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Oscar Murillo, at his studio in London, Nov. 29, 2021, where at the age of 11 he moved with with his parents from a factory town in Colombia. Murillo considers it an infiltration of the system when his class-conscious canvases, which now fetch $300,000 or more at auction, wind up on the walls of collectors. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Silvana Paternostro
LONDON.- When he was a boy, Oscar Murillo told his best friend he was moving to London, but his buddy refused to take him seriously. Their tight-knit community in southwestern Colombia was the sort of place families stayed for generations, where almost everybody worked at the candy factory that dominated the towns economy. The news, however, was true: In the 1990s, 11-year-old Oscar left La Paila, Colombia, and arrived in East London, where his parents took jobs as office cleaners. Speaking little English and having been displaced, he took refuge in drawing. These early scribblings pointed Murillo to painting, which in turn led to a multimedia art practice and, in 2019, to his winning the Turner Prize, one of the art worlds most prestigious honors. But the memories of La Paila and of the succor he found in those early doodles still inform his work, which now hangs in major museums around the world. His canvases, multilayered patchworks of color that can also include glued grime and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Helen Pashgian: Spheres and Lenses. Installation view, New York. November 4, 2021January 8, 2022. Photo by Daniel Kukla. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
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| Robert Farris Thompson, 'guerrilla scholar' of African art, dies at 88 | | Helen Pashgian's first solo exhibition in New York since 1971 on view at Lehmann Maupin | | Belvedere 21 reopens with Ugo Rondinone exhibition |
In an undated image provided by Michael Marsland/Yale University, Robert Farris Thompson. Michael Marsland/Yale University via The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Farris Thompson, a self-described guerrilla scholar who revolutionized the study of the cultures of Africa and the Americas by tracing, through art, music and dance, myriad continuities between the two, died on Nov. 29 at a nursing home in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 88. The cause was Parkinsons disease complicated by COVID-19, his daughter, Alicia Thompson Churchill, said. Born into an upper-middle-class white family in Texas and educated at Yale University, Thompson is remembered by colleagues and students for his energizing thinking and his extravagantly performative presence. In the Yale classroom, where he taught African American studies for more than half a century, he turned lecterns into percussive instruments. On research trips in Brazil, Cuba ... More | |
Helen Pashgian: Spheres and Lenses. Installation view, New York. November 4, 2021January 8, 2022. Photo by Daniel Kukla. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Spheres and Lenses, artist Helen Pashgians first solo exhibition in New York since 1971 and her first with Lehmann Maupin in the United States. This exhibition features a series of new lens and sphere sculptures, expanding on the bodies of work for which she is best known. Born in Pasadena, Pashgian is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading member of the 1960s Light and Space movement in Southern California, which explored Minimalism with a close eye toward the interaction between light and space. Over the course of her career, Pashgian has produced an extensive oeuvre of innovative sculptures―vibrantly colored columns, discs, and spheres―that engage light, color, and form in wholly unique ways. Often featuring an isolated minimal shape that ... More | |
Ugo Rondinone, nude (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx), 2011. Photo: Stefan Altenburger. Courtesy of studio rondinone.
VIENNA.- Landscapes, suns, nudes, and still lifes Ugo Rondinone's visual worlds transport the viewer into an unfamiliar reality. For his first solo exhibition in a museum in Austria, the multimedia conceptual and installation artist has devised a polyphonic, immersive cosmos. Stella Rollig, CEO of the Belvedere: "Exhaustion, melancholy, and unfulfillable longing are present-day modes of being in the face of oppressive reality. Ugo Rondinone, magician, creates an allegory of these inner worlds as a space of unreality where world-weariness refracts itself in sheer beauty. Ugo Rondinone has been crossing boundaries between media and disciplines for more than thirty years. Works by the New York-based Swiss artist are often inspired by everyday issues and subjects that take on a poetic dimension through isolation, amplification, or specific material treatment. Ideas of Romanticism, the sublime, and transience resonate, as do the leit ... More |
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| Anne Rice, who spun gothic tales of vampires, dies at 80 | | Antonio Lopez fashion illustration in the contemporary spotlight at Roland Auctions NY | | Cornelius Gurlitt Bequest: Decisions by the Foundation of the Kunstmuseum Bern |
Anne Rice at home in La Jolla, Calif., Oct. 18, 2005. Stephanie Diani/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Anne Rice, the Gothic novelist best known for Interview With the Vampire, the 1976 book that in 1994 became a popular film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, died Saturday at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 80. Her son, Christopher Rice, wrote on social media that the cause was complications from a stroke. Anne Rice was a largely unknown writer when she turned a short story she had written in the late 1960s into Interview With the Vampire, her first published novel. It features a solitary vampire named Louis who is telling his life story to a reporter, but Rice said the tale was her story as well. I really got into the character, she told The New York Times in 1988. For the first time, I was able to describe my reality, the dark, gothic influence on my childhood. Its not fantasy for me. My childhood came to life for me. Many critics gave the book short shrift, seeming not to grasp either ... More | |
Antonio Lopez, Jerry Hall in Oscar de la Renta dress with bouquet (detail), signed lower middle. Mixed media on paper. Sold for $10,625.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Highlighting the Roland Auctions NY December 4th auction featuring items from the estate of well-known Manhattan gallerist Eleanor Ettinger, whose eponymous West 57th Street gallery opened in 1975 and became a fixture in the New York art world, was a stunning Antonio Lopez mixed media on paper of supermodel Jerry Hall in a pink and black Oscar de la Renta dress with bouquet, signed lower middle, matted on board, accompanied by book "Antonio's Girls" with text by Christopher Hemphill, Congreve Publishing, NYC, 1982. Provenance: From the Estate of NYC Art Dealer and Gallerist Eleanor Ettinger, owner of The Eleanor Ettinger Gallery. [Art: 22" H x 30" W; Frame: 31" H x 39" W]. The piece sold for $10,625 with multiple bidders competing. Antonio Lopezs fashion illustrations helped define fashion in the 1970s and 1980s with his bold, dynamic images. Also in the more contemporary arena was a Van Cleef & Arpels "Alham ... More | |
Otto Dix, Dompteuse, 1922. Grafit, mit Aquarell, auf Velinpapier, 58,4 x 42,8 cm. Legat Cornelius Gurlitt 2014, Provenienz in Abklärung.
BERN.- After spending several years researching the bequest of Cornelius Gurlitt, which comprises approx. 1,600 works, the Kunstmuseum Bern Foundation has reached several resolutions as to how to deal with works of unclarified provenance and the restitution claims by the descendants of Dr Ismar Littmann. The decisions were reached following extensive investigations and considerations as well as in cooperation with independent international experts. The Kunstmuseum Bern will give up its ownership of any works of unclarified provenance that may lack specific evidence of being Nazi-looted art but for which implications of looted art and / or conspicuous circumstances exist (referred to as yellow-red works). The Kunstmuseum Bern will retain ownership of works of unclarified provenance for which extensive research was unable to uncover any evidence of the works being Nazilooted art and for which no implications of looted a ... More |
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| Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects features a body of new works by Michele Asselin | | albertz benda opens "Brie Ruais: Some Things I Know About Being In A Body" | | mumok opens an exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans |
Michele Asselin, Exposure 91, 2020 (detail). Archival Pigment Print, 25.4 x 33.8 cm. 10 x 13 1/4 in. Edition of 1 + 1 AP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects opened the first solo exhibition of LA based photographer Michele Asselin at AFP, entitled "Exposure" and featuring a body of new works. The series featured in in the exhibit Exposure begins with two near-universal experiences: noticing sunlight on a wall, and staring, against all better judgment, straight into the sun. The series draws on my past practice of seeking out the social meaning of built environments and revealing how spaces absorb traces of their occupants lives over time. With Exposure, however, I turned the lens on my own environment. Using natural light as technique and subject, the first set of images depict my own home, as well as a space in the desert in which I have spent significant timelooking at walls, isolating details, considering the past. In these interior photographs, I use sunlight as a guide, imaging only where it falls, and capturing the moment w ... More | |
Brie Ruais: Some Things I Know About Being in A Body. albertz benda, New York. December 9, 2021 January 22, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and albertz benda, New York. Photo: Timothy Doyon.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is said that the body holds experiences and memories in ways that the mind does not. Expanding on themes of embodiments addressed in Ruaiss recent institutional exhibition at the Moody Center for the Arts, the artist transmutes the body in clay as forms emerge through material confrontation and collaboration. On view from December 9, 2021 though January 22, 2022, Ruaiss second solo show with the gallery, Some Things I Know About Being in Body further reflects upon the relationship between an individual's psychical interior world and the corporeal exterior world. Each sculpture begins with 130 pounds of clay - the artists body weight that is shaped by and embedded with Ruaiss movements: spreading out, pushing, tearing open, and scraping away. The work is created by performing a foundational movement Ruais began working with 10 years ago: "Spreading Outward from ... More | |
Wolfgang Tillmans, Lüneburg (self), 2020. Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York.
VIENNA.- Wolfgang Tillmans has been exploring since the early 1990s how we view our world and the social conditions in which we live. Guided by the self-critical question "What do I really see? What do I see, and what do I want to see? What is in the picture? he devotes his work to people and bodies, to landscapes, architectures, objects, and celestial phenomena. Tillmans produces photographs, installations, videos, and music that push the boundaries of the visible, revealing alternative modes of perception that impart subtle insights into the very foundations of our coexistence and desires. His openmindedness and rejection of any one-dimensional perspective render unconsidered postulates of truth just as questionable as absolute standpoints or authoritarian attitudes. The resulting works demonstrate the will to form communities, to interact with others, to engage in self-reflection and thus overcome rigid (aggregate) states. In view of the ... More |
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| Online exhibition at Taymour Grahne Projects introduces a new series of paintings by Hilary Doyle | | Put down your phone! It's Patti LuPone. | | 'Gone With the Wind' deluxe-bound shooting script among Hollywood stars up for auction |
Hilary Doyle, Adam and Eve (after Lucas Cranach), 2021. Acrylic on wood panel, 30.5 x 23 cm. / 12 x 9 in.
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne Projects is presenting Inventing Eden, an online solo exhibition by Massachusetts-based artist Hilary Doyle. Archaeological, mythological and historical evidence all reveal that the female religion, far from naturally fading away, was the victim of centuries of continual persecution and suppression by the advocates of the newer religions which held male deities as supreme. And from these new religions came the creation myth of Adam and Eve and the tale of the loss of Paradise. --Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman (1978) This show introduces a new series of paintings depicting a contemporary Garden of Eden: the public park. Parks can be utopian in the ways they connect people with nature and others in urban spaces. Conversely, parks can harbor a sense of artificiality or eeriness, especially at night. Focusing on the conditions in which people live helps us examine the rituals, psychology ... More | |
Grammy, Tony and Olivier Awards winner Patti Lupone in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 2021. Josefina Santos/The New York Times.
by Maureen Dowd
NEW YORK, NY.- (With...) Her friends say there is nothing more fun than hanging with Patti LuPone while shes having a glass of wine. Thats not true. There is something more fun: sharing a whole emerald bottle of Perrier-Jouet and dishing with Patti LuPone. Feuds! Lovers! Temper tantrums! Dictatorial directors! Wrongs avenged! Madonnas dead eyes! Andrew Lloyd Webbers perfidy! And, of course, teary memories of Stephen Sondheim. Last month, Sondheim, 91, died suddenly at home in Roxbury, Connecticut, just as he was about to come to New York to be celebrated at the openings of highly anticipated makeovers of two of his milestone collaborations: West Side Story, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, and Company, the acidic musical about a terminally ambivalent ... More | |
A Gone With the Wind shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O. Selznick.
BOSTON, MASS.- Stars of the silver screen feature in this December auction, which is highlighted by a wealth of outstanding signed photographs of icons like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock. Among other top lots include a Gone With the Wind shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O. Selznick. When Gone With the Wind finished filming, and indeed as each person finished their respective employment as production progressed, David O. Selznick collected and destroyed the shooting scripts for reasons of secrecy. Following the film's Atlanta premiere on December 15, 1939just in time for ChristmasSelznick personally inscribed and signed specially bound copies of the final GWTW shooting script and presented them to a certain number of cast, crew, and associates. While most of these scripts were ... More |
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The Book Collector uncovers how Balthus was inspired by children's book
LONDON.- The Book Collector announced the forthcoming publication of a ground-breaking piece on Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, the artist known as Balthus (1908-2001), that has appeared in the Winter 2021 issue. Was Balthus in Anns Room by Alastair Johnston, a book historian, typographer and letterpress printer, reveals a previously unknown source for the artists mysterious, and at times, controversial artwork. Johnston demonstrates that a little-known childrens book titled Anns Room, published by the Medici Society in London in 1929, became inspirational to Balthus, and that this overlooked source was as influential to him as Piero della Francesca, Hogarth and Courbet, among the usual sources cited by art historians. John Tenniel, illustrator of Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, was another influence, and Balthus was ... More
New Contemporaries Chair Sacha Craddock steps down after extraordinary service to the arts
LONDON.- New Contemporaries has announced today, having steered the organisation consistently for twenty-five years, Sacha Craddock is stepping down as the Chair of its Board. A prolific art writer, critic and curator, Sacha joined New Contemporaries in 1989 as a selector, following its relaunch in 1988, alongside Iwona Blazwick, Nicholas Logsdail, Veronica Ryan, Jon Thompson and Richard Wilson. Widely accepted as a barometer of emerging contemporary art practice, it was in 1989 that artists including Damien Hirst, Abigail Lane, Mark Leckey and Maud Sulter were selected. Sacha became a leading figure in the organisation, joining the Board in 1992 and becoming the Board Chair in 1996 where she remained until December 2021. During Sachas tenure, the annual touring exhibition has supported over 1,000 artists, has travelled over 6,000 ... More
Best of British attract international interest at H&H Classics sale
LONDON.- Contested by no fewer than three telephone bidders as well as those in the room and on the internet, the 1953 Aston Martin DB2 Vantage made £165,000 after a British collector finally saw off a European dealer to secure it. Supplied new by Brooklands of Bond St, London to Ian Scott Duffus Esq., the two-seater was among the last twenty DB2s made. Extensively restored from 1985-1996 and treated to over £100,000 worth of improvement and development work during the vendors nine-year ownership, the Aston Martin had taken numerous class wins on events such as the Three Castles and Scottish Malts Rallies and was potentially eligible for the enormously prestigious Mille Miglia Storica. Bodied by the renowned coachbuilder Barker especially for the October 1931 Salon dAutomobiles, the believed unique Rolls-Royce 20/25 Swept ... More
Nancy Hoffman Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Joan Bankemper
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 9, 2021 an exhibition of new work entitled Flora and Fauna in Flux by Joan Bankemper opened at Nancy Hoffman, continuing through January 22, 2022. The artist began this series at the start of the pandemic with ink drawings, on pages from her daily journal (written in isolation) that she calls her Pod Series. The drawings began at an intimate scale of 22 x 17 inches and blossomed into a larger, bolder format approximately 44 x 32 inches. Pod is a word with many meanings: it is an elongated seed encased in an outer shell; it is a protective container; or a small, designated group of people. As the Covid crisis began we were all advised to isolate at home, or to stay within a limited pod of people we could trust to be safe. Thus, the Pod is a vital element of Flora and Fauna in Flux. The flower is a recurring image in this series, as is the maze. The flower is abo ... More
Florine Stettheimer's life, art and feminism celebrated with first comprehensive biography
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time, an in-depth exploration of the life and work of Florine Stettheimer is released in a comprehensive biography. One of the 20th centurys most significant, progressive, feminist artists, she exhibited in more than forty of the most important museum exhibits and salons to critical acclaim, wrote insightful poetry, gained international praise for her unique costume and set designs, and painted the first nude self-portrait from the perspective of the womens gaze. Stettheimer was among the first artists to document many of the central characters, events and social issues in the newly modernist Manhattan. She captured the citys growth as the center of avant-garde cultural life, finance, architecture and entertainment between the World Wars. During her first forty years, spent mostly in Europe, the artist studied academic ... More
Rochester Art Center presents exhibition on Utica Queen, star of season 13 of "RuPaul's Drag Race"
ROCHESTER, MN.- The Rochester Art Center announces Homecoming Queen, a 4,000-square-foot exhibition that invites visitors to explore the wonderful world of Utica Queen, star of Season 13 of the Emmy-winning pop-culture phenomenon RuPauls Drag Race. The exhibition features approximately 20 mannequins dressed in Uticas most stunning garments, her original design sketches, large-scale editorial photographs of the Drag Race alumna, and a 10-minute film highlighting Uticas background and creative process. In addition, for the first time in the Art Centers 75-year history, the show is also being offered as a ticketed virtual experience, meaning that drag fans and fashion lovers from across the globe will be able to immerse themselves in a fully navigable online gallery and enjoy close-up views of Uticas fantastic creations. Homecoming Queen opened with an evening cele ... More
The Villa Vassilieff: A historic space reimagined by matali crasset for AWARE
PARIS.- Since its creation in 2014, the association AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions has been working to highlight the work of women artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. In the autumn of 2021, AWARE moved to the Villa Vassilieff, where in the 1910s the Russian artist Marie Vassilieff set up her studio and opened an academy which quickly became a centre of cultural and artistic life in Montparnasse. AWARE is continuing Marie Vassilieffs legacy by welcoming as many people as possible into her former academy. Moving into this historic space in 2021 is a strong symbol of the associations mission: giving visibility to women artists. This new space will enable the growing association to better respond to the numerous requests it receives for workshops, courses, and research, as well as to further develop the activities ... More
Odunpazarı Modern Museum opens "Don't Look Back, Deep is the Past"
ESKISEHIR.- OMM - Odunpazarı Modern Museum, in Eskişehir, Turkey, launched the group exhibition Dont Look Back, Deep is the Past between December 10, 2021 and May 31, 2022. Spreading across all floors of OMM, the exhibition focuses on the roles and identities assigned to individuals in the context of their relationship with society, habits based on social norms and the ways in which we define the Other. Running parallel to the exhibition programme, a podcast including the featured artists in the exhibition is available on Spotify and a specially curated selection of films can be viewed for free with the promo code omm on MUBI. Dont Look Back, Deep is the Past brings together the works of 31 artists, exploring the concepts of belonging, adaptation and confrontation that the individual experiences during his or her struggle for survival. ... More
NADA Miami 2021 culminates with strong sales, standout initiatives, and institutional acquisitions
MIAMI, FLA.- NADA Miami, presented by the New Art Dealers Alliance, concluded its 2021 fair on Saturday, December 4th with diverse presentations, strong sales, and inaugural special sections. The nineteenth edition of the fair welcomed over 12,000 attendees and featured over 170 exhibiting galleries, art spaces, and publishers from 49 cities, including Brussels, Warsaw, Lima, New York, Los Angeles, and Marfa. Online Viewing Rooms for this years fair will remain online until December 19, 2021. This years fair welcomed two inaugural special sections, Artists Books Publishers, an exciting new collaboration with Printed Matter and EXILE Books that featured 39 artists books publishers focusing on Latin American artists, publications, and printmakers, plus accessible, DIY approaches to bookmaking, and the Curated Spotlight section, presented ... More
Vicente Fernández, 'El Rey' of Mexican ranchera music, is dead at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Vicente Fernández, the powerful tenor whose songs of love, loss and patriotism inspired by life in rural Mexico endeared him to generations of fans as El Rey, the king of traditional ranchera music, died on Sunday morning. He was 81. His death was announced in a post on his official Instagram account, which did not give a cause or say where he died. He had been hospitalized for months after a spinal injury he sustained in August, according to previous posts from the account. Accompanied by his mariachi band, Fernández brought ranchera music, which emerged from the ranches of Mexico in the 19th century, to the rest of Latin America and beyond. In his signature charro outfit and intricately embroidered sombrero, a celebration of the genres countryside origins, he performed at some of the largest venues in the world. He ... More
Mikio Shinagawa, who ran a fashionable SoHo haunt, dies at 66
NEW YORK, NY.- Mikio Shinagawa, who as a painter studying Buddhism in the 1980s opened the Japanese restaurant Omen, which became a downtown New York canteen for figures in the art and fashion worlds, died Nov. 17 at a hospital in Kyoto, Japan. He was 66. His sister Mariko Shimizu said the cause was liver cancer. As fashionable haunts in New York go, Omen was an unlikely candidate, and Shinagawa, a serene silver-haired man raised in Kyoto who wore Comme des Garçons suits, was its ethereal anti-restaurateur. When the citys creative stars congregated at his restaurant to converse over sake, he glided through the place dispensing hospitality with the lightness of a friendly phantom. Situated on Thompson Street in SoHo, Omens dark wood space is lined with red brick walls and rice-paper lanterns that glow as the music of John ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian-French painter Wassily Kandinsky died December 13, 1944. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works.Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession---he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat---Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. From left to right: Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit weissen Linien (Painting with White Lines), oil on canvas, 1913. Joan Miró, Femme et oiseaux, gouache and oil wash on paper, 1940. Alberto Giacometti, Grande figure, bronze, cast by the Alexis Rudier foundry in Paris in 1947. Courtesy Sotheby's.
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