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Jaeger Le Coultre Atmos Clock , circa 1961. Estimate $600 800.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Citys newest full-service boutique auction house La Belle Epoque Auction, located at 71 Eighth Avenue in the Meatpacking District of the West Village, has announced its first new auction since suffering extreme water damage in the spring of this year. The water damage was caused by a small fire in the space above La Belle Epoque, which set off sprinkler systems for an extended period of time, causing major flooding in the space below with portions of the ceiling literally caving in. But, on Saturday, August 13th, at 10am, La Belle Epoque is back in the game with their first new live online-only Multi-Estates Summer auction featuring over 300 lots with a varied selection of fine art, decorative items, furniture, Mid Century Modern pieces and silver. Doing this auction online-only, through both LiveAuctioneers and BidSquare, is only temporary until they resume in-person auctions in their impressive 5,000 square foo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Ghent art gallery Barbé Urbain and the Ghent design gallery Atelier Ecru Gallery are joining forces to set up MAGELLAN: a joint initiative that organises art and design exhibitions outside the permanent gallery spaces in Ghent. This summer, they are moving into the iconic modernist corner building by architect Huib Hoste in Knokke - also known as the Dr De Beir residence. From 2 July to 28 August, they will be presenting exhibitions with various artists and designers whom they represent or with whom they collaborate under the umbrella term MAGELLAN.
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| Furor over Documenta highlights a widening chasm in Germany | | Exhibition at Parrish Art Museum presents works by two Spanish artists inspired by their gardens | | A gothic rock cottage fit for a bat out of hell |
Ruruhaus, which houses the office of the collective ruangrupa, which organized this years Documenta event, in Kassel, Germany, June 20, 2022. Felix Schmitt/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- Documenta, an art world mega-event held every five years in Kassel, Germany, is no stranger to controversy. Yet this years edition has eclipsed anything in the past. Since the sprawling show opened in June, a major artwork has been pulled from display for containing antisemitic caricatures, and the events director general has resigned. Late last month, some members of the countrys governing coalition called for Documenta to be shut down until it could be vetted for further antisemitic works after it emerged that the show also contained drawings made during the 1980s of Israeli soldiers, including one with a hooked nose. The uproar around the images has dominated German newspapers for weeks but that comes on top of months of allegations that ruangrupa, a collective that curated this years event, and ... More | |
JoaquÃn Sorolla (Spanish, 18631923). Patio de la Casa Sorolla, 1917. Oil on canvas, 37 ¾ x 25 ½ inches. Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, on free loan to Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents JoaquÃn Sorolla and Esteban Vicente: In the Light of the Gardena new exhibition that introduces the work of two preeminent Spanish artists in the context of the light and color emanating from their gardensa vibrant source of inspiration in their final creative periods. On view August 7October 16, 2022, the exhibition presents more than 50 works, featuring paintings dating from 19161919 by Sorolla (Spanish, 1863−1923), a renowned Spanish painter at the turn of the 20th century; and paintings, works on paper, and small sculptures made between 1985 and 2000 by Vicente (American, born Spain, 19032001), Abstract Expressionist and member of the New York School. In the Light of the Garden focuses on the work of Sorolla and Vicente through the lens of a mutual affinity for the garden as both theme and inspiration, and to the extent that each created and nurtured his own g ... More | |
The home of composer and producer Jim Steinman, who died last year, in Ridgefield, Conn., July 2022. Andy Ryan/The New York Times.
by Joyce Cohen
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Steinman, who died last year at 73, left behind one of the most distinctive catalogs of music in history, filled with chart-topping hits written for the likes of Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Celine Dion. With songs ranging from the restless (All Revved Up With No Place To Go) to the wrenching (For Crying Out Loud), Steinman spent decades establishing himself as a sophisticated songwriter with the spirit of a teenager. As far as Jim was concerned, life was about being forever young, and lusting after this and yearning after that, said David Sonenberg, Steinmans longtime friend, manager and now executor of his estate. He was going to be 17 forever, and in some ways he was. But perhaps nothing evokes Steinmans legacy like the Connecticut house where he lived alone for about 20 years a majestic museum of the self, attached to a quaint cottage ... More |
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| Betsy Silverman explores urban spaces and small towns with collage at Middlebury, Vermont's Edgewater Gallery | | Marianne Boesky Gallery and Carpenters Workshop Gallery open "Material Alchemy Part II" | | Rockbund Art Museum presents 'Adel Abdessemed: An Imperial Message' |
Betsy Silverman, Chowder Town, 36 x 36 in.
NEWTON, MASS.- About Town a new exhibition at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont features collage artist Betsy Silvermans depictions of New York, Boston, and New England towns. The exhibit runs from Tuesday August 2nd to Tuesday September 27th. The public is invited to a reception with the artist, on Friday, August 19th from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. What theres no paint? That is the most common reaction that Silverman hears from viewers of her artwork. No, there is no paint, ink, or pencil, Silverman explains. What you see is composed entirely from recycled magazines glued to canvas I use magazines, scissors, and glue, the way that other artists use brushes and paint. My palette is the thousands of magazines I have in my studio. And Silverman uses her unusual palette to achieve a stunning degree of realism requiring some paper ... More | |
The Haas Brothers, Screw Carey, 2022. Gray goat fur, cast bronze, 9 1/2 x 4 x 4 inches, 24.1 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm HBR.19036 © The Haas Brothers.
ASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery and Carpenters Workshop Gallery announced the continuation of their collaborative summer exhibition series in Aspen, Colorado. Titled Material Alchemy, the two-part exhibition features a co-curated thematic selection of works from each gallerys respective program of artists. The exhibition allows for unique artistic dialogues that extend across the realms of art and design, including artists who explore ideas of materiality and process in their work. Following Material Alchemy Part I, on view June 30 July 23, Material Alchemy Part II will be on view August 2 September 3 at a seasonal gallery location at 601 East Hyman Avenue. Material Alchemy Part II explores the radical effect the Italian Arte Povera movement had on art and design, exhibiting artworks ... More | |
Adel Abdessemed, Eran las cinco en todos los relojes, 2018. Steel with paint, 140 Ã 65 Ã 35 cm, 180 Ã 57 Ã 48 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
SHANGHAI.- Adel Abdessemed probes the wounds of our present. His art, which spans the media of drawing, video, sculpture, poetry, sound, and installation, unfolds as a powerful experience of opposing materials, emotions, and concepts. Titled An Imperial Message after Franz Kafkas short parable, the exhibition features around 40 pieces of work by the artist, among which more than 10 are newly created. Collectively, the works on view carve out an introspective journey, inviting audience to reflect upon the violence pervading the contemporary world we inhabit and confront our own profound feelings, fears, and desires. Born in 1971 in Algeria, Abdessemed now lives and works in Paris, France. The artist produces works deeply embedded in power issues. Both his character and his work reveal ... More |
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| Atelier Ecru Gallery and Barbé Urbain bring art and design together in the iconic Dr De Beir house in Knokke | | Print Center New York presents "Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print" for new space in October | | Richard Saltoun Gallery now representing Rosa Lee |
Installation view of Magellan. Photo: Charlie De Voet.
KNOKKE-HEIST.- The Ghent art gallery Barbé Urbain and the Ghent design gallery Atelier Ecru Gallery are joining forces to set up MAGELLAN: a joint initiative that organises art and design exhibitions outside the permanent gallery spaces in Ghent. This summer, they are moving into the iconic modernist corner building by architect Huib Hoste in Knokke - also known as the Dr De Beir residence. From 2 July to 28 August, they will be presenting exhibitions with various artists and designers whom they represent or with whom they collaborate under the umbrella term MAGELLAN. During the summer months, works are presented by artists such as Adelheid De Witte, Charlie De Voet, Flexboj & LA, Joost Pauwaert, Stijn Ank and Middernacht & Alexander, and by designers such as Linde Freya Tangelder, Katrien Doms, Pierre De Valck, Maria Scarpulla, BRUT Collective, Nathalie Van der Massen and Laurids Gallée. Named after ... More | |
Audra Wolowiec. voiceprint (we the people), 2021. Offset woodblock print with laser-cut commas. 24 à 19 inches. Edition of 26. © Audra Woloweic.
NEW YORK, NY.- International Print Center New York, New Yorks flagship non-profit arts institution dedicated to advancing print as a primary artistic, cultural, and social medium, will be renamed Print Center New York upon the opening of its new home this October. As part of a strategic plan created for Print Center New Yorks 20th anniversary in 2021, the naming, along with a forthcoming visual identity, reflects the vision of this new chapter for the celebrated art space. Milestones include building the Board of Trustees and staff, deepening support for artists with new professional development opportunities, expanding the exhibition calendar to incorporate monographic shows, and exploring the role of prints within a broader and more diverse artistic and cultural framework. Print Center New York will inaugurate the new, ground floor ... More | |
Rosa Lee, Ariadne, 2002.
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery announced representation of the trailblazing feminist artist Rosa LEE (19572009), ahead of the upcoming exhibition Haptic Vision: Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton, on view at the London gallery from 20 August 1 October. Hong Kong born Rosa Lee revolutionised the UKs abstract painting conventions in the 80s and 90s. Mixing Western and Asian influences, she created a new type of decorative abstraction that dismantled the hierarchy of fine art over craft. In doing so, she raised questions about the validity of painting and reclaimed the position of women within it. Haptic Vision is a major exhibition of works by Rosa Lee and fellow painter and friend Jo Bruton. It is the first time in over 10 years that Lees paintings are exhibited in London. Hong Kong-born artist and feminist theorist Rosa Lee (19572009) was one of the most influential figures operating in the UK in the 1980s &90s. S ... More |
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| Florence Griswold Museum presents Dana Sherwood's first museum survey | | B. Ingrid Olson's History Mother and Little Sister open at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts | | Asia Society Museum presents 'Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity' |
See/Sight (Equus Mongolia), 2019. Acrylic on canvas and digital video, 118 x 118 x 118 in. Digital video, 5:22 min. Photograph by Paul Mutino.
OLD LYME, CONN.- In her first museum survey Dana Sherwood (b. 1977) exhibits films, sculpture installations, oil and watercolor paintings created over the past ten years that interrogate the relationship between wild nature and domestic culture, drawing on her research into cross-species communication, the feminine experience, historic literature, and the occult. Born on Long Island and based in New Yorks Hudson Valley, Sherwood has become known for her evolving attempts to communicate with animals through her elaborate nocturnal banquets. She researches the animals natural diets and sets up beautiful cakes, colorful fruit-studded gelatin molds, raw meat, and confectionaries. These delectables are positioned in front of an infrared, night-vision camera, allowing her to capture video of the beasts who enjoy her buffet. Seeking to entice and better understand the animal life that lives on the periphery of human populations, Sherwood considers wild nature ... More | |
B. Ingrid Olson, erection of a plate of glass between, 2013-14. Inkjet print and UV printed matboard in an aluminum frame. 25 x 17.5 inches (63 1/2 x 44 cm). Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery, ReykjavÃk.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is presenting two simultaneous solo exhibitions by artist B. Ingrid Olson: History Mother and Little Sister, each on a separate floor of the Centers landmark Le Corbusier building. The exhibitions feature site-specific installations informed by a feminist engagement with experiences of doubling and mirroring, gendered forms, reciprocity between photography and sculpture, and ways the artists body and each viewers body relate to the built environment. In the Carpenter Centers Level 3 Sert Gallery, History Mother takes an unconventional approach to the history of Olsons practice. A selection of photographic works from the past decade joins new works, together articulating how Olson uses her own body as subject matterbent knees, limbs, hands, and feet press up against mirrors and photographic surfaces, confusing points of contact between the figure an ... More | |
Cui Jie. Shanghai Broadcasting Building, 2018. Acrylic and oil on canvas. H. 78 3/4 x W. 59 1/8 in. (200 x 150 cm). Collection of Farhad Karim and Sanda Lwin. Image courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias, London; and Antenna Space, Shanghai.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity, an exhibition of 19 artworks by seven artists, born in mainland China in the 1980s. Belonging to what is referred to as the ba ling hou generation, these artists grew up in a post-Mao China shaped by the one-child policy and the influx of foreign investment. Comprising painting, sculpture, performance, installation, video, digital art, and photography, the exhibition reflects the dramatic economic, political, and cultural shifts the artists have experienced in China during their lifetimes. The exhibitions title, Mirror Image, refers to the double reflection at the heart of the exhibition. Rather than emphasizing their Chinese-ness, these artists respective practices are born of a China where Starbucks can be found in the Forbidden City and the internet permits them accessdespite the obstacles ... More |
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The search for a meaningful clue to the mystery of an enslaved ancestor
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1880s, Edward Taylor reached out to the editors of a weekly Black newspaper in New Orleans. Born into slavery, he had fought in the Civil War and established himself as a blacksmith when freedom came. He had a wife, six children and his own plot of land in a community near a winding stream known as the Bayou Maringouin. But Taylor never forgot what he had lost during his decades in bondage. So he placed an advertisement in the Southwestern Christian Advocate. I wish to inquire for my people, he wrote. Taylor was about 11 when he was sold away from his sister and three brothers in Maryland and sent to Louisiana. As a middle-aged man, he still remembered their names Charlotte, Noble, William and Reverda and the anguish of that forced separation. He joined thousands of Black people who placed notices in local newspapers ... More
A mother on a mission: World-class music for everyone
NEW YORK, NY.- After Don Shirley performed with his trio before an appreciative audience in the Putnam High School auditorium in November 1965, he did not go back to his lonely motel room and hit the Cutty Sark, the way he did in the movie Green Book at least not right away. Thanks largely to my mother, he came to our house first. Shirley, a pianist, appeared with his ensemble in many small towns such as Putnam, Connecticut, a place The New York Times once described as a nondescript old mill town, population 9,000 or so, in the northeastern corner of the state. Some were in the South, and Green Book, which won an Oscar for best picture four years ago, captured the bigotry that Shirley, who was Black and gay, encountered there. But one thing the film didnt show was how, thanks to people like my mother and a grand but largely ... More
A road trip to sample America's many, many music festivals
NEW YORK, NY.- Four classical music festivals. Three children. Two exhausted parents, with a brave grandfather in tow. One bedraggled minivan. Itll be fun, my wife promised me. Surprisingly, it was. While some of my colleagues have been taking in the mighty festivals of Europe over the past few weeks premieres in Aix-en-Provence, France, and the charms of Salzburg, Austria the revival of programming after the darker days of the pandemic affords the adventurous a fresh chance to get better acquainted with the summer offerings here in the United States. There are plenty of them, after all. Several of our major orchestras benefit from their own vacation homes, whether Tanglewood for the Boston Symphony or Blossom for the Cleveland Orchestra, Ravinia outside Chicago or the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Others, not so fortunate in padding ... More
Exhibition explores the persistence in and around us of what has materially disappeared
ROME.- MAXXI LAquilaNational Museum of 21st Century Arts presents Afterimage, an international group exhibition that explores the persistence in and around us of what has materially disappeared. The show features 26 international artists from different generations and includes newly commissioned pieces and site-specific installations, historical works belonging to the MAXXI Collection together with monographic rooms, with works spanning from the 1960s to the present day. Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi e Alessandro Rabottini, Afterimage is a meditation upon memory and metamorphosis and looks at the unpredictable formsboth material and metaphoricalin which what has vanished silently endures within spaces, bodies, and meanings. The title of the show refers to the optical illusion of the residual image, which happens ... More
Quint Gallery exhibits works by Adam Belt, Christopher Puzio, Chris Thorson, and May-ling Martinez
LA JOLLA, CA.- At Quint Gallery's 7655 Girard Avenue location, Belt, Puzio, and Thorson each concentrate material into essential compositions and forms, engaging in dialogue around labor-intensive process and fabrication. Some of these sculptures activate the space through the use of shape and shadow, while others activate an awareness of the light in the space in which they are exhibited. Adam Belts practice has developed around perception within the scope of scientific revelation and natural phenomena through sculpture, site-specific installation, drawing, and painting. His newest series, Phase Forms, is a distillation of material and form into an essential mass removed from symbolism. The addition of white pigment to layers of polyurethane resin becomes akin to painting in three dimensions, and produces varying degrees ... More
Canada Now photography fund fuels acquisitions and exhibitions at The Image Centre and AGO beginning this fall
TORONTO.- Today, The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Art Gallery of Ontario announce the acquisition and exhibition of new artworks, made possible by the Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative. Conceived in the spring of 2020 by photographer Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier Gallery and generously supported by proceeds from the sale of Burtynskys 2020 photography portfolio Natural Order, the Canada Now initiative is a response to the difficult economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on artists and the art market in Canada. Support from Canada Now has enabled Sophie Hackett, Curator, Photography, AGO and Denise Birkhofer, Collections Curator, The Image Centre, ... More
Para Site is presenting Post-Human Narratives-In the Name of Scientific Witchery
HONG KONG.- Para Site is presenting the unique off-site exhibition Post-Human NarrativesIn the Name of Scientific Witchery at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, curated by Kobe Ko. The exhibition features nine women artists from Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan, whose all-new commissions engage with practices in the medical and scientific establishments throughout history that are often considered controversial or unorthodoxfrom genetic engineering to xenotransplantation, dream analysis, sound healing, and ritualistic performance. Taking place outside of Para Sites space, Post-Human NarrativesIn the Name of Scientific Witchery unfolds in the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, in Sheung Wan, a unique and historically charged setting where the exhibition seeks to reconfigure new speculative narratives around science, magic, and witchcraft. ... More
'Scottish Women Artists: Transforming Tradition' extended until 4 September 2022 due to popular demand
LONDON.- The critically acclaimed exhibition Scottish Women Artists: Transforming Tradition which brings together more than 50 historical, modern and contemporary works from the Fleming Collection and artists loans that span over one hundred years of social transformation, innovation and individualism has been extended until 4 September due to popular demand. The show, which was due to close on 3 July, which has been called the best collection of Scottish art outside a public gallery on the road (The Spectator) features mid-20th-century greats, such as Joan Eardley, Margot Sandeman and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, are displayed alongside their peers and artistic forbears along with contemporary headliners such as Turner prize winner Charlotte Prodger and 2022 Scotland in Venice star, Alberta Whittle. A new loan, being ... More
Exhibition of Southern California Impressionism on view at UC Irvine
IRVINE, CA.- Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century, organized by guest curator Janet Blake, is on view through eptember 3, 2022. The exhibition comprises over 30 paintings representing more than 20 artists who settled in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from both Langson IMCA holdings and private collections, Variations of Place features seascapes, landscapes, and figure paintings. Artists include Franz A. Bischoff, Colin Campbell Cooper, Anna Althea Hills, Guy Rose, William Wendt, and others responding to Southern Californias temperate climes and variety of natural features. Langson IMCAs interim museum location at 18881 Von Karman Avenue in Irvine is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. ... More
Praz-Delavallade opens "Two Proposals Toward the Formation of a New Art School"
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is presenting Two Proposals Toward the Formation of a New Art School running through September 10, 2022. The imaginary State Art Academy, Zürich (SKZ), forms the basis of Dan Levensons practice as an artist. Through performance, video, installation, objects and paintings, Levenson expounds on the curriculum and philosophy of an institution that, although never existed, reflects on art institutions both past and present. The first proposal, SKZ Kindergarten Maquette, takes the form of a miniature kindergarten classroom, itself an artwork, that is based on live interactive performances Levenson exhibited with children aged 2-9 in 2019 and 2020. The maquette contains miniature scale versions of the components of the live performances: flat-pack modernist childrens easels and mannequins wearing ... More
South London Gallery presents "The Show is Over"
LONDON.- The Show is Over brings together sixteen international artists in a major group exhibition at the South London Gallery. The artists work proposes a refreshed language in the interpretation of political histories and personal experiences connected to the aftermath of historical violence, and its present iterations. The work shown in the exhibition underscores the various ways in which we relate to and grapple with notions of loss, threats to the environment, spirituality, labour and silenced histories. As the world begins to unevenly emerge from the pandemic, The Show is Over becomes a stage from which the performance and understandings of endings are constantly evolving and more present than ever before. In the words of the curator, Gabi Ngcobo: The end of the world has become an event developing over time. With the end ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 08, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors pose for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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