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André-Charles Boulle (1642 â 1732), Chest in Boulle marquetry, Circa 1685-1700. Tortoiseshell, brass, pewter, ebony, chased and gilt bronze, 31.5 cm x 57.5 cm x 38.5 cm
by Scott Reyburn
MAASTRICHT.- The bottom right-hand corner of the jack of hearts, a playing card associated with good fortune and happiness, has been carefully cut away. The back is inscribed, in Dutch, My burden is heavy, goodbye my dear Femke, Born 1st September 1795, by a mother who, two centuries ago, abandoned her baby as a foundling. She left the card with the child in the hope that, one day, mother and daughter could be reunited by matching that missing corner. We dont know of any foundling cards that were put together again, said Frank van den Bergh, an Amsterdam banker and seller of one of the most compelling historical exhibits at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in the Netherlands, which opened to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Signals: How Video Transformed the World, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from March 5 â July 08, 2023. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
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| Gallery Baronian opens a new solo exhibition of works by Alain Séchas | | A new art fair experience with RMB Latitudes | | Urs Fischer presents a new series of works at Gagosian Beverly Hills | 
Alain Sechas, Concorde 5, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130 cm.
BRUSSELS.- Gallery Baronian is presenting a new solo exhibition of Alain Séchas in Brussels. Concorde is the artists sixth exhibition with Albert Baronian, marking thirty-five years of artistic and friendly collaboration. On the occasion of this solo show, Séchas puts aside his legendary feline figures and presents a return to abstraction with an original series of acrylics on canvas. Among the works exhibited, two types of aesthetic vocabulary enter dialogue. On the one hand, there are large monochrome paintings on which appear one, two or three large colored bands which are stretched to the edge. The colors are bold and complement each other harmoniously. On the other hand, some canvases present a tangle of f lexible and sinuous colored lines on a white or grey background. What they all have in common is the spontaneity of the gesture. Alain Séchas paints without prior sketch and lets himself go to the immediacy ... More | | 
Andrzej Urbanski, A017 46 40 22. Spray paint acrylic and mixed media on shaped canvas framed in kiaat, 2022. Courtesy Everard Read Gallery.
JOHANNESBURG.- Rand Merchant Bank and Latitudes Online join forces to bring RMB Latitudes an innovative new indoor/outdoor art experience to Johannesburg during the beautiful early-autumn month of May. From 26 - 28 May 2023, the Latitudes team will bring together artists and exhibitors from across the continent to transform Shepstone Gardens, a magnificent three-acre property, into a curated celebration of art from Africa. The central curatorial theme for the 2023 edition is co-emergence. In the context of African art, co-emergence refers to the complexities embedded in the interaction of various cultural and aesthetic influences on the creation and interpretation of African art, says Latitudes Special Projects Curator, Nkhensani Mkhari. In "Looking both ways" practitioners working both on the continent and beyond explore how these diverse aesthetics and cultural ... More | | 
Urs Fischer, Side Effects, 2023. Gesso, latex, and acrylic paint on canvas, 82 x 66 inches, 208.3 x 167.6 cm © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane. Courtesy Gagosian.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian is presenting Ice Cream Truck Democracy, an exhibition of paintings by Urs Fischer on view in Beverly Hills. In this new series of works, which occupies a range of sizes and formats, Fischer combines silkscreened, hand-painted, and hand-stenciled imagery, applying a collage-like aesthetic to his personal observations of Los Angeles. Rather than aiming for a comprehensive portrait of the city, Fischer evokes the experience of movingby car, bike, or footthrough a visually rich and ever-changing metropolitan environment that is impossible to pin down through singular, static depiction. Incorporating fragments of his own photographs, his new paintings blend figuration and abstraction, reflecting a characteristically American preference for the fragmented and the episodic over central ... More |
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| How an Indigenous architect came out of his shell | | 9 furniture designers from across the African Diaspora | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens London-based artist Megan Rooney's first solo exhibition in France | 
Chris Cornelius at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., Feb. 8, 2023. (Adria Malcolm/The New York Times)
by Matt Shaw
NEW YORK, NY.- Growing up in federal public housing on the Oneida Indian reservation 5 miles west of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Chris Cornelius did not envision a future as an architect. He was surrounded by poverty. The only hot meal he received was the free lunch at his off-reservation school. And yet sleeping in the living room of his familys ranch home near a wood-burning stove turned out to be a formative experience. In our neighborhood, there were no trees or sidewalks, Cornelius said. When I saw how different life was off the reservation, I began to think about how I could make an impact on my environment. Since September 2021, he has been the chair of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico while running studio: Indigenous, a design firm he founded with a focus on architecture and Indigenous culture. The son of a brick mason, Cornelius excelled in drawing and a ... More | | 
Andile Dyalvanes Uthombo (Spring) vessel, made of glazed, hand-coiled stoneware and 30 inches high. (Hayden Phipps via The New York Times)
by Julie Lasky
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2020, Jomo Tariku, a furniture designer who was born in Kenya and raised in Ethiopia and who had a second career as a data scientist with the World Bank, was preparing to give a lecture at Princeton University. Combing through the websites of 161 international furniture companies, he found that of the 4,399 designers that these companies employed, by his reckoning, only 14, or 0.03%, were Black. It was a statistic heard round the world. Black Lives Matter activism had been catalyzing efforts to diversify design. After decades of designing handmade furniture in Springfield, Virginia, near Washington, and struggling for notice from manufacturers that could put the designs into production, Tariku suddenly became a star. His Meedo chair, modeled on a hair pick, was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His three-legged Nyala chair, inspired by an antelope ... More | | 
Megan Rooney, Leaning out for Yellow, 2022-23. Acrylic, oil, pastel and oil stick on canvas, 199.6 x 152.3 x 3.5 cm (78.58 x 59.96 x 1.37 in)
PARIS.- An enigmatic storyteller, Megan Rooney works across a variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, performance and language to develop interwoven narratives. The body has a sustained presence in her work, as both the subjective starting point and final site for the sedimentation of experiences explored through her practice. The subjects of her works are drawn directly from her own life and surroundings, while her references are deeply invested in the present moment. She addresses the myriad effects of politics and society that manifest in the home and on the female body. Recurring characters and motifs form part of a dreamlike narrative that is never fixed, but obliquely references some of the most urgent issues of our time. Painting on uniform canvases measuring 200 x 150 cm the wingspan of the average woman Rooney presents layers of ethereal forms, often sanded back and painted over multiple times to create abstracted narratives without a ... More |
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| Major new commission for national collection through Wesfarmers partnership | | Kristen Lorello opens an exhibition of abstract works on paper made by Christopher Saunders | | A panorama of design | 
Jonathan Jones, Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi peoples, Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM, Wiradjuri people, collaborator, Beatrice Murray, Wiradjuri people, collaborator, untitled (walam-wunga.galang) (detail and installation view), 202021, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Wesfarmers © Jonathan Jones.
CANBERRA.- Leading First Nations artist Jonathan Jones, Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi peoples, collaborated with Wiradjuri custodians Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM, and Beatrice Murray to present the immersive sculpture untitled (walam-wunga.galang). Now on display for the first time at the National Gallery of Australia, Jonathan Jones: untitled (walam-wunga.galang) was commissioned and generously supported by Wesfarmers Arts, the Gallerys Indigenous Arts Partner since 2012. Wesfarmers Managing Director Rob Scott says Wesfarmers has enjoyed a wonderful partnership with the National Gallery and we are especially pleased that our collaboration includes the commissioning of this major new work by Jonathan Jones as a gift of Wesfarmers to the national ... More | | 
Christopher Saunders, No. 8 (Waves), 2020. Acrylic and ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Saunders. The exhibition includes abstract works on paper made with acrylic and ink that feature repeated horizontal lines punctuated by washes of color and erasures. Abstract compositions suggest visions of landscape and stacked horizons. Between the years 2020 and 2021, Saunders worked almost exclusively on paper. Affixing the paper to the surface of a table, and painting it flat, Saunders created rectangular compositions intuitively, drawing from photographic reference points in his mind's eye. References to visions of sunlit sky, ocean, and cloud formations join more conceptual thoughts suggested by repeated horizontal bands of the color black painted in different widths and densities. Other points of reference include sheet music, lines of text perhaps crossed-out, feedback and signals, as well as repetition and minimalism which are important ongoing concepts in the ... More | | 
Guillaume Kientz, the director and chief executive of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in the Sorolla Gallery of the museum in New York, Nov. 23, 2022. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2018, Malene Barnett an artist, textile designer and community builder attended a prominent event for the New York City design industry in which not one Black creative professional was represented in the many panels and presentations. That year, she founded Black Artists + Designers Guild. What began as an online directory of architects, artists and furniture, interior and textile designers so no one could make excuses that were hard to find, Barnett said has flourished into a nonprofit centered on Black imagination and collective action with more than 100 global members. To spread the organizations message of creative liberation and activism, a 20-by-45-foot mural called Facing Futures has been hand-painted on a building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A collaboration with Lamar Advertising and Colossal Media, it will remain on view through April. The mural, with its six ... More |
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| When pretty walls tell a deeper story | | Mary Bauermeister, Avant-Garde artist and host, dies at 88 | | Oscar-nominated film depicts road to justice that is 'permanently alive' | 
Yiling Changues, a Hakka Chinese-Tahitian artist, working on a design inspired by Tahiti. She took the opportunity as a chance to challenge stereotypes about the vahine, or Polynesian woman. (Pierre Frey via The New York Times)
by Aileen Kwun
NEW YORK, NY.- Victor Glemaud, a 45-year-old Haitian-born designer of statement knitwear, has busied himself with patterns for nearly his entire career. But only after introducing his first home goods for textiles and wallpaper supplier F Schumacher & Co. last June did he finally see his work enshrined in an interior setting, rather than let loose in the wilds of fashion. You have to want to live with it, he said of wallpaper and upholstery. Its in your home, and it lasts for so long. Among other designs, which include a lush velvet chevron and an allover hibiscus print, Glemaud created a toile a style of illustrative printed textile popularized in 18th-century France representing Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, who died in 1803. We had to imagine what this gentleman looked like, Glemaud said. (There are no extant realistic portraits.) This meant humanizing Louverture, not just as ... More | | 
Mary Bauermeister (b.1934), Brian O'Doherty Commentary Box, 2017 (detail), ink, offset print, glass, glass lens, wooden sphere, stones, paint brush, metal and wood tools and painted wood construction, 17" x 24 3/4" x 4 1/8", signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Bauermeister, a German artist who played a signature role in the development of the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s avant-garde, died March 2 at a hospice in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. She was 88. The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery of New York, which represented her, said the cause was breast cancer. Bauermeisters art practice began in postwar Germany, where she made honeycomblike reliefs with toothpaste and modeling compound. She went on to embrace text pieces; floral drawings; music composition; unusual easels displayed as sculpture; mystical tableaus of smooth pebbles and other natural objects; found objects lightly altered into what she called ready trouvés; and lens boxes, disconcerting but visually irresistible glass boxes crammed with prisms, lenses and colored pencils. She was driven as much by an almost scientific interest in experimentation and by her congenital need to rebel as she was by aesthetics. I was a war ch ... More | | 
Patricia Bernardi, a forensic anthropologist and one of the founders of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), among bins containing unidentified human remains believed to belong to victims of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, in Buenos Aires on Feb. 15, 2023. (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times)
by Natalie Alcoba
BUENOS AIRES.- The bones of a man, brought into light in a laboratory, had spoken. For years, he was kept inside a blue plastic box on a shelf with hundreds of other boxes containing unidentified human remains believed to belong to victims of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Lying on a table in the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, his skeleton told a story: He was about 25 years old and stood 5 feet, 8 inches to 6 feet tall. Five gunshot wounds, one to the head and four to the pelvis, had killed him. And now, more than 30 years since his discovery in a mass grave, he is on the verge of being identified. When they pass from having a number to having a name, its wonderful, said Patricia Bernardi, a forensic anthropologist and a founder ... More |
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Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan
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 An interior designer's love letter to the skyNEW YORK, NY.- At age 24, Shalini Misra took her first international flight from India, destination New York Citys Manhattan. Everything is quite low-rise where I grew up, and coming to New York was a real eye-opener, with the tall buildings and all that, she said in a phone interview. I just fell in love with the skyline. When Misra, 56, a London-based architect and interior designer, and her husband, Rajeev Misra, had the opportunity to buy a two-bedroom pied-a-terre in Manhattan about 20 years later, it ended up being on the 38th floor of the Bloomberg Tower on Lexington Avenue. So Misra said she designed the interiors in a way that celebrates the altitude: I wanted to amplify the idea of being so high up and floating in the clouds. It helped that the apartment had floor-to-ceiling windows and overlooked Central Park and the Four Seasons ... More  Molding a 'little universe of life-forms' as functional vesselsNEW YORK, NY.- Some pieces call to mind puffy cumulus clouds floating in the sky, except each is spotted and has sprouted four legs. Another looks like some kind of coral growing at the bottom of the sea or is that a fist? All the offbeat shapes that Korean American ceramist Janny Baek has been creating lately, soon to be on view in a solo show called The Pleasure of Growth at New York gallery Culture Object, are distant descendants of various forms of natural life. And all appear to be morphing or otherwise on the move. Perhaps not surprisingly, the artists life has been in flux, too. Baek came to New York with her parents from Seoul, South Korea, as a young child and, after growing up in Korean enclaves in Queens, studied ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. She found work sculpting characters for stop-motion films, but she ... More  Cautionary climate tales that give people pause when they press playNEW YORK, NY.- A young woman is distressed. She seems unwell. Her body was never designed to cope with the extremes of a shifting climate, a soothing voice informs us. As a dreamy soundtrack plays in the background, she arrives at Spa Sybarite, where futuristic stone treatment pods hover on stilts above a desert landscape. Spa Sybarite is a three-minute film by Joshua Ashish Dawson, a 32-year-old Angeleno who describes himself as a world builder and much of his work as speculative climate futures. Trained as an architect, he uses digital design tools and the language of cinema to create environments and scenarios that, he said, ask viewers to question their assumptions about the world they live in. At Spa Sybarite, the voice-over goes on, guests are offered an assortment of scientifically tested customized treatments to help ... More  Of Mourning and Revolt: Episodes from Barbad Golshiri's 'Curriculum Mortis' on view at Thomas ErbenNEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben presents Of Mourning and Revolt: Episodes from Barbad Golshiris Curriculum Mortis. In his solo exhibition at the gallery in 2012, the gallery presented his latest sculptures; with this exhibition, the gallery offer a selection of video and photography, dating from 2002 to 2022. Now living in exile in France, Golshiri was born in 1982 in Tehran to a literary family (his mother, Farzaneh Taheri, is a prominent translator and his father was the eminent writer Houshang Golshiri). His practice ranges from the visual to the textual, from video, photography, sculpture and performance to critical writing and what he calls taphography (the art and practice of documenting cemeteries, creating grave markers, cenotaphs and memorials). The earliest work in the exhibition, the 2002 silent video What Has Befallen Us, ... More  A timeless comedian making 'History,' Part IINEW YORK, NY.- Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carsons show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogols Dead Souls. He was married for 40 years to that epitome of elegance, Anne Bancroft. He was a favorite lunch companion of Cary Grant, the suavest man who ever lived. But in the new Hulu show History of the World, Part II, you can still find all the Mel Brooks signature comedy stylings: penis jokes, puke jokes and fart jokes. I like fart jokes, he said, Zooming from his home in Santa Monica, California. It adds some je ne sais quoi to the comedy. A touch of sophistication for the smarter people helps move the show along. After all, with the percussive campfire scene in his 1974 comedy classic, Blazing Saddles, where the cowhands sit around eating beans and passing wind, he elevated flatulence to cinematic history. ... More  Margot Samel opens Olivia Jia's first solo exhibition with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Margot Samel is presenting Perimeter, a display of paintings by the Philadelphia-based painter Olivia Jia (b.1994, Chicago IL). This is Jias first solo exhibition with the gallery. Painted in what the artist has described as a nocturnal palette, these works have a somnambulant quality, appearing as if scenes encountered in a state between sleep and waking. Each is constructed around a tableau that the artist has arranged, often incorporating material collected by herself, or in the possession of family members. Ideas of kinship and heritage in this instance informing Jias own diasporic identity, as the child of Chinese immigrants to the United States are negotiated through the constellations of elements she gathers together in her compositions. Staged in a studio workspace, depicted either late at night, or in an imagined ... More  Malin Gallery opens Angela China's debut solo exhibition in New York and her first with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Malin Gallery | New York is presenting Girl on the Grass, a solo exhibition of work by Angela China. Featuring 10 new paintings, Girl on the Grass is the artist's debut solo exhibition in New York and her first show with the gallery. China's initial inspirations for this body of work were fleeting memories that evoked deep emotions and instigated spiritual yearnings. The exhibition's title, Girl on the Grass, superficially refers to the blissful sensation one feels when laying outside on a warm summer day. For China, this scenario also alludes to such moments when the mind has space for contemplation and meditation on the natural surroundings. From a metaphysical perspective, China considers the works to be expressions of creation in its diverse manifestations: biological, artistic and contemplative. From her singular perspective, China ... More  17th century gold seal ring discovered in a garden in Devon to be sold at NoonansLONDON.- It was 15 years ago that 71-year-old Richard McCaie, a retired schoolteacher was landscaping the garden of his Grade II listed 16th century farmhouse at Braunton in Devon. While planting a Ceanothus bush at a depth of 10 inches he discovered by chance a gold seal ring which is coming up for sale at Noonans in a sale of Jewellery, watches, and objects of vertu on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, with an estimate of £8,000-12,000. As Nigel Mills, Consultant (Artefacts and Antiquities) at Noonans commented: The ring dates from 1620 and very likely belonged to Humphrey Cockeram of Cullompton in Devon. The ring bears a seal with the coat of arms of the Cockeram family and the initials H C behind. Humphrey was recorded as the head of the family in 1620 and lived at Hillersdon Manor in the early 17th century which is 42 ... More  Latvian National Museum of Art opens an exhibition dedicated to the work of Imants VecozolsRIGA.- Refraction of Light, an exhibition dedicated to the seventy years of creative work of Latvian painter and pedagogue Imants Vecozols, is presented in the LNMAs cycle The Generation in the right wing galleries of the 2nd floor of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 11 March to 23 July 2023. The name of Imants Vecozols is predominantly associated with still-lifes yet his painterly practice is broad and diverse. Artist has worked in different genres landscapes, portraits, rural scenes and ambitious figural compositions. Author uses a variety of techniques oil, tempera, watercolour, pastel and collage, employing both alla prima painting and gradually building up his work layer by layer. Imants Vecozols oeuvre is permeated by his interest in the portrayal of Latvian life, ... More  3 museums partner to acquire groundbreaking media workEVANSTON, IL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL; the Hammer Museum at UCLA; and the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, will jointly acquire the multichannel video installation The Giverny Suite (2019) by artist JaTovia Gary. This institutional partnership will allow the artists powerful work to be viewed by audiences in three major metropolitan areas across the United States. In The Giverny Suite, artist JaTovia Gary (born 1984, Dallas, TX) grapples with and seeks refuge from the violent police killings of African Americans through a nonlinear combination of documentary, archival and abstract film techniques. Incorporating historical and archival found footage alongside Harlem street interviews and scenes of the artist exploring Monets famed Giverny Gardens, Gary centers the voices ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges de La Tour was born March 13, 1593. Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
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