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Rosa Bonheur, âLe Sevrage des Veaux (Weaning the Calves),â 1879. A bicentennial retrospective of the realist painter who afforded new psychological acuity to animals is coming to the Musée dâOrsay in Paris. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- Nothing makes sense anymore! War rages everywhere, politicians prattle; new media come at you a mile a minute; the world your parents built is collapsing, and only chaos lies ahead. Do you cower? Do you take refuge in tradition? Or do you do what they did 100 years ago: plunge into the chaos and make something new? For a while now Ive believed that cubism specifically the later synthetic cubism, which slashed and sutured printed matter and found objects into a whole new kind of image offers an invaluable example to artists today, floundering in an unstoppable stream of image and information. I felt that especially in 2014, at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts outing of the cubist gifts of Leonard A. Lauder, marveling at how Picasso, Braque and Gris used Paris tabloid press, blaring advertisements and telegraphed stock prices to rewrite the rules of Western pictorial representation. Now the bad boys of Montmartre are back at the Met, whose fall exhibition & ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MASSIMODECARLO is presenting OK, Josh Smithâs fourth personal exhibition with the gallery, and first solo presentation at Casa Corbellini-Wassermann in Milan. Premiering a new series of paintings, monotypes, and printed works on paper.
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| 'Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings & Structures' opens at Paula Cooper Gallery | | Bortolami opens an exhibition of works by Faith Wilding | | Exhibition brings together new and classic works by Jun Kaneko |
Installation view of Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #485. © 2022 Estate of Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the return to its principal location at 534 West 21st Street with an expansive exhibition of works by Sol LeWitt across both New York galleries. Rebuilt by Richard Gluckman in 1996 and recently renovated, the award-winning space at 534 was one of the first galleries to open in Chelsea. The exhibition encompasses monumentally-scaled wall drawings and structures from the 1960s through the 1990s, and is a fitting homecoming for the gallery, which hosted LeWitts first ever wall drawing in its inaugural exhibition in 1968. Opening on what would be LeWitts ninety-fourth birthday, the rich variety of work on display underlines the artists lifelong inventiveness and fearless experimentation. At 534 West 21st street a radiant wall drawing from LeWitts Pyramids series rendered in colored ink wash wraps around ... More | |
Faith Wilding, Leaf Series: Red Tongue, 1976-78. Oil on unstretched canvas, 78 x 48 in (198 x 122 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami is presenting a new exhibition by Faith Wilding, an artist renowned for her longstanding contributions to feminism and environmentalism. Being like leaves, her first solo show in New York City since 1995, focuses on Wildings biomorphic abstractions of plants. Recent graphite drawings and watercolor paintings are shown in tandem with Wildings Leaf Series from 1976-78, a series of large-scale oil paintings on shaped, unstretched canvas that seem to unfurl onto the wall, emulating the sinuous forms of fallen leaves. Wilding was surrounded by wild, sprawling nature from birth. She was born in 1943 during the height of World War II. Her mother and her father, a Conscientious Objector, had fled to Paraguay from Europe with other large families in a Bruderhof Anabaptist Commune that had little contact with the outside world. As a child, Wilding explored and studied Paraguays forests ... More | |
Work by Jun Kaneko © 2022 Gerald Peters Contemporary.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting a solo exhibition of Jun Kaneko. Bringing together new and classic works, the exhibition explores signature experimental pieces of the artist's mature oeuvre. Although best known for his brightly colored large-scale dangos adorned with polka dots or stripes, Kaneko has maintained another more formal and subdued practice alongside his signature works. This exhibition will present key pieces of his lesser-known studymuted tones, copper surface effects, and geometric compositions will punctuate the showoffering new insights into the artist's practice and the possibilities of the medium. Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, Jun Kaneko studied painting with Satoshi Ogawa during his adolescence. He came to the United States in 1963 to continue his studies at Chouinard Institute of Art when his introduction to Fred Marer drew him to sculptural ceramics. He proceeded ... More |
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| 83 year old artist has show at Housatonic Museum | | 'Louise Bourgeois: Paintings' opens at New Orleans Museum of Art | | Almine Rech presents Tursic & Mille's sixth solo show with the gallery |
Stamford, CT artist June Ahrens will exhibit June Ahrens: Reflecting Time at Housatonic Museum of Art from September 8 October 22, 2022. This extraordinary exhibition explores fragility, loss, hope, and renewal. Photo: Donna Callighan.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.- Housatonic Museum of Art, located on the Housatonic Community College campus in Bridgeport, CT, presents its newest exhibition, June Ahrens: Reflecting Time. The exhibit will be on view through October 22, 2022. Stamford, CT artist June Ahrens has created an exciting exhibition exploring fragility and loss, as well as hope and renewal in two dynamic components: CHANGING and SURROUND (HIDING IN PLAIN SITE). CHANGING is an immersive site-specific installation, offering the viewer an intense performance-based space of wonder and awe. An avenue of vining decayed flowers, tendrils and stems flank visitors entering the front gallery, urging them onto a colossal circle crafted of thousands of flower petals. Hundreds of fresh roses, added for the opening of the exhibition, creates elements of renewal and hope, and a metaphor for ... More | |
Louise Bourgeois, The Runaway Girl, ca. 1938. Oil, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 24 x 15 inches; 61 x 38.1 cm. Collection of The Easton Foundation, New York. Photo by Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first in-depth presentation of paintings by the celebrated artist. Recognized as one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois (b. Paris, 1911d. New York, 2010) was also a prolific painter at the beginning of her career. This exhibition looks closely at Bourgeoiss paintings produced between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn toward other media around 1949and recognizes artistic themes that resonate throughout her work. Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is on view September 9, 2022January 1, 2023. Louise Bourgeois is one of the most celebrated artists of the past century, but her visionary paintings remain unknown to many. NOMA partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to bring this extraordinary collection of early ... More | |
Tursic & Mille, Tenderness (After Asger Jorn), 2022 (detail). Oil on canvas, 230 x 320 x 5 cm, 90 1/2 x 126 x 2 in © Tursic & Mille. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur.
PARIS.- In May 1959, Danish painter Asger Jorn (1914 1973) presented Modifications [1], an exhibition at the Galerie Rive Gauche in Paris comprised of twenty or so paintings - mostly bought at flea markets - onto which he had in turn painted abstract or figurative motifs. The part-covering operation left the original paintings visible alongside the added elements. Among these works (Dans le Mille, Détournement de paysage, Arbre arbitraire, La vie dune nature morte ) was Le canard inquiétant [2], a peaceful country landscape with a little house to the right of which Jorn added a huge, garishly-coloured duckling in the impastoed expressionist style, in stark contrast with the more conventional original, itself signed Berton in black, bottom right. Jorn added his own signature to the improved [3] painting, also in black. Jorn was one of the founders of the CoBrA movement in 1948 (in reaction to the quarrel between ... More |
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| Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Johnnie Winona Ross | | The George Adams Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Katherine Sherwood | | A filmmaker explores David Bowie's life and finds clarity about his own |
Johnnie Winona Ross, Bean Creek Seep 02, 2022, mineral pigments burnished on stretched linen, 36 x 34.25 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- There is something that happens to space when music is played. Imagine an outdoor tent open to let the late sunlight slant in, end of summer, warmth of the day seeping into the grass, cool air coming down from the mountains. A few people remain in the rows of seating and as the crew begin to clear up from the days events, someone puts Kind of Blue on the stereo. What happens to the people inside the tent? To the space around? Suddenly the space is filled. There are dimensions to the air, there is a cadence to the breeze. Suddenly the sunlight has a shape, the cold has a color, the saxophone loops over heads, the piano rolls out across the grass. Everything has dimension, form, the quality of being shivering through itself. Everything is connected in a puzzle-box shaped place created by the music. There is a magic in the way that a jazz song can hold open and electrify a space. There is a similar ... More | |
Katherine Sherwood, After Clara Peeters, 2022. Mixed media on found cotton duck, 41 x 29 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The George Adams Gallery is presenting its exhibition of paintings by Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood titled, Pandemic Madonnas and Other Views from the Garden. Building on two on-going bodies of work, her Venuses and Brain Flowers, the exhibition shows the evolution of both series while also introducing Sherwoods Pandemic Madonnas, completed within the past year. Accompanying the exhibition is an extensively illustrated catalogue, In the Garden of the Yelling Clinic, surveying the development of all three, ongoing bodies of work, with scholarly essays by Ginny Treanor and Farley Gwazda, along with a personal reflection by the artist. Sherwood has long used her artwork to engage with concerns around disability and feminism, by considering how both ableism and gender play a role in our understanding of art from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Herself disabled following a debilitating cerebral hemor ... More | |
With the epic Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen contended with a chameleonic star whose approach to living helped him refocus after a heart attack.
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK, NY.- When documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen hit his eighth month of writers block on an epic project about David Bowie, he decided it was time to hit the road. With just a few hours notice, he left his home in Los Angeles one morning and grabbed the first flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Bowie had filmed The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). When Morgen arrived, he took a cab to the train station and hopped aboard an Amtrak, heading west. Being in transit was an important theme in Davids life, he said. He talked a lot about riding the rails through the West. And a lot of songs that he wrote happened during some of his trips across America. Morgen pulled out his notes; his phone, packed with all the albums; and his copy of The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. I was thinking ... More |
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| New exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary shows water in its least familiar form | | Chiffon Thomas' first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W opens in New York | | Haus der Kunst opens the most comprehensive survey of Joan Jonas' work in Germany to date |
Karl Troels Sandegård, The High Seas of Your Intrinsic Ocean (2022). Installation view at
Copenhagen Contemporary, 2022. Photo: Jasko Bobar.
COPENHAGEN.- The Danish artist Karl Troels Sandegård unfolds the fourth state of water in his exhibition The High Seas of Your Intrinsic Ocean, presenting a number of mutable jelly sculptures indoors and outdoors at Copenhagen Contemporary and drip by drip across the city. Next month, Denmark is hosting the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition. Marking the occasion, Sandegård is exploring water as an invaluable resource for all living things, based on the concept of water as a messenger, fuel or vehicle transmitting essential substances and information to organisms. The potential of water is a recurring theme in Karl Troels Sandegårds art. Until now, he has worked with the three familiar states of water solid, liquid and gas, better known as ice, water and vapour. Now, The High Seas of Your Intrinsic Ocean launches an investigation into the more mysterious ... More | |
Rose Window Tower, 2022, torched columns, spindles, welding wire spool, ceiling tin, steel bars, 88 x 52 x 50 ins., 223.5 x 132.1 x 127 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Staircase to the Rose Window, Chiffon Thomas first solo exhibition with the gallery. Synthesizing embroidery, collage, drawing, and sculpture, Thomas practice contends with the crafted body to examine wider issues of gender, race, sexuality and institutional power. Forcefully eschewing easy classification, Thomas impossible bodies embrace the space between figuration and abstraction. With an intuitive application of utilitarian and industrial materials, Thomas creates a visual language for translating both cultural narratives and personal experiences which push toward tangible forms of healing. Inspired by science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, childhood memories, and his own physical experience of transformation, Thomas Staircase to the Rose Window transports the viewer to a dystopian world that allegorizes the quest for satisfaction in the face ... More | |
Joan Jonas, Installation view Haus der Kunst, 2022 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Maximilian Geuter.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst in Munich is presenting the most comprehensive solo exhibition of the internationally renowned artist Joan Jonas (*1936, New York City, USA) in Germany to date. Through her constant experimentation with performance, video, and installation, Jonas has repeatedly pushed the boundaries of art and influenced numerous generations of artists, establishing enduring relationships of exchange. Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director Haus der Kunst and Co-curator of the exhibition, said The ground-breaking body of work by Joan Jonas represents a fundamental step forward in the transformation process Haus der Kunst is undergoing to best serve and engage our audiences, addressing the seismic cultural shifts at play through focused exhibitions, performance and music events, and education. Im honoured to work once again with such a unique and extraordinary artistic personality and look forward to sharing her mesmerizing, ... More |
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Montclair Art Museum opens 'Lori Field: Tiger Tarot'
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Lori Field: Tiger Tarot is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring tarot cards the artist, Montclair native Lori Field, created during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Known for her mysterious modern-day fairytales in multiple mediums, Field employs a recurring cast of human and animal hybrids to explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and spirituality. Her characters, predominantly female or androgynous, serve as foils or narrators within the mysterious worlds of Fields own creation. These animalistic figures also provide a means for exhibiting emotive personification and utilizing physical, animalistic traits to suggest internal, human struggles and motives. With the tiger as her talisman, Field envisions her tarot as representing a subversive and emerging feminine concept of power. Of her Tiger Tarot, Field states, tigers ... More
Tina Ramirez, founder of a leading Hispanic dance troupe, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Ramirez, who founded Ballet Hispánico in New York on a shoestring more than 50 years ago and built it into the countrys leading Hispanic dance performance and education troupe, died on Tuesday at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was 92. Verdery Roosevelt, Ballet Hispánicos longtime executive director, announced the death. Ramirez, who came to New York from Venezuela when she was a child, was a dancer herself when she took over the studio of one of her instructors, flamenco dancer Lola Bravo, in 1963 and turned to teaching. A lot of her students were from low-income Latino households, and she saw how dancing changed them. The kids began to concentrate better, to work better with other people, she told The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York, in 1981. They just ... More
Yale University Art Gallery presents an exhibition of sculpture by Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- This fall, the Yale University Art Gallery presents an exhibition of sculpture by the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 18851975), reuniting masterworks housed in collections in the United States, Europe, and Nigeria. Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition, on view from September 9, 2022January 8, 2023, is a comprehensive examination of the artists 50-year career. Organized by James Green, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Associate Curator of African Art at the Gallery, the exhibition is the first dedicated to Bámigbóyèwho is considered one of the greatest carvers of his generationand presents him as part of a woodcarving tradition that flourished during a time of great societal upheaval in Nigeria. In addition to works by Bámigbóyè and other Nigerian woodcarvers ... More
The Polygon Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of Stan Douglas's Venice Biennale exhibition, 2011 ≠1848
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Polygon Gallery presents Stan Douglass 2011 ≠ 1848 from Sept. 9Nov. 6, 2022, the first stop of a nationwide tour that includes the Remai Modern and National Gallery of Canada. This Canadian premiere follows the exhibitions unveiling this spring at the Venice Biennale, where it earned critical acclaim for its reflection on the global political unrest of 2011 and the lasting legacy of those movements. The exhibition features Douglass signature large-scale photographs and a two-channel video installation. The photographs depict four different protests and riots from 2011: the start of the Arab Spring in Tunis on Jan. 12 with sit-ins and protests along Avenue Habib Bourguiba; the Stanley ... More
Exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery includes the work of international and locally based artists
HONG KONG.- The Thread Is Not Straight includes the work of international and locally based artists: Diedrick Brackens, Cristina Camacho, IV Chan, Marie Hazard, Ip Wai Lung, Judy Ledgerwood, and Josie Love Roebuck who all work innovatively within the media of textile and painting to show a complex array of personal and political narratives. The use of textile, material and thread has experienced a resurgence in contemporary art as a means of exploring identity, heritage, abstraction and the subversion of mainstream art traditions. Denny Dimin Gallery has had an ongoing investigation into the legacy of the Pattern and Decoration movement, which started to explore these themes in the 1970s and 80s with one of the included artists, Judy Ledgerwood as an early proponent. The P & D movement celebrated the artist and media which ... More
Lars Vogt, acclaimed pianist and conductor, is dead at 51
NEW YORK, NY.- Lars Vogt, a sensitive, communicative pianist whose warmth as a collaborator made him an outstanding chamber musician and a conductor of growing stature, died on Monday at a clinic in Erlangen, Germany. He was 51. His manager, Celia Willis, said the cause was esophageal cancer, which Vogt had learned he had in March 2021. He had spoken frankly about his prospects while continuing to perform, up until a few weeks before his death. Music is just such an amazing thing. I find that even more in these times, when I spend a lot of time in hospitals and with doctors, and of course wondering how things are going to go, Vogt said in an online interview with pianist Zsolt Bognar in July, and yet in music you get transported into this world where you forget everything. Vogt created and shared those worlds in sublimely free, quite ... More
Issy Wood met power players in art and music. She went her own way.
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past three years, through art fairs, auctions, a pandemic and an album release, British painter and musician Issy Wood has been perfecting the craft of being pursued professionally. Singled out by collectors, curators and titans of culture from two disparate worlds as a next big thing, Wood, 29, took a strange ride on her own hype cycle, luxuriating momentarily in the fuss and then for the most part rejecting it, leaving some fancy bridges smoldering behind her. As an in-demand visual artist and a DIY singer uncomfortable with the very different demands of potential pop renown, Wood is now resurfacing with new boundaries after extended sagas in business, creativity and friendship with two would-be patrons: mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, in art, and music super-producer Mark Ronson, best known for ... More
Mentors named for next class in Rolex arts initiative
NEW YORK, NY.- Ghanaian-born visual artist El Anatsui, British writer Bernardine Evaristo, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, French architect Anne Lacaton and American jazz singer Dianne Reeves are the new mentors in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, a program started by Rolex in 2002 to foster new generations of outstanding talent. The names of the new mentors and their protégés, who will collaborate for two years, were announced Friday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, where the Arts Initiative is celebrating the culmination of its current program cycle. This cycle included Lin-Manuel Miranda, the first mentor in a recently added open category to incorporate multidisciplinary artists. The protégés are architect Arine Aprahamian, writer Ayesha Harruna Attah, visual artist Bronwyn Katz, filmmaker Rafael Manuel, and singer ... More
Mable John, soul singer with a star-studded resume, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond her many other accomplishments collaborating on a hit single with Isaac Hayes, singing backup for Ray Charles Mable John earned a place in the music pantheon as one of the first female artists signed to the Motown Records empire, which altered the face of pop music in the 1960s. But none of it might have happened if Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, had not needed a ride. John was an aspiring blues singer working for a Detroit insurance company owned by Gordys mother, Bertha, in the 1950s when she found herself serving as the de facto chauffeur for the future music mogul, a former Lincoln-Mercury assembly line worker who had sky-high ambitions as a songwriter and music impresario and was hustling around town looking to conjure hits. It did not take long for him to recognize the vocal ... More
Citygroup presents Azza Aboualam: Coral Walls and Green Awnings: Mosques in Sharjah and New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- Citygroup is presenting Coral Walls and Green Awnings: Mosques in Sharjah and New York City by Azza Aboualam. Prayer is Islams only pillar with a physical and spatial dimension, outside the prominent pilgrimage of Hajj and its connection to the architectural symbol of the Kaaba. While praying at home has minimal requirementsa mat facing the qibla, prayer at the scale of the city is reflected in the architecture of the mosque. Today, mosques serve as emblems of Islam, often erroneously expected to boast a minaret and a dome. There are myriad forms of mosques with significance that goes beyond the religious rituals that occur within their walls. With an emphasis on social interaction, they act as a shared space for prayer rather than solely exalting architectural image. The use of the term "mosque", especially ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island September 11, 1609. Henry Hudson (c. 1560s/70s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. In this image: Undated engraving of Henry Hudson.
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