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An image provided by the University of Dundee shows a new recreation of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's face, created by Barbora Veselá, a master's student at the school. Veselá said she aimed to create a realistic portrayal of Bonnie Prince Charlie as a regular person, without any sort of royal splendor. (University of Dundee via The New York Times)
by Anushka Patil
NEW YORK, NY.- He is one of the most romanticized figures in Scottish history: a charismatic young prince, born and raised in exile, who stirred a Jacobite uprising in the Scottish Highlands in a last-ditch attempt to restore his family to the British throne. Though the 1745 uprising failed, the prince, Charles Edward Stuart, was immortalized in the popular imagination as a tragic hero, nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie for his good looks. A new recreation of the princes face as it might have looked when he led the rebellion is seeking to humanize the man behind the legend, pimples and all. The recreation, made at the University of Dundee in Scotland, is a stark departure from how Charles, as played by actor Andrew Gower, has appeared on the hit television series Outlander. It is also a departure from traditional portraits that depicted him as a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galerie Urs Meile Beijing announced the latest solo exhibition of Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, Shenyang), titled Love Expert. This exhibition showcases Wang Xingweiâs thematic creations in recent years, coupled with a minimalist display that aims to emphasize the nonchalance, playfulness, and fervor that populate his works.
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| The fourth Exhibit Columbus exhibition, Public by Design, opens with 13 new works | | Sainsbury Centre announces two new acquisitions | | Maestro accused of striking singer at performance apologizes |
2023 Exhibit Columbus, MP Zwede, Bamboo Painting.
COLUMBUS, IN.- Today, the 2023 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition, Public by Design, will open to the public. The Exhibit Columbus community has been working together for over a year to create what will be a ground-breaking exhibition that showcases how art and architecture can help build a sense of belonging while revitalizing and reimagining historic downtowns as equitable, beautiful, and joyful places. This is the only exhibition of its kind that engages in an international dialogue connected to the biennial exhibition structure while exploring the challenges that cities around the globe are facing today. The process of creating this cycle de-centers the idea that art and architecture are created by singular entities or curators; this exhibition highlights the fact that the best work is built with a broad belief in the collective power of community work and engagement. ... More | |
Detail of Relief, Opus 267, Sérgio de Camargo, 1970. © The estate of Sergio de Camargo.
NORWICH.- The Sainsbury Centre announced the acquisition of two important works, Accepted in Lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government and allocated to the Sainsbury Centre. The two reliefs by artists Sérgio de Camargo (1930-1990) and Günther Uecker (b.1930) are now on public display at the Sainsbury Centre. The relief came to prominence in the post-war period and the Centre has a remarkable collection that demonstrate the way this artform developed across Europe and South America. Transcending the confines of traditional painting or sculpture yet combining both these elements in this new artist language. Both these artists are underrepresented in UK collections. Relief, Opus 267, 1970 by Sérgio de Camargo expands the Centres holdings of abstraction and specifically works relating to the neo-concrete art movement associated with ... More | |
A photo provided by Bruno Moussier shows John Eliot Gardiner conducting Les Troyens at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André, France, on Aug. 22, 2023. (Bruno Moussier via The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who drew widespread criticism this week after he was accused of hitting a singer after a performance in France, apologized Thursday, saying that he had lost his temper and that physical violence is never acceptable. In a statement, Gardiner, 80, said that he had apologized to the singer, William Thomas, 28, and that he would withdraw from the remaining concerts on a European tour with two of his venerated ensembles, the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The incident occurred Tuesday night after a concert performance of the first two acts of Berliozs opera Les ... More |
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| New Lyman Allyn exhibition celebrates the work of local artist Jac Lahav | | Sandro Miller, 'Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters' on view at LNMA | | 'dream song' first solo exhibition by Ellen Siebers to open at parrasch heijnen |
Jac Lahav, 10/10/2021 (#9) Foster Painting, 2021, 24 x 32, Acrylic and Flashe on Printed Velvet.
NEW LONDON, CT.- In Lyman Allyn Art Museums newest exhibition, artist Jac Lahav works with immersive vining sculptures and abstract painting that intertwine the themes of fostering and the nurturing power of plants. Through vibrant blue installations that envelop and beguile, Lahav encourages viewers to explore the complex layers of human connection and growth. Lahavs foster series consists of over 40 abstract paintings on velvet. Reminiscent of gems, each painting represents a phone call the artist has received about a child in need during their last two years as a licensed foster parent. Capturing the raw essence of their experience as a foster parent, each canvas serves as a poignant testimony, delving into the conceptual intricacies of familial bonds and the profound impact of nurturing love. Complementing these captivating ... More | |
Sandro Miller. Bert Stern / Marilyn in Pink Roses (from The Last Session, 1962). 2014. © Sandro Miller / Courtesy Gallery FIFTY ONE Antwerp.
RIGA.- Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters, a series of works by the internationally renowned American photographer Sandro Miller is now on view in the Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1). The exhibition is organised by the Latvian National Museum of Art together with the Madrid-based cultural management company diChroma photography. The unique art photography exhibition is the result of a cooperation between two powerful creative personalities American photographer of Cuban extraction Sandro Miller and the celebrated American film and theatre actor John Malkovich. They share a years-long friendship, and Malkovich has been Millers model on several occasions. ... More | |
Ellen Seibers, Half Light, 2023. oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches, framed: 21 x 17 inches. Photo courtesy of parrasch heijnen and the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen is opening dream song, the gallerys first solo exhibition with Hudson, NY-based artist Ellen Siebers (b. 1986, Madison, WI). Using poetic washes of abstraction, Siebers memorializes the immediacy of beauty in vignettes of daily life. She envisions indistinct but familiar verses, through a duality of sensation and perception. In these gentle scenes, the simultaneity of what is felt and observed is conveyed together yet distinctly apart. Siebers gives breath to the temporal phenomena of her subjects with fluid compositions on panel. Any distinction between sight and impression is blurred by the artists languid brushstrokes. Intimately scaled yet uninhibited, the works capture a quality of lightness held within a fleeting moment. In Apples in May, 2023, a ... More |
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| PDNB to exhibit work by Carlotta Corpron including paintings and photographs | | Marina Rheingantz joins White Cube and will debut with the gallery to coincide with Frieze London | | Wang Xingwei opens exhibition at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing |
Edith Brisac, Calla Lilies, ca. 1940s, Oil on Canvas, Courtesy of PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX.
DALLAS, TX.- It is no small thing that a womens college in the small town of Denton, Texas started the first studio art program in a Texas public university system. And it is not insignificant to know that most of the teachers for this early studio program at Texas State College for Women (TSCW) studied art at Columbia University in New York. Art historians in our region discovered that the notable painter, educator, Arthur Wesley Dow, taught these future Denton educators. He also taught Georgia OKeeffe and Charles Sheeler. These future teachers also studied with the great Modernists such as Hans Hoffman and Laszlo Maholy-Nagy. The tendrils of Modernism spread from these women to their students at TSCW, later known as Texas ... More | |
Portrait of Marina Rheingantz © the artist and White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube announces representation and first UK solo exhibition of Marina Rheingantz São Paulo-based artist Marina Rheingantzs first solo exhibition in the UK and her debut with the gallery will open at White Cube Masons Yard, London, on 10 October 2023, coinciding with Frieze London. Rheingantz was born in 1983 in rural Araraquara, Brazil, and studied MA Fine Arts at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo. Her works, which expand the genre of landscape painting, embody the dichotomies inherent within Latin Americas social relations, industrialisation and the sublime natural world. Working with a variety of mediums, including paintings and tapestries, Rheingantz evokes ambiguous images of sea ... More | |
Wang Xingwei, Passionate Love, 2022. Oil on canvas, 240 Ã 200 cm. The artist and Galerie Urs Meile.
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile Beijing announced the latest solo exhibition of Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, Shenyang), titled Love Expert. This exhibition showcases Wang Xingweis thematic creations in recent years, coupled with a minimalist display that aims to emphasize the nonchalance, playfulness, and fervor that populate his works. The gallery specially invited Tian Jun to design the exhibition. The works presented here continue the artists signature compositional dexterity, as well as his relentless and extensive explorations of techniques including substitution, exaggeration, quotation, reference, and wordplay. The exhibition begins with the vacation series, set against the backdrop of a sun-drenched tropical island, which evokes the artists ... More |
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| J. Garrett Auctioneers will hold a Texas & Western Art auction September 9 | | Micha Winkler Thomas appointed Deputy Director of the Harvard Art Museums | | Collection of Faberge items including a highly desirable egg up for bids with Crescent City Auction Gallery |
Oil on canvas painting by Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956), titled Femme Aux Cartes, with a Sothebys label on verso and Sothebys May 2, 1996 auction catalog (est. $100,000-$200,000).
DALLAS, TX.- Original paintings by renowned artists G. Harvey, Jean Metzinger and Julian Onderdonk; bronze creations by Richard MacDonald, Allan Houser and Bruce Greene; and an outstanding GIA pink diamond suite comprising a necklace, bracelet and two rings, will come up for bid in a pair of online-only auctions set for September 9th and 10th by J. Garrett Auctioneers. The Saturday, September 9th event, starting at 10 am Central time, is a wonderfully curated Texas and Western sale, 194 lots in all, featuring most notably the collection of Joe Parker, the University of Texas Hall of Honor member and former NFL football player. Two paintings by G. Harvey, two paintings by Julian Onderdonk and the aforementioned bronzes are all in Day 1. September 9th will also feature works from Ragan Gennusa, Stanley Long and H. C. Zachry, plus many legendary ... More | |
Micha Winkler Thomas. Photo: Margot Schulman Photography.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Martha Tedeschi, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, announced today the appointment of Micha Winkler Thomas as the museums new deputy director. Winkler Thomas will serve in a senior leadership position, working alongside the director, and will oversee several of the museums administrative divisions. A proven leader in the museum, government, non-profit, and cultural sectors, Winkler Thomas brings to the museums her extensive experience in executive leadership, strategic vision, innovation with analysis, operational efficiency, and excellent customer service. For more than 20 years, Winkler Thomas has managed a diverse range of high-profile projects, teams, and technology. She begins her new role at Harvard on September 18, 2023. Winkler Thomas is currently the deputy director for strategy and chief operating officer at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where she has ... More | |
Faberge egg: A stunning collection of Faberge items includes this blue guilloche egg by Henrik Wigstrom (1862-1923), mounted with gilt silver, small diamonds and rubies (est. $25,000-$45,000).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A stunning collection of Faberge items including a highly desirable egg, a 2008 white Rolls Royce Phantom four-door sedan with just 30,732 miles on the odometer, and a large group of 18th and 19th century Italian furniture will come up for bid September 8th -9th in Crescent City Auction Gallerys Important September Estates Auction, to be held live and online. The auction, starting at 10 am Central time both days, is loaded with 671 premier lots in a wide array of categories. Items range from a selection of dazzling estate jewelry items to a selection of fine couture items to a Story & Clark baby grand piano (est. $2,500-$4,500). In-gallery previews will begin on Wednesday, August 30th, and run weekdays through Wednesday, September 7th, from 10 am-5 pm Central time (excluding weekends and Labor Day). The Crescent City gallery is located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue ... More |
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Destigmatising discussions on race and family at Immigration Museum with Fam by Where are you from?
MELBOURNE.- A new exhibition now on view at the Immigration Museum from, Fam by Where are you from? (WAYF), aims to destigmatise and prioritise conversations about race and family. For many people of colour living in predominantly white communities, the question Where are you from? is a regular encounter. While this enquiry may be considered harmless, it can feel othering. WAYF is a project created by Melbourne curator and writer Sabina McKenna to celebrate, educate and raise awareness about the BIPOC (black and indigenous people of colour) identity through art and storytelling. As part of this ongoing project, Sabina brings Fam to Immigration Musem from 26 August. Consisting of 15 portraits and stories, the exhibition documents the experiences of mixed and multi-ethnic families in Australia to explore how they grapple with differences in perspective and lived experience. ... More
Barbershops of America: Then and Now - photographs and text by Rob Hammer, summer 2023
SAN DIEGO, CA.- For seven years and over 200,000 miles, photographer Rob Hammer and his dog Mojo traveled throughout all 50 states and photographed both long-standing older shops and their barbers, as well as up and coming new stores and the younger generation building on the traditional trade. Barbershops of America: Then and Now provides a glimpse into the people and physical spaces that foster community, storytelling, and connection. Originally published in 2018, this re-release emphasizes that these images preserve in many cases the memories of shops that did not survive the impacts of Covid, or the emergence of the corporate chain store barbershop since Hammer began the project in 2012. This loss left a civic deficit that has impacted local small-town economies, as well as the intrinsic value that long-standing community gathering spaces provide. ... More
Harrison Tenzer joins UTA to lead New York Fine Arts
BEVERLY HILLS, CA AND NEW YORK, NY.- Harrison Tenzer has joined leading global talent, entertainment, sports and advisory company UTA as senior director of UTA Fine Arts and UTA Artist Space. He will be based in New York City and report to Arthur Lewis, Partner & Creative Director of UTA Fine Arts and UTA Artist Space. Tenzers hiring is the next step in the long-term expansion strategy for UTA Fine Arts, which includes enhanced geographical and client service capabilities. I have long admired Arthurs bold approach and Im excited to join his talented team, said Tenzer. UTAs artist-first mentality and embrace of innovation feels like the perfect culture fit for me. My aim is to tap into the extensive network of departments under the UTA umbrella to help artists realize their grandest ambitions. Bringing Harrison on board ... More
He tracks elusive Amazon tribes, but only from the shadows
PIRIPKURA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY.- Jair Candor had been searching the Amazon rainforest for three days when he heard their voices. He had spent a decade documenting their tracks, but that day back in 2011 was his first time seeing them: a family of nine, trekking through the forest nude with children on their backs and arrows taller than him. For years, logging companies had said this isolated Indigenous group was a myth. But now Candor, hidden behind slim trees, was recording the first-ever video of them. When he was done, he cursed the loggers and dared them to say the tribe didnt exist, his colleague Claiton Gabriel Silva said. Candors eyes were wet with tears. Candor, 63, is perhaps the most accomplished tracer of isolated tribes in Brazil, one of a waning number hired by the Brazilian government to explore some of the most untouched ... More
A filmmaker honored Bella Abzug. Her daughter says he took advantage.
NEW YORK, NY.- A documentary film that opened in New York last week was meant to be a loving paean to Bella Abzug, the feminist icon who represented the city in Congress during the 1970s, with interviews from a parade of prominent women, from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Barbra Streisand, who call her an inspiration to their own careers. But in recent weeks, a bitter public dispute between Abzugs daughter Liz Abzug and filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman has complicated what was supposed to be a celebration of the congresswomans life and legacy. Liz Abzug has accused Lieberman of cutting her out of the project after agreeing to make her an executive producer in exchange for access to private archival material and interviews with prominent friends and associates of her mother, who died in 1998. The films producers say they did not cut Liz ... More
Aziz Isham to lead Museum of the Moving Image
NEW YORK, NY.- As the Museum of the Moving Image begins the early stages of redesigning its core exhibition to entice visitors back into its futuristic building in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, its trustees have tapped a nonprofit executive to lead the way. On Thursday, the museum announced that Aziz Isham would become its next director, filling the shoes of Carl Goodman, who recently left after nearly 12 years in the role. Isham, who does not have museum experience, has worked as a film producer and helped start the television program at BRIC, an arts organization in Brooklyn. Isham will begin at the museum in October after leaving his current job as executive director of the arts nonprofit Twenty Summers. I cant think of a more relevant New York institution and a better place to make sense of the present and figure out our future, Isham, ... More
Powerhouse unveils 1001 Remarkable Objects, major new exhibition led by Leo Schofield AM
SYDNEY.- Our vision for 1001 Remarkable Objects was a seemingly simple one: to create an exhibition celebrating the sheer scale, breadth and relevance of the Powerhouse Collection. But how to choose? We rejected the nomenclature of treasures or masterpieces and instead determined all choices must be in some way remarkable whether by virtue of rarity, visual appeal, social history or an ability to invoke wonder. The result is a cornucopia of eras, styles, form, function, size and colour, to stoke memories that so many have of this iconic institution and signal the beginning of a new phase in its marvellous existence, said Curatorium Chair Leo Schofield AM. Leo Schofield AM has a long association with Powerhouse, as a former member of the Board of Trustees and a significant donor. He has worked in collaboration with advisors Ronan ... More
Olivia Rodrigo, pop's brightest new hope, just may be a rock star
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Olivia Rodrigo, the bearer of perhaps the most famous drivers license in Los Angeles, piloted her black Range Rover to Westwood on a scorching late July afternoon. Six weeks remained before the release of her second album, Guts, and she was racked with anxiety about finding a spot for her SUV. (Parking in LA is a hellscape, she later proclaimed.) The car was her dream purchase, her favorite place to listen to music and yes, she feels guilty about the gas. She kept the stereo off as she circled her destination with increasing despair. A woman crossing a narrow street hustled out of Rodrigos path as she let out a Sorry!, unaware that the apologetic 20-year-old behind the wheel was the youngest artist to debut atop Billboards Hot 100 chart. When Rodrigo awoke on a January 2021 morning to news that her first single, ... More
£10m improvement works at the Barber Institute to begin this autumn
BIRMINGHAM.- The first phase of a £10 million essential building improvement programme begins at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham this autumn with the refurbishment of its exhibition gallery. The refit of the Lady Barber Gallery will include the installation of new walls, floors, glass doors and state-of-the-art lighting. The air-handling system will also be completely replaced. The work is the first instalment of a two-part scheme funded entirely by the University of Birmingham, which owns the Barbers building. The project has been prompted by the need to replace old air-handling and heating systems and install new building hardware. The refurbishment will provide an enhanced experience that befits a national arts institution and meets the expectations of 21st-century visitors. The Lady Barber Gallery, along with ... More
Jaimie Branch adds to a brilliant legacy with Fly or Die's final LP
NEW YORK, NY.- Jaimie Branch was a real one. Thats the consensus among anyone who really knew her, and its what the record shows. The Guardian once quoted her as saying that playing the trumpet is like singing your soul, and somehow her music backs that up completely. A year ago this week, Branch died unexpectedly, at 39; the tragedy took the air out of creative music communities in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, Chicago and well beyond. Branch hadnt released her first LP as a bandleader until 2017, but she had made up for lost time. With her two groups Fly or Die, an unorthodox trumpet-cello-bass-drums quartet, and Anteloper, an analog-synth-splashed duo with drummer Jason Nazary she put out five albums in as many years. Its an uncommonly good and unruly set of records: Each is devilishly fun but also musically ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was born August 26, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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