Gallery announces shortlist for Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 | | The story of a glass of absinthe |
Thomas Demand, Control Room, 2011. C-print mounted on Diasec, 200 x 300 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Matthew Marks Gallery, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Esther Schipper Galerie, and Taka Ishii Gallery.
SHANGHAI.- From July 8 to September 4, 2022, UCCA Edge presents The Stutter of History, the first comprehensive survey of work by Thomas Demand (b. 1964, Munich, lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles) in China. Capturing the uncanny intersections of history, images, and archtectonic forms, the exhibition features over 70 photographs, films, and wallpapers that span the arc of the artists career, and focuses on four important areas of his work: large-scale photographs depicting seemingly banal yet historically significant scenarios reconstructed from news images or other sources; Dailies based on images taken on his phone; photographic studies of paper models from other creative disciplines in Model Studies; and his moving image work. The exhibition is curated by Douglas Fogle for the non-profit organization the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and is organized at UCCA Edge by Ara Qiu, Mason Zha, Zh ... More | |
Zahids Son from the series The Lost Enchiridion of the Fergana Valley by Alexander Komenda © Alexander Komenda.
LONDON.- Three international photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize2022, the prestigious photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery , London. The shortlisted works will be displayed in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 exhibition at Cromwell Place, a new arts hub in South Kensington, London from the 27 October until 18 December 2022, while the Gallerys building in St Martins Place is closed for major redevelopment works. Selected by a panel of judges from 4,462 entries from 1,697 photographers, the three shortlisted photographers are: Haneem Christian for Mother and Daughter and Rooted, which explore queerness, transness and the importance of chosen family. Clémentine Schneidermann for portraits from the series Laundry Day, which document the daily chores of her neighbour in South Wales, navigating life in lockdown. Alexander K ... More | |
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Glass of Absinthe. Paris, spring 1914. Bronze painted in oil and white metal absinthe spoon, 21 à 14 à 7 cm. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Madrid. On temporary loan to Museo Picasso Málaga © FABA Photo: Hugard & Vanoverschelde Photography © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2022.
MALAGA.- In the spring of 1914, Pablo Picasso made a series of six bronzes depicting an absinthe glass. Cast from the same wax maquette, they are identical in shape but each bronze is painted differently. These six versions of the Glass of Absinthe are perhaps the most interesting example of Picassos cubist polychrome sculpture. In his Cubist paintings, Picasso often used different colours to create variations on the same underlying composition. However, this was the first time he created a series of variations in the medium of sculpture. Each of the six bronzes is a unique work, with different areas highlighted by colour, pattern and texture. Absinthe, or La Fée verte (the Green Fairy), was a favourite drink in bohemian Paris. Flavoured with wormwood and other herbs, it was believed to cause ... More |
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Shutting the door on the hard-knock life
NEW YORK, NY.- Getting to play Cinderella in a Broadway revival of Into the Woods sounds like a young musical theater performers dream, until you break your neck doing the pratfalls built into the role. Thats what Laura Benanti says happened to her in 2002. I was a 22-year-old girl who didnt know how to say this doesnt feel safe to me, she wrote on her Instagram page nearly two decades later, after suffering intense pain every single day for seven years, two surgeries and much heartbreak. At the time, people bad-mouthed her for missing performances. Disastrous tumbles and physical danger are so much a part of theater history that theyve become treasured backstage lore instead of causes for concern. I am ashamed to admit to laughing when I read about the dancer who fell into the Anyone Can Whistle orchestra pit in 1964, landing on ... More
Opening this weekend: Bill Lynch's first UK institutional show at Brighton CCA
BRIGHTON.- Largely overlooked in his lifetime, Bill Lynch was a painter of exceptional power and talent, whose work ranging across time and cultures continues to speak to us about the power of the past in the present moment. Assessing Lynch's work in the New York Times in 2014, critic Roberta Smith wrote Genius lands where genius will, and Im pretty sure some alighted on Bill Lynch. The exhibition takes place from 6 August to 15 October. The title is a reference to the Greek god of wine, parties, theatre, harvest, madness and ecstasy. As a young man Lynch arrived to study at Cooper Union in New York around 1978. Described by his friend the artist Verne Dawson, he radiated a physical energy that was incandescent of the Sufi bent intoxication, whirling, playing the fiddle all in the service of connecting with the oneness of spirit and matter. Lynch ... More
MCA Australia launches C3West 2022 Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook by Artist Cherine Fahd
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in partnership with Parramatta Artists Studios have launched this year's C3West project Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook. Presented in Parramattas Centenary Square, this large-scale photographic installation runs until 3 October. In 2022, C3West artist Cherine Fahd celebrates Parramatta and its people through photography and performance. Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook uses the common experience of group portraiture and school photography to create moments that reflect Parramattas diverse communities during a period of unprecedented urban development and in a time when citys streets and spaces have sprung back with activity in the post-lockdown period. Between November 2021 and July 2022, Fahd made portraits of people at various locations in Parramattas CBD. Setting ... More
Performance Space announces Jeff Khan, Artistic Director and CEO to step down after 11 years
SYDNEY.- The Performance Space Board has today announced that after 11 years at Performance Space including eight years leading the organisation as its Artistic Director and CEO, Jeff Khan will be stepping down from the role from August 31. Jeff will stay on in the role of Creative Consultant to oversee his curated program for the forthcoming 2022 edition of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art which returns to its home at Carriageworks from 20-30 October. Jeff Khan said, "It is with much sadness, but also with great pride, that I take my leave of Performance Space after over a decade. I am immensely proud of what we have achieved as a team, and of the strong position Performance Space is in. Its been an honour and privilege of the highest degree to lead an organisation that is so critically important to Australias arts ecology, and Im ... More
Barrington Stage Company names Alan Paul as Artistic Director
NEW YORK, NY.- The Barrington Stage Company announced Wednesday that Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will become its new artistic director, taking over the nonprofit theater company in western Massachusetts known for producing notable new musicals and popular revivals and helping turn the Berkshires into a cultural oasis. Paul, who has worked at Shakespeare Theater Company since 2007, will succeed Julianne Boyd, the Barrington Stage Companys co-founder, who is retiring at the end of the 2022 season after leading the company for 27 years. Pauls programming for the theater company will begin with the 2023 season, officials said. He is an enormous talent, a successful director, a collaborative leader, invested in community and a champion of diversity ... More
Theater at Geffen Hall to be named for two key donors
NEW YORK, NY.- In late 2020, as coronavirus infections surged and cultural institutions shuttered, the fate of the long-delayed renovation of David Geffen Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, was uncertain. Then came a $50 million gift from Joseph Tsai, a Taiwanese-born billionaire and co-founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, a philanthropist. The donation moved the project forward, accelerating construction so the hall could reopen in October, a year and a half ahead of schedule. In a nod to the role of the Tsai family, Lincoln Center and the Philharmonic announced on Wednesday that the main auditorium in the hall would be named the Wu Tsai Theater. It really took courage, Katherine Farley, chair of Lincoln Centers board, said of the gift in an interview. And that courage inspired other people, ... More
Review: Black Grace dances out a different kind of buzz
NEW YORK, NY.- I was expecting an energy boost, and then some. But Black Grace, a celebrated company from New Zealand known for dazzling, fast dancing, returned to the Joyce Theater with a different kind of buzz, as the Lorde song Royals, quoted in the first dance of the evening, puts it. Was it contemplative? Was it intimate? In any event, for much of the program, modern dance struggled to hold its own against traditional movement drawn from the South Pacific. And vice versa. Led by its affable artistic director and founder, Neil Ieremia, who delivered speeches from the stage, the ensemble was formed in 1995 and is admired for blending traditional and contemporary dance. But Ieremia, who was born in Wellington and is of Samoan descent, is perhaps most clearly a fan of a particular modern dance classic: Paul Taylors Esplanade. ... More
George Bartenieff, fixture of downtown theater, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- George Bartenieff, an actor and producer who was a significant figure in the off-off-Broadway and experimental theater world as a founder of two theater groups, died July 30 at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 89. His wife, playwright Karen Malpede, said the cause was the cumulative effects of several advanced illnesses. Bartenieff had credentials that might have led to a mainstream acting career. He was on Broadway before he was 15 and in the 1960s appeared there in plays by Edward Albee and John Guare. His smattering of film and television credits suggest that he could have made a character-actors career just out of playing a judge or a doctor on series like Law & Order. But he much preferred to be involved in the kinds of socially conscious, form-bending plays staged in downtown Manhattan and, sometimes, ... More
Dan Smith might teach you guitar
NEW YORK, NY.- For three decades, Dan Smith has been making a solemn promise to New Yorkers. He has posted his flier Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar thousands of times in the citys bodegas, coffee shops, pizza parlors, delis and laundromats. Parodied by Jon Stewart and guitar god John Mayer, Smith has reached local legend status alongside the likes of Cellino & Barnes, Dr. Zizmor and Keano. There have been at least 60 versions of the sign, and most have included a photo of a seemingly ageless, sinewy and smiley Smith posing with his instrument. But spotting one in the urban wild may soon become a rarity, because New Yorks go-to guitar teacher is doing less of his vintage style of promotion and embracing a more 2022 approach. Three months ago, Smith, 51, started a YouTube channel, where he has posted short instructional videos ... More
Rzewski for lovers? A pianist mines a prickly modernist's gentler side
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski, who died last year, was celebrated for the committed nature of his leftist politics as well as his music. On the political front, he tended to walk the walk whether writing a series of variations based on a Chilean workers anthem (in The People United Will Never Be Defeated), or undermining the high-toned trappings of contemporary classical culture by playing at a fish market. He also distributed his scores online, free for any player to peruse. He could also be harsh and exacting in his artistic judgments. But one thing Rzewski wasnt known for were capital-R Romantic gestures. So when pianist Lisa Moore introduced one of Rzewskis final pieces at a Bang on the Can festival at Mass MoCA last year, murmurs of surprise were audible in the crowd as she related ... More
Abraham Lincoln, Vincent van Gogh, and Marilyn Monroe, among fine autographs and artifacts up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- With over 850 items in a wide variety of categoriesAmerican history, art, literature, entertainment, music, and moreRR Auction's August Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction is sure to impress. Highlights include an important Abraham Lincoln signed document from 1865, the historically important document rebuilding the North-South economy: President Lincoln grants a permit to transport cotton across "the national military lines." The two-page manuscript was signed as president, and is dated March 7, 1865. (Estimate: $40,000+) A handwritten poem by Vincent van Gogh, the extraordinary one-page manuscript by Vincent Van Gogh, is unsigned with no date but circa late 1876. Van Gogh, an avid ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Canadian painter Tom Thomson was born August 05, 1877. Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 - July 8, 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. Thomson died under mysterious circumstances, which added to his mystique. In this image: This newly discovered Tom Thomson oil on board recently sold for $126,500.
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