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Mateo Blanco, Green Desire, 2017. Mixed Media on Board, 17 1/2 Ã 19 Ã 1 1/2 in. 44.5 Ã 48.3 Ã 3.8 cm. Edition of 29 + 1AP.
ORLANDO, FLA..- Over the years, Mateo Blanco has had great success in the world of art and entertainment. Hes been a popular talk show host and TV personality, is an accomplished opera singer whos performed for President Bush, and his sculptures and mixed media pieces are displayed in museums across the world. Now, Blanco is taking his talents and his personal story to the big screen with Caged Bird, a short documentary about his artistic journey and Colombian heritage. It was such an honor to work with Mateo his struggles and success resonated with me in a way I never expected. In many facets, were all caged birds, and what Mateo represent is the true meaning to be free, said Emmanuel Simms, the director. Caged Bird will premiere on Oct. 2 with showings at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at CMX Cinemas Plaza Café in Orlando, Blancos home city. It will then be entered in FusionFest this November. FusionFest celebrates the people and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 30: Tongva Spiritual Leader, Jimi Castillo seen during the Official Ribbon Cutting Of The Opening Of The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. JC Olivera/Getty Images/AFP. JC Olivera / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP.
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| The Brooklyn Museum and LACMA partner to acquire 200 photographic works by European women artists | | UK street artist Banksy's famous balloon girl work to go on sale | | In 'Afterlives,' about looted art, why are the victims an afterthought? |
Alexandra Croitoru, Untitled, (Bodybuilder I), 2003, dye coupler print, 31 1/2 à 26 3/4 in., promised gift of The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, © Alexandra Croitoru, digital image courtesy of the artist.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced the joint acquisition of two hundred contemporary photographs by women artists from seventeen countries in Western and Eastern Europe. The generous gift comes from Houston-based collector Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, whose expansive collection has been built over the course of twenty years and showcases an impressive range of styles and approaches to photography from that period. The collection features works by nearly ninety emerging and established women artists, including Yto Barrada, Carolle Bénitah, Melanie Bonajo, Natalie Czech, Eva KoťÃ¡tková, Vera Lutter, Josephine Pryde, and Shirana Shahbazi. This is the Brooklyn Museums largest joint acquisition as well as the largest gift of contemporary photography ... More | |
Banksy, Girl with Balloon (Diptych) (2005, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- A version of British graffiti artist Banksy's famous "Girl and Balloon" artwork was unveiled by Christie's on Friday, as the highlight of the London auction house's upcoming sale. The two-part or diptych canvas depicts a small child letting go of a heart-shaped red balloon and was painted by the elusive wall dauber in 2005. It is expected to fetch up to £3.5 million (4 million euros, $4.7 million) when it goes on sale on October 15. "Of course, Banksy is the king of the streets, he's almost a bit like the Robin Hood of the art world," Katharine Arnold, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art in Europe for Christie's, told AFP. "Banksy used this image... outside a printing shop, it appeared on a wall, then a couple of years later, it appeared on the Southbank, another little girl with another balloon, and then in 2005, he created this diptych addition of works," she explained. The girl with balloon has "become something of a leitmotif for Banksy and it's very very celebrated," added Arnol ... More | |
Henri Matisse, Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar, 1939. Oil on canvas, 25 x 19 1/2 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, New York.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- Some headlines from the past few months. March: the French government agrees to return a major landscape by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of Nora Stiasny, a Jewish woman from Vienna, forced to sell it before being sent to her death in 1942. June: the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels returns a still life by Lovis Corinth to the family of Gustav and Emma Mayer, Jewish refugees from Germany whose belongings were looted in Nazi-occupied Belgium. August: the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam agrees to return an early Kandinsky to the descendants of Irma Klein and Robert Lewenstein, a Jewish couple forced to sell it during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. World War II is three-quarters of a century past now, but the fate of artworks stolen from Jewish ... More |
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| Reflex Amsterdam opens an exhibition of paintings by Michael Craig-Martin | | From slavery to police abuse, new museum documents US history of racism | | With big, bold art, Sarah Cain redefines seriousness in painting |
Michael Craig-Martin, Untitled (with coffee cup), 2020 (detail). Courtesy Gagosian London & Reflex Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- In celebration of Michael Craig-Martins 80th birthday, Reflex Amsterdam announces the artists first solo exhibition in The Netherlands. The gallery presents a selection of colourful, minimalistic paintings. Reflex is also publishing a new book containing Craig-Martins latest works with an essay by Axel Rüger, art historian and CEO of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition runs from 2 October until 15 December 2021. Quotidian objects are draped in vibrant colours on Craig-Martins paintings. High heels, blenders, shirts, and caps become sculptural as they are depicted in bold outlines. The dazzling colour planes contrast the minimalism of the line, sharply demarcating one colour plane from the other. Craig-Martins vigorous draftsmanship render the familiar iconic by his audacious minimalism. The artist traversed several mediums but made the shift to painting in the 1990s. All Things Co ... More | |
The economics of enslavement, the violence of slavery, sexual violence against enslaved Black women, the commodification of people, and the desperate efforts enslaved people made to stay connected to loved ones is explored through text, art sculptures, iconography, and video animations and film.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Slavery, lynchings, segregation, mass incarceration and police abuse: a museum that opened Friday in the state of Alabama traces a direct link between the racist past of the United States and today's inequalities. The Legacy Museum in the state capital of Montgomery is housed in a building where African captives were once held before being sold as slaves. "It's a museum about the history of America, with a focus on the legacy of slavery," Bryan Stevenson, the head of Equal Justice Initiative, a civil rights organization in Alabama, told AFP. "I can't think of another institution in America that has more profoundly shaped our economy, our politics, our social structures. And our character." "Our understanding of slavery is very very incomplete," he said. It is this ... More | |
The Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cain, with a work from her solo show at Broadway Gallery in Manhattan, Sept. 6, 2021. Tonje Thilesen/The New York Times.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Last summer, painter Sarah Cain was contemplating the biggest project of her career: a 45-foot-long painting for the East Building Atrium of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. Cain, 42, has been making caustically colorful, improvised abstractions since the mid-2000s and had been commissioned to hide construction walls during refurbishment of the atriums skylight. Nearby sculptures by Max Ernst, Isamu Noguchi and Richard Serra, too large to relocate, were protected by wooden boxes. Cain was tasked with painting on the boxes, too each bigger than her studio. (And she needed a title.) Not long afterward, one recent scorching afternoon, I visited the artist in the hilly Los Angeles neighborhood of Garvanza. Cain handed me a mug of iced mint tea. On the side, in jaunty lettering, was that title, borrowed from a meme she spotted on Instagram that made her laugh: ... More |
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| Over the Influence opens the second solo exhibition of Gosha Levochkin in Los Angeles | | Phillips announces highlights from its 20th Century & Contemporary Art Frieze Week Auctions | | Sotheby's announces West Coast expansion with Beverly Hills flagship gallery space |
Gosha Levochkin, Fantasy Zone Complete Collection, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 147.3 by 119.4cm, 58 by 47 in, Photo courtesy of the Artist and Over the Influence. Photo credit the Artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Over the Influence presents Secret Button, the second solo exhibition of Gosha Levochkin in Los Angeles. The exhibition is on view from 2 October to 7 November 2021. In this new series of paintings, Levochkin continues to push his signature language of abstraction that he began developing four years ago. The compositions and palette carry associations of constructivism, where Levochkin creates an almost an aerial map for a video game; with tubular columns and stacks, electric jolts, and bursts and splashes of water. Each painting presents a scene of an almost organized chaos: a puzzle to solve, a gear to turn, or even a Secret Button to press. For the artist, it exemplifies all these elements as a means of self-preservation through the visual expression of his lived and subconscious experiences. Growing up during the fall of ... More | |
Sigmar Polke, Negerplastik, 1968. Estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening and Day sales bring together a rich diversity of Modern and Contemporary artists this October. The Evening Sale opens with a front run of highly sought-after names, including Serge Attukwei Clottey, Jadé Fadojutimi, Sanya Kantarovsky, Flora Yukhnovich, and auction newcomer Reggie Burrows Hodges. Star lots include works by Marlene Dumas, Jean Fautrier, Albert Oehlen, and Sigmar Polke, among others. Further highlights featuring in both sales include paintings by Milton Avery from the Collection of Peter OToole and major works by Max Ernst from the Collection of Peter Schamoni. Phillips has also partnered with the UK rapper and actor Kano, who has selected a series of 11 works from the auctions for Kano Curates. The Day Sale will be held on 14 October at 2pm, followed by the Evening Sale on 15 October at 5pm. A full-scale preview exhibition will go on view to the public at 30 ... More | |
Public opening 14 October with highlights from The Macklowe Collection. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Building on Sothebys longtime presence in Los Angeles over the last four decades, Sothebys announced the opening of the companys first public exhibition space on the West Coast with a new, expanded footprint in the heart of Beverly Hills. Opening to the public on 14 October and located at 350 N Camden Drive, the flagship street-level gallery space will be inaugurated with an exhibition of select works from the Macklowe Collection running until 17 October, spotlighting nine of the most significant works from an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art making its worldwide tour before a dedicated auction on 15 November in New York. Following the inaugural exhibition, Sothebys Los Angeles will host rotating presentations of luxury, design, jewelry & watches, and fine art, including bespoke exhibition programming specialized to the Beverly Hills location, providing Sothebys with new opportunit ... More |
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| Edward Keating, Times photographer at ground zero, dies at 65 | | Casey Kaplan now representing Ella Walker | | An artist's portraits, stitched together on the subway |
Edward Keating, then a freelance photographer working for The New York Times, is carried after being beaten during the racial violence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on Aug. 20, 1991. Keith Meyers/The New York Times.
by Alex Traub
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Keating, who for more than a month did whatever it took, even disguising himself as a worker, to photograph the wreckage at ground zero after Sept. 11, 2001, contributing to a body of work that brought The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for photography for its 9/11 coverage, died Sunday in New York. He was 65. His wife, Carrie Keating, said the cause was cancer, which Edward Keating had attributed to the days and nights he spent inhaling toxic dust amid the ruins of the World Trade Center. Keatings enterprising spirit as a photographer sometimes got him in trouble. In the 1990s, while covering the Kosovo war, he was seized by Serbian authorities after crossing the Albanian border to get a better ... More | |
Ella Walker, Sacred Conversation Painting, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 82.68 x 55.12 x 7.87 / 210 x 140 x 20cm, Photo: Richard Ivey.
NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan, New York announced representation of Ella Walker (b. 1993, Manchester, UK). For Frieze London, October 13 17, 2021 at Regents Park, the gallery will present a solo presentation of paintings by the artist. Captivated by Italian illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance paintings, along with medieval narratives and symbolism, Ella Walkers oeuvre transforms art historical iconography to invent theatrical scenes of love, tragedy, and mystery within her alluring unstretched, large format canvases. Combining techniques of painting, drawing, and frescoincorporating a vast array of mediums including, tempura, gesso, pastel, and inkWalker creates shallow, stage-like depths of field, interspersing flat planes of color that disturb her viewers holistic sense of structure and composition. Transforming traditional scenes and spaces into tableaux suffused with drama, romance, mis ... More | |
LJ Roberts Frederick Weston (2018) depicts the late artist at a Pride march. LJ Roberts and Hales via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- LJ Roberts starts by stitching the faces of friends and lovers, recalling in hand-sewn portraits the contours of a saved photograph or deeply personal memory. For the past decade, the artist has created these pocket-size embroideries during downtime and subway rides around New York. A tapestry of queer and trans history, activism and politics has emerged, defined by the details: handmade protest signs, bumper stickers, pride flags and pet collars. Carry You With Me: Ten Years of Portraits marks a turning point in Roberts career, as institutions and collectors start investing in LGBTQ artists who use textiles to tell their stories. They are a dramatic departure from the billowing quilts and monumental collages that have earned the artist a following among museum curators. Would audiences accept this ... More |
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Onstage, 'Designing Women' sheds the shoulder pads, not its politics
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, an Emmy-nominated writer and producer, started hearing voices earlier this year, voices she hadnt heard in nearly 30 years. Those voices wouldnt shut up. I told my husband, Im going to have to get a gun and shoot them, Bloodworth-Thomason said during a recent phone conversation. She didnt know how else to make them stop. The voices were those of Julia Sugarbaker, Suzanne Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively and Charlene Frazier, the characters from Designing Women, the half-hour sitcom that premiered on CBS in 1986. Nominated for a slew of Emmys, it won only one, for outstanding achievement in hairstyling. Set in Atlanta, and centered on a quartet of mouthy women who orbit an interior design firm, it combined feminist politics with click-clack comedy rhythms, celebrating the New South ... More
George Frayne, aka Commander Cody, alt-country pioneer, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- George Frayne, who as frontman for the band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen melded Western swing, jump blues, rockabilly and boogie-woogie with a freewheeling 1960s ethos to pave the way for generations of roots-rock, Americana and alt-country musicians, died Sunday at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was 77. John Tichy, one of the bands original members, who is now a professor of engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said the cause was esophageal cancer. Although the band lasted only a decade and had just one Top 10 hit, Fraynes charisma and raucous onstage presence as well as the Airmens genre-busting sound made them a cult favorite in 1970s music meccas such as the San Francisco area and Austin, Texas. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen was not the only ... More
Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg addresses the nature of production, consumption and wealth in the 21st century
LUXEMBOURG.- Post-Capital brings together works of sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance that address the nature of production, consumption and wealth in the 21st century. Developed within a period of significant change and uncertainty, the exhibition takes as its starting point the inherent paradox within a capitalist system that is both dependent upon and threatened by technological progress. Presenting the work of 21 artists from 17 countries it is installed across three floors of the museum. The exhibitions title is adapted from Peter Druckers 1993 book, Post-Capitalist Society, which predicted that the impact of information technology on the labour market would be so great that it would ultimately lead to the fall ... More
Sotheby's opens Burning Man auction with 150+ lots
NEW YORK, NY.- Highlighted by a group of rebel mutant vehicles, genre-defying original artwork, eclectic fashions and accessories, photography, unique experiences, and much more, Sothebys is bringing the experience of Burning Man and Black Rock City to New York with a comprehensive auction and exhibition of more than 150 lots that channel the spirit of Burning Man. Showcasing a diverse range of works contributed by Burning Man artists, community members, and culturally-adjacent artists and collectors, Boundless Space The Possibilities of Burning Man is a unique opportunity to benefit participating artists while raising funds for Burning Man Project to help ensure the nonprofits long-term commitment to facilitating and extending the culture that has issued from Black Rock City into the larger world. Funds will directly support participating artists and Burning ... More
Joslyn Art Museum opens 'Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer'
OMAHA, NE.- During the early 1830s, a dynamic network of Native American nationslargely
unknown to non-Native people beyond trappers and tradersinhabited the Upper Plains region of North America. The Swiss draftsman Karl Bodmer (18091893) was one of the first European artist-observers to create a visual record of these communities leaders, lifeways, and homelands. Hired by the German naturalist Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied, Bodmer accompanied a scientific expedition from Saint Louis to the northwestern reaches of the Missouri River, a round trip of nearly five thousand miles, between April 1833 and May 1834. Intending to reveal what Maximilian called the natural face of North America, Bodmer produced numerous portraits of Indigenous people that record the lives of specific individuals. ... More
French and Russian art on a 'War and Peace' scale
PARIS.- Sometimes you yearn for the beauty of small things: the haiku, the string quartet, the miniature engraving. And then other times, tovarishch, you need your beauty as big as the motherland. The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art, which opened last week at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, brings to Paris a War and Peace-scale blast of French and Russian painting and reunites, for the first time since 1918, one of the two most substantial art collections of pre-revolutionary Russia. When the French bourgeoisie still disdained the Paris avant-garde, the young Russian textile magnates Ivan and Mikhail Morozov bought the most innovative paintings in the city and bought in bulk. Gauguin, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso: All their work came east, and would inspire two generations of Russian successors. Alongside their fellow textile boss ... More
Carlisle Floyd, whose operas spun fables of the South, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Carlisle Floyd, the composer-librettist whose operas explored the passions and prejudices of the South in lyrical tales that drew on rural fundamentalism, the Great Depression, the aftermath of the Civil War and other regional themes, died Thursday in Tallahassee, Florida. He was 95. His death was announced by his publisher, Boosey & Hawkes. Among the leading 20th-century American opera composers, Floyd is often cited with Ned Rorem, Philip Glass, John Coolidge Adams, the Italian-American Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber and others whose works have joined the standard repertoire, including George Gershwin, who called his Porgy and Bess a folk opera, and Leonard Bernstein, whose Candide was an operetta. The son of an itinerant South Carolina preacher, Floyd grew up with the music of the South: revival ... More
Revisiting a post-apocalyptic play in the pandemic
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most unbearable things about the pandemic is the uncertainty: about what we can and cannot do, and the way our understanding of what is going on gets tangled in conflicting stories or collapses altogether. And then there is the dread about what will happen next. Or at least that is what I was thinking as I watched this pandemic-era production of Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, Anne Washburns 2012 apocalyptic phantasmagoria about hope, storytelling and The Simpsons. At Theater Wit in Chicago, Jeremy Wechsler, its longtime artistic director, is offering an expressive new staging that leans on the horror of the past 18 months to draw out the works fresh urgency. But he has also found new comfort in its meaning. I saw Mr. Burns twice in the Before Times in 2013, at Playwrights Horizons in New York, and, in 2015, ... More
Fine autographs and artifacts featuring presidential memorabilia up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- October's installment of RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts series brings over 800 unique and unusual pieces to the auction block. This sale offers an unparalleled depth of diversity from precious presidential autographs to magnificent music memorabilia: several hundred of these items have not seen the market in decades. Highlights include an incredibly rare William Henry Harrison signature as president. Practically nonexistent ink signature as president, "W. H. Harrison," on an off-white vellum slip clipped from a larger document, signed by Harrison above the printed heading, "By the President," and signed by Secretary of State Daniel Webster. With his presidency lasting only one month, anything signed by Harrison as Chief Executive is extraordinarily rare. (Estimate: $25,000+) An important twice-signed ... More
Rare Jean-Michel Frank chandelier shines at Heritage Auctions Sept. 30 design event
DALLAS, TX.- After almost a century of illuminating the conservatory of the same Illinois house, a rare suspension lamp by renowned French designer Jean-Michel Frank has a new place to call home. Commissioned by influential decorator Frances Elkins for a grand Georgian-style manse belonging to a prominent Lake Forest family, the circa 1928 light made its auction debut at Heritages Sept. 30 Design Signature Auction. With its gracefully curved inverted dome form and subtle scalloped edges, its understandable how the handmade plaster marvel created by a modernist design genius could garner enough attention to realize $87,500 the auctions top price. Jean-Michel Frank is the epitome of elegance, says Heritage Auctions Design Director Brent Lewis. Theres always interest from some of our most important clients when we ... More
Review: In 'Never Let Go,' a solo performer's heart goes on
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Kinnans Never Let Go is a one-man stage version of Titanic. That would be enough to persuade a lot of people to head to the Brick Theater, the adventurous Brooklyn black box where the show opened this week. Just as many might shrug in reflexive disdain. Kinnan is aware of those potential responses. The program for his show, in which he plays all the parts, claims that his theatrical realization of the movie was created for lovers, fans and even skeptics. Improbably, all three groups may well come away happy: This heart does go on, and for only an hour instead of 3 1/2. Never Let Go is a feat of ingenuity that works regardless of whether you have seen the movie. Its easy to follow the story and identify the characters, even though there is no ocean liner and only minimal costume alterations. Kinnan embodies ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Donna Karan was born October 02, 1948. Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. In this image: Designer Donna Karan appears during an event in celebration of her Urban Zen collection and foundation Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New York.
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