| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Saturday, October 7, 2023 |
| | | Sculptures that don't have to add up to work like magic | |
|
|
A crumpled arch is one of the untitled works in the exhibition Sculpture: The Work of Hans Noe at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, Sept. 23, 2023. For decades, Noe, a Holocaust survivor, architect and restaurateur, has been making geometric wooden objects that are almost impossible to categorize. (Alex Hodor-Lee/The New York Times)
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- The wooden objects Hans Noë constructs columns, walls and confounding clumps of simple but unusual geometric solids arent exactly sculpture. Theyre not quite high design, either, or childrens toys, or math problems, or architectural maquettes. But they could almost fit in any of these categories, evoking forebears and influences as various as Constantin Brancusi, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Friedrich Froebel. And at the National Museum of Mathematics right now, writer Lawrence Weschler, a friend of Noës son Alva, has brought four dozen of them together in the exhibition Sculpture: The Work of Hans Noë. Noës background may offer some explanation for the ambiguity of his work. He was born to Austrian Jewish parents in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), an area that changed hands repeatedly. Noës family survived World War II thanks to luck, ingenuity and his fathers reputation as a pediatrician. The Romanians wh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, 'Nonmemory' at Hauser & Wirth brings together seminal works by Mike Kelley and a group of seven contemporary artists - Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey and Max Hooper Schneider - whose works all play with the role of memory as it posits our perceptions of space and place.
|
|
|
|
|
| Art Institute of Chicago exhibiting work by French artist Camille Claudel | | North Carolina radio station won't ban Met Opera broadcasts after all | | Rehs Contemporary presents captivating new works by renowned Japanese artist Mitsuru Watanabe |
Camille Claudel. The Waltz (Allioli), about 1900. Private collection. Photo courtesy of Musée Yves Brayer.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is now showing work by Camille Claudel. This exhibition is the first comprehensive North American show focused solely on Camille Claudels work in 35 years. It will include nearly 60 sculptures that demonstrate the broad range of genres, formats, and materials in which Claudel conceived her work and executed with brilliant technique. While she was among the most daring and visionary French artists of the late nineteenth century, Claudels work has largely been characterized by her tumultuous lifeher relationship with sculptor Auguste Rodin and the disruption of her career as she spent the last 30 years of her life in a psychiatric facility. This exhibition will include her best known compositions and span the entirety of her brief but consequential body of work created between the 1880s and 1913. Her work was first shown in the United States at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair and now, on ... More | |
People gather near a fountain at the Lincoln Center, in New York, June 26, 2018. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times).
by Jonathan Abrams and Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- The music director of a nonprofit North Carolina classical radio station said Thursday that the station would reverse course and air several contemporary operas being performed by the Metropolitan Opera in New York this season that the station had originally said were unsuitable for broadcast, citing their adult themes and harsh language. It was a very hard decision, Emily Moss, the music director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in an interview. Its been a hard day and a hard week. The reversal came after the station faced widespread criticism. The Met, the nations leading opera company, has been staging more contemporary work in recent seasons as part of a push to attract new and more diverse audiences; the company has found that these ... More | |
Mitsuru Watanabe, Babel and Pudding.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary opened an exhibition featuring the latest creations of acclaimed Japanese artist, Mitsuru Watanabe. The exhibition showcases a series of six captivating and thought-provoking pieces that reimagine and reinterpret iconic masterpieces by renowned historical artists. Mitsuru Watanabe's unique artistic vision has captivated audiences, and his latest creations continue to push the boundaries of artistic expression. The most imposing of the bunch is entitled Babel and Pudding. Measuring more than 5 feet tall, the painting is inspired by Dutch Renaissance master Pieter Bruegel's iconic "Tower of Babel," a pair of paintings created in 1563. Here, Watanabe pays homage to Bruegels intricate detail and rich storytelling, while infusing the scene with his own distinctive twist. The towering structure in the background, reminiscent of the biblical tale, stands as a symbol of human ambition ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Jay-Z: Brooklyn Public Library exhibit is 'More Than What I Deserved' | | Major fashion exhibition featuring Alexander McQueen and Ann Ray opens at Columbia Museum of Art | | Otobong Nkanga wins the Nasher Prize for Sculpture |
Nina Collins, the chair of the Board of Trustees at the Brooklyn Public Library, during the librarys 24th annual gala, Oct. 2, 2023. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
by Melissa Guerrero
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday night, at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, adults in tieless suits and flowing dresses populated the Youth Wing, sitting near stacks of childrens books, some on childrens chairs, with drinks in hand for the librarys 24th annual gala. The benefit, which raised $1.5 million, honored Jay-Z and his mother, Gloria Carter, the co-founder and CEO of the Shawn Carter Foundation. (She did not attend.) Nearby were pieces from The Book of Hov exhibit like encased CDs, magazine covers, Grammy and Emmy Award statues, and a full-scale replica of a studio which features artifacts tracing the artists decades-long career. The exhibit opened in July and was extended through Dec. 4, Jay-Zs birthday. Above a scribbled chalkboard, a large rendering of a green dragon hovered over stacked glasses on a bar that served Ace of Spades champagne and ... More | |
Alexander McQueen Embroidered Annabel Lee poem coat (detail). The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, Autumn/Winter 2008 Photo Barrett Barrera Projects. Courtesy of Barrett Barrera Projects & RKL Consulting.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art is hosting Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous, a major fashion and photography exhibition now on view through Sunday, January 21, 2024. Curated and organized by Barrett Barrera Projects, Rendez-Vous débuted at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and will make its second stop at the CMA before continuing its multi-city tour. The exhibitions East Coast debut was celebrated at the Rendez- Vous Opening Party on Friday, October 6. McQueen continues to endure, inspire, and fascinate, and this exhibition gives rare access to be up close to a designer who transcended the world of fashion, says CMA Director of Art and Learning Jackie Adams. The intimate portraits Ann Ray captured of her friend reveal genuine moments of the designers creativity, strength, vulnerability, and individualism, giving viewers authentic moments of the ... More | |
Otobong Nkanga, was born in Kano, Nigeria in 1974, grew up in Lagos and Paris, and lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Nigerian Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga makes unorthodox work addressing the global extraction of natural resources. She has sung to copper mines in Namibia and balanced potted plants on peoples heads in Switzerland. But now, her expansive view of sculpture is being recognized by one of the art worlds top honors: the Nasher Prize. The prize is more than a $100,000 award. A winner becomes a laureate at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, where curators help devise public programming, an exhibition and a published monograph. I wasnt expecting this, but I am extremely honored, said Nkanga, 49, who now resides in Antwerp, Belgium. The museum exhibition will be an opportunity for the artist to reintroduce herself to American audiences. Her last solo exhibition in the United States was in 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she presented soap sculptures, ... More |
|
|
|
|
| CODART Research: Role of curator has fundamentally changed | | The Claude de Marteau Collection series achieves more than US$15.6 million at Bonhams | | Nara Roesler announces the representation of Jose Dávila |
From 6 October 2023, the full research report can be found at www.codart.nl/25.
THE HAGUE.- Flemish art, makes clear the role of the museum curator has fundamentally changed in recent decades. The task of the curator is shifting steadily from keeper of the collection and researcher in the direction of networker and narrator. Although the basics of the discipline have not changed essentially, the way curators have to carry out their work has. Curators have been found to be able to fulfil a decisive role in the area of change and innovation within museums. The results of the research are being revealed today during a symposium on the occasion of CODARTs 25th anniversary. Never before has this 19th-century discipline been so rigorously investigated. What is the role and what is the value of the curator of Dutch and Flemish art in todays museum? And what does the future hold? These were key questions for the extensive research CODART had ... More | |
A Grey Schist Relief Panel of the Buddha's Parinirvana. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams sale of Claude de Marteau Collection The Final Journey concluded today (6 October 2023) in Hong Kong and marked the finale of the four-part auction. A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Manjushri came out on top and achieved HK$8,894,000, surpassing its high estimate and is the highest-selling lot of the entire collection. Sold over four sales across Paris and Hong Kong, the spectacular Claude de Marteau Collection has realised more than US$15.6 million in total. It is one of the worlds important private collections dedicated to Hindu and Buddhist cultures in the ancient regions of India, Nepal, Tibet and China. Edward Wilkinson, Bonhams Global Head of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, said: We are delighted that the final sale of the spectacular Claude de Marteau Collection ended on such a high note today. Every bid is a tribute to the late collectors ... More | |
Jose Dávila, 2021. Photo: Thierry B. Burgherr.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Mexican artist Jose Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974). For more than two decades, Dávila has established himself in the international art scene with a practice marked by his approach to language and sculptural tradition from a perspective centered on the articulation between "constructive will" and the physical principles that govern nature. With the start of José Davila's representation, Nara Roesler hopes to strengthen relations between Latin American artists and institutions which will be marked by the realization of A pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king, the artist's first solo show in Brazil, which opens to the public on November 11. Dávila has had more than sixty solo exhibitions, as well as frequently participating in relevant events and group exhibitions around the world, such as the 16th Lyon Biennale (2022), the 22nd Sydney Biennale (2020), the 13th Havana Biennale ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Explore the world of Paul Klee's 4,000 artworks from the collection at Zentrum Plaul Klee | | Jumana Emil Abboud brings 'The Unbearable Halfness of Being' to Cample Line | | The Museo del Prado is focusing on the role of images in the relations between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain |
Paul Klee, Angel, Still Female, 1939. 1016. Chalk on primed paper on cardboard 41.7 x 29.4 cm. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
BERN.- The Zentrum Paul Klee is daring to make a shift of direction. With 'Kosmos Klee: The Collection', it is devoting a new kind of presentation to Paul Klees life, work and thought. Visitors are invited to discover a dynamic permanent exhibition dedicated to Paul Klee, enriched by focused thematic references. The newly conceived gallery opens today, 7 October 2023. The Zentrum Paul Klee is the most authoritative centre worldwide for re- search into the artists life and work. After some sixty thematic exhibitions of works from the collection, it is setting up a permanent Paul Klee exhibition. Kosmos Klee. The collection offers visitors a chronological overview of Klees artistic work. Short texts, biographical photographs and films all allow a glimpse into the various phases of his oeuvre. This section of the exhibition features around seventy works, including highlights from the collection, such as the 1937 work Unstable Sig ... More | |
Jumana Emil Abboud, Facing tiger, 2020. Gouache pigment, pastel, acrylic, pencil, ink, charcoal on paper, 57 x 76cm. Courtesy of the artist.
NITHSDALE.- CAMPLE LINE, in South West Scotland, has brought The Unbearable Halfness of Being, an exhibition of drawings, embroidered textiles, talismanic objects, wood carvings, video and neon light works by artist Jumana Emil Abboud to CAMPLE LINE. The Unbearable Halfness of Being was first presented in 2022 as part of the 15th edition of Documenta, an international exhibition of contemporary art that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. This is Jumanas first solo exhibition in Scotland, and the first presentation of this body of work since Documenta 15. Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1970, Nazareth) is Palestinian and is currently based between Jerusalem and London where she is completing her PhD. Her practice is grounded in the Palestinian cultural landscape and she draws on the traditions of folklore, myth-making and storytelling that once animated rural community life over generations, particularly around times of family or ... More | |
Birth of Saint John the Baptist (part of the Altarpiece of the Saints John from Vinaixa [Lérida]) Bernat Martorell Oil on panel, 88.5 à 68.7 c. 1450 Barcelona, Museu Nacional dArt de Catalunya, MNAC 71932.
MADRID.- Curated by Joan Molina Figueras, head of the Department of Spanish Gothic Painting at the Museo del Prado, The lost mirror. Jews and conversos in medieval Spain, organised in collaboration with the Museu Nacional dArt de Catalunya, presents a fascinating survey of the role of images in the relations between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain (1250-1492). The central discourse of the exhibition is the perception held by Christians of Jews and, from 1391 onwards, of the converts (conversos) descended from them. The definition of a visual otherness with regard to these two sectors of society was determined by religious, social, political and even racial reasons; ultimately, by the beliefs, fears and concerns of Christians. The images in the exhibition remind us that while difference exists, otherness is constructed. While numerous works on display ... More |
|
Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures | 006 | 52 Walker | EXHIBITION PREVIEW
|
|
|
| More News |
Russell Sherman, poetic interpreter at the piano, dies at 93
NEW YORK, NY.- Russell Sherman, a pianist admired for his poetic and idiosyncratic interpretations of Arnold Schoenberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt and others, died Sept. 30 at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. A longtime music educator as well, he was 93. His death was confirmed by his wife, pianist Wha Kyung Byun. Sherman, who gave his last recital at 88, made his name performing virtuoso works such as Liszts daunting Transcendental Ãtudes. Referring to the composers reputation as a showman, Sherman told The New York Times in 1989 that he was engaged in a lifelong battle to reconstitute Liszt as a serious composer. He recorded the Ãtudes on cassette in 1974 and in 1990 for Albany Records. The poetic idea is central, he wrote in the liner notes for the second recording, and the virtuoso elements ... More
Karrabing Film Collective presents films at Goldsmiths CCA of existing and new work
LONDON.- Goldsmiths CCA is commencing an exhibition of films by the Karrabing Film Collective, a grassroots Indigenous media group of approximately 30 members living in the Belyuen Community, in Australias Northern Territory. The exhibition comprises existing works, and a new film, Night Fishing with Ancestors (2023), which will be seen for the first time in the UK. Connecting the four films on display is the concept of theft; both of the traumatic historical theft of land and children, but also an ongoing theft of a future through environmental degradation. The exhibition proposes an ultimate connectedness, from the specificity of the Karrabing experience, to the wider global population under the global climate emergency that has been underwritten through extractive capitalism and colonialism. Night Fishing with Ancestors follows the ... More
First solo exhibition of artist Kate Pincus-Whitney in Belgium, now on view at GNYP Gallery
ANTWERP.- GNYP Gallery has opened Ritual Union / The Huntress, the first solo exhibition of the artist Kate Pincus-Whitney in Belgium, now on view until November 5, 2023. The opening took place on Thursday, October 5, at Jan Van Rijswijcklaan, where the artist gave a short introduction of the exhibition in a dialogue with author Amarylis De Gryse. It doesnt much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. Its not what you say that prompts it its the fact that you are saying it. Mary Beard, The New Yorker Kate Pincus-Whitneys Ritual Union/The Huntress celebrates the icon of the huntress, who embodies an independent female spirit, fights for autonomy, and practices her right to choose. Through this latest body of work, Pincus-Whitney situates herself ... More
Dimensions of geological shift visible in art of Radenko Milak at Priska Pasquer Paris
PARIS.- Like a chronicler of modern-day life, the artist Radenko Milak who was born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1980 uses the mirror of painting to explore the major questions and upheavals of our time. PRISKA PASQUER PARIS is now presenting the individual exhibition Imagine Reality, featuring new large- and small-format works. Milak came to international fame in 2017 through University of Disaster, his artistic submission for the Bosnia and Herzegovina pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Since then, his paintings have been featured in group and individual exhibitions around the world, most recently in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, Croatia), at Marta Herford (Herford, Germany) and the Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany). Pictures from films, magazines, newspapers and the internet together with microscopic ... More
Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot has first major retrospective at S.M.A.K.
GHENT.- The exhibition The End Is Never Near in S.M.A.K. presents the first overview exhibition worldwide dedicated to the work of Belgian artist Jan Van Imschoot now opening at the museum S.M.A.K. in Ghent. The exhibition traces a rough chronological trajectory that spans more than 30 years and includes over 80 of his paintings. Van Imschoot is internationally known for his intimate, enigmatic works from the early 1990s and his recent large-scale, historically inspired tableaux. Van Imschoot belongs to a generation of artists who laid the foundations for the critical reappraisal of figurative painting during the 1990s. Among his peers, Van Imschoots work occupies a unique place due to the profound art-historical awareness from which he paints. He approaches contemporary subjects such as gender, identity, war and peace from inspiration sources such ... More
Works by Dan Davis, Phillip Maisel, and Henna Vainio at Casemore Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery is now presenting Quantum Foam, an exhibition of new and recent works by Dan Davis, Phillip Maisel, and Henna Vainio. Quantum Foam includes work in a variety of mediaphotography, painting, collage, sculpturethat challenge our visual associations with space, how objects appear, and how close observation can change what we see. At a distance, objects may appear flat, the Euclidean limitations of our vision affecting the way we see them and how they occupy space. Up close, however, their appearance changes. A one-to- one, object to self relationship reveals how our perception, like matter in quantum foam, fluctuates in the turbulent nature of spacetime. Dan Daviss paintings combine photorealism and abstraction with the architectural feel of late 20th-century living spaces, in which an apartment ... More
National Gallery of Ireland announces new landmark collaborations
DUBLIN.- Dublin is the first venue for a major survey of more than 70 paintings by modern Irish master Sir John Lavery (1856 1941). It is the first major monographic exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland in three decades. The exhibition is made more remarkable in that it is the first show to be presented in partnership with Belfasts Ulster Museum, part of the National Museums Northern Ireland (23 February 9 June 2024) and the National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh (20 July - 27 October 2024). The popular description of John Lavery as a portrait painter reflects only one dimension of his work. Throughout his long career, the majority of Laverys solo exhibitions featured works related to his travels, with much of it related to business. Although what he documented may now be interpreted as images of pleasure, he himself ... More
The Box hosts National Gallery's 'Dutch Flowers' and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's 'End of Empire'
PLYMOUTH.- A new season of exhibitions and commissions launched at The Box in Plymouth this month with a nationally touring fine art exhibition and a thought-provoking sculpture. Both elements of the programme explore empire, trade and colonisation in different ways with the aim of encouraging visitors to think about social and historical narratives from a different perspective. Teeming with beauty, colour and life, the artworks are presented in The Boxs beautifully restored St Lukes church gallery, providing audiences with a stunning overview of leading artists in the field, including Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621), Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) and Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), and a chance to admire their style, technical characteristics and exquisite detail up close. At the dawn of the 1600s, these Netherlandish painters ... More
Roland Hicks to create and exhibit brand new artwork 'The Fourth Wall' at Hastings Contemporary
HASTINGS.- Combining aspects of drawing, painting, still-life, geometric abstraction, collage and performance with sculpture, artist Roland Hicks transforms two galleries at Hastings Contemporary this autumn. Working directly on sea-facing walls, Hicks creates the illusion of a flimsy patchwork of found materials, as if someone with rudimentary carpentry skills had hastily assembled a barrier out of whatever came to hand, inviting visitors to interpret the result as they see it themselves. Is it merely an act of folly? Perhaps an inadequate response to rising sea levels, or a paranoid reinforcement against supposed invaders? Some onlookers may see The Fourth Wall as a comment on the need for make do and mend resourcefulness during the cost of living crisis, or a critique on consumerism and wastefulness. Hicks creates The Fourth Wall ... More
A 'School Dance for Adults' embraces the aughts
NEW YORK, NY.- Its a Friday night in 2006: The Bagel Bites are defrosting in the oven and a case of Capri Suns is chilling in the refrigerator. You turn on the TV in the living room, click your way to the Disney Channel, and prepare to sing both the Troy and Gabriella parts in Breaking Free from High School Musical. Flash-forward and its 2023: The living room is now a bar, Capri Suns have turned into gin and tonics, and you are on the dance floor with dozens of other 20- and 30-somethings singing along to the Thats So Raven theme song. I love Disney Channel, its very nostalgic, Leslie Epps, 25, said at a recent party fueled by 2000s tween culture at Webster Hall, a concert venue in Manhattan. We want to enjoy our youth in a way, and this is the way to do it. Its kind of like a school dance for adults. For many adults, the tween ... More
Robert Glasper leans into the drama
NEW YORK, NY.- In February, on the night of this years Grammy Awards, pianist, producer and composer Robert Glasper was enjoying himself in the audience at the Microsoft Theater when he realized he didnt have his phone. He had given it to his assistant earlier in the evening, before taking the stage to accept the award for best R&B album his second win in that category and fifth career Grammy. When he retrieved the phone, Glasper saw that it was filled with messages about R&B singer Chris Brown, who was among the nominees whom he had just bested. Brown had reacted to the loss with a discourteous post to his 131 million followers on Instagram: Who the [expletive] is Robert Glasper, appending a crying laughing emoji to the word who. The comment, which Brown followed with a video comparing his success on the record charts ... More
|
|
PhotoGalleries
Gabriele Münter
TARWUK
Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared in Vogue magazine's cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
|
|
|
|
