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Daniel Ridgway Knight, (1839 - 1924), Coming Through the Rye. Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 26 inches Signed and inscribed Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., the New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, recently discovered Coming Through the Rye, a previously unknown painting by the American Ex-patriate artist Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924). Born in Chambersburg, PA, Ridgway Knight received his formal training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a classmate of Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. In the early 1860s, he traveled to Paris and studied with Alexandre Cabanel and Charles Gabriel Gleyre. In 1863, he returned to the United States to serve in the Civil War; during this time, he met Rebecca Morris Webster. The two were married in 1871, and the following year the couple traveled back to France, where they would remain for the rest of their lives. Once settled in France, they became friendly several artists including Renoir, Sisley, and Meissonier (the latter of which he developed a close relationship). Ridgway Knight's ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A series of large scale outdoor light sculptures by Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley have been installed at six locations across Sussex as part of a new outdoor exhibition featuring some of the artist's most important works sited in spectacular locations across the region.
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| Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Philippe Cognée | | Beatles-signed wall from first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' rocks Heritage Auctions in September | | Exhibition at Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent focuses on the work of Albert Baertsoen |
Sous le soleil, tournesols n°1, 2022. Wax painting on canvas, 195 x 145 cm. 76 x 57 in.
PARIS.- With his new Insomniac Landscapes, Philippe Cognée once again demonstrates the power of his practice: a combination between his unconditional love of figurative painting, its rich history and unlimited formal potential, with the unwavering gaze of a contemporary man facing a world more disenchanted than ever. For many years, Philippe Cognée has been tackling subjects often associated with the banality and ugliness of our civilization - supermarkets, highways, impersonal architecture - magnifying them through his technique of wax paint, which, once melted and crushed, creates a striking and unique effect of blur. In a nod to video, digital technology and the hypervigilance of Google Earth, his paintings offer a deconstruction of the contemporary gaze. They explore the notion of "recognizable", of memory and oblivion, in an existential questioning on the exhaustion of images. Philippe Cognée has now chosen to unfurl rural landscapes on ... More | |
The Beatles Hand Signed Large 16" X 48" Portion of Wall with Doodles from Each of The Fabs From The Ed Sullivan Show Set (February, 1964).
DALLAS, TX.- When you Google Feb. 9, 1964, its as though only one thing happened on that date: America meets the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. At 8:04 p.m. Eastern time, give or take. Its the introduction that lives in legend: Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles! said the avuncular host. The audience squealed. Some 73 million were watching, 60 percent of all American TV sets dialed in record-shattering and ear-splitting. And there, on a stage surrounded by giant arrows pointing in their direction, were the four lads from Liverpool, armed with All My Lovin, the first of five songs John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr performed that night. The Beatles on Sullivan changed everything, Tom Petty once said. It was a huge event, like the lunar landing, said Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson. That one performance changed my life, Billy Joel recalled years later. Bruce Springsteen ... More | |
Albert Baertsoen (Ghent, 1866 Ghent, 1922) London Bridge, Twilight, ca. 1915-19 Oil on canvas, 77 x 63.5 cm. Private collection.
GHENT.- Starting in 2022, the MSK Ghent will host a year-long party in celebration of two milestone anniversaries: 225 years for the MSK Ghent and 125 for the Friends of the Museum. In the exhibition that opens this festive year, the focus is on the oeuvre of painter, illustrator and graphic artist Albert Baertsoen, who played a pivotal role in turn-of-the-century art circles in Ghent as well as the rest of Belgium and abroad. Around the turn of the 20th century, no other artist was as closely associated with Ghent as Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922). Hailing from a wealthy family of free-thinking textile producers, he was able to develop his talents in the rich environment of Ghent during its period as a leading textile centre. His serene yet melancholy impressions of his home city in the throes of transformation earned him international recognition. Rather than highlighting picturesque scenes, Baertsoen depicted the ethereal gloom that he per ... More |
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| Never before seen bespoke pieces by celebrated designer Oliver Messel come to market for first time | | Anne-Marie Russell joins The Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg as Interim Executive Director | | Ellen de Bruijne opens an exhibition of works by Klaas Kloosterboer |
Oliver Messel working on the redecoration of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire in 1962. Image courtesy of the Messel family archive.
LONDON.- Never before seen specially created one-off works by celebrated designer Oliver Messel (1904-1978), for his only ever country house commission Flaxley Abbey in Gloucestershire, will be offered at auction this autumn. The celebrated theatre and stage designer who moved into interior design by popular demand, began the designing of the interiors at Flaxley Abbey in 1960, using his genius to produce unique pieces befitting of the Abbeys colourful, historical past. It would take more than 12 years to complete (with further visits until his death in 1978) and many of his own custom-made creations reflecting his costume and set design background, to bring the Abbey back to its full glory. Initially commissioned to redesign Flaxley Abbeys morning room and dining room, he went on to design the entire house, as well as the gardens. His works will ... More | |
Russell brings to bear more than 25 years of expertise in cultural production leadership to the MFA. Image courtesy of Matthew Holler.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg today announces Anne-Marie Russell as new Interim Executive Director. Anne-Marie joins the MFA from Architecture Sarasota, where she recently served as Executive Director. We are so pleased to announce Anne-Marie Russell as interim Executive Director, said Dimity Carlson, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Under Anne-Maries leadership, we will continue to evolve the MFA to serve as the dynamic cultural destination that the community of St. Petersburg and beyond, knows and loves. Anne-Maries experience as an entrepreneurial leader, her training in art history and anthropology, and her rigorous connoisseurship skills bring a unique perspective to the largest encyclopedic museum in Florida. We look forward to accomplishing great things ... More | |
Klaas Kloosterboer, 22194, 2022.
AMSTERDAM.- Ellen de Bruijne welcomes you back to the new artistic season with a solo show by Klaas Kloosterboer, opening next Friday from 5 to 7pm with the presence of the artist. Let us build a game metaphor. First, an understanding of game: in a determined space and time, a social system in which to explore a distinctive perspective on the relationship between rules and constraints. Game metaphors are appealing because they extend an invitation to a deeper understanding of rule-governed systems. In the game metaphor that this exhibition could be, we are given a constellation of elements: stick figures, body parts, garlands, abstracted landscapes, geometric patterns. They all follow a set of rules; they interact in seemingly unintelligible ways, but there is a sense of cohesion, a feeling of affordance, which allows us to make sense out of them. It is a game of artistic perplexity of which we are bearing witness. Nothing can be born in ... More |
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| SITE Santa Fe opens a new solo SITElab exhibition by Rebecca Ward | | Ishi Glinsky: Upon a Jagged Maze at AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara | | Genevieve Gaignard's new exhibition at Rowan University confronts racial and gender stereotypes |
Expanding upon her previous works displaying hard angles and straight lines, the fourteen works in this exhibition employ undulating curves to evoke both the landscape and an idealized, if abstracted, female form.
SANTA FE, NM.- SITE Santa Fe is presenting a new solo SITElab exhibition by Rebecca Ward, entitled distance to venus, from September 1 through November 5, 2022. This exhibition showcases Wards ground-breaking work at the intersection of painting and sculpture through a selection of recent work (2021-2022) tracing the transformative phases of pregnancy and childbirth through the language of geometry, materiality, and abstraction. Rebecca brings depth of feeling to the formal precision of geometric abstraction. Her labored approach to painting involves deconstructing and reconstructing her canvases. Her process involves sewing cut planes of painted and dyed canvas together and removing sections of the weftrevealing the underlying stretcher bars emphasizing the structure of the painting beyond its surface, says curator Brandee ... More | |
Ishi Glinsky (b.Tucson, AZ, 1982), Poblano 78/21, 2021. Resin, pigment, industrial adhesives, steel and aluminum. Collection of Robert Shiell.
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara presents the first solo museum exhibition of LA-based artist Ishi Glinsky (b. 1982, Tucson, Arizona Tohono Oodham). An early career survey covering work made over the past decade, the exhibition features 25 of Glinskys works, including painting, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Glinskys art draws from the traditions of the Tohono Oodham Nation as well as those of various North American Native arts, such as jewelry making, basketry, and weaving, among others, in order to honor Native Americans place in history and art movements. Organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB, the exhibition is on view from September 1, 2022 through January 22, 2023. The work of Ishi Glinsky offers viewers a larger-than-life invitation to engage with the Native arts of North America and learn about the rich cultural ... More | |
Genevieve Gaignard, Vanilla Ice Installation Image, 2022. Chromogenic print, 24 x 36 in. Image courtesy of Rowan University Art Gallery.
GLASSBORO, NJ.- Rowan University Art Gallery is presenting To Whom It May Concern, a new solo exhibition featuring Genevieve Gaignard. The exhibition opened on September 1, with an opening reception and artist talk on September 15, from 5-7 pm. Genevieve Gaignard is an LA-based multidisciplinary artist who uses self-portraiture, collage, sculpture, and installation to elicit dialogue around the intricacies of race, beauty, and cultural identity. Referencing regional and historical events as well as a personal archive as a biracial woman, Gaignard creates environments and performances that teeter between symbolic and autobiographical realms. To Whom It May Concern will feature Gaignards self-portraiture, collages, and installation, Black White and Red All Over, that reframes nostalgic views of American culture. Through her exploration of race, femininity, and class, Gaignard interrogates notions of skin ... More |
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| Opening this Friday at GRIMM in Amsterdam: Angela Heisch | | Kahmann Gallery opens Sara Punt | | Fabio Salino donates more than 50 pieces of jewellery from his collection to raise money |
Angela Heisch, Undercurrent, 2022.
AMSTERDAM.- GRIMM is presenting Gilded Slides, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Angela Heisch, on view at its Amsterdam (NL) gallery from September 2 to October 22, 2022. This will be Heischs first solo exhibition with GRIMM since the gallery announced representation of the artist earlier this year. Heischs latest body of work continues her translation of the unique structures and ornamental patterns found within nature into unravelling, abstract painterly forms. Her canvases become containers in which flowing geometric bodies collide, emerge and recede. Influenced by the baroque, jewel tones pair with monumental scale to form a stage where the viewer can enter into the depths of each painting, unravelling a sense of balance between the macro and micro planes of space. Mirrored by the artists pastel works on paper - prequels for the larger works and exhibited simultaneously - Heisch illustrates the interpl ... More | |
Sara Punt 'Dualities' © Sara Punt 2019-2022.
AMSTERDAM.- Sara Punt her work is characterised by strong black and white contrasts and bodies that take on abstract shapes. These contrasting shapes are a result of a personal exploration carried out together with her models. The past 4 years Punt has, in the series In the Absence of Eye, focussed on abstracting the human form away from the sexual gaze and preceptions that were created through trauma, upbringing and social media. Because Punt depicts the body in the way she does, turning it into an independent shape or work of art, she creates a certain distance between person and body. This process contributes to disconnecting the body from the ideas that have been projected onto it. By doing so, the body can be accepted and turned into the artwork it truly is. After the release of her first book In the Absence of Eye, Punt started two new series. One is a collaboration between Marlou Fernanda and herself, named Polymorphism. The series is about realizing ther ... More | |
Salini is well known for his exploration of materials, from rock crystal, straw, leather, shagreen, to titanium and matt black industrial carbon fibre.
LONDON.- Fabio Salino has donated more than fifty pieces of jewellery with an estimated value of £2m to Art of Wishes, the charitable initiative founded by philanthropist Batia Ofer. Partnering with Sothebys, Salinis jewellery will be auctioned in London on the 7 September 2022. Art of Wishes brings together the international art community to raise funds for Make-A-Wish UK, the charity that grants life-changing wishes to children with critical illnesses. Of this collaboration, Batia says, I have always been a huge admirer of Fabios exquisite jewellery, and when he proposed this idea I was genuinely overwhelmed by his generosity. We know that when a child sees the seemingly impossible come true it empowers them with hope, so in making this donation, Fabio will not only help make the wishes of thousands of children come true, but also make a meaningful ... More |
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Ben Sledsens is presenting new paintings and sculptures at Tim Van Laere Gallery
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents its fourth solo exhibition by Ben Sledsens, Under The Tree Distant Sea. Sledsens (°1991, Antwerp) combines his profound knowledge of the visual tradition with his own mythology. In his large-scale canvases he shows us fragments of his imaginary world, a utopia in which he himself wants to live. With his great pictorial insight, Sledsens composes a new world in which he enlarges, emphasizes and idealizes certain elements from nature and his everyday surroundings, so that they surpass our realistic perception. An example of this can be found in his landscapes, such as the large-scale work In the Yellow Forest, 2022, where he depicts a forest bathed in an overwhelming yellow light. Here he has magnified the influence of light on our perception of color to such an extent that it results in a completely ... More
Shelburne Museum reopens Stagecoach Inn iconic folk art gallery received extensive renovation
SHELBURNE, VT.- On the occasion of the Shelburne Museums 75th anniversary, the museum will reopen its historic Stagecoach Inn building, home to the museums renowned American folk art collection, on September 11, 2022. After a two-year renovation, Stagecoach Inns galleries have been refreshed and reinstalled with iconic selections representing the best of the museums folk art collection. New research looks past the formal qualities of weathervanes, ships carvings, trade signs, and more, digging into the origins, makers, and functions of these objects to offer 21st-century perspectives reflective of the vast and varied ingenuity and creativity that inflects Americas rich visual story. Renovating Stagecoach Inn created the opportunity to rethink how the American folk art collection is presented, said Thomas Denenberg, John Wilmerding ... More
Ars Nova introduces a name your price ticketingmodel
NEW YORK, NY.- The off-Broadway incubator Ars Nova will allow audience members to pay what they wish for theater tickets in a new initiative called Whats Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price, the company announced Wednesday. Its not income based, its not age based, theres no demographic basis, said Renee Blinkwolt, the producing executive director of Ars Nova. Its just radically accessible the doors are wide open to any and everyone to pay what they will. Beginning on Oct. 6, theatergoers can choose their ticket price for any Ars Nova show at its base on West 54th Street in Hells Kitchen as well as the companys two productions at Greenwich House for its 2022-23 season. Tickets will start at $5 and increase in $5 increments up to $100 per ticket. Ars Novas off-Broadway season includes the world premiere of Hound ... More
John Adams, an American master at 75
NEW YORK, NY.- I have to apologize, composer John Adams said as he approached his car. The front seat was torn up by a bear. Patches of the passenger seat were slashed open, revealing the stuffing inside. Bears arent a hazard in the hilly neighborhoods of the Peoples Republic of Berkeley, as Adams wryly referred to his town, but they are in the Sierra Nevada, where he sometimes retreats to work at his cabin. One night, while Adams was in the mountains with his dog, Amos, beer exploded in the cars trunk because of the altitude, and a bear wreaked havoc trying to get a taste. Its probably a problem that Stravinsky didnt have, he said. Adams and Stravinsky might not have that in common, but they share much else: a recognizable yet constantly evolving musical language; a body of work across a wide breadth of genres ... More
Robert LuPone, actor who became a behind-the-scenes force, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert LuPone, an actor and dancer who originated the role of the driven director-choreographer in the musical A Chorus Line on Broadway and later helped run a vibrant off-Broadway theater company known for thought-provoking new works, died Saturday in Albany, New York. He was 76. His wife, Virginia (Robinson) LuPone, confirmed the death, at a hospice near his home in Athens, New York. She said the cause was pancreatic cancer. LuPone was familiar to television audiences from his roles on The Sopranos and the Law & Order franchise. But his first love, like that of his sister, Patti LuPone, was the theater. By 1975, when LuPone auditioned for A Chorus Line, he had been dancing since childhood and had been in a few Broadway shows. Initially cast as Al, one of the dancers vying for a spot in the chorus line of a Broadway ... More
Robert Kime, decorator for nobility and other notables, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Soon after Robert Kime redecorated Clarence House, long the London home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother or Queen Mum for Prince Charles, a friend of hers came by to survey his work. But I dont understand what all the fuss is about! she was quoted as saying in The Financial Times in 2015. Nothing has changed at all. The friend had presumably overlooked the new color schemes and upholsteries that Kime had chosen for the house, which had by then been passed on to the Prince of Wales, the queen mother having died in 2002. Kime had also installed a new assortment of antique carpets, tapestries and centuries-old furniture scavenged from the depths of the Royal Collection. Most interior decorators might have found the friends words chilling. But for Kime, altering in form while maintaining essence ... More
An orchestra brings harmony to a region of discord
NEW YORK, NY.- In February, Grigory Ambartsumyan, a 22-year-old Ukrainian violinist of Armenian descent, awoke in Kyiv, Ukraine, to the sound of bombs. It was the beginning of Russias assault on his country, and the coming days and weeks were a blur of restless nights in bomb shelters. Now, six months later and with war still raging, Ambartsumyan and dozens of his fellow musicians with the Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra have reunited in Tsinandali, a bucolic village in Georgia, for the fourth annual Tsinandali Festival of classical music. Its been a difficult three years since the orchestra debuted in September 2019, given the coronavirus pandemic (which stopped it from performing at the festival for two years), as well ... More
In 'Once Upon a (korean) Time,' bedtime stories to keep you up at night
NEW YORK, NY.- Korean fairy tales can trend macabre; a few skew more grisly than even the Brothers Grimm. In the Korean version of Cinderella, for instance, Cinderella dies. (For a while, anyway.) Murder, starvation and sacrifice form the dark heart of this folk tradition, at least in the tales that Daniel K. Isaac tells in Once Upon a (korean) Time, a production from Ma-Yi Theater Company that opened Wednesday at La MaMa. Isaac is better known as a stage and screen actor (The Chinese Lady, Billions); this is his first produced play. And if the ambition of this drama, which spans nearly 100 years and two continents, often exceeds his grasp and that of its practiced director, Ralph B. Peña it does suggest a lively theatrical intelligence and a willingness to grapple with some outsize themes. The play begins in 1930, mid-battle, with gunfire and screaming. Out of water, out of rations and apparently out of time, two wounded sol ... More
Exhibition reveals for the first time Paul Klee's artistic engagement with the technical achievements of his time
BERN.- Apparatuses machines acceleration: in the early years of the 20th century the world was heading into a new, mechanised age that placed big challenges on society. We feel the consequences both good and bad still today. The 55th exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Paul Klee. About Technical Frenzy, which will be shown from 3 September 2022 until 21 May 2023, reveals for the first time Paul Klees artistic engagement with the technical achievements of his time. Paul Klee lived as we do today in an age of major technological transformations. The technical progress that shaped the turn of the 20th century, brought about an industrial revolution and marked the beginning of the modern age, changed society from the ground up. X-rays, microscopes, telephones, cars and electricity questioned peoples perception of matter, space and time and dissolved the familiar image of the world. At the same time, with the end of monarchies, the establishme ... More
The 6th Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival celebrates art that is often unseen
VANCOUVER, BC.- From October 1416, 2022, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver will present the 6th annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. As Canadas first and only outsider art festival, VOAF provides a much-needed platform to celebrate artists who live and work outside of mainstream cultural spaces. VOAF invites visitors to rethink and experience art often found at the periphery of society. This weekend promises to be one of connection and learning, through free exhibitions, performances, and workshops. Outsider art shakes up what we think and know about art, challenging traditional notions about who and what counts in the art world, says Kristin Cheung, executive director of CACV. These artists have various levels of training and come from diverse cultural ... More
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Indigo Waves and Other Stories
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died September 02, 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.
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