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A worker producing ceramics at East Fork potterys factory in Asheville, N.C., Nov. 10, 2022. Since East Fork started in 2009, its fans have been drawn to a founders frank and candid style of communication. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
by Regan Stephens
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The process of shaping thick disks of clay into dinner plates takes seconds using a roller tool, a machine on which revolving hunks of clay are pressed into symmetrical circles one by one. After the plates are pressed and travel through a dryer, the edges are deftly hand trimmed as they spin around on a different machine. The pieces are then fired in a kiln, glazed and fired again. These dinner plates, which cost $46 each, are among the ceramics made by East Fork at a factory near downtown Asheville that the company has operated since 2018, roughly 10 years after its founders started the business on a farm about 20 miles outside of the city in 2009. In East Forks earlier days, when production was largely reliant on potters wheels, output ranged from 80 to 120 pieces a day. At the factory, up to 2,000 ceramics can be made a day using one machine. When potter Alex Matisse, 38, started East Fork with his wife, Connie Matisse, 37, and potter John Vigeland, 37, they had aspirati ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day GRIMM is presenting Mile, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the London-based artist Gabriella Boyd, on view at its New York gallery from November 18, 2022 to January 7, 2023.
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| MoMA devotes an exhibition to the craft and process behind Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'' | | Dallas Museum of Art announces acquisition of Luca Giordano's monumental "The Triumph of Galatea" | | Miles McEnery Gallery presents solo exhibition by German artist Daniel Rich in New York |
Guillermo del Toro on the set of Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio, 2022. Image courtesy Jason Schmidt/Netflix.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Thuillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, an exhibition devoted to the craft and process behind the celebrated filmmakers first stop-motion animation film. On view in the second-floor Paul J. Sachs Galleries and in the Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center from December 11, 2022, through April 15, 2023, the exhibition provides visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at the handcrafted creative process to realize del Toros latest film, Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio (2022). In addition to the gallery presentations, MoMA screened Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio on select days between December 3 and 11, along with a theatrical run from December 26 through January 4; present a complete retrospective of del Toros films, from January 4 through 29; and host a Carte Blanche film series, curated by the director, in March 2023, all in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Guillermo del Toro ... More | |
Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705), The Triumph of Galatea, about 1675, Oil on canvas, 98 7/8 Ã 118 7/8 in., Dallas Museum of Art, Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund, 2022.67. Large-Scale Italian Baroque Painting Bolsters Museum's Renowned European Collection.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- The Dallas Museum of Art today announced its purchase of The Triumph of Galatea by leading Italian Baroque painter Luca Giordano (16341705) through the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund for European Art Before 1700. The acquisition of this beautiful and moving painting by one of the preeminent artists of the Baroque period allows the Museum to build upon a growing strength in Italian paintings within its historic European collection. Painted around 1675, the massive eight-by-ten-foot oil painting is a quintessential example of the later, more ornate Baroque style. The painting helps the DMA present a more complete picture of this period, bridging the gap between the darker tenebrism ... More | |
Zeitenwende #2, 2022, acrylic on dibond, 40 x 30 inches, 101.6 x 76.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Rich's solo show, Flat Earth, at Miles McEnery Gallery opened December 8th, 2022, at 525 West 22nd Street and will be on view until 28 January 2023. Exhibitions by Tomory Dodge, Rico Gatson, Daniel Rich and Monique van Genderen also opened. DANIEL RICH (b. 1977, Ulm, Germany) received his Master of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Atlanta College of Art; and has completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work may be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Cornell Museum at Rollins University, Winter Park, FL; Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, MA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy; and Wellington Management, Boston, MA. ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of Korean artist Shim Moon-Seup opens at Perrotin Hong kong | | World record for pair of Meissen vases at Bonhams Ceramics Sale in London | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Sterling Ruby |
Opening Up ( 《現前》) presents how the artist began to approach painting from a sculptor's perspective, while allowing one to experience the cycle of natural materiality and the temporality associated with it.
HONG KONG.- Perrotin Hong Kong is presenting A Scenery of Time, a solo exhibition of Korean artist Shim Moon-Seup, whose essential themes encompassing his oeuvre are nature and temporality. Shim continuously strives to pursue the quest for how to perceive and express them with the infinite possibilities of arts beyond the standardized genres and media. A Scenery of Time, the artists first exhibition with the gallery, features paintings in which the artist has been engaged over the recent fifteen years in examining the theme of reverence for nature and its circulation. The artist, who spent more than forty years exploring the inherent properties of the materials as a sculptor, has borrowed landscapes (借景) from his hometown Tongyeong and expanded the spirit of anti-sculpture, an expression granted to his unique practice by art critics, through paintings. In the late 1960s of Korea ... More | |
An extremely rare pair of Meissen red-ground bottle vases, circa 1735. Sold for £831,900.
LONDON.- An extremely rare pair of Meissen red-ground vases from circa 1735 achieved £831,900 at Bonhams 500 Years of European Ceramics sale in London on Wednesday 7 December 2022, a new world record for a pair of Meissen vases. The vases more than quadrupled their pre-sale estimate of £120,000-180,000. The 219-lot sale made a total £1,625,280. Nette Megens, Bonhams Director, Decorative Arts, U.K. and Europe, said: This is an exceptional result for an important and hitherto unrecorded pair of vases. Bottle vases of this kind were made by the Meissen factory exclusively for the Dresden court, and these are the largest size and only known examples with this rare ground colour. These qualities, and the fact that these vases were fresh to the market, led to fierce competition in the saleroom. The price they achieved is also a testament to the taste of one of the greatest collectors of the 20th century, Catalina von Pannwitz (1876-1959) ... More | |
Sterling Ruby, TURBINE. CICADA KILLER., 2022. Acrylic, oil and cardboard on canvas, 126 x 96 in. © Sterling RUby. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announces TURBINES, an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Sterling Ruby that represent a convergence of several bodies of work, using different mediums to expand the definitions of painting and collage. Started in 2021, the TURBINEÂ series incorporates the same materials that characterize Rubys earlier WIDWÂ paintings (2016)the title is an abbreviation of windowyet abandons their stark vertical divisions in favor of energetic, intersecting diagonals. Making reference not only to turbines and windmills, but also to hurricanes, explosions, fires, war, and geographical boundaries, cardboard components are blasted across the canvas, suggesting that elemental forces are pushing them toward the edges of the frame. Rather than implying the observation of action through a window, the combination of oil paint with bright cardboard swatches ... More |
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| Thierry Goldberg opens an online exhibition of works by Andrew James McKay | | Marrow Gallery exhibits works by artists Gianna Commito and Sarah Hotchkiss | | New MOL Campus is a bastion of modern architecture and sustainability |
Andrew James McKay, Mary-Rose in the Library, 2017-2020. Acrylic, ink, and graphite on panel, 20 x 16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Scaring Away a Dream, an online exhibition of works by Andrew James McKay. The exhibition runs from December 9, 2022 - January 6, 2023. Scaring Away a Dream highlights life-making moments from a sidelined view. Painting from the peripheries, McKay weaves together multiple mediums drawing both on realistic and illustrative styles. Detecting the markers that point to the whole, McKay infuses his works with a whimsical quality, one founded in nostalgia for moments most recently past. McKay synthesizes the world around him meticulously, rendering instances of specificity. It is in the glimmer of an eye, individual strands of hair, or the emphasis of a laugh line that McKay begins the process of building his representations. In Neila, 2022, a woman stares forth from a multicolored background. Her sherpa-lined jacket and furry hat are drawn with such fidelity ... More | |
Gianna Commito, Plover, casein on clayboard, 30 x 24 inches, 2021.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Marrow Gallery presents Knot Garden with artists Gianna Commito and Sarah Hotchkiss. The two person exhibition runs through January 21, 2023 with a closing public reception on January 13 from 6-8 pm. New to the gallery and exhibiting in their first show together, Commito and Hotchkiss work on opposite sides of the country, while sharing a visual language rooted in geometric abstraction. Commito, an artist and art professor at Kent State in Ohio, paints elaborate convergences of line, arc, shadow and depth. Hotchkiss, a San Francisco based artist and arts editor and writer, paints hard-edged and high contrast graphic compositions. Markedly unique in their subject and execution, the works in Knot Garden share a sense of spatial transaction where both artists use the two dimensional surface to carefully negotiate the tussles and space grabs of their formal pursuits. Gianna Commitos latest paintings are both an extension ... More | |
MOL Group is an international, integrated oil, gas, petrochemicals and consumer retail company, headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.
BUDAPEST.- The inaugural opening ceremony of the new MOL Campus, designed by Foster + Partners in London and Finta Studio in Hungary, was held on 8 December. The impressive 143-meter-high building, which will accommodate about 2500 MOL employees, has been designed to create an inspirational and sustainable workplace. Rich with a wide variety of facilities for the staff, the building will also open its doors to the public from spring, allowing visitors to take in the stunning views from its 29th floor observation deck. MOL Campus stands in BudaPart, one of the most dynamically developing neighborhoods in Budapest. It has been designed to create a new landmark in the region and, alongside providing an inspirational and collaborative working environment, has areas for relaxation and social interaction. In addition to the observation deck, it has a visitor center, two restaurants and a Fresh Corner. The headquarters ... More |
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| Strong prices for modern, contemporary and Swiss art at Koller | | Ballon Rouge is presenting Rashawn Griffin's first solo exhibition in Belgium | | 'Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse' opens at the National Gallery of Victoria |
"Girl peeling potatoes" by Albert Anker was the subject of a bidding war by several private collectors, selling for CHF 1.75 million (lot 3013, est. CHF 900 000 / 1 400 000).
ZURICH.- Active bidding on the telephones, online and as a sign that clients are happy to resume in-person bidding in the saleroom produced excellent results for Modern, Contemporary and Swiss Art in Kollers December auctions. Paintings from an important Swiss private collection sparked enthusiastic bidding. Girl peeling potatoes by Albert Anker was the subject of a bidding war by several private collectors, selling for CHF 1.75 million (lot 3013, est. CHF 900 000 / 1 400 000). Among the works by Giovanni Giacometti from this collection, a summer Engadine landscape more than doubled its estimate at CHF 439 000 (lot 3048, est. CHF 180 000 / 250 000), as did the sunny portrait of Giacomettis daughter, Ottilia on the balcony, at CHF 256 000 (lot 3037, est. CHF 100 000 / 150 000). Further important works from other private collections realised outstanding results, such as Cuno Amiets ... More | |
Rashawn Griffin, Décor 1, 2022 Epoxy clay, pigment, gouache, oil and acrylic, wood, varied materials, museum glass 43.5 x 37.25 x 3 inches (103 x 90 x x 7.5 cm).
BRUSSELS.- Ballon Rouge is presenting the first solo exhibition in Belgium of Rashawn Griffin (b 1980, Los Angeles) in January. Rashawn Griffin, whose work was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and who was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Award in 2007, is known for his large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings which use domestic and everyday materials such as bed sheets, tassels, food, and flora. Griffins installations explore the relationship between architecture and the traditions of painting often by using stretched fabric over walls; as the picture becomes the space, the pictorial space highlights the architecture. Often pushing the boundaries between object and installation, his work challenges viewers to engage in their own past experiences when confronting his art. His work doesnt fit comfortably into any art historical category ... More | |
Installation view of Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse on display at NGV International from 11 December 2022 - 16 April, 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
MELBOURNE.- Alexander McQueen (1969 2010), one of the most significant fashion designers of the late twentieth-century, was lauded for his conceptual and technical virtuosity. McQueens critically acclaimed collections synthesised his proficiency in tailoring and dressmaking with encyclopaedic and autobiographical visual references that spanned time, geography, media and technology. Organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse is the first major Australian exhibition to explore the work of this boundary-pushing fashion designer. Showcasing more than 60 looks drawn from LACMAs holdings of important works by McQueen, the Melbourne presentation also features more than 50 looks by McQueen from the NGV Collection, as well as key loans from designer Katy Englands personal archive, making this Australian-exclusive ... More |
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Amid global turmoil, Salzburg Festival plans a summer of reflection
NEW YORK, NY.- With the pandemic still lingering and the war in Ukraine raging on, the Salzburg Festival in Austria announced plans on Friday for a summer season that would seek to offer space for reflection. The festival, classical musics most storied annual event, will stage two operas based on works by William Shakespeare: Macbeth and Falstaff, both by Verdi. There are also plans for more offbeat repertoire, including Bohuslav Martinus The Greek Passion, which tells the story of a Greek village staging a Passion play, in a production led by conductor Maxime Pascal. Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives, Markus Hinterhäuser, the festivals artistic director, said in an interview, quoting from Hamlet. Therefore, we have constructed a festival giving artists the opportunity ... More
Lee Lorenz, 90, cartoonist and gatekeeper at The New Yorker, dies
NEW YORK, NY.- Lee Lorenz, a cartoonist and cartoon editor who over 40 years at The New Yorker introduced unconventional illustrators such as Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler while publishing droll covers and some 1,800 cartoons in the magazine himself, died Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his daughter Martha Lorenz. Lorenz joined the New Yorker in 1958. He was its art editor only the second one since the magazine was founded in 1925 from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor from 1973 to 1997. During his tenure, he bridged a precarious transition when the New Yorker was sold to Samuel I. Newhouse Jr.s Advance Publications in 1985 and the magazines venerable editor, William Shawn, was deposed, replaced first by Robert A. Gottlieb, a book editor and publisher who introduced a more ideological and earthy tone ... More
"Hajar Benjida: Atlanta Made us Famous" on view at TJ Boulting Gallery
LONDON.- TJ Boulting began this December 8th the first solo exhibition of Hajar Benjida, the winner of this year's British Journal of Photography International Photography Award. Atlanta Made Us Famous is an ongoing photo series that highlights the women that play an important role in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, and will be on view until December 17th. I first visited Atlanta in 2018, and the photography studio I interned at was located right across the street from Magic City, a legendary strip club that should be familiar to anyone who knows anything about rap music. For the past few years, I have been capturing the hip-hop scene, including a number of Atlanta-based rappers, which drew me to the world of the city's dancers. In U.S. hip-hop culture, strip clubs like Magic City are the launch pad for hit records and superstar careers, and the dancers are a vital part of the scene ... More
California Gold Rush sunken treasure artifacts auction sets records
RENO, NEV.- An auction of 270 never-before-offered historic California Gold Rush sunken treasure artifacts attracted nearly $1 million in sales from more than 7,500 registered bidders from across the United States and in six other countries. The recovered jewelry, mid-1800s clothing, glassware, and other items were retrieved from the legendary Ship of Gold, the S.S. Central America that sank during a voyage to New York in 1857. There has never been anything like the scope of these recovered artifacts which represented a time capsule of daily life during the Gold Rush. The auction took over eight hours for only 270 lots because of the exceptionally large number of bids, said Fred Holabird, president of Holabird Western Americana Collections, the auction company that conducted the sale in Reno, Nevada and online on December 3, 2022. ... More
Mattress Factory offers solo exhibition by Doreen Chan, "HalfDream: Another Room"
PITTSBURGH, PA.- In her first solo exhibition in the US, Doreen Chan (b. 1987, Hong Kong) finds in dreams a medium for human connection and a communal language. As the title of her show at the Mattress Factory expresses, for Chan dreams provide another rooma space that is real for the dreamer, not fake, in her words, or illusionarybut is instead a tangible, psychological realm that allows for a better understanding of how individual experiences, memories, major life changes, and daily routines, are shared by others. Further, by working through them, a persons dreams can impact their perceptionof relationships or of the pastaltering the course of healing or shaping new trajectories. This ongoing participatory project grew out of a body of work that began as a response to Chans vivid, rapid dreaming in the context of the 2019 ... More
First exhibition to explore the rich history of storytelling about Alexander the Great opens at the British Library
LONDON.- Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth (21 October 2022 19 February 2023), supported by the Kusuma Trust and Ubisoft, is the first exhibition to traverse the rich history of storytelling about one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. From astrological clay tablets, ancient papyri and medieval manuscripts to comics, TV series and cutting-edge videogames, the major exhibition reveals how Alexanders character has been adapted and appropriated by different cultures and religions over 2,000 years. Featuring around 140 exhibits from 25 countries in over 20 languages, Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth explores how Alexanders legacy turned into legend ... More
Opening Vernissage: Ymane Chabi-Gara, Valentin Carron and Alberto Garcìa Alix at kamel mennour
PARIS.- kamel mennour recently opened three new solo shows including artists Ymane Chabi-Gara, Valentin Carron and Alberto Garcìa Alix that started on December 8th, and will end on January 28th, 2023. Ymane Chabi-Gara: After being awarded many international prizes, Ymane Chabi-Gara is having her first solo show at galerie kamel mennour. Ymane Chabi-Gara presents a new series of works made in 2022 that deal with the experience of the body faced with a world saturated with objects. Since 2020, Chabi-Gara has been exploring the Hikikomori, a phenomenon causing young Japanese to stay isolated in their bedrooms, in large-format paintings on wood and small, detailed paintings entitled One Day Paintings. In her new series of paintings, Chabi-Gara invokes the Mono No Aware aesthetic concept ... More
Pi Artworks opens an exhibition of Nancy Atakan's watercolour paintings
ISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks is pleased to present Scent of Time, Nancy Atakans 8th solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring her watercolour paintings inspiring her needlework that touches upon revisiting, rethinking and reimagining in light of a subjective experience of time. Atakans visual language draws on the repercussions of historical, cultural and societal transformations which are fostered in the mind and legible on the body, creating a juxtaposition of images belonging to a past and in the making of a future. The act of remembering is definitive of her works and carried out through her poems either embroidered on cloth or heard over video works. Scent of Time revolves around the construction of time in individual consciousness, an amalgam of our perception, memory and imagination defying the irrevocable ... More
Solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Gabriella Boyd opens at GRIMM Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting Mile, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the London-based artist Gabriella Boyd, on view at its New York gallery from November 18, 2022 to January 7, 2023. This is Boyds first solo exhibition with GRIMM since the gallery announced representation of the artist earlier this year. Boyds paintings elide the boundary between formal and representational languages, with each canvas occupied by overlapping figurative and structural motifs. Governed by a dreamlike logic, each image is at the threshold of a tangible world and a distant memory. Utilizing a distinct, almost uneasy palette of greens, yellows, warm pinks and reds, each painting is anchored by the interrelationship between humans and their environment, hinting at a knowable narrative before evading it ... More
"Ain't No Mo'" to close on Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Aint No Mo, a raucously funny and provocative new Broadway play imagining that the United States tries to end racism by offering to send Black Americans to Africa, will close Dec. 18, a little more than two weeks after opening. The play is the third show this fall to abruptly truncate its planned run based on poor ticket sales, following the musical KPOP and Gabriel Byrnes one-man show, Walking With Ghosts. Aint No Mo, written by and starring Jordan E. Cooper, had a well-received off-Broadway run at the Public Theater in 2019. The Broadway run opened Dec. 1 to positive reviews but sold poorly from the get-go. Just before the show began Friday night, Cooper wrote in an Instagram post that the show is being forced to depart and urged fans to buy tickets to keep the show going. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Norwegian painter and illustrator Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863. Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. His best known work is The Scream, painted in 1893. In this image: Edvard Munch, The Artist and His Model, 1919 - 21; oil on canvas; 47 7/16 x 78 3/4 in.; photo: courtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo.
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