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The traveling exhibition Southern/Modern tells an important story that has been largely absent from American art history.
ATHENS, GA.- Art history constantly changes and evolves as we learn more about our past and seek new and more inclusive perspectives. The traveling exhibition Southern/Modern tells an important story that has been largely absent from American art history. Organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, it debuted at the latter on June 17. In 1949, a curator at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art wrote, little of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore. Despite the growth in scholarship in the intervening years, the emergence of museums and collections in the South focused on its art, and numerous exhibitions and publications about individual artists from the region, there have been relatively few efforts to address southern art in a comprehensive fashion. Southern/Modern considers artists working in the states below the Mason-Dixon line ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, "Joel Shapiro," Jun 9 âJuly 20, 2023, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong © 2023 Joel Shapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Cow Lau, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Making art out of bombshells and memories in Vietnam | | Phoenix Art Museum to temporarily close Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room to complete conservation work | | True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism on view at the OKCMOA, last U.S. stop for this exhibition |
The artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, in his studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 12, 2023. (Quinn Ryan Mattingly/The New York Times)
by Frank Rose
NEW YORK, NY.- Not quite 20 minutes into The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, a film by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, the camera settles on a distinctive-looking monument at the far end of a wooden footbridge. Were in Quang Tri province, central Vietnam. The bridge spans the Ben Hai River, which for 21 years, from the French debacle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, was the demarcation line between North and South Vietnam. A couple of miles in either direction was the so-called Demilitarized Zone, a buffer that became one of the most-bombed places on the planet. This reconstructed footbridge was the tenuous link that connected warring halves of the divided country. The postwar monument at its southern end is called Desire for National Reunification, but the tragic reality of this place is that it is so littered with unexploded shells that anyone who ventures beyond a few well-worn paths risks being blown apart. Memories fade but the trauma survives, not ... More | |
Yayoi Kusama, You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies, 2005. Mixed media installation with LED lights. Museum purchase with funds provided by Jan and Howard Hendler. Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum, Photo: Airi Katsuta
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announces the temporary closure of infinity mirror room You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies (2005) by Yayoi Kusama for the summer. The immersive installation will close July 5 and re-open to the public on September 9 in more accessible location adjacent to re-invigorated Art of Asia galleries; Museum to host Creative Saturday re-opening celebration. The immersive installation will undergo conservation work. The artwork, colloquially known as Fireflies, will re-open to the public on Creative Saturday on September 9, 2023 during a special Fireflies-themed celebration. As part of the conservation process, the installation will be relocated and appear adjacent to the Art of Asia wing on the Museums first floor, making it more accessible to Museum visitors and placing the dynamic contemporary installation in conversation with new installations of historical Asian objects. To provide additi ... More | |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vase of Roses, c.1890-1900. Oil on canvas, 22 3/4 x 17 in. (57.8 x 43.2 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Jean and Dido Renoir (AC1993.34.1) photo © Museum Associates / LACMA.
OAKLAHOMA CITY, OAK.- A once-in-a-lifetime exhibition opened this Saturday, June 17, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism features more than 50 sculptures by French artist Auguste Rodin, known to many as the father of modern sculpture. This exhibition, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and presented by Inasmuch Foundation and George Records, also showcases the work of Rodins Impressionist contemporaries, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne, among its 100 works of art. OKCMOA is the first venue to present the exhibition in its entirety and will be the final stop for the exhibition in the United States before it travels internationally. True Nature is the type of exhibition that puts Oklahoma City on the map, said OKCMOA President and CEO Michael J. Anderson, PhD. We welcome our community to visit OKCMOA this summer and experien ... More |
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| Liverpool Biennial opens 12 Edition 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things' | | AstaGuru's upcoming 'Collectors Choice' is a treasure trove of Modern Indian Art | | Steven Shearer: Sleep, Death's Own Brother now open at The George Economou Collection |
Liverpool Biennial 2023, uMoya_ The Sacred Return of Lost Things. Installation view at Victoria Gallery & Museum. Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial. Photography by Mark McNulty.
LIVERPOOL.- On Saturday 10 June, Liverpool Biennial opened its 12th edition, titled uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, unveiling a series of exhibitions and outdoor artworks across the city. A dynamic programme of free exhibitions, performances, screenings, community and learning activities and fringe events unfolds over 14 weeks, shining a light on the citys vibrant cultural scene. uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things is curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa and presents the work of 35 leading and emerging artists and collectives from 6 continents, including 15 new commissions. Liverpool Biennial 2023 addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, uMoya means spirit, breath, air, climate ... More | |
Krishen Khanna, Bandwallah figure. Large-scale monochrome work executed with acrylic and charcoal.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru's upcoming 'Collector's Choice' Modern Indian Art auction presents a remarkable opportunity for bidders to acquire exquisite masterpieces and rare compositions spanning different periods of Modern Indian Art. The bidding for all artworks will commence at INR 20,000, and the auction is scheduled to take place on June 20-21, 2023. Commenting on the auction, Sunny Chandiramani, Senior Vice President- Client Relations, AstaGuru, said, The overwhelming response to 'Collectors Choice' affirms its success in creating a platform that appeals to a broad range of collectors, fostering a vibrant and dynamic art community. The ability to acquire artworks at different price points presents a chance for both seasoned and new art connoisseurs to expand their collections with diverse pieces. It encourages exploration and discovery, enabling them to uncover hidden gems and lesser-known artists that might otherwise go unnoticed. Leading ... More | |
Steven Shearer, The Green Collector, 2021. Oil on mounted linen, 46.4 x 33.9 cm. © Steven Shearer/ Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber and David Zwirner Gallery.
ATHENS.- The exhibition Steven Shearer: Sleep, Deaths Own Brother, now on view at The George Economou Collection, takes as its point of departure Sleep II (2015), a monumental collage made up of thousands of found imagesall of them JPEGs sourced online depicting people asleep. A breathtaking tour de force balancing color, scale, structure, and subject matter, the sprawling mosaic shows a wide variety of somnolent states, from the peaceful and the comedic to the ecstatic and downright morbid. Titled after a line from Hesiods eighth-century BC epic poem Theogony (Harmful Night, veiled in dusky fog, carries in her arms Sleep, Deaths own brother), the exhibition revolves around this uneasy proximity (brotherhood) between death and sleep, a recurring trope in Shearers art. Built around the George ... More |
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| The intersection of work and hope where Bangladeshi Brooklyn gathers | | Beloved furniture gets a brand-new life | | In Milan, putting an AI travel adviser to the test |
Farojan Saeed, who moved to New York in 2016 and now teaches dance at a local public school and at the Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts, adjust her shawl during a community meal after sunset during Ramadan, in Brooklyn, March 9, 2023. (Jonah Markowitz/The New York Times)
by Jonah Markowitz, Karen Zraick and Samira Asma-Sadeque
NEW YORK, NY.- At an intersection in Brooklyn, Bangladeshi immigrants take some of their first steps toward new lives. Where Church and McDonald Avenues meet, the scent of milky tea fills the air, and Bengali is more common than English. For decades, construction work was a primary trade for members of the Bangladeshi community in Kensington, a Brooklyn neighborhood. But the once-familiar morning rumble of contractors vans now has given way to the afternoon whirl of e-bikes making deliveries. In the evenings, groups of men leave their crowded, subdivided apartments for adda, an informal gathering to catch up, often with snacks and tea. Since the early 1970s, Bangladeshi ... More | |
Jacqueline Lobel, left, and Ruth Gallogly, who sparked a friendship after Lobel sold Gallogly this used kitchen table, in Brooklyn on April 2, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
by Alix Strauss
NEW YORK, NY.- In the summer of 2019, Jacqueline Lobel, a 33-year-old TV producer, was scrolling through Craigslist, optimistically hoping to buy a dining room table that would fit into a slightly dark space in the large studio apartment she had just moved into in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. When I saw how this apartment was staged before I rented it, I was inspired to do the same layout, so I knew what kind of table I needed, she said. Two months into her search, she saw a post that promised a gorgeous, 42-inch walnut wood and brass dining room table in good condition. It was part of the décor at Günter Seeger, a Michelin-starred restaurant that was closing in Manhattans West Village. The custom-made table retailed for $3,000. The proprietors were offering it for $500. She bought it for that price. I met the owners and could tell they were sad ... More | |
On her first visit to Milan, our reporter compares the itineraries of two travel advisers: one virtual, the other human. Heres what she found. (Eduardo Morciano/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- I wasnt exactly sure what to expect from the itinerary my travel adviser had put together in a mere five seconds, but when I arrived in Milans central Piazza del Duomo, the cathedral glistening under the midday sun, I anticipated being swept into the citys frenetic rhythm. Instead, I found myself in the middle of a relatively empty square, surrounded by shuttered stores and cafes. Why didnt you tell me today was a public holiday in Milan? I texted my adviser. Im sorry, I didnt realize that you were planning to visit Milan on May 1, the adviser responded. As a virtual travel assistant, I try to provide as much information as possible, but sometimes I miss something. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I felt bad, as if I had hurt someones feelings, and had to remind myself that I wasnt talking to a human. It was my first trip to Milan, and I was using the opportunity to try out th ... More |
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| The Wolf Family Collection of Native American art to be auctioned at Bonhams Los Angeles | | Andy Goldsworthy set to commence a 1500' permanent installation in Bar Harbor | | Asia Society presents Buddha, Sage of the Shakya Clan Masterworks from Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection |
An exceptionally large Zuni squash blossom necklace.Stamped "US ZUNI 1" twice about the perimeter of the naja, the two-strand bead necklace strung with 18 turquoise-set box bow squash blossoms and suspending a large turquoise-set naja with stamped serrated outer border.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 28, Bonhams will present a wide range of material at its Native American Art sale in Los Angles highlighted by 60 lots from the Wolf Family Collection. Throughout their nearly 70-year long marriage, Erving Wolf (1926-2018) and his wife Joyce (1927-2022) filled their Fifth Avenue New York City apartment with one of the most historically significant collections of American art and design. They were also major benefactors to several important institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. The sale will feature a selection of Indigenous weavings, jewelry, and pottery from their collection. While growing up in contrasting parts of the ... More | |
Andy Goldsworthy setting stones at COA in May, 2023.
BAR HARBOR, ME.- Internationally renowned Land artist Andy Goldsworthy will be spending his summer in Bar Harbor, Maine, creating a permanent installation on the campus of College of the Atlantic (COA). Composed of regionally sourced granite curbing (from Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire), Road Line will begin taking shape in late July at Eden St./Route 3, and meander 1500 to the coast of Frenchman Bay. The site specific and permanent installation will be Goldsworthys first in the state of Maine. Road Line would only become apparent as an artwork after it has left the straight and narrow and goes its own way, said Goldsworthy. I hope this will resonate with the students who will also pass through the college on their own journeys, and that wherever life takes them afterwards, they will always be reminded of their time in Maine whenever they see a curbstone. It would be the antithesis of the definition of curb, which is to control or limit. In a div ... More | |
God Indra Visits Buddha Shakyamuni. Kashmir or northern Pakistan, 8th-9th century. Ivory. H. 3 7/8 x W. 2 7/8 in. (9.8 x 7.3 cm). Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.42.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents a selection of 15 masterworks from the Asia Societys renowned Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, depicting the Eight Great Events from the life of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha. Works in the exhibition date from the second to eighteenth centuries and represent some of the finest examples of Buddhist art, drawn from the Asia Societys Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. Buddhism, founded in India the late sixth century B.C.E., has assumed many different forms but generally draws from the life experiences of the Buddha, his teachings, and the "spirit" or "essence" of his teachings, (dharma), as models for religious life. While the actual life events of the Buddha ... More |
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Sotheby's Talks: Capturing the Moment: Fashion, Portraiture and Taste
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'Male Edition: The Art of Men's Style' opens at Fahey Klein Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery recently opened, Male Edition: The Art of Mens Style. The photographs on display take the viewer through the varying ways personal style has been utilized in the expression of self-identity, with images spanning from the early 20th Century through the 21st Century. This group exhibition features (33) photographers with works celebrating male cultural icons, periods in history emblematic of mens clothing, and figures with lasting influence on style today. Male Edition: The Art of Mens Style will showcase genres and identities in culture through music, cinema, and the visual arts. A man must be a profound calculator to be a consummate dresser there is no diplomacy more subtle than dress -Edward ... More
Chinese diaspora artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang currently presenting An Equivocal Contrast at Rockbund Art Museum
SHANGHAI.- The Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of the artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang (b. 1981) in Asia. A Rotterdam-based, Chinese diaspora artist, Wang is renowned for her striking blend of imaginative, layered, fragmented, and paradoxical narrations across various mediums, including painting, drawing, writing, and performance. As an immigrant artist from China who lives and works in the Netherlands, Wang makes work that is deeply rooted in the social context in which she finds herself. Her practice juxtaposes the philosophical and the everyday and merges the emotional, the poetic, and the autobiographical, intertwining transcendental concepts with seemingly superficial ... More
Laurel Gitlen is presenting until this July 9th the exhibition 'Leaking Heaven'
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurel Gitlen has now opened Leaking Heaven, a group exhibition that is taking place across both gallery spaces until July 9, 2023. This group exhibition gathers several works that are characterized by state changes. Architecture gives way to drooping textiles, liquids harden, and matter diffuses into thin air, an upending of material that posits an alternative ethos, an unsettling of terms, or an insistence on flux. It might also be a collection of synecdochical propositions - of tools, objects and fragments that interrogate social and cultural situations. Many of the works in this exhibition are acts of transcription, sublimation, and dissolution. Embracing hybridity, each artist creates a sense of beautiful excess in distinct ways. Together, the works suggest a spilling-over of meaning and form where matter and structure becomes aqueous ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts names Yuriko Jackall as Department Head of European Art
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has named Dr. Yuriko Jackall as the museums new Department Head of European Art and the Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings. Jackall will begin her position in the fall of 2023. Dr. Jackall currently serves as the Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection, London. During her tenure there, she oversaw important collections of European paintings, decorative arts, sculpture, and arms and armor. This included the major conservation and research project devoted to the museum's eight paintings by the eighteenth-century artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Her work on Fragonard included an in-depth project on The Swing (17671768), one of the artists most famous and provocative works. A lecture series, a robust web feature, and a film ... More
It's story time at Ballet Theater, with a bestseller twist
NEW YORK, NY.- After tasting a dish infused with rose petals, a young woman experiences an erotic awakening so intense that she gallops off with a passing soldier. Another woman feels so much love for her sisters child that she develops the ability to nurse him from her own breast. Two lovers come together in an embrace so passionate that it causes them to spontaneously combust. Such magical occurrences arrive at regular intervals in Like Water for Chocolate, the 1989 novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel that has now inspired a ballet by Christopher Wheeldon. American Ballet Theater will open its summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House on Thursday with Like Water for Chocolate, which had its company debut at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, in March. The large-scale production, a co-commission with ... More
For Riccardo Muti, a grand sort-of-finale in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Mortality, the fragility of life, permeates Verdis Un Ballo in Maschera from its lonely first measures. As the opera opens, a crowd sings while a ruler sleeps. For those who love him, it is a state that should bring him rest and refreshment. For those who conspire against him, it is a premonition of his hoped-for death. That battle between vitality and the grave continues to the scores crushing finale. It was particularly hard to avoid thinking of endings during the Chicago Symphony Orchestras sumptuous performance of Ballo here Thursday evening. Riccardo Muti, the ensembles music director since 2010, will depart after next season. And after more than a decade dotted by acclaimed concert versions of his beloved Verdi in Chicago, this is his last opera with this superb orchestra. (Saturday and Tuesday bring two final chances to hear it.) ... More
Moran's Modern & Contemporary auction exceeds $1,000,000 with Baber, Takis, and Picelj
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Tuesday, June 13th at noon PDT, John Moran Auctioneers presented their bi-annual Modern & Contemporary Fine Art auction. It was filled with phenomenal work by many important arts of the 20th and 21st centuries and included paintings, prints and multiples, photography, and sculpture. Headlining the sale were outstanding results achieved by Alice Baber, Panayiotis "Takis" Vassilakis, and multiple new world auction records, the highest being Ivan Picelj! This sale also featured an impressive capsule collection of works from the estate of the esteemed New York gallerist, Howard Wise. Howard Wise (1903-1989) was an important American art patron and gallerist who left an indelible mark on the American art scene. He is most known for his gallery on 57th Steet in New York City. From 1960-1971, the Howard Wise Gallery ... More
Jack McNally, NYPD detective turned defense sleuth, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers such as F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients such as O.J. Simpson, died May 28. He was 89. His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on New Yorks Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements. The announcement did not specify the cause or say where he died. As a detective, McNally had the boldness and street smarts of a Raymond Chandler protagonist, although his approach to witnesses and suspects was less confrontational than that of a typical hard-boiled gumshoe. You try to win them over and convince them that you are in the mode of fair play, he told USA Today in 1994. Were just there seeking the truth. ... More
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Gabriele Münter
TARWUK
Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Lee Krasner died June 19, 1984. Lenore "Lee" Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. In this image: Installation view. Photo by: Diego Flores / Paul Kasmin Gallery. © 2017 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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