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New Raclin Murphy Museum of Art to enhance historical collection with site-specific installations and contemporary acquisitions.
(SOUTH BEND, IND).- The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, formerly the Snite Museum of Art, at the University of Notre Dame, will open December 1-3,2023 with new site-specific installations by Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin, Mimmo Paladino, Jaume Plensa and Kiki Smith. The Raclin Murphy will also unveil new contemporary acquisitions that complement the institutions renowned historical and global collection. The additions to the Museums holdings will enhance the new 70,000-square-foot facility that will include state-of-the-art galleries, a cafe, retail space, a chapel, teaching spaces, a teaching gallery and an object study room. The new museum completes the first phase of a 132,000-square-foot complex designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Newly commissioned works will enhance the visitor experience in the new museum. Endless, a 36-foot stainless steel sculptu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of Shim Moon-Seup's exhibition at Perrotin Paris, 2023. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
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| Perrotin opens a solo exhibition by Shim Moon-Seup | | National Gallery of Art acquires Liza Lou's 'Closet' | | Independence fortifies a survivor |
Shim Moon-Seup, The Presentation, 2018. Acrylic on canvas. 195Ã114 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting for the first time in Paris a solo exhibition by Shim Moon-Seup following his presentation at Perrotin Hong Kong in 2022. The show displays a set of thirteen paintings, a selection of drawings and two sculptures. Nature is too strong. It shouldnt express itself unchanged. You have to work on it and with it, but gently. This is the role of the sculptor. -- Shim Moon-Seup Shim Moon-Seup was born in 1943 in Tongyeong, a peninsula Shim Moon-Seup was born in 1943 in Tongyeong, a peninsula surrounded by islands on Koreas south coast. Although he graduated from Seoul National University in 1965, participated in numerous international exhibitions, and, since 1992, has divided his time between Paris and his hometown, this pioneer of contemporary Korean sculpture remains deeply influenced by the maritime environment where his artistic vocation first emerged. The formative proximity to nature and the cyclica ... More | |
Liza Lou, Closet, 19971998. Glass beads, wood and New York couple's empty bottles and unwanted household objects. Overall: 92 x 33 x 22 1/2 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Sherry and Joel Mallin 2022.187.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- Based in Los Angeles, California, Liza Lou (b. 1969) is best known for her pioneering use of glass beads in contemporary art, using them to create paintings, sculptures, and room-size installations. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Closet (19971998), one of five major beaded installations made by Lou in the 1990s. It joins Blue (20152016), a monochromatic red, hand-beaded canvas by Lou in the National Gallerys collection. Closet is an outstanding example of the artists practice during the late 1990s. Conceived as both an intimate portrait of a marriage and a universal portrayal of daily life, Lou reproduced the utility closet of Joel and Sherry Mallin, who donated the work to the National Gallery. For a one-year period, the Mallins sent their discarded household items to the artist, from empty cleaning bottles and paint ... More | |
Maria Cornejo at her studio in Brooklyn, Nov. 15, 2023. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Chilean American designer Maria Cornejo got the call in June. She was at home in her sort of messy little white house in Brooklyn, she said, with her 18-year-old cat, Ziggy, and some large ficus plants. Steven Kolb, CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, was on the line, telling her she was getting the lifetime achievement award from the CFDA. Given that, in the 25 years since she had opened her first store, she had never even been nominated for a CFDA award, not to mention won one not womenswear designer of the year or accessories designer of the year or emerging designer of the year, nothing she was a little surprised. She had not, she said, been holding her breath. After all, as artist Cindy Sherman, a longtime customer, said: Shes never even kissed up to Anna Wintour. Cornejo has stayed away from trends and paid celebrity ambassadors. Never advertised, ... More |
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| Christian Haake is showing new abstract works at the Drawing Room in Hamburg | | Gladstone Gallery in Brussels opens an exhibition of works by Salvo | | Phillips' December Design Sale to showcase works by 20th century French masters and contemporary designers |
Traces of paint application and abrasion have been deposited on their matt white surfaces.
HAMBURG.- Instrumentals are pieces of music without words that are more difficult to understand by comparison to those with lyrics. In his most recent abstractions with reduced formal language, Christian Haake creates an analogy to such music; here, too, it is impossible to pin down an obvious narrative. Thus, any attempt at interpretation is always an approximation to something that cannot be fully explained. The ambiguity, the lack of figuration leads to a less conscious response from the recipient, whether listening or watching. And so, it may also result in activation of memory and imagination, both elementary themes in Haakes work, especially their relation to architecture and spaces, whose scales, perspectives and sections he employs as his own variables. In this way, he frequently reveals the fragility of temporality, permanence or credibility and negotiates them instead as promises, deceptions ... More | |
Installation view, Salvo: Capricci, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2023.
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is showing Capricci, a presentation of works by Salvo (19472015). Throughout Salvos career, the artist pursued a spiritual connection with the world of antiquity and explored themes of temporality and materiality. Salvos practice evolved from provocative conceptual sculptures and political self-portraiture to capricci paintings that were formative to his lifelong body of work. Salvos fascination by the marriage of architecture, archeological ruins, and landscapes into the mythological compositions of capricci brought the past into conversation with the present. Foregrounding Salvos study of Greek and Roman ruins, columns, and landscapes, Capricci presents a selection of works spanning oil painting, pastel, ceramics, and works on paper, distilling remembered spaces and architectural motifs into a meditation on the passage of time. Salvo emerged within Tu ... More | |
Ron Nagle, "Retro-Geo", 1996. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips' forthcoming Design auction in New York will showcase remarkable works spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. The diverse array of materials offered reflects the category's breadth and the exceptional skills of designers worldwide, with selections encompassing French Design, Contemporary Design, and Ceramics, along with Italian lighting and other classics such as American and Scandinavian Design. The pieces will be on view from 30 November to 5 December at 432 Park Avenue, with the auction set for 2pm EST on 5 December. Noteworthy highlights in the sale include a pair of monumental Jean Dunand vases, Rembrandt Bugattis Petit Ãléphant en marche, and a Marc Newson Orgone Chop Top coffee table, among others. Cordelia Lembo, Head of Design, New York, said, From one of Rembrandt Bugattis prized ... More |
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| MacDougall's announces 'Ãcole de Paris and Other Masters Auction' | | Miller & Miller announces highlights included in Toys, Motorcycles & Automobilia Auction | | Exhibiton at GAK features a new video work and a set of new sculptures by Jala Wahid |
The major highlight of the sale is A Brig on the Open Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky (Lot 9, est.
£250,000-350,000).
LONDON.- This season MacDougalls sale Ãcole de Paris and Other Masters is characterised by impressive selection of works of outstanding quality. The online auction is now open for bidding on Drouot.com until 5 December. The major highlight of the sale is A Brig on the Open Sea by Ivan Aivazovsky (Lot 9, est. £250,000-350,000). Painted by the distinguished seascape artist, this animated composition masterfully displays Aivazovskys unrivalled talent for capturing detail and atmosphere of the sea. Fyodor Dostoevsky remarked: [ ] here he is a master without rival, here he is a true artist. Appearance of this splendid seascape for sale presents an exceptional opportunity for collectors. Vasily Polenovs The Herzegovian on Lookout (Lot 11, est. £150,000-200,000) is a highly important work by the artist. This powerful depiction of a female warrior was painted in Paris in 1876. The artists contemporaries deemed it ... More | |
1939 Indian 4 Model motorcycle, bright red, considered by many the Duesenberg of motorcycles, built by the Indian Motorcycle Co. from 1928 to 1942 (est. CA$70,000-$75,000).
NEW HAMBURG.- A bright red 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 with just 42,143 actual miles on the odometer, and a 1939 Indian 4 Model motorcycle, also bright red, are the expected headliners in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.s online-only Toys, Motorcycles & Automobilia auction slated for Saturday, December 9th, starting promptly at 9 am Eastern time. The 383-lot auction features the late Howard Meyer Legacy Collection, with categories that include toys, militaria, petroliana, soda advertising, motorcycles, cars and automobilia. If one word encompasses the late Howie Meyer and his collection, that word would be fun, said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. This great sale was a lifetime in the making. From his coveted 1939 Indian 4 motorcycle to his rare Canadian 1968 Chevelle 396, to his many other toys big and small, there is something cool ... More | |
Jala Wahid: Goodbye Kisses, Hate to Miss It, 2023. Photo: Franziska von den Driesch.
BREMEN.- GAK is presenting the solo exhibition I Love Ancient Baby by Jala Wahid (*1988, lives in London) featuring a new video work and a set of new sculptures within an affective and seductive staging of form, material and space. Wahid delves into the idea that time and feelings are cyclical, that we display the same anxieties and desires ancient civilizations lived out thousands of years ago and that artefacts are charged with these emotions. Employing juxtapositions and montages between museum documentation, playing cards for soldiers utilized within the war machine, sculpture, wall painting and lighting the artist develops a narration of objects and people who are lost and found. The ambivalences of this narration and its relationship with archaeological discovery and isolation, cultural appropriation and colonialism are being acted out playfully as if rolling a dice or dealing the set of cards anew to shift or correct the underlying m ... More |
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| The envy office: Can instagrammable design lure young workers back? | | A pop star filmed a music video in a church. The priest was punished. | | Exhibition investigates the production of Piero Gilardi during the 1960s |
Laetitia Gorra, left, and Sarah Needleman, the designers of Magic Spoons offices, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan on Sept. 28, 2023. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
by Emma Goldberg and Anna Kodé
NEW YORK, NY.- Inside the blueberry muffin conference room, the walls are, naturally, painted blue. Not just any blue: Its the calming color you might find a babys bedroom, what the paint can refers to as sea to shining sea. Anchoring the room is a table, red and oblong, adorned with fake succulents in purple pots. Nearby is the fruity conference room, with razzle dazzle red walls and vintage chairs upholstered in yellow pineapple-printed cloth. Down the hallway is maple waffle, the room where the company holds its more serious meetings with investors. There, the walls are a subdued shade of brown. This is the office of the cereal brand Magic Spoon, introduced in 2019, which last year started calling its roughly 50 employees back to in-person work, at least ... More | |
A concert at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel-Annunciation in Brooklyn, April 5, 2014. (Katie Orlinsky/The New York Times)
by Stefano Montali
NEW YORK, NY.- On Halloween, pop star Sabrina Carpenter uploaded a music video to YouTube for her new song Feather. That was a Tuesday. By the end of the week, a Catholic priest had been stripped of his administrative duties because of it. In the video, Carpenter, 24, a former Disney child star with more than 31 million followers on Instagram, dances through Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Parish, a Catholic church in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dressed in a short black tulle dress and veil, she makes her way up the center aisle, onto the altar, which is lined with pastel-colored coffins, and then back down the aisle and out the front door. In another scene, she appears to be splattered with blood after a fight scene in a gym. In another, two young men are reading a book called Tampons ... More | |
Car Crash. Piero Gilardi e larte povera. Installation view of the exhibition at PAV Parco Arte Vivente, 2023. Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.
TURIN.- The PAV Parco Arte Vivente opened the exhibition Car Crash. Piero Gilardi e larte povera that investigates the production of Piero Gilardi (Turin, 1942-2023) during the 1960s. The exhibition aims to present itself as a homage to the founder of the PAV and to revisit the early years of the artists career, exploring the years from 1964 to 1969. This was a germinal season during which Gilardis multiple areas of interest became clear, together with his huge contribution to the origins of the Arte Povera movement. Car Crash is the first in a series of monographic exhibitions as part of one of PAVs long-term projects which, by following a chronologically ordered sub-division, will examine the artists work in depth. The exhibition covers a rich, even if brief, moment (five years in all), characterised by Gilardis involvement in some of the most important stages of the Arte ... More |
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MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome opens an exhibition dedicated to graphic design studio Experimental Jetset
ROME.- Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. Their work focuses mainly on printed matter and site-specific installations, employing a methodology aimed at "transforming language into objects", whilst viewing graphic design as a platform for "authorship". A theme that has long been at the center of Experimental Jetset's research is the relationship between sign and city, which, on the occasion of the exhibition at MACRO, is addressed through the analysis of a specific Italian context: "radical design" and the relationships between the avant-garde and the Italian left. Somewhere between a slogan and a magical spell, ... More
Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Belgian artist Antoine Roegiers
BRUSSELS.- Belgian artist Antoine Roegiers is exhibiting at Galerie Templon with the solo show La Brûlure de lÃveil/The Burn of Awakening. A series of seventeen oils on canvas centre on an exploration of a world in transition where nature reclaims what is hers. Antoine Roegiers discovered the works of the masters of the Flemish School, from Pieter Bruegel to Jérôme Bosch, as a student at the Paris Ãcole des Beaux-Arts. Fascinated by their highly distinctive vision of narrative, perspective, viewpoint, staging and time, Antoine Roegiers conjures up different universes, poetic, dreamlike, sometimes even humorous, resulting in tableaux that resemble the animation films he has become skilled in making. Since 2018, Antoine Roegiers has been reflecting and working on a visual narrative project: a series of paintings which together tell a single ... More
Pina Bausch's 'Rite of Spring' takes root in Africa
NEW YORK, NY.- Toward the end of Pina Bauschs Rite of Spring, a woman in a wispy white shift walks up to a man and hands him a red dress, a look of terror in her eye. The woman has elected her destiny: to be the chosen one, the sacrificial victim who ensures the survival of the collective. But that doesnt make the outcome any less brutal. For the next five minutes, she convulses, flings her arms violently, pounds at her legs and runs in circles, until, with the last note of Igor Stravinskys score, she falls, like a stone. Its harrowing to watch and to dance. You cant think of anything at that moment, dancer Anique Ayiboe said in a video interview in French from Lomé, Togo, where she lives. Youre dancing against death. I think that Pina wanted to show the fragility of the human body. To show the body in its savage state. Ayiboe ... More
For new music, there's no quartet like JACK
NEW YORK, NY.- Can your hiccups be even bigger? composer Natacha Diels asked the JACK Quartet on a recent morning. I was thinking there were differences in how you were leaning back on the flamingos, she added, and, addressing the cellist, said: Jay, your owls are a little unconvincing. Maybe a little more jowl in your owl? Somehow, this bizarre code would translate into meticulously uproarious art. Diels and JACK had come together in an airy room at the Mannes School of Music in Manhattan to rehearse her Beautiful Trouble, a five-part piece premiering in February that brings together surreal short films and just-as-absurdist live performance. Diels calls for the four musicians to hiccup, as well as make clicks, dings, odd little movements, head rolls and maniacal grins, among much else. Flamingos and owls ... More
Catherine Christer Hennix, spiritual drone musician, dies at 75
NEW YORK, NY.- Catherine Christer Hennix, a Swedish experimental musician and artist who fused minimalist drones, mathematical logic and global spiritual traditions into an approach she called infinitary composition, died Sunday at her home in Istanbul. She was 75. The cause was complications of an unspecified illness, according to Lawrence Kumpf, the founder and artistic director of Blank Forms, an organization that has promoted Hennixs work. She had been treated for cancer. At 20, Hennix was a promising mathematician, jazz drummer and electronic composer when she visited New York in 1968 to explore the downtown Manhattan arts scene. She soon met pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young and immersed herself in his world of drone music and just intonation, an alternative to the standard tuning system ... More
Artist to the stars - original artwork by designer of Hollywood blockbuster film posters for sale at Ewbank's
WOKING.- He is one of the most successful British film poster artists ever, creating memorable designs for the James Bond franchise and Hollywood blockbusters. Top titles include Raiders of the Lost Ark, Prizzis Honor, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, The Emerald Forest, The Bounty, The Mosquito Coast and Highlander. Now aged 86, Brian Bysouth, who also created artwork to promote video releases for hit TV series, such as Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation, is selling much of his original poster artwork at Ewbanks, the leading Entertainment Memorabilia auctioneers. Bysouth, a London-born artist, completed his National Service after attending Willesden School Of Art on a scholarship. Back in civvy street, he decided to make his living as a commercial artist and joined the Downtons ... More
"Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London" opens at Hong Kong Palace Museum
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum and the National Gallery, London unveiled the special exhibition Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London. The first showcase of the Gallerys prestigious painting collection in Hong Kong, the exhibition features 52 of the worlds finest masterpieces by 50 influential artists, spanning more than 400 years of Western art history. The exhibition will be open until 11 April 2024. The opening ceremony was held at the HKPM, officiated by Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR); Brian Davidson CMG, British Consul General to Hong Kong; Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the ... More
Kang Contemporary opens 'Serendipity: Art (mostly) on Paper'
BERLIN.- The exhibition is dedicated to the conditions of emergence and testimonies of serendipity con- centrating primarily on the medium paper. Based on six different perspectives and back- grounds the exhibition examines heterogenous artistic ways of dealing (mostly) with the mate- rial paper against a common production-aesthetic background. In the meantime, the serendip- itous practice proves to be an individual variable of translation, whose spectrum of possible applications is exemplified in the exhibition by techniques such as drawing, printmaking, col- lage, perforation, or paper sculpture. Paper, with its highly plastic appearance, promises to be a productive material for serendipitous excursions. If science can be described as a system that provokes significant coincidences, serendipity is the mode of epistemic discoveries par excellence ... More
Kendra Jayne Patrick opens an exhibition of works by Qualeasha Wood
NEW YORK, NY.- Qualeasha Woods latest investigations into digital Black womanhood lead her to the relationship between artificial intelligence and perceptions of the black femme self. AI engineered face and body filters encoded into Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, et al are far more intensely transformative than their predecessors. Lead by a myth of neutrality - a myth the tech bros cum overlords tell themselves over and over about the character of the systems they develop - the digital tools that alter bodies on social media surreptitiously and instantaneously impose Eurocentric beauty ideals upon us in overbearing ways. For women of color, long harried by the pressure to meet those standards, Wood proposes this leading to a new kind of dysmorphia. One wherein Eurocentric beauty standards dont simply haunt one from ... More
Exhibition of new paintings by Mario Ayala on view at David Kordansky Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery is presenting Rubber Biscuit, an exhibition of new paintings by Mario Ayala and the artists first solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., from November 11 through December 16, 2023. Arresting for their architectural supports, technicality, and refined surfaces, Ayalas paintings allude to abundant cultural histories not only in subject matter, but through technical and material investigation. In a process that begins with digital sketches, then relies on rigorous layers of stenciling, airbrushing, and brush work, Ayalas paintings emerge through alternating stages of planning, improvisation, and free association. Beyond airbrushings myriad contemporary associations, the artist sees the medium as connected to the origins ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino died November 27, 1570. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (July 2, 1486 - November 27, 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately. In this image: Two restorers work on Jacopo Sansovino's Madonna and Child, which was presented after its restoration at the Lab Opificio Pietre Dure, Florence, 10 November 2010.
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