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Norman Foster in Gallery 1 of the Pompidou Center in Paris, May 9, 2023. At 87, the British architect is being honored with a major retrospective that glances back on some of his greatest buildings and toward his vision for the future. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
by Farah Nayeri
PARIS.- Take the escalators to the top of the Pompidou Center in Paris and youll reach the museums largest exhibition hall, Gallery 1 a vast space which, over the years, has hosted surveys of art-historical heavyweights like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Salvador DalÃ. Now, for the first time, Gallery 1 is showcasing the work of an architect: Norman Foster. Foster, 87, was approached by the museum in 2018 to exhibit his work in the ground-level gallery often used for architecture shows, but he wanted to display many more objects than would fit. So he was granted a space thats nearly three times bigger, said the exhibitions curator, Frédéric Migayrou. To help cover the extra costs, Foster secured sponsorship from companies whose buildings he had designed, Migayrou added. Foster was drawn to architecture from his teens in Manchester, England, filling his class notebook with drawings of buildings. He studied the discipline at Yale University alongside Richard Ro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The List Center exhibition premieres Alison Nguyenâs first live-action film, history as hypnosis (2023), as a three-channel installation alongside a related print and video sculpture. Drawing on the cinematic tropes of science-fiction, Western, and road films, history as hypnosis surfaces themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal and centers characters and narratives that, as the artist observes, are often âomitted from history and the screen.â
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| As his Nike deal stalls, Tom Sachs apologizes for workplace culture | | 'Joe Ray: Inside Out' now opening at Bortolami Gallery | | WNDR Museum debuts three-story dots obsession infinity room, installation by Yayoi Kusama |
The artist Tom Sachs in Chicago, July 8, 2022. After Nike announced that it would not move forward with his lucrative sneaker deal, Sachs apologized in a statement to The New York Times for his treatment of former staff members in his studio. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After Nike announced that it would not move forward with his lucrative sneaker deal, artist Tom Sachs apologized in a statement to The New York Times for his treatment of former staff members in his studio. These past few months have been a time of overdue reflection, Sachs said. It has been painful but vital. I deeply regret that anyone, ever, felt less than supported, safe and fulfilled within my studio but it is clear that some people did. The artists decision to publicly address issues within his studio came three months after several news reports that quoted former employees who anonymously shared their experiences about working for the notoriously demanding sculptor. The reports snowballed into a public ... More | |
Joe Ray, Emma Jean, 2023, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 60 x 84 x 2 1/2 in (152.4 x 213.4 x 6.3 cm). Photo: Yubo Dong / of studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami is opening Inside Out, Joe Rays first solo exhibition in New York, which will continue through June 17th, 2023. The show, at 39 Walker, comprises three distinct bodies of work; Nebula paintings, cast resin sculptures, and photographs, representing the breadth of Rays oeuvre. Ray began making his luminous and atmospheric Nebula paintings in the mid- 1970s. Like many artists of his generation, he investigated the possibilities that technological advancements (like plastics and space exploration) appeared to offer. The celestial canvases, composed of layers of acrylic and aerosol paints, seamlessly dovetail into the legacy of the Light and Space movement as well as Afrofuturisms imagined utopias. Rays paintings also allude to humanistic concernswe are the stuff of the universe, born of the same material. The seven new canvases in the current ... More | |
Dots Obsession by Yayoi Kusama. Credit WNDR Museum.
CHICAGO, IL.- WNDR Museum, Chicagos original immersive art and technology experience, located in the citys West Loop, today announced the U.S. debut of the yellow Dots Obsession, a three-story immersive infinity installation by the globally iconic Yayoi Kusama, on Friday, May 12. Featuring a series of floating yellow and black polka dots alongside walk-in and peep-in installations, Dots Obsession will fill WNDRs atrium and transport visitors into Kusamas obsession with polka dots, repetition, celestial bodies and the experience of the infinite. Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions, Yayoi Kusama has said. The collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Kusama, first in 2012 and then again in 2023, has further expanded attention and affection of the 94-year-old renowned artist. While Yayoi Kusama fans in New ... More |
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| Carl Solway Gallery pays tribute to late founder with exhibition drawn from sixty-one years of archives | | Solo presentation of new sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Esther Ruiz at CHART | | Newly uncovered and unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald letter for sale |
Nam June Paik, I Make Mistake after Mistake, but it always comes out Positive, vintage tv cabinets, video recorders, two channel video, 1996, Signed and dated 96 in acrylic paint on right side of head, including TV face drawing in yellow paint,75 1/4 x 42 x 24 inches.
CINCINNATI, OH.- In a special tribute to Cincinnatis late premier gallerist Carl Solway, Carl Solway Gallery will present ARCHIVES: Carl Solway Gallery 1962-2023. Opening Friday, May 12 continuing through July 14 at 424 Findlay Street, in Cincinnatis West End. The exhibition will be devoted to presenting sixty-one years of selected gallery ephemera, including artists correspondence, exhibition announcements, drawings, sculptures, posters, photographs, prints, catalogues, and other related materials. Some of the influential artists of his time with which Carl Solway worked are Harry Bertoia, John Cage, Helen Frankenthaler, Buckminster Fuller, Sam Gilliam ... More | |
Esther Ruiz, Beacon III, 2023. Poplar, neon, goldstone, labradorite, epoxy clay, hardware and polyurethane, 12 x 5 x 4 inches (30.5 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm). Courtesy the Artist and CHART. Photo by Elisabeth Bernstein.
NEW YORK, NY.- CHART is presenting our seventh PROJECTION exhibition, Partial Light Index, a solo presentation of new sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Esther Ruiz. Building on her practice of combining Minimalist forms and materials with colorful palettes and outer space-inspired fictionalizations, these newest works offer a deeper look into Ruizs rigorous investigations into the natural elements that make up our world and how alien at times those basic compounds can seem. The exhibition will run from May 12 to June 25, with an opening reception on May 12, from 6 8 pm. Arrayed around the gallery are a number of small, amoebic-shaped wall works, Beacons, as Ruiz refers to them. Hand-carved ... More | |
Autograph letter signed. April 22, 1924, Great Neck. The Gatsby author denies having said, "All women over 35 should be murdered."
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Raab Collection announced about a literary discovery: an unknown and apparently unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald letter from April 22, 1924, written to a long-lost cousin. The handwritten note touches on family, religion, women, and other subjects, and shows a personal and unreserved side of Fitzgerald. Obtained from a descendant of the recipient, the letter goes on sale this week for the first time ever, valued at $15,000. On religion: Since I ceased being a Catholic he [a priest in the family] thinks Im a lost soul, Fitzgerald writes. On women: Fitzgerald denies all complicity in that all women over 35 article was written by a lady interviewer and titled by a silly editor. The author was referencing a sensational article published in Metr ... More |
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| Whose queen? Netflix and Egypt spar over an African Cleopatra | | Rodin Sculpture installed at the new Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross | | Graham Nash has a few more songs before he goes |
Mohamed Khaled arranges Cleopatra printed bags in the bazaar where he works in Cairo on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Heba Khamis/The New York Times)
by Vivian Yee
CAIRO.- On this much, at least, everyone can agree: Cleopatra was a formidable queen of ancient Egypt, the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty founded by Alexander the Great, who went on to even greater posthumous fame as a seductress, immortalized by Shakespeare and Hollywood. Beyond that, many of the details are fuzzy which is how one of the worlds dominant streaming services ended up in an imbroglio with modern-day Egypt recently, called out by online commenters and even the Egyptian government for casting a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series African Queens, which airs Wednesday. Soon after the shows trailer appeared last month, Netflix was forced ... More | |
"Le génie du repos éternel" by Auguste Rodin. Photo courtesy of College of the Holy Cross.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross has received a gift of the bronze sculpture Le génie du repos éternel (Spirit of Eternal Repose) by Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) to the Cantor Art Gallerys permanent collection in celebration of the Gallerys move to the new Prior Performing Arts Center. The sculpture is a gift from philanthropist and benefactor to the College Iris Cantor. Considered to be the foremost innovator of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin broke with traditional conventions to create works that embody the vitality of the human spirit. The late B. Gerald and Iris Cantor, along with the Cantor Foundation, have a long history of supporting the arts at numerous institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Art Museum, ... More | |
Graham Nash in New York, April 5, 2023. At 81, the singer-songwriter admits his time could be short, especially after losing David Crosby but in the meantime, hes got plenty to say and sing. (Daniel Arnold/The New York Times)
ALEXANDRIA, VA.- Graham Nash was slow to smile on a recent Wednesday afternoon, sitting in early spring sunshine on the porch of a cafe near Washington, D.C. The night before, the 81-year-old singer-songwriter had bounded onto the stage of the Birchmere, a folk bastion, and wooed the sold-out crowd with his tunes that long ago became generational standards, like Teach Your Children and Military Madness. He shared the songs and candid stories of longtime pals like Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell, landing expertly practiced punchlines. But hed awakened in the daze of emotional hangover. Exactly three months had passed since the January death of David Crosby, his best friend ... More |
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| Wura-Natasha Ogunji now on view at Fridman Gallery | | In 'Sweeney Todd,' Annaleigh Ashford puts it all together | | GemGenève presents 'The Designer Vivarium' curated by Vivienne Becker |
Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Everything was lost and found, 2023. Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper, 24 x 24.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery is now presenting Cake, Wura-Natasha Ogunjis first solo exhibition in New York, which will begin with an opening receptiion on the 12th from 6-8. Ogunji works in drawing, painting, performance, and video. The exhibition includes new drawings and a site-specific thread installation, accompanied by a selection of the artist's early video works, and will also include an artist talk on Saturday, the 13th at 6 pm. In many of her drawings Ogunji explores water as architecture lagoons rendered in ink, stitched lines of a river, or the empty space of the paper itself (an imagined expanse of sea). The work also often develops around language. As the artist creates, titles emerge and become the structure determining the form of the pieces. Stitching the gallery space floor-to-ceiling, the thread installation turns the space itself into a drawing that viewers can enter, a container for collective experience. Ogu ... More | |
Annaleigh Ashford in New York, April 25, 2023. (Erik Tanner/The New York Times)
by Alexis Soloski
NEW YORK, NY.- On a round table in her dressing room at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, Annaleigh Ashford always has a 1,000-piece puzzle in progress. The current one reveals a picture of a cat. Fellow cast members of Sweeney Todd slot in pieces as they come and go throughout the night, bringing coherence out of chaos, making a whole out of many parts. It is, Ashford said, our little homage to Steve, referring to Stephen Sondheim, the musicals composer and a lover of puzzles and games. On a recent Monday, her sole day off, Ashford had come to the Uncommons, a board game cafe in Manhattans West Village neighborhood, to find a new puzzle. She would assemble it while she discussed playing the musicals Mrs. Lovett, a pie maker with a grisly approach to fillings. She arrived in a white short-sleeved, high-necked sweater ... More | |
For this edition of GemGenève, explains Vivienne Becker, the Designer Vivarium demonstrates the immense creative freedom of todays jewellery world.
GENEVA.- This May, the Designer Vivarium returns to GemGenève, with five international contemporary designers, four of whom are entirely new to the Vivarium, showcasing their work here at GemGenève for the first time. As always, the Designer Vivarium is curated by jewellery historian, Vivienne Becker, who scours the globe for fresh, creative talent, searching for independent, individual under-the-radar designer jewellers, artists and goldsmiths, with something original to say in their jewellery. As ever, she looks for a strong, singular creative vision, for intense individuality, and sophistication of craftsmanship. For this edition of GemGenève, explains Vivienne Becker, the Designer Vivarium demonstrates the immense creative freedom of todays jewellery world, the variety and versatility, depth and breadth of themes, inspirations and expressions, and ingenuity of materials ... More |
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Moncrieff-Bray Gallery presenting works of 40 artists and sculptors from Land's End to Ullapool in summer exhibition
The Moncrieff-Bray Gallery presents it's Summer Exhibition in a converted barn and landscaped gardens with stunning views over the Rother Valley. Over 40 artists and sculptors are drawn from all corners of the British Isles. The work is selected with a commitment to quality, integrity and originality from established and emerging artists alike. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a range of outstanding contemporary British sculpture in the heart of the South Downs National Park. There are small-scale intimate works for interiors as well as stunning large pieces for the garden. Established 18 years ago, the Summer Exhibition has become a highlight in the West Sussex art calendar. ... More
Exhibition by Behjat Sadr, curated by Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani, to be opened at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
NEW YORK, NY.- The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art will be opening the first institutional solo exhibition of Behjat Sadr (19242009) in the United States on May 15th, which will be preceeded by a press preview on the 12th. This exhibition unveils Sadrs diverse practice, which spanned painting, photography, photomontage and kinetics. Born in Arāk, Iran, Behjat broke through the male-dominated pre-Revolutionary Iranian art world, establishing herself as one of the foremost artists of the 20th century with her biomorphic gestural abstractions that defied the status-quo. This exhibition explores Sadr's engagement with painting by unearthing the deep and inherent relatio ... More
'Orion Martin: Faboo' now opening at Derosia in New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- Orion Martins paintings mine histories of visual culture to engineer wild hybridizations, often employing the human figure as a site at which varying optical and perceptual models coincide. For Faboo, Martin continues his investigation of the entanglement between gender, costume, and performance. In headstands and high kicks, arranged alone or in pairs, the figures in Martins new works interface with a multitude of references, organized with the defiance of spatial and physical causality that has become a signature feature of the artists work. Martins source material traffics in contradiction and anachronism, as he examines the paradoxical flamboyance of military costume, the vestigial futurism of Y2K aesthetics, the awkward perspectival efforts of the early Renaissance, and more. Stag ... More
Catherine Anholt 'Love, Life, Loss', Curated by Tom Anholt, now on view at CHOI&CHOI Gallery
SEOUL.- On Friday 12 May 2023, 6 - 9 pm, with Catherine Anholt in attendance, CHOI&CHOI Gallery will host an opening reception to open 'Catherine Anholt. You cant Fake the Funk'. Im biased of course, but Id say that my mother, Catherine Anholt, is the most generous person I know. Love, shelter, food, support - she can never give enough. I think it comes from the Irish tradition: We might not have much, but what we have, we share. As soon as she sent the first photos, I could tell that these were generous paintings but my god, when you see them in the flesh! These images are like thick, warm pudding, with plenty to go around. Delicious daubs of paint which describe deeply personal journeys and meaningful moments. You have to be a very generous person - a very generous painter, to give this much to the viewer. ... More
Review: Absences, s-curves and wonderful asymmetries
NEW YORK, NY.- A little over 10 years ago, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, a superlative exemplar of the classical Indian dance form Odissi, teamed up with the Chitrasena Dance Company, the foremost group specializing in the Kandyan tradition of Sri Lanka. The all-female pairing was delightfully successful in revealing shared roots and contrasting flavors. It also had an intriguing sibling dynamic, with Nrityagram in charge and more mature-seeming even though Chitrasena was founded nearly a half-century before Nrityagram. Now the two companies have returned with a new show, Ahuti, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. This one promised a twist: men. But, because of injury, only one man from Chitrasena performed, not two. Its hard to say what difference this made ... More
In 'Some Like It Hot,' J. Harrison Ghee brings their whole self
NEW YORK, NY.- No, J. Harrison Ghee did not grow up to be a Missionary Baptist pastor like their father, though they sang in church as a child in North Carolina and earned the nickname Little Reverend Ghee. Nevertheless, eight shows a week, onstage at the Shubert Theater in the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot, Ghee who uses they/them pronouns is giving their own form of testimony. Adapted from the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film, Some Like It Hot follows two musicians who, while fleeing the mob, disguise themselves as women. In a twist on the original, Ghees character, Jerry, not only becomes increasingly comfortable living as Daphne, but starts to feel more like his true self. Having struggled to acknowledge a nonbinary identity, Ghee now regularly has queer people gathered at t ... More
For Broadway dance, high kicks and low comedy in a season of change
NEW YORK, NY.- This years Tony nominees for best choreographer reflect a variety of theatrical dance styles. Theres the director-choreographer, exemplified by Susan Stroman (New York, New York) and Casey Nicholaw (Some Like It Hot). But also the choreographers who reflect other backgrounds, like Steven Hoggett (Sweeney Todd) and Jennifer Weber (& Juliet, KPOP). Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by dance critic Brian Seibert and contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of the choreographic shifts theyve noticed in musical theater. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. JESSE GREEN: There was an almost bewildering variety of movement on Broadway this season. In New York, New York, Susan Stroman seemed to channel the great movie cho ... More
5 Tony-nominated Broadway shows, 5 stagecraft secrets
NEW YORK, NY.- Theater, at its best, is a form of magic it enchants us, transforms us and often makes us wonder, How do they do that? On Broadway, where craft is polished and spectacle is heightened, there is much at which to marvel. So this spring, now that all the 2022-23 plays and musicals have opened, we have once again asked a few of the Tony-nominated shows to let us peek behind the metaphorical curtain, exploring how they came up with, and pulled off, some of the sensational stagecraft that caught our attention this season. The show begins before it begins. Twenty minutes ahead of each performance of A Dolls House, as ticket holders are taking their seats at the Hudson Theater, a curtain rises to reveal the plays star, Jessica Chastain, slumped in an ash Ercol stacking chair, slowly revolving around ... More
Chris Strachwitz, who dug up the roots of American music, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Chris Strachwitz, who traveled in search of the roots of American music with the eagerness of a pilgrim, discovered traditional musicians with the skill of a detective, promoted their careers with the zeal of an ideologue and guarded their work with the care of a historian, died on Friday at an assisted-living facility in San Rafael, California. He was 91. The cause was congestive heart failure, his brother, Hubert, said. Strachwitz specialized in music passed down over generations cotton-field music, orange-orchard music, mountain music, bayou music, barroom music, porch music. The songs came not only from before the era of the music industry but even from before the existence of mass culture itself. Like other leading musical folklorists of the modern recording era among them M ... More
Missouri Botanical Garden hosts works of Chihuly in 'Garden 2023'
ST. LOUIS, MISS.- The work of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly is on view at the Missouri Botanical Garden in a stunning exhibition uniting art and nature. With thousands of pieces of blown glass forms in 18 dramatic installations throughout the Gardens grounds, Chihuly in the Garden 2023 presents these artworks on a grand scale. The Garden is hosting Chihuly in the Garden 2023 daytime viewing through October 15, 2023. Garden President, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, noted Chihuly in the Garden 2023 is our most ambitious exhibition to date. We are pleased to host the work of the legendary Dale Chihuly. His art, designed specifically for the botanical garden setting, captures the imagination. As these works are especially mesmerizing at night, were delighted to offer our Chihuly Nights experience. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born May 12, 1828. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. In this image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mnemosyne, 1876. © Private collection c/o Christie's Images Ltd., 2010.
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