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This exhibition confirms how Yuh is steeped in art history and social commentary. German expressionist artists, such as Max Beckmann, are a source of inspiration seen in the artists bold and revealing drawings in this exhibition and carry over to his Story Stones, hand-formed, then covered with drawings mostly black.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is showing an experimental exhibition, SunKoo Yuh: Old and New, in which the renown Korean artist breaks away from his past of monumental figurative sculpture to explore four new ways of working. Capturing the artist at his moment of change, this exhibition also reflects the accelerating changes of the society in which we live while demonstrating the creativity that can come out of it. For many years, Yuh has wanted to evolve naturally from the large scale colorful, figurative ceramic sculpture for which he is known. In this exhibition, Old and New, the artist proceeds to try out four ideas. The first is to show the changes from his old work to his new work by using his existing works to reconstruct new pieces. The second is to change from representational to abstract, avoiding the figurative and narrative aspects of his work, to create abstract forms. Thirdly, in making sculpture in black or white, he l ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Städel Museum is presenting a solo exhibition by German-British artist Michael Anthony Müller (born 1970).
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| Important artists highlight Hindman's Western & Contemporary Native American Art Auction | | Marc Newson opens exhibition inspired by Greece's traditional colors at the Gagosian in Athens | | Pierre Soulages, leading French abstract painter, dies at 102 |
Joseph Henry Sharp, Where the Deer Come. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000.
DENVER, CO.- Hindman will look to continue to engage a thriving Western Art market as it presents its final Western & Contemporary Native American Art sale of 2022 next week. The November 1st auction features fine art created from the height of American westward expansion through the present, including works by some of the most desirable artists in the category. Works from masters of the traditional Western form, like Joseph Henry Sharp, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, and Adolf Alexander Weinman will appear alongside contemporary artists Martin Grelle, G. Russell Case, Clyde Aspevig, Howard Post, Ed Mell and Louisa McElwain. Hindman is proud to once again include an impressive session of Modern and Contemporary Native American fine art, including works by Fritz Scholder, Earl Biss, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, David Bradley, and others who are ... More | |
Marc Newson, Cloisonné White and Blue Chair, 2022. Cloisonné enamel and copper, 26 3/16 x 40 3/16 x 37 3/16 in, 66.5 x 102 x 94.5 cm. Edition of 3 + 2 AP. © Marc Newson Photo: Paris Tavitian. Courtesy: Gagosian.
ATHENS.- Gagosian announced a presentation of new limited-edition furniture designed by Marc Newson. This October 25, his first solo exhibition opened in Greece. Inspired by the nations traditional colors, the exhibition features objects in a palette of blues and white, along with pieces made in marble that marry classical materials with advanced technology. As Newson notes: Greece and Greek culture have always been close to my heart, and its an honor to share these works in Athens. First achieving widespread recognition with Lockheed Lounge (1988), a chaise lounge in riveted aluminum, Newson has remained at the forefront of contemporary design for four decades, designing for both mass-market and exclusive production. Working ... More | |
Pierre Soulages at home in Sète, France, Nov. 22, 2019. Sandra Mehl/The New York Times.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK, NY.- Pierre Soulages, whose searching explorations of the color black established him as Frances preeminent postwar abstract painter, died Wednesday in Sète, a port city in southern France. He was 102. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Dominique Lévy and Emilio Steinberger, the co-founder and senior partner of LGDR, the gallery that represents Soulages in the United States. Soulages attracted attention in the late 1940s with a series of bold calligraphic works on paper using walnut stain or, on occasion, tar on glass. Their somber tones stood in sharp contrast to the bright colors favored by the adherents of Tachisme, Frances answer to abstract expressionism. In comparison, he told Interview magazine in 2014, his paintings looked like a fly in a glass ... More |
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| The Sofonisba exhibition brings another female artist into the spotlight | | Inaugural exhibition "Brook Hsu: Oranges, Clementines and Tangerines" at Kiang Malingue in Hong Kong | | 'Sherman's Showcase' is back, silly smarts intact |
Europa Anguissola, Portræt af kunstnerens svigermor. Portrait of the artists mother in law, 1571-1578. Nivaagaards Malerisamling.
COPENHAGEN.- The Sofonisba Anguissola exhibition at The Nivaagaard Collection has launched new research and the mystery of an exciting Renaissance work in the collection has been solved. Sofonisbas sister, Europa Anguissola, has now been added to the museums art collection. The discovery of Europa Anguissola as the artist behind the painting, until this year known as, Portrait of an Old Woman, brings Sofonisba's sister into the spotlight among the few known female Renaissance painters who created paintings of high quality. This portrait is now known as one of just three secure surviving works by Europa Anguissola. It is the only painting by the artist in a public collection, her only certain secular work and the only known work by her outside Italy - the other two are altarpieces in Italian churches. The story behind When The Nivaagaard Collections founder, ... More | |
Installation view. Photo by: Kwan Sheung Chi.
HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is pleased to announce the opening of its new permanent headquarters building at 10 Sik On Street, Wan Chai. Inaugurating the space is Brook Hsus first solo exhibition in the region, Oranges, Clementines and Tangerines, showcasing more than 30 recent paintings and drawings. Designed by Kiang Malingues long-term partner BEAU Architects, the construction of the 4-floor headquarters building started in 2019. Located on the quiet ladder street of Sik On in the lively district of Wan Chai, the headquarters is a multilayered space that emphasises verticality, integrating three exhibition spaces, a terrace, a living room and a kitchen in both indoor and outdoor areas. Kiang Malingue and Beau Architects transformed a 1965 tenement house into a multi-storey art gallery over the course of three years, retaining the domestic spirit of the location, striking a balance between the minimal, sober aesthetic that has ... More | |
The set of Shermans Showcase during filming for the second season, in Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2022. The show remains a mishmash of cultural references and music nerd zeal. Rozette Rago/The New York Times.
by Leigh-Ann Jackson
LOS ANGELES, CA.- He has kaleidoscope vision that impairs his precision. Its November 2020, and Diallo Riddle and his creative team are crafting material for the second season of Shermans Showcase, the musical comedy series he created with his writing partner and co-star, Bashir Salahuddin. They are punching up the lyrics to Diamond Eyes, a James Bond-spoofing theme song about a movie villain with a few too many quirks. The dozen comedy writers and staffers, seated 6 feet apart from one another beneath a large tent erected in a Santa Monica, California, parking lot a COVID-19-compliant writers room are shouting out suggestions that are muffled by face masks. ... More |
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| National Gallery of Art acquires painting by Lavinia Fontana and a statue by Luisa Roldán | | Ancient Roman rarity, 1 of 2 known, headed to Heritage World & Ancient Coins Auction | | Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund display sculptural paintings by Arghavan Khosravi |
Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni, c. 1590. Oil on canvas, overall: 113.5 x 87.5 cm (44 11/16 x 34 7/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from Anonymous in memory of Montana Walker Strauss, and Patrons Permanent Fund 2022.38.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- This highly detailed and exquisite portrait depicts the 16th-century musician Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni (b. 1561at least 1610) by the most productive woman artist of the late 16th century, the Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana. This portrait is among Fontana's best preserved and most accomplished surviving works in the genre. A rare depiction of a 16th-century woman musician by a 16th-century woman artist, this painting tells the story of two accomplished women who were able to overcome obstacles in a patriarchal society to succeed in the artistic spheres of painting and music. Fontana died just before her 62nd birthday after a highly successful career. Trained by her father, Prospero Fontana (15121597), in the late mannerist style, and most famous for her portraits of noblewomen. ... More | |
Medallion for Restoration of Urbis Veneris Temple; Ex Parthenico Hoard, Maxentius (AD 307-312). AV quaternio or medallion of 4-aurei (33mm, 21.12 gm, 1h). NGC MS 5/5 - 2/5, Fine Style, smoothing. Rome, ca. AD 308.
DALLAS.- A medallion from one of the best and most important collections of ancient coins ever sold through Heritage Auctions could bring $200,000 or more when it crosses the block Nov. 2 at Heritage Auctions World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction. The Maxentius (AD 307-312). AV quaternio or medallion of 4-aurei (33mm, 21.12 gm, 1h). NGC MS 5/5 - 2/5, Fine Style, smoothing is exceptionally rare the offered example is one of just two known and comes from the Paramount Collection, one of the top troves ever sold by the worlds leading numismatic auctioneers. This is an extraordinary coin from an exceptionally significant collection, says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. The market for elite international and ancient coins ... More | |
Art in Focus presentation of works by multidisciplinary artist Arghavan Khosravi (she/her) throughout the Rockefeller Center campus organized by the Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund continue their Art in Focus partnership with the presentation of work by multidisciplinary artist Arghavan Khosravi (she/her) throughout the Rockefeller Center campus, that began on September 6, 2022. Arghavan Khosravi is a US-based Iranian artist known for her sculptural multi-paneled paintings. Symbolism, metaphor, and abstraction are essential aspects of this exhibition. Khosravi expresses her original narrative through indirect yet symbolic language, with the intention to leave space for the audience to make their own interpretations. Instead of discussing the artists intention behind each element, Khosravi prefers to leave the interpretation to the viewer, and she feels strongly that audience interpretation makes it both fascinating and imperative for the work to be presented publicly. ... More |
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| arebyte Futures Past offers mix of digital and sculptural works to discover concept of futurity through the past | | Mike Davis, who wrote of Los Angeles and catastrophe, dies at 76 | | The curious case of the Alexander McQueen graffiti skirt |
Juan Covelli, Speculative Treasures.
LONDON.- arebyte began the presentation of Futures Past, a group exhibition taking the viewer on an immersive journey through the excavated ruins of the future, as part of arebyte's 2022/23 programme Sci-Fi which looks at fictioning and alternative futures through a series of exhibitions, live performances, online experiences and educational activities. With a mix of digital and sculptural works, interactive and static content, as well as AI-generated narratives, the gallery becomes a site for discovering the concept of futurity through the past. The exhibition will continue until January 28th, 2023. Unlike the Western notion of time, with its linear view of history to the left and future to the right, Futures Past asks us to reconsider this by looking at our present from the eyes of the future in essence, to walk backwards into the future with our eyes fixed on the past. Examining time and embracing its non-linearity allows for more s ... More | |
Mike Davis in the Angeles National Forest in California in 1999. Monica Almeida/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died Tuesday at his home in San Diego. He was 76. The cause was esophageal cancer, his daughter and literary agent RóisÃn Davis said. Davis, an unabashed leftist who once organized anti-war rallies for Students for a Democratic Society and was arrested at several protests, garnered considerable attention with his second book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990), in which he wrote that Los Angeles has come to play the double role of utopia and dystopia for advanced capitalism. That book examined the mythologies that had evolved about Los Angeles and Southern California, thanks to noir movies, surf culture and Hollywood ... More | |
The artist Adam Pendleton with his piece, Untitled (We Are Not), at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 27, 2021. Lelanie Foster/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- n September, just as New York Fashion Week began and the day after Queen Elizabeth II died, artist Adam Pendleton got a text from a friend. It contained a picture of Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor, at a cocktail party hosted by Mayor Eric Adams to celebrate the start of the collections. In the picture, Wintour was standing next to Adams wearing a black T-shirt and black sunglasses, with a full skirt that featured overlapping black and white graffiti. Did you make this skirt for Anna? the friends message read. It was an understandable question: Pendleton is known for multiplatform work that grapples with identity and Black American history and features what The New York Times called distinctive overlapping text in black and white graffiti. See, for example, an installation that stood ... More |
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts welcomes new CEO Hannah Mathews
PERTH, AUSTRALIA.- Following an extensive search to fill this leadership role, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, PICAs Board has appointed Mathews, a nationally respected curator, writer, and academic, with an international profile. She joins PICA from Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), where she has been Senior Curator since 2016, and will commence her new role as CEO in December 2022. Previously, Mathews has held key curatorial positions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney and Next Wave Festival. Mathews knows PICA well, having served as Curator from 200508. She has sat on several boards, including the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA); undertaken international curatorial residencies in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo; and taught at Melbourne University, ... More
AI-generated art is aready transforming creative work
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, the conventional wisdom among Silicon Valley futurists was that artificial intelligence and automation spelled doom for blue-collar workers whose jobs involved repetitive manual labor. Truck drivers, retail cashiers and warehouse workers would all lose their jobs to robots, they said, while workers in creative fields like art, entertainment and media would be safe. Well, an unexpected thing happened recently: AI entered the creative class. In the past few months, AI-based image generators like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have made it possible for anyone to create unique, hyper-realistic images just by typing a few words into a text box. These apps, though new, are already astoundingly popular. DALL-E 2, for example, has more than 1.5 million users generating more than 2 million images every day, ... More
With 'The Good Nurse,' a director takes on a serial killer and a system
NEW YORK, NY.- The true crime thriller The Good Nurse is ultimately an indictment of American systems: the hospitals that turned a blind eye to the atrocities of Charles Cullen, a nurse who admitted to killing 29 patients and may have killed dozens more as he quietly moved from job to job; and the interlocking demands of employment and health care benefits that held back Amy Loughren, a fellow nurse who eventually helped bring Cullen to justice. The Good Nurse, which is adapted from Charles Graebers nonfiction book, is also a movie that would not exist without another American system namely, Hollywood. Its stars include two Academy Award winners, Eddie Redmayne as Cullen and Jessica Chastain as Loughren, and Netflix released it Wednesday on its streaming service. This is the first English-language film for director Tobias Lindholm, ... More
How Serge Diaghilev made art happen
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 21st century, millennials are mocked for saying, I did a thing! In the early 20th, Serge Diaghilev, the formidable Russian impresario, was worshipped because, in the words of his artistic adviser Alexandre Benois, he knew how to will a thing. Overseeing creative collaboration on a grand and memorable scale, Diaghilev rolled right over the doubters and haters of the belle epoque and beyond. Todays white-collar worker has much to learn from the fur-collared Diaghilev, who died in 1929, at 57, of diabetes, after an energetic career promoting painting, sculpture, music and most famously the Ballets Russes dance company, commissioning work from Stravinsky, Ravel and Picasso, among many others, for audiences that included Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. ... More
Mitchell-Innes & Nash appoints Ylinka Barotto as Gallery Director
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash has appointed curator Ylinka Barotto as a gallery director. Barotto will join the gallery in November 2022 to focus on museum relationships, liaising with artists and estates. She previously served as Associate Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. I am very pleased to announce that Ylinka is joining Mitchell-Innes & Nash, said Lucy Mitchell-Innes. With many years of experience as a distinguished curator, Ylinka will be a tremendous asset to our artists and our program. I have always admired Mitchell-Innes & Nashs long-standing dedication to socially and politically engaged work and their commitment to presenting artists within a broader art historical context, said Ylinka Barotto. ... More
Phoenix Art Museum appoints its first curator focused on local artists and community-art initiatives
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has selected Christian RamÃrez to serve as the Museums inaugural assistant curator of contemporary and community art initiatives. RamÃrez will officially begin in the role on November 28, 2022. We are thrilled to welcome Christian RamÃrez to the curatorial team at Phoenix Art Museum, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museums Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. As our assistant curator of contemporary and community art initiativesthe first curatorial role in the Museums history dedicated exclusively to artists working in Arizona todayChristian will create dynamic and meaningful exhibitions and public programs that transform the Museums role in elevating the work of our regional artists. ... More
Vancouver Art Gallery announces new Director of Public Engagement and Learning
VANCOUVER, BC.- Vancouver Art Gallery welcomes Sirish Rao to the position of Director of Public Engagement and Learning. Sirish will take up this new role on January 16th, 2023. As an arts leader, writer and cultural innovator with deep connections to the international arts world, Sirish is a welcome addition to the Gallerys leadership team. Sirish spent a decade as Director of Tara Books, one of Indias most awarded publishing houses. He has worked with international cultural institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), The Frankfurt Book Fair, Kunsthal (Rotterdam), The Museum of London and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Sirish co-founded the Indian Summer Arts Society with his partner, Laura Byspalko, and has emerged as Canadas preeminent presenter of South Asian art and thought. ... More
'Anywhere or Not At All' exhibition has been extended at M 2 3
NEW YORK, NY.- M 2 3 ihas extended Anywhere or Not At All - an exhibition of recent work by Anne Wu, Elizabeth Orr, Martine Flor to November 6th. In its most basic form, the concept of the contemporary is simply that of the coming together hence the unity in disjunction, or better, the living disjunctive unity of multiple times. More specifically, it refers to the coming together of the times of human lives within the time of the living. Contemporaries are those who inhabit (or inhabited) the same time. As a historical concept, the contemporary thus involves a projection of unity onto the differential totality of the times of lives that are in principle, or potentially, present to each other in some way, at some particular time ... More
Is she the new queen of Los Angeles?
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Earlier this year, Sarah Staudinger began taking a Polaroid of nearly every person to visit her freshly renovated home. Theres a few people that Ive missed, but I try to get everybody, she said. Even people I dont really know. The book of Polaroids she has amassed included, in August, her mother, her pickleball instructor, blockbuster producer Joel Silver and acclaimed painter Mark Bradford. As she turned each page, pointing to the faces, her voice was low, relaxed, unbothered. This is one of my best friends. Flip. Thats Alice, who helped with the wedding. Flip. Hes an agent at WME. Flip. Here, we had just moved in, and it was the most random crew, she said, arriving at some poolside photos. P. Diddy just hands everybody a blunt ... More
What happens in the theater before and after the dance?
NEW YORK, NY.- The scaffolding has been rolled in. Stage lights are scattered around the floor. It looks like the show is over, or hasnt happened yet. For his solo work Compression, choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state. He wanders around in a jumpsuit, as if it might be his job to finish setting up or taking apart. You ready? he asks, sounding like a DJ or an announcer getting a crowd excited. But his acknowledgment of viewers, who are perched around him on scaffolding pushed up against all four walls, is intermittent. He might be talking to himself. This flickering engagement is the most intriguing aspect of the 90-minute performance. For much of it, Jones acts as if he were alone, moving around equipment, listening to his music (techno, industrial, Björk, Boyz II Men) ... More
'Straight Line Crazy' review: The road rage of Robert Moses
NEW YORK, NY.- I doubt Id have enjoyed meeting the real Robert Moses, New Yorks paver of highways, evictor of minorities, eminent domain eminence and all-purpose boogeyman. But its a huge pleasure to meet him, in the form of Ralph Fiennes, in David Hares Straight Line Crazy, which opened Wednesday at The Shed. Whether the creature Hare and Fiennes create has anything to do with the creature who created modern Gotham remains, for a while, an irrelevant question. Moses actual demeanor and utterance, as portrayed in the nearly 1,300 pages of Robert Caros biography The Power Broker, are little in evidence at the Hudson Yards theater. Fiennes is too gloriously entertaining for that. Melodramatic in the old-fashioned sense, a hero or villain from an operetta or Ayn Rand, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1987. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasarely and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the ``Art in Wine'' exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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