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The textile designer Josephine Komara, known as Obin, holds a textile at her showroom BINhouse in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov 19, 2022. Her batik and other designs for her fashion house, BINhouse, have transformed a cultural expression that was intricate and lovely but so locked in tradition that it bordered on staid. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)
by Hannah Beech
JAKARTA.- Josephine Komara was depressed. She had recently divorced. She had moved into a small house. Her business supplying fabric for lampshades was lucrative but unfulfilling. Komara sipped her wine and smoked a cigarette. She sank to the floor, dipping her hands into two wooden chests filled with antique Indonesian textiles. In one chest, Komara recently recalled, were batik designs from the island of Java, in the other, elaborate weavings from Indonesias outer islands. She swallowed more wine, inhaled clove-scented smoke from an Indonesian cigarette and considered how to enrich the heritage of a nation of more than 17,000 islands. Since that melancholic night nearly four decades ago, Komara has refashioned an ancient art by entwining disparate textile traditions with an aesthetic all her own to create a modern Indonesian silhouette. Her batik and other designs for her fashion house, BINhouse, have transformed a cultural expression that was intricate and lovely but so locked in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day DIVA will be the first exhibition of its kind to celebrate the extraordinary power and creativity of iconic performers who have made their voices heard from the 19th century to today. In this image: Behind the scenes installation of DIVA at the V&A. Photo Jamie Stoker
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| Hindman announces July auction of Native American jewelry | | New-York Historical Society exhibition explores the work of J.C. Leyendecker | | Almine Rech Shanghai opens an exhibition of works by Erik Lindman |
Lot 149 | Denise Wallace (Chugach-Sugpiaq, b. 1957) | Bird Head Mask, 1/1, 1993 | Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Hindman will present an impressive range of jewelry by early and contemporary master Native American artists in its July 13th Native American Jewelry auction. The auction will be anchored by a strong group of Hopi jewelry by internationally renowned designer Charles Loloma. With over 200 lots, an assortment of Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Pueblo necklaces, rings, concha belts, and earrings crafted by leading designers such as Preston Monongye, Julian Lovato, Lewis Lomay, and Denise Wallace are also among sale highlights. Significant collections include John and Doris Curran, Indiana and the Smith Collection, Arizona. Erin Rust, Specialist, Native American Art commented: Charles Loloma, along with artists such as Luiseño painter Fritz Scholder, brought Native art and jewelry into a new light. They not only changed how and what Native artists were creating but also how the public viewed these pieces. The ... More | |
J.C. Leyendeckers 1900 painting for an Ivory soap advertisement. Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity, a new show at the New-York Historical Society, explores how the celebrated illustrators traditional imagery carried a defiant queer message. (National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, R.I. via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society examines the work and influence of J.C. Leyendecker (18741951), a preeminent illustrator and commercial artist who helped shape American visual culture in the first three decades of the 20th century through captivating advertising campaigns including the legendary Arrow Collar Man and countless covers for the Saturday Evening Post. As a gay artist whose illustrations for a mainstream audience often had unspoken homoerotic undertones, his work is especially revealing for what it says about the cultural attitudes towards homosexuality of the period. Under Cover: J. C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity, on view May 5August 13, 2023, ... More | |
Erik Lindman, Dipsas, 2023. Acrylic, Flashe, collaged canvas webbing and tarlatan on linen, 170 x 150 cm, 67 x 59 in © Erik Lindman. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Charles Roussel.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Erik Lindman's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from June 30 to August 12, 2023. All color is a texture, a play of light vibrating against the very structure of the world. This was understood over two thousand years ago when Lucretius wrote of a cloth torn apart thread by thread, its crimson dye slowly breath[ing] out its components before the shreds revert to seeds of things. That color is not merely superficial but is in fact a microscopic shape creating traps and mirrors for light would have been self-evident to the medieval painter grinding pigment into oil, and even more so for those early humans smudging clay and burnt bones onto cave walls. Traveling backwards in time, those differences between pigment and substrate become more and more arbitrary, and must converge in myriad ... More |
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| Exhibition celebrates the 90th birthday of Ken Jacobs | | Tate St Ives appoints Adam Khan Architects for refurbishment of the Palais de Danse | | British Library acquires Beatles 1963 concert recording |
Ken Jacobs Life Studies, circa late 1950s/early 1960s. The Broadway Windows Gallerys Ken Jacobs: Up the Illusion explores how the artist has kept New York City at the heart of even his most esoteric work. (Ken Jacobs via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- 80WSE is presenting Up The Illusion, a momentous survey exhibition celebrating the 90th birthday of Ken Jacobs, one of our most iconic and indefatigable moving image artists. Curated by Andrew Lampert, this street level exhibition features a panoramic selection of Jacobs nearly 70 years of pioneering films and digital videos in the Broadway Windows gallery located on the corner of Broadway and E. 10th Street. Dating from the mid-1950s through today, and unfolding over the course of seven months, the thematically organized works displayed in each window will evolve over the course of the exhibition, spotlighting the wildly divergent aspects of the artists prolific output. This is the first exhibition to feature Jacobs largely unseen drawings alongside his critically acclaimed moving image works. ... More | |
Barbara Hepworth on the dance floor, Palais de Danse, March 1961. Photograph by Studio St Ives. Barbara Hepworth © Bowness.
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives announced that Adam Khan Architects have been selected to lead the refurbishment of the Palais de Danse. This historic building in the heart of St Ives served as Barbara Hepworths sculpture studio in the 1960s and will now be reimagined as a space to showcase and build on her artistic legacy. After an extensive search, Khan has been appointed to lead a project team comprising Thread, Price & Myers, and Ritchie+Daffin. Anne Barlow, Director of Tate St Ives, said: The Palais de Danse played a fascinating role in the story of modern art and continues to hold a special place in the community memory of St Ives. I look forward to working with Adam Khan Architects and the whole project team to realise the potential of this incredible building, uncovering its rich history and shaping its exciting future. Adam Khan Architects are acclaimed for their sensitive and socially minded projects, which are rooted in com ... More | |
In this file photo the pencil case of a student in the Beatles course at the University of Liverpool, in England, Sept. 28, 2021. (Duncan Elliott/The New York Times)
LONDON.- The British Library announced that they have received a recording of an early Beatles concert at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire from 4 April 1963, recorded by former Stowe student John Bloomfield. His recording captured 22 tracks, including the future classic 'I Saw Her Standing There', and cover versions of US hits 'Twist and Shout' and 'Too Much Monkey Business' at a special performance played by a band on the cusp of global fame. The recording was stored at Johns home for over half a century before BBC journalist Samira Ahmed contacted Stowe School for a news story marking 60 years since the concert. Listeners will hear songs performed for an audience of schoolboys at the start of The Beatles' reign, including 'From Me to You', which reached No 1 in the UK charts. Also heard in the recording are the cheers of the crowd and their requests for songs, alongside quips to the audience made by the band. ... More |
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| 'Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape' on view at the Art Institute of Chicago | | 'Umberto Eco' review: Remembering a literary explorer | | The Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai presents 'Tosh Basco: No Sky' |
Vincent van Gogh. The Restaurant Rispal at Asnières, 1887. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch, 2015.13.10. Photo courtesy Nelson-Atkins Media Services, Jamison Miller.
CHICAGO, IL.- During an intensely creative period between 1882 and 1890, Vincent van Gogh and other notable Post-Impressionists found new inspiration in the changing landscape just outside of Paris. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago May 14 through September 4, 2023, Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape brings together more than 75 paintings and drawings from this formative period by Van Gogh as well as Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand, shedding new light on their boundary-pushing techniques and illuminating the power of place to shape artistic identities. Long a popular spot for leisure activities, the area along the Seine River underwent a period of rapid development toward the end of the 19th century, as coal, gas, and manufacturing ... More | |
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World celebrates the man and his many bookshelves, but its his symbolic appeal that comes across above all.
NEW YORK, NY.- To be intellectually curious is to be alive, Umberto Eco once said. The Italian thinker, who died in 2016, was a professor, a novelist who wrote, most notably and at one time inescapably, The Name of the Rose a semiotician, a columnist and a connoisseur of arcana. He also conveyed a twinkling sense of fun around reading and thinking about the world and literature, a notion that erudition could be not just edifying but entertaining. Umberto Eco: A Library of the World celebrates the man and his many bookshelves, but its his symbolic appeal that comes across above all. Davide Ferrarios documentary front-loads the physicality of books, with drooling pans of libraries from Turin, Italy, to Tianjin, China, before easing into Ecos eclectic interests, with clips of him dispensing apercus and quips about memory and the noise of modernity. Ecos passion ... More | |
The first-ever survey of the Filipino-American artist, acclaimed for her performance-based work.
SHANGHAI.- No Sky is the first-ever survey exhibition of Tosh Basco, highly regarded for her hypnotic performances, movement-based work, and improvisations, which unfold across film, theater, drawing, and painting. This exhibition presents hitherto unseen works that the Filipino-American artist made over the last decade, including works on paper, oil painting, and photography. All the work in the exhibition, in various ways, can be considered as representation-by-touch and thus ask the viewer to think about alternative sensory modes of representation, challenging the dominance of the eye and mind, imitation and idea. The exhibition transforms the RAMs fourth-floor gallery into a blue stage, which alludes to Bascos studio and performance space. In this theater, three series of works on paper are presented on transparent structures, which are reminiscent of the iconic glass easels designed by the legendary Italian-Brazilian ... More |
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| New Photography 2023: MoMA returns long-running photography exhibition series | | Tornabuoni Arte opens its new venue in Rome with a retrospective dedicated to Lucio Fontana | | 'Alex Katz: Wedding Dress' now open at the Portland Museum of Art |
Karl Ohiri, Untitled, from The Archive of Becoming, 2015ongoing. Inkjet print. 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Karl Ohiri.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa. On view from May 28 through September 16, 2023, the exhibition explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers, who are united by their critical use of photographic forms and their ties to the artistic scene in the port city of Lagos (Ãkó), Nigeria. This is the latest edition of MoMAs celebrated New Photography series and marks its return as a gallery presentation after five years. New Photography 2023 marks the first time any of these photographers present their work at MoMA and is the first group exhibition in MoMAs history to engage the work of living West ... More | |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1967.
ROME.- Tornabuoni Arte, founded in Florence in 1981 by Roberto Casamonti, opened a new venue in Rome in via Bocca di Leone. After the gallerys venues in Florence (1981), Crans-Montana (1993), Milan (1995), Forte dei Marmi (2004), Tornabuoni Arte - Arte Antica (2006-2022), and Paris (2009), Tornabuoni Arte is opening a new location between Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti. In keeping with Tornabuoni Artes tradition, the inaugural exhibition is dedicated to Lucio Fontana, one of the most emblematic artists in the gallerys history. As Roberto Casamonti recalls, Many years ago I happened to read on the back of one of Fontanas works the sentence Today is a beautiful day to live [...] to this day, whenever I am about to embark on a new beginning, this statement comes to mind. And especially [...] on a day that celebrates the opening of the gallerys new branch in ... More | |
Alex Katz (United States, born 1927), Wedding Dress 1, 1992. Oil on linen, 90 x 66 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of the artist, 2022.26.2. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © 2023 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The exhibition 'Alex Katz: Wedding Dress', now on view at the Portland Museum of Art, displays a series of large-scale paintings that highlight the artists interest in the intersection of art and fashion, the texture of the painted surface, and the flatness of pictorial space. In his art autobiography Invented Symbols, Katz wrote, Fashion is of the moment, and art is supposed to be forever. This observation guides the design of this exhibition, and centers time, and timelessness, as a focal point. Organized by a curatorial team that includes the artist himself, Alex Katz, Wedding Dress will offer a unique opportunity to situate Katzs work in relation to performance, figuration, and fashion. An ... More |
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Shane de Blacam awarded the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts has announced that Dublin-based architect Shane de Blacam has been awarded the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, honouring his inspiring contribution to architecture. To mark the fifth year of the annual prize, which is supported by the Dorfman Foundation, the distinguished international jury has recognised de Blacam for his commitment to communal spaces for learning, exchange and contemplation. The jury said de Blacams buildings demonstrate a pleasure in simple local materials, combining loadbearing masonry and joinery. In both new buildings and sensitive historic restorations, de Blacams practice reminds us of the power of craftsmanship to create spaces where we can come together for stillness and reflection. His work has been a powerful influence on contemporary Irish architecture, and ... More
John James Audubon's 'Birds of America' now on view at Compton Verney
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verney is presenting an opportunity to marvel at a beautiful display of 46 plates from one of the worlds most famous and valuable rare books, Birds of America by John James Audubon (17851851). Birds of America reveals the artistry and legacy of one of the worlds rarest, most coveted and - at almost 1-metre in height - largest books. Compton Verney is also delighted to be the first museum to host this exhibition, as it begins its UK tour from National Museums Scotland. When it was first published as a series between 1827 and 1838, Birds of America was instantly recognised as a landmark work of ornithological illustration. It achieved international renown, not only due to the epic scale of Audubons ambition to paint every bird species in North America, which took almost 12 years to complete, but also the books spectacular, ... More
Meteorites from Geoff Notkin Collection create big impact July 22 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary array of otherworldly meteorite specimens from the personal collection of one of the former stars of the Meteorite Men will touch down July 22 in Heritage's Meteorites from the Geoff Notkin Collection Part 2 Nature & Science Signature® Auction. Meteorite Men, a documentary reality television series that aired on the Science Channel, starred Notkin and co-host Steve Arnold, along with featured scientists and professors and guests, as they roamed the earth looking for meteorites. Part 1 of the Notkin Collection Nature & Science Auction was a hugely successful event in June 2022 that Notkin called something of an "exploration" that told the story of his career and his love of exploration. Part 2, he says, has a more personal feel. "This auction is personally so exciting, because I'm going back to a place at Heritage Auctions that ... More
Joseph Pedott, 91, dies; Made Chia Pets an 'as Seen on TV' sensation
NEW YORK, NY.- Joseph Pedott, whose decades of commercials for the zany plantlike figurines known as Chia Pets launched them into the pantheon of American consumer culture, died on June 22 in San Francisco. He was 91. The cause was cardiac arrest, said Sherry Ettleson, a family friend. The origins of the Chia Pets popularity can be traced to March 1977, when Pedott (pronounced PEE-dot), an independent advertising executive, wandered around a Chicago home and housewares trade expo looking for new clients. He asked the head of sales at the Thrifty drugstore chain about his bestselling product. He said, Theres this stupid item called the Chia Pet. I dont know why anybody buys it, Pedott later recalled. The sales executive faxed Pedott a picture of the stupid item in question. It was a terra cotta figurine manufactured in Oaxaca, ... More
Noyes Arts Garage of Atlantic City displays exhibit featuring those killed by guns
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J..- A unique and emotionally charged art exhibit that seeks to address the urgent issue of gun violence opened June 30 at the Noyes Arts Garage of Atlantic City. The Souls Shot Portrait Project serves as a platform for grieving families and artists to collaborate and create personal portraits that honor those lost to gun violence. Each portrait represents an individual whose life was tragically cut short, reminding visitors of the impact gun violence has on families, communities and society as a whole. To create these portraits, artists participating in this project were randomly paired with families and friends of victims. The artists meet with the families and friends and get to know who the person was in life through photographs, videos, mementos and the all-important stories, said Laura Madeleine, the executive director and curator of the ... More
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents 'Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages' in first major presentation
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is now opening the highly anticipated exhibition, Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages. This landmark exhibition marks the first major presentation of works by Iranian-born, Vancouver-based artist Parviz Tanavoli in Canada. Renowned for his unique ability to merge sculpture and poetry, Tanavoli's exhibition will captivate audiences and ignite a new appreciation for his extensive contributions to modern sculpture. With more than 100 works spanning six decades of Tanavoli's career, Poets, Locks, Cages delves into the artist's exploration of the poet, the lock and the cage as recurring themes. The exhibition displays the full breadth of Tanavoli's artistic practice, focusing on sculpture while surveying painting, printmaking and mixed media. As one of the foremost contemporary Iranian artists and a member of the highly influential ... More
Tools for Solidarity: RESOLVE Collective at the Mosaic Rooms
LONDON.- The Mosaic Rooms has commissioned RESOLVE Collective for the 2023 Family Artist and Outdoor Play commission. RESOLVE Collective will design with and for young people in our local area. The purpose of this project is to animate childrens understanding of solidarity through play with a fun, interactive and evolving play structure that will be erected in The Mosaic Rooms garden. In continuing our collaboration with Earls Court Youth Club we have organised a series of creative workshops which will shape the outdoor play commission. The new, co-produced work will manifest in a semi-permanent installation that uses experimental and radical play to explore concepts and practices of solidarity for a variety of communities and social causes in the UK and internationally. A launch event and three public family workshops will ... More
Bennington Museum and Southern Vermont Arts Center present 'For the Love of Vermont: The Lyman Orton Collection'
WESTON, VT.- More than 200 works of art that capture Vermonts unique character, people, traditions and landscape prior to the 1970s from the collection of Lyman Orton, proprietor of the Vermont Country Store, are being unveiled to the public in an unprecedented collaboration by two of Vermonts most celebrated museums Bennington Museum and Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester. The collection came together for one reason: Lyman Orton, a man on a mission who believes art is history and has curated a living time capsule of life in Vermont and the painters who painted Vermont over decades. He is now sharing his collection with Vermonters and all who love Vermont. Bennington ... More
National Building Museum's 2023 Summer Block Party installation LOOK HERE now open
WASHINGTON, DC .- The National Building Museum is thrilled to present its highly anticipated seventh Summer Block Party installation LOOK HERE by artist and architect Suchi Reddy, founder and principal of Reddymade Architecture & Design in New York. The installation opened to the public on Saturday, July 1 and will be on display through Labor Day, Monday, September 4. The Museum is open every Thursday through Monday from 10 am to 4 pm. Best known for her large-scale projects that connect the emotional quality of human engagement with space, Reddy is the sixth designer to produce the Summer Block Partys signature installation, and the first BIPOC woman to partner with the Museum on this annual exhibition. My mantra is form follows feeling, Reddy said. I believe that architecture, environments, and experiences ... More
Warhol's Chanel from ads and Mick Jagger top Bonhams' Prints Sale in London
LONDON.- Chanel, from Ads, a screenprint in colours by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), was the top lot at Bonhams Prints and Multiples sale today (Tuesday 27 June) at New Bond Street, London. Featuring a bottle of Chanel No.5, the 1985 screenprint sold for £165,500, against a presale estimate of £80,000-120,000. The 96-lot sale achieved a total of £1,596,700, with 79% sold by lot and 99% sold by value. The sale offered a strong section of American Pop prints, which were 100% sold. These included 11 works by Warhol, with highlights including Mick Jagger, from Mick Jagger Portfolio, which sold for £108,350, and Oyster Stew, from Campbell's Soup II, which sold for £44,800. Crying Girl, a screenprint by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) in his signature comic strip style was also amongst the Pop section offering, achieving £44,800. Carolin von Massenbach, ... More
Leon Loughridge: Sacred Ground now on view at Gerald Peters Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning artist Leon Loughridge is a master of the multi-step reduction process in woodblock art. His latest exhibition, now on view at Gerald Peters features woodblock prints, watercolors and serigraphs of the special places in New Mexico that represent his spiritual roots and personal story. Using the Japanese printmaking technique of moku hanga, all of his woodblock prints are created by hand, not a printing press. The hand-printing process is simple, yet labor intensive, and achieves its own vibrancy and originality as well as a unique fidelity to the landscapes of New Mexico that inspire him. The artist will be in the gallery demonstrating his print process July 11 15. These familiar locations are a never-ending display of beauty. They are sites where I am continually inspired, where I am familiar with the folds and creases of the land, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino was born July 02, 1486. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately.
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