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A photo provided by The Judd Foundation shows Donald Judds sculptures in the south room, West building, known as the Block, shown in 2021, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Alex Marks/Judd Foundation via The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
MARFA, TX.- Donald Judds sculptures are ticking. In the high desert, 100 gleaming aluminum forms each the exact same size are aligned in rows with military precision inside two former artillery sheds, just as Judd had ordered. Pristine and silver, they reflect light pouring through giant window walls that Judd designed to replace aging garage doors. The installation, yielding views of the endless landscape, could make a believer of anyone who ever scoffed at Minimalist art. But listen closely and you can hear the metal sculptures as they expand and contract. Some have inched out of alignment, heating up to 120 degrees not quite hot enough to fry an egg in buildings without climate control. Their custodians at the Chinati Foundation, which stewards the collection of works by Judd and a dozen major artists he invited to this remote town, must decide how best to mitigate the heat without compromising the holistic experience meticulously calibrated by Judd four decade ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Studio to Stage: Music Photography from the Fifties to the Present, 540 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, June 29 - August 19, 2022. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Manifesta 14 Prishtina has been open for three weeks, with impressive visitor numbers | | Exhibition features works rarely exhibited during Luchita Hurtado's lifetime | | Pace presents an exhibition of music photography by artists |
Dua Lipa visiting Chiharu Shiota's work at the Great Hammam at Manifesta 14 Prishtina. Photo © Manifesta 14 Prishtina / Fikret Ahmeti.
PRISHTINA.- Three weeks after the biennial preview days in Prishtina, Manifesta 14 shared that there have been over 30,000 visits to the 25 incredible venues across Kosovos capital city. This impressive figure does not include the thousands of visitors who have interacted with the artistic interventions within the public squares, such as Adem Jashari Square or the Green Corridor, a major urban greening intervention that creates a new pedestrian path across Prishtina to improve the citys mobility. Their collective approach to programming, a core Manifesta principle since the early days of the biennial, has paid off with incredible engagement from local communities and cultural leaders in Kosovo. The Centre for Narrative Practice, Manifestas first permanent cultural institution in its 25 years of history, has in its opening weeks established itself as a new centre for multi-disciplinary cultural and educ ... More | |
Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1971. Charcoal on paper, 61 x 47.6 cm / 24 x 18 3/4 in © The Estate of Luchita Hurtado. Photo: Jeff McLane.
SOUTHAMPTON.- Rounding out the Southampton summer season, Hauser & Wirth presents an intimate exhibition of rarely seen works on paper by acclaimed late Venezuela-born artist Luchita Hurtado (1920 2020). On view from 13 August, approximately fifteen works from Hurtados I Am series spotlight the uniquely poetic way in which she channeled her lifelong fascination with corporality and self-affirmation into powerful yet delicate images in charcoal, crayon, graphite, ink, and gouache. These deeply personal self-portraits find the artist exchanging her own visual perspective with that of the viewer. On view through 24 September, Luchita Hurtado features works rarely exhibited during the artists lifetime. These drawings and paintings on paper allow viewers to inhabit Hurtados gaze to look down onto fragments of her body as if it was their ownthrough the use of dramatic ... More | |
Studio to Stage: Music Photography from the Fifties to the Present, 540 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, June 29 August 19, 2022. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Studio to Stage, an exhibition of music photography by artists within and beyond the gallerys program. The show meditates on the evolution of music photography, exploring exchanges across different genres, eras, and geographic locations as part of an homage to the last century of music and the image-makers that documented it. The presentation features photography by Richard Avedon, Janette Beckman, Adam Cohen, Jem Cohen, Kevin Cummins, Rahim Fortune, Robert Frank, Hiro, Paul Graham, Peter Hujar, Ari Marcopoulos, Itzel Alejandra Martinez, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Rankin, Ming Smith, and Nick Waplington. The exhibition is curated by Mark Beasley, curatorial director of Pace Live. Presented chronologically on the gallerys first floor, the photographs in Studio to Stage, which have rarely been exhibited ... More |
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| National Air and Space Museum will open renovated West End Oct. 14 | | The Currier Museum of Art announces acquisition of Gee's Bend quilts | | Timothy Taylor Gallery invites viewers to reconsider the domestic spaces and images around us |
The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia displayed in the new "Destination Moon" exhibition, opening Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum will reopen half of its flagship building on the National Mall Friday, Oct. 14. Eight new and renovated exhibitions, the planetarium, museum store and Mars Café will open on the buildings west end. The museum has been undergoing a seven-year renovation that began in 2018 and includes redesigning all 23 exhibitions and presentation spaces, complete refacing of the exterior cladding, replacement of outdated mechanical systems and other repairs and improvements. Only half of the building will be opening, and great interest in visiting is expected. Free timed-entry passes will be required to ensure visitors have an enjoyable experience. The passes will be available on the museums website Sept. 14. This is one of the most exciting times in the National Air and Space Museums history, said Chris ... More | |
Nettie Young (1916-2010), Fragmented Star-twelve-block variation, 1937. Cotton, 88 x 67 in.
MANCHETSER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art recently acquired five Gees Bend quilts through a generous gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, in combination with museum funds. An exhibition of these quilts opened this week and are now on display. In a small Black community just south of Selma, Alabama, several generations of women collectively developed a distinctive style of quiltmaking. The place is known as Gees Bend, after an angle in the Alabama River where a cotton plantation was once located. This shared artistic practice began before the Civil War and continues to this day. Gee's Bend quiltmakers recycled work clothes and other fabric remnants to create functional bed coverings adorned with abstract, geometric designs. The bright colors and bold shapes are strikingly innovative, and, despite the community's relative isolation, some quilts portend the improvisational style of abstract art and modern jazz. These quilts are the first ... More | |
Philip Guston, Story, 1978. © The Estate of Philip Guston.
LONDON.- Six decades after Philip Guston (1913 1980) first shocked the art world, the sweeping ambition of his vision continues to reshape the realm of the possible for artists who have followed in his wake. His paintings blend a precise vocabulary of concerns then without precedent in American painting: mundane domestic objects, body parts and cityscapes within abstract fields of paint. As humorous and personal as they are politically incisive, his paintings draw a vivid picture of Gustons own muddled dreamscape of fears and anxieties as well as of societys worst impulses. Taking one of Gustons most celebrated paintings his 1978 masterpiece Story as the heart of the exhibition, A Thing for the Mind presents work by twelve contemporary artists whose work continues to be influenced by Gustons ideas: Louise Bonnet, George Condo, Carroll Dunham, Armen Eloyan, Maria Lassnig,Chris Martin, Eddie Martinez, Woody De Othello, Daisy ... More |
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| Foam presents an exhibition by self-taught photographer Mous Lamrabat | | Library acquires original artwork by children's author Vera B. Williams | | Carmel Allen appointed Managing Director of Tate |
Mashallah with extra cheese, 2021 © Mous Lamrabat / Loft Art Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam is presenting Blessings from Mousganistan, an exhibition by self-taught photographer Mous Lamrabat (Morocco, 1983). Beauty and a sense of hope are central to Lamrabats work. His photographs are playful and surrealistic, every so often subtly provocative, but always vibrant and fun. His work is exhilarating and at times a confronting fusion of his diasporic life, using beauty and humour to create powerful new narratives related to sensitive issues like racism and religion. In Blessings from Mousganistan, the artist shares a message of love through a colourful and eclectic visual experience.
The world of Mous Lamrabat is a place where life is at peace and people are loved, no matter where you are from or where you are going. This is the experience the artist wants to bring across in the exhibition Blessings from Mousganistan: you step into the fascinating utopia the artist has created ... More | |
Collection includes 58 original drawings from books written and illustrated by Williams.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has acquired the original watercolor illustrations created by Vera B. Williams for her childrens books, A Chair for Always (2009) and Cherries and Cherry Pits (1986). The collection was acquired from Williams children on behalf of the Vera B. Williams Trust. Award-winning author and illustrator Vera B. Williams (1927-2015) brought to life the voices and imaginations of working-class children in loving families, with dreams of success through education and hard work. Many of Williams books echoed her own childhood experience of poverty, separation from parents and her use of imagination that empowered her to forge her own path as a lifelong artist, author and activist. "A Chair for Always" is centered on a young Hispanic, perhaps multi-ethnic, family and their diverse working-class neighborhood. In Cherries and Cherry Pits, Williams portrays Bidemmi, an aspiring young Black artist, ... More | |
Carmel Allen. Photo © Tate Photography (Jai Monaghan).
LONDON.- Tate announced that Carmel Allen has been appointed Tates new Managing Director. She will take up the role on 1 September 2022. Allen has been CEO of Tate Commerce since 2018, leading on the organisations publishing, retail, product development, image and licensing businesses. In this time, she has been instrumental in ensuring Tates commercial activities chime with its artistic and social ambitions, from championing a more diverse range of designers and writers, to putting environmentally sustainable practices at the heart of her work. She was previously creative director for brands such as Heals, the Conran Shop and Linley, as well as having worked at internationally renowned media companies such as Time, Conde Nast, Guardian Media Group and the Financial Times. Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate, said I look forward to working with Carmel as we deliver Tates vision for the years ahead. This is a mo ... More |
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| Free survey exhibition featuring new and recent work by 19 contemporary artists and collectives | | 'Queensland to a T' celebrating 120 years of the State Library of Queensland | | Library of Congress appoints leaders to advance discovery and preservation of collections |
Moilang (Rosie) Ware (Torres Strait Islander awman (woman), Australia b.1959), Sea of Plenty 2010. Commercial cotton fabric, block printed, 400 x 113cm. Commissioned for Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands. Purchased 2011 with funds from Thomas Bradley through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art. Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.
BRISBANE.- Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art encompasses large-scale sculptural installation, photography, painting, video and performance, and includes work by Robert Andrew, James Barth, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Megan Cope, Léuli Eshrāghi, Caitlin Franzmann, Heather Marie (Wunjarra) Koowootha, Archie Moore, Callum McGrath, Meuram Murray Island Dance Group, Ethel Murray, Ryan Presley, Obery Sambo, Erika Scott, Vanghoua Anthony Vue, Moilang (Rosie) Ware, Jenny Watson, Warraba ... More | |
Tea-towel: Australian pineapples
BRISBANE.- A collection of tea towels, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world is on display at State Library of Queensland from 6 August until 22 January 2023. The Queensland to a T exhibition explores over 200 souvenir tea towels from the Glenn R Cooke Souvenir Textiles collection held at State Library. This remarkable collection of over 1,500 textiles was acquired from Mr Cooke, a social historian, curator, and collector. I have searched the great cultural institutions of the world which have only a handful of the-towels and none have such a comprehensive focus on tourism and the social history of a State. Tea-towels are cheap, readily transportable and functional souvenirs to be distributed to friends after a memorable holiday or kept. Because of the texture of the linen cloth, printing on tea-towels cannot achieve the detail of printing on paper but with the simplification of the motif ... More | |
Kate Zwaard has been appointed associate librarian for Discovery and Preservation Services.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress announced the appointment of two digital transformation leaders to direct acquisition, discovery, use and preservation of the Librarys collections. Kate Zwaard has been appointed associate librarian for Discovery and Preservation Services. A strategic leader with 20 years of experience in government and libraries, Zwaard will lead more than 600 employees responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, preservation and discovery of Library collections. One of Zwaards early initiatives will be spearheading the Librarys transition to the digital-forward and digitally enabled acquisitions model established in the Librarys Digital Collections Strategy. The Library has embarked on significant changes that evolve our services and collections to meet user needs in what continues to be a rapidly changing ... More |
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Parafin opens Hiraki Sawa's third exhibition with the gallery
LONDON.- Parafin opened Hiraki Sawas third exhibition with the gallery. Sawa is known internationally for videos and installations that create powerful psychological situations by interweaving the domestic and the fantastic. Characterised by quietness and introspection, his works create compelling interior worlds and evoke themes of memory and displacement. Often presented in complex installations incorporating objects and drawings, Sawas works occupy a space that moves between the parallel languages of sculpture, film, drawing and choreography. Sawas exhibition is informed by two recent events in his personal life that affected him profoundly. In 2017, Sawas parents left the house in Kanazawa where he grew up. In 2022, Sawa (along with artists friends and colleagues) was evicted from the studio complex in Ridley Road in East London, where he had worked ... More
MFA St. Petersburg opens new exhibition, 'Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven'
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg opened its exhibition, Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven. The new exhibition will be on view from August 13, 2022 through January 15, 2023 in the Minck Gallery, which is supported by the Helen and Richard Minck Memorial Fund. This exhibition highlights the visionary work of Prince Twins Seven-Seven (Nigerian, 19442011), who was the only surviving child out of seven pairs of twins born to his mother. Because of this, and the associated traditional religious beliefs of the Yorùbá people of Nigeria, he held that he possessed unique spiritual insight and power. His perceptions in turn had a profound impact on his artistic expression as a printmaker, painter, and sculptor. Blending abstracted images of the physical world and evocations of the spirit world, Prince Twins Seven-Seven created a unique, ... More
Jordan Nassar's first exhibition in Boston opens at ICA/Boston
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Jordan Nassar: Fantasy and Truth, a solo exhibition of the New York-based artist whose multifaceted practice draws on traditional Palestinian craft to investigate ideas of home, land, and memory. As a self-taught artist, Nassar (b. 1985 in New York) is mostly known for his use of Palestinian tatreez, a matrilineal tradition of cross-stitching. In collaboration with a Palestinian embroidery collective based in the West Bank, the artist composes his embroideries from numerous individually made panels that together weave breathtaking, layered panoramas suggestive of an expansive sky or a boundless horizon. Fantasy and Truth presents the artists largest embroidered panels to date, alongside recent work in wood and glass mixed media. Organized by Anni Pullagura, Curatorial Assistant, the exhibition is on view ... More
Vivien Green Fryd awarded the 34th annual Eldredge Prize
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 34th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Vivien Green Fryd for her book Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970 (Penn State University Press, 2019). Fryd was recognized by an independent panel for her innovative examination of the social history of artworks addressing pornography, domestic violence, incest and rape from the 1970s to the present. The panel noted the publication stands out given its academic rigor, historical understanding and contemporary relevance that characterize the highest achievements in our field. Jurors for the $3,000 prize this year were Elizabeth Hutchinson, associate professor of American art history at Barnard College/Columbia University; Nizan Shaked, professor of contemporary art history, ... More
The art of making garden rooms
NEW YORK, NY.- Its the key question in making any garden: How do you get all the plants you cant resist and the ideas insistently flooding your imagination to coalesce on common ground? The makers of Sakonnet Garden, a private landscape in coastal Rhode Island that welcomes the public by reservation three days a week in season, have been puzzling over that for decades one boardwalk, hedge or unusual plant at a time. John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarellis points of creative reference are wide-ranging. The defined rooms of traditional English gardens are an influence in the Little Compton garden. So is the color-field theory of pioneering modernist artist Josef Albers, whose bold squares of pigment were intensified in the context of carefully chosen adjacent ones. Memories of business travels to the Amazon are also part of Sakonnet. And those of domestic travel ... More
The queen of slow fashion on the art of a slow exit
NEW YORK, NY.- Being a boss is not my strength, Eileen Fisher said as she shifted awkwardly in her seat in a sleek meeting room inside the headquarters of a company she started almost 40 years ago. That may seem surprising, given the degree to which Fisher, 72, has proved herself as a leader with staying power in an often brutal industry defined by relentless change. After all, she is a designer who built a fashion empire offering modern women comfortable yet empowering designs in natural fabrics that simplified busy lives. In an industry in which, by some measures, a truckload of clothes is burned or buried in a landfill every second, she was an early pioneer of environmentalism as a core brand value. Shes a founder of a company who, in 2006, decided that rather than take her business public, or be acquired, she would transfer ownership to her employees. But front and ... More
In the Mile High City, festivals and food are on the rise
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Tuesday evening, diners surrounded marble-topped bistro tables at Chez Maggy in the new Thompson hotel, open since February in Denvers LoDo neighborhood. The draw: the opportunity to taste chef Ludo Lefebvres classic French fare garlicky escargot, curry-tinged mussels frites, duck breast à lorange at his first venture outside of Los Angeles. The restaurant and the hotel are among the fresh crop of ventures gaining buzz in this gateway city to the Rocky Mountains, which has reclaimed its pre-pandemic vibrancy. And visitors are welcomed with open arms: By years end, Denver International Airport which the trade group Airports Council International recently ranked as the worlds third busiest facility will have 39 additional gates, increasing capacity by 30%. Tempting travelers are a slew of new cultural offerings, hotels and restaurants, ... More
He arranges songs and solves problems
NEW YORK, NY.- Jazz bass player Matthew Garrison doesnt like to slow down. Im always thinking, doing, he said. As a performer, he has toured with Herbie Hancock and has upcoming shows with pianist Jason Moran, drummer Jack DeJohnette and others. But most days, he is focused on producing music events through ShapeShifter Lab and its nonprofit arm, ShapeShifter Plus. He also created the Tunebend app, which facilitates virtual collaborating and recording among musicians. Garrison, who is the son of Jimmy Garrison, the bassist for John Coltrane, seems to like pushing boundaries in the jazz world. Im really tired of the stagnant music scene, where this club only books a certain type of band and that club only books musicians that play this genre, he said. For a decade, Garrison ran a performance space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, also called the ShapeShifter Lab, ... More
Soda pop or ice cream soda? Morphy's Aug. 23-25 auction series lines up sweet advertising treats
DENVER, PA.- Just as nightclubs are todays social hubs, there was a time, more than a century ago, when the local soda fountain or soda shop was where people went for a light meal or wholesome refreshment in a cordial environment. Sometimes a soda fountain named for the actual device that dispensed carbonated beverages was found within a larger establishment, such as a drugstore or candy store. Soda fountain memorabilia is pure American nostalgia, and collectors revel in the opportunity to purchase such treasures from a source as esteemed as the Sharyn and Terry Brown collection, which highlights Morphys August 23-25 auction series. The Brown collection will be offered during the August 23-24 Soda Pop & Soda Fountain Advertising session, which is followed by General Advertising on August 25. The auction will begin each day at 9 am, with all forms ... More
An orchestra supports Ukraine, and reunites a couple parted by war
WARSAW.- After years of struggling to make a living as musicians in Ukraine, Yevgen Dovbysh and Anna Vikhrova felt they had finally built a stable life. They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odesa Philharmonic he plays the cello, she the violin sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from Star Wars. They lived in an apartment on the banks of the Black Sea with their 8-year-old daughter, Daryna. Then Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. Vikhrova fled for the Czech Republic with her daughter and mother, bringing a few hundred dollars in savings, some clothes and her violin. Dovbysh, 39, who was not allowed to leave because he is of military age, stayed behind and assisted in efforts to defend the city, gathering sand from beaches to reinforce barriers and protect monuments and playing Ukrainian music on videos honoring the countrys soldiers. We spent ... More
Zofia Posmysz, who wrote of life in concentration camps, dies at 98
NEW YORK, NY.- Zofia Posmysz, who endured three years of imprisonment in concentration camps for associating with the Polish resistance to Nazi occupation in World War II, then gained acclaim for her works on the Holocaust as a journalist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, died Aug. 8 in Oswiecim, Poland. She was 98. Her death, in the city where the remnants of the Auschwitz concentration camp have been preserved as a reminder of humans capacity for unfathomable evil, was announced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Posmysz (pronounced POCE-mish) was born Aug. 23, 1923, in Krakow, Poland, into a Roman Catholic family. She was arrested by the Gestapo in May 1942 for associating with fellow students at an underground university who were passing out anti-Nazi leaflets. She was taken to Auschwitz, where some 1.1 million people, a vast majority of them Jews, would perish. She survived brutality at Auschw ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte died August 15, 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. In this image: Photograph of Rene Magritte, in front of his painting The Pilgrim, as taken by Lothar Wolleh.
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