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An undated photo provided by Maris Hutchinson/David Zwirner of a display of bundled James Castle artworks, which the artist would often hide in walls. An energizing presentation of the artists landscapes, interiors and sculptural objects at David Zwirner Gallery lets visitors enter his secret universe. Maris Hutchinson/David Zwirner via The New York Times.
by John Vincler
NEW YORK, NY.- To look at James Castles work is to enter his secret world. The artist often bundled and then hid away his works in the walls of homes and outbuildings or even buried them in holes. This habit of hiding exists in tension with the wondrous drawing on the second floor of David Zwirner Gallery in Manhattan, showing a bare plank-and-beam attic crowded with nearly 100 of his artworks, including books, dozens of sculptural figures leaning against a wall or standing on shelves, and nearly 20 drawings hung from the wall. Does this crowded but intuitively ordered display of his own work within a single drawing contradict his cloistered practice? Perhaps the drawing served as a catalog for works that were to be stored, so that he could later recall what was no longer at hand. Although Castles intentions cannot be discerned, the pleasure comes in puzzling out the connections in his vast and often mysterious visual universe. Castle was born deaf and deemed uneducable as a t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled (2001). Platinum silicone, natural hair, fiberglass, clothing, 150 Ã 60 Ã 40 cm. Exhibition view: Maurizio Cattelan, The Last Judgment, UCCA, Beijing (20 November 2021â20 February 2022). Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art.
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| Exhibition includes a selection of contemporary and modern artists who share the same pioneering spirit | | Pace presents Jeff Koons's sculpture Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (Magenta) in Palm Beach | | Iwona Blazwick OBE to step down as Director of Whitechapel Gallery |
Ed Templeton, Girl with Hickeys, 2021. Acrylic on paper, 31 x 23 cm. 35,7 x 27,8 x 3,3 cm (frame).
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Swim the Mountain Climb the Sea, a group exhibition showcasing new work by Bram Demunter, Isabella Ducrot, Adrian Ghenie, Anton Henning, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Dennis Tyfus and Rose Wylie alongside works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Ensor, Cameron Jamie, Pablo Picasso, Ceija Stojka and Franz West. This exhibition thus includes a selection of contemporary and modern artists who share the same pioneering spirit. The concept of a "group exhibition", where the general public is invited to view new work by a collection of artists, is relatively recent in art history: it all started with the Paris Salon, first held in 1737. Those jury salons with pre-established rules lasted for about 130 years until the art world revolted. Since The Salon des Réfuses in 1863, a showcase ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (Magenta), 2013-2019. Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating. 101 x 74 1/16 x 65 1/4 inches, 256.5 x 188.1 x 165.7 cm. One of five unique versions. © Jeff Koons.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Pace is presenting Jeff Koonss sculpture Balloon Venus Hohlen Fels (Magenta) (2013-2019) at its Palm Beach gallery. This sculpture is one of the largest works from the artists renowned Antiquity series, and marks the first time the work is being exhibited publicly. Koons, who is among the worlds most influential living artists, is internationally renowned for sculptures and paintings that unite conceptualism and the readymade. Over the course of more than four decades, Koons has redefined Minimalism and Pop art with his boundary-pushing practice. Often working at ambitious scales, the artist has created iconic artworks deeply engaged with popular culture, mass media, art and human history. For his first ... More | |
Portrait of Iwona Blazwick, 2016. Photo: Christa Holka.
LONDON.- Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick will continue to work as an independent curator both with the Gallery into 2023, and on a wide range of international projects. Iwona Blazwick said: This has been an emotional decision because of the great love I have for Whitechapel Gallery, our exhibitors, audiences, colleagues and communities. Over the last two decades I have had the opportunity to exhibit, commission and publish some of the worlds greatest artists; to lead the expansion of the Gallery; to forge relationships with international institutions and a huge range of cultural practitioners, important collectors, and philanthropists; and to work with inspiring colleagues. As the Gallery emerges from the pandemic in a strong financial position and with programmes admired and respected around the world, now seems a good time ... More |
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| Nikola Tesla letter discussing his place among America's greatest inventors sells for $341,295 at auction | | Ippodo Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Yukiya Izumita | | Terry Teachout, arts critic with a wide range, is dead at 65 |
Tesla evaluates his place among contemporaries; Edison and Bell: "The telephone means convenience, the incandescent lamp comfort but power means bread and butter".
BOSTON, MASS.- A Nikola Tesla letter discussing his place among America's greatest inventors sold for $341,295 according to Boston-based RR Auction. On personal monogram letterhead, the four-page letter signed "N. Tesla," February 19, 1901. The handwritten note to "Mr. Dana," evidently New York Sun editor Paul Dana. In part: "The telephone will remain forever useful and so, probably, will my invention for it permits the use of the sun's energy in the simplest and most economical manner and also because it is hard to imagine a simpler machine than my motor with an armature driven without mechanical and electrical contact. But the incandescent lamp will soon be doomed and Edison's work in the field will have only a historical value." Tesla goes on to discuss his place among Edison and Bell, stating, "The telephone means convenience, the incandescent ... More | |
Yukiya Izumita, Sekisoh, 2021. Ceramic.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 25 ceramic works in the Yukiya Izumita exhibition are in perpetual tension. His inventive use of layered clay is as sophisticated as it is attuned to the earth, with the folds of mud suggestive of the toil they require. Each work reflects the interior and exterior journey that led to their creation. Izumita relies on the salt-rich clay of the Iwate prefecture in the Tohuku region of Northeast Japan, known for its harsh weather. This coastal enclave is among the most severe in Japan, but because the artist lost his Rikuzentakatahome in the tsunami of 2011, he finds solace in the laborious processes required to produce each piece. Over and over, pound by pound, Izumita carries the sands from outside his windy Noda Village studio, allowing the catharsis of the arduous journey to give way to harmony and insight. From the white-capped waves of snowy Iwate, the rocky seaside sands give way to yellow-, red-, and black-toned glazes. Trusting the sensory intuition of his hands, Izumita fold ... More | |
The prolific cultural critic, columnist and author Terry Teachout at the Long Wharf Theater, where his play Satchmo at the Waldorf was in performance, in New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 3, 2012. Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Terry Teachout, a cultural critic who, in his columns for The Wall Street Journal, the Daily News and other publications, brought his all-encompassing intellect to bear on Broadway, ballet, bluegrass and practically every art form in between, died Thursday at the home of a friend in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island. He was 65. His brother, David, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. Teachout was one of a vanishing breed of cultural mavens: omnivorous, humane, worldly without being pretentious, often leaning conservative in their politics but wholly liberal in how they approached the world and its dizzying array of peoples and cultures. He wore his erudition lightly, enjoying it and hoping that, through his prose, others might ... More |
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| Catherine Southon to offer a 4,000 year-old Egyptian headrest discovered in a house clearance | | Cortesi Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Grazia Varisco and herman de vries | | On Abraham Lincoln's birthday, an epic event at Heritage Auctions spanning the President's life and times |
Carved in three sections, the curved oval shaped pillow supported by a pair of slender hands carved in shallow relief, on a reeded stem, the oval base is carved in shallow relief with reeded form with a rope twist border.
CHISLEHURST.- An intriguing 4,000 year-old Egyptian wooden headrest which dates from the 6th Dynasty (2360-2195BC) and was discovered among the items of a deceased estate will be offered by Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 in a sale of Antiques & Collectables (including jewellery, watches, furniture, pictures and books) at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Selsdon in Surrey. Measuring 17cm high and 18cm wide, it is estimated at £6,000 - 8,000. As Catherine Southon, whose office is based in Chislehurst (Kent), commented: We are honoured to have been asked to sell the estate of a local deceased collector which includes more than 250 items from furniture to jewellery. Whilst clearing the estate we came across a couple of unusual possessions including an aboriginal shield, and what we believed to be a tribal headrest. ... More | |
Grazia Varisco, Spazio Potenziale, 1975. Wood, nails, iron painted frames variable dimensions, 52.5 x 40.5 cm. 20 5/8 x 16 inches.
MILAN.- Cortesi Gallery Milano introduces its new show in Milano, dedicated to artists who perfectly synthesise the gallery's artistic research. The title Conversazioni Parallele (parallel conversations) suggests creating dialogues between two artists who started their career by interacting with the concepts and beliefs of the ZERO movement: Grazia Varisco through the Italian Gruppo T and herman de vries as part of the Dutch Gruppo Nul. Furthermore, from the 1970s onwards, after their initial artistic experience, both artists evolved their creative approach into something incredibly personal, becoming some of the most important artists established and exhibited in the most crucial museums internationally. The two exhibition rooms at Cortesi Gallery focus precisely on the second period of these artists. Grazia Varisco (1937 Milan, Italy) works inhabit the surrounding space through simple geometric signs, creating different ... More | |
Abraham Lincoln: The President writes to the Army of the Potomac after the Union Defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
DALLAS, TX.- Beginning Feb. 12, the 212th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth, Heritage Auctions will offer some 530 documents and artifacts associated with The Great Emancipator, among them one of the most cited and significant letters of his presidency written in the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg. It has been decades since such a vaunted and valuable assemblage of Lincolnalia has been offered at auction, perhaps not since Oliver Barrett's celebrated collection was sold in 1952. "When my colleagues and I began discussing this auction last year," says Curtis Lindner, Heritage Auctions' Director of Americana, "we never realized the breadth and depth of the material that would be offered. We have held Lincoln-related auctions in the past, but this is far and above the best to date an extraordinary event filled with historic achievements, none more so than the amendment ... More |
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| Andréhn-Schiptjenko opens Omid Delafrouz's third solo exhibition at the gallery | | Exhibition of new paintings by American artist Chris Finley on view at Galerie Richard | | The Wattis Institute presents 'Josh Faught: Look Across the Water Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog' |
Omid Delafrouz, Mechanical Flag 1946, 2021. Oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm. 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in. Photo courtesy the artist and Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Paris. Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Beranger.
STOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko is presenting Omid Delafrouz's third solo exhibition at the gallery - Bouquet for a Day. Omid Delafrouz has made himself known for his detailed pencil drawings and digitally processed prints filled with references to popular culture from the end of the 20th century. In his new exhibition at the gallery, Delafrouz presents paintings for the first time. Delafrouz has made poetic interpretations of history, thus developing a comprehensive narrative of Europe from the Holocaust to the Cold War. Associative parallels are drawn between seemingly disparate areas such as political history and the space race, Greek mythology, poetry and art history, but also Formula 1 racing. Rhythmic similarities and recurring symbols indicate how our consciousness and imagery ... More | |
Chris Finley is part of a generation of painters who have examined and incorporated digital technologies into traditional art practices.
PARIS.- Jean-Luc and Takako Richard are presenting a solo show with new paintings by American artist Chris Finley titled Realtors in Paris, his first show in Europe. His new works represent real estate agentss portraits digitally manipulated and distorted with imaging softwares and carefully painted with glossy enamel paint. Chris Finley is a major painter in this generation who assimilated new digital technologies and new aesthetics to the long history of Painting. When I begin working from a single Realtor image on the computer (Adobe Illustrator) I save many iterations of the image as I am twisting, pulling rotating the elements of the vector shapes. I will sometimes save 20 versions or more. I am looking for a composition that surprises me. Something I could not imagine first. In reviewing the 20 or more images, I usually find 1-5 versions especially compelling. If there are many physical paintings ... More | |
Josh Faught, Look Across the Water, Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, 2022; installation view, CCA Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow. Photo: Impart Photography.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts announces a new solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Josh Faught: Look Across the Water Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, January 13March 5, 2022. Faughts first major institutional exhibition in the Bay Area since 2013, Look Across the Water Into the Darkness, Look for the Fog is curated by Kim Nguyen and consists of a series of handwoven, crocheted, and dyed works that articulate the often ambivalent relationships between material, language, and community. The title of the exhibition is a quote from the 1980 supernatural horror film, The Fog, directed by John Carpenter and filmed in Marin County, California. Thematically, the works in the exhibition revolve around concepts of time, exposure, and transition: restlessly oscillating between moods; between light and dark; between mourning, witness, ... More |
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Exhibition at Wave Pool features artists working within the context of a larger collective
CINCINNATI, OH.- "Critical Mass" is a group exhibition, which includes work from multiple creative collectives: four women-identifying students from a local alternative educational institution; artists working within the Ohio Prison Arts Connection program, in order to connect people with art inside and outside of prisons; a group of women working through their experiences with trauma and recovery by learning new skills in storytelling and woodcutting; and an ad-hoc crew of immigrant/refugee artists and artisans led by an internationally renowned artist. Inside the Dollhouse is a group project funded by the Judy Chicago Art Education award, led by artist and teacher Chelsea Borgman who worked with four Cincinnati-based students (Izzy C., Ava C., Addie W., & Lucia A.), to create dollhouses as a metaphor for the historically silenced political voices of ... More
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens an exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Keping's work
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Chinese artist Wang Kepings work, at its rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré location for the first time. He had previously been the subject of two solo exhibitions, in Paris and Brussels, in 2018. Concurrently, Flammarion editions will publish an important monograph about Wang Keping. In this volume, curator Virginie Perdrisot-Cassan and artist Ai Weiwei retrace the artistic journey of an artist who was, in 1979, a founding member of the Stars movement, before becoming the author of a body of work that is considered today to be a major contribution to contemporary sculpture. Metamorphoses, Wang Kepings site-specific exhibition, unveils the artists most recent body of work: a group of eight majestic, fire-patinated cypress-wood sculptures. This never-before-seen corpus is the product of three years of work, marking ... More
Dancing that unfolds like a prayer
NEW YORK, NY.- Choreographer Oona Doherty grasps that in everybody and in every body there is a point of tension between hard and soft, tough and vulnerable, pleasure and pain. For all their posturing, her characters, anonymous working-class youth from Belfast, Northern Ireland, ache. And while her movement language creates an exacting physical entity, transcendence comes through an inner battle: fighting the hard to find the soft. In Hard to Be Soft A Belfast Prayer, inspired by the city she grew up in, Doherty explores the trauma caused by the Troubles, which lasted around 30 years. Unfolding in four sections, the work, tenacious yet ethereal, begins and ends with shape-shifting solos in which Doherty embodies young men from Belfast with an air of machismo, she snarls a lip, digs her hands deep into her pockets and stands stooped, ... More
Exhibition brings together artists as they delve into the past through personal memories and cultural histories
LONDON.- No 20 Arts is presenting Threads of Time, a group show featuring artworks by Yang-En Hume, Seungwon Jung, Shivanjani Lal, and Sunghoon Yang. This exhibition brings together a group of artists as they delve into the past through personal memories and cultural histories. Yang-En Hume is an Australian-Singaporean artist based in London who works with textiles, installation, and photograms. Concerned by archival practices, Hume questions why only certain objects are memorialised in museums. Using found lace, fabric, and familial photographs sourced from flea markets, Hume creates hanging installations, and photograms. Scans and photographs of found objects are printed onto translucent ... More
1929 Bentley Speed Six Le Mans-style Tourer for sale with H & H Classics
LONDON.- This magnificent beast, a survivor from almost a century ago, is one of just 182 6½ Litre Bentleys completed to Speed Six specification and can boast a top speed of well over 100mph. It is now for sale with H&H Classics at the Imperial War Museum Duxford on March 16th for an estimate of £500,000 to £600,000. Supplied new to E. Taylor Esq it was first issued with the London registration number 'UU 5911' in June 1929. It has been entrusted to renowned marque specialist R.C. Moss for maintenance and improvement work during the current nineteen-year ownership. The Tourer has lived up to its designation and has been much enjoyed on the 2005 Rallye des Alpes and 2006 Bentley Tour of Aquitaine and Bordeaux. It has also been further afield as part of The Jewel that is Jordan III Rally during 2007, and has participated in the 2008 ... More
Multidisciplinary artist explores Asian and American traditions in works both personal and universal
PRINCETON, NJ.- New York-based artist Kelly Wang (born 1992) combines ancient and contemporary influences to create multimedia works resonant with elements of cultural identity and personal grief. She creates what she terms landscapes of the heart heartscapes that revolve around places, people or events with which she has a deep affinity. Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang features 32 works of art from the last six years, including recent acquisitions from the Princeton University Art Museums own collections, that challenge the way we think about heritage and how we perceive the world around us. Walking a tightrope between past and future, East and West, Wang pushes the boundaries of calligraphy, painting and sculpture in new ways while confronting prejudice, life and death. Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang is curated by Cary Y. ... More
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre announces 67th Blake Prize finalists
SYDNEY.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre has announced 65 finalists for the 67th Blake Prize one of Australias longest-standing and most prestigious prize. The Blake Prize is a biennial event that engages local and international contemporary artists in conversations on the broader experience of spirituality, religion, and belief. The selected finalists will show their work at The 67th Blake Prize exhibition on 12 March 22 May 2022. The majority of this years finalists come from Australia, representing every state and territory in the nation. Many cultures and religions from across the globe are represented in the works, including Mexico, Japan, Iran, the Philippines, Israel and China. The themes explored within the finalist works include introspective explorations of spirituality, the natural world, xenophobia and racism, gender, Australian identity and COVID-19. This years Blake Prize finalists ha ... More
New Chief Executive announced for Adelaide Festival
ADELAIDE.- The Adelaide Festival Board has announced the appointment of renowned arts leader Kath M Mainland as Chief Executive from April 2022. Globally recognised, Mainland has worked in and around festivals for over 25 years, most recently as Executive Director and co-CEO of RISING a celebration of Melbournes distinct cultural and creative strengths and the first non-sporting event to receive Major Event status. Previously, she was CEO of Melbourne International Arts Festival; Chief Executive of Edinburgh Festival Fringe the worlds largest arts festival; and Administrative Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She was awarded a CBE for services to culture in Scotland in 2014. Alongside her executive roles, Mainland has acted as a trustee on numerous arts boards including chairing Festivals Edinburgh, the organisation ... More
Paul Carter Harrison, whose ideas shaped Black theater, dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Carter Harrison, a playwright and scholar who in books, essays and award-winning plays provided a theoretical structure for the Black performing arts, linking works by writers such as August Wilson to a deeply rooted structure of African ritual and myth, died Dec. 27 in Atlanta. He was 85. His daughter, Fonteyn, confirmed the death, at a retirement home, but she said the cause had not been determined. In plays such as The Great MacDaddy and books such as The Drama of the Nommo: Black Theatre in the African Continuum, both in 1973, Harrison went beyond the social and political realism of many of his contemporaries, demonstrating how Black American culture is and, he said, must be rooted in African tradition, even as it mixed with white, Eurocentric traditions. The Great MacDaddy, for example, is on ... More
Rosa Lee Hawkins, youngest member of the Dixie Cups, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Rosa Lee Hawkins, the youngest member of the musical trio the Dixie Cups, whose hit single Chapel of Love reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100 in 1964, died on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida. She was 76. The cause was internal bleeding resulting from complications during surgery at Tampa General Hospital, said her sister Barbara Ann Hawkins, who was also a member of the group, along with Joan Marie Johnson, who died in 2016 at 72. The Dixie Cups epitomized the harmonizing sound of the 1960s girl group. Chapel of Love, the group's debut single and most well-known song, quickly replaced the Beatles Love Me Do as No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1964. It was later heard on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubricks 1987 Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket. Rosa Lee Hawkins was born Oct. 23, 1945, in New Orleans to Hartzell ... More
Tarot cards help determine art's outcome
DENVER, PA.- Tya Alisa Anthonys layered works draw on the imagery and tradition of tarot. Using the practice of tarot card readings to interpret lifes journeys, Anthony illuminates and reframes the personal stories of Depression-era Black sharecroppers to reimagine them as icons of divine and mystical power. Combining archival photos with botanical imagery, Organic Tarot: Work by Tya Alisa Anthony explores the often-hidden stories of people of color depicted in historic photographs, images that captured only a fragmented moment of their lives. The exhibition, on view in the Freyer Newman Center January 15 April 3, 2022, is included with Gardens admission. Related programs will be announced later. The exhibition includes digital and cut-paper collages, all from Anthonys Organic Tarot series, drawing from historical photos found in archives. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Andrew Wyeth died January 16, 2009. Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In this image: Andrew Wyeth, LejanÃa, 1952 (Faraway). Pincel seco sobre papel. 34,92 x 54,61. The Phyllis and Jaimie Wyeth Collection.
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