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Installation view. Photo: Steven Probert NEW YORK, NY.- Tauba Auerbach debuted several new series of works which capture fleeting moments of order in paintings of foams, molten glass and woven beads. The exhibition is an expression of curiosity about spontaneously emergent structure, tendency and habit, and their intersection with the notion of free will. The work brings together historical rendering techniques like pointillism and midtone drawing with microscopy, algorithmic image processing, off-loom weaving, spraying techniques and mathematical surface modeling. This is the artists fourth one-person exhibition at the gallery, and the first since their critically-acclaimed survey S v Z at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2021. Hoping to be convinced of the reality of free will, Auerbach listened to a series of lectures in defense of its existence by the late mathematician John Conway. Best-known as the inventor of The Game of Life, a deterministic game using cellular automata, Conway would seem to be an unlikely advocate, b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day As we head towards the first coronation in the UK in 70 years, millions of people across the country are invited to celebrate a weekend of activities from 6 to 8 May at the Museum of Brands in Notting Hill. The Royal family is arguably one of Britainâs strongest brands and in the past, commemorative mugs, tins, magazines, flags, and plenty of bunting has been produced in their honour. A fascinating picture emerges, creating a visually stimulating and thought-provoking experience, and for many an emotional and nostalgic reunion with their past.
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First major exhibition on Juan de Pareja, the subject of Diego Velázquez's iconic portrait, to open at The Met | | Leading ink painters Liu Dan & Wu Changshuo to be spotlighted in March Asian Art sales | | What's driving a fresh wave of Irish music? Tradition. | Juan de Pareja (Spanish, ca. 16081670). The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1661. Oil on canvas, 88 9⁄16 à 130 in. (225 à 325 cm). Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Photo: © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado. NEW YORK, NY.- Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter offers an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of Juan de Pareja (ca. 16081670). Largely known today as the subject of The Metropolitan Museum of Arts iconic portrait by Diego Velázquez, Pareja was enslaved in Velázquezs studio for more than two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. Opening April 3, 2023, this exhibition is the first to tell his story and examine the ways in which enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society are inextricably linked with the art and material culture of Spain's Golden Age. The presentation brings together approximately 40 paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects, as well as an array of books and historic documents, from The Mets holdings and other collections in the United States and Europe. ... More | | Wu Changshuo (Chinese, 1844-1927), Calligraphy of the Stone-Drum Inscription. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000. CHICAGO, IL.- A significant group of works on paper by celebrated Chinese artists Liu Dan, Wu Changshuo, and Zhao Shao'ang will highlight Hindmans Asian Art sales from March 28 to 29. Korean and Japanese ceramics and craft will also be a focal point of the series. With over 450 lots across the two days, the auctions will feature impressive collections including property from the collection of Cheng Bao-nan, Taiwan, the estate of Makoto Sakurai, the estate of Pamela K. Hull, and other private collections. Liu Dan is an artist who has continued to be incredibly inspirational to fellow Chinese painters. From the striking attention to detail, to the range of unique influences that shaped his work, Liu stands out from other artists, commented Annie Wu, Hindman Vice President & Senior Specialist of Asian Works of Art. Liu Dan (b. 1953) is a true innovator in ink painting. Although Liu worked during a generation known for great ... More | | Irish singer Lisa ONeill in Dublin, Feb. 28, 2023. (Ellius Grace/The New York Times) by Will Hermes DUBLIN.- The 40-year-old Irish singer Lisa ONeills north Dublin flat is filled with books, records, instruments and talismanic chachkas. A Sinead OConnor photo flanks a Johnny Cash portrait on a shelf next to a ceramic teapot; a Patrick Kavanagh poetry collection tops a pile of paperbacks; a Margaret Barry LP jacket gets pride of place on her upright pianos rack. Barry was a street singer discovered by folklorist Alan Lomax in the 1950s; she busked with a banjo and a beautiful bray of a voice, brazenly Irish, singing songs of the day alongside traditional ballads. Her work has become a touchstone for ONeill. I kind of really learned to sing from these recordings, she said in an interview in her high-ceiling kitchen last month. She was like the Edith Piaf of Ireland. ONeill is a cultural hero in her own right. She has released five albums since 2009, building a reputation as a ... More |
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Joseph Bellows Gallery opens an online exhibition of Amanda Means' series, Leaves | | Casey Kaplan opens an exhibition of new wall-based and freestanding sculptures by Hannah Levy | | NPR cuts 10% of staff and halts production of 4 podcasts | Boston Fern, 2013. Gelatin silver print, 20x24" - $3,750.00. 32x38.7" - $7,500.00. 40x48" - $11,500.00. LA JOLLA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting an online exhibition of Amanda Means' series, Leaves. These large-scale black and white camera-less photographs are delicately rendered through the artist's unique image-making process and beautifully printed by the photographer, who is a master darkroom printer. Amanda Means (American, 1945 - ) received a BA from Cornell University in 1969 and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY) in 1978. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston among others. Means does not use either a camera or film to make her photographs. Her instrument is a sizeable enlarger whose lens is pointed toward the adjacent wall, onto which a ... More | | Installation view. NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Levy (b. 1991, New York) presents Crutch, an exhibition of new wall-based and freestanding sculptures that exist as extensions of the body. Absorbed in the material encounter of two seemingly opposing mediums, Levy introduces glass into her practice. A mix of traditional and experimental processes are used to alter, slump, swell and sag the glass as it submits to its metal opponent. Concentrating her source materialwhich spans vegetables, medical equipment, prosthetics, and furnitureon forms that implicate mobility aids, Levy considers our physical and psychological relationships to our built environment. The works function like prophecies: they are symbols of the shared anxieties of our bodily condition, acknowledging the universal yet unspoken truth that we are fallible and impermanent. A series of unique steel railings line the walls of the exhibition, inviting support while remaining untouchable. Thorns punctuate the rails sinuous curves, poised to pierce ... More | | The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington on April 20, 2020. (Ting Shen/The New York Times). by McKenna Oxenden NEW YORK, NY.- NPR laid off 10% of its staff this past week and announced that it would stop production of four podcasts Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation and Everyone & Their Mom to make up for a $30 million gap in its budget. The layoffs were widespread across departments and included producers, hosts, audience researchers and designers. NPR first announced the layoffs last month after eliminating open positions, restricting nonessential travel and suspending internship programs, moves that it said saved $14 million. Unfortunately, NPR has had to take painful but necessary steps to address a $30 million shortfall in revenues from corporate sponsorship, Isabel Lara, a spokesperson for NPR, said in an email statement Saturday. Weve tried as much as possible ... More |
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Aotearoa New Zealand's leading contemporary art award 'The Walters Prize' announces shortlisted artists | | Keg de Souza's new exhibition explores the colonial legacy of plants in immersive installations | | Shibunkaku presents 'Colors of the Postwar Japanese Abstract Arts' | Ana Iti, The woman whose back was a whetstone, 2021 (installation view) Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Photo by Bryan James and Hayley Bethell. AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki announced the nominees for the upcoming Walters Prize 2024. Established in 2002, the Walters Prize was conceived as a platform to showcase excellence in the visual arts. This year, the Gallery has adopted a new triennial format for the Walters Prize to emphasise the development of new works for the exhibition. The 11th Walters Prize exhibition is scheduled to be presented in winter 2024 and will be awarded in late 2024. Four shortlisted artists have been selected by an independent jury to represent the most outstanding contribution to contemporary New Zealand art in the preceding two-year period. The nominated artists are: Juliet Carpenter (born 1990, Waipukurau) lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. Carpenter was nominated for recent work exhibited internationally, including her film installation ... More | | Installation view of Keg de Souza at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Photo courtesy of RBGE. EDINBURGH.- Following Keg de Souzas acclaimed international installations in Australia, North America and Asia, the artist unveiled her first major exhibition in the UK as Shipping Roots runs from 24 March to the 27th August 2023 at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Addressing the deep colonial legacy of the RBGE plant archives and Shipping Roots relates stories of plants to the artists own cultural removal drawing from her lived experiences as a person of Goan heritage whose ancestral lands were colonised, to living as a settler on unceded Gadigal land in, the place known by its colonial name, Sydney. The exhibition will also be part of the 2023 Edinburgh Art Festival. As artist in residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Keg De Souza spent much of 2022 studying the research institutes living and preserved collections in preparation for her striking exploration of colonial ... More | | Morita Shiryū, Mau (dancing, soaring; true motion is poetic), c. 1969. Aluminum flake pigment and lacquer on paper, framed, 77.5 x 54 cm / 81.5 x 58.4 cm (overall). With a label signed by Inada Sousai, Soryusha. NEW YORK, NY.- For Asia Week New York 2023, Shibunkaku is excited to present a collection of artworks created by postwar Japanese artists, including Yamaguchi Takeo, Dōmoto Inshō, Morita Shiryū and Inoue Yūichi, at Joan B Mirviss LTD. The exhibition showcases post-war Japanese abstraction through Yamaguchi Takeos oil and watercolor works, Dōmoto Inshōs iwanogu (natural mineral pigments) on paper, as well as avant- garde calligraphy by pioneering artists, Morita Shiryū and Inoue Yūichi, aiming at highlighting the variety of colors, materials, and practices that were prominent in Japan's art scene during the postwar period. We are also presenting a calligraphy work by Hakuin Ekaku, one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism who was active in the 17th ... More |
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Laguna Art Museum opened three exhibitions this month | | Fuzzy Haskins, who helped turn doo-wop into P-Funk, dies at 81 | | A cellist breaks music into 'Fragments,' then connects them | Shepard Fairey, Make Art Not War, 2019 Ed. 1_19. LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum opened three new exhibitions this March, Facing the Giant - Three Decades of Dissent: Shepard Fairey, Unseen Ties: The Visual Collection of Sherman Library & Gardens and Outlook/Insight: The LCAD Effect. Our team has created three exciting opportunities to experience California as a place where cutting-edge artists uphold the values of our shared culture. These experiences range from the socially conscious and impactful work of globally renowned artist Shepard Fairey, to the creative and intellectual surge of a new generation of artists from the Laguna College of Art and Design and, in partnership with Sherman Library and Gardens, discovering a little-known collection of artworks that speak to how artists in the first half of the 20th century interacted with and conceptualized the significance of coastal Orange County, said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of Laguna ... More | | As a teenager, he joined forces with George Clinton. Their vocal group, the Parliaments, morphed into Parliament-Funkadelic, one of the wildest acts of the 1970s. NEW YORK, NY.- Fuzzy Haskins, a foundational member of the vocal group that morphed into Parliament-Funkadelic, the genre-blurring collective led by George Clinton that shook up the pop music world in the 1970s, died March 16 in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. He was 81. His son Nowell Scott said the cause was health problems complicated by diabetes. Haskins, one of Parliament-Funkadelics vocalists and songwriters, was a distinctive presence onstage during the groups propulsive performances, often wearing tight long johns and sometimes suggestively straddling the microphone. Fuzzy was always able to capture your attention, Scott said by email, rhythmically gyrating the audience into a deeper consciousness where night after night they were forced to consider if they were really getting it on. Haskins was living ... More | | The cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Brooklyn, March 8, 2023. (Evelyn Freja/The New York Times) by David Allen NEW YORK, NY.- When cellist Alisa Weilerstein found herself cooped up with her family at the start of the pandemic, her first instinct, like that of so many classical musicians, was to find some way any way to communicate. She joined the artists who found solace on social media, streaming a movement of Bachs cello suites each day, for 36 days in a row. I just want to have a kind of outpouring of music, of thoughts, and everything else, she told The New York Times then. Right now all I really want to do is give. It didnt last. By that November, Weilerstein had put her cello away, and was taking long walks on the beaches near her home in San Diego instead of practicing. When she finally forced herself to play again, she found herself staring out the window, wondering what her field might look like when, or if, performers ... More |
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More News | Chiswick Auctions to offer two original paintings by Mary Fedden Two original paintings by the much-loved local artist Mary Fedden (1915-2012) come for sale at Chiswick Auctions this month. Fedden, the first woman tutor to teach at Royal College of Art, moved to Chiswick in 1949 to live with her husband fellow artist Julian Trevelyan at his studio and home at Durham Wharf. She continued painting there until she died, aged 96, in 2012. Feddens work is rooted in the British modernist tradition. However, characterized by bold, bright colours, simplified forms, and playful, whimsical subject matter, it is particularly admired for its sense of joy and optimism. Still-lifes were a favourite genre as can be seen in the 73 x 91cm oil The Fish Pot that is signed and dated 1998 (estimate £10,000-15,000) and the smaller 39 x 48cm oil Still Life with Milk Jug from 2007 (estimate £7,000-10,000). Both pictures will be offered as part of the sale of Modern ... More Touchstone Gallery presents 'Nature's Bounty: Original Prints by Mary D. Ott' WASHINGTON DC.- Printmaker Mary D. Otts latest solo exhibition at Touchstone Gallery features more than 30 monotypes and intaglios celebrating the beauty of grasses, trees, and leaves. The intaglios include both drypoints and etchings. Some of the etchings are monochromatic, while others such as Sweet Gum Leaves I (pictured) are multicolored. Her Blue Bouquet Series of monotypes was created using inked ornamental grasses as stencils. "My work is inspired by the design of ornamental grasses, the stately structure of trees, and the variations in color and subtle details of leaves says Ott. Natures Bounty will be on view from March 29 through April 30, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 1 from 4:00 - 7:00 pm. There will also be a Meet the Artist event, in conjunction with Rosemary Luckett, ... More Photo London at Somerset House to begin with preview on May 10th LONDON.- Photo London today announces its eighth edition with the legendary British photographer Martin Parr named Photo London Master of Photography 2023 and an impressive global group of exhibitors already confirmed. Commenting on their plans for the 2023 edition, Photo London Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad say: Looking at the amazing global response to Photo London, and on the back of the announcement of our partnership with Creo to establish a new Fair in New York, we thought this was the right moment to turn the spotlight on Britain. And where better to start than with Martin Parr the godfather of British photography. Martin is not only a towering figure in the UK photography scene but the British in all their eccentric glory have been his great theme for over half a century. Shot in the brand of heightened ... More François Rouan returns to Galerie Templon with a brand new exhibition of recent work PARIS.- At the age of 80, painter François Rouan is returning to Galerie Templon almost two decades after his last show with a brand new exhibition of recent work. At the start of his career in the 1960s François Rouan was linked with the Supports/Surfaces movement without officially associating himself with it. Since then he has trodden a unique path, deconstructing the traditional structure of the picture to open up new avenues in contemporary painting. Complex and erudite, his new paintings stay true to thirty years of experimentation and artistic engagement, a political utopia with a humanist dimension. His ambiguous figures and iconographic references are ornamented with motifs evoking the abstract fragments that characterise the artists core method: braiding. Alternating between relishing the joys of form and colour and ... More The exhibition '25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee' opens at Mingei International Museum SAN DIEGO, CA.- Mingei International Museum opened 25 Million Stitches: One Stitch, One Refugee on March 25, 2023. Guest curated by Sacramento-based, Korean-American fiber artist Jennifer Kim Sohn, the exhibition is a community project shedding light on the approximate number of refugees estimated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees when the project first started. Kim Sohn makes audiences aware of the worlds refugee problem by visually revealing their number on embroidered muslin panels. In the show, over 2,000 panels are combined vertically to create 408 floor-to- ceiling flags. These flags have been suspended from the ceiling, allowing visitors to walk through and around the installation, being both an immersive and emotional experience. The aim of this community project and exhibition is to help people ... More Hammer Museum opens the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center LOS ANGELES, CA.- The UCLA Hammer Museum marked the culmination of its two-decades-long project to remake itself inside and outexpanding, renovating, and transforming the building and program togetheron Saturday and Sunday, March 25 and 26, 2023, with a weekend of opening celebrations for the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center. The weekends events unveiled the new spaces designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture to elevate the experience and capacities of the museums buildingnamed for the Resnicks in recognition of the global philanthropists major gift to the Hammer through their foundationand provide opportunities to enjoy the opening exhibitions, including the largest presentation to date of the Hammer Contemporary Collection. As always, admission to regularly scheduled exhibitions and programs ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, painter and photographer Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879. Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 - March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. Steichen was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address. In this image: Edward Steichen, White, 1935, Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York. © 1935 Condé Nast Publications.
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