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Three paintings from Gerhard Richters Cage series (2006) at the Met Breuer in New York, March 2, 2020. The Met Breuer closes with an exhibition of the 88-year-old German painter, likely to be the final major show of his lifetime. Charlie Rubin/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuers inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which rented Breuers granite fortress from the relocated Whitney Museum of American Art in 2015, will be vacating the building in July, three years ahead of schedule. (Costs were too high.) The museum could not have offered a more apt final show more rigorous, more resigned than Gerhard Richter: Painting After All. It engrosses two floors of the Breuer with art of total mastery that also, at every turn, casts doubt on its own achievement. The squeegeed oils, the clammed-up portraits. The aseptic color charts, the matter-of-fact panes of glass and mirrors. Here they all are, poker-faced as ever, pushing forward with painting even as Richter subjects painting to endless criticism and interrogation. Some ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In the Galleries section od the Armory Show, Ascaso Gallery is presenting a survey of paintings by Carlos Cruz Diez and Luis Tomasello based on the presence of two leading visual creators in the development of contemporary art in Latin America, Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuela, 1923-2019) and Luis Tomasello (Argentina, 1915-2014). In this image: Antonio Ascaso, Antonio Ascaso and Limari Ramirez de Ascaso with artist Carlos Luna.
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| | The Armory Show: Playing it safe during an unsettled time | | Aerial images reveal virus emptying famed sites | | The thrill of unpredictability at two art fairs |
Visitors at the Armory Art Show in Manhattan, March 4, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Last year the Armory Show weathered a crisis when Pier 92 over the Hudson River was condemned shortly before the art fair opened, precipitating a last-minute reshuffling of booths and the shutting down of a satellite display. This year, the fair has settled on Pier 90 and Pier 94 (dress for the outdoor walk between them) and the catastrophe is the coronavirus, which had already forced the cancellation of Art Basel Hong Kong last month. Though the Armory Show has opened smoothly, hand sanitizer stations are everywhere and elbow-bumping has replaced handshaking and air-kissing as the greeting du jour. Its a solid one if on the safe side with lots of painting rather than complicated installations or technology. Fairs are not merely commercial ventures. Sections here that have been organized by curators affiliated with prestigious museums (like Anne Ellegood and Jamillah James, both of the Institute ... More | |
An aerial view shows an empty white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, on March 6, 2020. Bandar ALDANDANI / AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- Empty public squares, a ghostly train station and deserted holy sites -- a series of striking satellite images have revealed the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on some of the world's busiest spaces. The aerial photographs, released by Colorado-based space technology firm Maxar, show normally bustling spots from Mecca to Beijing thinned of people. One image shows a handful of pilgrims circling the granite Kaaba at Mecca's Grand Mosque -- a sacred site usually thronged with worshippers from every corner of the Muslim world. Saudi Arabian authorities have suspended the year-round "umrah" pilgrimage to Islam's holiest place, in a bid to stop the spread of the virus which has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide. An image above the Hazrat Masumeh Shrine in Qom shows one of Iran's most hallowed places virtually empty as its famed golden dome shimmers in the sunlight. Streets and courtyards around the shrine are similarly vacant. Photos above Wuhan, China -- the epicentre ... More | |
View of Doug Argue's work at Volta NY.
by Jillian Steinhauer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- All art fairs arent the same, but they can have a comparable blanketing effect: after hours of walking around a sales floor, the works start to blend together. Was this the clever neon text sculpture you liked, or was it that one? This week, two fairs gamble on unpredictability to help break up the monotony. The more ambitious, Spring/Break Art Show, offers shake-it-all-up collaborations between artists and curators, while Volta is a mixed bag, but with a strong streak of playful abstraction. Although very different from each other, both lack the blue-chip sheen of bigger outlets like the Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. They cant give you a flawless experience but thats OK. They make you put in a little extra legwork to find something you love. Consider the possibilities. Spring/Break was founded in 2012 by the husband-and-wife team of Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly. Its original location was a disused schoolhouse in SoHo, where a slate of wonderfully weird installat ... More |
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| | Clark Art Institute launches contemporary art installation program with works by Pia Camil | | The Rose Art Museum announces a gift of 50 important works on paper from collector Stephen Salny | | Lark Mason Associates announces a trio of Asian Art Auctions with previews during Asia Week New York |
Pia Camil (Mexican, b. 1980), Telluride Tunic, 2015. Stitched fabric, installed: 84 1/2 x 105 x 3 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo © Pia Camil. Photo: Art Evans.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Clark Art Institute has launched a new program of year-long contemporary art exhibitions installed in its public spaces with an inaugural exhibition, Pia Camil: Velo Revelo, presenting three works by Pia Camil (Mexican, b. 1980). The program includes a site-specific installation in the Manton Research Center Reading Room and two works presented in the lower level of the Clark Center. The exhibition title combines the Spanish words for veil and to reveal, suggesting Camils interest in the tensions between private and public, opaque and transparent, domestic and institutional. The exhibition of Camils work will be on view through January 2021 and is free and open to the public. Pia Camil, one of the most exciting artists working in Latin ... More | |
Ellsworth Kelly, Red Curve, 2006. © Ellsworth Kelly and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
WALTHAM. MASS.- The Rose Art Museum announced the gift of 50 works on paper from Baltimore-based collector Stephen Salny. This gift includes pieces by some of todays leading artists and significantly includes a number of works by Ellsworth Kelly, as well as pieces by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella. Many of the works enrich already existing clusters of work by the same artists while others are new to the Roses permanent collection. We are delighted and deeply grateful to receive this generous gift, says Luis A. Croquer, the Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator. A major gift, such as this one, helps us to deepen and expand our holdings and also signals to the wider community that the Rose Collection continues to be a significant repository ... More | |
18th century Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Hayagriva and Consort.
NEW YORK, NY.- Though the majority of Asian art auctions have been re-scheduled to mid-June, Lark Mason Associates will open its doors during Asia Week New York to preview three major sales. The first Chinese Export Porcelain and Works of Art from an American Collector will open for bidding on igavelauctions on March 31-April 21st,, with the second one Asian, Ancient, Ethnographic Works of Art- commencing on April 2-23rd. Rounding out the schedule is Property from the Collection of Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr. and Other Owners will start June 18-July 8. All works of art will be on preview at the iGavel salesroom, 229 East 120th Street, during Asia Week New York. We are open for anyone who wants to preview our sales, says Lark Mason. Taken collectively these three sales will include many important Asian works of art and will appeal to a broad base of collectors. Some of the major highlights in Chinese Expor ... More |
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| | Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the largest exhibition to date in the UK by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos | | 'Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstract Variations' opens at the Seattle Art Museum | | 16th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe opens |
Joana Vasconcelos, Pop Galo at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2020. Photo © Jonty Wilde, Courtesy the artist and YSP.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a major exhibition of over 25 works by leading conceptual Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos from 7 March 2020 to 3 January 2021. One of the most prominent female visual art practitioners in the world, this is Vasconcelos largest exhibition ever held in the UK and YSPs headline presentation for 2020 in a year of programming dominated by women artists. Bringing together works produced over the last twenty years, Joana Vasconcelos is a dramatically choreographed selection of vibrant sculptures that engage with one another across YSPs unique contemporary architecture and 18th century landscape. Shown in the Underground Gallery and extending into the surrounding gardens, the exhibition presents dynamic and playful sculptures that examine, expose and celebrate the creative ... More | |
Georgia O'Keeffe, (American, 18871986), Music, Pink and Blue, No. 1, 1918, oil on canvas, 35 x 29 in., Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Barney A. Ebsworth, 2000.161, photo: Paul Macapia.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Georgia OKeeffe: Abstract Variations (March 5June 28, 2020), featuring 17 early paintings and drawings by the celebrated American artist. The installation, held in a single gallery on the museums third floor, focuses on OKeeffes explorations of abstraction and the development of her own style of modernism. One of the 20th centurys foremost modern artists, Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) is particularly known for her high-desert panoramas and intimate paintings of flowers. Abstract Variations instead explores key moments in her development as an artist as she explored pure abstraction. The installation features 10 oil paintings, including the centerpiece of the show: the pairing of Music, Pink and Blue, No. 1 ... More | |
Phil Price, Ipomoea, S x S Cottesloe, 2019. Photo: Clyde Yee.
PERTH.- Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, returns to transform the famous white sands of Cottesloe from 6 23 March 2020. Celebrating its 16th year, the exhibition is one of Perths largest free public events, attracting an estimated 210,000 visitors to explore the art and create Perths own version of the Italian passeggiata. Artists from 17 countries have created 70 sculptures to surprise and delight visitors to the 18-day exhibition, including award-winning Japanese artist Haruyuki Uchida, one of the worlds most prominent kinetic artists, as the 2020 Tourism WA Invited International Artist. Uchida has created the largest gravity defying sculpture he has made outside of Japan for Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, a new 7.5metre long kinetic sculpture made from stainless steel and magnets titled Merry Gate that is sure to be a favourite ... More |
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| | S.M.A.K. opens the first Belgian retrospective dedicated to the work of Kris Martin | | Mudam Luxembourg opens an exhibition of new and recent works by Jean-Marie Biwer | | Exhibition at Haus der Kunst traces the development of Franz Erhard Walther |
Kris Martin T.Y.F.F.S.H., 2009 Courtesy Kris Martin. Installation view MCA Chicago. Photo MCA Chicago
GHENT.- EXIT is the first Belgian retrospective dedicated to the work of Kris Martin (b. 1972, Kortrijk, Belgium). The artist is nationally recognised for Altar, his sculpture on the beach at Ostend. After having shown his work internationally for twenty years, the Belgian public is finally being given the opportunity to get to know his eloquent oeuvre in more detail. Kris Martin creates sculptures from objects that raise questions about concepts such as transience, identity and death. These are themes that have traversed art history for centuries. The artist also weaves art history, literature and myths into his work. Moreover, he plays on mechanisms such as recognition and alienation in order to make us think about the bigger questions. In so doing, he creates space for reflection, resistance or poetry. EXIT also establishes a subtle dialogue with the oeuvre of Jan van ... More | |
Jean-Marie Biwer, Before the Flood, 2016-2018 (detail). Oil on canvas, 190 x 260 cm. Artist collection © Jean-Marie Biwer / Adagp, Paris 2020. Photo: Rémi Villaggi / Mudam Luxembourg.
LUXEMBOURG.- Mudam Luxembourg Musée dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents an exhibition of new and recent works by the Luxembourgish artist, Jean-Marie Biwer (b. 1957, Dudelange). Gathering paintings, drawings and prints from the last 15 years, this monographic exhibition brings into focus Biwers distinct approach to painting landscapes, nature and the immediate environment. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artists work in a Luxembourg museum marking a 40 year career in painting. Over the past four decades, Biwer has developed a body of figurative work that reflects a sensitivity to the world around him: both in terms of the immediate environment the Ardennes countryside in the north of Luxembourg and in relation ... More | |
Franz Erhard Walther. Shifting Perspectives. Installation view Aktivierung mit Franz Erhard Walther, Gelbe Skulptur, 1969/79. Haus der Kunst, 2020. Photo: Maximilian Geuter © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020.
MUNICH.- Franz Erhard Walther is a key figure in the conceptual departure from the image in the European post-war avantgardes. Beyond the panel painting and a classical understanding of sculpture, he formulated a completely new work concept in particular by including the viewer as a participant. Walther himself described the elements of place, time, space, body and language as his artistic means. The gesture of a radical iconoclasm, which aimed to revise the narrative strategies of modernism, stands at the beginning of his oeuvre, which spans more than six decades. A young man with dishevelled hair and paint-splotched clothes sits cross-legged and barefoot in front of a silver bowl and, with his head held high, spits out a mixture of flour and water. Franz Erhard Walther ... More |
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mumok opens a retrospective exhibition of works by Ingeborg Strobl
VIENNA.- Ingeborg Strobls oeuvre is moored in the tradition of conceptual and intermedia art. Natural and animal subjects acting as mirror images of society take up a central role in her objects, installations, collages, paintings, photographs, films, and publications. Also evident in her work is a predilection for the marginal, the hidden, that which is all-too easy to overlook or repress as well as a concomitant aversion to obsessive production and consumption. Recognizing and valuing the peripheral is an aspect that also comes to the fore in the media in which she worked. Printed matter such as publications, posters, and invitation cards are themselves artistically rendered components of her oeuvre. Strobl donated her archive with numerous works and printed matter to mumok. This archival material is the centerpiece of the retrospective, which was conceived ... More
Beck & Eggeling opens an exhibition of works by Joachim Brohm
DUSSELDORF.- Beck & Eggeling is presenting the exhibition »Less and More« by Joachim Brohm, on view in Düsseldorf 6 March till 16 May 2020. Works by Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Rudolf Schindler, Addenda-Architects, among others, have incited Brohm to reflect on the metamorphoses of Modernism through the medium of photography. Works of Modernism are constantly being interpreted, reinterpreted, indeed collected and stored away. Modernist architecture is being renovated, redesigned, torn down, reconstructed. Original functions and purposes are thus being altered, occasionally forgotten, but sometimes even optimised and reinvented. New meanings and perceptions for these often iconic objects and buildings, on their passage from the 20th into the 21st century, arise through these processes. Brohm confronts ... More
Exhibition presents the work of 11 artists who were awarded the Berlin Senate's Visual Arts Grant in 2019
BERLIN.- The exhibition These Are the Only Times You Have Known presents the work of 11 international artists who were awarded the Berlin Senates Visual Arts Grant in 2019. The range of artistic positions they represent reflects the diversity of artistic forms of expression in Berlin and includes the examination of different layers of time, hidden narratives, and issues of belonging and performativity. The search for meaning in the present is an element shared by all of the artistic works presented in These Are the Only Times You Have Known, whose spectrum ranges from paintings, photographs, prints, and video installations to virtual reality techniques. A preoccupation with questions of temporality is an important aspect for many of the exhibited works. Two video essays by Maya Schweizer, for example, analyze images and spaces of forgetting, while Frauke ... More
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai opens Mehlli Gobhai retrospective
MUMBAI.- Mehlli Gobhai (1931-2018) was one of Indias most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xaviers College and the Government College of Law, Mumbai, the Royal College of Art, London, the Pratt Graphic Art Center and the Art Students League, New York, Gobhai lived in New York from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. In his paintings, Gobhai combined a commitment to a precise, incised geometry with a delight in the sensuousness of textures suggestive of rockface or burnished leather. He regarded colour as a temptation best submerged in the palette of sepia, burnt umber, burnt sienna and charcoal grey that he favoured. The abstract artist to whom he was closest in spirit was Ad Reinhardt. His sources of inspiration also included patterned river stones, non-iconic wayside shrines, Chola bronzes, and the ... More
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst explores the relationship between humans and nature
ZURICH.- Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories is the first in a series of two exhibitions that will explore the relationship between humans and nature. The works on view in both exhibitions scrutinize the human impact on the planet and sketch potential future scenarios for life on Earth. Climate change and other phenomena are evidence that human activities are affecting the planet; the repercussions are visible and tangible. Faced with this urgent concern, we need to question our own actions and ways of thinking. That is the point of departure for the art on display in the exhibition Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories. The works shed light on forms of the appropriation of the natural world in the pursuit of power and resources. They point up the consequences for the environment as well as the social fabric and question conceptions in the natural ... More
First ever survey exhibition of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in the U.S. opens at at High Line Nine
NEW YORK, NY.- A major survey exhibition of works by Australias most significant contemporary abstract painter, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, is being shown in the United States for the first time. EMILY brings together seventeen of the finest examples from the artists entire oeuvre from beginning to end. Kngwarreye has long been one of Australias most celebrated and sought-after contemporary artists. She emerged into public view in 1988 when she began painting on canvas at the age of 78 drawing on a lifetime of ritual and artistic activity in the remote desert community known as Utopia, located to the north east of Alice Springs in the heart of Central Australia. Her energetic paintings are infused with the stories and the spiritual forces of her country as a senior member of the Anmatyerre clan and a custodian of the Dreaming sites of Alhalkere ... More
Statue of Bacchus exhibition to open at the North Carolina Museum of Art
RALEIGH, NC.- The Statue of Bacchus, which has undergone extensive research since the 1960s when the North Carolina Museum of Art realized it was a patchwork of marble fragments, returns on view in special exhibition Bacchus Conservation Project: The Story of a Sculpture. Open March 7September 27, 2020, the exhibition explores the history of the sculpture, the scientific investigation, the conservation process, and the making of its new arm. The exhibition also includes a series of related events, including a free Family Day, a scholarly panel, and a wine-tasting event. The Bacchus Conservation Project, underway since 2013, is a multidisciplinary and multiphase endeavor, featuring scholars, scientists, engineers, artists, and even former North Carolina State University basketball player Wyatt Walker. The Bacchus Conservation Project ... More
Hudson River Museum opens 'Derrick Adams: Buoyant'
YONKERS, NY.- Derrick Adams (American, born 1970) delves deeply and fearlessly into the nooks and crannies of Black life and culture, unveiling a nuanced wholeness of humanity. The multidisciplinary, New York-based artist depicts a world where joy, love, leisure, and even prosaic normalcy play central roles, methodically filling the many voids and omissions in popular visual culture. The Hudson River Museum presents Derrick Adams: Buoyant, which is the first museum exhibition of Adams Floaters series, and will debut We Came to Party and Plan, new related works the artist created during his summer 2019 Rauschenberg Residency. Executed between 2014 and 2019, the Floaters series is a collection of vividly painted portraits depicting Black people in various states of rest and play, buoyantly floating on calm waters. Relaxed bodies, some with ... More
Experience the whimsical world of Winnie-the-Pooh at the Royal Ontario Museum
TORONTO.- Fans of all ages will be able to immerse themselves in the wonderful and whimsical world of Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic, opening exclusively in Canada at the Royal Ontario Museum on Saturday, March 7 and on view until August 3, 2020. Visitors are invited to see the worldand the ROMthrough Poohs eyes: a place to ponder, wonder and find joy in simple pleasures. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (V&A), Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic examines the origins, creation and enduring legacy of the classic stories by A.A. Milne (18821956) and the heart-warming illustrations of E.H. Shepard (18791976). The ROMs presentation also explores Poohs fascinating Canadian connection, which in part inspired the iconic characters rise to fame. We are delighted to present Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring ... More
June Edmonds at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles Gallery wins The AWARE Prize at The Armory Show
NEW YORK, NY.- AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, a Paris-based nonprofit with a mission to reposition women artists in the canon of 20th century art history, in partnership with The Armory Show, announce that artist June Edmonds has been awarded the debut AWARE Prize at The Armory Show. The $10,000 juried prize highlights the excellence of the artists work and the gallerys courage to present a solo-female artists work in a market that has systematically undervalued art made by women. Were so proud to present The AWARE Prize to June Edmonds, on an international stage like The Armory Show, states co-founder Camille Morineau. Edmonds was unanimously selected by the jurors, who coalesced around the discovery of her new Flag Paintingsa breakthrough body of never-before seen work by the artist ... More
New immersive sound installation by Carl Craig opening at Dia:Beacon
BEACON, NY.- Dia Art Foundation has commissioned acclaimed Detroit-based techno DJ and producer Carl Craig to create a sound installation at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, in dialogue with the unique architecture of the space. Party/Afterparty marks his first commission for an art institution and culminate a five-year-long engagement with Dia. This sound installation reimagines Dia:Beacons lower level, creating a sonic environment that is anchored to the sites manufacturing history as a former Nabisco packaging factory and recalling a techno tradition of reclaiming industrial spaces for radical experimentation. Deeply personal, the work accesses both the euphoria of the club environment and the loneliness that follows this collective experience. In conjunction with the commission, Dia will host a robust schedule of public programming that ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot.
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