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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Zadik Zadikian's "Path to Nine" featured in Solid Gold exhibition at Brooklyn Museum “Path To Nine,” 2024, 999 gold-leafed plaster ingots accented with stainless steel rods. Photo: Paula Abreu Pita. BROOKLYN, NY.- “Path to Nine,” an installation by artist Zadik Zadikian, is featured in the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th Anniversary “Solid Gold” exhibition on view from November 16, 2024-July 6, 2025. Zadikian’s immersive sculpture explores the themes of structure, repetition, and transformation through the medium of gold. “My work is about filing a void,” says Zadikian. “It’s always been about reconnection to a lost world. A world we threw away too quickly only to realize there was gold dust inside that camouflaged itself as mud.” “Path to Nine,” composed of 18 towering stacks of gold-leaf gilded ingots, is arranged in a checkered pattern. These 999 plaster ingots, with embedded stainless steel rods, symbolize the arti ... More The Best Photos of the Day Installation view: ‘Reverb’, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2024). Courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo by Mark Blower. Pioneering digital artists bring new life to historic phone boxes in Wembley Park with "Trialogue" Whimsical sculptures and vibrant Pop Art set to steal the show at Art Miami Galería Subtítulo to present Colombian artist Juan Sebastian's solo exhibition at SCOPE Miami Beach 2024 Trialogue transforms these historic phone boxes into three-dimensional art spaces. Photo: Chris Winter. LONDON.- Wembley Park announced Trialogue, a new audio-visual 3D installation and the newest addition to its area-wide, free to enjoy, Art Trail. Created by visionary audio-visual artists Greenaway & Greenaway, the bespoke work breathes new life into three Grade II-listed K6 telephone boxes - Britain's iconic red phone booths. Located in Arena Square, nestled between two of London's most legendary venues - the OVO Arena Wembley and Wembley Stadium - Trialogue will remain on public display until March 2025. From producing the official Opening Ceremony film and large-scale 3D mapping for Waltham Forest Borough of Culture, to creating The Who's music video for the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony, Greenaway & Greenaway have consistently reimagined public spaces through technology. The acclaimed artists, who've created ... More Bjørn Skaarup, hippo hula hoop, maquette. MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Art Basel Week 2024 is set to dazzle with an array of remarkable exhibitions, kicking off tomorrow with the highly anticipated Art Miami. A centerpiece of the week, Art Miami continues its tradition of excellence, and Cavalier Ebanks Galleries is once again a standout presence. With a storied history of showcasing exceptional talent, the gallery brings forward two must-see artists this year: Adam Umbach and Bjørn Skaarup. Don't miss the chance to experience their captivating works during this iconic week. Adam Umbach: A dynamic force in contemporary art, Umbach is known for his bold, pop-inspired works that blend vibrant imagery with thoughtful cultural critiques. His art reimagines nostalgic symbols of Americana through a modern lens, often using humor and irony to delve into themes of identity, consumerism, and societal change. Umbach’s latest pieces debuting at Art Miami promise to ignite conversations ... More Juan Sebastian, Concepción, 2020, 40 x 60 in. MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Galeria Subtítulo announces the landmark 10th-anniversary retrospective of Colombian artist Juan Sebastian’s work, Veils, Shadows, and Spaces of the Self, presented as a solo exhibition at SCOPE Miami Beach during this December's Miami Art Week. This exhibition commemorates a decade of Sebastian’s exploration into identity, ritual, and transformation through the veiled figure, showcasing the evolution of his artistic vision and thematic depth. In Veils, Shadows, and Spaces of the Self, Juan Sebastian invites viewers into a world where identity and reality are fluid, echoing themes from his Colombian heritage and the symbolic resonance of fabric. Each work in this collection balances the visible and the hidden, using veils as a transformative tool that both conceals and reveals deeper truths. With a profound sense of storytelling, Sebastian’s veiled figures move beyond traditional portraiture, ... More Public restoration of the preliminary drawings for the Dresden Procession of Princes For the discerning collector on your holiday list, Asian art treasures abound from the galleries of Asia Week New York Library of Congress launches digitized collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt records Restoration work on the Fürstenzug cartoons © Wiebke Schneider. DRESDEN.- The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett, part of the State Art Collections Dresden (SKD), has begun the restoration of its largest artwork: the monumental preliminary drawings (known as cartoons) for the famous Procession of Princes. These drawings will be the centerpiece of a restoration project open to the public every Thursday, starting November 28, 2024, at the Japanese Palace. The cartoons for the Procession of Princes were created by the historical painter Wilhelm Walther between 1869 and 1872. These eleven full-scale preparatory drawings, stored rolled up in the Kupferstich-Kabinett, measure four meters in height and approximately 100 meters in length when unrolled and laid side by side. From 1872 to 1876, these cartoons served as templates for the fresco executed on Dresden’s Augustusstraße using the sgraffito technique. When the fresco began to deteriorate, the cartoons were sent to the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in 1904, where they guided the creation of the tile version of ... More Bronze Incense Burner in the form of “Du Fu Riding a Donkey”. Height: 27.3 cm. (10 3/4 in.). Length: 29.8 cm. (11 3/4 in.)Ming-Qing dynasty, 16th–17th century. Photo: Kaikodo LLC. NEW YORK, NY.- As the holiday season approaches, finding the perfect gift becomes a pursuit of meaning and beauty. For those seeking to offer more than just an object—something with cultural resonance, historical significance, and artistic excellence—Asia Week New York presents an inspiring selection of treasures for the discerning eye. From Japanese woodblock prints to intricate bamboo baskets to centuries-old ceramic vessels, the participating galleries of Asia Week New York are an excellent resource for Asian art that transcends time and geography. With prices ranging from $380 to $5,000, these artworks represent thoughtful and sophisticated choices for holiday giving. From Alisan Fine Arts, contemporary art lovers will appreciate Recluse Studio No. 33 by Kelly Wang (b. 1992). This evocative work, created in 2021, combines ink, xuan paper, pigment, and resin on aluminum. At $2,000 it makes for a striking, ... More Roses in memory of loved ones are laid on an AIDS Quilt panel displayed in the Great Hall during a ceremony announcing the Library of Congress as the new home of the AIDS Memorial Quilt records. WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt honors the lives of all Americans who have died of AIDS since 1981, when the disease was first identified. Released to coincide with World AIDS Day commemorations, the newly digitized collection offers a unique window into the deeply personal stories behind the 55-ton quilt and its panels. The digitized collection, totaling more than 125,000 items, includes letters, diaries, photographs and other materials documenting the lives of those represented in the Quilt. The digitized archive is now reunited online with the communal folk art of the quilt panels. Together, these digitized colle ... More Ryan Merkel joins the National Gallery as Principal Gifts Officer Karma announces representation of the estate of Milton Avery The National Gallery of Art of the LNMA presents David Goldblatt, South Africa's world-renowned photographer Ryan Merkel. Cameron Whitman Photography. WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that Ryan Merkel has been hired as the museum’s new principal gifts officer and assumed the role on December 1. As the National Gallery’s principal gifts officer, Merkel will work with the chief development officer Sean O’Connor and members of our development team to identify and cultivate major philanthropic gifts from individuals in the private sector in support of the nation’s art museum. Merkel will work to expand the National Gallery’s donor base to support our renowned exhibitions, programming, and strategic initiatives. Over the past 15 years, Merkel has dedicated himself to funding mission-driven museums and arts organizations, most recently as chief development officer at Washington’s Arena Stage, one of the largest producing theaters in the country. As a member of the executive team, he oversaw the management of thousands of donors and facilitated a range of fundraising campaigns ... More Portrait of Milton Avery in New York, circa 1930. Courtesy of the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. NEW YORK, NY.- Karma announced the representation of acclaimed American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965), one of the great colorists of the twentieth century. His paintings distill landscape, still life, and figuration into understated yet euphoric compositions of light, form, and pattern. The gallery’s first collaboration with the estate will be a presentation of Avery’s paintings at Art Basel Miami in December 2024. Next fall, Karma will hold a solo exhibition of Avery's portraiture at 549 West 26th Street in Chelsea, New York, with an accompanying monograph. In October 2025, the exhibition Milton Avery and his Influence on Contemporary Art will open at Malta International Contemporary Art Space (MICAS). “I am thrilled to partner with the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation on an exhibition at MICAS next fall that will communicate the impact of Avery’s pathbreaking paintings to a global audience,” said MICAS artistic director Edith ... More Installation view. Photographer Gintarė Grigėnaitė. VILNIUS.- The National Gallery of Art of the LNMA hosts an exhibition David Goldblatt: (In)visible Structures by the world-famous photographer of the 2nd half of the 20th century, master of social documentary photography David Goldblatt (1930 – 2018). The exhibition features over a hundred photographic images selected by Karolina Ziębińska to provide an all-inclusive perspective of Goldblatt’s oeuvre. The selection at the NGA includes images from the artist’s main series, such as On the Mines, Some Afrikaners Photographed, Boksburg, Soweto and Structures. The artist’s work in on view in Lithuania for the first time. The exhibition will run until 9 February 2025. “The retrospective of David Goldblatt’s photography is another highly ambitions initiative by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. Alongside with the other international events of recent years launched by the LNMA in Lithuania and abroad, it puts prominently our name on the international map of m ... More Anselm Kiefer to unveil major new work at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Exhibition brings together new works by eight leading artists from the Caribbean diaspora Evelyn Taocheng Wang receives the Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2025 Anselm Kiefer. Photo by Summer Taylor. AMSTERDAM.- A major new immersive painting installation by Anselm Kiefer will form the centerpiece of a landmark exhibition of the artist’s work in Amsterdam next spring. For the first time in their history, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are joining forces to stage the exhibition Anselm Kiefer - Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, which will run from 7 March - 9 June 2025. The exhibition brings together twenty-five works by Anselm Kiefer, including paintings, installations, film and works on paper, across the two museums. The presentation at the Van Gogh Museum will demonstrate the enduring influence of Vincent van Gogh on Kiefer’s work. In 1963, Kiefer won a travel scholarship and chose to follow the route taken by Van Gogh, from the Netherlands to Belgium and France. Van Gogh and his work have remained a vital source of inspiration for him. The exhibition presents seven ke ... More Charmaine Watkiss, 'The Warriors Way: safeguarding the imperishable spirits of nature', 2024. Coffee, water soluble graphite, watercolour, pencil, colour pencil and ink on paper, 76.9 x 56.4cm (30 1/4 x 22 1/4in). Copyright Charmaine Watkiss. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography. LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery presents Reverb, an exhibition bringing together new works by eight leading artists from the Caribbean diaspora: Julien Creuzet, Denzil Forrester, Hulda Guzmán, Suchitra Mattai, Zinzi Minott, Kathia St. Hilaire, Charmaine Watkiss and Alberta Whittle. Comprising paintings, sculptures, mixed media and sound-based works, Reverb foregrounds the significance of contemporary art from the Caribbean region. Drawing on the legacy of Life Between Islands at Tate Britain (2021) and Forecast Form at MCA Chicago (2022), the exhibition takes inspiration ... More Evelyn Taocheng Wang, 2024, Photo: Sol Archer, © Evelyn Taocheng Wang. COLOGNE.- Evelyn Taocheng Wang (born 1981 in Chengdu, China; lives in Rotterdam) will be honoured with the 31st Wolfgang Hahn Prize of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, 7 November 2025 at 18:30 during Art Cologne at Museum Ludwig. In her drawings, paintings, video works, installations and performances, Wang combines personal memories and fantasies with universal themes such as identity, authenticity and ethnicity. Her work is influenced by traditional Chinese as well as Western modern and contemporary art. She also draws on content from classical fairy tales, colonial history and queer theory. She translates research findings and historiography into painting and drawing in fluid transitions using minimalism, conceptual ... More Path To Nine More News First major exhibition to explore the inseparable histories of modern abstraction and 20th-century textiles OTTAWA.- A new major exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada opens up an undiscovered chapter of art history: Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. The exhibition explores the inseparable histories of modern abstraction and 20th-century textiles, specifically the changing relationship between abstract art, fashion, design and craft over the last 70 years. Some 130 works – including painting, photography, clothing, textiles, drawing, basketry and sculpture – by more than 45 creators spanning generations and continents are put into dialogue. Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Jeffrey Gibson, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin and Rosemarie Trockel are among the artists whose works are on display in the show. Women artists are particularly well represented in the exhibition, as are artists working outside established arts centres. Woven ... More The 60th Venice Biennale ended with over 250,000 visitors to the Pavilion of Finland VENICE.- The 60th Venice Art Biennale ended on Sunday 24 November. Finland's Aalto Pavilion presented the exhibition The pleasures we choose by artists Pia Lindman, Vidha Saumya, Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, curators Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela, and architectural designer Kaisa Sööt. The exhibition was commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland. The Pavilion of Finland welcomed nearly 255,000 visitors in the seven months it was open. Altogether, the 60th Venice Biennale, running from April to November, attracted over 700,000 visitors, making it the second most visited edition in its history. Additionally, 28,000 guests visited the biennale preview in April, including 4,289 accredited journalists. According to the Biennale, a share of 59% of the public came from abroad, and 41% from Italy. "We ... More 15th edition of the Gwangju Biennale closes GWANGJU.- The 15th Gwangju Biennale, titled Pansori: a soundscape of the 21st century, concluded its 86-day journey with a closing ceremony on December 1. Pansori: a soundscape of the 21st century expanded the exhibition space to include Yangnim-dong area in addition to the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, featuring 31 pavilions, where visitors could experience contemporary art from different countries and institutions, transforming the entire Gwangju region into a hub of artistic and cultural scene. The 15th Gwangju Biennale attracted approximately 700,000 visitors from September 7 to December 1. Visitor satisfaction for this edition of the Gwangju Biennale was very high, with an overall satisfaction rate of 81.7%, the highest ever recorded for the Biennale, and a 5.8% increase over the 14th edition. Curated by Nicolas ... More Spike Island announces exhibitions and commissions 2025-26 BRISTOL .- Spike Island presents Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, a new moving image commission and exhibition by Dan Guthrie. Guthrie’s practice explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness, with a particular interest in examining how these manifest in rural areas. His latest commission continues his ongoing exploration of the Blackboy Clock, an object of contested heritage on public display in his hometown of Stroud, Gloucestershire. Guthrie’s exhibition presents two newly commissioned videos that put forward the ‘radical un-conservation’ of the clock—a new theoretical concept proposed by Guthrie to describe the acquisition of an object with the express intent to destroy it. Central to this new body of work are questions about what society chooses to memorialise and how we do so. Spike Island presents a new moving image commission and exhibition by Danielle Dean. The exhibition centres around Hemel, a ... More Ginta Tinte Vasermane, Eye's Artist in Residence, presents video installation and film programme AMSTERDAM.- Eye Filmmuseum offers a week-long platform to Artist in Residence 2024 Ginta Tinte Vasermane. Her latest multichannel video installation Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast will be ceremonially unveiled on 3 December, accompanied by a performance and an artist talk. A selection of silent slapstick and vaudeville films chosen by her from Eye’s extensive collection can be seen on Eye Film Player from 2 December. From 2 to 9 December, Eye Filmmuseum presents the multichannel video installation Formed by the Gaze, Twisted by the Beast developed by Ginta Tinte Vasermane (Latvia/Netherlands) during her residency at Eye. For this installation, Vasermane drew inspiration from the extensive collection of silent slapstick and vaudeville films held by Eye, particularly those silent films with an anarchic ... More Ruth Patir's (M)otherland acquired by the Jewish Museum NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum announced today that it is acquiring (M)otherland, a video installation by Ruth Patir originally created for the Israel Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Comprising a series of videos featuring digitally animated Iron Age fertility goddesses, the work brings together ancient archaeology and advanced imaging technologies to reflect on the complex intersection of gender, motherhood, and the tensions surrounding fertility and reproductive rights in today’s world. The work will premiere at the Tel Aviv Museum in March 2025 and will go on view at the Jewish Museum following the reinstallation of its collection galleries, currently in progress as part of a broader reinvention of the Museum’s third and fourth floors slated for completion in the fall of 2025. Originally conceived for and installed in the Israel Pavilion ... More 'Louise Kames: I Don't See Anything That's Not Beautiful' opens at the Figge Art Museum DAVENPORT, IOWA.- A new exhibition opened at the Figge Art Museum. Louise Kames: I Don’t See Anything That’s Not Beautiful invites viewers to explore themes of deterioration and transformation through Kames’s reflective drawings, prints, and installations The exhibition offers an opportunity for contemplation inspired by nature and personal histories. Kames, an artist and art professor from Dubuque, Iowa draws upon her own experiences and relationships to reflect on the impacts of memory loss and the beauty found in everyday acts. Kames encounters with a woman with dementia, who ritualistically gathered sticks and leaves into piles to “beautify the landscape” and soothe her mind, inspired one of the series I Don’t See Anything That’s Not Beautiful. The series includes charcoal and pastel drawings, screen prints on fabric, ... More PICA unveils expansive 2025 program PERTH.- The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) today unveils its extraordinary 2025 artistic program – presenting over 200 of the most exciting contemporary artists working today in a series of major new commissions, pillar annual showcases, provocative performances, and growing international studio program. PICA is at the vanguard of producing and presenting contemporary arts in Western Australia. Its 2025 program highlights the organisation’s unwavering commitment to nurturing emerging artistic talent, diverse voices and new ideas, and creating challenging art experiences than engage contemporary audiences looking for authentic experiences. ‘Our 2025 program is a celebration of connection – between people, place and culture,’ says PICA’s Director/CEO Hannah Mathews. With Revealed now taking ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, American painter Gilbert Stuart was born December 03, 1755. Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island. In this image: Former President George W. Bush (L) and Mrs. Laura Bush (C) receive a tour of the Gilbert Stuart exhibition from Rusty Powell, director of the National Gallery of Art, during a visit Monday, July 25, 2005 in Washington D.C. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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