| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Monday, November 14, 2022 |
| | | Climate change and human activity erode Egypt's treasured antiquities | |
|
|
Luc Gabolde, co-director of the French-Egyptian Center for the Study of the Temples of Karnak, at his office in Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 3, 2022. The effects of climate change on some of the celebrated antiquities of Egypt, the host of this years annual United Nations climate summit, are striking. (Jonathan Rashad/The New York Times)
by Vivian Yee
LUXOR.- When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamuns glittering tomb in Egypts Valley of the Kings 100 years ago, he was living in a mud-brick house surrounded by desert so dry that it had preserved the tombs, mummies and towering temples for more than 3,000 years. In the century that followed, Carters house was turned into a museum with a green, palmy garden, thanks to water brought in from the Nile. The rivers annual floods were stilled by the construction in 1970 of Egypts Aswan High Dam, upstream and to the south of Luxor, allowing more frequent planting. More and more, farmers used the Niles water to inundate the expanding fields of alfalfa, sugar cane and vegetables that fed the countrys soaring population. All of that water seeped into the stone foundations of Luxors epic temples and the mud brick of Carter House, mixing with salt in the soil and on the stones as they drew the water up like straws. Sandstone turned to sand and limestone crac ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition Castaway Modernism on view at Kunstmuseum Basel illuminates all the facets of one particular moment in Baselâs collecting history. It also looks at how the cultural violence committed by the Nazi regime led to an artificial scattering of modern art.
|
|
|
|
|
| Artis-Naples announces major architecture awards for the Baker Museum | | "Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging" on view at Pace Gallery | | Brian O'Doherty, art critic and (conceptual) art creator, dies at 94 |
Baker Art Museum, Location: Naples FL, Architect: Weiss Manfredi Architects. ©Albert Vecerka/Esto.
NAPLES, FLA.- ArtisNaples, home of The Baker Museum and the Naples Philharmonic, announced today that The Baker Museum is the recipient of several major architecture awards and recognition from four prominent organizations and publications. Designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, The Baker Museums repair and expansion project followed damage sustained during Hurricane Irma in 2017. The phenomenal work done by Weiss/Manfredi has made The Baker Museum into an undeniable and enduring work of art, said CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen. Radiating beauty, elegance and strength, the museum stands prominently among Southwest Floridas most visually stunning buildings, and these awards demonstrate that we are clearly not alone in recognizing this. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredis beautiful, climate-resilient design protected the museum during the near-category five ... More | |
Torkwase Dyson, Symbolic Geography #3 (Hypershape), 2022 © Torkwase Dyson. Photo Courtesy: Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is now presenting an exhibition of new site-specific sculptural installations and paintings by Torkwase Dyson, whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, film, and drawing. Titled A Liquid Belonging, the artists upcoming exhibition is concerned with embodied experiences that refuse brut infrastructure in the legacy of Modernism in favor of new spatial expectations that inspire liveness and acknowledgements of multisensory belonging. This presentation marks Dysons first solo show at Paces 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York, on view since November 11, and will continue to December 17. For many years, the artist has understood water as a geography with an indelible tie to architecture and infrastructure. Growing up in Southeast Chicago, living in Mississippi, and studying the intractable damage of extraction have inspired Dyson ... More | |
Brian ODoherty, a journalist, editor, artist, documentarian and, late in life, an acclaimed novelist, in his home studio in Manhattan on April 18, 2006. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Brian ODoherty, an Irish polymath who in the early 1960s left his medical career behind to reinvent himself as a leading figure in the New York art scene, both as a critic and as a creator, died Nov. 7 at his home in Manhattan. He was 94. Mark Orange, a close friend, confirmed the death. ODoherty made his mark in a wide range of cultural endeavors: He worked as a journalist, an editor, an artist, a documentarian and, late in life, an acclaimed novelist. He arrived in New York in 1961, just as the postwar ebullience of abstract expressionism was giving way to more conceptual, theory-driven movements. As an art critic for The New York Times, he championed emerging artists like Eva Hesse and established names like Mark Rothko as well as the ... More |
|
|
|
|
| New Museum now presenting first American museum survey of Theaster Gates | | Bashar Alhroub traces boundaries in a new exhibit at Zawyeh Gallery, Dubai | | Courtney Willis to join White Cube as US Senior Director |
Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces, 2022. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 10, 2022, the New Museum began the first American museum survey exhibition devoted to Theaster Gates, encompassing the full range of the artists practice across a variety of media creating communal spaces for preservation, remembrance, and exchange. This landmark exhibition is accompanied by a presentation of newly commissioned works by Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg exploring the relationship between bodies and sound waves. Taking place across three floors of the museum, this exhibition encapsulates the full range of Theaster Gatess artistic activities, featuring artworks produced over the past twenty years and site-specific environments created especially for this presentation. Gates has titled the exhibition Young Lords and Their Traces ... More | |
Dome
DUBAI.- Zawyeh Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, titled Tracing Boundaries by Palestinian artist Bashar Alhroub. In this exhibition, the artist repackages the city of Jerusalem as a religious symbol and reinvents it as a pop culture subject. He traces the boundaries between holiness and material culture and invites the visitor to observe a fine line between religion and commercial clutter. The exhibition that poses questions on the relationships between Jerusalem as a holy city and the material culture, opens on 14 November 2022. Bashar Alhroub is a Ramallah-based Palestinian artist renowned for using a variety of materials and forms focusing on Sufi themes. Tracing Boundaries is a combination of installation, sculpture, and silkscreen printing. At the center of the exhibition is a four- meter-tall installation representing a façade resembling a real one at ... More | |
Courtney Willis Blair, Photo by: Myesha Evon Gardner.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ahead of the launch of White Cubes first public gallery in New York, scheduled to open in Autumn 2023, the gallery is pleased to announce the appointment of Courtney Willis Blair as US Senior Director. She will join in January 2023. Leading a growing New York team including John Good (Director of Artists Estates) and Angela Brazda (Director, New York), Courtney will be responsible for shaping the gallerys curatorial programme and brand both in the region and across the US. In addition, as a member of White Cubes Global Board of Directors, she will play a key role in shaping the strategy for the gallery internationally. Courtney was formerly a Partner and Senior Director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, where she led artist canonical strategy and institutional engagement in the US and internationally, from projects ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Heritage Auctions offers a museum's worth of history bound in a single event | | Light-based abstractions in"Transformation" by Hans Kotter now on view at JD Malat Gallery | | Fabio Lattanzi Antinori presents new sculpture, silkscreen prints, and video at Pi artworks |
White Star Line Poster Featuring the Olympic with Artwork by Montague Birrell Black. The artist's printed initials appear in the lower left quadrant as "M.B.B." for Montague Birrell Black.
DALLAS, TEXAS.- The more than 80 items that constitute Heritage Auctions' Dec. 1 Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction are, in the end, merely things. Among the auction's contents: chairs fashioned from wood and cane, a porcelain container kept at a bed's side, a billfold stuffed with one man's receipts and licenses, a television news camera lugged from event to event. Were it not for their respective places in history, they might have long ago been dispensed with and disposed of. Chopped up. Broken down. Thrown out. Only through their connection to milestone yesterdays, to immortal somebodies, do they survive now, these tangible relics still here to hold, appreciate, admire, acquire. So important are these items, so well known are their stories ... More | |
Installation shots Transformation by Hans Kotter | 2022 | Courtesy of JD Malat Gallery.
LONDON.- JD Malat Gallery is now presenting Transformation, a solo exhibition by world-renowned light artist Hans Kotter. On view since 10 November 2022 until 10 December 2022, the gallery space invites visitors to immerse themselves in Kotters otherworldly light-based abstractions. Hans Kotter (b. 1966) is a globally recognised light artist, who has been working with the medium of light for over twenty years. He challenges the landscape of contemporary art and science with his light-based pieces, which focus on the pluriverse of optical possibilities that break through the boundaries of space and vision. Enchanting the London public with his unparalleled take on the play of light and infinite reflections, Kotter seeks to push the boundaries of human perception. His technically refined light pieces create a sense of illusion both physically and mentally. Focusing on light ... More | |
Installation view of Chased by Unicorns.
LONDON.- Pi artworks opened artist Fabio Lattanzi Antinoris first solo exhibition at the gallery. Consisting of entirely new works that range from sculpture to silkscreen prints and video, Antinori explores the notion of value systems in present society. He looks to the tensions between personal gains and corporate profit, desire and surveillance, privacy and the involuntary contribution of our personal information to an unremunerated, unregulated market of behavioural data. Alluding to unicorns or start-ups that have become synonymous with disruptive software, hyper-fast growth, and an income stream very often derived from tracking and monetising data - this exhibition grows from Antinoris interest in language, the dynamics of power, and the way market values and ideologies permeate and shape social relations. Central to the show is a series of sculptural and printed works comparing ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Melody Tuttle: Complicated Animals" now on view at the Thierry Goldberg Gallery | | Kevin O'Neill, comics artist with a taste for the lurid, dies at 69 | | Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art hires curator Jane Burke |
Melody Tuttle, The Peacock Room, 2021, oil and vinyl on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg has begun Complicated Animals, an online exhibition of works by Melody Tuttle. The exhibition started on November 11th and will end on December 10th, 2022. Encased in layers of consensual voyeurism, Melody Tuttles works are steeped in the possibility of perception. Tuttles subjects engage in intimate acts of privacy that ebb between instances of withdrawal and engagement, concealment and observance, censorship and ownership. Exploring tropes of femininity the works in Complicated Animals bring into question the act of spectatorship. If no one is looking, can anyone be watching? Utilizing the recurring elements of brightly-hued skin tones and blanketed tresseld locks, Tuttle displaces attributes of identity. In The Peacock Room, 2021, a woman perches lackadaisically on her dressing table, her hands aglow with a freshly ... More | |
Nobody drew like Kevin ONeill, said the writer Alan Moore, who collaborated with him from 1999 to 2019 on the series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kevin ONeill, a comic book artist best known as a creator of the series Marshal Law, a graphically violent exploration of superheroes, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which united characters from across literature, died Nov. 3 in London. He was 69. The cause was cancer, said Tony Bennett, a friend of ONeills and the founder of Knockabout Comics in London, which publishes international editions of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. ONeills art style was one of a kind: highly detailed, somewhat exaggerated and capable of veering toward lurid. An early Green Lantern story he drew for DC Comics was rejected by the Comics Code Authority, which set the industry standards on what comics could depict. Although the aliens that ONeill depicted were demonic, ... More | |
Curator Jane Burke. Image courtesy of Esther Lee Leach.
BOULDER, COLO.- After a national search, BMoCA is pleased to announce the hire of Jane Burke as Curator of the museum. Burke previously served as the curatorial fellow in the Textile Art and Fashion Department at the Denver Art Museum. Burke will oversee BMoCAs expanding exhibition programs, which currently number 20+ annual exhibitions at eight locations across the Denver metro area. She will begin her new role at BMoCA on November 14, 2022. I am thrilled to welcome Burke to the BMoCA team, said David Dadone, BMoCA Executive Director + Chief Curator. Her extensive experience in both contemporary and encyclopedic museums will be an asset to BMoCA during this important time of growth for our institution. Burke brings expertise that will support and extend BMoCAs commitment to amplifying the voices of contemporary artists in accessible exhibitions that ... More |
|
American Myth & Memory | David Levinthal Photographs
|
|
|
| More News |
"Suro: Moments of Encounter" now on view at 4 Zhukovsky Street, curated by Yulia Chmelenko
MOSCOW.- Yulia Chmelenko, the curator, recently opened the exhibition, Suro: Moments of Encounter on the ground floor of 4 Zhukovsky Street. Describing her curatorial philosophy, Yulia Chmelenko said, Like writing and reading, I see curating as another means to converse, discern, and inspiration. Suros works call forth feelings and awaken parallel worlds which to some extent exist withing each one of us. They evoke shapes and images from a thousand years of history, through a fabulous alphabet which speaks to the child withing us all while at the same time appealing to our more adult and cultivated selves. Paintings, chosen with rare sensitivity by Yulia, speak a language at once both close to us and distant, both contemporary and remote, both open and concealed. The silence of the figures and the enigmas of the scenes speak without speaking. ... More
François Ghebaly announces the representation of Willa Wasserman
LOS ANGELES.- François Ghebaly has announced the representation of Willa Wasserman. From convex still lifes and gauzy, vaporific self-portraits to impressive mise-en-scènes in polished brass and fine linen, American artist Willa Wassermans practice in painting and figuration is readily aligned with the world of dreams. Her images are loose and spectralimpressions plucked from the hazy essences of her sitters and various subjects, and at the same time cast in the pensive, indeterminate ambiance with which Wasserman embraces vital questions of intimacy, gender, and, above all, becoming. The latter is both the lodestar and returning place in her work. In figure and process, Wasserman deftly interrelates histories of classical painting and material culture with contemporary portrayals of queerness. Brass and copper sheet, silver plate, precious metalpoint, and stretched linen comprise ... More
When the finely tuned spotlight falls on the lighting designer
NEW YORK, NY.- Lighting designers live in the dark, shining light on others. Jennifer Tipton, who works in dance and theater, has received more attention than most in her profession. At the top of it for the past 50 years or so, she has earned Tony Awards, Bessie awards, an Obie for lifetime achievement and a MacArthur fellowship, among other accolades and prizes. Still, shes spent her career being mostly invisible, intentionally without an identifiable style, always in service to the vision of choreographers, playwrights and directors often famous ones, like Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Robert Wilson. Which is why Im a nervous wreck, she said, smiling calmly, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan in early November. It was her first day in a theater there, designing Our Days and Night, a work with no choreographer, no playwright, no ... More
Frist Art Museum presents career survey and new works by renowned transmedia artist Matthew Ritchie
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood, a thematic survey of the artists work since 2000, comprising paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition is on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from November 11, 2022 through March 5, 2023. Matthew Ritchie is an internationally recognized artist who has exhibited at major museums around the world including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; his works were also featured in the 2018 Frist Art Museum exhibition Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century. A pioneer in integrating disciplines and combining mediums, Ritchie has created deeply symbolic and dynamic installations that often involve architects, dancers, musicians, and other creatives. This exhibition is ideal ... More
Parrasch Heijnen opens the gallery's first solo exhibition with Alonzo Davis
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting the gallerys first solo exhibition with Maryland-based artist and seminal gallerist Alonzo Davis (b. 1942, Tuskegee, AL). Davis six-decade-long career has explored a wide range of media and methods, from mural to print, painting, sculpture, performance, and installation. As co-founder of the Brockman Gallery, the first major Black-owned contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles (1967 - 1990), Alonzo Davis sought to champion Black artists including David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, Betye Saar, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, and John Outterbridge, among many others, in a time when white, male art was prevalent. Davis appreciation and promotion of Black artists and cultural references collected on trips all over the world are often referenced in his own work. The Blanket Series (c. 1970s - 1990s) follows ... More
"Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue" now on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critically acclaimed live performance Amazing Grace / RGB at the Apollo Theater in 2019, Paul Pfeiffer and the University of Georgia Redcoat Band return to New York for the premiere of a new audio-visual installation at Paula Cooper Gallery. Titled Red Green Blue after the image display system based on the human perception of color, the film considers how multiple channels of sensory information are brought into alignment by presenting the Georgia Bulldogs stadium as a broadcast studio. This film is the first chapter of a forthcoming three-part installation. The sports stadium is a site imbued with the potential to fortify national, regional, or community-based models of identity. Bombarded with carefully orchestrated stimuli, the spectator is immersed in a multi-sensory experience intended to incite an emotional response. In Red Green Blue, Pfeiffer ... More
Nation's largest collection of presidential Christmas memorabilia to be offered by Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TEXAS.- December auction includes signed Christmas cards, gifts and other holiday-related artifacts from Truman, Kennedy, Reagan and more to be offered by Heritage Auctions. Every day is Christmas for Mary and Ron Seeley. As owners of America's most extensive collection of presidential Christmas memorabilia, the Seeleys have seen pieces from their assemblage displayed at the White House on two occasions and exhibited at 10 presidential libraries. Including Christmas cards and gifts, as well as other holiday-themed artifacts, the couple's collection was decades in the making and features Christmas memorabilia dating back to the presidency of James Madison. "The Seeley Family Presidential Christmas Collection has given both of us a platform to share our love for Christmas," says Mary, who has authored two books about Christmas in the White ... More
'Dancin'' revival to boogie onto Broadway in March
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1978, Bob Fosse staged a tribute to his favorite art form with a largely plotless show called Dancin that wound up running for more than four years. The show, with a mix of dance forms and musical styles, was famously demanding, and has not returned to Broadway since, despite an effort to do so 15 years ago. But now a new group of artists, led by a member of the shows original cast and with the support of Fosses daughter, is reimagining the show and bringing it back to Broadway early next year. Bob Fosses Dancin is scheduled to begin performances March 2 and to open March 19 at the Music Box Theatre. The revival is directed by Wayne Cilento, who was a performer in the original cast. The show, Fosse said in 1978, is about the sheer joy of dancing. After all, you go to the ballet, you dont expect one ballet to have anything to do with the next, do you? ... More
'Where We Belong' review: A performer wonders, what's in a name?
NEW YORK, NY.- If language is how we tell people who we are, what happens when a language is lost to history? Or, more accurately, when its violently erased? In Where We Belong, which opened at the Public Theater on Wednesday, writer and performer Madeline Sayet tells the audience that she is named for Jeets Bodernasha (or Flying Bird), the last fluent speaker of Mohegan, a language once widely spoken by Indigenous people in the Northeast. Sayet considers the legacy of her name an immense responsibility: one that moves her to grapple not only with how words can be used to preserve her ancestry but how they might also help others imagine a world where Indigenous people whove been systemically displaced for centuries actually belong. Ya, no pressure, she says. This autobiographical solo show, a co-production with Woolly Mammoth ... More
|
|
PhotoGalleries
Mehmet Sinan Kuran
Barbara Hepworth
Nan Goldin
Bharti Kher
Flashback On a day like today, French painter Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840. Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. In this image: Claude Monet, The Studio Boat, 1874. Oil on canvas. Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo © Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
|
|
|
|
