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The Chicago Seven, Chicago, November 5, 1969, exhibited at Richard Avedon: Murals, a retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, Jan. 24, 2023. For this centennial tribute to Avedon, the Met has brought out some of the largest photographs in its collection: his wall-engulfing group portraits, made between 1969 and 1971. (Gus Powell/The New York Times)
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- He had reached the heights of the fashion industry, photographing the most beautiful models each month for Alexander Libermans Vogue; he was shooting Bette Davis and Barbra Streisand for mink coat advertisements, and Catherine Deneuve for the cover of Life. But it wasnt enough anymore. Not professionally, and not personally. Not after the assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, not after the riots in Chicago. Richard Avedon in 1968 was going through an artistic crisis. He needed a fresh start, with a new camera; he had to get out of New York; he needed to think bigger, in the most literal sense imaginable. Richard Avedon: Murals fills just one gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but fills is an understatement. For this centennial tribute to American photographys great purifier, the Met has brought out some of the largest photographs in its collection: Avedons wall-engulfing group portraits, made between 1969 and 1971, reaching from floor to ceili ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In Search of the Miraculous, 2023, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Installation View. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
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| Janet Borden Inc. opens an exhibition of works by Alfred Leslie | | Exhibition traces the demonstrable influence of avant-garde artists on Gustav Klimt | | Mira Lehr, artist who explored nature's distress, dies at 88 |
Alfred Leslie, Linda Moon, from Be Cool, by Elmore Leonard, 77x59" dye sublimation print on aluminium.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting Alfred Leslie: Hoboken Oval and more. The exhibition will run from 2 February through 24 March 2023. The exhibition was planned with Mr. Leslie before his unexpected death. Alfred Leslie was a working artist in New York for over seven decades. He has made paintings, drawings, movies, sculptures, and photographs. His newest works are what he called Pixel Scores, digital drawings printed as dye sublimation prints. The original Hoboken Oval was an oil painting on masonite panels, made between 1952 and 1953, then later destroyed by an irate boyfriend of Grace Hartigan while moving them between galleries. A six-panel version was created in 1984 to replace the original. These marks capture the lucidity of stripes, but still manage to remain within the field of Abstract Expressionism. He uses multiple planes, newspaper, and ground to create masterly images ... More | |
Gustav Klimt, Johanna Staude, 1917/1918. Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien.
VIENNA.- Which works by Vincent van Gogh did Gustav Klimt actually know? How familiar was he with Henry Matisses oeuvre? Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Belvedere traces the demonstrable influence of those avant-garde artists on the great master of Viennese Modernism. The exhibition also includes works that do not usually go on loan due to their fragile condition. With Water Serpents II, last shown publicly in Austria in 1964, one of Klimt's major works returns to Vienna. General Director Stella Rollig: How could we start the Belvedere anniversary year 2023 more festively than with an exhibition dedicated to Gustav Klimt? Without a doubt, this presentation provides fresh perspectives and a selection of magnificent works, some of which are being shown in Vienna for the first time or have not been seen in decades. We also see Klimt in a new light: as an open and innovative artist who studied ... More | |
The artist Mira Lehr stands inside her 2018 installation Below the Surface, in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 1, 2020. (Alfonso Duran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Mira Lehr, a versatile Florida artist who helped found an early cooperative gallery for women artists in Miami Beach, Florida, and whose paintings, sculptures and installations often reflected her concerns about environmental degradation, died Jan. 24 in Miami Beach. She was 88. She died in a hospital, her family said in an announcement. No cause was specified. Lehr, who exhibited in Florida, New York and elsewhere for decades, was adventurous in her artistic explorations. Some of her work used Japanese rice paper, although she said she had never studied Japanese art in depth. She created mangrove labyrinths out of rope and steel that exhibition visitors could walk through. Some of her more recent works involved fire she would burn holes in canvases or ignite strings of gunpowder on them to create the appearance of vines and other effects ... More |
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| New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held April 27-30 | | Joyce Dopkeen, barrier-breaking news photographer, dies at 80 | | Sotheby's to offer a seminal four-metre-long painting by Edvard Munch |
Hemingway, Ernest. The Fifth Column And the First Forty-Nine Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. A beautiful copy, difficult to find in this condition. $6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair - officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and produced and managed by Sanford L. Smith + Associates - returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 27th-30th, 2023 for its 63rd Edition. The NYIABF is a cultural pillar of New York and returns as a much-anticipated highlight of the busy Spring season. Universally referred to as the worlds finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is excited to reveal nearly 200 exhibitors this year from around the world, continuing to live up to its reputation as a highly international fair. The fair has attracted a diverse audience of literary luminaries, influencers, celebrities, art, design and book enthusiasts and collectors both seasoned and entry level. In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly captured the attention of young ... More | |
Joyce Dopkeen in the early 1970s. Dopkeen, who in 1973 became the first woman to be hired by The New York Times as a full-time staff photographer, beginning a 35-year career with the newspaper, died on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Rockville, Md. She was 80. (Donal F. Holway/The New York Times)
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Joyce Dopkeen, who in 1973 became the first woman to be hired by The New York Times as a full-time staff photographer, beginning a 35-year career with the newspaper, died Tuesday in Rockville, Maryland. She was 80. Her death, in a hospital, was caused by heart failure, her brother, Jonathan, said. Dopkeen roamed widely with her camera for the Times, whether capturing Muhammad Ali squaring off against Joe Frazier, female prison inmates training puppies to be service dogs, exuberant children enjoying summers in urban parks, or aerialist Philippe Petit pausing during an 8 1/2-minute tiptoe across the Great Falls gorge in Paterson, New Jersey, before 30,000 gaping spectators. The pix were always a still version ... More | |
Dance on the Beach to be offered at Sothebys London in March from the renowned Olsen Collection as part of a restitution settlement with the family of leading Jewish patron Curt Glaser. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Edvard Munchs singular vision resulted in vivid, psychological artworks as he battled his demons and the eternal pull between life and death on canvas. In 1906, at a turning point in his life, Munch was commissioned to paint what is now known as The Reinhardt Frieze, installed on the walls of impresario Max Reinhardts avant-garde theatre in Berlin with twelve major canvases in an immersive installation that was one of the first of its kind, and trailblazed the relationship between performance and art. At just over four metres wide, Dance on the Beach is the monumental culmination of the series. In the foreground of the canvas are two of the artists great loves, affairs with both of whom ended in heartbreak. It is the only example from the Reinhardt series remaining in private hands, with all of the others held in German museum collections. As part of a tumultuous journey in the lead up to and during the Second World War ... More |
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| Paco Rabanne, couturier of the Space Age, dies at 88 | | Public Art Fund announces new curatorial, executive, and creative partnership appointments | | Strong results for Meldon Park sale at Bonhams Edinburgh |
The designer Paco Rabanne uses pliers to repair one of his plastic and metal dresses during a show at Lord & Taylor in New York, March 28, 1966. (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Paco Rabanne, the Spanish designer whose futuristic creations gave shape to the dreams of the space age and redefined couture, died Friday in Portsall, France. He was 88. His death was confirmed by Puig, the luxury group that owns the brand. No cause was given. Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic, Jose Manuel Albesa, president of the beauty and fashion division at Puig, said in a statement. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal? Rabannes career was a moonshot unto itself. He burst onto the French fashion scene in 1966 with a collection called Manifesto ... More | |
Gabriela López Dena, Photo: Jessica Rangel.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund announced the expansion of its Curatorial, Executive, and Creative Partnerships Departments with one promotion and three new appointments. Gabriela López Dena has begun at Public Art Fund as Associate Curator of Public Practice and Jenée-Daria Strand joined the organization as Assistant Curator. Larry Giannechini was recently promoted to Deputy Director for Programs and Operations, while Dorothy Dávila joined as Director, Creative Partnerships. These staff members jointly further Public Art Fund's exhibitions, public programming, and consulting work, helping to increase public access to art and creative perspectives, and engage wide audiences in fresh and thoughtful ways. These new appointments reflect Public Art Funds commitment to creating dynamic and inspiring artistic encounters for audiences across New York City and beyond ... More | |
Soldiers standing before ruins and a young woman at a well by circle of Paolo Panini (Italian 1690-1765). Sold for £10,838. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- The Arch of Constantine, Rome, a painting in oils by the British artist Jacob Strutt (1790-1864), was the top selling lot at Bonhams Collections Sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on 2 February 2023. The work, from Meldon Park, Northumberland, sold for £21,675 having been estimated at £10,000-15,000. The 246-lot sale made more than £470,000 with 95% of the lots sold. Other highlights of the sale, which also offered the selected contents of a private Scottish estate, included: A seated man holding a lute attributed to Giuseppe Bonito (1707-1789). Sold for £17,850 (estimate: £7,000-10,000) A late 16th/early 17th century rare gilt-copper mounted shell-inlaid Japanese Nanban Lacquer cabinet from the Momoyama period). Sold for £15,300 (estimate: £5,000-6,000) A rare George II ... More |
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| 'Jonas Mekas. Under the Shadow of the Tree ' opens at Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau | | Marlborough Gallery presents a group exhibition comprised of selected works by twenty-seven artists | | Andrea Geyer presents two new installations at Hales New York |
Jonas Mekas, Under the Shadow of the Tree. Exhibition view at Padiglione de lEspirit Nouveau. Photo Ornella De Carlo courtesy Settore Musei Civici Bologna | MAMbo Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna.
BOLOGNA.- As part of Jonas Mekas 100!, the exhibition Under the Shadow of the Tree, set up at the Pavillon de lEsprit Nouveau in Bologna from 2 February to 26 March 2023, continues the international program of initiatives celebrating the centenary of the birth of Jonas Mekas (Birai 1922 - New York 2019), a crucial figure in the history of American avant-garde cinema. The show has been curated by the duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and promoted by MAMbo - Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna, the Lithuanian Culture Institute, and the Embassy of Lithuania in Italy, in collaboration with Home Movies - National Family Film Archive. The exhibition sets up a dialogue between the building - a housing prototype built in 1925 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, with a faithful copy reconstructed in Bologna in 1977 by Giuliano and Glauco ... More | |
In Search of the Miraculous, 2023, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Installation View. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery is presenting In Search of the Miraculous, a group exhibition comprised of selected works by twenty-seven artists. This exhibition is the result of a two-year collaboration between artist Gerard Mossé and gallery director Sebastian Sarmiento. The project embraces the many sublime, delicate, and obsessive tendencies present in art that may be perceived as transcendent. The title echoes P.D. Ouspenskys treatise from 1949 recounting his associations with G.I. Gurdjieff. The connectedness between the various ideas presented in this exhibition is not intellectually or historically explicit; it is by all accounts an unconventional, intuitive, exhibition that must be discovered through personal experience. The endeavor began as a conversation about the subtle tones and light found in the work of Agnes Martin and Ad Reinhardt, whose works are included in the exhibition. It subsequently ... More | |
Andrea Geyer, plein air, Hales New York, 3 February - 11 March 2023, Photo by JSP Art Photography 26.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales is presenting plein-air, the gallerys fourth solo exhibition with Andrea Geyer. Continuing her cross-disciplinary practice that interweaves image and text-based research, Geyer presents two new installations that materialize the poetics of storytelling. Geyers work ranges across multiple media, incorporating text, photography, painting, sculpture, video and performance. She explores the complex politics of time, in the context of specific social and political situations, cultural institutions and historical events. Geyers work continuously seeks to create spaces of critical, collective reflection on the construction of histories and ideas that are otherwise marginalized or obscured. A child of so-called War Children (individuals born in the 1930s in Germany), Geyer grew up in the mountainous region of the Black Forest. Coming of age during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the artist experienced ... More |
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John Biggersâs Mural: History of the International Longshoremenâs Local (Part 2 of 2)
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Review: Dancing for themselves in an underworld of shadows
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven bodies dance in the light, in the dark and in the shadowy in between. One raises a knee as a toe languidly stirs the air. A single arm dangles above the head as a leg extends behind, hovering close to the floor. Arms bend at the elbows with dripping, shimmering fingers. Deborah Hays hourlong Horse, the Solos is a hypnotic underworld: Gradually, you descend into it, and gradually, it takes hold. Lush, yet elusively so this Horse has a way of galloping into the unknowable the work comes alive in seven solos performed mostly all at once by Cullberg, a Swedish contemporary company making its Joyce Theater debut. Hay was an associate artist with the company from 2019 to 2022. Cullberg, formerly Cullberg Ballet, was welcome programming at the Joyce, a New York theater that tends to steer clear of experimental work ... More
Facing death, a pianist recorded music of unspeakable emotions
NEW YORK, NY.- There are recordings that are meant for the ages, that are intended to sound definitive. There are recordings that document a fleeting interpretation, that inspire or provoke, that accept the impossibility of a final word. And then there are the rare recordings whose circumstances defy the ordinary routines of an artist, that capture a high or a low moment in that persons life and, matched to the right music, transcend it. In February 2021, Lars Vogt probably should not have traveled to Bremen, Germany, to join his close friends, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, in recording Schuberts Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat. Vogt, a widely beloved pianist and a conductor on the rise, arrived in pain; his doctors had asked him not to go, but to check into a hospital to await a conclusive diagnosis of the cancer that would take his life, at just 51 ... More
Review: At New York City Ballet, a too quiet debut
NEW YORK, NY.- When Kyle Abrahams The Runaway had its debut at New York City Ballet nearly five years ago, it made a strong impression. His first work for a ballet company, it infused new sounds (tracks by Kanye West and Jay-Z, among others), outre costumes and ways of moving that were bold and contemporary while still drawing on the dancers classical technique. It wasnt flawless. But it was fresh and exciting, and it was an immediate hit. Keerati Jinakunwiphat, a young dancer in Abrahams company, A.I.M, assisted him on that work. On Wednesday, she got a chance to make her own mark, when City Ballet presented the debut of Fortuitous Ash, her first work for a ballet company. The impression it made wasnt so strong. It was more spectral in the sense of ghostly but also of insubstantial. Much of the spectral effect comes from the music ... More
For conductor Charles Munch, virtuosity meant taking risks
NEW YORK, NY.- When Charles Munch started work as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1949, he gave a speech. There wasnt much he could say, in truth. His English was poor, though he had just sacrificed an umlaut in his surname in deference to American spelling. An Alsatian sometimes known in Germany as Karl, and in France always as Charles, he had served the Kaiser on the Somme in the First World War, then defended French culture in resistance to the Nazis in the Second. If he bothered to hold a rehearsal at all, he spoke to his musicians in a variety of languages, or let his gestures, flamboyant yet intentional, do the talking. Munch wanted to make one thing clear to the Bostonians, though: He was not their former music director, Serge Koussevitzky. The orchestras players had toiled under the autocrat ... More
Jenny Moore named first Director of Tinworks Art in Montana
BOZEMAN, MT .- The board of directors of Tinworks Art announced today the appointment of Jenny Moore as its founding Director. From 2013 to 2022 Moore was Director at the Chinati Foundation, a contemporary art museum created by the artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Prior to her directorship at Chinati, Moore was a curator at the New Museum and at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City. Moore was appointed upon conclusion of a national search. She will begin her position at Tinworks Art in March. Moore joins the organization at a pivotal moment in its history. As the founding Director, she will lead Tinworks Art into its next era by building its contemporary art program and activating site-specific commissions, developing its site that includes a mix of historic and light industrial buildings, and growing and formalizing operations ... More
Beckoned by a neglected Hansberry play
NEW YORK, NY.- Lorraine Hansberrys The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window began performances on Broadway in the fall of 1964. It closed the following January, days before Hansberrys death, having run 101 performances. It was hardly a flop. The reviews were generally admiring, and the support of the theater community was unstinting. Of the new plays that opened that fall, only a few ran so long. But unlike A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberrys earlier Broadway show, which remains a staple of regional theaters and high school classrooms, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window has been occluded, all but forgotten. Isnt that insane? director Anne Kauffman said. This was on a recent afternoon in a rehearsal room of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Kauffman and her stars, Rachel Brosnahan and Oscar Isaac, were preparing for the plays first major New York ... More
Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based artist Shannon Finley
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery opened an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based artist Shannon Finley, on view from 2 February through 11 March 2023 at 511 West 22nd Street. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with an essay by Camila McHugh. Over the decades, Shannon Finley has honed his painting process, successfully intertwining the artistic dichotomy between the traditional and digital. He starts at the computer, rendering an initial idea on the screen before translating it to canvas. He then takes a photograph of the painting and returns to the computer, collaging the image. Continuing in this back-and-forth, he pivots between the screen and canvas until the finished composition reveals itself. Presenting questions surrounding technique and materiality, Finleys newest body of work transcends any preconceived ... More
Matt Paweski is the 191st artist featured in Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's MATRIX exhibition series
HARTFORD, CONN.- In his first solo museum exhibition, Matt Paweski debuts his latest body of work in an installation that mixes elements of architecture, furniture, and interior design. In its nearly 50-year history the Wadsworths MATRIX series has regularly presented exhibitions by emerging artists, encouraging exploration of their practice. Matt Paweski / MATRIX 191 will be on view February 3May 7, 2023 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Trained in carpentry and fabrication, Matt Paweski makes abstract sculptures from painted aluminum. His works often suggest functionality, referencing industrial design and furniture making, yet they emerge from a manual process of drawing, cutting, painting, reconfiguration, and experimentation. Lushly colored surfaces and crisp machine-like forms draw viewers in to optical experiences that swing between ... More
Signed Abraham Lincoln carte de visite is a picture-perfect offering in Americana & Political Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Sometimes, it pays to aim high. It certainly did in 1864 for Mary L. Westerman, an officer of the local Soldiers Aid Society in Tazewell County, Illinois. She wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln, urging him to make a donation to support the cause with a donation to a Sanitary Fair that was held Oct. 18 of that year. Her letter, sent a little over two weeks before the event and available for digital viewing through the Library of Congress, paid off. A letter from former Secretary of State John Hay to Westerman confirms that the 16th American President sent six signed cartes de visite one of which (starting bid: $50,000) will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions Feb. 25-26 Americana & Political Signature® Auction. This is an exceptionally rare item, a must-have for any serious collector of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia or presidential items ... More
Tiffany Lamp sells for $212,500, Harry Bertoia 'Sonambient' for $60,000 in Heritage Auctions' Design Events
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage events held one week apart brought in nearly $2 million and proved the enduring appeal of early- and mid-20th century design by American artists and designers (as well as works by their international peers) and continued the super-charged trend for enhancing our homes. Collector favorites Tiffany Studios, Harry Bertoia and George Nakashima topped the sales. The first of three Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass auctions slated for 2023 took place on Thursday, January 26 and achieved total sales of $1,104,171 against a pre-auction estimate of $584,200. An astonishing 99% of the 259 lots offered sold, demonstrating strong bidder participation and competition across all categories. The designs of the glass studio founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany during the Gilded Age continue to beguile collector ... More
What is literary criticism for?
NEW YORK, NY.- Thirty years ago, it was common to pick up a newspaper or a magazine and read about high drama in university literature departments. Star professors were either master thinkers introducing new rigor and glamour into a tweedy profession gone stale, or theory-addled tenured radicals taking a hatchet to the masterpieces of Western culture. These days, though, the news out of literature departments and the humanities writ large tends to be less about juicy faculty-lounge flame wars than about declining majors, shrinking budgets and the collapsing job market for Ph.D.s. Enter another professor, with a big book that aims to shift the conversation. In 1993, John Guillory published Cultural Capital, a dense study of the then-raging canon wars that has become a stealth classic. Now, in a follow-up, Professing Criticism ... More
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Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
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René Daniëls
Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger was born February 04, 1881. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. In this image: Fernand Leger, Deux femmes tenant des fleurs, 1954. Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.
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