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Items from the Guelph Treasure, a trove of medieval religious art, displayed at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, July 8, 2020. Gordon Welters/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- A U.S. federal court has ruled against the heirs of Jewish art dealers who sought to sue Germany in the United States over a trove of valuable medieval relics that the heirs said were sold under duress and at a drastic discount in Nazi-era Frankfurt. The ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit brought as part of an effort to recover the Guelph Treasure, a collection of medieval religious artifacts now estimated to be worth about $250 million. A consortium of three firms owned by Jewish dealers bought the collection in the final days of the Weimar Republic in 1929. They sold about half of the collection to individual buyers and museums. But as the Nazi government took power, the collection also drew the interest of Hermann Goering, a powerful Nazi figure and the prime minister of Prussia. According to the heirs, Goering coerced the art dealers into selling the remaining artifacts in 1935 for much less than they were worth. The 42 pieces that were sold ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From now on the newly installed Städel Garden, the Städel Museumâs most prominent collection space, invites visitors to discover outstanding works of modern and contemporary art. A total of fourteen sculptures from the museumâs own holdings are presented â the most recent acquisition, Si par une nuit dâhiver un voyageur (2017) by Elmgreen & Dragset, can be seen for the first time. In a new setting, the selection of artworks ranging from August Gaulâs The Donkey Rider (1912) and Georg Kolbeâs Proclamation (1912/1913) to Reg Butlerâs Figure in Space (1958/1959), Per Kirkebyâs Gate II (1987â1991), and Tobias Rehbergerâs Capri Moon (2011) shed light on the development of sculpture over the last 100 years. Access to the Städel Garden is free of charge.
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| Berggruen Gallery opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Bay Area artist | | Exhibition presents a selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the late Richard Artschwager | | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents a selection of Brian O'Doherty's early conceptual artworks |
Tom McKinley, Duet, 2022. Oil on panel, 36 x 49 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery presents Tom McKinley, an exhibition of recent paintings by Bay Area artist, Tom McKinley. This show marks McKinleys eighth solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view September 1 through October 1, 2022. Tom McKinleys new body of work binds evocative architectural paintings with peering commentary on civic engagement, surveillance, and cultural archetypes. McKinleys hyper realistic paintings explore the relationships between objects, architecture, and the natural world. Through his imagined settings, McKinley studies the link between light and color and how interior spaces interact with landscape. The artist often begins his work with an architectural design. In Emmitt House, McKinley highlights a modern home with a Joan Mitchell painting prominently displayed inside. The hues of the atmospheric setting, from the skyline to the stylish furniture, compliment the house ... More | |
Art is not an object; it is an event. Richard Artschwager
BASEL.- Gagosian is presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the late Richard Artschwager (19232013), the first exhibition of his work at Gagosian Basel. Since Artschwagers participation in curator Harald Szeemanns epoch-making exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form at Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, his work has been shown internationally, including throughout Switzerland at such major institutions as Kunsthalle Basel (1981), Kunst Museum Winterthur (2002 and 2006), and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2005). Artschwager specialized in crossing boundaries between genres and mediums, revealing the deception involved in pictorial illusion and communicating the essential strangeness of everyday objects and spaces. His work foregrounds the structures of human perception, often conflating the worlds of flat images ... More | |
Brian O'Doherty, Divided Sight.
VADUZ.- Born in Ireland in 1928, Brian ODoherty is among the most intriguing figures in contemporary art. In the exhibition Phases of the Self, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents the many different facets and identities of this artist, art critic and writer who lives in New York. In dialogue with works from the museums collection, the show affords an insight into the thinking of the second avant-garde from the 1960s onwards. On view is a selection of ODohertys early conceptual artworks along with books and magazines from his work as an art critic and writer. In 1976, in his role as an art critic, ODoherty coined the term white cube in Artforum magazine, thereby writing an important chapter in recent art history. His essays, published later in book form, discuss and critique the alleged neutrality of white gallery and museum spaces = that would become internationally established ... More |
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| April Bey's first solo exhibition in Europe opens at Simon Lee Gallery | | Linde Freya Tangelder's first exhibition with Valerie Traan Gallery opens in Antwerp | | From Gloom to Night: CHOI&CHOI Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Armin Boehm |
April Bey, If I Wasn't Me, I Can Be Sure I'd Want to Be, 2022. Jacquard woven textiles, sherpa, glitter, resin and metallic thread on panel, 121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 in.) ã April Bey. Courtesy of Simon Lee Gallery.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting I Believe in Why Im Here, an exhibition of new works by April Bey. April Beys first solo exhibition in Europe, I Believe in Why Im Here, introduces us to the world of Atlantica, created by the artist over thirty years. The gallery is completely transformed into a magical environment exploding with vibrant life that welcomes and empowers anyone that visits. Youll meet some of Atlanticas inhabitants rendered as largescale portraits in opulent textiles; sherpa, metallic thread and faux Atlantican fur, adorned with glitter, sequins and hand stitching. Across selfie-style closeups and editorial-esque portraits these individuals hold their space, unapologetically themselves. Each figure exudes confidence in their own Black skin as they model the planets fashion line Colonial Swag, one of the ... More | |
Installation view.
ANTWERP.- FUNDAMENTS is a first solo exhibition by Linde Freya Tangelder (Destroyers/ Builders) at Valerie Traan Gallery, in which she reflects on the aspects that found her practice and presents an overview of the designs and processes that characterise her work. In the inner and outer spaces of the gallery, Linde presents a collection of limited pieces selected and developed specifically for this occasion, in which she combines and fuses past and new works. The exhibition is therefore a well-considered looking back and forward at the dynamics that inform a practice, at choices that have been made and at an artistic identity that is becoming increasingly distinct. Ever since the beginning of her design practice, Linde Freya Tangelder has embraced her affection for architecture, both topical and historical, and across the borders of cultures. It is there that she finds the structures and methods, forms and materials that she implements in ... More | |
Armin Boehm, Whispering Wind, 2022, Oil, paper and fabric on canvas, 140 x 160 cm.
SEOUL.- For several years, night has fallen in Armin Boehm's paintings. The sun, albeit fading, was still shining around 2015, and images revealed themselves in the twilight. Since 2018, his skies have become even darker. Stars or the moon appear at times, but light comes almost exclusively from artificial sources: from lamps, neon signs, searchlights. It looks garish as if to capture a street or an interior being illuminated after an accident or a crime. Boehms light heightens the eeriness of the night. Night paintings are a long-standing tradition in Western painting. The crucifixion of Jesus is often depicted at night, as most famously exemplified by the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, in which the night embodies death and mourning. Representations of the apocalypse are also often nocturnal. They are illuminated by fire or comets - in religious paintings as well as in modern fantasies of doom. ... More |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac premieres a new series of works by internationally renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer | | Wait... is this Times Square? | | Works by Harry Benson capturing major events of the 1960s on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art |
Anselm Kiefer, Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr 지금 집이 없는 사람은 이제 집을 짓지 않습니다, 2022. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, lead, rope on canvas , 190 x 280 cm.
SEOUL.- The exhibition Wer jetzt kein Haus hat (Whoever has no house now) premieres a new series of works by internationally renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer paying homage to the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Inspired by poems by Rilke dedicated to the autumn season, the paintings on view will feature dark, silhouetted trees and falling leaves in rich autumn browns leading into winter greys, displaying both the painter and the poets fascination with transience, decay and the passage of time. The poem by Rilke has been in my memory for 60 years. I know many poems by heart, they are in me, and every now and then they emerge. The works in the exhibition draw on a group of photographs Anselm Kiefer took in Hyde Park, in London, on a sun-drenched autumn day. I was truly shocked by the explosion of colours, ... More | |
New York City considers far-flung boundaries for the Crossroads of the World as it decides where to ban guns.
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam Alkindi was behind a deli counter near the intersection of 48th Street and Ninth Avenue on Tuesday when he confronted an unexpected question: Did he consider his workplace a part of Times Square? Alkindi, 21, who was raised just a block away, was firm. This is not Times Square, he said. No way. Its peaceful over here. But according to New York City, Alkindi is wrong. This week, the city will begin to familiarize residents with a new definition of one of the Western Hemispheres most famous tourist destinations, having been required to by a new state law that prohibits the carrying of guns in sensitive locations, including Times Square. However New Yorkers feel about strict limits on weapons, the map the city has drawn is so expansive that many might dispute the new boundaries, at least privately. They span much of the area between Ninth and Sixth avenues ... More | |
Harry Benson, Paul on Train, A Hard Day's Night, London, 1964. Gelatin silver print, 24 x 30 inches. Gift of Eileen and Jonathan Otto (PA 1975), 2020.8
ANDOVER, MASS.- With a focus on four seminal events of the 1960sthe building of the Berlin Wall, the Beatles first American tour, the James Meredith March Against Fear, and the assassination of Robert F. KennedyHarry Benson: Four Stories will display approximately three dozen works that incisively capture defining moments of this tumultuous period. On view at the Addison Gallery of American Art from September 1, 2022 through January 30, 2023, the exhibition presents the photographs that catapulted Bensons career, with 14 works by Benson from the Addisons collection as well as loans from the artist. The exhibition includes historic photographs of soldiers and civilians at the construction of the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie; Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis at the James Meredith March Against Fear in Mississippi; the Beatles through the rise and peak of ... More |
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| CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents performance series to accompany Drum Listens to Heart | | George Harrison's 'Ransom' 1958 Les Paul headlines Heritage Auctions' September Guitar Auction | | 14th century copper-glazed Chinese vessel leads Heritage's Asian Art Auction |
Lucy Raven
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- All bodies are drums, each one playing at the speed of its own heart. All drums are bodies, each one made of a skin that vibrates differently. To some, the drum is the peaceful heartbeat of Mother Earth; to others, its an urgent call to war. Rhythm contains a duality, at once demanding order and presenting an opportunity to break free from it. This September, the Wattis Institute at California College of the Arts will explore the nuance and nature of the percussive with Drum Listens to Heart, an iterative exhibition that weaves together myriad forms of percussionphysical and socio-political, literal and metaphoricaland juxtaposes instances of physical impact and vibration with forms of control, emancipation, and community-building. The exhibition brings together an international roster of artists presenting works in a variety of media to explore rhythm, pulse, music, cultural history, healing, power, freedom ... More | |
George Harrison's 1958 Ransom Les Paul.
DALLAS, TX.- On online message boards frequented by guitar players, there remains some lively disagreement about the ethics of ransoming one stolen guitar by demanding another. Its an argument that, like most things rock and roll, begins with the Beatles George Harrison, specifically, whose beloved red Gibson Les Paul nicknamed Lucy was returned to Harrison only after he offered the guitars new owner another vintage Les Paul. Lucy is so famous she has her own Wikipedia page; after all, it was gifted to the Beatle by Eric Clapton in 1967. Six years later, it was stolen in Los Angeles, and the story of what it took to get her back has become part of rock-and-roll lore. Now, nearly 50 years later, guitar-lovers will have the opportunity to own a piece of music history when the 1958 Sunburst Les Paul that Harrison used to secure Lucys release crosses the block at Heritage Auctions on Sept. 24. It will be offered as part of The Cahuenga Collection Guitars and Musical ... More | |
September auction features more than 400 important artworks, from jade carvings to modern paintings.
DALLAS, TX.- A triumph of Ming Dynasty porcelain comes to Heritage Auctions this fall when it serves as the centerpiece of Heritages Sept. 20-21 Asian Art Signature® Auction. The peony-patterned Chinese vessel is exquisitely glazed with copper, and was collected by Dr. Cornelius Osgood, the curator of Yales Peabody Museum, and his wife, Mrs. Soo Sui-ling Osgood. The Osgoods acquired the remarkable dish in New York in 1956 from Frank Caro, the noted successor of famed Asian art dealer C.T. Loo, who also worked with Dr. Osgood. Loos role in Dr. Osgoods collection is key to understanding the significance of the professors assemblage. Via his galleries in Paris and New York, Loo was one of the most prominent dealers of Chinese and Southeast Asian art in the first half of the 20th century. As the Smithsonian writes: Loo advanced the knowledge of Chinese and Southeast Asian Art in Europe ... More |
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Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation announces fellowship focus
CHICAGO, IL.- Rebuild Foundation today announces the launch of the Mellon Archive Fellowship Programa multifaceted initiative supporting the creation of new research, scholarship, and artistic production through engagement with Rebuild Foundations archival collections held at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Built nearly a century ago in 1923, the meticulously restored, formerly abandoned bank serves as a creative space for the preservation, redeployment, and amplification of art and cultural artifacts on the South Side of Chicago. As part of a partnership between the Mellon Foundation and Rebuild, a $3.5M grant will, over the course of two years, be put towards developing infrastructure for the archives and funding fellows projects. The four inaugural fellows are singer, songwriter, and musician Corrine Bailey Rae, ... More
Review: Finding community in 'As You Like It'
NEW YORK, NY.- The Forest of Arden is where you head when the city wont hold you. When laws are unjust, when custom constricts, when institutions squeeze and shrink you, here, at last, is space to breathe and to be. Manhattan razed its woodlands long ago, of course. (A lone stand of trees, in Inwood Hill Park, remains.) But on a summer night, in Central Park, squint a little and you can imagine a forest here the refuge, the bounty, the hush. You wont have to squint hard at As You Like It, the shimmering Shakespeare adaptation at the Delacorte Theater, courtesy of Public Works. Adapted by Laurie Woolery, who directs, and singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, who provides the music and lyrics, this easeful, intentional show bestows the pleasures typical of a Shakespeare comedy adventure, disguise, multiple marriages, pentameter ... More
Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn among Fine Autograph and Artifacts up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's September Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale boasts an extraordinary selection of over 900 items, with a special focus on Hollywood, classical music, and icons of history. Among the Hollywood rarities represented are horror heroes, including Edward Van Sloan in a terrifically rare letter archive. The archive of 11 letters from the classic horror actor whose memorable roles in Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy have earned him immortal status in the canon of horror cinema. In the archive, Van Sloan comments on Eisenhower, Beethoven, and Dracula: "It was gosh awful thirty-five years agowhat it must be like today! I think nothing dates faster than a motion picture." An unprecedented letter collection from Van Sloan, who remains exceedingly rare across all signed and handwritten formats. (Estimate: ... More
Jane Lombard Gallery announces formal U.S. representation of LuYang and solo booth at The Armory Show
NEW YORK, NY.- After collaborating together on select exhibitions for the past year, Jane Lombard Gallery formally announced its ongoing representation of LuYang in the United States. The gallery will present a solo booth of LuYangs work derived from their recent film DOKU - the Self (2022) at The Armory Show this September 9-11, 2022. Concurrently, Deutsche Bank will open LuYang: DOKU Experience Center at the PalaisPopulaire on September 10th in conjunction with LuYangs award as Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2022. Alongside Jane Lombard Gallerys Booth #326 at The Armory Show in New York, LuYangs work is featured in the exhibition Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity at Asia Society, and by Art at a Time Like This in Excelsior, a selection of film screenings by Asian and Asian Diaspora artists at the Quad ... More
Kansas City Museum: Next stages of renovation
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The restoration and renovation of Corinthian Hall, which opened to the public in October 2021, was Stage I of a multi-staged, multi-year project to rehabilitate the entire 3.5-acre historic property. Now the museum is working with International Architects Atelier on architectural design for the Carriage House, Conservatory, and the James Turrell Skyspace. A Turrell Skyspace is a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. Skyspaces are site-specific and can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. The aperture can be round, elliptical, or square. Viewers sit inside the chamber to observe the sky. A sequenced light program inside the Skyspace, designed by Turrell, interacts with the atmospheric light coming through the aperture in the ceiling to create ... More
Exhibition of highlights from the Rose Family Glass Collection opens at OKCMOA
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art announced the upcoming grand opening of Highlights from the Rose Family Glass Collection, a new acquisition of more than 100 works from the "Golden Age" of Studio Glass. The one-of-a-kind collection, generously donated by the Rose Family and in honor of Jerome V. and Judith G. Rose, will open to the public on Saturday, September 3, 2022. After 40 years in the making, Highlights from the Rose Family Glass Collection will provide visitors with a deeper contextual understanding of glass art and showcase the broader story of the Studio Glass movement that originated in America in the 1950s and continues to the present day. The collection features 161 works by 77 artists, including works by pioneers of the Studio Glass movement and many other artists prominent ... More
An immersive exhibition and forum examines the intersection of Humanity and Technology
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist, author, and lecturer John Mack announces a month-long immersive exhibition A Species Between Worlds: Our Nature, Our Screens. Over the month of September, the exhibition examines the intersection of humanity and technology via a gamified meditation experience aimed at restoring balance between ourselves and our smart devices. A Species Between Worlds also serves as a forum featuring a rich program of talks and events, free to the public, that will convene thought leaders from around the world on the increasingly slippery boundary between our humanity and our technology. A Species Between Worlds combines thought-provoking artwork with an inspiring program that brings together a unique group of high profile speakers and leaders from the fields of art, academia, technology, and business to explore ... More
Galerie Miranda opens a two-person exhibition by artists Jo Ann Callis and Jan Groover
PARIS.- To open its autumn 2022 program, Galerie Miranda announces a two-person exhibition by celebrated American artists Jo Ann Callis (b. 1940) and Jan Groover (b.1943-d.2012), both at the heart of the 1970s American new color school of photography. The Paris exhibition will feature selected vintage and contemporary color prints from the landmark series 'Early Color' (1976) by Callis and 'Kitchen Still Lifes' (1979) by Groover. Working at the peak of the American women's liberation movement, neither artist specifically declared themselves to be feminist artists yet both were producing works within and about their home environment, in the vein of militant feminist artists such as Martha Rosler (Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975) and Judy Chicago (The Dinner Party, 1974-9). In Los Angeles in the 1970s, Jo Ann Callis was juggling two young ... More
Julia Stoschek Collection presents a five-day art intervention in Dusseldorf's public space
DUSSELDORF.- Out of Space: Dusseldorf Variation is a five-day intervention of art in public spaces across Düsseldorf. Curated by Junni Chen and Sophia Scherer, the 202122 fellows of the Curatorial & Research Residency Program, time-based media art abandons the conventional framework of an exhibition venue during the event, bringing works by artists into dialogue with specific sites in the city of Düsseldorf. Out of Space presents more than twenty works from the Julia Stoschek Collection, including ones by Heike Baranowsky, Hannah Black, Tracey Emin, Cyprien Gaillard, Ana Mendieta, Tony Oursler, and Kandis Williams, at public sites including the Bilker Bunker, the Walther König Bookstore, Dreischeibenhaus, La Tête/the HMG Handelsblatt Media Group GmbH & Co KG, HafenKunstKino, Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hotel Nikko ... More
Ayo Edibiri and her dog gromit go to the bookstore
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Ayo Edebiri has an arresting screen presence because she doesnt look as if shes acting. In The Bear, the frenetic restaurant drama that has been one of the most talked-about shows of the summer, she is usually the calm at the center of the storm. In real life, shes the same unassuming, unshowy and she speaks in an even tone. In other words, shes not the kind of person who will break into a series of practiced anecdotes when a reporter shows up. On a hot day in Los Angeles, she was standing outside her apartment complex in the Los Feliz neighborhood, waiting for her puppy, Gromit, to do his business. She then picked up what he had left in the grass with a biodegradable green baggy. She looked around for a trash can but couldnt find one, so she ended up tucking the baggy into her canvas tote. Gromit ... More
Ross Ryan, From Crinan to Catterline opens at The Scottish Gallery
EDINBURGH.- Ross Ryan takes visitors to The Scottish Gallery on a journey From Crinan to Catterline this September. Balancing the life of a sailor and painter, Ross has spent 3 years predominantly painting outside, often on deck of his 1947 wooden fishing boat the Sgrabh. Since studying at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen from 1993-1997, Ross has been continually on the move. Recording in changing mediums that suit the various and often complex environments, Ryan has sailed the Atlantic on several occasions and travel bursaries have taken him to The Caribbean and The Arctic and he has held artist residencies in Poland, Finland and Ecuador. In 2021, Ryan set out from the fishing village of Crinan - where he was born and still has a studio that perches above the harbour and enjoys spectacular views across the sound towards ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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