| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Monday, February 7, 2022 |
| | | James Demark | |
|
|
Please click here to view the catalogue.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Denmark was raised in a family of southern artists in segregated Winter Haven, Florida during the 1930sd and 40s. He was a self-taught artist from an early age as his entire family were artists in some fashion. His grandmother was an adept quilter and wire sculptor, his grandfather was a noted bricklayer who incorporated unique designs with his work and his mother had an astute aesthetic for detail in interior design. He achieved his BFA while attending the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee where he met the esteemed art historian Samella Lewis. She exposed him to many prominent Black artists .. as Lewis became the first African American to convene the National Conference of African American Artists at the university in 1953. Denmark then moved to New York City attending Pratt Institute of Fine Art achieving a masters degree of Fine Art. During this period, he studied under Jacob Lawrence who had a profound influence on his work a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021-June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation).
|
|
|
|
|
| Why does the demolition of a Marcel Breuer house matter? | | Chromophilia: Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth brings together paintings, collages, sculptures and installations | | A music museum opens in the heart of Hungary's culture wars |
The living room stonewall and fireplace, all that remains of the Geller House since its demolition, in Lawrence, N.Y., Jan. 27, 2022. An Rong Xu/The New York Times.
by James S. Russell
LAWRENCE, NY.- Are people going to care about one little house? asked Elizabeth Waytkus, who had been alerted some weeks ago to the possibility that a once-celebrated house by architect Marcel Breuer would be demolished. She is the executive director of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization that promotes the preservation of modern structures. People did care, it turns out. She has received an outpouring of dismay and grief at the news that the 1945 Bertram and Phyllis Geller House in Lawrence, at the southwestern edge of Nassau County, had been demolished without warning on Jan. 26 by the current owners, Shimon and Judy Eckstein, who Waytkus said had assured her only three weeks earlier that they had admired it and had no plans to take it down. It was a handsome composition of three cedar-sided single-story wings, that zigzagged among the trees and shrubs ... More | |
Mary Heilmann, Six, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm / 24 x 18 x 1 1/2 in © Mary Heilmann. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and 303 Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica.
ZURICH.- Colour is not a simple subject. In this group exhibition, titled Chromophilia meaning the love of colour, the artists on view trace the complexity and possibility of colour, emancipated to differing degrees from line and form, within their chosen medium either synthetic or found from liquid paint to sewn fabric, from coloured glass to LEDs, from neon to bindis. Chromophilia brings together paintings, collages, sculptures and installations by artists including Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Larry Bell, Louise Bourgeois, Frank Bowling, Geta Bratescu, Alexander Calder, Martin Creed, Günther Förg, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Bharti Kher, Yves Klein, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Elisabeth Wild. Until the 20th Century, colour in European, or Western, art was largely subordinated to line and form. The emancipation of colour in modern art came with the advent of movements such as impressionism, pointillism, fauvism, or the aptly nam ... More | |
Visitors at the House of Music, Hungary, designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, in Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 26, 2022. Akos Stiller/The New York Times.
by Benjamin Novak
BUDAPEST.- A polarizing project by the government of Viktor Orban, Hungarys far-right prime minister, to transform the historic City Park here into a museum district has produced its first building: the House of Music, Hungary. Designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the cultural center, which opened Jan. 23, offers exhibitions, education and concerts. An interactive permanent show guides visitors through the historical development of Western music; celebrates the contribution of Hungarian composers such as Liszt, Bartok and Kodaly; and traces Hungarys folk music tradition to its Central Asian roots. One room, painted in the colors of the Hungarian flag, features video displays on the countrys political history and famous athletes, with the national anthem as a soundtrack. Yet beyond the House of Musics glass walls, which are animated by reflections of construction elsewhere ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Dallas Museum of Art organizes first museum retrospective for Octavio MedellÃn | | Galerie Templon exhibits a series of major works created between 1973 and 2011 by Anthony Caro | | 'Guernica' anti-war tapestry is rehung at U.N. |
Octavio MedellÃn, The Spirit of Revolution, 1932, direct carving in Texas limestone, Lent by the Estate of the Artist.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art opened the first-ever museum retrospective for Octavio MedellÃn (1907-1999), an influential Mexican American artist and teacher whose work helped shape the Texas art scene for six decades. MedellÃn was a noted sculptor who mastered a wide range of media, engaging with modernist trends in both his native Mexico and the United States. Octavio MedellÃn: Spirit and Form will include approximately 80 works, exploring the evolution of MedellÃns sculptural practice, his public art commissions, and his legacy as a beloved and respected teacher. During the more than 40 years he lived and worked in the Dallas area, MedellÃn influenced generations of students as an instructor at the school of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (DMFA, today the DMA) and as founder of the Creative Arts Center. Octavio MedellÃn: Spirit and Form opened February 6, 2022, and is curated by Dr. Mark A. Castro, The Jorge Baldor ... More | |
Anthony Caro, Hosanna (B1046), 1972-1973. Stainless steel unpolished, 137 Ã 160 Ã 117 cm. 53 7/8 Ã 63 Ã 46 1/8 in.
PARIS.- Eight years after the passing of the incomparable British sculptor, Anthony Caro, Galerie Templon is showing a series of major works created between 1973 and 2011. With a selection of pieces from the artist's estate, the exhibition analyses Caro's very personal language and his complex relationship with abstraction, whose ultimate aim was to make his sculpture more real, more felt. Right from the beginning of his artistic career, Caro emphasised the need to transcend mere physical presence to convey more complex feelings. After reaching the conclusion that creating figurative images necessarily led to a "pretence", he decided that only non-figurative sculpture could achieve emotion through the manipulation of form, space, colour and materials. In Anthony Caro's oeuvre, each of these elements has an expressive meaning and the artist played with them like a musical score, focusing on structure, repetition, variation and int ... More | |
The canvas replica of Picassos painting, symbolizing wars horrors, had been a photogenic fixture at the United Nations for decades before its owner, the Rockefeller family, removed it last year. Photo: Neptuul.
by Rick Gladstone
NEW YORK, NY.- When a 25-foot tapestry replica of Pablo Picassos anti-war painting Guernica was removed from the United Nations by its owner a year ago after more than three decades there, diplomats mourned the abrupt exit of an artwork that poignantly reflected the organizations core purpose. Its horrible, horrible, that it is gone, Secretary-General António Guterres said at the time. Nelson A. Rockefeller Jr., a business executive and scion of the family that commissioned and owned the tapestry, offered no public explanation. Now, it turns out, the disappearance was temporary. The tapestry was rehung Saturday at its longtime home outside the Security Council chambers, under a new arrangement announced by Rockefeller and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Brody returns to his first love: Painting | | Stephen Friedman Gallery opens its first solo exhibition with British artist Holly Hendry | | Love Hurts, Yeah Yeah" A Valentine to the funny and twisted side of love |
Adrien Brody at a studio in Brooklyn, Jan. 21, 2022. Peter Fisher/The New York Times.
by Alexis Soloski
NEW YORK, NY.- The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton-candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black. This was on a frigid morning in a borrowed art studio in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. In a crumbly brick building along the industrial waterfront, actor Adrien Brody knelt on a drop cloth, smearing and swirling paint with a plastic card until it formed patterns, layers and streaks. Painting, I would say, was my first love, he said. Brody, 48, who won an Oscar nearly two decades ago for The Pianist, has recently returned to painting, having shown his work, somewhat reluctantly, he said, at Art Basel Miami Beach and at an art fair in New York. The child of artistic parents his mother, Sylvia Plachy, is a photographer, and his father, Elliot Brody, is a painter he grew up drawing and painting. As a teenager, he had applied to ... More | |
Holly Hendry, 'Brain Fog I', 2021. Plaster, marble, pigment and Jesmonite, 56.8 x 37.4 x 7cm (22 3/8 x 14 3/4 x 2 3/4in). Copyright Holly Hendry. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Mark Blower.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting its first solo exhibition with British artist Holly Hendry. Exploring the idiosyncrasies of the human body, Hendrys sculptures and installations take formal inspiration from machinery and diagrammatic depictions of anatomy. Expanded casting methods are central to the artists process in which she uses an array of materials like steel, Jesmonite, silicone, ash, charcoal, lipstick, chewed gum, soap, foam, marble and grit. Her new work challenges our perception of the neat distinction between our physical bodies, emotions and mechanisation. The exhibition sees Hendry draw upon the ethos of the Bauhaus school, where complex ideas are distilled to their intrinsic properties. The artist is particularly inspired by Oskar Schlemmer, whose dance and sculpture ... More | |
Walter Robinson, Angel, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16.
NEW YORK, NY.- Love Hurts, Yeah Yeah is a group exhibition offering an antidote, not to love and Valentines Day itself, but to the one-note, normative Hallmark messaging that inundates us this time of year. Were celebrating the brilliant, twisted, and irreverent take on the ups and downs of seeking, and living day-to-day with, the many splendored thing. Humor is a connecting thread through the show with sentiments by turns sweet, stinging, and inspired by cry-in-your-beer songs. Love Hurts, Yeah Yeah, is on view January 22 through February 14, 2022, in HEY CHECK THIS OUT GALLERY (inside Quality Mending Vintage Shop), with additional art in the online exhibition on heycheckthisoutgallery.com. Brother and sister artistic duo, Zou and Lou (Jacques and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman), render Cupid falling down on the job in an all too familiar covid-style ennui: sunk into a Lazy-boy, bong and Munchos in hand, and bo ... More |
|
|
|
|
| PEANA opens a solo exhibition of works by Leo Marz curated by Laura Orozco | | Major exhibition of the Japanese avant-garde on view at Zach Ě ta - National Gallery of Art | | Solo exhibition of new work by Michael E. Smith on view at Modern Art |
Leo Marz. A Cuticule of Dust, 2022.
MONTERREY.- PEANA is presenting Futuristic Flower, a solo exhibition by Leo Marz curated by Laura Orozco. Futuristic Flower explores the visibility and circulation of everyday objects and those that derive from the artistic endeavor; and reviews how both operate and present themselves in the world, as well as in the exhibition hall through contemporary visual languages. The proposal highlights the points of convergence between the different approaches and interests that the artist has developed in his latest projects, such as the legacy of the history of painting in our present, the construction and ambiguity of the image, as well as the implications of the display in our way of perception. The interest in pictorial practice has been present in one way or another in all of Marzs work; from questioning the function of the medium within cinematographic narratives, to confronting the canvas itself and producing paintings of diverse scal ... More | |
Between Collectivism and Individualism - Japanese Avant-garde, exhibition view. Photo: Maciej Landsberg © 2021 Zachęta - National Gallery of Art.
WARSAW.- Zachęta National Gallery of Art presents a major exhibition of the Japanese avant-garde, showing works from two decades crucial for the development of contemporary art in the country. It was in in the 1950s and 1960s, which followed the war and the experience of post-war trauma, that radical transformations took place, resulting in the emergence of the Japan we know today. The exhibition will feature works by the most important artists of the period, which are very rarely shown outside Japan, as well as documentation of the avant-garde movements of the time. The need for rebirth after years of war meant that Japan of the 1950s and 1960s was characterised by an unprecedented dynamic of change. The country, recovering from the wartime devastation, grew at a dizzying pace into the largest economy in Asia and ... More | |
Michael E. Smith, untitled, 2021. Wood, 170.9 x 47 x 21 cm. 67 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins. © Michael E. Smith. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Michael E. Smith at its Helmet Row gallery. This is Smiths second solo exhibition with Modern Art. The raw materials of Michael E. Smiths works are familiar, mostly mass-produced things: frying pans, plastic toy sleds, items of clothing, as well as organic matter, such as dried fish, bones, or popcorn. And yet, his works - made through a meditative consideration of how these materials are combined together in a room - convey something far more remote and off kilter. The social histories of these objects may suggest the fleeting enjoyment of livelier times: the spoils of a nondescript consumerist lifestyle. Now in their afterlives, typically installed in a dimly lit gallery, fixed to the wall or lying lifeless on the floor, they carry a different meaning. They convey in muted tones, and often with a hint ... More |
|
Christie's Presents Gucci Vault | 10 Signature Styles & Motifs
|
|
|
| More News |
Haarlem Gallery presents works by thirteen artists that explore land, intuition & natural phenomena
WIRKSWORTH.- Haarlem Gallery is presenting A Strange Kind of Knowing, a touring exhibition of new commissions and recent work exploring the land, seasonal cycles, natural phenomena, intuition and nuance. Artists Verity Birt, Holly Bynoe, Kristina Chan, Fourthland, Susan Hiller, Katja Hock, Coral Kindred-Boothby, Penny McCarthy, Kate McMillan, Aimée Parrott, Chantal Powell, Tai Shani and Eleanor May Watson present works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video and installations that draw on alternative, marginalised and embodied ideas of knowledge intrinsically connected to the natural world. The exhibition opened at Arusha Gallery in December 2021 and launched at Haarlem Gallery in Derbyshire on 5 February. How to Sway on Crick Hill (2020), a video work by artist, spiritualist and medicine woman Holly Bynoe shows the gentle movement of wild cane fronds at twilight in St ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts opens "By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800"
DETROIT, MICH.- Explore the untold stories of women artists in the male-dominated Italian art world in By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 15001800 at the Detroit Institute of Arts February 6 May 29, 2022. This exhibition highlights 17 ingenious women of this time period, featuring confident self-portraits, realistic still lifes, scenes of womens bravery and meditative religious scenes. Described by The New York Times as the most significant American show of women of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque eras since 2007, the exhibition features 57 works from private and public American collections, along with a significant number of loans from Europe. Through these works of art in diverse mediafrom paintings to printsthe fascinating stories of early modern Italian women artists are told. This is the first exhibition devoted to women artists ... More
George Crumb, eclectic composer who searched for sounds, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- George Crumb, a composer who filled his works with a magpie array of instrumental and human sounds and drew on the traditions of Asia and his native Appalachia to create music of startling effect, died Sunday at his home in Media, Pennsylvania. He was 92. His death was announced by Bridge Records, his record label. While rejecting the sometimes arid 12-tone technique of modernists, Crumb beguiled audiences with his own musical language, composing colorful and concise works that range in mood from peaceful to nightmarish. He continued to compose late in life. His 90th birthday was celebrated by organizations including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, which presented the premiere of a new piece for percussion quintet. The apocalypse itself seemed to be evoked in the new Kronos-Kryptos piece, whose third movement has four bass drums ... More
A new exhibition by award-winning Angolan artist Cristiano Mangovo opens in Lisbon
LISBON.- .insofar art gallery in Lisbon announces O Sistema, a solo exhibition by the young and talented Angolan artist Cristiano Mangovo. The exhibition opened on the 4th of February, to coincide with Angolas Liberation Movement Day and runs until April 30, 2022. Curated by Canadian Katherine Sirois, the exhibition reveals a group of previously unseen pieces that address complex socio-political issues, such as hierarchies, the deep-rooted and widespread mindset of division and opposition, conflicts of interests or the exercising of power, its conquest and preservation at all costs. Speaking about the exhibition, Sirois said: The paintings aim to stimulate reflection on imperialism, conflicts of interest, rivalries and power games. No matter who sits, how, when and for how long, the system remains the same, untouchable and unchallenged. Committed to issues such as injustice ... More
Frank Perrin opens his first solo exhibition with Michel Rein
PARIS.- Michel Rein is presenting the first solo show of Frank Perrin at the gallery. Frank Perrin, a French artist, has been exploring the notion of post-capitalism for more than two decades, compiling in the process a compendium of our contemporary obsessions. From Joggers to Yachts via Défilés (Fashion Shows), Perrins Postcapitalism project is a metaphysical tracking shot that pans across the foundational ideas of our time. The Blind test series, his first solo exhibition at the Michel Rein gallery, heralds a new phase in his research, representingnot only a culmination but also a real turning point in his work. His images of subversion, reversed as negatives, printed directly on cardboard sheets, perforated and mounted on mirrored surfaces, produce in us a sense of release that is radical and freeing. His images are still a retort to the period of austerity that encircles us, reflecting ... More
"Mary Frank: The Observing Heart," opens at The Dorsky Museum
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is presenting Mary Frank: The Observing Heart, an exhibition of Mary Franks powerful artwork that spans her career of more than six decades. This retrospective exhibition is part of The Dorsky's Hudson Valley Masters series and is centered on the twin themes of social justice and the preservation of the natural world. The exhibition is on view from Feb. 5 July 17, 2022, in The Dorskys Morgan Anderson Gallery and Howard Greenberg Family Gallery. Acclaimed artist and activist Mary Frank has been making art in her Manhattan and Hudson Valley studios for more than 60 years. She is an independent spirit who emerged during the years of rising feminism in the early 1970s and has always followed a personal vision distinct from prevailing art world fashion. The exhibition is a gathering of sculpture, painting ... More
Lata Mangeshkar, singing voice for generations of Bollywood actresses, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Lata Mangeshkar, a beloved Indian singer who enthralled generations of Bollywood audiences as the singing voice behind many actresses performances, died Sunday at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, India. She was 92. She died of complications from COVID-19 after weeks of hospitalization, said Pratit Samdani, a doctor at the hospital, according to Indian news outlets. Indias prime minister, Narendra Modi, said on Twitter that he was anguished beyond words. Mangeshkar leaves a legacy of tens of thousands of songs, mostly in Hindi but also in several other Indian languages. She was what is known as a playback singer not appearing onscreen herself, but contributing a characters voice to be dubbed in for song-and-dance scenes. But in India, she was far from anonymous. Her decades of work made her a revered figure. She received the Bharat Ratna ... More
From Chad, a filmmaker and a star committed to telling stories of home
NEW YORK, NY.- As Chads most lauded auteur, director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun remains committed to portraying his sub-Saharan African homeland onscreen. Early in his career he focused on the fallout from the nations multiple civil wars, which forced him to migrate to France in the 1980s. But in the aftermath of the conflict that concluded in 2010, he has shifted his attention to other social ills. With his newest drama, Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, which debuted at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and reached American theaters Friday, he takes on the topic of abortion through the plight of a Muslim woman, Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), who is helping her teenage daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio), terminate her pregnancy after a sexual assault. The film has received rave reviews, with The New York Times Manohla Dargis making it a Critics Pick. While abortion ... More
Sam Lay, drummer who backed blues greats and Bob Dylan, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Sam Lay, a powerful and virtuosic drummer who played and recorded with Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters, was a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and backed Bob Dylan when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, died Jan. 29 at a nursing facility in Chicago. He was 86. His daughter, Debbie, confirmed the death but said she did not know the cause. Lays exuberant, idiosyncratic drumming was known for its double-shuffle groove, which he adapted from the rhythms of the handclaps and tambourine beats he heard in the Pentecostal church he attended while growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. The only way I can describe it is, youve got three different drummers playing the same beat but theyre not hitting it at the same time, Lay said in Sam Lay in Bluesland, a 2015 documentary directed by John Anderson that took its name ... More
Book traces the statues, monuments, and buildings built by North Korea in Africa from the 1970s to the present
NEW YORK, NY.- This book presents CHE Onejoon's documentary projects, Mansudae Master Class and International Friendship. The projects traces the statues,monuments,and buildings built by North Korea in Africa from the 1970s to the present and the historical background. The North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio has constructed statues, monuments, and buildings in about 18 countries in Africa. Among them, roughly half of the countries received these constructions from Kim Il Sung free of charge. Behind this North Korean diplomatic strategy of offering statues, monuments,and buildings toAfrica,therewas a diplomatic competition between North and South Korea in United Nations. This book deals with the historical background ... More
How Yiddish scholars are rescuing women's novels from obscurity
NEW YORK, NY.- In Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love, a sendup of the socialists, anarchists and intellectuals who populated New York Citys Lower East Side in the early 20th century, Miriam Karpilove writes from the perspective of a sardonic young woman frustrated by the mens advocacy of unrestrained sexuality and their lack of concern about the consequences for her. When one young radical tells the narrator that the role of a woman in his life is to help me achieve happiness, she observes in an aside to the reader: I did not feel like helping him achieve happiness. I felt that Id feel a lot better if he were on the other side of the door. In a review for Tablet magazine, Dara Horn compared the book to Sex and the City, Friends and Pride and Prejudice. Although the book was published by Syracuse University Press in English ... More
|
|
PhotoGalleries
'In-Between'
Primary Colors
The Last Judgment
Golden Shells and the Gentle Mastery of Japanese Lacquer
Flashback On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born February 07, 1726. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell[a] (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. Two of her paintings are part of the Dunster Castle collection, now property of the National Trust. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court. In this image: Margaret Luttrell (1726 - 1766), Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell.
|
|
|
|
