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A torqued A-frame pavilion, made of timber, by Adjaye Associates, outside the Arsenale galleries as part of the main exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, May 18, 2023. Lesley Lokkoâs âLaboratory of the Futureâ is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
by Christopher Hawthorne
VENICE.- It is rare enough for a Venice Architecture Biennale, so often dominated by sleek new architecture and design-world celebrity, to confront fraught subjects such as race, colonialism and climate change. Lesley Lokkoâs nervy, elegant edition, which opened to the public Saturday, goes a step further, asserting that the three themes are inextricably connected in ways that have pressing implications for the profession. âThe Black body was Europeâs first unit of energy,â Lokko, a Scottish Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist, said during a tour of the exhibition last week. Through slave labor and colonial expansion, she argues, Western powers built empires whose imposing architecture â often neoclassical in style and claiming to represent universal aesthetic values â was itself an expression of political control. In this Biennale, officially the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Lokko gives pride of place to two kinds of stories: those that allow Africa and the African diaspor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Born in 1972 in the Japanese city of Osaka, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997. Using woven yarn, the artist combines performance, body art and installations in a process that places at its center the body. Installation view at Galerie Templon. Photo by Adrien Millot.
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| Sofia Mitsola now represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber | | Towner Eastbourne to host retrospective on iconic British artist Barbara Hepworth | | McNay Art Museum awarded $250,000 grant for new artwork acquisition |
Sofia Mitsola, Dark BB, Blood Moon, 2022. Oil on canvas, 260 x 220 cm. © Sofia Mitsola
Photo: Mark Blower.
LONDON.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber has announced the representation of London-based Greek artist Sofia Mitsola, alongside Pilar Corrias, London. Sofia Mitsola works primarily with painting to examine the female body. By looking at figures in ancient Egyptian and Greek sculpture, Japanese animation, and pornography, she composes her own mythological characters and places them in geometrical, stage-like compositions. These are painted in vibrant colors and are layered with washes and impasto. Her paintings often feature bare, larger-than-life characters who address the viewer with their direct gaze and invite them to look back. Through this act, Mitsola forms dynamic relationships between the painting and the viewer to establish new hierarchies and play with ideas of voyeurism, power, and control. I have been following Sofia Mitsola's work with great pleasure over the past few years and I am delighted that she has decided to join our gallery. In ... More | |
Barbara Hepworth with the Gift plaster of Figure for Landscape and a bronze cast of Figure (Archaean) November 1964. Photograph: Lucien Myers. Barbara Hepworth © Bowness.
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Eastbourne will be presenting begining May 27th a landmark retrospective on the iconic British artist, Barbara Hepworth (1903 1975), which will end on September 3rd, 2023. Encompassing sculptures, as well as rarely seen drawings, paintings and archival materials, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life celebrates one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition takes place as part of Towner 100, a series of exhibitions and events marking Towners 100th year. Originally staged at The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life has garnered rave reviews and will display some of Hepworths most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large- scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career. Key loans from national public collections ... More | |
The John R. and Greli N. Less Charitable Trust was established in 2021 and honors the philanthropy of its namesakes and benefactors, longtime San Antonio and Boerne residents John and Greli Less. Frost Bank is a trustee for the trust.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- During the McNay Art Museums annual fund-raising luncheonwhich featured prima ballerina and contemporary art collector Misty Copelandthe Museum announced a $250,000 grant from the John R. and Greli N. Less Charitable Trust for the acquisition of artwork(s) by women artists of color for the Museums permanent collection. The acquisition honors the legacy of the Trusts namesake, Greli N. Less, and strengthens the McNays ongoing championing of the wide-ranging talents of all women in the arts. We are grateful for the tremendous support of the Less Charitable Trust to celebrate women across the spectrum of creative arts, said Matthew McLendon, McNay director and CEO. Since opening in 1954, the McNay has been a space of beauty where all members of our community are welcome. With this generous support, the ... More |
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| The most complete Photography Centre now open at V&A | | Jim Dine now presenting 'Three Ships' including rows of intimate self-portraits | | 'Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits' at The Holburne Museum |
Installation view of the completed Photography Centre at the V&A. Image (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- V&A Photography Centre has opened the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Completed Photography Centre features 600 works across 7 galleries including new acquisitions and commissions on public display for the first time. The V&As Photography Centre is the most extensive suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Spanning global contemporary photography and cutting- edge commissions, to interactive displays and themed galleries showcasing the rich breadth and history of the collection, the seven galleries of the completed Photography Centre four of which are new additions enable visitors to experience photography and its diverse histories in new ways. Photography is embedded in the history of the V&A. The museum has collected and exhibited photography since its ... More | |
Jim Dine, Drawing the minutes A, 2020-2022. Crayon noir sur papier, pencil on paper, 31 à 23,5 cm 12 2/8 à 9 1/4 in. Photo: © Jim Dine Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Templon is presenting until June 30th, 2023 the great American artist Jim Dine, now 87, for the first time in its new Chelsea space. With the exhibition Three Ships, Jim Dine signs a spectacular return to the city of his beginnings. A native of Ohio, Jim Dine moved to New York in 1958. Since his first happenings in the 60s and his first success as part of the Pop Art generation, Jim Dine has always maintained a close relationship with the city, where he has long kept a studio. Now working between Paris, Walla-Walla and Göttingen in Germany, he has chosen for this come back to unveil some of its most innovative new works. Three Ships brings together the production of the past three years: monumental bronze sculptures, rows of intimate self-portraits and five massive abstract paintings on wood. Through a clever play of scale and textures, the exhibition stages the obsessions of the artist: his taste for raw ma ... More | |
Giacomo Mancini, Deruta Dish on a low foot depicting two lovers, c.1550, Victoria and Albert Museum. Bequeathed by George Salting Esq.
BATH .- Some 500 years before apps such as Hinge, Bumble and Matched became familiar ways in which to meet a future partner, portraiture was an essential part of the matrimonial process for the nobility of Northern and Southern Europe. During the Renaissance, artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Antonio Pisanello, Alesso Baldovinetti and Giovanni Battista Moroni were highly sought after, as their portraits of wealthy and powerful patrons were not only a vital part of courtship in the 15th and 16th centuries but also a means of formally proclaiming legal unions between families, documenting the creation of international treaties and, in some cases, the founding of dynasties.In a landmark new exhibition now opening and on view until October 1st , Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits, the Holburne Museum brings together a dazzling collection of paintings and miniatures, ... More |
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| Les Lalannes shine at 16.6 million Sotheby's Paris Design Sale | | May auctions at Michaan's brings music to everyone's ears | | Chinese works achieve more than £9 million at Bonhams Asia Week sales in London |
Claude Lalanne, Pomme de Londres, 2007. Gilt patinated bronze. Monogrammed C.L., stamped LALANNE, dated 2007, numbered 1/8 B and with the foundry's mark FIGINI on the apple and on the stem.
PARIS.- Sotheby's past May 24th important design auction in Paris offered a plethora of major artists from across each of the key periods of design, from Art Nouveau through to Contemporary, totalling 16,623,519 / $17,957,390 (estimate: 7.5 - 10.5 million). 70% of 150 lots sold achieved prices in excess of their high estimates, with many of the top lots making multiples of pre-sale expectations and eight lots selling in excess of 500,000. Spirited participation from collectors bidding in the room, online and, on the phone, drove strong prices for works by Les Lalanne, who took centre stage. The total for 47 works by the legendary design duo was 12.3 million (against an estimate of 4.9-6.8 million), with all but one lot sold - and over 80% of the pieces exceeding their high-estimates. The exemplary group was led by one of Claude ... More | |
Dale Chihuly, Art Glass Macchia Bowl Basket.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions welcomed May with the monthly Gallery Auction on Friday, May 19th. Many unusual lots could be found at Fridays auction, such as Edith Baretto Stevens Parsons Figural Bronze Fountain; an oil painting by VYTAUTAS KASIULIS; as well as a Van Cleef & Arpels Ruby, Enamel, Diamond, 18k Yellow Gold Terrier Brooch. Mays Furniture and Decorative art section exploded early with the silver section achieving a 98% sell thru rate. Next the Edith Baretto Stevens Parsons Figural Bronze Fountain stole the show fetching $7,995. This section was rounded out by an extraordinary lot of Two Volumes of Chinese Art History Blacker books that sold for $2,460. May provided no shortage of sought-after fine art, offering pieces like lot 174, an Illustration for the book "Green Mansions" by William Henry Hudson by MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS (Mexican, 1904-1957) selling for $6,765. Then a strong showing from the artist, VYTAUTAS KASIULIS ... More | |
A Magnificent Gilt-bronze Figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Yongle mark and of the period, sold for £806,700. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The combined total of Bonhams London Asia Week sales hit more than £9.3 million this May across Bonhams New Bond Street and Knightsbridge salerooms. The top lot from across the week was a magnificent gilt-bronze figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Yongle mark and of the period (1403-1424), which sold for £806,700 in the Fine Chinese Art sale on Thursday 18 May, against a pre-sale estimate of £300,000-500,000. This was closely followed by a rare and important Imperial court painting of the Bannerman Teer Deng Che, Qianlong, dated by inscription to 1788 and of the period, which sold for £781,500, nearly four times the estimate of £200,000-300,000. There was a strong start to the week with Bonhams Asian Art sale which took place across Monday and Tuesday (15-16 May) at Bonhams Knightsbridge, with the sale making a total of £2.01million double the pre- ... More |
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| Rehabilitation plans for Iraq's Daesh-damaged Mosul Cultural Museum mark memory of attack | | Navy destroyer sunk in World War II is discovered off Okinawa | | Nagasaki Cathedral's surviving church bell sells for $40,264 at auction |
Artifacts being documented and inventoried, (2022). Image courtesy of Mosul Cultural Museum/SBAH.
MOSUL.- The launch of this restoration phase also marked the opening of the exhibition 'The Mosul Cultural Museum: From Destruction to Rehabilitation'. Restoration plans for Iraqs Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) and its collection illustrate its importance within architectural and world history, placing the museum at the center of Mosuls cultural and community regeneration. The museum, the second largest in Iraq after the National Museum in Baghdad, was established in 1952 to tell the story of northern Iraqa story of global importance that encompasses the very beginning of written historyin galleries dedicated to prehistory, Assyria, Hatra, and Islam. Following Mosuls capture by Daesh in 2014, artifacts of global significance were looted and destroyed, and the Mosul Cultural Museumdesigned by Iraqs leading modernist architect, Mohamed Makiya, ... More | |
A photo provided by the Naval History and Heritage Command shows U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele off the Boston Navy Yard, Mass., on Aug. 1, 1944. The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele, a Navy destroyer sunk by a rocket-powered kamikaze aircraft during the battle for Okinawa in 1945, has been discovered by a group of civilian underwater explorers deep in the Pacific Ocean. (Naval History and Heritage Command via The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk in 1945 by a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II has been discovered by a group of civilian underwater explorers deep in the Pacific Ocean, the groups leader said Wednesday. The USS Mannert L. Abele was the first warship hit by what was then a new Japanese weapon called an Ohka essentially a flying bomb capable of reaching speeds of 600 mph. A group called the Lost 52 Project, which searches for Navy submarines and warships sunk during World War II, found the ship ... More | |
The bell, made of cast bronze, managed to withstand the devastating atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, Japan.
BOSTON, MASS.- The surviving church bell from the ruins of a Nagasaki cathedral has been sold for $40,264 at Auction, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The bell, made of cast bronze, managed to withstand the devastating atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, Japan. This historic artifact bears the markings "Angelus" and "Nagasaki" on one side, while the other side features Japanese characters. The bell retains its partially linked hanging chain, although the clapper is detached. Several small dark spots are visible on the bell, possibly remnants of soot-laden water or heat damage caused by the nearby blast, which originated approximately 2,000 feet from the cathedral. Additionally, traces of metal residue can be observed, likely resulting from molten material that fell upon the bell after the explosion. ... More |
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Guitar's place in American art features paintings, photography, and seminal instruments
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, the first exhibition to explore the instruments symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present. Featuring 125 works of art as well as thirty-five exceptional instruments, Storied Strings will be on view in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023. The companion photography exhibition Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today, which celebrates Nashvilles diverse music scene, will be presented concurrently in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from April 21 through August 20, 2023. Organized by Dr. Leo G. Mazow, the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Storied Strings explores fascinating connections and contrasts that show ... More
Review: These rites of spring push back at ruthlessness
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past decade, South African choreographer Dada Masilo has become internationally known and respected for her bold, socially conscious adaptations of canonical ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake. With her current touring production, The Sacrifice (2021), she responds to source material that is a bit more contemporary but carries just as much historical weight: Pina Bauschs The Rite of Spring, which Bausch choreographed in 1975 to Stravinskys groundbreaking 1913 score. (The music originally accompanied Nijinskys earth-pounding modernist choreography, a pairing that caused a riot at the ballets Paris premiere.) In a program note for The Sacrifice, which opened at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, Masilo explains that she first encountered Bauschs Rite as a student at the Performing ... More
National Gallery of Art acquires work by Mel Chin
WASHINGTON, DC.- Mel Chin (b. 1951) is a conceptual artist known for his research-based approach that encourages greater awareness of and dialogue around social and environmental issues. The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired Landscape (1990), the first work by the artist to enter the collection, through a gift of the Collectors Committee. Landscape addresses idealized representations of nature in the past and the reality of nature in the present. A pivotal work in Chins career, Landscape comprises a 14-by-14-foot room featuring three works of art, each referencing specific cultures with strong historical painting and philosophical traditions relating to the landscape. The first work, on the wall opposite the rooms entrance, is created in the style of a 14th-century Persian miniature. Featuring hills, sky, and a river, the painting references ... More
Gabriella Smith's music marvels at nature with grooving joy
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 2014, composer Gabriella Smith took a hike through the Lost Coast in Northern California. Populated by bears, mountain lions and Roosevelt elk, its an area so rugged that the scenic Highway 1, which runs along the water, has to detour far inland. She kept a tide log on hand for portions of the trail that follow the shore. You have to be careful, she said, not to be swept away. The wildness surprised her. I felt so much awe being there, Smith said. And she liked the sound of the name: the poetry of the words lost and coast together, the multiple meanings it suggests. It was, as John Adams, one of her mentors, would say, a title in search of a piece. She wrote a cello solo with looping electronics for Gabriel Cabezas, a friend and former classmate at the Curtis Institute of Music, inspired by the image of a trail being ... More
Michel Verjux: "THE ADVANTAGE OF CLARITY" now on view at Centre d'art Chasse-Spleen
NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE.- The Art Center of Chasse-Spleen Castle will be hosting until October 1, 2023, under the curatorship of Didier Arnaudet, several lightings from the exhibition "THE ADVANTAGE OF CLARITY" in its spaces, as well as small sculptures and drawings, and artistic forms also appreciated by artist Michel Verjux. Michel Verjux has been using lighting as a physical tool for almost 40 years. In this way, he summons up an elementary visual language, made up of projected, directed, adjusted and focused light, in a space to be invested and described, in a given time that allows us to see a certain number of elements making up the environment. For the artist, to light is to make appear, to pass from invisibility to visibility, from anonymity to particularity. It is also to bring the visitor to play the game that he proposes to him, even ... More
American artist Jessica Cannon now on view at Polina Berlin Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Polina Berlin Gallery is now presenting Veils, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Jessica Cannon, on view since May 24, and continuing through June 24, 2023. Jessica Cannons mystic landscapes confront time with a sense of ontological awe. She employs personal and symbolic language in concert with geometric motifs to depict the horizon and the space beyond it. For portions of the pandemic, Cannon traveled to New Mexico and Wyoming for residencies. During her time in the West, she experienced a sense of scale and vastness that she conveys in her intricate topographies of liminal spaces. Working with serial form, Cannon unearths celestial symbols of the infinite as she paints what she considers to be small icons and maps of consciousness. Structured by spirals or triangles, the works that comprise ... More
Xavier Hufkens presents monographic of work by American artist Milton Avery
BRUSSLES.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting until June 10th, 2023, Forms from Nature, the gallerys first solo exhibition of works by the American master, Milton Avery (1885-1965). It is also the first monographic presentation of Averys work in Belgium. Focusing on his affinity with the natural world, the artists most enduring source of inspiration, this exhibition charts the development of Averys practice over a span of three decadesfrom the 1930s to the 1960s. These selected worksoils, watercolours, and line drawingshighlight the artists distinctive approach to colour, light, and composition. Milton Avery was born in Altmar, New York, in 1885 and moved with his family to Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of thirteen. He left school in 1901, at the age of sixteen, to work at the Hartford Machine and Screw Company to support the family. Following ... More
Beautiful antique Quebec furniture pieces dominate the list of top lots from Belzile Collection
NEW HAMBURG.- An important, circa 1820 Quebec armoire in alligatored yellow paint with the family nickname Armoire Crocodile sold for $29,500, and a Louis XIII armchair from the Bastien family on the Huron-Wendat reserve in Loretteville, Quebec rang up $21,240 at the sale of the Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile collection held May 13th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., online and live at the Marriott Courtyard West Island in Quebec, Canada. It was the first auction ever held outside of Ontario for Miller & Miller, which typically holds online-only auctions that have been highly successful, but the Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile collection was too excellent to pass up. Beginning in the 1960s, the couple set out to find the rarest, most iconic and most unusual antiques in all of Quebec. They retained most of what they found in their personal collection, ... More
'Alchemy' featuring many post-war and contemporary artists now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac
LONDON.- Bringing together major works by some of the most influential European and American artists of the post-war and contemporary periods, Alchemy examines the enduring fascination with material transformation and alchemical thinking in artmaking. The group exhibition, now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac until July 29th features works by artists who have engaged with alchemical ideas at key moments in their practice, including Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Sturtevant, Emilio Vedova and Andy Warhol. Assembling a group of art- historically significant works, including many shown for the first time in the UK, the exhibition highlights how ideas of material, artistic and philosophical transmutation both inform, and are redefined by, these pioneers of art. While typically associated with ... More
American architect, artist and educator Steven Holl presents 'Half Earth' linked to the protection of Nature
MILAN.- From 26th May to 14th July 2023, Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura presents HALF EARTH, a new exhibition of work by architect, artist and educator Steven Holl (Washington, 1947) curated by Steven Holl Architects. The exhibition project five years after the first exhibition One Two Five curated by Marco Sammicheli is a reflection on the role of architecture as an activity which, today, is inevitably and inescapably linked to responsibilities to Nature. The exhibition, from a concept by Fulvio Irace, takes its title from the work of the same name on biodiversity by the scholar Edward Osborne Wilson who, in the 1970s, attempted to map animal and plant species from all over the world, in order to identify those places where man had the most room to act on the environment while still protecting it. Today, more than ever, the idea of rethinking ... More
Todd Tubutis selected as director of the Center for Creative Photography
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Following a national search, Todd Tubutis has been named director of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Tubutis has 20 years of experience in organizational leadership and management, strategic planning, fundraising, and institutional outreach, as well as record of innovative exhibition development and curatorial initiatives. Since 2019 Tubutis has served as director of the Art Museum of West Virginia University. From 2015 to 2019, he was associate director at the University of Nebraskas Sheldon Museum of Art. Earlier in his career, Tubutis was executive director of Blue Sky Gallery, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, Oregon. I am thrilled to be joining the talented staff of the Center for Creative Photography as its next director, said Tubutis. It is a true honor ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895. Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Couple Seated on Porch, Gunlock, Utah, 1953, Gelatin silver print, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchased with funds donated by Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley. ©Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
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