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Derrick Adamss Onward and Upward (2021) at his new show I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You. His new paintings, with their perfect planes of color, expand on the theme of Black Joy, proving that delight and humor are their own form of resistance. (via the FLAG Art Foundation; Photo by Steven Probert via The New York Times)
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- In I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You, his knockout show at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea, Derrick Adams does just that. What he mainly reveals is a new level of maturity and ambition in his already distinguished art, with its layered view of Black life and culture in America. Whereas much of his previous paintings explored portraiture, the ones in his Motion Picture Paintings series sometimes grow to mural size (up to 16 feet across), allowing for a more complex sense of narrative, space and form while also giving his larger-than-life figures room to move. The larger size also shows off Adams meticulous technique, a canny blend of traditional painting, illustration and geometry. His faceted figures and faces in particular are astonishing made things that reach back through cubism to the carved figures of African sculpture. With 16 paintings on view, this show is museum-worthy. It widens the view of Adams central theme, which is as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Zwirner, New York, January 12 - February 25, 2023. Courtesy of David Zwirner.
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| Magic: The Gathering becomes a billion-dollar brand for toymaker Hasbro | | Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse......opens at The Belvedere | | Martina Morger curates the exhibition 'Are We Dead Yet?' for Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein |
Magic: The Gathering players at Mox Boarding House in Bellevue, Wash., on Feb. 10, 2023. (Jovelle Tamayo/The New York Times).
by Gregory Schmidt
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Neal has been playing Magic: The Gathering, a fantasy card game, for nearly two decades. Two or three nights a week, he heads to Mox Boarding House, a game store in Bellevue, Washington, wielding a deck he has painstakingly built over the years. I go there probably more than my fiance would like, said Neal, a 31-year-old software engineer for Apple. His devotion, and that of millions of other fans, has helped Hasbro steadily build the game into a global behemoth. On Thursday, the company announced that Magic had become its first billion-dollar brand in terms of annual sales, surpassing other toy lines in its stable, such as Transformers and G.I. Joe. That milestone was achieved after 30 years of nurturing the game for longtime fans while finding ways to coax new players to pick it up. It was a winning playbook ... More | |
Gustav Klimt, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1901. Photo: 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 | |
Exhibition view, photo: Sandra Maier © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
VADUZ.- In her works, performance and multimedia artist Martina Morger (b. 1989 in Vaduz) takes a critical look at the social issues of our times. The winner of the Manor Cultural Prize (St. Gallen, 2021) has curated the exhibition Are We Dead Yet? that kicks off Artists Choice, a new series of exhibitions in which artists are invited to select works from the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein collection in order to stage a presentation. The aim here is to re-energise the museums collection by subjecting it to timely critical scrutiny. Martina Morger has already dealt variously with the economic conditions of our capitalist achievement society, in which she also grew up. In her sometimes uncompromising artistic work she identifies gaps, speaks the unspoken, points out relations or discrepancies and encourages people to think further. Acting as curator, in Are We Dead Yet? Morger takes the same approach, exhibiting works that ... More |
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| Major group show of female artists opens at GIANT Gallery | | Ming Smith's poetic blur | | The Oklahoma City Museum of Art opens two spring exhibitions |
Ad Minoliti, Many, 2021. Mannequin, furry mask, skirt and shirt designed by the artist, 170 à 50 à 40 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecoeur, Paris. Photo: Margot Montigny.
BOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT presents Body Poetics, a group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists working at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970s and 80s with a contemporary artist from a younger generation. Curated by Marcelle Joseph and Becca Pelly-Fry, Body Poetics will run 18 February 6 May 2023. Judith Butler wrote in Bodies That Matter (1993) that it is impossible to consider the materiality of the body as bodies cannot be fixed as simple objects of thought. Instead, bodies are a world beyond themselves. This movement beyond their own boundaries, a movement of boundary itself, appeared to be quite central to what bodies are. Much like poetry, bodies are constructed. Instead of words, bodies are constructed by society through relations of power. In this exhibition, the body is set in motion, much like the words of a poem. Where the words are placed ... More | |
The installation view of Projects: Ming Smith, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. (via The Museum of Modern Art; Photo by Robert Gerhardt via The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- The stellar photographer Ming Smith remembers walking past the Museum of Modern Art when she was in her early 20s and telling herself, Im going to be in that museum one day. Anyone hearing her might have thought: Dream on. This was the 1970s. Smith was Black, female, new to New York City, with zero art credentials of the kind demanded by any museum of even the brashest up-and-comer, which Smith a self-described low-key loner was not. But even then some changes were afoot a few, isolated, sporadic for artists and institutions alike. In 1979, in response to an open call by MoMAs photography department for new work, Smith dropped off her portfolio. (The receptionist assumed she was a courier.) The museum bought two pictures ... More | |
Red Leaves by Elizabeth Catlett.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will open two spring exhibitions will officially open to the public Saturday, February 18 at 10 a.m. and close Sunday, May 14 at 5 p.m. Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice , organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support provided by Art Bridges, and Art and Activism at Tougaloo College, co-organized by the American Federation of the Arts and Tougaloo College, are complementary exhibitions as they highlight the work of Black artists of the 20th century and provide a richer context for the Museums permanent modern art collection. William H. Johnson painted his Fighters for Freedom series in the mid-1940s as a tribute to Black activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world. He celebrated their accomplishments even as he acknowledged the realities of racism, violence, and oppress ... More |
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| The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents Ulysses Jenkins' first major retrospective in Europe | | Kunsthal Gent presents a temporary solo exhibition by Eleni Kamma | | Saatchi Gallery presents the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK |
Ulysses Jenkins, Televiews and Cable Radio, 1981, video, 1118, color, sound. Installation view JSF Berlin. Photo: Alwin Lay.
BERLIN.- The Julia Stoschek Foundation presents the European premiere of Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, the first major retrospective of the work of groundbreaking video and performance artist Ulysses Jenkins. A pivotal influence on contemporary art for over fifty years, Jenkinswho was born and lives in Los Angeleshas produced video and media work that conjures vital expressions of how image, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and soundtracks, Jenkins interrogates questions of race and gender as they relate to ritual, history, and the power of the state. The exhibition is co-curated by Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer Museum, L.A., and Meg Onli, former Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator ... More | |
Installation view.
GENT.- With Eleni Kammas Casting Call (2017 - ongoing) Kunsthal Gent presents a temporary solo exhibition amid the Endless Exhibition for the first time. 'Casting Call' is an investigation into the concept of parrhesia: the courage to speak ones mind and stand up for your own opinion, from a comedic and excessive perspective. The exhibition takes the form of an installation of characters (drawings, videos, costumes and props) that moves through the Endless Exhibition like a parade, inviting the visitor to participate in a sensory experience. The period of the exhibition will also be used as production time for a new character, developed in collaboration with a group of performance students from KASK (supervised by Hans Bryssinck). Eleni Kamma employs performative strategies and fictional characters to playfully ask serious questions about living well together and the role of public space and time in contemporary ... More | |
Lil Crazy Legs. Photo © Martha Cooper. 1983.
LONDON.- From defiant train writers to powerful large-scale muralists, Saatchi Gallery opened Beyond the Streets London, this February. The exhibition is the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK, and has taken over all three floors of Londons iconic Saatchi Gallery. Following successful exhibitions in Los Angeles & New York, Beyond the Streets London features new works, large-scale installations, original ephemera and extraordinary fashion that capture the powerful impact of graffiti & street art across the world. Curated by graffiti historian Roger Gastman, Beyond the Streets London examines the fundamental human need for public self-expression, highlighting artists with roots in graffiti and street art whose work has evolved into highly disciplined studio practices, alongside important cultural figures inspired by this art scene. Each of the exhibitions chapters ... More |
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| Poster Auctions International announces Rare Posters Auction #89 | | Heritage announces International Original Art & Anime Signature Auction | | Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500-1800 opens at Yale University Art Gallery |
Tadanori Yokoo, Marie in Furs. 1968. Est: $20,000-$25,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 89th Rare Posters Auction from Poster Auctions International on Sunday, March 19 features rare and iconic images from a century of poster design. The collection includes Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, and Contemporary lithographs as well as decorative panels, maquettes, and original works. All 430 lots will be on view to the public February 24 to March 18. The auction will be held live in PAIs gallery at 26 West 17th Street in New York City, as well as online at posterauctions.com, beginning promptly at 11am EDT. Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc., said, Our 89th auction will feature the esteemed designs that collectors expect from us, from iconic works that always sell well to never-before-seen rarities and original works. Spanning from the earliest years of lithography to the 1980s, there is something special for every collector in this sale. The auction ... More | |
Paul Pope Batman: Year 100 #1 Story Pages 1-4 Original Art Group of 4 (DC, 2006).
DALLAS, TX.- It is only appropriate that Heritage's upcoming International Original Art & Anime Auction Signature ® Auction, to be held March 10-12, count among its copious highlights two original works featuring comicdom's oldest and most revered and celebrated world traveler: Tintin as rendered by his creator, the Belgian artist Hergé. Iconic images of superheroes abound in this event; adored anime creations, too, alongside decades-old comic strips whose makers impacted generations of creators to come. Here you will find something for everyone by everyone from everywhere, including Moebius, Robert Crumb, Juan Giménez, Gil Kane, Bernie Wrightson, Carl Barks, Jack Kirby, Mike Mignola and on and on. Yet towering above them all is the 94-year-old teenage boy who, The New York Times once noted, is "the antithesis of a superhero" an orphaned kid reporter-turned-world adventurer with a tuft of upswept hair whose sidekick ... More | |
Portable Sundial with a Compass (signed: Butterfield AParis), France, ca. 1690. Silver, glass, and blued steel. The Lentz Collection, On loan to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Yesterday, February 17th, the Yale University Art Gallery began the presentation of Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 15001800, an exhibition that showcases nearly 100 objects from across Yale Universitys collections, including the Gallery, the Yale Peabody Museum, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Lewis Walpole Library, as well as the collection of Thomas Lentz, Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Co-organized by Jessie Park, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, and Paola Bertucci, AssociateProfessor, History of Science and Medicine Program at Yale University and Curator of the History ... More |
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Yale University Art Gallery appoints Irma Passeri as the Susan Morse Hilles Chief Conservator
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery announced that after an extensive international search, Irma Passeri has been selected to be the next Susan Morse Hilles Chief Conservator. Passeri was most recently the Interim Chief Conservator and previously Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Gallery. She will assume her new position at the Gallery immediately. Irmas perceptive analyses and remarkable hand skills have earned her a reputation among the worlds foremost practi- tioners in this field, says Stephanie Wiles, the Gallerys Henry J. Heinz II Director. Irma is committed to conveying her vision and skills to younger generations of conservation students and fellows,and to sharing her knowledge of materials and techniques with aspiring art historians and young curators. I would like to thank the search committee ... More
William College Museum of Art opens exhibition on Tibetan art from the Jack Shear Collection
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Williams College Museum of Art opened the presentation of Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection, now on view since yesterday, and which will continue through July 16, 2023. Much as the headwaters of Asias major rivers form in the Tibetan plateau and flow into the worlds seas, interest in Tibetan art and culture has circulated globally, inspiring artists within Tibetan regions and throughout the world. Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection presents works by 11 contemporary artists of Himalayan heritage alongside traditional Tibetan Buddhist rolled paintings, or thangka, from the Jack Shear Collection, a juxtaposition that highlights the richness and diversity of Tibetan artistic ... More
Kunsthaus Baselland presents a series of works by Pia Fries
BASEL.- Numerous catalogs have been published since Pia Fries began creating and exhibiting her art in the 1980s. The long list of places where her multi-award- winning work has been exhibited includes venues in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, and the United States. Each exhibition adds new nuances to her oeuvre; no two catalogs are alike. The series of works that the Swiss-born, Düsseldorf-based artist has been continuously developing and updating since the 1980s always yield something new, unknown elements that we have not seen before. Routine is not an option. Pia Fries creates a myriad of works, ideas, forms, and possibilitieswhose timeliness is paramount. During the preparations for the exhibition at Kunsthaus Baselland, I met the artist in the Düsseldorf studio that has served as her base for many years ... More
Wagner's 'Lohengrin' uses the word 'Führer.' Keep it there.
NEW YORK, NY.- There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagners Lohengrin, which the Metropolitan Opera is presenting in a new production starting Feb. 26. But the most inflammatory one comes at the end. The title character, a mystical knight who arrived in the first act to defend the honor of a woman accused of killing her brother, points to a handsome youth in shining silver armor who has magically appeared out of the water. He is the lost brother. Here is the Duke of Brabant, Lohengrin declares. He shall be your leader. In German, Wagners text is: Zum Führer sei er euch ernannt. Piotr Beczala will sing that line at the Met, as will tenors at the vast majority of other opera houses in the world when they put on Lohengrin, a repertory staple for more than 170 years. But at a smattering of companies, particularly in Germany ... More
Sandra Trehub, pioneer in the psychology of music, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Sandra Trehub, a psychologist and researcher whose work helped illuminate how children perceive sound, and how lullabies and music fit into their cognitive and social development, died Jan. 20 at her home in Toronto. She was 84. The death was confirmed by her son Andrew Cohen. Over a half-century as a psychologist at the University of Toronto, where she began working in 1973, Trehub produced seminal work in the field that is now known as the psychology of music. Back then, there were very few people in psychology and neuroscience who were studying music at all as a human behavior, Laurel Trainor, a psychologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said in a phone interview. Sandra said, look, music is universal, we spend a lot of time and energy on music what is its purpose? Why do we do this? ... More
Rashawn Griffin exhibits at Ballon Rouge in Brussels
BRUSSELS.- Ballon Rouge in Brussels opened a solo show with new works by Rashawn Griffin (born 1980, Los Angeles). Décors is the American artist's first solo exhibition in Belgium. Griffin has shown extensively at institutions and galleries throughout the United States and Europe since 2005, notably in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. He was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Award in 2007. Griffin is known for his large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings which use domestic and everyday materials. The works in Décors have a self-referential aspect, with nods to past works. The colored clay pieces in this exhibition are paintings of previous works in which he painted with fabrics, for example. The works are small worlds or windows. They are paintings as much as they are sculptures ... More
Dia announces major Senga Nengudi exhibition at Dia Beacon
BEACON, NY.- Dia Art Foundation announced today a long-term exhibition of work by Senga Nengudi, which opened at Dia Beacon on February 17, 2023. Sculptures and room-sized installations made between 1969 and 2020, including recent acquisitions for Dias permanent collection, are on display. Senga Nengudis multifaceted practice has continually expanded the possibilities of avant-garde abstraction, said Jessica Morgan, Dias Nathalie de Gunzburg Director. Addressing notions of contingency and site-specificity in sculpture, Nengudis work uniquely addresses Dias defining mission to support Conceptual, Minimal, and Postminimal art from the generation that came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. Over her five-decade-long career, Nengudi has realized a remarkable body of work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture and performance ... More
Review: In 'The Wanderers,' two marriages and a movie star
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres no shortage of stories that explore the merits and pitfalls of arranged marriages. In the Jewish subcategory alone, we have Shtisel, Unorthodox and the perennial Fiddler on the Roof. But Anna Zieglers awkwardly hitched play The Wanderers, which opened Thursday at the Laura Pels Theatre, may be the first to consider the problem of forced matches while also exemplifying it. A shotgun seems to have been involved in forcing its two incompatible tales under one roof. The first begins in 1973 with the wedding of Esther and Schmuli, members of the Satmar Hasidic community who barely know each other. Even if Schmuli (Dave Klasko) is a bit meek, and Esther (Lucy Freyer) alarmingly headstrong, they seem at first like a traditional Orthodox couple, looking forward to making a family. Nevertheless, within five years, their marriage is in ruins ... More
GRIMM Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Volker Hüller
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM presenting L.I.T.S., a solo exhibition of new works by German-born, Brooklyn-based artist Volker Hüller at the New York gallery from January 26 through March 18, 2023. This is the artists sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and the first in the gallerys new Tribeca location. The exhibition title references the continuum of an evolving oeuvre, a double entendre and acronym for life is too short and lost in time and space. Borne out of a deep reflection of the artists work over the past decade, the new works on view break old patterns while still offering a comprehensive representation of a distinctive modernist approach that consists of painting and hand-colored etchings. On this occasion, Hüller employs a medium new to his practice, soft pastel, whose pigments imbue his largescale etchings with a new sense of vitality ... More
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Gabriele Münter
TARWUK
Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
Flashback On a day like today, stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany was born February 18, 1848. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. In this image: Tiffany Studios (New York), Dragonfly Library Lamp, ca. 1905â10 Leaded glass; cast bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
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