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Boca Raton Museum Presents Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection

From the “Young Americans” series by Sheila Pree Bright: “Shanae Rowland” (2007), and “Shawn Ole T. Evangelista” (2006). Chromogenic prints, from the Doug McCraw Collection.

BOCA RATON FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents Myths, Secrets, Lies, and Truths: Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection featuring five artists: Sheila Pree Bright, Liesa Cole, Karen Graffeo, Spider Martin and Hank Willis Thomas (June 12 ‒ Oct. 13). The artists explore themes of survival, concealment, exploitation, and race. “These five distinct voices illuminate many aspects of life," says Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Museum. "Our thanks to Doug McCraw who has built an extraordinary and stimulating collection that will facilitate insightful conversations.” Doug McCraw is the co-founder of one of South Florida’s cultural gems: the FATVillage Arts District which promotes creativity, artist residences, exhibitions, and education. The exhibition was curated ... More


The Best Photos of the Day
Best Photos of the Day
Exhibition views of Dans la lumière by JR at Perrotin Paris, 2024. © Photo: Claire Dorn © JR / Courtesy Perrotin.





Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas opens major show at Tramway   Gagosian presents wall works by Donald Judd in Basel   JR opens his fourth exhibition at Perrotin Paris


Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding is an exhibition of work by artist Delaine Le Bas (1965) presented within an immersive, textile installation.

GLASGOW.- Tramway announced their latest exhibition with Turner Prize nominated Delaine Le Bas is now open. Le Bas was recently nominated for the Turner Prize 2024 for her presentation Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning at Secession, Vienna. The announcement adds another layer of excitement to the exhibition ... More
 


Donald Judd, Untitled, 1991. Clear anodized aluminum with amber over yellow plexiglass, 9 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches (25 x 100 x 25 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy Gagosian.

BASEL.- Gagosian announced an exhibition of works by Donald Judd on view now at the Basel gallery. Ten single-unit, wall-mounted works made by the artist in Switzerland between 1987 and 1991 are on view. Each work measures 25 × 100 ... More
 


JR, Dans la lumière #4, 2024. Ink on wook, charcoal, oak frame. © JR. Courtesy Perrotin.

PARIS.- The gallery is presenting Dans La Lumière, JR's fourth exhibition at Perrotin Paris and his thirteenth with Perrotin. The exhibition presents a series of recent works in line with the CHIROPTERA project created specially for the Opéra de Paris in November 2023. On this occasion, JR has invited Thomas Bangalter to present a sound installation in Saint-Claude from June 7 to 15. In his ... More


The Portland Art Museum presents 'Monet to Matisse: French Moderns'   Thames & Hudson to release 'The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935'   Christie's announces London Summer Season sales


Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Madame Boursier and Her Daughter, circa 1873. Oil on canvas, 29 5/16 x 22 3/8 in. (74.5 x 56.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 29.30. (Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum).

PORTLAND, OR.- On view at the Portland Art Museum this summer from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of ... More
 


The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935. By Sjeng Scheijen. Publication by Thames & Hudson: 16 May 2024 (UK), 28 May (USA) 504 pp, 128 illustrations, 23.4 × 15.3 cm, £35.00 hardback.

LONDON.- A gripping, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art. October 1917. The Russian Revolution has wiped the old tsarist empire off the map. Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, ... More
 


Marc Chagall, Lune-visage, 1968 © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.

LONDON.- Christie’s King Street is a vibrant and compelling destination during the peak Summer Season in the capital. Following the success of their recent 20/21 sales in London in March, they are making some exciting changes to their programme. The re-envisioned Summer Season reflects the creativity and energy of our city and includes Post-War to Present (Live and Online), featuring artist-donated works ... More


University Archives announces highlights included in online-only auction, June 26th   James Cohan now represents Kennedy Yanko   MOA reopens to the public following successful completion of seismic upgrades of iconic Great Hall


Original Walt Disney Studios animation cels, inscribed and signed by Walt Disney on Guthrie Courvoisier mats, used during the production of the 1952 short film Pluto’s Christmas Party (each est. $4,500-$6,000).

WILTON, CONN.- A carte de visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln signed by him less than three weeks before his assassination, the lyrics of the song Tangled Up in Blue written in Bob Dylan’s hand and signed by him at the bottom, and a document in Russian signed by Peter the Great from 1717 are a few of the expected highlights in ... More
 


Yanko’s work is currently on view in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY and The Beauty of Diversity at the Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria. Photo by Jesse Frohman.

NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of Kennedy Yanko in collaboration with Salon 94. Working with paint skins and found metal, Kennedy Yanko constructs sublime sculptures and architecturally scaled installations that defy the limits of their own materiality. Steeped in the visual language of Abstract ... More
 


Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC lit up at night prior to demolition for seismic upgrades, December 2020. Photo by Michael Elkan.

VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Anthropology at UBC will reopen its doors to the public on June 13, 2024 at 5pm, following an 18-month closure that saw the successful completion of cutting-edge seismic upgrades to its Great Hall, coupled with the revitalization and reinterpretation of displays of Northwest Coast Indigenous carvings, poles, weavings and other works from the past and ... More


Casey Kaplan now representing Sydney Cain   Lost Edward Bawden comes to light after 80 years   Dynamic group exhibition examines an often overlooked artistic language


Sydney Cain, Land Circuits I, 2024, Acrylic, steel, pigment, soft pastel and copper on wood, 60 x 48" / 152.4 x 121.9 cm. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.

NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan announced representation of Sydney Cain. Sydney Cain (b. 1991, San Francisco, CA) wields carbon-based and mineral materials like charcoal, powdered metals, graphite, chalk, and pigments on wood or paper to map the evolution of African diasporic histories and rebuild narratives within a reverential refuge. By mining space for ancestral ... More
 


Brick House by Edward Bawden.

LONDON.- A rare watercolour by Edward Bawden, lost since the 1940s, has come to light at Olympia Auctions, London, where it will be included in a sale of Fine Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture on Wednesday 12 June, 2024. Entitled “The universe is infinitely wide”, it is estimated to fetch £5,000-7,000. Edward Bawden (1903-89) is widely admired today as an illustrator and printmaker, but until recently, his role in the 1930s as a critically-acclaimed modern painter, has been ... More
 


Sally Saul, Bewildered, 2022. Clay and glaze; 25 x 11 1/4 x 7 in (63.5 x 28.5 x 18 cm). Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.

DALLAS, TX.- Dallas Contemporary is presenting Who’s Afraid of Cartoony Figuration?. The multi-dimensional group exhibition, curated by Adjunct Curator Alison M. Gingeras, presents works by artists Karolina Jabłońska, Sally Saul, Tabboo! and Umar Rashid that dare to mix the levity of cartoons, comics, and commercial illustration with some of the most pressing socio- ... More


Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction at Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side



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Building upgrades for Brett Whiteley Studio as exhibition tour starts in July
SYDNEY.- As the Brett Whiteley Studio approaches its 30th anniversary in 2025, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is planning building upgrades to secure the Studio’s ongoing life as a celebrated museum both nationally and internationally. Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG), the proposed alterations and additions within the existing building footprint will address age-related deterioration, artwork conservation requirements and improved accessibility, including the addition of a lift, new staircase and accessible toilets. A key component of the capital works is a new purpose-built roof encasing plant and mechanical equipment to ensure a controlled interior environment for the long-term care and management of important works by Brett Whiteley. The former Surry Hills warehouse served as Brett Whiteley's studio from 1985 ... More


Swann to offer illustration art featuring highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer
NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2024 Illustration Art sale at Swann Galleries will take place on Thursday, June 20. The auction showcases an exceptional selection of original artworks spanning various media, including magazines, books, cartoons, postcards, posters, costume and scenic design, and animation. The sale also features a section dedicated to highlights from the collection of American cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer. Works of note from the collection of Jules Feiffer include a special selection of original works by notable comic and graphic novel artists, including Will Eisner with “The manly art of self defense,” 1940section cover art for The Spirit ($40,000-50,000), as well as two full page comic illustrations for The Spirit by Eisner ($2,500-3,500, apiece). Frank Miller is featured with “The Bling Leading the Blind,” 1979, a comic book ... More


Jean-Philippe Allard, jazz producer and musicians' advocate, dies at 67
NEW YORK, NY.- Jean-Philippe Allard, a French record executive and producer who helped revive the careers of jazz greats who had been all but forgotten in the United States, and who earned a reputation for uncommonly fierce advocacy on behalf of musicians, died May 17 in Paris. He was 67. Music producer Brian Bacchus, a close friend and frequent collaborator, said Allard died in a hospital from cancer, which had returned after a long remission. Artists ranging from Abbey Lincoln to Juliette Gréco to Kenny Barron said they had never worked with a more musician-friendly producer. “Regarding my work, I would always consider it as co-producing with the artist,” Allard told music journalist Willard Jenkins in an interview in March. “Some producers are musicians or arrangers, like Teo Maceo or Larry Klein; others are engineers; some ... More


Jorge Pardo sculpture installation opens at Landcraft Gardens
MATTITUCK, NY.- The Landcraft Garden Foundation announces the 2024 season of Sculpture in the Garden featuring the work of acclaimed Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo. The 4th annual outdoor exhibition is on view at Landcraft Gardens from June 8 through October 26, 2024, and is curated by the internationally–celebrated artist Ugo Rondinone. One of the treasures of the North Fork of Long Island, Landcraft Gardens opened for its fourth season on May 4. Jorge Pardo is internationally known for his sculptures, installations, and paintings that explore their own functionality within architecture and landscape. For Landcraft Gardens, he presents three circular mosaic sculptures and a chaise lounge. Comprised of hundreds of multi-colored ceramic tiles produced in Guadalajara, Mexico, the 8-foot round mosaics have been ... More


Cynthia Hawkins's first solo exhibition at kaufmann repetto opens in Milan
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Wander / Wonder: Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D, Cynthia Hawkins’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, which presents a new body of work, part and parcel of the research she has been carrying on since the 1970s. The American painter explores synergies between abstraction and non-objectivity, in a creative process that moves freely between premeditated composition and improvisation, with the ultimate objective of continually developing her forceful and multilayered vocabulary. She reinvents forms drawn from astrophysics, microbiology, ancient rock painting and mathematics, constructing a new ecosystem of symbols, signs, geometric elements and calligraphic characters. Hawkins holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) with ... More


Daylight to publish 'The Many Pleasures: Found Art in New York City' by Barton Lewis
NEW YORK, NY.- Since 2018, filmmaker and photographer Barton Lewis has photographed urban surfaces altered and transformed by humans, weather, or time on New York City's streets and subways. The Many Pleasures: Found Art in New York City (Daylight Books, Summer, 2024) is a rich collection of images that demonstrates art is everywhere, and for everyone. Lewis's subjects are graffiti, torn advertising posters, stickers, paint, the texture of decay, the contributions of anonymous artists, rips, rain, and sun all combining in color, shape, and meaning. Abstraction and layers expand content and invite metaphor and interpretation from the viewer, and in this way, Lewis is highlighting the collaborative creativity present in everyday life and interactions. The book is divided into two parts, On the Street, and Wall Cuts. On the Street includes ... More


In 'Clipped,' Cleopatra Coleman spreads her wings
NEW YORK, NY.- Cleopatra Coleman began with red, swirling it toward pink with a fine-tipped brush. An oval appeared on the paper, and then smaller marks joined it — ears, eyebrows, a line for a nose. “I always draw this woman,” Coleman said. “I don’t know why.” This was on a bright May morning and Coleman, a star of the FX limited series “Clipped,” which premiered Tuesday on Hulu, was at Happy Medium, an art cafe around the corner from her temporary apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She had passed it on walks with her dog, George, a rescue Yorkiepoo, and had often felt jealous of the customers there at night, on dates. So this morning, on a day off from filming a new series, “Black Rabbit,” she had taken herself on a date. She had even dressed for the occasion, in a thrift-store T-shirt with a New York State Summer School ... More


'What's the point?' Oona Doherty's resonant ambivalence
NEW YORK, NY.- Despite the enormous impact that the pandemic had on dance, few works have emerged that capture the experience. Plenty of pieces have been shaped by isolation and social-distancing rules, but not many have made something of the emotions of lockdown. Oona Doherty’s “Navy Blue,” from 2022, is one, and the feelings it effectively expresses are those of the lucky: dread, helplessness, guilt. At the start of “Navy Blue,” which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, a dozen dancers are lined up, dressed in mandarin-collared workers’ suits, their heads shaking so fast that their faces blur. Mostly they move in loose unison: sinking, crouching, clumping; stumbling, circling, fleeing with nowhere to go. Although the music is Rachmaninoff, big and romantic, the dancers shrink from large gestures, ... More


Photo London announces a new Director for the Tenth edition of the Fair
LONDON.- The Founders of Photo London today announce that the Fair’s Associate Director, Sophie Parker will take on the role of Director. She succeeds Kamiar Maleki who, having served as Director for two editions, has recently stepped down to pursue a range of new projects. The Fair’s Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad said, “We have the highest regard for Sophie Parker and believe she is the ideal person to lead us into our tenth edition and beyond. Sophie has been invaluable to Photo London over the past six years, playing a key part in our gradual recovery from the pandemic and being a major architect of the last two editions of the Fair, which have been widely praised for their curatorial excellence and for their support for the wider international photographic community. A consummate team player ... More


The Frye Art Museum opens a major survey of photographs, video, and large-scale installations by Stephanie Syjuco
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum is presenting Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images, a major survey of photographs, video, and large-scale installations that examine how the camera records and constructs American histories. The exhibition takes its name from Syjuco’s 2021 series of photogravures, which in turn reference poet Audre Lorde’s concept of “afterimages” as images that linger in the mind’s eye, inflicting residual harm long after our initial exposure to them. A centerpiece of the exhibition is the 35-foot-long wall collage Tender, Sifter, Keeper, Center (2024), commissioned by the Frye and created by the artist from research conducted at the Filipino American National Historical Society, located in Seattle. Mining ... More


Obama marks milestone in construction of presidential center
CHICAGO, IL.- As construction projects go, Barack Obama’s presidential center has not been the speediest or the simplest. Far from it. But on Monday, 3,317 days after Obama announced plans to put the facility in Chicago, the former president was in town to celebrate the long-awaited structure reaching its full height, rising 225 feet above the city’s South Side. If all goes according to plan, the center will open to the public in 2026. “When we started this thing, I wasn’t sure it was ever going to get done,” Obama said jokingly before using a black marker to sign a beam that will be installed at the center, where work on the building’s interior wall-framing and plumbing has started. Many Chicagoans celebrated in 2015 when Obama announced that the center would be built in their city, where he worked as a community organizer and won election to the Illinois General Assembly and U.S. Senate. ... More



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Exhibition views of Dans la lumière by JR at Perrotin Paris, 2024. © Photo: Claire Dorn © JR / Courtesy Perrotin.


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On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born
June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as "Constable Country" — which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.

  
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