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A board where museum-goers can share thoughts and reactions prompted by Its Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby, an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, June 7, 2023. The museum has drawn a lot of fire for hiring Gadsby the Australian comedian who eviscerated the Cubist painters misogynistic attitudes toward women in a 2018 Netflix special to help create the show, and the organizers say it was meant to prompt heated discussion. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Some reviews were scathing, dismissing the exhibition on Pablo Picasso and feminism co-organized by Australian comic Hannah Gadsby as weak in scholarship, thin on significant works of art and knee-jerk in its politics. Dont Go, blared a headline on the website Hellgate, while the Guardian asked, Is Hannah Gadsbys Picasso exhibition really that bad? Even Gadsbys home turf paper declared, Hannah Gadsbys new Picasso exhibition is a joke. Yet in spite of or perhaps because of these strong reactions, people lined up at the Brooklyn Museum for the shows opening June 2, increasing general admission by 51% over the weekend before. And the Brooklyn Museum is standing by the exhibition, Its Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby, arguing that it had anticipated objections when it hired Gadsby, who had eviscerated the cubist painters misogynistic attitudes toward women in a 2018 Netfli ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi on display from 9 June - 8 October 2023 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Lillie Thompson.
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| Elizabeth Peyton's solo exhibition Angel now on view at David Zwirner | | 400-year-old mystery solved as Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours discovered and goes on display at Hever Castle | | A new Hiroshi Sugimoto sculpture in San Francisco reaches for infinity |
Elizabeth Peyton, Titanic (Jack & Rose), 2023. © Elizabeth Peyton. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
LONDON.- David Zwirner will be presenting Angel, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) at the gallerys London location, until July 28th, 2023. This will be the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery and the first presentation of Peytons work in London since Aire and Angels, her 2019 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which placed her paintings alongside historical works of portraiture drawn from the museums permanent collection. Elviss Eyes. Angel. Elvis. Echo from Thus Love. Luca, maker of I am Love. Leonardo-Jack and Rose-Titanic. Mai. Mary Magdalene. Ang Tsherin Lama. Lara, Flowers. Jules and Isolde. These are all traces of a visionary company of love, as the poet Hart Crane put it in his powerful ... More | |
Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours. Photo: Ollie Dixon.
EDENBRIDGE.- In a discovery branded the most exciting finding `in a generation, historians at Hever Castle believe that Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, AND Thomas Cromwell all owned a copy of the same prayer book. A 1527 prayer book belonging to Catherine of Aragon on loan from the Morgan Library in New York has been available for visitors to see alongside the 1527 Book of Hours, which belonged to Anne Boleyn, already on display in the Castle (from March to 4 June 2023). When Catherines book returns to the USA, visitors will be able to see another 1527 Book of Hours - which is now believed to have belonged to Thomas Cromwell - on loan from the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. This is the first time that historians have made a link between Catherine, Anne, and Cromwell regarding their prayer books. Assistant Curator at Hever ... More | |
Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto with his work Point of Infinity in San Francisco, June 5, 2023. Sugimoto, famous for his slyly deceptive photography, has just planted a slender, 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture on a hilltop in Yerba Buena Island, meant to serve as an anchor or beacon, given its height for the areas new public art program. (Jessica Chou/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- The San Francisco skyline has radically changed over the past two decades because of all the real estate development. Its changing again now, but subtly, because of an artwork. Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, famous for his slyly deceptive photography, has just planted a slender, 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture on a hilltop in Yerba Buena Island, meant to serve as an anchor or beacon, given its height for the areas new public art program. From some viewpoints it looks like the tip of a sewing needle poking out above the ... More |
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| Gagosian Paris to exhibit new work by Takashi Murakami | | Phillips' inaugural Hong Kong Spring Auction in new Asia headquarters realized US $107 million | | Can he fix 'palace of scaffolding' in time for Belgium's 200th birthday? |
Installation View.
LE BOURGET.- Gagosian is now hosting Understanding the New Cognitive Domain, an exhibition of work by Takashi Murakami at the gallery in Le Bourget, focused on his monumental paintings. The exhibition features five such works plus others in smaller formats and several sculptures. This is the artists first exhibition with the gallery in France. Understanding the New Cognitive Domain marks the debut of a monumental new 5-by-23-meter painting by Murakami based on the iwai-maku, or stage curtain, that he produced for the Kabuki-za theater in Ginza, Tokyo, in celebration of Japanese Kabuki actor and producer Ichikawa Ebizō XIs assumption of the name Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII, Hakuen. (Kabuki stage names, which specify an actors style and lineage, are passed down through generations; the Ichikawa family has a roughly 350-year history.) The November 2022 unveiling of Murakamis design, which was commissioned by film direct ... More | |
Lot 598. Van Cleef & Arpels, Pink Gold, Pink Sapphire and Diamond Necklace, 'Zip'
HONG KONG.- Phillips Hong Kong 2023 Spring Auctions held at the companys spectacular new Asia headquarters in the WKCDA Tower in Hong Kongs West Kowloon Cultural District realised HK$847 million/ US$107 million and achieved a combined sell-through rate of 93%, marking a 23% increase over last Spring (totals include spring online auctions that conclude in 1H 2023). - 38% of the buyers were new to Phillips- 30% of the buyers were millennials - Significant growth across the region contributing to the success of Hong Kong Spring Sales. The buying activity from Japan up 471% from the previous year, and the buying activity from Southeast Asia up 45% over the previous year Jonathan Crockett, Chairman, Asia, Phillips, said, 2023 so far has been and continues to be a defining year for Phillips in Asia. We successfully opened our new headquarters in Hong Kongs West Kowloon Cultural District this ... More | |
The 19th-century Palace of Justice, once the largest building in the world, which the architect Andre Demesmaeker has been restoring for the past decade, in Brussels, April 21, 2023. For the architect, the design challenges pale in comparison to the political ones as he tries to complete the restoration of the exterior in time for Belgiums bicentennial in 2030. (Ksenia Kuleshova/The New York Times
BRUSSELS.- It was love at first sight. More than 10 years ago, André Demesmaeker, an architect for the Belgian government, was asked to investigate a ceiling collapse at the Palace of Justice, a 19th-century behemoth in the heart of Brussels that houses the countrys sprawling judiciary system and has been falling apart for decades. I opened a door not seen in ages, Demesmaeker recalled recently. I entered this attic and had to start climbing to explore. On that and later visits to the immense building Demesmaeker discovered a warren of rooms and anterooms, some occupied by lawyers or judges, others abandoned and moldering. The floors, roof and walls were falling apart. Water had seeped inside, so fungus ... More |
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| A 'crown jewel of comedy': The Joan Rivers card catalog of jokes finds a home | | 'Stereo Sights and Sounds' curated by Josh Gosselin & Ana Stjepanović at Marc Straus, NY | | Latin American artists reinvent their histories |
An undated image of a typewritten joke on a card provided by the Joan Rivers Estate. The comedians archives, which include a meticulously organized collection of 65,000 typewritten jokes, are being donated to the National Comedy Center, the high-tech museum in Jamestown, N.Y. (Joan Rivers Estate via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Joan Rivers died in 2014, ending one of the greatest careers in modern comedy, several groups were interested in acquiring her archives, which included a meticulously organized collection of 65,000 typewritten jokes. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, recalled a conversation with a representative from the Smithsonian Institution who wanted the catalog of jokes but said it would not be on permanent display. Her mind instantly went to the final tracking shot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the golden Ark of the Covenant is locked inside a crate and placed in a vast warehouse with hundreds of other crates. I couldnt do that because so much of who she was is in those files, Melissa Rivers said on a video call from Los Angeles. ... More | |
Eli Keszler, Railsback Curve, 2016. Enamel ink on canvas, 60 x 90 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- An opening reception will be held on Sunday, June 11th from 4 to 7 PM at Marc Straus, with musical performances starting at 5pm. The curators and artists will be present. Viewing hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 AM to 6 PM. Summer viewing hours, beginning in early July, will be Tuesday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. Sound has a stronghold on our experience of time, space, and place. It signals to us where we are. If we wish to escape our circumstances, sound offers idealized spaces for us to inhabit. The single strike of a drum, an effortless yet puissant motion, can harken a mothers heartbeat, a sweaty Ridgewood basement, a Southern dwelling of yesteryear, or a computer-generated tone of tomorrow. Our interior world, of all things, uses these vibrations to help us file away our experience of everything external. The tone of someones voice recalls their likeness more than the content of their words. The visual artist i ... More | |
Elena Damiani. Fading Field No. 1, 2012. Inkjet print on silk chiffon with wooden frame and black wall, 69 3/4 à 52 7/8″ (177.2 à 134.3 cm). Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Mimi Haas. © 2023 Elena Damiani.
NEW YORK, NY.- The land of the brave and home of the free has always been bearish about borders, about who gets in, who stays out. Politically were feeling that tension hugely now. And its always been evident culturally in, for example, the kind of art our museums have brought through the door. The Museum of Modern Arts long but sporadic pattern of collecting 20th century Latin American art offers a constructive gauge. Early in, it favored art that it seemed to view as a species of exotica: folkloric, surreal, evidence that south of the border was wild, barely modern terrain. After World War II, with cultural exchange increasingly used as a diplomatic tool, MoMA wanted further engagement with new Latin American art, but art of a kind that looked to be made by people like us ... More |
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| Schaulager in Basel celebrates its 20th anniversary with 'OUT OF THE BOX' | | Tala Worrell: Phosphenes opened yesterday at Parrasch Heijnen | | Olga Viso appointed Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs and Engagement at Phoenix Art Museum |
Thomas Ruff, Schaulager, 2023.
MÃNCHENSTEIN.- 2023 is an extraordinary year for Schaulager: 20 years ago, the house opened as a completely new institution with an innovative concept. With OUT OF THE BOX, Schaulager is now presenting an extensive group exhibition that brings together works by around 25 artists, including David Claerbout, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Gina Fischli, Peter Fischli, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Martin Honert, Klara Lidén, Dieter Roth, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Dayanita Singh, Monika Sosnowska, Jane & Louise Wilson and others. A special focus lies on time-based media presented in projection rooms placed throughout the exhibition. OUT OF THE BOX - the title of the exhibition exemplifies the idea that underlies Schaulager, which was founded in 2003 with the idea of combining the storage and presentation of contemporary art. Even when the works of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation are not on view in exhibiti ... More | |
Tala Worrell, Picador, 2023. Oil, zaatar, Arabic coffee, blackseed, sesame seed and household gloss paint on canvas, 42-1/8 x 46 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen has opened Phosphenes, the gallerys first exhibition with Providence, RI-based artist Tala Worrell (b. 1991, New York, NY). In a sensual experience of paint, Worrell, who is Lebanese American and was raised in Abu Dhabi, melds the graphic in a linguistic interplay with expression. The language surrounding the artists figuration relays a constellation of meaning derived from a central point. Confined within the boundaries of the canvas, Worrells paintings relay the interconnectivity of shape and gesture as a visual expression of emotion. Worrells work harmonizes disparate parts as a cohesive whole in multisensory compositions. While she paints, Worrell revolves around the canvas using the inertia of her motion in centrifugal force. The paintings evolve in an outward expansion with varying degrees of control. ... More | |
Olga Viso, Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Image courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum, Photo: Airi Katsuta.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has appointed Olga Viso as the Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs and Engagement, effective immediately. Viso, a seasoned arts leader, curator, and scholar, has been working with the Museum for the past year as a part-time curator-at-large and a senior curatorial advisor. In taking on the chief curator role, Viso will join a newly created executive leadership team, which also includes the promotion of Allan Alvarado to chief financial and operating officer and Nikki deLeon Martin to chief advancement officer. Together, the team of Viso, Alvarado, and deLeon Martin will oversee all of the Museums departments and work closely with Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museums Sybil Harrington Director and CEO, and the Board of Trustees, to set and implement the institutional vision. We are thrilled to have Olga join us in a more permanent ... More |
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Explore "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" with Virginia Jaramillo
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Kunsthalle Zürich is now presenting Christopher Kulendran Thomas: FOR REAL
ZÃRICH.- Kunsthalle Zürich opened Christopher Kulendran Thomas: FOR REAL, an exhibition across both floors of the institution by the British-Tamil artist, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann and featuring Aṇaṅkuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam. Christopher Kulendran Thomas: FOR REAL takes the failed struggle for an independent Tamil homeland, Tamil Eelam, in the north and east of present-day Sri Lanka, as its starting point. Another point of departure connected to this is the observation that, with the end of the war there in 2009, the contemporary art world was able to establish itself in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, with new galleries, a museum and a biennial projecting democratic values internationally. Conceived and realised in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, the exhibition ... More
"QuarryArt" features works of nine local photographers and provides a look at Cape Ann Quarries
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Working with freelance photographer and former Boston Globe reporter David Arnold, the Cape Ann Museum will present a special exhibition entitled QuarryArt, exploring the majesty of Cape Anns many quarries. The exhibit, that began yesterday, will be held at the Janet & William Ellery James Center at the Cape Ann Museum Green and will be on view through July 30. The nine photographers whose works will be featured in the exhibition are Tsar Fedorsky, Albert Glazier, Paul Cary Goldberg, Skip Montello, Olivia Parker, Martin Ray, Katherine Richmond, Steve Rosenthal and Constance Vallis. Each spent time shooting quarries in the area at various times of year. Together, their works capture the evolving beauty of the sites as they exist today, while reminding us of the quarries economic importance last century. Quarrying ... More
'A Matter of Discovery: The Art of Luis Perelman' on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art
PURCHASE, NY.- Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY has opened its doors to A Matter of Discovery: The Art of Luis Perelman, a dynamic retrospective featuring more than six decades of work by the New York-based multimedia artist. Luis Perelman is an artistic innovator who continues to explore, discover, and reinvent himself, explains exhibition curator Patrice Giasson, the Neuberger Museums Alex Gordon Curator of Art of the Americas. In this show, never-before-seen color, line, and material studies from the artists private studio are presented alongside his finished works. Looking with attention at the works in the gallery, one can see the meticulous precision and incredible attention to detail behind each of his drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Perelman may be best known for his pioneering sculptures cast in clear, ... More
Work by Sandy Skoglund now on view at Janet Borden, Inc. in The Outtakes
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. has now opened SANDY SKOGLUND: THE OUTTAKES, an exhibition of twelve new photographs by renowned artist Sandy Skoglund. This is the gallerys seventh exhibition with Skoglund. For The Outtakes, Skoglund plumbed her archives to pick out alternative images to those used in her tableaux. These works are a fresh view of her magical world before Photoshop. Twelve pho- tographs represent her original installations, and four sculptures enliven the exhibition. The new prints are are smaller than the earlier pieces, their information somehow distilled. The entire exhibition serves as a retrospective historical survey of Skoglunds work. Sandy Skoglund is a renowned American installation artist and photographer best known for her fantastical and brightly colored tableaux from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Skoglund ... More
The exhibition Trab'ssahl by Abdessamad El Montassir is now on view at Bétonsalon Centre D'Art
PARIS.- Abdessamad El Montassir's exhibition Trab'ssahl, currently on view at the Bétonsalon Centre D'Art, will be open until July 13th. Trabssahl means «The Land of the West» in Hassanya and refers to a large part of Sahrawi territory. It is on this land, in this language, in the largely ignored history of an uninterrupted conflict for nearly 50 years, between sovereignty and auto nomy, that Abdessamad El Montassirs work is anchored. All that we have expe rienced, we cannot say. Ask the ruins, ask the desert and its thorny plants. They have seen and experienced everything, they have remained in place. We no lon ger have the words. These are the words of Khadija who left her nomadic life for the city in 1975. Powerful though idle, they set out for Abdessamad El Montassir a programme he has been carrying out since 2015 : how to show what cannot be seen, how to listen to what ... More
'DalÃland' Review: Landscape with vipers
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the best things about DalÃland, Mary Harrons amused and amusing fictional look at the singular Salvador DalÃ, is that it isnt a cradle-to-grave exhumation. Instead, the movie focuses on a period in DalÃs later years when he was widely, wrongly and seemingly permanently eclipsed both by the commercial profile of his art and by the flamboyant scandal he had made of his life. Harrons result is less a consummate portrait and more a distillation of a sensibility, as if she had dropped Dalà in an alcohol still to extract his very essence. The man, the myth and the mustache are all here, albeit modestly. Harrons path into DalÃs world is through an invented character, James (newcomer Christopher Briney), whos recently landed a job at the artists New York gallery. An anodyne pretty boy, James serves as a proxy for the viewer, ... More
2023 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria in partnership with the Musée dOrsay, Paris presents the major world-premiere exhibition Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi. The blockbuster Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition features more than 100 works by Pierre Bonnard the leading 20th century French painter celebrated for his iridescent palette presented within a contemporary scenography by award-winning architect and designer, India Mahdavi. The paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) depict intimate domestic interiors, natural landscapes and urban scenes with subtlety, wit and a sensuous approach to colour and light. Renowned for his use of colour to convey emotions, Bonnard was declared by his close friend Henri Matisse as a great painter, for today and definitely also for the future. Organised by the NGV in partnership ... More
Moran's achieves a NEW world auction record of $325,000 for Oscar Howe in their Art of the American West sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- John Moran Auctioneers is starting the summer HOT! They just presented their Art of the American West sale Tuesday, June 6th, 2023, which brought phenomenal results, specifically in the fine art category. The star of the show was the Native American artist, Oscar Howe, best known for his innovative and expressive depictions of traditional Dakota culture and mythology. He had two works in the sale, each reaching six-digit bids, but one achieving a new world action record for the artist at $325,000! Collectors also enjoyed stunning works by Laverne Nelson Black and Grafton Tyler Brown. Two works from Oscar Howe highlighted the summer auction with a combined total of $550,000. ... More
Secretariat's legend rolls on like, well, a tremendous machine
NEW YORK, NY.- It was a performance for the ages, growing more mythic as time goes on. Having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in record fashion, Secretariat rocketed out of the starting gate on June 9, 1973 his best start yet and never let up. He moved liked a tremendous machine, as announcer Chic Anderson put it, and crushed his competition by a whopping 31 lengths to win the Belmont Stakes on an uncomfortably warm but utterly joyous afternoon at Belmont Park. Like his lead in the Belmont, his legend has swelled even though his youngest current fans had not even been born when he was crowned the ninth Triple Crown champion and the first in 25 years. Nine of the best 3-year-olds in the country will face off Saturday during the 50th anniversary celebration of Secretariats Triple Crown feat, but none will ... More
Helen Thorington, who brought sonic art to the airwaves, dies at 94
NEW YORK, NY.- Helen Thorington, whose haunting sonic compositions helped bring the medium of radio art to a national audience and provided the soundscape for filmmakers, artists and choreographers, died on April 13 in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She was 94. Her partner and collaborator, Jo-Anne Green, said she died in a hospice from complications of Alzheimers disease. Her death was not widely reported at the time. Radio art was a niche medium when Thorington started out, but she helped bring attention to the form through her work, which was frequently featured on NPR and other noncommercial outlets, and later as the founder of a project called New American Radio, which commissioned more than 300 works that were broadcast on more than 70 radio stations for more than a decade starting in 1987. Thorington began her pioneering ... More
A Russian pianist speaks out against the war from home
NEW YORK, NY.- When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, pianist Polina Osetinskaya, who lives in Moscow, was distraught. She took to social media to describe a sense of horror, shame and disgust, and expressed solidarity with Ukraine, where she had often performed. But unlike many artists, activists and intellectuals, Osetinskaya, 47, decided to remain in Russia, where she lives with her three children, even as the Kremlin cracked down on free expression and made clear that any contradiction of the governments statements on the invasion could be treated as a crime. She has faced consequences for her views: Some concerts at state-run halls have been canceled; others have been interrupted by the authorities. Osetinskaya, who was born in Moscow, said her international career has also suffered because of her Russian identity. She lost some ... More
Private dances: Lotto Royale offers a 'door to an experience'
NEW YORK, NY.- Can I fall in love with a stranger? dance artist Lauren Bakst said. Could a stranger fall in love with me? Will I be rejected? Will we be disappointed? Its hard to know what will happen at Lotto Royale, a two-day presentation of one-on-one performances, but it does bring out the nerves. Its like a blind date: Audience members reserve a time slot and are paired with dance artists through a lottery. Maybe we dont want each other, Bakst said. But what can we do together? As Ive been working, thats whats kept my attention. This weekend, 17 dance artists including Amelia Bande, Mayfield Brooks, Moriah Evans, Jennifer Monson, Elliot Reed, Alex Rodabaugh and Anh Vo will each present six private performances over two days as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils River to River Festival. This is the second ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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