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Charlotte Hale, a Met conservator, uses a pointer to identify a pebble trapped in the paint of Cypresses seen in the conservation center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on April 27, 2023. A revelatory show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reunites 24 paintings of cypresses and unchains them from their somber associations. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- It might seem logical that Vincent van Gogh, the most famous depressive in all of art, adopted the Mediterranean cypress tree as a motif. The tall, tapered, cone-shaped evergreen has always carried associations of mourning and death. It stands sentinel in Christian, Jewish and Muslim cemeteries across southern Europe and the Near East. But van Gogh, to judge from his own writings, saw the tree differently. The cypresses still preoccupy me, he wrote in June 1889, in a letter to his indefatigably devoted brother, Theo. Id like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has done them as I see them. The tree did inspire him to new arboreal heights, as we see in Van Goghs Cypresses, a revelatory and appealingly green exhibition that begins previews next week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On May 5, the first solo exhibition of Beatrice Sancinelli, a young artist with training in the world of cinema, opened a show at Chiostro del Carmine in Bergamo, presenting her latest work Rumore dell'Umore, a multi-sensory and immersive journey created thanks to the recent innovations of virtual reality.
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| The Art Institute of Chicago presents 'Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape' | | Solo exhibition by American born Chinese artist Beth Lo now on view at Lucy Lacoste Gallery | | Gagosian celebrates Richard Avedon's centenary with landmark exhibition in New York |
Vincent van Gogh. Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières), 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick.
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. ... More | |
Chinese Medicine Jar II, 2023, 18.50h x 11.50 w inches. Photo Courtesy of Lucy Lacoste Gallery.
CONCORD, MA.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery is now presenting ORIENT May 14June 10, 2023, a rare solo exhibition with the American born Chinese artist Beth Lo. Here the artist continues to explore themes of family; introduces a new series on Chinese Restaurants of the West; addresses gender identity and strengthens her support of the environment through the medium of ceramics. As an American born Chinese, much of Los ceramic art draws from themes of childhood, family, Asian culture, and language. In ORIENT through her Chinese Medicine Jars Series, the artist continues to pay tribute to her mother Kiahsuang Shen Lo, a self-taught Chinese brush painter who passed away in 2019 whom Beth credits with being one ... More | |
China Machado, suit by Ben Zuckerman, hair by Kenneth. New York, November 6, 1958.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian has recently presented Avedon 100, a landmark exhibition in celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedons birth. Prior to its opening on May 4, 2023, in New York, the collection of Avedon photographs was selected by more than 150 peopleincluding prominent artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and fashion world representativeswho elaborate on the impact of the photographers work today. The event will end on June 24th, 2023. Avedon 100 documents Avedons enduring influence on photography and profound global impression on visual culture. In an installation designed by Stefan Beckman, the exhibition represents six decades of his oeuvre, including the In the American West series and ima ... More |
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| Now open at Priska Pasquer Paris 'Mischa Kuball: Eclipse and Beyond' | | Boijmans Van Beuningen examines future of design collection in 'Looking Ahead: Objects of Change' | | 'La Vie des Champs' by Paul Cézanne acquired for the national collection by the National Gallery of Ireland |
Mischa Kuball, resonant_testseries, 2017/2023, motif 2. © Archive Mischa Kuball, Düsseldorf / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2023. Courtesy Priska Pasquer Gallery.
PARIS.- Priska Pasquer Paris has now opened Eclipse and Beyond, an individual exhibition by German conceptual artist Mischa Kuball, who was born in Düsseldorf in 1959. Kuballs location-specific productions, performances and projections in public and institutional spaces have brought him international fame. In many cases, light is the central medium for the artist when exploring urban situations, dramaturgical control mechanisms or the interrelationship between viewers and protagonists. By directing light onto objects, people, architecture, social structures and situations, Mischa Kuball transcends discourses and common patterns of perception and reveals the invisible. But wherever there is light, there are shadows and that is what the artist wishes to examine. ... More | |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen or Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen.
ROTTERDAM.- Since this past April, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) is presenting Looking Ahead: Objects of Change at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. How future-proof is the museum's design collection? Does it include objects that will still be relevant 85 years from now? MBVB examines its design collection in collaboration with Museum of 21st Century Design, alongside works that already visualise the future by Christien Meindertsma, Melle Smets and Melanie Smith. The world is constantly changing. A museum normally looks at the past, asking when an object comes from and what developments it represents. Now, there are pressing concerns that turn this process on its head. Will the climate crisis change the future function of utilitarian objects? What role does social inequality play within the museum's design collection? ... More | |
Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs (1876-77). Oil on canvas, 27.6 x 35.2 cm. Image, National Gallery of Ireland. Purchased, 2022, with special support from the Government of Ireland and a generous contribution from a private donor.
DUBLIN.- An exquisite work by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), a foundational figure for modern art, has become part of the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. It is the first painting by Cézanne to enter the national collection. La Vie des Champs (Life in the Fields) was completed in 1877 in Cézannes native Provence, in Southern France. It depicts a vibrant, imaginary landscape with a woman carrying a water jug upon her head in the centre. This significant picture, which now belongs to the people of Ireland, has been purchased by the Gallery with generous and special support from the Government of Ireland and a private philanthropic donation. The acquisition of La Vie des Champs ... More |
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| Over The Influence Gallery presents solo exhibition 'Todd James: Little Goody Two Shoes' | | Colonial-era money printed by Franklin and Revere in auction | | Musee d'Art Moderne in Beverly Hills to launch with May 20 auction led by powerhouse selection of curated original works |
Todd James, Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas , 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Over the Influence Gallery.
PARIS .- Over the Influence has now opened Little Goody Two Shoes, a solo exhibition of new works from American artist Todd James. Having debuted in our Paris gallery on 4 May 2023, LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES will be on view through 10 June 2023. This show of all new works vividly acquaints the viewer with James singular world and its visual iconography. Women often dominate in James work, and this exhibition is no exception. Powerful in their detachment and surrounded by familiar James totems such as cats, guns, captain caps and cigarettes, these figures exude a sense of effortless and fully embodied agency. Five of the James war-themed acrylic works debut a newly emerging style, interpretations of deeply saturated marker drawings in black books, shaded and stippled, bringing a three-dimensional electricity to heretofore two-dimensional figures. ... More | |
Early American banknotes from original 13 colonies will be offered in May and September by Kagins Auctions.
TIBURON, CALIF.- Historic, colonial-era paper money printed by Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere with provenance from a famous collection formed starting in the 1940s is coming to market. The first of two auctions of the rare, early American money will be conducted online by Kagins Auctions of Tiburon, California on May 20, 2023 and the second auction will be held on September 23. These important notes were previously in the collection of John J. Ford, a prominent New York City collector and influential dealer who passed away at the age of 81 in 2005. Some of the notes are unique with no other examples known, and many others are the finest surviving 18th century notes of their kind, explained Dr. Donald Kagin, president of the auction company. Notes from all 13 original colonies and Georgia are ... More | |
Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977), Cat, original oil on board floated under museum glass, 8in x 6in (framed), artist-signed lower right and dated 1954. Provenance: Beverly Hills private collection. Estimate $50,000-$75,000. Opening bid: $25,000.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- A spectacular selection of original art from the collection of Musee dArt Moderne in Beverly Hills will be auctioned at the gallerys Los Angeles-area grand opening on May 20, with absentee and Internet live bidding available worldwide through LiveAuctioneers. The expertly curated offering, which will be presented by Kings Auctions Inc., includes premier paintings by some of todays most sought-after artists, including Tony Scherman, Gertrude Abercrombie, Bill Traylor, and David Park. Additionally, the grouping includes elusive works by noted street artists King Robbo, Invader, and the Russian Banksy, Pavel Pukhov. The 55-lot boutique auction incorporates a charitable ... More |
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| Monumental Otto Dix portfolio achieves $328K at Bonhams New York | | The Collection of Olivia de Havilland - star of Hollywood's Golden Age - comes to Bonhams | | Léa Habourdin is the winner of the 2023 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award |
Detail of Der Krieg (The War) (51 works), 1924 by Otto Dix (1891-1969), sold for $328,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the great anti-war artworks, Der Krieg (The War), 1924, by Otto Dix (1891-1969) achieved $328,000 at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples sale on May 9 in New York. The monumental portfolio is comprised of 51 etchings which document the nightmarish destruction of war as was personally experienced by Dix during his time as an artillery gunner during World War I. This edition of the portfolio has been previously exhibited at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Wellcome Collection in London. The sale overall achieved $3.1 million. Additional highlights of the sale include: Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967 by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) sold for $252,000. Moonscape, from Landscapes (Corlett 212), 1985 by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) surpassed its estimate when it sold ... More | |
A personal typewriter used by Olivia de Havilland in her Paris home. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams will present the collection of Olivia de Havilland, the Oscar-winning actress who starred in dozens of movies throughout the 1930s to the 1970s. De Havilland was the last surviving actress of Hollywoods Golden Age, best known for her role as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in David O. Selznicks Civil War epic, Gone with the Wind (1939), believed by many to be the greatest movie ever made. Bonhams will be selling her collection in two sales. Running online from May 13-23, Bonhams Los Angeles will offer memorabilia from Hollywood and mementos from co-stars, directors, and celebrity friends like Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh, Stanley Kramer, Errol Flynn, and more. This will be followed by a sale of decorative arts, furniture, and paintings from her Parisian townhouse at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris this October. A portion of the proceeds from ... More | |
Léa Habourdin, DES MONDES EN EXTENSION / images-forêts, 2020-2022. Courtesy the artist and Fisheye Gallery.
LONDON.- French visual artist Léa Habourdin, who is represented by Fisheye Gallery, is the winner of the 2023 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award. The announcement was made on Wednesday 10 May during a special ceremony that took place in the Nikon Gallery, Somerset House during Photo London 2023. Léa Habourdins series is a set of exquisite large-format works encapsulating the beauty of the primary French forest. Silkscreen printed onto velutto cotton paper, Léa takes elements she finds in the forests birch leaves, thyme and mulberries for example and crushes them up to create natural pigments. Habourdins series was born from the observation that there are no more forests that are unexploited by man in France. It is the untouched forests that survive: a natural place that has not been ... More |
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"Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew" now on view at MOCA North Miami
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami announced the opening of the groundbreaking exhibition, "Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew," which showcases the extraordinary work of renowned artist Lonnie Holley. Curated by Adeze Wilford, the exhibition marks the first major exhibition of the Birmingham-born artist in the South and will run from May 10 through October 1, 2023. "Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew" offers a deep dive into Holley's remarkable career, spanning across mediums including sculpture, painting, and music. Holley's passion for inspiring change through art has resulted in an extensive and diverse body of work that explores critical moments in U.S. history, global environmental responsibility, and deeply personal memories. Holley shares, "My art confronts the past, engages with the present, and inspires ... More
Mendes Wood DM New York presents 'Solange Pessoa. Earthworks'
NEW YORK, NY.- Earthworks features a selection of earth and fresco paintings, ceramic sculptures, and one video relating to Solange Pessoas enduring relationship to land and spirited use of organic materials. Multifarious and experimental in its approach to material, Pessoas oeuvre is at once transgressive and cohesivein a league of its own determination. Though drinking from a well of cultural referencesincluding Brazils Tropicalia and Antropofagia movements, Indigenous craft, the Baroque, Land Art, and her own dreamsher peerless approach is rooted in her intuitive and unbridled exploration of organic matter and form. This inquiry begins with the artists native region of Minas Gerais, Brazila terrain with complex histories of biodiversity, indigeneity, industry, and colonial encounterbut vastly proliferates to encompass a broader ... More
Uncovering the secrets of the Cold War: Rare military items go up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- Boston-based RR Auction announced its latest auction event, The Military, and the Cold War. The auction Features a stunning collection of historical artifacts, offering a unique opportunity to acquire rare and significant items from national and global history. One of the most exciting pieces in the collection is a John F. Kennedy handwritten statement on the United Nations. The statement, written circa February 1949 on Congress of the United States, House of Representatives letterhead, showcases Kennedy's early advocacy for peace through strength and offers insight into his views on the UN and the Cold War. Another item of great interest is the Soviet Union Fialka cipher machine. This electromechanical device was a primary cipher machine for all Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba and was in use until the 1990s. ... More
Striking writers' union denies waiver, imperiling Tony Awards telecast
NEW YORK, NY.- The union representing thousands of striking television and movie writers denied a waiver that Broadway officials had sought that would have allowed the Tony Awards ceremony to proceed with a live televised broadcast on its scheduled date of June 11, two people briefed on the decision said Friday night. The denial by the union, the Writers Guild of America, described by people who were granted anonymity to disclose confidential discussions, is imperiling one of Broadways biggest nights a key marketing opportunity that is even more crucial in the fragile post-shutdown theater economy. Industry leaders say that without the ability to reach the broad audience that tunes into a Tony Awards broadcast, several of the newest musicals are likely to close. Broadway boosters are still hoping that over the weekend ... More
Thomas Stacy, master of the English horn, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Stacy sometimes told the story of how, when he was a boy growing up in Arkansas, an Italian who had been dead for about 80 years changed his life. Hed been studying piano with his mother, but when he heard a piece of music by composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini, his focus shifted to a different instrument and he determined to make a career of it. I was fascinated by the sound of the oboe on a record we had of the overture to Rossinis opera The Silken Ladder, Stacy recalled in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press. I knew then that I wanted to be a musician. If the oboe was a somewhat unusual selection for a young musician, Stacy soon made the even more unconventional choice to specialize in the English horn, a confusingly named instrument that is not in fact a horn but rather a double- ... More
The Los Angeles Opera after Plácido Domingo
LOS ANGELES, CA.- When tenor Russell Thomas appeared at the Los Angeles Opera in 2017, Plácido Domingo, the companys general director, asked him to return one day to sing the title role in Giuseppe Verdis Otello. It was a notable invitation coming from Domingo, the leading Otello of his day, who sang the role in 1986 at the very first performance of the Los Angeles company. Six years later, Thomas is back in LA starring as Otello in a six-performance run that begins Saturday. But Domingo, who had initially contemplated singing opposite him as the operas villain, Iago, is gone, forced out in 2019 at the age of 78 amid allegations that he had sexually harassed multiple women over the course of his career. So it is that the companys season-ending production of Otello is at once a look back to its foundations and a glimpse ... More
High Museum of Art to debut new piazza installation, continuing its site-specific series
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art presents an immersive environment within a monumental celebratory canopy by designer Tanya Aquiñiga as its eighth site-specific installation on the Woodruff Arts Centers Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. Titled HAPPY JOYLANTA, the installation continues the Highs multiyear series of inclusive and inviting commissions to activate the Museums outdoor space and encourage community engagement. On view from May 14 through Nov. 26, 2023, HAPPY JOYLANTA also serves as a community-based art project featuring signs, symbols and memories that reflect Atlantas diverse populations. This installation continues a nearly decade-long commitment to enliven our outdoor space and create places where visitors of all ages can gather and participate. Its a unique art experience ... More
Print Center New York announces the appointment of various new members
NEW YORK, NY.- Print Center New York is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to the Board of Trustees in April, Brooke A. Minto and Donald T. Fallati, and the forthcoming appointment of David G. Sabel as the new Board Chair, effective June. These exciting announcements come at a time of robust growth, as Print Center New York continues to introduce new programming during its first year in its new, ground floor space at 535 West 24th Street. It is with great pleasure and anticipation that I join the esteemed members of the Board of Directors. I look forward to supporting Print Center New York as they shape a bright future in their new location, and extend their reach to dynamic and diverse communities in New York and beyond. Brooke Minto, Incoming Executive Director and CEO of the Columbus Museum ... More
ADVOCARTSY now presenting solo exhibition of Iranian born woman artist Samira Abbassy
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles-based Iranian contemporary art platform ADVOCARTSY opened Embodied Mythologies, a solo exhibition of works by Iranian born woman artist, Samira Abbassy, on May 11, 2023 at ADVOCARTSYs West Hollywood gallery in Los Angeles. In this exhibition, Abbassys work grapples with the psychological and metaphysical aspects of selfhood, in which her figures are allegories representing the depths of our subconscious. Leaving Iran as a small child to live in London, Abbassys work acts as a bridge between the dichotomy of cultures, both fusing and exploring disparate entities to create an aesthetic synthesis rooted in her own identity. This collection of drawings and paintings creates a surreal realm of figures which allude to the history of proto-Renaissance religious Icons, and ancient manuscripts of the Middle East. ... More
New-York Historical Society explores work of J.C. Leyendecker, pivotal gay artist and illustrator
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, a new 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, which opened May 5, and will continue until August 13, 2023, is organized by New-York Historical from the collection of the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough was baptised May 14, 1727. Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. In this image: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Holywells Park, um 1748-1750. Öl auf Leinwand, 50,8 x 66 cm. Ipswich Museum and Gallery © Ipswich Museum and Gallery.
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