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An installation view of Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running at the Jewish Museum in New York. An innovative retrospective of work by Jonas Mekas reveals the fundamental honesty of his diary films. Dario Lasagni via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Lithuanian refugee who landed in New York City in 1949 at the age of 27, Jonas Mekas became a founder of Film Forum, Film Culture magazine and Anthology Film Archives. He was the first full-time critic at The Village Voice, writing about film, and a widely published poet. But he also made scores of collagelike diary films that documented his busy, art-filled life. The first of these films, in 16-millimeters, Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches), was shot between 1964 and 1969 and combines New York crowd scenes, circus performances and fragments of Mekas daily life with events like the first public appearance of the Velvet Underground, at a psychiatric convention, or John Lennon and Yoko Ono performing a Bed-In for Peace. When Walden premiered in 1969, Mekas encouraged viewers to walk in and out of the screening, though he also provided a detailed timeline in case anyone wanted to be sure of catching the convention (Reel 2, Minute ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is mounting In the Space of the Near and Distant, a solo exhibition by Jonathan Yukiko Clark, a Hawaii-based Japanese-American artist. This show will consist of monotype prints and sculptures informed by the traditional Japanese living space, where the transience of nature and human life are closely connected as exemplified in the work Sakura in Volcanic Landscape, 2022. Clark's newest sculpture features a window-like frame of koa and sugi wood with a small panoramic landscape from Izu Oshima rendered in monotype prints. Clark felt that witnessing the sakura trees in full bloom over the stark black fields of lava was an experience very specific to that island, yet the combination of the emblematic sakura and lava seemed to evoke the merging of two locations.
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| VMFA receives lead private campaign gift from James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin to name new wing | | Phillips announces highlights from the New York Photographs Auction | | Rare painting by groundbreaking artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Child in Gray, 1905, George Luks (American, 18671933), oil on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Donated by United Art of Virginia, LLC as part of the James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Collection, 2021.509. Photo by Travis Fullerton © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today their receipt of a significant gift from longtime patrons James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin. With a total collective value of nearly $60 million, the donation includes a substantial contribution to VMFAs expansion campaign, which will culminate in a second major wing at the museum named after the couple the James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing II as well as 15 remarkable paintings by prominent American artists. The McGlothlins landmark donation is the lead gift and the largest private gift in the museums current expansion campaign with an impressive $57 million. Were immensely appreciative to Jim and Fran for making this incredible gift to the expansion campaign, said Alex ... More | |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #580. Estimate: $250,000 - 350,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips upcoming Photographs auction on 6 April in New York features nearly 300 lots spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. The sale is led by a selection of career-defining works from Cindy Sherman and will also include important photographs by Robert Frank, Irving Penn, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Within the live sale, Brazen Beauty: Photographs from a Private Collection offers a mischievous take on fashion photography, and Property from a Private West Coast Collection includes a seminal Mapplethorpe Self-Portrait from 1980. Alongside the live auction, Phillips will host a companion online-only sale, New York State of Mind in partnership with gallerist Peter Fetterman, which will be open for bidding from 30 March 7 April. Sarah Krueger, Phillips Head of Photographs, New York, said, Our April auctions feature some of the very best photographs that the category has to offer, with works that have s ... More | |
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell, 1791 (detail). Oil on canvas, 43 3/4 x 57 1/8 in. (111 x 145 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In 1791 artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist set out to defy expectations, to prove to all of Paris that a woman could indeed compose history paintings. Exhibiting Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell at that years Salon, the official exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, she became the first woman to show a history paintingthat is, a scene from literature, mythology, history, or the Biblein the great exhibition, marking the recognition of artists among their peers. La Béquille de Voltaire au Salon*, 1791 states: I thought that women were hardly capable of composing history paintings, above all to this degree of perfection. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Benoists groundbreaking work, a rare painting still in existence from her early Neoclassical periodone of just ... More |
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| The man with the golden past | | High Museum of Art exhibition explores the elusive nature of love and ways it is expressed in contemporary art | | Almine Rech New York opens an exhibition of new works by Genesis Tramaine |
A provided image shows the installation The Hare with Amber Eyes, at the Jewish Museum in New York. Lovers of Edmund de Waals book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession. Iwan Baan via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Like a dream that comes to life, the 264 carved, miniature Japanese carvings (netsuke) we encountered in reading Edmund de Waals celebrated memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), appear centerstage in the current exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York (November 19, 2021-May 15, 2022), which bears the same title as the book (https://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-hare-with-amber-eyes). I first read the memoir as a fellow at the Rifkind Humanities Center at The City College of New York, where our group evenly divided between those who read the work as a meditation on the nature of objects and those who were inclined to read it as a saga about family trauma. Recently, I reread the memoir in a handsome, ... More | |
Ghada Amer (American, born 1963, Egypt), The Words I Love the Most, 2012, bronze with black patina, courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery, New York. © Ghada Amer/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Christopher Burke Studios.
ATLANTA, GA.- This spring, the High Museum of Art presents a thematic exhibition featuring contemporary artworks from the early 1990s through the present that examine the different ways that one of the most powerful forces of life love is understood, expressed or perhaps left unspoken. On view March 25-Aug. 14, 2022, What Is Left Unspoken, Love juxtaposes iconic works that represent watershed moments in the history of contemporary art, such as Felix Gonzalez-Torress Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1987-1990), with art of the past decade, including six works created especially for the exhibition, such as Our Love Was Deeply Purple (2021) by Alanna Fields. The exhibition considers love as a profound subject of exploration from time immemorial that is nonetheless still relevant ... More | |
Genesis Tramaine, Saint Jericho, 2022. Acrylic, Lawrys Seasons Salt, The Holy Spirit, Oil Sticks, Oil Pastels 243.8 x 182.9 cm 96 x 72 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York is presenting an exhibition of new works by Genesis Tramaine. This is Tramaine's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 23 to April 23, 2022. Psalm 46:5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. At the dawn of thingsblood, sun, moonGenesis Tramaine is her most powerful. In her new show,Break of Day, the breadth of her power, the breadth of Gods power as it moves through the artist, is on full display. Genesis Tramaine invites you to a new beginning, one that reflects an evolution. I was in a space where I had to trust God differently this time around. My tools changed, and there was growth in the process. I used different mediums. I used more organic materials and a different part of myself, meaning I'm trusting a different part of myself. I'm listening in prayer and receiving differently. The ... More |
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| The Royal Academy of Arts opens an exhibition of works by John Hejduk | | Participating galleries & early highlights announced for London Gallery Weekend 2022 | | Statue of Robert Milligan joins Museum of London collection |
John Hejduk, Widow's House from Lancaster/Hanover Masque, 1980-1982. Black felt-tip pen on laid paper. 26.7 x 31.6 cm. John Hejduk fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture. Permission granted by Estate of John Hejduk.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy announced the opening of John Hejduk: London Masque, the first free installation in its new space for architecture. The installation features Hejduks design for the Widows House, one of 68 objects in his seminal Lancaster / Hanover Masque. The late American architect John Hejduk (19292000) believed that ideas were as important as buildings and that architecture had the power to make alternative worlds. Vicky Richardson, the RA's Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator, said: London Masque has involved a huge cast of players including 100 students, tutors, designers and historians. It feels appropriate to bring John Hejduks practice and philosophy to the Royal Academy, which is just the sort of space for free expression that he thought the university should ... More | |
London Gallery Weekends format is unique amongst global gallery weekend events in the diversity of its participating galleries.
LONDON.- London Gallery Weekend, the free public event which celebrates art galleries in the UK capital, returns stronger than ever this year, with details of over 150 participating galleries announced so far for its new edition. New galleries from across the city have signed up to take part in the initiative, joining a growing list which includes the citys most renowned international galleries alongside emerging art spaces. Together they offer an exciting programme of exhibitions and public openings scheduled for the weekend of 13-15 May 2022. Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries said: Im delighted and excited that London Gallery Weekend is back and bigger than ever. With more than 150 galleries taking part there is something for everyone, from contemporary painting to sculpture, from the worlds finest artists to the newest emerging talent. London is a global powerhouse when ... More | |
The controversial landmark, based outside No.1 Warehouse since 1997, was detached from its plinth after a petition signed by over 4,000 people called for it to be removed from public view.
LONDON.- A bronze sculpture of the merchant and slave trader Robert Milligan, removed from West India Quay in June 2020, will join the collections of the Museum of London. The acquisition follows a public consultation, in partnership with the Tower Hamlets Council and landowners Canal & River Trust, which concluded that the statue should be housed in a museum where it can be fully contextualised. The controversial landmark, based outside No.1 Warehouse since 1997, was detached from its plinth after a petition signed by over 4,000 people called for it to be removed from public view. It followed the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests that led to the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol in June 2020. The consultation, which sought views on the future of the statue, its plinth and the areas historical relationship to slavery, ... More |
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| Human migration brought maize to Maya region, study finds | | Moebius Splash Page leads Heritage Auctions' $2.2 Million International Original Art & Anime event | | Nicole Condon-Shih named Dean at Munson-Williams School of Art |
In a photo provided by Erin Ray shows, Keith Prufer, an environmental archaeologist at the University of New Mexico, with Asia Alsgaard, left, and Emily Moes, both field researchers, at the burial site at Mayahak Cab Pek in Belize. Erin Ray via The New York Times.
by by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- The tropics are a paradise for everyone but a skeleton. Humidity keeps rainforests green but does little to preserve bodies, leading to a dearth of ancient skeletal remains in neotropical regions such as Central America. But deep in the jungles of Belize, under the dry refuge of two rock shelters, the skeletons of people who died as many as 9,600 years ago have been exceptionally well preserved. Their bones offer a rare glimpse into the regions ancient genetic history, which is largely unknown. A group of scientists has extracted these ancient peoples DNA, offering new insight into the genetic history of people in the Maya region. The paper was published Tuesday in the journal Nature ... More | |
Jean Giraud (Moebius) Major Fatal, Le Garage Hermétique - The Motionless Bird Métal Hurlant #6 Splash Page 7 Original Art (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1976).
DALLAS, TX.- One of the most iconic pages from Moebius' Airtight Garage sold for $118,750 to lead Heritage Auctions' International Original Art and Anime Signature® Auction to $2,249,105 in total sales March 11-13. More than 3,000 global bidders took part in the event, which generated sell-through rates of 100% by value and 99.4% by lots sold. Jean Giraud (Moebius) Major Fatal, Le Garage Hermétique The Motionless Bird Métal Hurlant #6 Splash Page 7 Original Art (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1976) drew 31 bids before it reached its final price, which was well beyond twice its low pre-auction estimate. It includes a motionless bird that occupies roughly a hundredth of the total surface area of this magnificent splash page, yet it is the prominent feature on the page. ... More | |
She is currently the Chair of the Foundation Department and an Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
UTICA, NY.- Nicole Condon-Shih has been named Dean of the School of Art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY. She is currently the Chair of the Foundation Department and an Associate Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. In her new position, which she will begin July 1, Condon-Shih will serve as the chief administrative officer of the Munson-Williams School of Art division, comprised of PrattMWP College of Art and Design and the Community Arts Education Program. PrattMWP is an extension campus of Pratt Institute, providing first year and second year instruction in fine arts, communications design, photography, and art and design education since 2000. The Community Arts Education program has offered noncredit art instruction to children, teens, and adults since 1941. Munson-Williams President and CEO ... More |
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Dutch publisher of 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank' halts publication
AMSTERDAM.- A Dutch publisher has said that it will no longer publish a bestselling book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank, which claimed to identify the informant who alerted Nazi police to the teenage diarists hiding place, because of doubts about its conclusions. The publisher, Ambo Anthos, which released the Dutch translation of the book by author Rosemary Sullivan in January, said Tuesday that it would halt publication in response to a refutation by five prominent Dutch historians that called the findings into question. Based on the conclusions of this report, we have decided that, effective immediately, the book will no longer be available, Ambo Anthos, which had apologized for the book last month, wrote in a statement on its website. We will call upon bookstores to return their stock. The Betrayal of Anne Frank received ... More
ART FOR UKRAINE launches to benefit humanitarian relief efforts
NEW YORK, NY.- ART FOR UKRAINEan initiative created by a group of arts professionals in urgent direct response to the current crisis in Ukraine is launching an online benefit art sale of contemporary works this week. 100% of proceeds from each sale of artwork will be donated to Razom For Ukraine, a non-profit providing critical humanitarian aid and relief to Ukrainians. In supporting this art sale, the cultural community will be directly helping the organizations emergency response of delivering humanitarian aid and critical supplieswhile collectors will be able to acquire an incredible selection of coveted works of art that have been generously donated and made available by artists for this important initiative. Artworks for sale include pieces by Alexandre Arrechea, Chellis Baird, Christopher Boffoli, The Bruce High Quality ... More
Rita Cofield joins Getty Conservation Institute
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Rita Cofield has joined the Getty Conservation Institute as associate project specialist to advance the Los Angeles African American Historic Places (LAAAHP) project, an ambitious effort announced in 2021 that identifies, protects and celebrates African American heritage across the City of Los Angeles. LAAAHP is a collaborative effort of the GCI and Los Angeles City Plannings Office of Historic Resources (OHR), which is responsible for the management of historic resources within the city. Cofield will be based at the Getty Center but will also be working collaboratively with L.A. City Planning as a key addition to the OHR team. Among Cofields priorities will be establishing a local advisory committee and to create a community engagement strategy. Once those are underway, the team will begin to supplement ... More
William Kraft, percussionist and force in new music, dies at 98
NEW YORK, NY.- Lamenting the abundance of what he called rat-a-tat, boom-boom music for drums, William Kraft set out to create more sophisticated offerings that would bring greater respect to instruments he felt were too often taken for granted in orchestras. The days of percussionists being second-class citizens in the musical society are clearly over, he wrote in 1968. The last of orchestral families to be exploited, they have come of age in the 20th century. Kraft, who as both a composer and a percussionist became a force in contemporary music, elevating overlooked instruments like the timpani and developing a style that drew on jazz and Impressionism, died Feb. 12 at a hospital in Glendale, California. He was 98. His wife, composer Joan Huang, said the cause was heart failure. A spirited performer, Kraft was acclaimed ... More
Bhangra is big on campus. Now it's inspiring a musical.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Rehana Lew Mirza stumbled upon the world of collegiate bhangra dancing. An aspiring screenwriter working as an office manager, she had finally fallen in with a group of South Asian artists. She tagged along with a friend to Bhangra Blowout, an annual competition in Washington, where teams are judged for the skill with which they dance in the exuberant Punjabi folk style. Mirza became a superfan. She attended seven or eight competitions. She wrote a treatment for a bhangra-themed film. She became a playwright, met another playwright, and then, when the two of them married, they performed a bhangra dance at their wedding. So in 2014, when she and her husband, Mike Lew, were exploring a possible collaboration with a musical theater composer, she dug out that unproduced film script. Now the resulting ... More
'Upload' asks old questions with new technology
NEW YORK, NY.- I am certain that you exist, a daughter tells her father, only to reconsider: I am certain that you do not exist. Her ambivalence is understandable. The question of what it means to be human to exist is an old one, and, arguing with her father, this woman is not about to find an answer. Only more questions, which accumulate at a breakneck pace in Michel van der Aas Upload, a seamless interweaving of opera, film and high technology that had its American premiere at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday. This work would seem to contain more than it possibly could in its 85 minutes: a tutorial-like explanation of how a clinic offers immortality by backing up consciousness to the cloud, one mans journey through that process and his daughters conflicted response as he returns to her no longer alive but, ... More
The Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents Søren Solkær's exhibition of portraits of street artists
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents an exhibition by the Danish photographer Søren Solkær from 19 March until 25 September 2022. With SURFACE, the museum shows more than sixty portraits of international street artists with their colourful works of art in public space; from graffiti pioneers and emerging talents to the most influential figures on the street art scene. Søren Solkær portrayed Dutch street artists such as DOES, Laser 3.14 and Niels Shoe Meulman. Foreign artists include Blek le Rat, DABSMYLA, D*Face, ELLE, Icy & Sot, Invader, Lady Aiko, Maya Hayuk, Seen, Shepard Fairey and The London Police. The dynamic photographs show the makers behind one of the most important contemporary art movements. On request, some artists are unrecognizabl ... More
Hionas Gallery opens the first solo exhibition from artist Lou Eberhard
NEW YORK, NY.- Hionas Gallery is presenting Anguillid Theory of Gender, the first solo exhibition from artist Lou Eberhard. The show features a selection of new and recent drawings that explore, in the artists words, bodies and forms that are simultaneously familiar and foreign. Eberhards muse on this journey is the American and European eel, a creature with a complex and often ambiguous lifecycle whose very form organically lends itself to the artists sinuous freehand linework. As a transgender artist, Eberhard endeavors to portray the trans experience in an engaged and positive light, with a focus on gender euphoria rather than a voyeuristic exploitation of pain. Indeed, his subjects are anything but demure. They are present and sturdy within the frame, fixated on either a task or a fleeting thought, which appear ... More
A dance company looks to the future with a new artistic team
NEW YORK, NY.- In December, a shock rippled through dance circles when it was announced that choreographer Nai-Ni Chen had died in a swimming accident in Hawaii while on vacation. A prolific dance artist specializing in both contemporary and traditional works, Chen, a youthful 62, was a powerful presence in the Chinese American dance community. Andrew N. Chiang, the soft-spoken executive director of Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, was also Chens husband. On the plane traveling home to New Jersey from Hawaii a very, very difficult journey, he recalled recently he found that he was at a loss as to what to do next. Should he disband the company? Keep it going? He remembered a friends advice: When you dont know what to do, you need to reach out, Chaing said. So I thought, Who do I know? Who can I reach ... More
Deck of playing cards with cash reward encourages people to join in the hunt for missing masterpieces
DALLAS, TX.- The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art announced the launch of a deck of playing cards featuring the WWII MOST WANTED ART still missing since the end of World War II. Determined to continue the mission of the Monuments Men and Women, the scholar-soldiers who, during World War II, protected and safeguarded civilizations most important artistic cultural treasures, the Foundation is now engaging the public to help find missing objects and return them to their rightful owners. The Foundation is offering a cash reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the recovery of each cultural object included in the WWII MOST WANTED ART deck of playing cards. Terms and conditions for the reward are fully outlined on the Foundations website at monumentsmenfoundation.org/wwii-most- ... More
Lafayette Anticipations opens an exhibition of works by Xinyi Cheng
PARIS.- The constellation of subjects and scenes captured in Xinyi Chengs evocative paintings are drawn from her encounters. From a tiny dog called Monroe staring at a bone on a red carpet to a man in leopard-print boxer shorts on a sofa speaking on the phone, her works unravel complex emotions, desires, and dynamics that permeate contemporary life. Chengs expressive use of light and colour help conjure feelings, reveries, and impulses that reside within our everyday experiences of being in the world. In an often enigmatic atmosphere of dreams and solitude, the characters depicted by the artist sound like unexpected tributes to the moderns such as Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas or Caillebotte. For Chengs first major institutional exhibition in France, the presentation brings together over thirty existing works from 2016 to 2021 spread ... More
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The Wild Game
Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son
The 8 X Jeff Koons
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographersâ¦" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886 - 1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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