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The photographer and director RaMell Ross, right, with Sandy Christenberry, widow of William Christenberry, at Pace Gallery in New York on Jan. 10, 2023. Inspired by the pioneering photographer William Christenberry, Ross moved to the Deep South and found fertile terrain. Now Pace sheds light on their distinct visions of a place. (Ike Edeani/The New York Times)
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK, NY.- Alabamas Hale County holds a special position in American visual culture. This is where Walker Evans made his photographs of white sharecropper families for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with James Agees text, a core document of Depression-era poverty. It is where William Christenberry, who grew up in nearby Tuscaloosa with roots in the county, returned each summer for four decades, beginning in the 1960s, making quiet images of desolate buildings in landscape that have become photography canon. RaMell Ross is Hale Countys latest visual chronicler and, as he puts it, liberated documentarian. He moved to Greensboro, Alabama, in 2009 and lived there continuously for three years, teaching in a General Educational Development program, coaching basketball and photographing. Though now a professor at Brown University, he has made the county a long-term home and the fulcrum of his art projects. Ross 2018 essay film, Hale County This Mornin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Will Boone's No Manâs Land at Karma, New York. January 7-February 25, 2023.
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| Modern sets the stage at Roland Auctions NY on January 7th | | Exhibition at David Zwirner features four major installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres | | Exhibition conjures new connections between painting of the 20th century and the present day |
Martiros Saryan, Mountain & Valley Landscape. Sold for: $40,625.
GLEN COVE, NY.- A superb selection of Contemporary Art and Mid-Century Modern furniture took center stage at Roland Auctions NY first auction of the New Year on Saturday, January 7th in Glen Cove, NY, with a beautiful oil on canvas by artist Martiros Saryan (Armenian, 1880-1972) being the high seller of the day. The sale also featured works by D*Face, Andy Warhol, KAWS, Dale Chihuly, Lucio Fontana, Flo Perkins and DAIN, along with hundreds of lots of Fine Art, Decorative Arts, 20th Century Modern, Antique & Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Gold, Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, and Asian Art. The top seller was the Martiros Saryan (Armenian, 1880-1972): Mountain & Valley Landscape oil on canvas painting of a mountain and valley landscape with oxen and plow in the foreground, signed lower left and dated, 1921. With provenance certificate. [23 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W]. With a much lower estimate of ... More | |
Installation view, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Zwirner, New York, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Spanning the gallerys 519, 525, and 533 West 19th Street spaces in New York, the exhibition features four major installationstwo of which have never been realized in the manner envisioned by Gonzalez-Torres before his untimely death in 1996 from complications related to AIDS. This is the second solo exhibition of Gonzalez-Torress work at David Zwirner since the announcement that the gallery would be joining Andrea Rosen Gallery in co-representing the artists estate. Untitled (19941995) and "Untitled" (Sagitario) (19941995) are two installations that Gonzalez-Torres had fully conceptualized, and which were scheduled to debut at a significant one-person exhibition at CAPC musée dart contemporain de Bordeaux in 1995. For institutional reasons, the exhibition was rescheduled ... More | |
Agnes Pelton, Translation, 1931 (detail). Oil on canvas, 20" à 24" (50.8 cm à 61 cm) © Agnes Pelton, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Love Letter, a group exhibition curated by artists Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from January 13 to February 25, this show brings works by Hollowell and Judge in conversation with paintings by Agnes Pelton, a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group in the United States, and Ghulam Rasool Santosh, a modernist Kashmiri painter and poet associated with the neo-tantra painting movement in India. Together, the 24 works in the exhibitionsix by each of the four artists includedconjure new connections between painting of the 20th century and the present day, foregrounding the experiential and transportive power of abstraction. Running concurrently with Hollowells first institutional solo show in the US at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California ... More |
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| Almine Rech announces the global representation of Ted Pim | | Bruce Silverstein Gallery to open an exhibition of rediscovered early exhibition prints by Shawn Walker | | Marco Brambilla to exhibit at Outernet Arts in London |
Portrait of Ted Pim, 2022 / Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Catherine Falls.
BRUSSELS.- Irish artist Ted Pim uses darkness as a tool to portray a moody and even macabre ambience throughout his works. Often in a manner that is subversively ominous, through the darkly lit canvases he emphasizes the focal points of his work which are most notably beautiful assortments of flowers and baroque figures. The dichotomy of creating art that has a cunning contemporary take on tropes, found in art history such as 17th century Dutch art and the Italian Renaissance, creates a surprisingly harmonious end result. Ted Pim once watched a nature documentary where a tree fell in a forest. In the film, he saw the repercussions, how the fauna and flora on the forest floor struggled, climbing over each other in an attempt to get to the light. That is how I see my flower paintings, he explains: that underneath or as part of the beauty of the paintings, is this dark overtone ... More | |
Shawn W. Walker (b. 1940). Untitled, Parade, 1967. Gelatin silver print mounted on board, printed c. 1967. 7 x 5 7/8 in (17.78 x 14.92 cm) Annotated with artist stamps on verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery will present Shawn Walker: Lost & Found, an exhibition of rediscovered early exhibition prints by one of the founding members of the Kamoinge Workshop. These extraordinary photographs, created in the first decade of the artists sixty-year career, depict and immortalize members of the artists community who were all too often overlooked and unseen, serving as a window into the origins of the artists creative practice. Having rested dormant, safely stored, and forgotten in The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture archives for over a half-century and now reunited with the artist, many of the photographs exhibited in Lost and Found are being shown in public for the very first time. They are some of the few early prints still in the artists possession ... More | |
Marco Brambilla's Heaven's Gate.
LONDON.- Marco Brambilla's monumental new work, Heaven's Gate, will be on view for the first time in Europe at Outernet London, the largest digital exhibition space on the continent beginning January 22nd and running until February 26th. The exhibition will take place in The Now Building, a state-of-the-art immersive space featuring 23,000 square feet of floor-to-ceiling, 360-degree, 16K screens across four stories. Heaven's Gate, the latest in Brambilla's Megaplex series, presents the spectacle of the Hollywood dream factory as a panoramic video collage, in which viewers ascend through psychedelic landscapes of looping samples of iconic moments in cinematic history. The work both celebrates and satirizes pop culture, immersing the viewer in a hyper-saturation of imagery that is almost impossible to sustain. "I was initially approached to show this work in the space, which led to my curating the Arts program," said Brambilla ... More |
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| MASSIMODECARLO announces the passing of artist and dear friend Gianfranco Baruchello | | U.S. rare coin market continued to soar in 2022 | | Robin Rhode's sixth solo presentation with Lehmann Maupin opens in New York |
Gianfranco Baruchello. © Fondazione Baruchello.
MILAN.- MASSIMODECARLO is deeply saddened by the passing of artist and dear friend Gianfranco Baruchello. It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of Gianfranco Baruchello, a pioneering visionary artist whose lifelong career has made an indelible mark on the art world globally. Gianfrancos practice was as striking as intellectually stimulating. He had the unique, vital ability to combine the poetic and philosophical, the high and the low, the street and the library, the industrial and the intellectual. Praised for his unique, boundary-pushing approach, Gianfranco experimented relentlessly with an infinite variety of mediums ranging from painting to sculpture, video, performance, and installation. In his works Baruchello dismantled the safest and most predictable joints and links to adventure into the uncertain, into the possible, into the pleasure of thinking, through an ars combinatoria ... More | |
The late Stewart Blays penny collection contains the finest known example of a 1909-dated Lincoln cent struck at the San Francisco Mint with designer Victor D. Brenners initials, V.D.B., as part of the design on the tails side. Bidding for it already is over $200,000, according to Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections. Photo credit: GreatCollections.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.- The market for rare United States coins enjoyed a banner year in 2022 with many hundreds of price records set for individual coins, according to an analysis by CDN Publishing, publishers of the Greysheet family of numismatic market price guides. Continuing the momentum from 2021, we estimate the overall U.S. rare coin market exceeded a record $6 billion in total volume for the year in 2022, said Patrick Ian Perez, CDN Vice President. Using data available to us, more than $560 million worth of U.S. rare coins were sold via public auction, marking the third consecutive year this aggregate total has increased. For the first time, 16 individual U.S. coins sold for greater than $1 million ... More | |
Portrait of Robin Rhode, 2022. Photo by Tilman Vogler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin presents African Dream Root, Robin Rhodes sixth solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will feature new photographs, sculptures, installations, and wall paintings inspired by the Berlin-based artists extensive research into visual and oral traditions of storytelling in Southern Africa. Born and raised in South Africa, Rhode examines the histories and mythologies of the continental subregion in his newest body of work. With African Dream Root, the artist moves to situate his wall-based works within a distinctly Southern African lineage and reconnect his practice to its ancient art historical roots. Locating his work in relation to ancient rock art and spiritual practices, Rhode considers his wall paintings to be visual interventions in their cultural, political, and ecological environments, and he aims to transform both landscapes and communities. Representing a critical development in Rho ... More |
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| Esteban Jefferson's first solo exhibition with 303 Gallery opens in New York | | The fashion sale of the century | | Thomas Helbig's ninth solo exhibition with Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens in Berlin |
Esteban Jefferson, August 29, 2017Â (2022). Oil and graphite on linen.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery is presenting May 25, 2020, Esteban Jeffersons first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibitions title refers to the date of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and the beginning of a series of ongoing protests denouncing police brutality and racial injustice which immediately ensued in cities around the world. A life-long New Yorker, Jeffersons latest works consider the related symbolism of flags and toppling of equestrian monuments in New York, through the lens of racial and colonial legacies. Through repeated visits to sites of protest, from small interventions like flags taped to a stop sign to large-scale vandalism of well-known colonialist monuments, Jefferson tracks the lifespan of the 2020 protests. On view will be three pairs of paintings made in the artists distinctive investigative style, contrasting meticulously rendered subjects with muted surroundings ... More | |
A selection of designer sunglasses owned by Mr. Talley are among the items to be auctioned by Christies. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- André Leon Talley, the barrier-breaking Black fashion editor, was famous for his love of extravagant things and extravagant gestures. For striding through the world in a fabulous designer caftan and towering fur hat, a set of monogrammed Louis Vuitton trunks at his side as he unfurled his pronouncements: on beauty, designers, the meaning of life. So after he died in January 2022 with no heirs, the speculation began: What would happen to the collections he had amassed over the decades and squirreled away in his homes in White Plains, New York, and Durham, North Carolina, an Aladdins cave of artifacts that represented a certain style of luxury in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries? Would they be left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... More | |
Installation view. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin. Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting Thomas Helbigs ninth solo exhibition with the gallery at the beginning of 2023. Under the title Machines Trophies, the Berlin-based artist is showing new paintings and wall objects. The exhibition reveals what a remarkable development Helbigs multidisciplinary practice has once again taken in recent times. His sculptural work, for example, is still characterized by a highly distinctive formal language and continues to be based on assemblages of deliberately produced fragments of selected found objects, which only acquire their uniform appearance through the extensive overpainting. But while so far it was mostly cheap decorative kitsch figures that Helbig deconstructed into fragments in order to create completely different appearances from them with the help of foam glue and spray paint, he now increasingly uses components of mechanical and technical equip- ment ... More |
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What Frida Kahlo's style choices mean to a fashion historian
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The Winter Show announces programming and special events for 2023 edition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced for its 69th edition, an engaging suite of public programming and special events presented throughout the run of the fair. Open to the public from January 20-29, 2023, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory, presenting 68 exhibitors specializing in fine and decorative arts from around the world. To enhance the experience, this years programming offers visitors and collectors special opportunities to deepen their knowledge and engage with current trends and topics, emphasizing the Shows collaborative focus and educational approach. The panel discussions and talks are presented by experts in art, antiques, and design as well as leaders from museums and institutions, and are free with general admission. Highlights of The Winter Shows 2023 public programs include a panel discussion in partnership with Asia Week New York ... More
Lisa Marie Presley was rock 'n' roll royalty. Graceland was her castle.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Elvis Presley died in 1977, Lisa Marie Presley, his only child, inherited Graceland an eight-bedroom, eight-bath Colonial revival house in Memphis, Tennessee, that became one of the most iconic pieces of real estate in American music history. Graceland was the personal home of the King of Rock n Roll from 1957 until his death at the age of 42. For Lisa Marie Presley, rock n roll royalty who died Thursday in Los Angeles, Graceland was the castle where she spent holidays with her father, and notoriously had full daytime reign of its grand, chandelier-lit rooms while her night owl father slept. She was back at Graceland just four days before her death visiting the estate Sunday to celebrate what would have been her fathers 88th birthday. On Thursday, after what her family has described as a medical emergency, she was rushed from her home in Calabasas ... More
When Black characters double-deal to make ends meet, It's never enough
NEW YORK, NY.- In Between Riverside and Crazy, a Black man haggles over the concessions hes being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop. In Topdog/Underdog, two brothers hustle pedestrians on the street and, at home, each other. And in The Piano Lesson, family members bristle at a scheme that would involve hawking a precious heirloom. While these Broadway plays couldnt be more different, they all similarly explore what happens when Black characters arent able to achieve financial stability through traditional, or official, channels. They are left little choice but to create and work in their own separate economies: A hustle is the only way the Black characters can even the playing field. And yet they never manage to do so at least not for long. Even when one profits from a con, its a Faustian bargain ... More
Birmingham Museum of Art welcomes new Deputy Director
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Chantal Drake as its new James Milton and Sallie R. Johnson Deputy Director. Drake will assume the role on January 17. We are thrilled to welcome Chantal to our leadership team at the Birmingham Museum of Art, says Graham C. Boettcher, R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Chantals extensive fundraising and marketing experience in the visual arts will help propel our ambitious goals and objectives as we work to realize a new strategic plan. In the role of Deputy Director, Drake will work alongside the Director to develop strategies and organizational structures for carrying out the Museums mission, and implementing the vision and strategic plan. Other primary responsibilities include oversight of various Museum departments, management of daily operations ... More
Reuven Rubin Artworks to lead Clarke Auction Gallery January 22, 2023
LARCHMONT, NY.- The pioneering landscapes of Romanian-Israeli painter Reuven Rubin, especially those painted in the 1920s during a time when the international art world was rapidly changing, are highly sought after. Considered Israels most famous artist, Rubin (1893-1974) was Israels first ambassador to Romania and visited New York City often. From an old New York family that befriended the artist in his early days as part of New York Citys art scene in the late 1920s comes four artworks by the artist, starring at Clarke Auction Gallerys Sunday, January 22 auction, at 10 am. While the auction has nearly 400 lots, running the gamut from jewelry and silver to Asian arts and traditional antiques, the highlight will be Rubins artwork. The story of how Rubin met Hope Weil in 1928 and became a constant in her familys life for decades is one that, like many other stories ... More
Acclaimed artist Athena Latocha's installation at Green-Wood to remain on view into 2023
BROOKLYN, NY.- Hailed by Sculpture Magazine as Editors Choice, The Remains of Winter, a series of sculptures made especially for The Green-Wood Cemetery by Athena LaTocha, has been extended into the new year. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public daily, will be on view in the Historic Chapel until January 22nd, 2023 and on Battle Hill until September 2023. LaTocha was inspired by the Cemetery as a site for memory and mourning that is also an oasis with an abundant collection of mature trees, thriving wildlife populations, and steeped in geological history. The three sculptures are made from trees at Green-Wood that are cloaked in sheets of lead, a material historically used in coffins to slow decomposition, in an allusion to the natural decay of all things. The trees themselves were slated for removal by the Cemeterys horticulture department because of age, damage, or disease ... More
"Artist's Portrait", Alberto GarcÍa-Alix, on view at kamel mennour in paris until January 28th
PARIS.- To celebrate twenty years of collaboration, kamel mennour presented Alberto García-Alixs fourth solo show at the gallery, which started on December 8th, 2022, and will end on January 28th, 2023. Alberto García-Alix begins to photograph his life and his surroundings at a historic turning point for Spain: following the death of the dictator Franco, the democratic transition proved to be a time of great political, social and cultural turmoil. Self-taught, he bears witness to his own life and the world around him: an eager youth yearning for freedom. Over a decade, Madrid becomes the birthplace and home to this upheaval. La Movida triggers an outburst. A youthful convulsion takes shape and paves the way towards modernity that will, in time, affect all layers of Spanish society. His compositions, with their striking diagonals and contrasts of light, are orchestrated with patience and skill ... More
American greats Tiffany Studios, Steuben and George Nakashima lead two Heritage decorative art & design events
DALLAS, TEXAS.- With each passing month, a supercharged collecting world seems to fall more deeply in love with American artists and designers. Especially those whose spectacular works recall the creative freedom and innovation of the earlier part of the last century, when the post-industrial impulse exploded before, after and in between shattering world wars and booming economies. The United States beckoned and spotlighted enormous talent from near and far, and the status and value of these artists and their contributions seem to see no ceiling at auction. Americans and collectors the world over, perhaps increasingly nostalgic, long for a piece of what made this hunk of North America for many decades a most exciting and fascinating place to live ... More
Turning trash into poetry
NEW YORK, NY.- Compared with the junk she has found in other cities, Parisian trash is sturdy, Ser Serpas said. She speaks from experience at 27, the itinerant artist and poet is admired in European and North American art circles for precariously poised arrangements of urban discards found near the venues where theyre shown. They become site-specific descriptions of a place, written in its own delaminating school desks and tarnished bathtubs. Serpas belongs to a loose cohort of millennial artists and poets, including Hannah Black, Precious Okoyomon and Rindon Johnson, rethinking found materials through deceptively deadpan sculptures. Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, shes making stanzas from its leftovers. One blustery afternoon in November, I trailed Serpas and Rafik Greiss ... More
Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City Ballet opened in 1948 with a triple bill of ballets choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Bach (Concerto Barocco), Stravinsky (Orpheus) and Bizet (Symphony in C). Ever since, it has had the most distinguished musical repertory of any of the worlds ballet companies. Stravinsky composed and conducted for City Ballet; it regularly presents commissioned scores. Conductor Andrew Litton, 63, has been the music director of City Ballet since 2015; this winter season begins Tuesday and includes the premiere of a new ballet Jan. 26 by Justin Peck, Copland Dance Episodes, to various Aaron Copland scores. Training at Juilliard in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he watched the company while its founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were still active. Thats when I first saw the Balanchine-Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements ... More
Bellmans to sell furniture and works of art from Spencer House Stores
BILLINGSHURST.- Bellmans is announcing the auction of furniture and works of art from the Spencer House stores in a Sussex auction in January. The objects included are mainly a mixture of items once used or on display in the State Rooms and those used in the offices and meeting rooms after the extensive renovation of one of the last London private palaces, which was restored to its former glory by Lord Rothschild after agreeing the lease in 1985. Some of the items were sourced and acquired through David Mlinaric's company, Mlinaric, Henry & Zerduvachi Limited, who was in charge of the record breaking project. When the Economist Intelligence Unit left the building in 1984, the search for a new tenant started and Lord Rothschild happened to have offices opposite and decided to look into how he could use the impressive town house for offices ... More
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The Horror Show!
Lebbeus Woods
Yayoi Kusama
New Images in the Age of Augustus
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Andrew Wyeth died January 16, 2009. Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In this image: Andrew Wyeth, LejanÃa, 1952 (Faraway). Pincel seco sobre papel. 34,92 x 54,61. The Phyllis and Jaimie Wyeth Collection.
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