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Students during a nude figure drawing class at the Tuleste Factory in Chelsea bourough of New York on April 13, 2023. Lyora Pissarro, who finds her models on Instagram, said shes been overwhelmed with requests from people who want to try it. (Desiree Rios / The New York Times)
by Alyson Krueger
NEW YORK, NY.- On a warm spring night in mid-April, Lyora Pissarro had 40 adults sitting in a circle at the Tuleste Factory, a quirky art space hidden in a mixed-use building in Chelsea. They were there for a figure-drawing class, and there were two nude models already striking poses. But Pissarro, who is 31 and lives in Brooklyn, opened the class by having everyone close their eyes and draw for 45 seconds. Draw without the judgment of eyes, she said. Feel the connection between your hand that creates and your mind that imagines. No one expects anything in this room, she said, repeatedly. This is a place where you can be free and use your imagination. If anyone knows just how weighty expectations can be, its Pissarro. Her maternal great-great-grandfather is ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Stroll Garden (Los Angeles) debuted There are things Iâd rather whisper, the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Taylor Kibby, featuring all new sculptural work that showcases Kibby's signature ceramic chain link motif.
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| FotoFocus announces 2024 Biennial theme: aspects of stories existing outside the frame | | Olmsted Trees: Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, the perfect book for Earth Day | | Museum storage leader Delta Designs acquired by Bruynzeel Delta Designs |
Lizzi Bougatsos and Dara Friedman in conversation at the screening of Friedman's film Dancer at the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial.
CINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus, the nonprofit arts organization championing photography and lens-based art, is pleased to announce the theme of the seventh edition of its FotoFocus Biennial is backstories. Held in October 2024, this edition will strive to uncover stories told through photography that may not be evident upon first glance. FotoFocus will welcome global artists, curators, critics, educators, and regional visitors to experience and participate in exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings, and panel discussions. These various events will take place across museums, galleries, universities, and public spaces throughout the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio regions. Following a fantastic Biennial in 2022, attracting over 180,000 visitors thanks to the partners who created exceptional projects, we are thrilled to invite back our community to participate in the upcoming 2024 FotoFocus ... More | |
If Man is not to live by bread alone, what is better worth doing well than the planting of trees. Frederick Law Olmsted
NEW YORK, NY.- "Greenberg turns each knot and second growth, every ancient groove and gnarled root into a badge of honorand defiance In the form of these trees, Olmsted provided us with gigantic guides and protectors that would grow old along with us, and serve as constant reminders of both the fragility of natural life and its persistence in the most urban of environments." Kevin Baker, novelist historian and journalist (from his essay in the book). Fundamental to renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's vision in his park designs was the key role of time. He had the ability to see a plot of land for what it was in the raw undeveloped state, as well as to visualize how his designs would translate several decades into the future after the trees and shrubs he planted had rooted and spread and integrated with the space. In a letter to his son he wrote, We determined to think of no results to be realized in less ... More | |
Global leader in museum storage (Bruynzeel) and leader in North-America (Delta) are joining forces.
TOPEKA, KS.- Delta Designs from Topeka, Kansas is acquired by European market leader in mobile storage systems Bruynzeel Storage Systems. Delta Designs is leader in North America for museum and institutions collection storage and is renowned for its high quality custom made museum cabinets. The acquisition, in one of its core segments, helps expanding the global leadership of Bruynzeel. The North American market is the largest in the world for professional storage solutions. Bruynzeel and Delta have strong growth ambitions. As part of the acquisition, Delta Designs will continue to operate under its current name and brand. Global leader in museum storage (Bruynzeel) and leader in North-America (Delta) are joining forces. Bruynzeel will leverage the strong reputation & connections of Delta in America and will complement its existing portfolio with best in class Hermetically Sealed Museum Grade (HSMG) cabinets. Delta ... More |
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| Hannibal Books publishes 'Baroque Influencers Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Persuasion' | | Exhibition presents lightboxes, photographs, a video and paintings by Dawn Ng | | Wangari Mathenge and Mia Middleton exhibit at Roberts Projects |
Baroque Influencers Jesuits, Rubens and the Arts of Persuasion presents written contributions from researchers affiliated with the Universities of Antwerp, Louvain and Stuttgart and various heritage institutes.
ANTWERP.- In what ways did the Jesuits deploy the Baroque visual language of the time to persuade the public of their vision on humankind, religion and society? In this beautifully illustrated book, which includes numerous artworks by Peter Paul Rubens and others, diverse authors rise to the challenge of finding answers to this complex question. The setting is Antwerp in the 17th century. At that time, the city was the Jesuit Orders headquarters in the Netherlands and a bastion against the Calvinism in the Northern Nether- lands Republic. The fine arts were flourishing there like never before. Painters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck produced works for the Jesuits and participated in the Catholic community life organised by the order, with large groups of fellow believers. This publication takes a close look ... More | |
Dawn Ng, Music When the Lights Go Out, 2023, archival pigment print, 158 x 122 cm.
LONDON.- Kate MacGarry is presenting Dawn Ng's first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition comprises lightboxes, photographs, a video and paintings, all of which articulate Ng's nuanced exploration of time. An ode to process and fleeting beauty, Ng's body of work began as a study into the articulation of temporality. Rather than relying on numerical terms Ng turns to the most ephemeral material available to her in her native Singapore - ice - and from there has devised an emotive language of creation, destruction, trace and remembrance. The passage is a cyclical one. Ng assiduously builds blocks of frozen pigment with the skill of a chemist, a painter and a sculptor creating a topographical medley of pigments, watercolours, dyes. The layers build, encrust and stagger. Photographed from multiple angles as they decay, these comprise Ng's body of work known as 'Clocks'. Taking their individual titles from song ... More | |
Wangari Mathenge, Home Sweet Home (After Seurat, Manet and Pippin), 2023 (detail).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Roberts Projects is presenting Tidal Wave of Colour, the newest body of work by artist Wangari Mathenge. This series, Mathenges first major solo show in the United States, is composed of eight paintings that range from the intimate to the immersive. The title takes its inspiration from civil rights icon Malcolm X, who used the phrase to capture the post-second World War zeitgeist of global revolution; between 1945 to 1955, ideas about liberation and independence permeated the world; and as a result, Africa, Asia, and Latin America revolted in pursuit of decolonization. On her journey to becoming an artist, Mathenge discovered that she herself was in the midst of her own revolution. In re-imagining herself throughout this new body of work, Mathenge reinterprets iconic works etched deep into art history and in reworking the familiarity of the canon, Mathenge leans into the transcendent elements ... More |
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| New book from Oro Press: 'Changing the Times' by John Northmore Roberts | | "This Unique Place" exhibition features paintings and drawings by Jeff Weaver at Cape Ann Museum | | Landmark exhibition of Asian and Islamic works opens at the Walters Art Museum |
The book reveals how places within some of the countrys most iconic public landscapes.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The intense social and environmental fervor that arose in the 1960s and 1970s in response to assaults on the planets life support systems, degradation of communities, and socio-economic inequality unleashed revolutionary change at all levels of society. Out of the turmoil of that era, community-based ecological design emerged as a powerful creative force for reshaping the commons, bringing people together, and forming ecologically sustainable relationships with the environment. The stories in this book reveal how the revolution has played out in reconceiving public places in the landscape of every- day life in northern California. The text focuses on the broad human, social, environmental, and cultural aspects of place-making to create livable, inclusive, sustainable, and treasured spaces. The aesthetic experience of each place is revealed through photos, diagrams, sketches, and plans. Success stories like these ... More | |
Jeff Weaver, Tops'l Schooner at Manufactory, 2020, Charcoal and pastel on archival board, 20 x 16, Private Collection.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- One of the areas most beloved contemporary artists, Jeff Weaver, will be the subject of a special exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum from March 18 through June 4, 2023. This Unique Place features oil paintings, pastels and charcoals, all focusing on the built and natural landscape of Cape Ann. The works in this exhibit represent Weavers overall view of Gloucester from the early 1970s to the present. With a few exceptions, they were done entirely on site, as that is Weavers preferred working method. While the subject matter of the pieces in this exhibit is of considerable importance, I hope that as works of art, the pieces convey something of my feelings for the world around me and my reactions to it, said Weaver. Weaver was born in Framingham, Mass., in 1953 and admits to being interested in drawing and painting from an early age, particularly in portraiture. As a student ... More | |
Buddha, China, ca. 590. Wood with lacquer, gilding, and paint. Acquired by Henry Walters, 1920.
BALTIMORE, MD.- This spring, the Walters Art Museum debuts Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World. The exhibition features over 600 works of art spanning 5,000 years and marks the first time in the museums history that its core Asian and Islamic art collections are on view together. Across Asia highlights the connections among art, cultures, religions, and ideas across the vast geography of Asia, and includes examples of architecture, calligraphy, ceramics, cloisonné, enamelwork, lacquerware, manuscripts, metalwork, painting, sculpture, and textiles. Arts from the Asian continent and the Islamic world have held places of pride at the Walters since the earliest days of its opening to the public. Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World uses the unique breadth of the Walters collection to tell stories that are as distinctive as they are compelling, said Julia Marciari-Alexander, Andrea B. and John H. Laporte Director ... More |
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| Modigliani drawing leads Lyon & Turnbull's inaugural Avant Garde sale, April 27 | | Exhibition features brightly coloured groups of paintings and sculptures by Clare Burnett | | Celebrate Folio400 - more than 20 original First Folios on public display across the UK on Folio Day |
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920) Head of a Girl. Estimate £40,000-£60,000. Courtesy of Lyon & Turnbull.
EDINBURGH.- A drawing by Amedeo Modigliani, on the market for the first time in 91 years, is among the highlights of the inaugural Avant Garde - Art from 1890 to Now sale at Lyon & Turnbull. The carefully curated sale at the Mall Galleries, London on April 27 features works from some of the most progressive art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. The delicate pencil drawing of a girl with a mask-like face with large almond eyes has all the hallmarks of by Modiglianis style and a blue-chip provenance. Measuring 43cm x 26.5cm, it was originally in the collection of the Modern British painter Christopher Kit Wood, who first visited Paris in 1920, just a few months after Modigliani had died. Wood later sold the drawing to his London dealer, Alex. Reid and Lefevre Gallery - at the time the place to go for contemporary European art, and who had held an exhibition of Modigliani paintings in March 1929. In 1932 the dealer sol ... More | |
Clare Burnett, Time Travellers - Remains of the Day, 2022. Oil on Velin Arches 100% cotton paper, 45 x 30 cm.
NICOSIA.- Art Seen opened the solo exhibition of work by London artist, Clare Burnett from Saturday, 22nd April to Wednesday, 24th May 2023 at Art Seen, Nicosia and curated by Maria Stathi. The exhibition features brightly coloured groups of paintings and sculptures arranged in conversation groups within the two-story space. The show is inspired by the artefacts removed from Cyprus by Cesnola in the 19th century and is made with objects and materials found today on the streets of Nicosia. In the 19th century the American Consul to Cyprus, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, acquired a vast treasure trove of Cypriot archaeological artefacts, a total of 35,000 objects, most of which he sold to the newly formed Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1872 before becoming its first Director until his death in 1904. This collection and its story are the source material for the ... More | |
Many to remain on display for longer periods leading up to the First Folios 400th Birthday on 8 November.
LONDON.- Shakespeares First Folio is one of the great wonders of the literary world. Published in 1623, seven years after the death of its author, it is the very first printed edition of his collected plays in one folio-sized volume. Without the First Folio, we would have lost half of Shakespeares dramatic works, including Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Tempest and Julius Caesar. Without this book we wouldnt know what Shakespeare looked like. Without this book we wouldnt care about Shakespeare at all in 2023. Four centuries on from its publication, just 235 copies of the First Folio are known to have survived. Folio400 is a major project, conceived and launched by Folio-fan Marcus Coles in collaboration with Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeares Globe and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University. Folio400s purpose is to encourage and promote the celebration of th ... More |
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2023 DPSCD Student Art Exhibition: Student Voices
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Exhibition of works from Pat Steir's acclaimed Waterfall series and related works
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Locks Gallery is presenting Snow and Waterfall, an exhibition of works from Pat Steirs acclaimed Waterfall series and related works. This marks the artists seventh solo show with the gallery and is accompanied by a catalog featuring essays by Carter Ratcliff and Lynne Tillman. Spanning over four decades of her career, this exhibition will occupy the first and second floors of the gallery. Pat Steir is a leading figure in contemporary painting, known for her inventive process and lyrical use of scale and color. Steirs mature process was developed in the 1980s with her Waterfall paintings, by way of her associations with Conceptual Art, Minimalism and a close study of Eastern painting. Through rigorous and wide-ranging material experimentations, Steir has continued to push the conceptual bounds of painting. In the mid-2000s, ... More
Poised for change at a company where dancers of color feel at home
NEW YORK, NY.- Before they were members of Dance Theater of Harlem, Lindsey Donnell, Ingrid Silva and Stephanie Rae Williams were each the only Black student in their hometown dance classes. As young dancers taught by white instructors, they had to navigate not only building a career in dance but also building a career as Black ballerinas. If they joined a predominantly white company, would they be made to feel invisible? For Donnell, Silva and Williams and many more like them Dance Theater of Harlem, or DTH, with a mission of showcasing Black excellence in ballet, became their goal. Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell, a star of New York City Ballet, and his teacher Karel Shook, in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Dance Theater of Harlem broke barriers in ballet and introduced the world to exemplary Black ... More
Valda Setterfield, a star in the postmodern dance firmament, dies at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Valda Setterfield, a leading figure in the New York dance world for 60 years and the wife and muse of renowned choreographer David Gordon, died April 9 in Manhattan. She was 88. Alyce Dissette, producing director of the Pick Up Performance Company, which Gordon founded in 1971, said Setterfield died in her sleep in a hospital, which she had entered a week earlier with pneumonia. In a career that took her from Russian ballerina and teacher Tamara Karsavina to Woody Allen, from Jasper Johns to Mikhail Baryshnikov, Setterfield was often Gordons onstage partner, an association that began before their marriage in 1961 and lasted until their 2018 season at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was also closely associated with Merce Cunningham, as a dancer in his company, a teacher of his technique and one of his trusted ... More
An Uptown cat became a Chinese artist. Then he returned home.
NEW YORK, NY.- People werent quite sure what to make of Miguel Ãngel Payano Jr. when, like some kind of prodigal son, he came back to New York in 2016, after making a life in Beijing. His family had long known he was a wanderer, ever since he went to boarding school at his own insistence at age 11. But in the graduate art program at Hunter College, where Payano showed up on his return from China older than most classmates, with a prior MFA, exhibition history and collectors he stood out. There was his style, for one. A painter and sculptor interested in hybrids of the two forms, Payano arrived at Hunter with a talent for fine-detailed realism in a recognizably Chinese tradition. His visual language mixed figuration and grand landscapes with recurring surrealistic motifs. Most of all, there was the journey that shaped him. Payano moved ... More
Unlock the abstract world of Lesley Vance in solo show at Columbus Museum of Art
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Columbus Museum of Art presents the work of Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Lesley Vance in Lesley Vance: always circled whirling, on view April 21-Sept. 3. The exhibition of 27 paintings will showcase Vances engaging style of fluid abstraction and marks the artists first solo exhibition at a public institution. Experimenting with movement and depth, Vances abstractions are filled with light and shadow, resulting in swirling, interwoven forms that both delight and disorient the eye. Each of her paintings become a means to discover an invented image that, in the end, has the presence of fact. Through quick gestures, hard contours and ribbons of color, Vances scenes take on a three-dimensional effect with allusions to surrealism and abstract expressionism. The artist has said I think about uniting opposing forces within ... More
'A World Wandering In The Middle Of The Sky' by Mathilda Marque Bouaret is now on view at Marian Cramer Projects
AMSTERDAM.- Marian Cramer Projects is now presenting the first Solo Show in the gallery of French painter Mathilda Marque Bouaret (Toulouse, 1992) who was recently listed as one of the 50 young upcoming French young artists in the French magazine Loeil. In the exhibition titled A world wandering in the middle of the sky, after a quote from Guy de Maupassants Le Horla, Marque Bouaret will be presenting a body of works in which the sky is omnipresent. To Mathilda the sky is the space where the sun lives and from where it sometimes looks at us with emotion. Mathilda Marque Bouaret (Toulouse,1992) belongs to a generation that has chosen painting to describe their dreams. On canvas, cardboard, metal ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American model and photographer Lee Miller was born April 23, 1907. Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 - July 21, 1977), was an American photographer. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. In this image: Lee Miller, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller after the liberation of Paris, Rue de Grand Augustins, Paris, France, 1944. Photographer: Lee Miller. Negative Number: NC0002-1. Notes: DF VB>BW © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved. ©Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.
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