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The Glider (2021), on view at Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, at the New Museum in New York, Feb. 28, 2023. The multimedia artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. (Charlie Rubin/The New York Times)
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Pardon the binary thinking, but multimedia Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place shot through with flaming color, incalculable beauty, but also disease and violence. Hybrid creatures populate both the artists extravagant collages and startling sculptures, variously merging human and animal (or plant), alien and earthling, and female and male into assertive female-leaning beings. An interest in fusing opposites is suggested in the shows title, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, taken from a 2003 watercolor collage of two dance club habitues young, scantily clad women with the heads of wild African dogs on the second floor. Mutu, born in Kenya in 1972, attended boarding school in Wales and came to New York in the early 1990s, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cooper Union and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale. Since 2015, she has lived p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its ODDS & ENDS | Ancient, Ethnographic Clearance sale on Mar 05, 2023 11:00 AM CST. The warehouse clearance continues! You'll find antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East. Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, India. Pre-Columbian. Spanish Colonial. Fossils. Fine / Visual Art. Coins. 13th C. Islamic Bronze Dish w/ Felines, Kufic Script. Estimate $900 - $1,350.
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| For an artist, the Morgan is subject, object and venue | | The power of art in a political age | | Why Warhol images are making museums nervous |
Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968), Prince Charming, 2015, from the project Seat Assignment, 2010 and ongoing. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund, 2019.142. © Nina Katchadourian.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Nina Katchadourians current exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, the contours of two very distinct personalities take shape. Theres Katchadourian herself: a multimedia artist who turns modest materials into quirky, conceptually witty works. And theres John Pierpont Morgan, the 19th-century American financier who used his unimaginable wealth to build a collection of art and manuscripts so grand that The Times of London, in 1908, called it one of the wonders of the world. Their two sensibilities merge in a joyful polyphony in Katchadourians show, Uncommon Denominator, which brings together nearly 130 artworks, artifacts and heirlooms drawn from the artists own practice and possessions, as well as from the Morgans extensive holdings. Uncommon Denominator focuses on photographs but offers much else, too: a figure drawing in chalk by Antoine Watteau; sketches and scribbled notes by Saul Steinberg; the broken to ... More | |
An exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York, March 1, 2023.(Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by David Brooks
NEW YORK, NY.- I sometimes feel Im in a daily struggle not to become a shallower version of myself. The first driver of shallowization is technology, the way it shrinks attention span, fills the day with tempting distractions. The second driver is the politicization of everything. Like a lot of people, I spend too much of my time enmeshed in politics the predictable partisan outrages, the campaign horse race analysis, the Trump scandal du jour. So Im trying to take countermeasures. I flee to the arts. Im looking for those experiences we all had as a kid: becoming so enveloped by an adventure story that you refuse to put it down to go have dinner; getting so exuberantly swept up in some piece of music that you feel primeval passions thumping within you; encountering a painting so beautiful it feels like youve walked right into its alternative world. The normal thing to say about such experiences is that youve lost yourself in a book or song lost track of spa ... More | |
The original Lynn Goldsmith photograph of Prince, left, which Andy Warhol altered in various ways. Photo: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- Immediately clear after the stunning death of Prince, at age 57 in 2016, was that the world had lost a brilliant artist. What has taken years to unfold, from a magazine cover to the Supreme Court, is a debate over creativity and free expression that has been framed as a fight over the spirit of art itself. The feud began in 2016 when the Andy Warhol Foundation licensed an image of Prince to Condé Nast for a special magazine commemorating the musicians death. Lynn Goldsmith, whose photograph had served as Warhols template decades earlier, objected because she had licensed the picture for one-time use. The foundation then sued her, asking for a judgment that Warhols changes to the photograph were transformative and should be considered fair use. A district court agreed. An appeals court did not. Now the Supreme Court is preparing to issue its opinion on the case, after oral arguments in October and a flurry of amicus briefs from parties ... More |
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| Wayne Shorter, innovator during an era of change in jazz, dies at 89 | | Galerie56 opens an exhibition of drawings by Gaetano Pesce | | Mark Manders, 'Writing Skiapod' opens at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles |
Wayne Shorter plays with his quartet at Town Hall in New York, Feb. 9, 2011. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)
by David Brooks
NEW YORK, NY.- Wayne Shorter, the enigmatic, intrepid saxophonist who shaped the color and contour of modern jazz as one of its most intensely admired composers, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist, Alisse Kingsley, confirmed his death, at a hospital. There was no immediate information on the cause. Shorter had a sly, confiding style on the tenor saxophone, instantly identifiable by his low-gloss tone and elliptical sense of phrase. His sound was brighter on soprano, an instrument on which he left an incalculable influence; he could be inquisitive, teasing or elusive, but always with a pinpoint intonation and clarity of attack. His career reached across more than half a century, largely inextricable from jazzs complex evolution during that span. He emerged in the 1960s as a tenor saxophonist and in-house composer for pace-setting editions of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet, two of the most ... More | |
Focusing on a little-known practice within Pesces vast oeuvre, Gaetano Pesce Unframed features a collection of drawings relating to existing architecture and unrealized spaces, reflecting the artists unbounded imagination - and several of Pesce's most iconic industrial design projects. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie56 the cultural space founded by Lee F. Mindel, FAIA, located in Tribeca at 56 Leonard Street is presenting Gaetano Pesce Unframed, an exhibition of drawings by multidisciplinary Italian artist Gaetano Pesce. The exhibition opened on March 2 and runs through May 8, 2023. Focusing on a little-known practice within Pesces vast oeuvre, Gaetano Pesce Unframed features a collection of 60 drawings that relate both to his existing architecture and interior projects, as well as unrealized spaces, reflecting the artists unbounded imagination. In addition, the drawings provide insight into several of Pesces most iconic industrial and furniture design projects, such as humanoid cabinets and felt chairs. Some of the Pesce projects that are depicted in the drawings include Bahia House and Maison des Enfants, though the majority are drawings of figurative architecture. The exhibition ... More | |
Mark Manders, Cloud Study (with All Existing Words), 2005-2022. Offset print and acrylic on paper, chicken wire, wood, 28 x 19 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches; 71 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting 'Mark Manders: Writing Skiapod', on view at the gallerys Los Angeles location from February 11 - April 8, 2023. The artists fifth solo show with the gallery, this is Manders' first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since his 2010 solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, which also traveled to the Walker Art Center, the Aspen Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Throughout his decades long practice, Mark Manders has created an expanding but timeless architectural space whose arrangement is constantly being rebuilt and transformed, rooms populated and reimagined, in an ongoing project that extends beyond the artist's own subjectivity of the present moment. This imagined framework, wherein all of the artists sculptures and rooms belong, has a non-linear narrative where contradictions co-exist: the ancient and the future, the temporary and the permanent, the beautiful ... More |
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| If big brands copied their work, what are artists to do? | | 'Pierre Dunoyer: The 1980s' on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery | | The magic of Man Ray at Bonhams surrealist sale in Paris |
Companies like Marvel and Panini have been accused of stealing illustrations from lesser-known creators who say fighting back often proves futile. (Tyler Comrie/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- Bobby Rubio did not know why he was being congratulated. Then he saw it: his Bolt Hero, with its bulging yellow biceps and glowing blue eyes, wielding both lightning bolts and pigskin behind Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert on a desirable football card. Instead of being delighted, Rubio was distraught. No one had sought his permission to use the design he often shares on Instagram. A character that I put years into creating got stolen without anyone asking my permission, said Rubio, 51, who works as a story supervisor for Paramount Pictures. How dare you? Copying in the creative field is so pervasive that it has worked its way into clichés. Artists are filing ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Dunoyer emerged in the Paris art scene of the late seventies when his work was included in a trio of group shows collectively titled Ja na pa (with painters Christian Bonnefoi and Antonio Semeraro, and sculptors Tony Cragg, Côme Mosta-Heirt and Jean Luc Vilmouth). For Bonnefoi and Dunoyer, Ja na pa was a response to what they perceived as the misinterpretation of Abstract Expressionism by Minimalism. The concept of tableau was seen as central to analyzing that misreading, even as both painters offered different definitions of it in their multiple texts and conferences. After the nineteen seventies, Dunoyers work is characterized by an emphasis on large vertical formats, with a monochrome ground and thick brushstrokes seemingly applied at random. The formal evolutions -so to speak- in his work are few and far between. In the early eighties the original blocks of heavily impasto strokes, such as those in Eleonora -1979, ... More | |
Man Ray, Untitled (André Breton), circa 1929. Estimate: 10,000-15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- La Révolution Surréaliste sale at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr on 29 March 2023 in Paris will offer a wide selection of European paintings and works of art from the surrealist movement. Among the highlights are photographs by Man Ray from the Collection of Jacqueline Barsotti-Goddard, showcasing his unique experimental photography skills and technique. Completely fresh to the market and previously unseen in public, the collection was gifted by Man Ray to Jacqueline over the course of many years in recognition of their long friendship and creative collaborations. Man Ray (1890-1976), an American visual artist who lived mainly in Paris, was one of the first exponents of Dada in New York in the 1910s. Dadaism's eccentricity and irrationality gave way to Surrealism's fantasy and incongruity not long after he arrived in Paris in 1921. Man Ray carved out a place for himself in the Surrealist group by ... More |
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| Chrysler Museum of Art opens exhibition on Tlingit Culture | | University of Michigan Museum of Art announces new acquisitions of various new artists | | When songs sound similar, courts look for musical DNA |
Preston Singletary (American Tlingit, b. 1963) Xáat Sháa (Salmon Woman), 2018. Blown and sand-carved glass. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Russell Johnson, courtesy of Museum of Glass.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art opened the traveling exhibition Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight in Norfolk on March 3rd, which will continue to July 2, 2023. Featuring new work by the internationally acclaimed Native American artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit American, b. 1963), this solo exhibition creates an immersive narrative by means of a multi-sensory environment where artworks and gallery texts are supported and enhanced by atmospheric audio-visual elements. Raven releasing or stealing daylight is one of the most well-known stories of the Tlingit (KLING-kit), a tribe native to southeastern Alaska. Although many people may know the general story of Raven, there are numerous variations that are unique to specific villages and individual storytellers. Countless generations of Native American children have heard Ravens adventures through an oral tradition, which ... More | |
Frederick Ebenezer Okai, When the Gods Speak, Heaven Listens, 2022. Clay, duvet, light, nylon rope, metal wire, polyurethane glue, 174.1 x 83.1. Installation shot of When the Gods Speak, Heaven Listens, 2022. Photograph by Frederick Ebenezer Okai. Museum purchase made possible by the UMMA. Directors Acquisition Committee, 2022.
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art announced a selection of recent acquisitions that capture the Museums collecting priorities across global cultures and material innovations. Among the acquired objects is a group of three works on paper by artist Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe) that are currently on view as part of a significant installation at the Museum, titled Future Cache. The installation highlights the history and experiences of the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. The works of art acquired by UMMA imagine a future decolonized landscape. Also entering the collection is a monumental sculpture by Detroit-based artist Matthew Angelo ... More | |
Dua Lipa performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, March 1, 2022. (The New York Times)
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- On the surface, Ed Sheeran and Led Zeppelin might not seem to have a lot in common. Sheeran is a baby-faced singer-songwriter whose hummable ballads like Perfect and Photograph have become streaming-era pop standards. Led Zeppelin is a classic-rock colossus whose molten riffs are part of the foundation of heavy metal. Yet when it comes to the recent history of copyright litigation in music, Sheeran and Led Zeppelin are practically joined at the hip. Both have been accused of copying other artists work in ways that are at the center of an evolving debate over just how much or how little of a piece of music can be protected by law. Next month, Sheeran is scheduled to begin a long-delayed trial in federal court in New York over his song Thinking Out Loud, which the plaintiffs say copied elements of Marvin Gayes soul classic Lets Get It On. (The litigations history is complex, involving ... More |
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Danziger Gallery exhibits photographs by Arne Svenson
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Danziger Gallery (Los Angeles) is presenting The Neighbors by Arne Svenson. Following in the honored photographic tradition of Walker Evans Subway Series and Harry Callahans Women Lost in Thought the primary element these series have in common is that the subjects of the photographs are unaware of being photographed. While this is a common occurrence in photography, it asks moral and ethical questions of the photographer, the viewer, and the curator and requires decisions on what to photograph, what to view, and what to show. As the owner and director of the gallery, where one draws the line is of great importance and for me Svensons work is respectful, original, humanistic, beautiful, and life affirming. To me Svensons The Neighbors are masterfully composed moments of everyday life in ... More
Heritage Auctions offers elite single-owner collection of top wines from world's best growing regions
DALLAS.- On March 17, Heritage Auctions will present The Lawrence Collection of Fine & Rare Wine, a remarkable single-owner collection featuring every esteemed growing region in the world and only the best names within those regions. The cellar, amassed over decades by a passionate collector, includes elite wines from around the world. Among the 437 lots, which are valued at more than $1.6 million and represent only a fraction of the consignors collection, are highlights including: 1947 Cheval Blanc, 1996 Romanee Conti, 2002 Coche-Dury Corton Charlemagne, 1985 Guigal La Turque, 1959 Salon, 2011 Egon Muller Scharzhofberger Auslese, 1985 Sassicaia, 1968 Vega Sicilia Unico, 2001 Screaming Eagle, 2010 Henschke Hill of Grace, 1994 Taylor Fladgate and Errazuriz Vinedo Chadwick from vintages such ... More
The minimalist composer who keeps getting left out
LONDON.- Canto Ostinato, a keyboard piece by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt made of overlapping layers and repeated patterns, has amassed a cult following in the Netherlands, at least. In About Canto, a 2011 documentary directed by Ramón Gieling, people talk about the pieces impact on their lives: a former DJ who has some of the score tattooed on his shoulder, a woman who gave birth to her second child while Canto played and the brother of a man whose suicide note said that his life was fulfilled after hearing the piece in concert. Canto Ostinato is the most famous piece by ten Holt, who died in 2012, and it is still extremely popular in the Netherlands. But established histories and concert programs of Minimalism beyond that country tend to congregate around a core group of important American figures such ... More
Review: Ohad Naharin is more than the sum of his imitators
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been five years since Ohad Naharin stepped down as artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company, the Israeli troupe he had made into one of the worlds most popular, transforming it into a vehicle for his idiosyncratic, extremely influential aesthetic. But within the first moments of the companys performance of his Hora, from 2009, at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday, it was clear that Batsheva is still guided by his auteurs eye. The dance begins with all the performers seated on a bench at the rear of the stage, backed by a wall of disconcerting green. (The excellent stage design and lighting are by Avi Yona Bueno, a longtime Naharin collaborator.) At first, all they do is sit and stare at us, the audience. That We know youre watching gaze is echt Naharin, and its fine calibration of uningratiating directness, ... More
'Funny Girl,' Starring Lea Michele, to close Labor Day Weekend
NEW YORK, NY.- A Broadway revival of Funny Girl that was battered and boosted by offstage drama will finish its roller-coaster ride over Labor Day weekend, the shows producers announced Thursday. The production the first revival of a musical long deemed unrevivable because of the long shadow of its original star, Barbra Streisand has been among Broadways bestselling shows ever since Lea Michele, of Glee fame and then flak, stepped into the title role. Michele, whose cant-miss voice and cant-turn-away comeback story have turned her tenure into the talk of the town, will have spent a year in the role: Her first performance was Sept. 6, 2022, and her final performance will be Sept. 3, 2023. She replaced Beanie Feldstein, whose comedic chops, according to critics, were not matched by the vocal range required ... More
Wayne Shorter, a jazz hero whose goal was 'to fear nothing'
NEW YORK, NY.- In the last decade or so of his life, it had become a commonplace to call Wayne Shorter jazzs greatest living composer. There was simply no ambiguity about it, he was the one. Now that the saxophonist has left the earthly realm, at the age of 89, does that distinction become eternal? Its hard to think of another musician whose writing style worked its way so indelibly into the DNA of jazz: how the music is composed, how its played, how we think about it. Shorter wrote melodies at a slant, doing a lot with a little. He packed harmonies with so much tension, they relieved a lot of the pressure that had been put on the rhythm section in the bebop era allowing it to loosen its grip on the groove without sacrificing suspense. When he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1964, after a lengthy stint as Art Blakeys musical director, Shorters ... More
Everything Everywhere All at auction
NEW YORK, NY.- The free market has assessed the value of the prosthetic hot dog hands that appeared in Everything Everywhere All at Once as $55,000 or $5,500 per sausagey finger. That price was determined in a weeklong auction that ended Thursday, in which the independent film studio A24 sold 43 lots of props and costumes from the movie. The reality- and genre-bending film, which is nominated for 11 Oscars, stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, a Chinese American immigrant and laundromat owner trying to save a dizzying multiverse from ruin. Bidders claimed the Elvis costume worn by the stylish villain Jobu Tupaki (Stephanie Hsu) and the lip balm that Evelyns husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), uses to zip between universes. Bidding peaked at $60,000 for a suggestively shaped auditor of the month trophy ... More
'I don't take a single second for granted': Asian and Asian American nominees on the Oscars
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time in Oscar history, a record-setting four Asian actors received nominations in a single year, including Michelle Yeoh, who is up for best actress for the gorgeous and wonderfully trippy Everything Everywhere All at Once. That film, which received 11 nods, the most in 2022, features a largely Asian and Asian American cast. In fact, a bumper crop of filmmakers, performers and artists of Asian descent were nominated for Academy Awards this year. The honorees run the gamut: There are actors, of course, but also directors, screenwriters and musicians, as well as artists skilled in animation, costume design and makeup. Among the contenders are Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro and Domee Shi, the first woman to direct a short film for Pixar (2018s Bao, which won an Oscar). The films themselves ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Marc died March 04, 1916. Franz Marc (8 February, 1880 - 4 March, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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