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Jamea Richmond-Edwards, This Water Runs Deep, 2022. Mixed-media and collage on canvas, with recorded sound. 96 x 180 in. (243.8 x 457.2 cm). Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art © Jamea Richmond-Edwards, courtesy the artist and Kravets Wehby Gallery. Photo: Cortney Leatherwood.
JACKSON MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art opened A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, which explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural life of the United States from historical and personal perspectives. Co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), the exhibition features newly commissioned works across media by 12 acclaimed artists, including Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr, Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. Through the artists distinct and dynamic installations, A Movement in Every Direction reveals anew the spectrum of contexts that shaped the Great Migration and explores the ways in which it continues to reverberate today in both intimate and communal experiences. The exhibition will be open at the MMA through Septembe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is presenting Articulating Activism: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection. Predominantly drawn from their Art and Social Justice Collection, which began in 2015, this branch of the collection celebrates the prescience and power of art at this particular location and moment in history.
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| More than 50 rarely seen works celebrate one of the brightest luminaries in the history of art | | Germany reckons with Wagner: Cultural jewel, or national shame? | | New York lets 'Fearless Girl' hold her ground, for now |
J. F. Voet, Maria Isabella Capranica Cerri, inv. 1301.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is presenting Bernini and the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, an exhibition which ¬¬-celebrates the rich spectrum of genres and pictorial styles that characterize Baroque aesthetics and illuminates the influence of Giovan Lorenzo Bernini within the movement. Bernini and the Roman Baroque is on view at the MFA from February 12 through May 8, 2022. Reflecting an artistic energy that pulsated throughout Europe and inspired architects, artists, and urban planners across the globe, Bernini and the Roman Baroque embodies the magnificence and innovation that transformed Rome into the capital of the art world for centuries. "This fascinating exhibition highlights Berninis brilliance during the Baroque period, noted Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Stanton Thomas, PhD. Artworks are included not only by Bernini himselfembodying ... More | |
A new exhibition at the countrys national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer.
by Ben Miller
BERLIN.- Few composers inspire such a mix of appreciation and disgust as Richard Wagner. Especially in Germany where Wagners work is understood as a combination of national cultural jewel and national political embarrassment the composers work is laden with meaning and interpretation. Along with his music dramas, Wagners legacy includes his antisemitic and nationalist political writings, and the Nazi dictatorship celebrated his musical works as a symbol of the pure German culture they hoped to promote. Hitler was a regular at the Wagner festival at Bayreuth, where he was welcomed warmly by the composers descendants, and the regime used Wagners music in rallies and at official events. You cant have a naive and beautiful production of a Wagner ... More | |
Officials voted to extend the sculptures permit but are requiring stakeholders to return in six months with plans for a permanent location. Hilary Swift/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The popular Fearless Girl sculpture will continue to stand outside the New York Stock Exchange after city officials voted Monday to extend the sculptures temporary permit for 11 months. This decision comes with the stipulation that the city, the owner of the sculpture and the artist return in six months with a process for deciding the artworks ultimate fate. Although the vote has resolved worries in the short term, critics continue to question how the bronze sculpture circumvented the citys normal public art process for five years. Critics also question why its hedge-fund sponsor, State Street Global Advisors, they say, tried to sideline the sculptures creator in discussions about the sculptures ... More |
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| After upheaval, MOCA bets on Johanna Burton to bring stability | | Heritage Auctions' sold-out Comic Book & Comic Art Auction tops $27.67 million to set record | | SFMOMA presents immersive spring exhibitions |
Johanna Burton, the director of the the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, outside the museum on March 11, 2022. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney and Robin Pogrebin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, with its enviable collection, has long been a symbol of Californias flourishing arts scene, and it helped spur the resurgence of a once-barren patch of downtown Los Angeles. But waves of management upheaval have damaged its reputation and raised questions about its prospects at a time when arts groups all over the country are struggling to regain their footing after the disruptions of the pandemic. Now, the future of MOCA which once set the pace here and in much of the country in collecting and displaying contemporary art rests on a somewhat unlikely savior: Johanna Burton, who was named director in September amid the latest spasm of organizational turmoil. Her path to becoming the museums first female director since its founding in 1979 was unusual. Burton was brought ... More | |
Jack Kirby and Chic Stone Tales of Suspense #59 Captain America Splash Page 1 Original Art (Marvel, 1964). Sold on Apr 7, 2022 for: $630,000.
DALLAS, TX.- On Thursday Heritage Auctions kicked off its April 7-10 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction with a few record-setting, international headline-making marvels starring Captain America and the Fantastic Four. And by the time the auction closed late Sunday, it had realized a staggering $27,674,844. This was, by far, the most successful comics auction ever held. The four-day event was, in every sense, a tale to astonish: Nearly 6,000 bidders from around the world participated in the auction. Every single one of the 1,766 lots offered was sold every historic issue, every singular work of art, every ephemeral keepsake (including Warren Publishings accounting ledger spanning 1968-1972!). The final number was split almost evenly between comic books and original art. No auction has ever before approached the $14,040,290 realized by the art alone sold during the four-day event. Interest in vintage comics and comic art is at an a ... More | |
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Room #8, 200618 (detail); collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund with additional support from Pam Kramlich and Kim Anstatt Morton; the Ruth Nash Fund; and purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim; © Lynn Hershman Leeson; photo: Franz Wamhof; courtesy the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A thought-provoking range of exhibitions debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this spring, inspiring new ways to see and engage with the world. The role of an architect in the age of climate change is examined in the exclusive exhibition Nature à Humanity: Oxman Architects, with works that upend the architectural legacy of a human-centered built environment and reprioritize nature. Shifting the Silence highlights dynamic juxtapositions of works from 32 women artists that explore visual culture and enhance our understanding of the art of our time. Drawing from scientific research and technology, Speculative Portraits expands on ideas of portraiture, identity and human presence from the viewpoints of several contemporary artists. For the full ... More |
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| Serge Attukwei Clottey joins Simon Lee Gallery | | ARKEN Museum of Modern Art presents a new and experimental exhibition format with Deniz Eroglu | | Museum presents major exhibition of work by Abstract painter Sean Scully |
Portrait of the artist. Photo: Stefan Simchowitz
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery announced its representation of Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey. The art of Serge Attukwei Clottey (b. 1986, Ghana) primarily employs found materials from the artists hometown in Accra, Ghana in order to create a dialogue with the citys cultural history and identity. Utilising everyday objects such as discarded Kufuor gallons, car tyres, and recycling boat wood as his canvas, Clottey inscribes patterns and text that uplift the miscellaneous materials into symbols of Ghanas vernacular economic system of trade and reuse. The celebration of the yellow gallon containers (initially used as cooking oil canisters and then recycled to collect water or fuel) applied throughout Clotteys work, stems from a desire to find ways to inspire people to work with plastics and recycle it in creative ways. This has become a prominent motif throughout Clotteys oeuvre, and the artist ... More | |
Deniz Eroglu, Grandfathers Keychains, 2021 (detail). Part of the exhibition Souvenirs. Photo: David Stjernholm.
ISHÃJ.- ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, south of Copenhagen, is presenting a new and experimental exhibition format with the artist Deniz Eroglu. The keys to a satellite space of the museum a commercial retail space in a shopping mall in the suburb of Ishøj, outside of Copenhagen have been handed over to the artist Deniz Eroglu for one year. Here, in the most culturally diverse municipality in Denmark, Eroglu has created an experimental exhibition in the form of a souvenir shop containing wares that convey the characteristics of the local area. To become self-employed is a common emancipation strategy for many diaspora communities across the world. As an immigrant in Denmark in the late 1970s, Eroglus father ran a short-lived store specializing in Turkish antiquities. Eroglu considers his exhibition ... More | |
"Uist," 1991, by Sean Scully. Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches. Private Collection, Courtesy of Beaumont Nathan Art Advisory. Image courtesy of the artist. © Sean Scully.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This comprehensive fifty-year survey exhibition features the artists most significant works from the 1970s to the present to closely examine his contribution to the history of abstract art and his mastery of technique by focusing on the various mediums, motifs, and scales that have defined the artists practice over time. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas centers on paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels, demonstrating the integral relationships between works in various media, which are rarely exhibited together. Scully (American, born in Ireland in 1945) is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim ... More |
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| Exhibition of new works by Melinda Braathen on view at Baert Gallery | | The TextielMuseum reveals the world behind textile dyeing in new exhibition | | Exhibition includes young artists who push boundaries in the depth of their art |
The works in the show stem from the artists intention to utilize paints unique properties to freeze and transform moments of daily life so as to showcase the hidden properties and sensory currents running through their fiber.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Baert Gallery is presenting Currents, an exhibition of new works by Melinda Braathen. In both her paintings and drawings, Braathen seamlessly transitions between elements of skillful figuration and expressively ambient abstraction. This blending of genres, traditions, and technique imbues her work with a unique sensibility that melds close observation of nature and human dynamics with theatricality and acute emotional attunement. Braathens work stills and materializes the flux of lifes constant becoming into a bodied abstraction of meditative paint swirled in masterful grooves of balanced coloration. The works in the show stem from the artists intention to utilize paints unique properties to ... More | |
We don't often think about it, but textile dyeing has an immense environmental and social impact.
TILBURG.- From the sofa you sit on to the clothes you wear, textiles are everywhere and are always dyed. The TextielMuseum presents the exhibition To Dye For in which visitors dive into the origins of and stories behind the dyes in our textiles, based on old and new art, fashion and design. In the exhibition, which is suitable for all ages, the museum explores the dyeing process and the beauty and dilemmas of colour in textiles. Textile dyes have an immense impact on human and environmental health. The exhibition explores the challenges of textile dyeing and various solutions developed by artisans, designers, scientists and artists past and present. The exhibition presents a wide range of fashion, art and design objects with dyed or coloured textiles, both from the museums collection as well as new works by international artists and designers. The exhibition is all about dyes that set your senses on edge. ... More | |
Fabien Adèle, Meeting, 2022 - Oil on linen, 162 x 130 cm, 64 x 51 1/2 in / © Fabien Adèle - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
LONDON.- Almine Rech is presenting the group show Messages from the 6th Dimension organised in collaboration with Hilde Lynn Helphenstein. This exhibition includes young artists who push boundaries in the depth of their art. The exhibition showcases talented artists Fabien Adéle, Lilah Rose, and Hiba Schahbaz. Fabien Adèle's ethereal works use aspects of surrealism to convey memories and vivid emotions. The cohesive contrast between the statuesque figures that are notable in Adèle's works and their surrounding environments makes both aspects more whole and interdependent. These figures are akin to living stalagmites and reflect their intricate properties and impressive appearance. By painting them from behind or avoiding a direct confrontation, we interpret their feelings in ways that relate to us best. Lilah Rose's mesmerising, textured works ... More |
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Christie's announces successful placement of the papers of Richard N. Goodwin
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the successful placement of the Papers of Richard N. Goodwin at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. The Papers of Richard N. Goodwin chronicle the life and work of one of the most influential voices of the 1960s, a man who shaped policy and wrote iconic speeches for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy. Christies negotiated the sale of this important archive on behalf of Goodwins wife, the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Now, these manuscripts, typescripts, and other documents will be kept in the city that is also home to the LBJ Presidential Library. Kearns Goodwin has donated her archive to the Briscoe Center. Richard Goodwin is best remembered as one of the premier speechwriters of the 20th ... More
Christie's to offer the Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison
LONDON.- Christies announced The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship, which will be offered in a live sale on 25 May 2022. Hugely respected within the world of banking and the arts, Sir Nicholas Goodison (1934-2021) was a businessman, patron of the arts, scholar, philanthropist and polymath. The Chairman of the Stock Exchange (1976-1986), for which he was knighted in 1982, Sir Nicholas Goodison was also Chairman of TSB Group (1988-1995), and deputy chair of Lloyds TSB (1995-2000). He chaired an impressive array of important cultural institutions including the Courtauld (1982-2002), the Art Fund (1986-2002) and the Crafts Council (19972005). Comprising approximately 250 lots, his collection spans: Modern British Art & Sculpture; Modern & Contemporary Ceramics ... More
Renowned Harned Collection to shine at Heritage Auctions art glass event
DALLAS, TX.- Property from the Collection of Jeep & Carla Harned, an assemblage well known to collectors of Art Glass, will grab a share of the spotlight in Heritage Auctions Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass Including Art Nouveau & Art Deco Signature® Auction April 28. A titan of the recording industry, Grover Cleveland Jeep Harned founded Music Centers Incorporated in 1955 and spent more than 25 years designing and manufacturing the highest-quality audio equipment on the market. His passion for technology and innovation was evident not only in his professional endeavors but also his decades-long pursuit of Art Glass, which led him to galleries, estate sales and auctions across the county. Jeep and his wife Carla, who eventually settled in Durango, Colo., amassed one of the finest collections of Art Glass, especially strong ... More
First exhibition of emerging British artists goes on display at the British Museum
LONDON.- In a first for the British Museum, a series of exciting new acquisitions by emerging British artists, is the focus of a new exhibition. Drawing attention: emerging British artists exhibits more than 20 new acquisitions by contemporary emerging artists many of which have never been displayed before. These artists have lived, studied, or worked in the UK, and their work is being displayed alongside drawings by renowned figures including Michelangelo and Andy Warhol. Twenty-four works, acquired with the support of an Art Fund New Collecting Award, showcase innovative new approaches, methods and materials, with the emerging artists using mediums ranging from make-up on a facial wipe to coloured pencil on paper, experimenting with the boundaries of what a drawing can be. Drawing attention is free to visit from 17 March ... More
'Birthday Candles' review: Another year, another cake, another profundity
NEW YORK, NY.- Repetition can make magic happen: repeat a word or a phrase enough times and it breathes new life, fresh meaning. Or repetition can strip language until all thats left are empty rhythms and sounds. Words are funny like that. Noah Haidles Birthday Candles, which opened on Broadway Sunday night at the American Airlines Theater, tries to build poignancy and depth through moments that repeat like a record needle stuck in a groove. Instead, this Roundabout Theater Company production gets caught in a superficial cycle of wannabe profundities and emotional pantomimes. I am a rebel against the universe. I will wage war with the everyday. I am going to surprise God! So declares the precocious 17-year-old Ernestine (Debra Messing) as the show opens. Its her birthday, and her mother (Susannah Flood) ... More
Dance Theater of Harlem's soulful ballet to Stevie Wonder
NEW YORK, NY.- Dance is perfectly capable of saying something all by itself, but music can help. Sung lyrics are more perilous, introducing the threat of literalism, yet the combination of dance and words, handled right, can heighten meaning. One example: Robert Garlands intensely affecting Higher Ground, which had its New York premiere this past week when Dance Theater of Harlem returned to New York City Center. Garland, the companys resident choreographer, has chosen six songs from the 1970s catalog of Stevie Wonder. This was a period in which Wonders musical genius was exploding, his astonishing creativity fueled by outrage at racial injustice, which he addressed directly in his lyrics. Just the titles of Garlands first three selections convey the gist: Look Around, You Havent Done Nothin, Heaven ... More
Outspoken composer to lead international contemporary ensemble
NEW YORK, NY.- A composer and scholar who has spoken forcefully about the exclusion of Black artists from experimental music will lead the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble, the group announced Friday. George Lewis, a professor of music at Columbia University known for his groundbreaking work in electronics, will take the helm as artistic director later this month. Lewis, 69, a trombonist and frequent collaborator with the ensemble, will be the first Black leader in its 21-year history. He said in an interview that he hoped to bring more of a multicultural focus to one of New Yorks premier new music groups and to feature a wider variety of artists. Im looking to bring newer people who happen to have great ideas, but who might be overlooked by other ensembles or institutions, to the forefront so they can ... More
Jack Higgins, author of 'The Eagle Has Landed,' dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Higgins, the author of dozens of bestselling adventure novels, most notably The Eagle Has Landed, a hugely popular tale about a band of German commandos who infiltrate Britain to try to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, died Saturday at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey. He was 92. His death was announced on Twitter by the British division of HarperCollins, which did not specify the cause. Featuring Irish gunmen, international spies and assassins, smugglers and other colorful protagonists, including gorgeous women, Higgins novels have sold an estimated 250 million copies worldwide and have been translated into about 55 languages. From 1959, when his first book was published, until the mid-1970s, he gradually built a fan base and earned the respect ... More
'Kinky Boots' sets summer return off-Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- The sex is back in the heel. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced Thursday that an off-Broadway revival of Kinky Boots, the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein collaboration that won the Tony Award for best new musical in 2013, would begin performances at the theater in July. The revival at the 499-seat Shubert theater is set to be directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell (La Cage aux Folles, Legally Blonde), who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production, which won him his second Tony for choreography. The feel-good musical tells the story of a young Englishman, Charlie Price, who attempts to save his familys shoe factory by making boots for drag performers. The Broadway production which starred Stark Sands as Price and Billy Porter as drag queen Lola, a performance ... More
Sworders announces results of sale of Modern and Contemporary art
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A drawing by the only female founder of the British Pop Art movement powered to £7,150 at Sworders sale of Modern and Contemporary art on April 5. Works by Pauline Boty (1938-1966), who died aged just 28, are very rare: fewer than 100 are thought to have survived. This pencil in paper, drawn with the clean, solid lines characteristic of British Pop Art, depicts the artists husband, Clive Goodwin, reclining in a moment of sleepy repose. It dates from c.1963 shortly after they had married following a whirlwind romance. Born in South London in 1938, Boty grew up in a conservative Catholic family. With the support of her mother (whose artistic ambitions had been thwarted by her parents) she won a scholarship to Wimbledon School of Art studying alongside Robyn Denny and Bridget Riley in 1957 ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Robert Delaunay was born April 12, 1885. Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 - 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone. In this image: Robert Delaunay (1885-1941). Hommage à Blériot, 1914. Kunstmuseum Basel. Leimtempera auf Leinwand. HxB : 250 x 250 cm. Photo : Martin P. Bühler © L&M Services B.V.
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