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Ken Salaz, Crimson Flash at Stone Barns.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary announces its exhibition, "The Seasons: Exploring Nature's Palette," featuring an exquisite collection of over 40 works by more than a dozen contemporary landscape artists. This carefully curated showcase invites art enthusiasts and nature lovers alike to embark on a journey through the evolving beauty of the natural world. The exhibition, which runs from October 5th through October 31st, is a celebration of the ever-changing seasons and how they shape the landscapes that surround us. "The Seasons" offers a unique opportunity to explore the remarkable interpretations and artistic expressions of each featured artist as they capture the essence of nature's transformations. Among the artworks on display, visitors will have the privilege of admiring standout pieces that exemplify the mastery of the participating artists, including Andrew Orrs The Golden Hour, Gail Descoeurs A Winters Eve, and K ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Yinka Shonibare CBE RA at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 2023 11.
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| Peter Zumthor on paring back a 'Beautiful Idea' for LACMA | | Gagosian to exhibit work by Christo in early 18th-century Georgian Town House | | Silver tankard donated to Nationalmuseum |
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in the garden of his wood and glass offices, Atelier Peter Zumthor, in Haldenstein, Switzerland on June 7, 2023. (Lea Meienberg/The New York Times)
by Christopher Hawthorne
HALDENSTEIN.- A list of 10 Working Rules is taped to the concrete wall on the top floor of Swiss architect Peter Zumthors studio, which overlooks a dramatic alpine landscape through floor-to-ceiling glass. Rule No. 1: Have a clear idea of what you want. I had a clear idea. Several months earlier, at a dinner following a talk he gave at Yale, Zumthor had told me almost offhandedly that his experience designing a new wing for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, now under construction along Wilshire Boulevard, had been so trying that hed decided he would never work in the United States again. I wanted to hear more about his experience and what other lessons the architect had drawn from his first American project. Plans for the new ... More | |
4 Princelet Street, London exterior view.
LONDON.- Gagosian commenced a presentation of early works by Christo at 4 Princelet Street in the Spitalfields area of London, curated by Elena Geuna. The exhibition is the inaugural project in the Gagosian Open series of off-site projects and will remain open every day from October 6 to 22. Gagosian Open is a new program of ambitious temporary projects sited beyond the walls of the gallery that allows audiences to experience remarkable artworks in unusual contexts. For the first presentation in the series, early works by Christo will be set in dialogue with a Grade IIÂlisted Georgian house in Londons East End. Foreshadowing the artists large-scale temporary public projects, these sculptural works see everyday objects veiled in fabric or plastic and bound with rope or twine. They present an artist who, even at this formative stage of his career, was responding creatively to domestic and urban environments, drawing attention to ... More | |
Pehr Fredrik Palmgren, Tankard, 1851. Silver. NMK 151/2022. Photo: Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- An 1851 silver tankard in the shape of a tree stump has been donated to the Nationalmuseum collection. It exemplifies the naturalistic style popular in the 19th century that drew inspiration and motifs from the natural world. The tankard was made in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition in London, which was a showcase for the very latest in art and technology from around the world. The Swedish silversmith who created the piece, Pehr Fredrik Palmgren (182078), was greatly inspired by contemporary English silver design, as is apparent in a number of his works. This piece takes the form of a realistic tree stump with branches and foliage. An owl on a twig sits atop the lid. The tankard is almost 30 centimetres tall and weighs over two kilograms. The inside is gilded, and the outside bears the inscription TILL J.W. BERGSTRÃM AF SWENSKA INDUSTRI-IDKARE MDCCCLI (to J.W. Bergström from Swedish ... More |
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| 'Hub of the World: Art in 18th Century Rome' opens at Nicholas Hall Gallery | | The Winter Show celebrates 70 years as the premier and longest-running Art, Antiques, and Design Fair in USA | | First solo exhibition in Europe of works by Firelei Báez opens in Denmark |
Pompeo Batoni (Lucca 17081787 Rome), St. Louis Gonzaga, ca. 1744. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Nicholas Hall Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Nicholas Hall opens Hub of the World: Art in 18th Century Rome, organized in association with the Milanese Galleria Carlo Orsi. Presented at the Upper East Side gallery in New York, the exhibition celebrates the legacy of esteemed American scholar, connoisseur, and artist Anthony M. Clark (19231976), whose centenary falls in 2023. Considered one of the most influential and admired museum professionals of his generation, Clarks taste for art made in 18th century Rome and Italian painter Pompeo Batoni made a profound impact on American collecting trends in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition will bring together more than 60 works by artists who lived in or traveled to Rome in the 18th century, and will be complemented by a selection of Clarks personal notebooks and ... More | |
The Winter Show. Photo by Simon Cherry.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Shows 2024 edition brings together over 65 internationally renowned dealers in the fine and decorative arts, presenting museum-quality works from around the world, spanning 5,000 years from antiquity to today. Celebrating 70 years as the premier and longest-running art, antiques, and design fair in the United States, the Show will once again transform the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City into an unmissable destination for collectors, connoisseurs, and enthusiasts. The 2024 edition will take place January 1928. Special benefit events include the Opening Night Party on January 18 and Young Collectors Night on January 25. All proceeds from the Shows benefit events and ticket sales fund the life-changing programs of East Side House Settlement. The Winter Show is the only showcase of its kind, having been established in 1954 by its own beneficiary, East Side House Settlement, ... More | |
Firelei Báez in her studio, 2023. Photo: Sean Hanley.
COPENHAGEN.- Trust Memory Over History at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is the Dominican-American artist Firelei Báezs (b. 1981) first solo exhibition in Europe. Monumental paintings and installations, showing poetry, pain and immense beauty, confront and address the language of power and the hegemony of the Western world. Old maps, architectural drawings and pages from books are the tangible and vital starting points for her paintings. The force and energy that emanates from the work of Firelei Báez is overwhelming. She paints powerful, poetic images on top of old diagrams, such as maps, book pages and blueprints, fluidly going back and forth between the realms of abstraction and figuration. The world of Báezs art thrives on contradictions and ambiguities in which beauty is interwoven with violence, personal perspectives are mingled with grand historical narratives, and Caribbean ... More |
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| LaiSun Keane opens a new exhibition titled 88 Years | | 'Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective' opens at The Photographers' Gallery | | 'Real Families: Stories of Change' opens at The Fitzwilliam Museum |
Jane Freilicher (1924-2014), Untitled, 1962. Gouache on paper. 8.75 in x 9.5 in.
BOSTON, MASS.- LaiSun Keane is showcasing a new exhibition opening on October 6th, and on view through October 29th, 2023, titled 88 Years: A Survey of Contemporary American Art organized by Brock and Co. The exhibition features works completed between 1911-1999, exploring the visual and cultural themes of modern movements such as Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, and Feminist Art. Some notable artists on display include Sol LeWitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Deborah Kass, Stuart Davis, and Hannah Wilke. The 1913 Armory Show introduced European Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde aesthetics to the American audiences. At the same time, America was facing rapid changes from industrialization, mass immigration, and cultural fusion, creating the foundations of modernism. It without question set American artists on a new trajectory color, light ... More | |
Daido Moriyama, Tokyo, 1967. Asahi Graph, Apr 1967 © Daido Moriyama/Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.
LONDON.- The Photographers Gallery presents the first UK retrospective of work by the acclaimed Japanese photographer, Daido Moriyama (b.1938). Featuring over 200 works, spanning from 1964 until the present day, Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective traverses different moments of Moriyamas vast and productive career. Taking over the whole Gallery, this exhibition celebrates one of the most innovative and influential artists and street photographers of our day. Championing photography as a democratic language, Moriyama inserted himself up close with Japanese society, capturing the clash of Japanese tradition with an accelerated Westernization in post-war Japan. With his non-conformist approach and desire to challenge the medium, his work is tirelessly unpretentious, raw, blurred, radical and grainy and has defined the style of an entire generation. Forget everything ... More | |
Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins 1975 © The Estate of Alice Neel, Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner, photo by Malcom Varon.
CAMBRIDGE.- Scientific and social advances over the past 50 years have brought significant change to how families are created and structured. Starting today, the Fitzwilliam Museum will present Real Families: Stories of Change, a major exhibition exploring the intricacies of modern family relationships, as seen through the eyes of artists. Featuring over 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture, film and installation, this exhibition will reveal how artists including Alice Neel, Chantal Joffe, Sunil Gupta, Donald Rodney, Nan Goldin, Paula Rego and Lucian Freud have represented different facets of family life. Developed in collaboration with the world-leading Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, this unique exhibition will bring together artworks which reveal how the joys, tensions and transitions in families have little to do with ... More |
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| 'The Struggle of Memory - Deutsche Bank Collection' at The Palais Populaire | | Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma turns the entire fifth-floor gallery into a scented arena with "The Dream to Come" | | Gallery 181 in San Francisco debuts 'ICONS', by celebrity photographer Timothy White |
Zohra Opoku, I have arisen from my egg which is in the lands of the secrets. I give my mouth to myself (so that) I may speak with it in the presence of the gods of the Duat. My hand shall not be turned away from the council of the great god Osiris, Lord of Rosetau, this one who is at the top of the dais. I have come (so that) I may do what my heart desires in the Island of Fire, extinguihing the fire which comes forth.', 2020. © Zohra Opoku, courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim.
BERLIN.- The Palais Populaire is now opening the exhibition, "The Struggle of Memory - Deutsche Bank Collection". Societies require continuity and connection with the past to preserve social unity and cohesion and people need to know where they come from to be able to adjust to the circumstances of the present and challenges of the future. One of the most insidious consequences of the slave trade and European colonialism in Africa was the devaluing and dismantling of precolonial histories and cultures. The African artifacts in Western museums are symbols of the cultures that were robbed of their people and material heritage, ruthlessly subjugated, or gradually hollowed out and disassembled. ... More | |
While preparing for the exhibition, Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape immersed herself in Finnish nature. Frantsila / Miki Tokairin / Miisa Soini.
HELSINKI.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma has opened the exhibition, "The Dream to Come", on view until February 25th, 2024. In preparation for her exhibition, Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape spent time in the rural municipality of Hämeenkyrö, Finland, engaging with the joy of being with the lakes, the landscape, the healers of the region and healing herbs. All of this had a significant impact on the exhibition. The installation in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma turns the entire fifth-floor gallery into a scented arena. Bopape went on several field trips in Finland when she was preparing the show. During her stay in Hämeenkyrö, Bopape worked with experts on the Frantsila organic herb farm developing a fragrance and a tea blend for the exhibition that features dream-supporting herbs such as heather and hops. (ka) pheko ye the dream to come draws upon the idea of dreaming as an activity that ... More | |
Timothy White, Sopnia Loren (on Bed), Beverly Hills, CA 1999.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery 181 at 181 Fremont Residences has welcomed famed celebrity portrait photographer, Timothy White, for a presentation of his works from 1986 2023. The exhibition will feature images of some of the biggest names in pop culture history, including Audrey Hepburn, Robin Williams, Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Whitney Houston, and countless others. A highlight of 181 Fremonts art program located in a half-floor penthouse 700 feet high in San Franciscos acclaimed first LEED Platinum-certified mixed-use building, Gallery 181 was created to host ongoing pop-up exhibitions and events celebrating art, the performing arts and more. Timothy White is one of the worlds most sought-after celebrity photographers. For over thirty years he has captured the intimate and playful sides of legendary actors as well as the innocence of up and comers. Celebrated for his stunning, evocative images, his work demonstrates a mastery ... More |
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"Orhan Pamuk: The Consolation of Objects" in the Semper-Kabinett, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
DRESDEN.- In collaboration with the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Orhan Pamuk (*1952), the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) are opening the exhibition "Orhan Pamuk. The Consolation of Objects" in the Semper-Kabinett of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. At the same time, the presentation marks the start of a multi-year programme on Turkish art and culture at the SKD. In 2012, Orhan Pamuk set up the so-called "Museum of Innocence" in Istanbul, which was inspired by and designed with the novel of the same name, which was published in 2008. On three floors, the writer tells the story of the lives of the protagonists Kemal and Füsun through everyday objects that he arranges in a multitude of showcases. Now, part of the presentation is travelling outside Istanbul for the first time in such scale. For the project, Orhan ... More
Debbie Fleming Caffery receives first career retrospective at New Orleans Museum of Art
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art is opening the first major retrospective of photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery, with black-and-white prints ranging from the 1970s to the present. Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is the first exhibition to include examples representative of her entire body of work, including photographs taken throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, Mexico, and France over six decades. The exhibition includes Cafferys renowned documentary images of people working in Louisianas sugar cane fields, as well as her most recent project creating exquisitely humanized portraits of birds around the world, some of which live in rescue and rehabilitation centers. Caffery is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary photographers from the American South, with a career that both grows from and stretches beyond her work in her ... More
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opens 'Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden'
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts celebrates 20th century African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) with the exhibition, Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artists work. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Brittany Webb, the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at PAFA, opened October 5, 2023 and is on view through April 7, 2024. In 2017 PAFA was selected by the John Rhoden Estate to assume the responsibility of preserving and promoting John Rhoden's artistic legacy. The Rhoden Collection includes over 300 works of art and 22 linear feet of archival materials. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rhoden discovered a talent and passion for sculpting during his youth, was mentored ... More
Almine Rech opens new U.S flagship in Tribeca with a solo exhibition by Vaughn Spann
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its expansion, Almine Rech announced the opening of its new U.S Flagship in Tribeca, New York, with a solo exhibition by the American artist Vaughn Spann, October 5, 2023. The recently renovated 10,000 square foot gallery is situated at 361 Broadway (at Franklin St.) and opened with an exhibition by Vaughn Spann. For the occasion, which also marks Vaughns first solo presentation in New York since 2020, the artist has prepared a body of new abstract paintings. Its been a few years since we began looking for a space in NY that would allow our artists to create and present works without constraints. We visited quite a few options, but none elicited a love at first sight which I believe is important when one looks for a place to show art. When I first visited the building I immediately knew it was the ... More
Stephen Friedman Gallery opens its new London location
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery opened its new gallery at 5-6 Cork Street in Mayfair, London, designed by David Kohn Architects. A relocation from its original site of 28 years at Old Burlington Street, Mayfair, and a significant expansion, the gallerys new building features three bespoke exhibition spaces, a new mezzanine level, a library and several private viewing rooms. A new landscaped sculpture garden designed by Tod Longstaffe-Gowen is accessible via the gallery and Cork Street Mews; an enchanting oasis in Mayfair with large scale sculptures by the gallerys artists. British artist David Shrigley has collaborated with the architects to create a garden gate and a kiosk which invites the visitor to linger in the space. Commissioned sculptures by Stephen Friedman Gallery artists: Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye lives and works in New York, United States. Japanese artist Izu ... More
Garry Hynes brings Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy to life
NEW YORK, NY.- In the back room of a hotel cafe in lower Manhattan, Irish director Garry Hynes was talking about Sean OCasey, the laborer turned playwright whose frequently funny, sometimes blood-chilling, canonical 1920s tragicomedies are set amid the tenements of Dublin. Mostly, Hynes called him OCasey, but a few times she called him Sean, and the warmth of that familiarity melted away any sepia encrustation that has accumulated around his name. Hynes, 70, the artistic director and a co-founder of the Druid theater company in Galway, Ireland, imagines OCasey was a bit of a joker, grumpy and given to provoking people just for the sake of provoking. Not easy, in other words, but playful. She has long believed OCasey, who died at 84 in 1964, in his adopted England, to be miscategorized as a playwright ... More
Kate Soper returns to opera with a story medieval and modern
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal of The Hunt, a new opera by Kate Soper. One soprano had a ukulele stored offstage. Another had a violin close at hand. And a third, placed center stage at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, mimed speaking into a smartphone as the days blocking work began. While that character, Fleur, primped and preened for an imagined camera as if on a livestream, she bragged about her social media fluency on an address to a royal hiring academy. All three sopranos were creating separate, self-taped auditions, for a show within the show. And yet: They were clearly doing so in some bygone era. The King seeks spotless maidens for the hunt of the unicorn, the sopranos recited ... More
Jon Fosse, Norwegian author, receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
NEW YORK, NY.- Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright Jon Fosse who has found a growing audience in the English-speaking world for novels that grapple with themes of aging, mortality, love and art was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable. A prolific writer who has published some 40 plays, as well as novels, poetry, essays, childrens books and works of translation, Fosse has long been revered for his spare, transcendent language and formal experimentation. In a news conference Thursday, Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel literature committee, praised Fosses sensitive language, which probes the limits of words. Fosses work has been translated into around 50 languages, and he is among the worlds most widely performed ... More
Review: This dance about refugees has flow and a groove
NEW YORK, NY.- Not long ago, choreographer and musician Olivier Tarpaga, who teaches at Princeton University, wanted to visit the city of his birth and his fathers grave in the north of Burkina Faso. But the region had been overrun by violent jihadis, and he learned that his hometown was now home to a refugee camp for women and children. Instead of visiting, he made a dance theater work about refugees: Once the dust settles, flowers bloom. At the start of the piece, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday as part of the Crossing the Line festival, men enter carrying what looks like a jihadi flag and dozens of objects that turn out to be flip-flops. They move together with tiny, quick steps that could be menacing or comic. One man removes a hood from a womans head and manipulates her limp body in a way that ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss architect Le Corbusier was born October 06, 1887. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier." He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. In this image: French architect Georges Le Corbusier, left, and French writer Jules Romains are shown during a session of the conference of artists from around the world in the Palace of the Doges in Venice, Italy, in Sept. 1952.
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