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Sara Zewde, a landscape architect who is designing eight acres of varied terrain at Dia Beacon art museum, at her studio in New York, Jan. 26, 2024. Zewde is challenging ideas about the legacy of the land, the museums history and climate change. (Rafael Rios/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When it is introduced this year, the new and varied terrain of Dia Beacon, with its sculptural landforms, meadowlands and pathways, may surprise and delight. Sara Zewde, the landscape architect who received the high-profile commission in 2021 to reimagine the museums 8 back acres, says the goal wasnt just dressing up Dias buildings with attractive plants. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Günter Brus, William Blake, 2007/08. Exhibition view third floor Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2024. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of the artist © Günter Brus, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
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| 'Constanza Giuliani: Was steckt im Körper der Poetin?' now on view at the Kunstmuseum | | From gallery walls to museum halls, Asia Week New York fosters collaboration between galleries and museums | | Two monumental outdoor installations comprise part of exhibition by Alicia Kwade at the Museum Voorlinden |
Constanza Giuliani, Poemas talismán, 2021. Acryl und Airbrush auf Leinwand, 150 à 98 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Piedras Gallery, Buenos Aires.
LUCERNE.- I could be a poet. Ive never seen myself at university, Mariposa thinks. She has just discovered her creativity and wonders what might be inside a poets head ... More | |
Arnold Chang & Michael Cherney, Saltscape Lattice 2018, photography and ink on xuan paper mounted on paper 23 1/4 x 55 3/4 in 59.1 x 141.6 cm (Courtesy: Fu Qiumeng Fine Art/Art Institute of Chicago).
NEW YORK, NY.- Since its inception fifteen years ago, Asia Week New York has stood at the forefront of fostering ... More | |
Alicja Kwade, WeltenLinie, 2019 Collection museum Voorlinden.
WASSENAAR.- Alicja Kwade doesnt take anything for granted. She approaches her work with a relentless curiosity to challenge conventional understandings of the world around us. Through her diverse ... More |
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| Antoine Predock, architect who channeled the Southwest, dies at 87 | | 'Chelsea Hotel Portraits' by Tony Notarberardino opens at ACA Galleries | | Hauser & Wirth is now representing artist William Kentridge |
Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Antoine Predock, in Alto, N.M., on Jan 26, 2006. (Rick Scibelli Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Antoine Predock, an Albuquerque-based architect who became known for buildings that resonated with the landscape of the American Southwest, earning him international acclaim and prestigious commissions as far ... More | |
Tony Notarberardino, Bonnie, 2006. © Tony Notarberardino. Courtesy the artist and ACA Galleries, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- ACA Galleries is now opening Chelsea Hotel Portraits, the first public presentation of photographer Tony Notarberardinos iconic black and white portraits of the extraordinary individuals drawn to The Chelsea Hotel, shot over ... More | |
William Kentridge Photo: Norbert Miguletz. © William Kentridge. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024 Courtesy the artist, Goodman Gallery and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist William Kentridge in collaboration with Goodman Gallery and Galleria Lia Rumma. Over the past five decades, Kentridge has developed a powerfully ... More |
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| Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Hockney, and Johns highlight 'The Marmor Family Collection' up for auction | | Never before seen in the US Lucian Freud work is currently on view at the UBS Art Gallery | | The Biennale of Sydney announces further artists and artworks for its 24th edition titled Ten Thousand Suns |
Lot 23: Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Modern Head #1 From The Modern Head Series, 1970. Woodcut in colors on Japanese Hoshi laid paper, Edition: 24/100 (there were also 7 artists proofs).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Tuesday, March 26th, 2023, at 12:00 pm PDT, John Moran Auctioneers is proud to present the first of their bi-annual California Living sales. An auction encompassing the California aesthetic with examples of fine art ... More | |
Lucian Freud, Head of a Naked Girl, 1999. Oil on canvas, 50.7 x 40.5 cm 20 1/4 x 16". UBS Art Collection. © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved, 2024. Bridgeman Image.
NEW YORK, NY.- The UBS Art Collection opened an exhibition of etchings and paintings by Lucian Freud on Thursday, February 1, in the UBS Art Gallery, the public arts space located in the lobby of UBSs Midtown New York Headquarters at 1285 ... More | |
Anne Samat, Never Walk In Anyone's Shadow, 2023, Rattan sticks, kitchen and garden utensils, beads, ceramic, metal and plastic ornaments, 365.75 x 731.5 x 25.5 cm. Photography: Brian Holcombe. Courtesy of the artist and Marc Straus, New York.
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney announces further artists and artworks for its 24th edition titled Ten Thousand Suns, presented free to the public from 9 March to 10 June 2024. A major international art festival ... More |
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| 'Between the Lines' opening reception opens today at Craft in America Center | | Britta Marakatt-Labba artwork joins Nationalmuseum collection | | Connections between the language of geometry and ideas of our very existence according to Donna Gough |
John Luebtow, Linear Form Reflection, Refraction Study. Blown and cut glass, 1972-1976.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft in America Center is opening Between the Lines, a two-person exhibition featuring master glass sculptors John Luebtow and Stephen Edwards. These two maverick sculptors have shaped the field of glass through ... More | |
Britta Marakatt-Labba, Máilmmi liegganeapmi (Global Warming II). Embroidered appliqué, 2021. Inventory number: NMK 110/2023.
STOCKHOLM.- Living as she does close to nature, Sami artist Britta Marakatt-Labba is increasingly aware of the changes being wrought by global warming. Thanks to a very generous donation from ... More | |
Berlin black, large #1, 2024 70 x 47 x 1.8. Acrylic on aluminum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is now presenting Australian born, Los Angeles based artist Donna Gough in her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition features a new painting series YOU ARE that began during a ... More |
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Artist Tatiana Wolska's first UK solo institutional exhibition in the UK at Midlands Arts Centre
BIRMINGHAM.- Midlands Arts Centre is launching Leisure as Resistance, artist Tatiana Wolskas first UK solo institutional exhibition in the UK. Born in Zawiercie, Poland (1977) and based in Brussels, Wolskas multidisciplinary practice is characterised by her utilisation of repurposed and recycled materials, with recent large scale installations including Londons, Sculpture in The City and Frieze Sculpture Park (2021). Through her work, Wolska evokes the necessary resourcefulness of her childhood in communist Poland, where recycling became a necessity due to the scarcity of goods. Wolska, describes herself as a 'junk collector', breathing new life into discarded materials to transform once-polluting objects into captivating, poetic and biomorphic sculptures. Plastic bottles, rusty nails, salvaged timber, foam from old mattresses and abandoned ... More
A French star brings her career-saving play to New York
PARIS.- In 2003, three decades into her career, Dominique Blanc experienced every actors worst nightmare: The phone stopped ringing. Approaching 50, she was one of Frances most celebrated performers, fresh off an acclaimed stage run in a classic tragedy, Jean Racines Phèdre. But the subsequent yearslong lack of offers deeply unsettled me, Blanc said in a recent interview. I found myself in extreme solitude. I really believed I would never be able to set foot on a stage again. La Douleur, a searing, award-winning one-woman show that will have its American premiere at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall in New York on Wednesday, became a way to process the hurt and take charge. Blancs character, lifted from a book by French author Marguerite Duras, awaits her husbands return from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, uncertain whether ... More
Melissa Benoist hits the campaign trail in 'The Girls on the Bus'
NEW YORK, NY.- Melissa Benoist has made a habit of playing journalists on television. She spent six years as the hero of Supergirl, Kara Danvers, who works in media when shes not saving the world. Now Benoist is taking on the role of a campaign reporter named Sadie McCarthy in the Max series The Girls on the Bus, a very loose adaptation of former New York Times reporter Amy Chozicks nonfiction book Chasing Hillary. But Benoist does not think shed be a good fit for the profession. Asked about the choice of some political reporters to refrain from voting in the elections they cover, she explained in a phone interview that she would be a terrible journalist. Im too emotional, she said. Id for sure be biased. The Girls on the Bus, created by Chozick and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), is a fictional and frothy account of the lives of women chronicling a series of Democratic pre ... More
Review: In 'Doubt,' what he knows, she knows, God knows
NEW YORK, NY.- Here are a few things Sister Aloysius cannot abide: ballpoint pens, Frosty the Snowman, long fingernails like Father Flynns, Father Flynn himself. She is what youd call a forbidding nun, a Sister of Charity without much of it. (Her name means something like warrior.) The principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, she defines a good teacher as one who is a discomfort to her students, a fierce moral guardian, not a friend. If you are vigilant, she tells young Sister James, they will not need to be. But Father Flynn, following the spirit of the recent Second Vatican Council, and presumably his own inclinations, does not lead with fear. In ministering to his mostly Italian and Irish congregation, he seeks to give the church a more familiar face. His sermons are warm, told with jokes and accents. He coaches the boys basketball ... More
'Poor Things,' the weird movie, was a weird novel first
NEW YORK, NY.- Hot air balloons soar above the Mediterranean. Aerial streetcars fly along ropes suspended above the alleys of a candy-colored Lisbon. Pastel green smoke billows into the night sky from the funnels of a cruise ship. This is the eye-poppingly surreal world that Bella Baxter, played by Emma Stone, thrills to in Yorgos Lanthimos Oscar-nominated film Poor Things. Bella, a 25-year-old woman who, after committing suicide, is reanimated with the brain of her unborn infant, is the daring and unusual creation of Alasdair Gray, whose 1992 novel was adapted for the movie. And it may not even be his most eccentric book. A prolific writer and visual artist who died at 85 in 2019, Gray wrote five other novels, two novellas, 89 short stories and a version of Dantes Divine Comedy (Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse). In Scotland, Gray is something of a national treasure, hi ... More
Charges dismissed in 'Hotel California' theft conspiracy case
NEW YORK, NY.- The criminal trial of a prominent rare books dealer accused of conspiring to possess dozens of pages of handwritten lyrics stolen from Eagles co-founder Don Henley collapsed abruptly Wednesday as a judge in Manhattan dismissed the charges in the case. Citing the jarringly late disclosure of 6,000 pages of material by Henleys legal team, Justice Curtis Farber of state Supreme Court granted a dismissal request by the Manhattan district attorneys office. He added that a review of the material showed that Henley, his agent and two of his lawyers had acted to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen. The judge also criticized the district attorneys office, saying that prosecutors had been manipulated by Henleys legal team and had ... More
'As living as opera can get': John Cage's anarchic anti-canon
NEW YORK, NY.- The start was typical: Oper Frankfurt in Germany asked John Cage to write an opera. But the premiere, in 1987, was unlike anything in opera up to that point. Cage, an American maverick whose philosophical, socially conscious works at the time were based on chance, mapped out an elaborate scheme for a show that would bring the entirety of European opera onto the same stage at the same time. It was called Europeras 1 & 2, an enormous undertaking of controlled chaos, engineered with an eye toward history and populist reclamation, hence the title that implies both Euro operas and your operas. Each element, its rollout determined by the I Ching, unfolded independently from all others: Singers performed arias unrelated to the instrumental accompaniment, which was unrelated to the scenic and lighting design, ... More
The very busy writer telling everyone to slow down
NEW YORK, NY.- About halfway through his new book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, Cal Newport presents the example of Galileo, whose summertime visits to a villa near Padua, Italy, gave him a chance to rest and reflect between scientific pursuits. Once there, Newport writes, he would take long walks in the hills and enjoy sleeping in a room ingeniously air-conditioned by a series of ducts that carried in cool air from a nearby cave system. But that ingeniously air-conditioned room also happened to be deadly. As Newport puts it in a footnote: During one unfortunate evening, noxious gases from the cave system, fed through the ducts, caused Galileo and his two companions in the room to suffer a grave illness that killed one of them and afflicted Galileo for the rest of his life. Its an intriguing ... More
If you see only one beaver movie this year...
NEW YORK, NY.- The makers of Hundreds of Beavers, a mostly wordless indie comedy, have been touring the country and holding energetic screenings, complete with appearances by the star species. Last week, a bonkers low-budget movie that was shot in black and white and has no Hollywood stars packed a 200-seat theater on a one-night engagement at the IFC Center in Manhattan. Additional screenings were added. Mike Cheslik, the films director, and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, its leading man, dont have Hollywood connections or sacks of cash. What the two 33-year-old friends do have that helped their film make a splash with its New York debut is a secret weapon that would make a shrewd old-school movie pitchman like William Castle tingle with envy. Were talking beavers. Big ones. Two beavers, actually plus a horse, all played ... More
Why is there no Oscar for best choreography?
NEW YORK, NY.- If youve watched this years Oscar-nominated films actually, if youve been in a movie theater at all recently youve almost certainly seen the work of a choreographer. Some of the most prominent dances have earned critical praise: Constanza Macras delightfully unhinged duet for Poor Things. Justin Pecks ardent dream ballet for Maestro. Fatima Robinsons showstopping love letters to Black social dance for The Color Purple. Jennifer White and Lisa Welhams fizzily heroic numbers for Barbie. Other choreographers contributed in quieter, though no less essential, ways. Nobody would call the Killers of the Flower Moon fire scene in which workers stoke a hellish blaze as part of an insurance fraud scheme a dance number. But choreographer Michael Arnold shaped the actors demonic movements ... More
'A Revolution on Canvas' review: The personal, the political and the painting
NEW YORK, NY.- Midway through A Revolution on Canvas, one of the documentarys directors, Sara Nodjoumi, receives a warning from a friend. She and her father, painter Nikzad Nodjoumi (commonly known as Nicky) have been trying to discover if his paintings left behind at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art when he fled Iran in 1980 are still in the basement archives of the museum. By video chat, a friend counsels caution. Its just a film, he says. You dont want to risk your life. Thats not hyperbole. An element of danger hangs over A Revolution on Canvas, which Sara directed with her husband, Till Schauder. The films goal is to locate Saras fathers paintings and, hopefully, bring the work to the United States, where father and daughter both live. But the political situation that drove her father away from his homeland ... More
She boxes. She conducts. She delights in defying stereotypes.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Elim Chan arrived in New York last week to prepare for her New York Philharmonic debut, her first stop was not David Geffen Hall, the orchestras home, or a rehearsal studio. It wasnt even in the city. Instead, she visited Smith College, her alma mater in Massachusetts, to meet with young women interested in the arts. In a classroom, Chan, 37, candidly told them that she felt it was getting harder for women to succeed in conducting. Now the pressure is insane, she recalled saying. I was really lucky. It was only a decade ago that, Chan, a native of Hong Kong, blazed onto the scene as the first woman to win the esteemed Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in England. Since then, she has joined the global concert circuit and taken on jobs including chief conductor at the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in Belgium. On ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl was born March 09, 1948. Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Fischl is a trustee and senior critic at the New York Academy of Art and President of the Academy of the Arts at Guild Hall of East Hampton. In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006. In this image: Eric Fischl, Family, 2018.
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