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Installation view Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts.Museo Jumex, 2023. Photo: Ramiro Chaves.
NEW YORK, NY.- From April 1 through September 17, 2023, Museo Jumex presents Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts, the first comprehensive survey in Mexico of the Italian contemporary artist Jannis Kounellis (Greece, 1936 Italy, 2017). Kounellis is best known for his central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, influencing generations of artists around the world. This exhibition is the most extensive assessment of his career to date, presenting 43 works that revisit the artists practice, including iconic pieces as well as some that are rarely seen. It will also introduce Mexican audiences to Kounelliss practice, which remains deeply relevant to contemporary art dialogues, and offers new scholarship that enriches global understanding of his innovative vision and approach. Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts honors Kounelliss ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An attendee takes a photo in front of a themed installation at the second annual 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., March 18, 2023. Aging millennials traveled from across the United States to connect with the stars of their youth. (Joe Buglewicz/The New York Times).
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| Transformation works to begin at Tate Liverpool in October | | 'Andy Warhol: The Textiles' on view at the Fashion and Textile Museum until 10 September 2023. | | Now playing in China: Putin-aligned artists shunned in the West |
Democracies at Tate Liverpool, Installation View © Tate, Gareth Jones.
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool recently announced that the gallery will temporarily close from Monday 16 October 2023 as the landmark building on Royal Albert Dock undergoes a major reimagining. The transformed gallery will reopen in 2025. Ahead of the closure period, Tate Liverpool will be extending its popular exhibition JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters until 24 September 2023. The exhibition focuses on the power of the sea through Turners paintings and sketches and through Fofanas immersive sound environment. Tate Liverpool will also be one of the venues across the city hosting exhibitions for the 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, open from 10 June to 17 September 2023. Tate Liverpools free displays of the national collection of modern and contemporary art will also be extended until 15 October 2023. On level 2 of the gallery, The Port and Migrations and Global Encounters feature more than 80 works exploring themes of ... More | |
Happy Bug Day Textile 1955 © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by DACS, London.
LONDON.- Andy Warhol: The Textiles is the first exhibition dedicated to the commercial textile designs of arguably the most iconic artist of the twentieth century. Presenting over 60 fabric lengths and garments decorated in Warhols textile patterns, the exhibition showcases how this work contributed to the artists oeuvre and would become coveted by collectors on a global scale. The Fashion and Textile Museum invites visitors to delve into a new side to Warhol as we know him, and to explore this unknown and heretofore unrecorded world. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhols swiftly successful career began in commercial and advertising art during the 1950s and early 1960s. At this point in time, Warhols output was almost entirely devoted to realising the demands and deadlines of professional clients, such as Glamour magazine where he undertook his first commission. This work had ... More | |
Ukrainian activists stage a die-in outside Philharmonie de Paris during a performance by Anna Netrebko, May 25, 2022. (James Hill/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the start of the war in Ukraine, star Russian maestro Valery Gergiev has been persona non grata in the United States and Europe, fired by many cultural institutions because of his long record of support for President Vladimir Putin, his friend and benefactor. But this week, on the heels of a summit between Putin and Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, in Moscow, Gergiev received a heros welcome in Beijing, where he appeared with the Mariinsky Orchestra for the ensembles first foreign tour since Russia invaded Ukraine. Chinese fans showered Gergiev with cards and bouquets, calling him by his nickname in China, brother-in-law, a play on the Chinese version of his surname. Audiences cheered his Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, as well as a surprise rendition of a Chinese communist classic, ... More |
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| A museum at the center of the Gilbert & George universe | | Egyptian exhibition, Life and the Afterlife, on view at the Carlos | | Solo exhibition by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones opens at White Cube Hong Kong |
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NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent afternoon, artists Gilbert & George stepped out of their 18th century London town house wearing identically tailored tweed suits and set off on a walk through the bustling streets of the citys Spitalfields district. The pair Gilbert Prousch, 79, and George Passmore, 81 strolled past a Bangladeshi sweet shop and a group of food delivery riders lingering near a mosque, then swerved around a rabble of afternoon drinkers outside a pub, not far from a gaggle of tourists on a historical walking tour. Its so exciting to be in the middle of all this, dont you think? Gilbert said. Thanks to their eccentric way of life the two are rarely seen apart, dress similarly and finish each others thoughts Gilbert & George have for decades been among Britains most recognizable artists, and they have presented exhibitions in major cities including Moscow and New York. But on the streets of Spitalfields, the ... More | |
Life and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection installation view.
ATLANTA, GA.- Life and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection, on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum from February 4 to August 6, 2023, is an exhibition about what objects can tell us about daily life, sacred life, and the hereafter in ancient Egypt. The collection, named after King Senusret IIs pyramid village, Hetep-Senusret in the Faiyum, was gifted to the Carlos in 2018 by the Georges Ricard Foundation with the understanding that it would be conserved and used to promote knowledge not only about the rich funerary rituals, customs, and beliefs of the ancient world but also about the life of ancient objects over time. Several items in the exhibition highlight student and faculty research, technical and scholarly collaboration, methods of analysis and conservation, and provenance tracing. Organized by Melinda Hartwig, curator of Ancient ... More | |
As a British Nigerian living and working in Brooklyn, New York, his influences are wide ranging, and comprise African, American and European references.
HONG KONG.- White Cube Hong Kong is presenting Deep Dive, a solo exhibition by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones and the artists first in the region. For this show, the artist has created a new suite of paintings and delicate lithographs that address historical subjects such as mythology, religion and the spectacle of ceremony through the lens of the contemporary diaspora. As a British Nigerian living and working in Brooklyn, New York, Adeniyi-Joness influences are wide ranging, and comprise African, American and European references. Grounded though the works are in the myth and culture of his own Yoruba heritage, he also looks to the Black-American culture of his immediate surroundings, embracing both the similarities and differences between this lineage and his own. Executed in oil on canvas or in acrylic ... More |
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| Christie's presents Depth of Field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection | | Gagosian exhibits new AI-generated artworks by Bennett Miller in New York | | Review: Philip Glass and the meaning of life |
Ed Ruscha, (b. 1937), Business #1. Graphite oh paper. Executed in 1966. Estimate: $250,000 350,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Christies will present: Depth of Field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, with a select group of nine exquisite highlights kicking off the Spring Marquee Week 20th Century Evening Sale live at Rockefeller Center. The group is comprised of exemplary works by Ed Ruscha, three Philip Guston masterpieces, and outstanding examples by twentieth century artistic luminaries: Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Ken Price. Additional works from the collection will be offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale. In total, the collection is expected to achieve in excess of $50,000,000. The collection is led by Ed Ruschas Burning Standard (estimate: $20,000,000 30,000,000), a painting that is considered to be one of the most historically important works in the artists oeuvre. Painted in 1968, Burning Standard is one of only five Standard Station paintings from the 1960s, and one of two paintings to feat ... More | |
Bennett Miller, Lucy, 202223, pigment print of AI-generated image, 15 1/2 à 15 1/2 inches (39.4 à 39.4 cm), edition of 3 + 2 AP © Bennett Miller.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new prints by Bennett Miller produced using a DALLE image generator. This is Millers first exhibition with the gallery. The works on view in New York emerged after a five-year period in which Miller researched and shot a documentary film about the technological crossroads at which we now find ourselves. Having interviewed numerous figures involved with artificial intelligence (AI)including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the San Franciscobased developer of DALLEthe artist began using the software to reflect on the nature and progression of shifts in the ways we understand representational artwork. The striking results engage the history and format of photography to pose questions around the contingent and enigmatic nature of perception, reality, and truthan enquiry made newly urgent by revolutionary innovations in computing. DALLEa portmanteau o ... More | |
The composer Philip Glass in New York on Oct. 30, 2019. (Eva O'Leary/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Once, when theater-maker Phelim McDermott was a child, he missed out on the show of his dreams. It was an Aladdin-like play called Billys Wonderful Kettle in Manchester, England, and the 7-year-old McDermott was so excited the night before, he got a stomachache that kept him from going. He often thought about that show in the years that followed. In his mind, it was a thing of magic the best piece of theater he never saw. Ive spent my whole life trying to make a show as good as Billys Wonderful Kettle, McDermott says in Tao of Glass, his fragmentary, fantastical and often moving tribute to composer Philip Glass and the power of art to flow through our lives, as he describes it, like a river. If McDermott hasnt matched the idealistic image he has of Kettle, he certainly has made an earnest effort with Improbable, the inventive theater company he co-founded in 1996. Some of his most ins ... More |
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| Hales opens Haroun Hayward's debut solo exhibition with the gallery | | Sargent's Daughters opens Carlos Rosales-Silva's debut Los Angeles exhibition | | Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice. |
Haroun Hayward, 808 State (Wittenham Clumps No. 1), 2023, Oil paint, oil stick, oil pastel, and gesso on panel, Framed 94 x 63.5 x 4.8 cm, H_HAY0041, Photo by Charlie Littlewood
LONDON.- Hales announces Event on the Downs, Haroun Haywards debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The show features new paintings exploring visually the interconnectedness of repetition in music and pattern in textiles. Haroun Hayward (b. 1983, London) received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from University of Brighton and an MA in Fine Art Practice from Goldsmiths University, London. He lives and works in London. Event on the Downs marks a consolidation of Haywards ideas over the past two years. The works are a celebration of hybridity, harmoniously converging art historical and musical references with distinct modes of making. The paintings honor what informs Hayward's personal and artistic narrative rave culture, British landscape painting and his mother's textile collection. The shows title has a dual meaning, Event on the Downs is both the title of a Paul Nash ... More | |
Carlos Rosales-Silva, Garden Path, 2023. Acrylic plastic and glass Bead and crushed stone in acrylic paint on panel, 16.5 x 20 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sargents Daughters is presenting Border Logic, Carlos Rosales-Silvas debut Los Angeles exhibition. Based in New York but born and raised in El Paso, TX, Rosales-Silvas abstract and highly textural work references the complex visual histories found in the architecture, landscapes, and vernacular cultures of the Mexican-American borderlands. Rosales-Silvas works juxtapose a variety of textures, further defined as fields of saturated color and inter-locking abstract forms. These varied surfaces include the stucco-like impasto of acrylic paint blended with particles of glass and stone, the hard edge of machine-cut plastic, and the roughness of individually placed rocks. Though the compositions are occasionally on the edge of being recognizable as architecture or landscape, the shapes resist categorization as foreground or background and instead produce a space of disorientation. For Rosales-Silva, this ... More | |
Diners at Caffè Florian, on St. Marks Square in Venice, Italy on Nov. 22, 2022. Relying on MOSE too much may protect tourism but kill other parts of the economy. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
VENICE.- In the middle of the night, as the tide rose, winds whipped and waves grew, an engineer in a command center on an artificial island on the rim of the Venice, Italy, lagoon clicked an arrow on his screen reading, Lift. Deep underwater, at the four mouths where the lagoon meets the sea, 78 giant walls fastened to the seafloor with hinges emptied themselves of water, filled with air and rose to the surface, where they held back the swelling sea like a defensive line of floating yellow Legos. Over the long November night, the citys high-water forecasters drank coffee in an office by the Rialto Bridge, watching live feeds of 20-foot waves crashing on the other side of the walls. Eventually, the sea level outside the walls reached more than 5 1/2 feet the third highest in more than a century of records, a level that would normally risk lives, strand Venetians and tourists, and drown the economy. Not this time. The ... More |
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New-York Historical Society explores the social and cultural consequences of the environmental crisis through art
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New-York Historical Society presents Nature, Crisis, Consequence, a groundbreaking art exhibition that looks at the social and cultural impact of the environmental crisis on different communities across America. On view March 31 July 9, 2023, the exhibition draws from New-York Historicals permanent collection, recent acquisitions, and loaned works, which collectively span the history of the United States and presents subjects ranging from the proto-environmentalism of the Hudson River School to the razing of homes and churches to clear land for Central Park, the environmental and human tolls of the transcontinental railroad, and Indigenous artists calls to environmental action. Nature, ... More
Britain's best young artist arrives at Tate Modern this Easter
LONDON.- From Saturday 1st April, visitors to Tate Modern will be able to view the work of Britains Best Young Artist as the winning painting of the 2023 CBBC series goes on public display at the gallery. Chloe, aged 14 from Newcastle, competed against 26 young artists from across the UK to be crowned the winner of Britains Best Young Artist earlier this month. The final episode of the series saw three finalists each participate in a masterclass with a professional artist at Tate Modern, before returning to the studio to create their final work. Chloes winning painting titled Homage 2022 was selected by presenters Sadie Clayton and Ricky Martin, alongside Tates Director of Learning, Mark Miller. Describing the work, Chloe said My painting is about my appreciation of my home, not only my home in the UK but my home in Africa, and how I cherish the memories that are enclosed in th ... More
Smithsonian American Art Museum acquires of expansive collection from Robert Drapkin
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a wide-ranging collection of photographs that represent African Americans from the mediums early years to the near presentroughly the 1840s to the 1970sfrom Dr. Robert Drapkin. The collection includes 404 objects, including rare daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes, as well as mixed paper prints. The Dr. Robert L. Drapkin Collection looks broadly at how photography was adapted by Black makers and consumers to self-represent, and how it was used by others to recast racial tropes using the new medium to represent and to misrepresent African American history and culture. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now uniquely positioned to advance a more nuanced and complex story about the role of photography in the United States with the addition ... More
Royston Ellis, bridge between Beat poets and the Beatles, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Royston Ellis, a British Beat poet who rose to fame with spoken-word performances to a rock n roll accompaniment, including gigs with the Beatles and Jimmy Page before they were famous, died Feb. 27 in Induruwa, Sri Lanka. He was 82. His death, in a hospital, was announced in a Facebook post by his longtime assistant and close friend, Neel Jayantja Pathitrana. Emmalena Ellis, a grandniece, said the cause was heart failure. Over the course of a six-decade career, Ellis was as peripatetic as he was prolific: He published more than 60 books, including poetry compilations, novels, travel books and memoirs of his time in the limelight. Nevertheless, he is best remembered for his forays into what he called rocketry: rock-accompanied poetry readings that bridged the jazz-soaked Beat era of the 1950s and the chaotic rock n ... More
Michael R. Jackson on the soap opera origins of 'White Girl in Danger'
NEW YORK, NY.- Hearing Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, speak about soap operas is like getting lost in a Wikipedia wormhole. With nary a pause, he rolls through the details of characters yearslong arcs, including every stolen identity, forbidden romance and vicious backstabbing literal and figurative. Hes amassed decades of knowledge: He became hooked at 5 years old, when he started camping out in front of a gigantic wooden television set with his great-aunt. I would watch The Young and the Restless at 12:30, Days of Our Lives at 1, Another World at 2, Santa Barbara at 3. And I would do that every day Monday through Friday, Jackson, 42, said in a recent interview. The more I sat and watched with her, the more engrossed I got in these characters lives and the storylines. ... More
What's more provocative than sincerity?
NEW YORK, NY.- Over his 15-year career, artist and creative director Ryder Ripps has built websites for the likes of Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, and Kenzo, designed album covers for musicians such as Grimes and Pop Smoke, and shown his work in respected New York galleries. But across mediums, what he does never entirely changes. He finds things online and repurposes them. Its gotten him in hot water before but never sued, until recently. Last spring, Ripps created a series of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that looked exactly like Bored Apes the digital tokens that were hyped in 2021 and 2022 by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Stephen Curry. Then he named them after himself and sold them. It was the culmination of a monthslong campaign raising awareness about what he says is ripped-from-4chan offensive imagery ... More
Is true love possible? Readers are turning to this 1990s novel for answers.
NEW YORK, NY.- Katherine Champagne had never heard of Mating, the award-winning novel by Norman Rush, until one afternoon in 2020, when she popped into a random room on Clubhouse in the early days of that social media app. It was me and a group of true strangers talking about books we liked, said Champagne, 35, who lives in the New York City borough of Queens and works at a startup. A woman recommended the novel without giving anyone in the chat room much to go on. She was just straight up like, This is the best book Ive ever read, Champagne recalled. César Acevedo, a bartender in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bought Mating within 24 hours of seeing a tweet posted in December by John Phipps, the fiction editor of the literary magazine The Fence. In the tweet, Phipps said he was wondering why everyone ... More
Keith Reid, who brought poetry to Procol Harum, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Keith Reid, whose impressionistic lyrics for the early progressive rock band Procol Harum helped to fuel emblematic songs of the 1960s, most notably A Whiter Shade of Pale, has died. He was 76. His death was announced in a Facebook post from the band. The announcement did not say where or when he died or cite a cause, but according to news media reports, he died in a hospital in London on March 23 after having been treated for cancer for two years. During its heyday in the late 1960s and 70s, Procol Harum stood out as musically ambitious, even by prog-rock standards as demonstrated by its 1972 album, Procol Harum Live: In Concert With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. The bands music, which at times bordered on the sepulchral, required lyrics that soared along with it. Reid was happy to oblige. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren (Netherlands).
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