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"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott," 2022. New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum. © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Watch out. A raucous, enthralling exhibition of great American painter Robert Colescott (1925-2009), has arrived at the New Museum, to revel in and dissect. Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first museum exhibition of this artists relentlessly provocative work to be seen in Manhattan since a 1989 show (also at the New Museum) and the most complete yet. It reveals a man who was eventually able to meld his own private demons about race with his countrys public ones, creating one of the most compelling, simultaneously personal and socially relevant bodies of work in 20th century American painting. Taut and carefully shaped, the show traces Colescotts heroic trajectory from start to finish, a nervy mixture of abstraction and trompe loeil during his undergraduate years to a sardonic humanism that is both indicting and optimistic. As a light-skinned Black American who was raised to pass for white wanting, he would later say ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of recent works by renowned American artist Barbara Kruger. Spanning the galleryâs three locations on West 19th Street in New York, this is Krugerâs first presentation at the gallery since the announcement of her representation in 2019.
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| Grime transformed British music. A new exhibition traces how. | | Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents the first exhibition dedicated entirely to Tom Sachs's Rocket Factory NFT collection | | Director of the Guggenheim to step down |
An undated photo provided by Richard Stroud/Museum of London shows Jammer, a pioneering grime MC, at Grime Stories: From the Corner to the Mainstream, a new exhibition exploring the history of the British rap genre in London. Richard Stroud/Museum of London via The New York Times.
by Desiree Ibekwe
LONDON.- On a wall-mounted screen at the Museum of London, a low-resolution video showed young people rapping quickly and hungrily over syncopated beats. Every so often, a decidedly 2000s graphic flashed on the screen, reading Risky Roadz 2. The video is an early work from Roony RiskyRoadz Keefe, who documented the early days of grime, the muscular British rap genre. Keefe first picked up a camera to chronicle the nascent scene in 2004, and made DVDs of the freestyles he recorded. Id hear an MC and think, Youre good, put them on, Keefe said in a telephone interview. The DVD helped propel the rapper in the scene, like he was an A&R talent scout, he added. Almost two decades later, Keefe, 37, is a co-curator of Grime Stories: From the Corner to the Mainstream, a small but ... More | |
Tom Sachs, Waiting for the Man 그를 기다리며, 2022. Synthetic polymer and Krink on canvas, 182.88 x 152.4 cm © Artist. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery | London Paris Salzburg Seoul. Photography by Genevieve Hanson.
SEOUL.- Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory Paintings, the first exhibition dedicated entirely to the American artists celebrated breakthrough Rocket Factory NFT collection. Fourteen paintings depicting iconically branded Rockets and Rocket Components are on show. The exhibition, which runs concurrently with the artists solo shows at Art Sonje Center and HYBE Insight, completes the first comprehensive survey of Sachs work in Seoul. Drawing inspiration from the Conceptual art movement between 1968-1972, the Rocket Factory NFT collection presents a framework: a series of conditions, a set of rules, but the results are left for the community to decide. From the 150,000+ possible ways to combine the 30 iconically branded Component NFTs, the community gets to choose which 1,000 Rocket NFTs the world deserves. The thirty brands are each pop culture icons, including Chanel, Budweiser, Coca-Cola and ... More | |
Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, at the foundations offices in New York, Nov. 18, 2014. Richard Perry/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, said he planned to retire from his role next year, capping off more than 14 years leading the institution and its international offshoots. Armstrong, 73, whose tenure included weathering the pandemic and responding to calls for change around racial inequities, both internally and on the museums walls, announced the move in an interview with The Financial Times that was published Friday. Sometime next spring, he said in the interview, Ill be leaving the museum. Itll be almost 15 years by then and thats a long time. The board is rejuvenated, and active its a good moment. In a news release, the museum said that before Armstrong steps down in 2023, he will work with its board of trustees to find his successor. Under his leadership, Armstrong was tasked in recent years with ... More |
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| David Nolan Gallery presents 'A Tribute to Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery 1966-75, Part II' | | Danziger Gallery L.A presents Tod Papageorge's photographs of Los Angeles beachgoers | | Li Ran's first exhibition in New York on view at Lisson Gallery |
Installation views of Bill Bollinger, Isa's Flower, 1970, four steel barrels, hoses, water, dimensions vary with installation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Bollingers sculpture activates the readymade tradition using a variety of materials like water, stone, wood, pipe and containers to directly express force particularly gravity and process. Bollinger originally studied aeronautical engineering at Brown University and turned to art when he moved to New York City in 1961. Focusing on the gesture of construction and the physical limits of material, his work addressed ideas of gravity, balance, and material nature. In his works, Bollinger made frequent use of standard industrially fabricated products. The artist explained his approach: I only do what it is necessary to do. There is no reason to use color, to polish, to bend, to weld, if it is not necessary to do so. Given their extemporaneous nature, much of Bollingers sculpture pieces are reconstructed for the purpose of this exhibition. Isas ... More | |
Tod Papageorge - "The Beaches", 1975 - 1981. 16.5 x 24 inches, Edition of 9 , 38 x 56 inches, Edition of 6.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Danziger Gallery L.A. is presenting the first showing of Tod Papageorges photographs of Los Angeles beachgoers, made in the late 1970s and early 80s. An early participant in the American school of street photography Tod Papageorges path has taken him from the streets of New York to the capitals of Europe, from black and white to color, and from small to mid-sized cameras. Central to his art (if not his life) is the question of what makes a photograph extraordinary, even as he uses nothing more than direct observation of our common, physical world in his efforts to trace a revelatory moment. Such moments distinguish this exhibition, which, although the photographs were made more than 40 years ago, looks as if it was produced yesterday. By weaving together the unselfconscious beauty and physicality of the pictures subjects with the elemental landscape they move through into a series of distinct tableaux, time ... More | |
Where Are My Shoes?, 2020. Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 x 5 cm. 59 x 47 1/4 x 2 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery is presenting the debut of works by Shanghai-based, multimedia artist Li Ran. Beyond Silence is the gallerys first solo presentation with Li Ran, following the recent announcement of worldwide representation. While the artist has gained renown for his performances and pseudo-documentaries, his practice also encompasses painting, installation and writing. His work explores the history of art, using mimicry and satire to question the role of the institutions and narratives that define it. In recent years, Li Ran has been surveying antagonist roles in theatre, stage art, make-up design and the production of foreign and espionage films created in China since the 1950s. He uses painting to present the transformations associated with character scene posing and voiceover monologues. For his first exhibition in New York, Li Ran reflects on the complex, internal factors within the context of modern Chinese history, ... More |
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| With sign language and sound, an artist upends audience perceptions | | Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery opens an exhibition of work by extraordinary Yolŋu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu | | A decrepit Hong Kong double-decker bus gets new life |
Artist Christine Sun Kim, who was born deaf, in Los Angeles, June 24, 2022. Mark Abramson/The New York Times.
by Andrew Russeth
NEW YORK, NY.- Last summer, a small plane hauled a sign with an intriguing phrase over Manchester, England: The Sound of Smiling. At the Queens Museum in New York right now, Time Owes Me Rest Again is scrawled on a wall, each supersized word accompanied by curving lines swooping across the enormous mural. And earlier this year, visitors to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis were confronted with an atrium-filling artwork listing sources of personal trauma, including Dinner Table Syndrome. Im finally at the point where I can do whatever I want, and I am going for it, the artist responsible for all of this, Christine Sun Kim, said in American Sign Language from Berlin, her longtime home. Kim, who was born deaf, said that ... More | |
Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Djulpan, 2021. 2505-21. Earth pigments on acrylic, 125 x 92 cm.
It is with great admiration and respect that Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents Journey of the Stars, an accumulative body of work by extraordinary Yolŋu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu. In this posthumous exhibition, her family and Buku Larrnggay Art Centre, together with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, present over 20 unique works on bark, board, paper and found Perspex, in what is Ms. Yunupiŋus final offering in her career as an artist. Following a lifetime of art making, Ms. Yunupiŋu had an incredible career sharing her multi-faceted practice with the world within 12 solo exhibitions and over 30 group exhibitions. Her huge success culminated in the moment eternal, a popularly and critically acclaimed survey show at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), which remains the first and only solo exhibition of works by a female Aboriginal artist at the institution. She was also the ... More | |
Luca Tong behind the wheel of his "hotdog" bus on the Wan Chai harbour promenade, in Hong Kong, on June 20, 2022. Louise Delmotte/The New York Times.
by Tiffany May
HONG KONG.- Pedestrians stopped in their tracks and stared. Passengers in vehicles craned their necks and waved. Schoolboys in uniform ran like paparazzi angling for the perfect shot. They were all riveted by a cream-colored double-decker bus with ketchup-red trims on the top and bottom swerving last month into an open-air terminal. Vintage buses of this variety, nicknamed hot dog buses for their lack of air conditioning, have not picked up passengers on the streets of Hong Kong for a decade. But this soot-streaked double-decker with missing panels and a rusty engine had been lovingly restored and is owned by two pilots, Luca Tong and Kobee Ko, who have never outgrown their childhood passion for buses. When the coronavirus pandemic grounded ... More |
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| Denny Dimin Hong presents 'The Wild and The Tame' | | The power of portraiture revealed in Robert Wilson: Moving portraits and Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize | | David Kordansky Gallery opens an exhibition of film and video works made by William E. Jones |
Installation view. Artists: Jessie Edelman, L, Natalie Lo Lai Lai, Dana Sherwood, Greer Howland Smith, Paula Wilson. On view through September 3rd.
HONG KONG.- The relationship between humans and nature becomes increasingly poignant as we find ourselves entrenched in the age of extreme human impact on the Earth. Whilst the negative connotations of this period are apparent through climate change and the widespread impacts of human intervention, we rely on the magic and connection to the wild for restorative energy much in the same way we look to art. The Wild and the Tame at Denny Dimin Hong Kong is a group exhibition with six artists who, through their work, observe nature, creating new lines of inquiry into human interaction with the natural world. Dana Sherwood, born 1977 in New York, is a multimedia artist, whose ink and watercolor piece Pavilion of the Wild and the Tame, 2016 lends its title to the exhibition. As part of the exhibition, we will also be showing her video piece Sight Equus Mongolia, 2019. As an artist Sherwood is known for her ... More | |
Robert Wilson, born Waco, Texas, 1941, Isabella Rossellini, Actor, 2005, HD video, music by Henri Rene and His Orchestra, voice by Robert Wilson; Courtesy of RW Work Ltd.
ADELAIDE.- The enduring power of portraiture through time is on show when two major exhibitions open at the Art Gallery of South Australia in July. Large-scale video portraits by ground-breaking artist Robert Wilson will be presented in the Australian premiere and exclusive exhibition, Robert Wilson: Moving portraits, alongside Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize - a national touring exhibition that celebrates 100 years of Australias most prestigious portrait award. One ticket will give audiences access to experience both exhibitions. AGSA Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM said, We are thrilled to present Archie 100 at AGSA, offering local audiences their first opportunity ever to experience an exhibition of Archibald Prize portraits here in South Australia. Simultaneously, an exhibition of Robert Wilsons intricately produced video portraits, never-before-seen in Australia, presents ... More | |
Installation view, William E. Jones: Survey, June 24 August 5, 2022, David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Kordansky Gallery New York is presenting Survey, an exhibition of film and video works made by William E. Jones over the last three decades. His first New York survey exhibition in an art-specific context, the show is on view June 24 through August 5, 2022. The exhibition features a representative selection of twelve videos divided among three simultaneous projections. Two projections account for a single program, mostly featuring works with sound, that repeats every other hour; the third is dedicated to Rejected (2017), a single silent work almost eight hours in length. William E. Jones is a Los Angeles-based artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work transcends traditional boundaries of genre and subject matter. His videos, which take a wide variety of forms, range from the documentary essay The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) to kaleidoscopic arrangements of found footage ... More |
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Tony Sirico, who played a gangster in 'The Sopranos,' dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Sirico, the actor who played eccentric gangster Paulie Walnuts on The Sopranos, died Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 79. His death was confirmed by Bob McGowan, his manager. No cause was given. Paulie Walnuts which was Paul Gualtieris nickname because he once hijacked a truck full of nuts (he was expecting television sets) was one of mob boss Tony Sopranos most loyal, oversensitive and reckless men. Paulie was the kind of guy who would participate in an intervention for a drug addict, and when it was his turn to speak, punch the guy in the face. He loved his mother (although he found out she was really his aunt), and she loved him because he wrote the checks to keep her in an expensive nursing home. Paulie wore tracksuits, slept with hookers, was phobic about germs, hated cats and watched ... More
Ceramics Now exhibition opens at Greenwich House Pottery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Hartsook Gallery is presenting work by our 2021 fellows and artists in residence: Kelly Chang, Rachel Farmer, Meiasha Gray, and Heidi Lau. Our Residency and Fellowship program fosters artistic growth by providing makers with a creative community, time, space and materials to explore and generate new bodies of work in ceramics in vibrant New York City. Kelly Chang is a New York City-based art director, animator, and designer, who is developing his art practice in clay. Using his background in computer graphics and 3D modeling and animation, Chang employs 3D printing and scanning, photography, and computer simulation to create his slipcast ceramic sculptures. During his residency, Chang continued to develop a project that considers the replica and its value, or lack thereof. In this series, he reimagines the trash, plastic, ... More
Latvian National Museum of Art opens an exhibition of works by Jānis Aivars Karlovs
RIGA.- From 9 July to 4 September 2022, the Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) hosts a solo show by Jānis Aivars Karlovs Disobedience. Jānis Aivars Karlovs can be seen as the most convincing artist of the older generation, ambitious in his creative manifestations, a follower of his own path, whose oeuvre reflects the most significant overall processes in the development of sculpture. Jānis Karlovs has chosen granite, marble and tuff as his main working materials. The stages of artists active self-reflection are connected with spatial three-dimensional objects, which rhythms and textures never lose the romantic note of inspiration. Through research and experimentation Jānis Karlovs has arrived at a fairly minimalist solution for his expression in art. The exhibition Disobedience presents the authors ... More
At the opera, humans bear witness to atrocity, or ignore it
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- The bodies kept coming up. First one. Then another. Then a dozen. Then a hundred. After an hour of Resurrection, the opening night production at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, 160 decomposing corpses lay in neat, sickening rows on a stage covered in dark earth. The exhumation of a shallow mass grave is a grimly familiar sight: Sudan, Srebrenica, Veracruz, Rwanda, so many others. In March, Bucha, Ukraine, added to that litany a scene so eerily reminiscent of the one being staged here that the festival sent out an email assuring audiences that the director, Romeo Castellucci, had conceived the production a year before the war broke out. Three years ago at the Aix Festival, Castellucci presented Requiem, a staging of Mozarts final work. In a series of enigmatic episodes, he set to the mournful, churning music an evocation ... More
James Welling's eleventh solo exhibition with Regen Projects opens in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting Iconographia, James Wellings eleventh solo exhibition with the gallery. For Iconographia Wellings camera becomes a time machine, reanimating images of Greek and Roman busts. The exhibition debuts these Personae, as well as a selection of images from his Cento series. Welling has used the camera as a vehicle to time travel in previous bodies of work such as Diary/Landscape, Seascape, Wyeth, Buildings by H. H. Richardson, Glass House, and Maison de Verre, but rarely with the emotional intensity of this latest exhibition. The exhibitions title, Iconographia, refers to a seventeenth century portfolio of intaglio portraits made by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. In the artists own words: While making Cento, my ongoing series of photographs of sculptures and artifacts from the ancient ... More
Mire Lee depicts the state of a human being gradually departing this life in Kunstmuseum Den Haag's Project Gallery
THE HAGUE.- As a person falls asleep, or is dying, artist Mire Lee sees a sculpture emerge. People are like meat in that state. I find that endearing, potentially sad, but also intriguing because only the physical presence remains. Her installations are never silent or immobile. Mire Lee, who lives and works in Seoul and Amsterdam, uses sound and motion to suggest living material. In Kunstmuseum Den Haags Project Gallery she depicts the state of a human being gradually departing this life. Yet the movement never stops. In As We Lay Dying Lee evokes a state that apparently persists for all eternity. Lee explores in her sculptures and installations how she can use her material to depict states articulating what it is to ... More
Kenward Elmslie, poet and librettist, dies at 93
NEW YORK, NY.- Kenward Elmslie, who wrote poetry, opera librettos and stage musicals, and who late in life made headlines when his chauffeur bilked him out of millions of dollars and several valuable artworks, including one by Andy Warhol, died June 29 at his home in the West Village of Manhattan. He was 93. Poet Ron Padgett, a friend since the 1960s, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. Elmslie had been dealing with dementia for many years. Elmslie, a grandson of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, became interested in musical theater while in high school, and in 1952 he met and became a lover of John Latouche, a lyricist who worked with Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and others and had numerous Broadway credits. Elmslie is said to have helped Latouche on some of his projects, generally uncredited. After Latouches death ... More
'He presented another path': Actors and directors on Peter Brook
NEW YORK, NY.- Actor Kathryn Hunter heard the news of director Peter Brooks death, last weekend at 97, in a telephone call from his longtime collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne. Then Hunter, an Olivier Award winner who played the witches in Joel Coens film The Tragedy of Macbeth, set off across London for Shakespeares Globe. Im playing Lear, which was, of course, Peters great, great play, she said the other day, describing herself as overwhelmed at his loss after many years of working with him, including in New York. As I was cycling in, I felt and almost saw a huge great light, and I felt it was Peters spirit. That sort of mystical event seems apt for Brook, who over his long, globe-trotting career attained a kind of guru status not least through his nine-hour landmark production âThe Mahabharata,â a 1985 adaptation of the Sanskrit epic, ... More
At Ballet Theatre, visions of the natural world and 'Swan' debuts
NEW YORK, NY.- American Ballet Theatres Swan Lake, which wrapped up its performances at the Metropolitan Opera House on Wednesday, can feel choppy, as if its swans were pushing through water that becomes rougher with each passing year. This production, from 2000, was staged by Kevin McKenzie, who will soon retire as Ballet Theatres artistic director. Is it time for his Swan Lake to leave the company, too? Alexei Ratmansky, the artist-in-residence, has a jewel of a Swan Lake in his back pocket, already made. In McKenzies staging, dramatic and playful moments have worn thin, notably the brash seduction scene between von Rothbart, the evil sorcerer, and the princesses in Act 3. What was mildly entertaining in 2000 is embarrassing in 2022. This season, one Rothbart making his debut, Gabe Stone Shayer, swung his cape like a hungry ... More
Maia Ruth Lee's first solo exhibition at François Ghebaly opens in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly presents Migrant Reader by Maia Ruth Lee, the artists first solo exhibition at the gallery. Maia Ruth Lees multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Busan-born, Kathmandu-raised, and now Colorado-based, her work often addresses the complexities of self and cultural preservation in times of dissonance and globalization. Serving as atlases, maps, indexes and readers, each work helps navigate a viewer into further understanding her recurring subject, the migrant. For this exhibition, Lee considers rope-wrapped baggage often seen accompanying migrant workers and diasporic peoples from regions such as East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. Having relocated several times in her own life, Lee reflects on the movement of ones body between borders, the distinctive ... More
PDNB Gallery presents works on paper by Don Schol and paintings by Pam Burnley-Schol
DALLAS, TX.- In 2009, PDNB Gallery featured the very powerful suite of woodcut prints from Don Schols suite, Vietnam Remembrances. In 2014, Don Schol (b. 1941, Iowa) had another solo show at PDNB of his linoleum cuts, Arrangements. Although Schol is well-known for his sculpture, especially his honest but humorous self-portraits, his printmaking and drawing have been a focus in his late career. Schols series of drawings, Jazz Mini, were created in his moms last years, between 2015-2017. During his visits with his mom, she would watch tv and he would draw while listening to jazz music with earbuds. These detailed drawings are small, 3.5 inch square compositions with intricate geometric forms dancing around, fitting together almost like gears in a machine. The energy created finds no end in sight except the end of the paper. His woodcut ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In this image: Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre-Français et lâavenue de lâOpéra, effet de pluie, 1898. Huile sur toile, 73, 6 x 91, 4 cm. Minneapolis, Institute of Art, fonds William Hood Dunwoody © Photo : Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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