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A native of Ukraine based in Poland since 2013, Janina Myronova is currently a long-term Resident Artist and Speyer Fellow at the Archie Bray foundation in Montana, well known as the oldest and one of the best ceramics residency programs in the world.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery announces Wonder Land on view December 2 until December 30, 2023, a solo exhibition with acclaimed Ukrainian/Polish artist Janina Myronova, who is showing recently created sculptures and drawings from her artist residencies at The Archie Bray Foundation and the Northern Clay Center in the US. Myronovas vividly colorful, playfully misshapen figures of humans and animals delight viewers and create narratives around the relationships and connections among families, friends, and animals. Deeply influenced by the Slavic cultures during her formative years, Janina has developed a unique and unmistakable style inspired by folk arts such as nesting dolls, Dymkovo toys of family figures, and Ukrainian embroidery, combining these influences with her knowledge of Pre-Colombian sculpture and her interest in contemporary comic books and graphic novels. She portrays the relationships and inner worlds of families and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Furla Series - Suzanne Jackson. Somethings in the World, 2023. Installation view of the exhibition promoted by Fondazione Furla and GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan. Photo: Andrea Rossetti / Héctor Chico. Courtesy Fondazione Furla.
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| Met announces 2024 Art Commissions, including Lee Bul, sculptor of cyborgs | | Exhibition includes works from the years 1961-2000 by Robert Ryman | | Morphy's celebrates holiday season with opulent Dec. 18-19 auction of fine and decorative art, luxury goods |
One of Nairy Baghramians sculptures installed in the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on Sept. 6, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected three international artists for commissions that will showcase contemporary arts capacity for earned optimism, organizers said. On Wednesday, the museum announced that Kosovo-born artist Petrit Halilaj will take over the museums Roof Garden in April with a meditation on conflict; South Korean sculptor Lee Bul will transform the facade in September with futuristic statues; and Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze will design two new works of calligraphy featuring classical Chinese texts for the Great Hall in November. Art has to be a form of communication, said David Breslin, curator in charge of the modern and contemporary art department. It has to embed within itself a form of critique, but it is also a form of optimism for how ... More | |
Robert Ryman, Untitled Study, 1961. © 2023 Robert Ryman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of drawings by American artist Robert Ryman at the gallerys London location. Organised in collaboration with the artists family, this exhibition includes works from the years 19612000, complementing the major presentation of Rymans paintings from the early 1960s on view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York, curated by Dieter Schwarz. Featuring works made on a wide range of unorthodox supports, the exhibition underscores Rymans expansive approach to drawing. Much like his analytical yet intuitive exploration of the medium of painting, Rymans understanding of drawing reflects a singular investigation and deconstruction of the practices formal and material qualities. As Schwarz writes: Drawings by Robert Ryman are not necessarily works on paper. They can also be executed on canvas, anodized aluminium, polyester cloth ... More | |
Tiffany Studios Peacock leaded-glass table lamp on rare, matching Peacock base. One of Tiffanys most beloved and iconic glass patterns, with motif of peacock feathers with brilliantly colored eyes. Both shade and base are signed and in excellent condition. Size: 21¾in tall, shade 18in diameter. Estimate: $200,000-$300,000.
DENVER, PA.- December is traditionally a time to decorate, entertain and display ones best heirloom silver, crystal and other antique wares. Morphys captures the holiday spirit each year with a glittering pre-Christmas Fine & Decorative Arts Auction of choice and beautiful objects and artworks. All of their most-loved collector categories from Tiffany Studios art glass to luxury watches will take the spotlight at this years edition, scheduled for December 18 and 19. More than 1,200 lots will be offered, with several highlight collections, including walking sticks and canes; antique maps, art pottery, and occupational shaving mugs. Those seeking the ultimate in stocking stuffers are sure to find them within ... More |
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| Mica Ertegun, glamorous interior designer and philanthropist, dies at 97 | | Older and wiser, Peter Gabriel is still looking ahead | | Maria Callas was opera's defining diva. She still is. |
The socialite and interior designer Mica Ertegun, in New York on Oct. 9, 1979. (D. Gorton/The New York Times)
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK, NY.- Mica Ertegun, a New York doyenne of interior design who fled from communism in postwar Romania, ran a chicken farm in Canada, married a legend of American pop music and for 50 years dazzled her patrons with stylish decor, died Saturday morning at her home in Southampton, New York, on Long Island. She was 97. Her death was announced by a friend, Linda Wachner. More than a decade after the death of her husband of 45 years, Ahmet, a founder of Atlantic Records who reigned for five decades as one of the worlds most influential music magnates, national magazines still gushed over a couple that Vanity Fair called the virtual definition of sophistication. Ertegun and socialite Chessy Rayner founded the interior design firm MAC II in 1967 (the initials stood for Mica and Chessy) and presided over ... More | |
The songs on I/O, the English songwriters first album of new songs in 21 years, face mortality while celebrating regeneration.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK, NY.- If I was a butterfly, 21 years would be an eternity, Peter Gabriel observed in a video interview last week. And if I was a mountain, it would be a little flash. So its all relative. It has been 21 years since Gabriel, the thoughtful, perpetually forward-looking English songwriter, has released an album of new songs. Friday will conclude his careful rollout of I/O, a dozen tracks that face time and mortality while they celebrate regeneration and reconciliation. On the album, which he has released song by song over the past year, Gabriel contemplates a future of limitless information, while he cherishes the very human qualities of love, belonging and compassion. Its a statement from a songwriter who, unlike some rock musicians, not only accepts but welcomes the lessons of age. There are a few good ... More | |
Maria Callas rehearsing Medea in 1953 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. (Erio Piccagliani / Teatro alla Scala via The New York Times)
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- Her voice is the shadow that remains after shock, after anger: the sound of a woman realizing she has nothing left to live for. It is the second act of Verdis opera La Traviata. Violetta and Alfredo, a prostitute and a wealthy young man, have fallen madly in love. But his father confronts her, demanding she drop the disreputable affair to salvage the marriage prospects of Alfredos sister. For Violetta, it is an unbearable sacrifice, but shell do it. Dite alla giovine, she sings, in a broken murmur: Tell your daughter that I will abandon the one good thing I have, for her sake. Singing that passage on May 28, 1955, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, soprano Maria Callas reached the phrase about how bella e pura Alfredos sister is how beautiful and pure and inserted the tiniest breath before pura. Its a barely noticeable silence, bu ... More |
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| John Nichols, author of 'The Milagro Beanfield War,' dies at 83 | | Fine 18th C. furniture with Churchill family provenance highlights Dec. 12-13 auction | | MoMA PS1 opens first New York museum exhibition of artist Leslie Martinez |
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- John Nichols, a New York City transplant to New Mexico whose exuberant novels notably, The Milagro Beanfield War transformed him from an urban gringo into a local idol, died Nov. 27 at his home in Taos. He was 83. The cause was heart failure, said his daughter, Tania Harris. Imbued with a heady pedigree and a peripatetic upbringing, Nichols evolved instinctively from a cosmopolitan New Yorker and world traveler to a Western writer of the purple sage. He was best known for The Milagro Beanfield War (1974), a 445-page political allegory that tells the story of farmers in the fictional town of Milagro Valley who are denied the right to irrigate their farms because water is being diverted to a huge development. The Milagro Beanfield War became a crowd pleaser on college campuses, was venerated in his adopted state and for a while was considered among the most widely read novels about Latinos. In 1988, it was adapted into a film, directed by ... More | |
After Jean-Antoine Houdon, second half of the 19th century, 'La Baiser Donné. Estimate: £2,000-£4,000 ($2,540-$5,080). All images courtesy of Sworders.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- Furnishings with links to one of the most celebrated family names in modern British history will be auctioned at Sworders auction house on December 12-13. Nine pieces in Sworders Fine Interiors sale were most recently part of a private collection in Mayfair, London, and previously were owned by Winston Spencer Churchill, MP (1940-2010). His father was the politician Randolph Churchill, MBE (1911-1968); and his grandfather, the legendary wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Like his celebrated forebears, Winston Spencer Churchill spent much of his life in politics and was in public office from 1970-1983. Many of the pieces entered in the auction were acquired following his second marriage to Luce Engelen, a Belgian-born jewelry maker whom he married in 1997. Together they chose to furnish their fashionable Belgrave Square apartment in the classic country house taste, using both family pieces and others acquired at auctions and galleries. The look the couple cr ... More | |
Leslie Martinez. The Reconstitution of Rejected and Refracted Voids (detail). 2023. Acrylic, sumi ink, used studio rags, canvas scraps, used studio clothing, plastic film stuffing, polyester sewing threads, paper fragments, mylar balloons, iron silicate, iridescent cellophane, crushed charcoal, paint chips, saw dust, pumice, modeling paste, mica flakes, mica powder, and iron oxide on canvas. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 is presenting the first New York museum exhibition of artist Leslie Martinez (b. 1985, McAllen, Texas). On view from November 16, 2023 through April 8, 2024, the presentation debuts new and recent works by Martinez, who lived in New York City for fifteen years before returning to Texas in 2019. The exhibition showcases a selection of paintings that range in scale and burst with color, alongside a new series that explores the politics and poetics of the color gray as a boundless state of possibility. Using a cosmic palette based on the CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) color model, Martinez dyes and pleats canvases of pooled paint, an approach that explores place and ancestry in relation to the handmade and draws on ... More |
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| Being a woman in magic may be the hardest trick of all | | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica | | Andrew Kreps Gallery now represents the Estate of Eileen Agar |
Anna DeGuzman, who finished second on Americas Got Talent in September, in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 2023. (Philip Cheung/ The New York Times)
by Lauren McCarthy
NEW YORK, NY.- Although it was nearly five decades ago, Gay Blackstone can still vividly recall the first time she was sawed in half onstage. Her screams were an intended element of the illusion, but nerves and fear made them genuine that time. For Blackstone, that gig assisting master illusionist Harry Blackstone Jr. turned into a love affair and, later, marriage. After her husband died in 1997, Gay Blackstone moved center stage and went on to a successful career as an illusionist, coach, producer and director. But she is an exception. Only around 8% of professional magicians are women, according to a spokesperson for the Magic Castle, a private clubhouse in Los Angeles for members of the Academy of Magical Arts. Blackstone and others say a number of factors ... More | |
Polish, Torah Crown, late 18thearly 19th century, silver, silver‐gilt, and paste stones, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Toomim‐Robinson Family.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opened a new gallery for Judaica on December 3, 2023. The new space, which has been endowed by the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, allows for a permanent presence at the Museum of works of art made for Jewish communities around the world to fulfill the practice of their faith. More than two dozen objects are displayed in the inaugural installation of the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery, primarily from a group of recent acquisitions that have launched this new collecting initiative. The installation in the Herzstein Gallery benefits from a partnership with the Jewish Museum, New York, that has paired significant loans to the MFAH with scholarly collaborations. That partnership launched in summer 2022 with the exhibition Beauty and Ritual: Judaica ... More | |
Eileen Agar, Ondine, 1972, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 15 x 22 inches (38.1 x 55.9 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced representation of the estate of Eileen Agar (b. 1899. Buenos Aires, Argentina, d. 1991, London, UK.) In January 2024, the gallery will present an expansive survey of Agars work curated by Laura Smith, spanning five decades of the artists career at 22 Cortlandt Alley. I have spent life in revolt against convention, trying to bring color and light and a sense of the mysterious to daily existence. - Eileen Agar Over the course of seventy years, Eileen Agar developed a deeply personal artistic language that linked diverse forms and objects through both spiritual, and formal relationships. Born in Buenos Aires, Agar relocated to London as a child, first studying art at the Brook Green School, and later, the Slade School of Fine Art. Joining the London Group in 1934, Agar would rise to prominence as one of the few women to exhibit in The International Surrealist ... More |
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Mennour opens an exhibition of works by Elizabeth Jaeger
PARIS.- To live in a densely populated environment is to be on view while viewing others; to exchange intimate moments with strangers. Elizabeth Jaegers curiously animate clay worlds reflect the psychological effects that accompany this experience of looking and being looked at. Sculpted by hand, her objects and beings embody the effects of the gaze through a number of distortions including scale shifts, fragmentation, and anthropomorphization. These expressive traits impose an indistinct fluidity between figures, beings and things. If looking often implies a relationship of power, Jaegers objects complicate expected hierarchies between humans and our surroundings. This shift between observer and observed is central to prey, which unfolds across two distinct environments. In the first, a series of black cubes ... More
Beyoncé the auteur takes center stage in 'Renaissance'
NEW YORK, NY.- Im excited for people to see the show, Beyoncé says early in Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, based on her recent world tour and seventh studio album. But Im really excited for everyone to see the process. Ive long wanted to understand her process better, too, especially because she has taken to rarely giving interviews. Instead, she has let her art speak for itself, a risky venture when critics do the interpreting without her input. My interest in her approach is partly scholarly. I regularly teach courses on her and want my students to learn from her observations. But my enthusiasm is also speculative. I often wonder whether our ignorance of her creative practice has minimized and denied her innovation, ingenuity and individual contributions to her own body of work. If Renaissance was only a film about her beaming ... More
Stijn Alsteens appointed as director of the Fondation Custodia
DOORN.- The Board of the Fondation Custodia announced the appointment of Stijn Alsteens as its new director. In the spring of 2024, he will succeed Ger Luijten, who died suddenly in December 2022. Stijn Alsteens, born in Leuven (Belgium) in 1976, is a leading expert of old master drawings, especially those from the Low Countries, and currently head of the department of Old Master Drawings at Christies. Previously, he was a curator at the Fondation Custodia in Paris (2001-2006) and at the Department of Drawings and Prints of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2006-2016). His knowledge and broad experience, his international career and his enthusiasm for old master drawings and prints make him ideally suited to pursue the work of Frits Lugt and his successors at its customary high level. Expanding the collection, ... More
Visitation to expanded Art Gallery of New South Wales surpasses 2 million
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is celebrating record visitation and global recognition for sustainable design and construction ahead of its new building. The expanded art museum is for the first time hosting two major summer exhibitions. Kandinsky and Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? are proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW, as part of the Sydney International Art Series, that brings the worlds most outstanding exhibitions to Australia, exclusively to Sydney. Kandinsky is also supported through the Create NSW Blockbusters Funding initiative. Art Gallery of New South Wales director Michael Brand said we are excited to announce that visitation to our expanded art museum has surpassed ... More
Marco Brambilla's 'Heaven's Gate' opens today at the Sphere in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Marco Brambilla's striking video collage, Heaven's Gate, is on view at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Following his acclaimed Elvis Presley tribute with KING SIZE in September 2023, Brambilla now brings to the Sphere this monumental work. From December 1st, 2023, to February 18th, 2024, Heavens Gate is being displayed on the Sphere's external LED facade in a captivating 360-degree format. Heavens Gate, a recent addition to Brambilla's Megaplex series, is a grandiose and satirical portrayal of Hollywood's cinematic fantasies and extravagances. It simultaneously celebrates and critiques the allure of collective storytelling. The artwork, in a perpetual loop, takes viewers through seven levels of Purgatory, each layer rich with looping scenes from iconic film moments. In his essay, Marco Brambillas Labyrinth of ... More
James Cohan presents Christopher Myers' immersive ice-skating rink at 99 Scott
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the opening of Feathers on the Waves, a 2,500-sq-ft open-air ice rink featuring a site-specific commission by Christopher Myers. This immersive artwork anchors the second annual edition of Studio Skate, a pop-up holiday community retreat at 99 Scott Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn presented by Scott Avenue Associates (SAA). Studio Skate is free and open to the public from December 1 through January 15. All spaces will be closed from December 25 through January 7. Curated by Zoe Lukov, Feathers on the Waves aims to capture the inherent grace of the Black figure, suspended in space, radiating a sense of weightlessness and winged freedom. Situated beneath the ice and emanating color reminiscent of the artists work in stained glass, the functional medium skillfully contrasts fluid ... More
L.A. Louver presents an exhibition focused on the color red
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The color red has held deep symbolic resonance throughout time and across cultures since red pigment made of ochre was employed in cave paintings. Red has symbolized life, health and victory (ancient Egypt); war and triumph (ancient Rome); majesty and authority (Byzantine Empire). In the West it is associated with martyrdom, sacrifice and military pageantry; in the 18th century resistance and revolution; in the 20th century, Communism. It is also a color of contradiction, associated with love but also of war; a signal of alarm and danger; blood and sin; it is a color that stirs emotion. What is it about this color that signifies bright and present danger that can both attract and repel but always demands to be noticed? In RED, fifteen artists embrace the color to varying ends and through various medium: ... More
Tim Dorsey, who turned Florida's quirks into comic gold, dies at 62
NEW YORK, NY.- Tim Dorsey, who drew on his years as a crime reporter to fuel a second career writing a long series of darkly comic thrillers set along the back roads and back alleys of Floridas weird, wild underbelly, died Nov. 26 at his home in Islamorada, a town in the Florida Keys. He was 62. His daughter Erin Appleton-Dorsey confirmed the death. She said he had been in declining health. Long before Florida Man became the Sunshine States unofficial mascot, there was Serge A. Storms, the antihero at the heart of Dorseys 26 novels, beginning with Florida Roadkill (1999). Brilliant and high-strung, Serge is also a serial killer who channels his homicidal urges into taking out various baddies he encounters during a series of improbable adventures around Florida. He usually rolls in the company of Coleman, his semi- ... More
GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano extends solo exhibition by Suzanne Jackson
MILAN.- Somethings in the World, a solo exhibition by Suzanne Jackson, curated by Bruna Roccasalva, and the fifth edition of the Furla Series program, promoted by Fondazione Furla and GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano has been extended until January 14, 2024. The exhibitionthe first dedicated to the artist by a European museum institutionoffers a glimpse of the research Suzanne Jackson has been carrying out for over fifty years, and retraces the key moments of her career. Suzanne Jackson is an American artist whose practice embraces a broad field of investigation exploring the potential of painting, nourished by her experiences in dance, theater, and poetry. Her initial figurative productionpopulated by a pictorial matrix of characters, animals, and references to natureevolved over the years, progressively ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko died December 04, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889-1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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