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A visitor inside the greenhouse at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, which designers transformed with a series of stained-glass panes as part of a garden-wide installation inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffanys work, in Sarasota, Fla. on April 4, 2023. Forty-two works by Tiffany serve as the reference point for the botanical interpretations, which are sprinkled throughout Selby Gardens, a 15-acre oasis on a peninsula jutting into Sarasota Bay. (Michael Adno/The New York Times)
by Joseph B. Treaster
SARASOTA, FLA.- Theyve turned a big gazebo into a huge Tiffany lamp that you can walk through, created Tiffany-style patterns on the ground out of crushed tinted glass, and hung colorful plexiglass-like windows and cutouts of Tiffany flowers among the tropical and subtropical plants. This is not your grandfathers artist in the garden, not the usual sculptures and paintings simply set among the plants. At the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens here on Floridas Gulf Coast, you see a selection of an artists work and then, throughout the gardens, you see botanical interpretations of that work, made by intertwining plants and trees and other materials, often in whimsical ways. The gardens designers call their work horticultural theater, and they go at it as if they were staging a play. We take one art form and turn it into another, said David Berry, the gardens vice president for visitor engagement and the chief curator for the gardens museum. The Tiffany ex ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galerie Gmurzynska premiers a career-spanning solo exhibition, The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last: Mel Ramos, the Gmurzynska selection. Building on two successful prior shows, Galerie Gmurzynska is proud to continue its collaboration with the Ramos estate.
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| Galerie Gmurzynska opens a career-spanning solo exhibition of works by Mel Ramos | | Venus Over Manhattan opens a solo exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Dustin Yellin | | Blum & Poe now presenting 'Handwriting on the Wall' featuring Thornton Dial |
Mel Ramos, Man of Steel, ca.1962.
ZÜRICH .- Galerie Gmurzynska premiers a career-spanning solo exhibition, The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last: Mel Ramos, the Gmurzynska selection. Building on two successful prior shows, Galerie Gmurzynska continues its collaboration with the Ramos estate. Presenting a gallery-curated selection across both Zürich gallery spaces of the artists most iconic works in both sculpture and painting, the show examines how Ramos established himself as one of the premier pop artists who was based in Sacramento, California. Famously meticulous, his exacting painterly technique and generosity as a teacher limited his paintings to count sometimes only three a year. Thus the presentation of four paintings including the historic Man of Steel from 1962 sets this exhibition apart. Eleven sculptures, including the textbook Pop-art icon Chiquita Banana, as well as Ramos celebrated multiples round out the res ... More | |
Dustin Yellin, Spooky Portal, 2023. Collage and acrylic on canvas, 51.5 x 41.5 x 3 inches framed. Courtesy of the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting Dustin Yellin: Cave Painting, a solo exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Dustin Yellin which explores the interconnectivity of the natural world, humans, and our advancing technological landscape. Comprised of a series of new paintings, Cave Painting represents an important shift to painting for the artist whose practice in recent years has focused most notably on sculpture. An illustrated catalogue, published by the gallery, will be released in conjunction with the exhibition. The exhibition runs through June 3. Born in California and raised in Colorado, Yellin is well known for his glass and acrylic life-size sculptures where layers of multi-media collage and paint are overlaid to create visually rich miniature worlds. The sculptural forms encompass both the fantastic ... More | |
Thornton Dial, A Bird Will Try to Hold the Cat (But the Cat Can Slide Out from Under), 1991. Oil on canvas, 75 x 75 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches (190.5 x 190.8 x 4.4 centimeters).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe, in partnership with the Estate of Thornton Dial, is presenting the gallerys first solo exhibition showcasing the work of late artist Thornton Dialhis first major presentation in Los Angeles. Renowned for his innovations, Dial developed an unprecedented style by fusing gestural virtuosity with a spiritual commitment to found materialsa panoply of cast-off goods and items considered valueless or broken. Drawing on traditions not taught in formal institutionsthe yard shows of the American South, patchwork quilting, and the gospel churchhe created a visual and narrative language that reframes important moments in world history and encapsulates the Black experience in the American South during the artists lifetime. The resulting works balance personal, cultural, and ... More |
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| An exhibition proposes alternatives to removing contentious statues | | The Arts Club presents works by Iranian-American srtist Manoucher Yektai | | At these exhibitions, death is a lively subject |
The New York-based artist Sanford Biggers, who saw the Chazen Museums discomfort over showing Thomas Balls The Emancipation Groupas an opportunity to open things up, in his studio in the Bronx on April 13, 2023. The result is re:mancipation, an unorthodox exhibition that combines historical interpretation, close study of objects and open-ended collaboration among artists, professors, students, community members, dancers and more. (Mary Inhea Kang/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2020, as statues of Confederate generals and other contentious historical images were being taken down in many cities, Sanford Biggers, the acclaimed New York-based contemporary artist, and Amy Gilman, the director of the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were watching with keen interest. A year earlier, while visiting the museum, Biggers had encountered a statue by Thomas Ball that depicted Abraham Lincoln standing tall, his outstretched arm hovering ... More | |
Manoucher Yektai, Pink Roses, 1960, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in ; 61 x 76.2 cm © The Estate of Manoucher Yektai. Courtesy the estate and Karma.
LONDON.- Running from 1st May - 3rd September, The Arts Club debuts a solo exhibition of early paintings by acclaimed Iranian-American artist Manoucher Yektai (1921-2019). Made between 1960-1963, the exhibition focuses on key years in this extraordinary artists oeuvre, following his move to New York. Hinting at still-lives, but enveloped in the full breadth of his abstract, impasto, gestural and unconventional paint strokes, the selection celebrates Yektais important place in the history of abstract art of the post-war period, as well as his singular and poetic language. Born in 1921 in Tehran, Yektai studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran until his move to New York in 1945. Shortly after his arrival he entered the Art Students League and studied in the studio of renow ... More | |
In an image provided by the Wellcome Collection, London, A Woman Divided Into Two, Representing Life and Death, 1790-1820, part of the exhibition Death Is Not the End at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. Across the globe, art museums are tackling the subject of death with results that are surprising, poignant and even comic. (Wellcome Collection, London via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It is a journey we all make. But is its destination what Hamlet called the undiscovered country from whose bourn/ No traveler returns merely an abrupt conclusion? Or is it the beginning of another existence? Religious leaders, artists and ordinary people have been grappling with these questions for millenniums. And now several museum exhibitions are doing the same, with results that are surprising, poignant and even comic. According to studies, most people in the world believe in some sort of afterlife, even those who have no specific religious affiliation, said Elena Pakhoutova, senior curator of Himalayan art and the organizer ... More |
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| Exhibition focuses on a selected group of artists from the Helsinki School | | Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, is now presenting the exhibition 'Imran Qureshi: Homecoming' | | Collezione Maramotti presenting 'Ivor Prickett: No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss' |
Sandra Kantanen, Untitled (Rain 1), 2022. Pigment print on archival paper, 60 x 46.5 cm, edition of 5.
BERLIN.- Persons Projects is presenting the group exhibition Refractive Landscapes. The show focuses on a selected group of artists from the Helsinki School who use abstraction as their mutual language in heightening our awareness of environmental changes in our natural surroundings. By using different photographic methods, the presented artworks capture the transformation of light through time and unveil the collective poses of change. Sharing an openness of form as well as a lack of sharpness of lines, the presented works bridge a conceptual dialogue between photography and painting that float on time, not in it. The works of Sandra Kantanen are defined by the harmonic unity when photography merge ... More | |
Imran Qureshi, Scattered, yet together, 2023. Gouache and gold leaf on wasli paper. 52 x 42 cm (20.47 x 16.54 in). Photo: Usman Javaid. © Imran Qureshi.
PARIS.- In the exhibition Homecoming, now open at Thaddaeus Ropac until June 3rd, 2023, artist Imran Qureshi presents the most recent iteration of his miniature painting practice. Mesmerising landscapes, which sometimes hint at a human presence, will be on view, poised between refined technique and an ever-growing sense of artistic freedom, which is palpable in the new paintings. They will be accompanied by works in which fragments of intricately painted landscapes in the style and palette of the artists miniatures are woven into map-like compositions, reworking past motifs in what Imran Qureshi describes as his artistic look back at my own journey through ... More | |
Ivor Prickett, 2007, Rtanj, Serbia. Fotografia dalla serie / Photography from the series Returning Home Croatia. Courtesy and © Ivor Prickett. (Photo 1)
EMILIA-ROMAGNA.- In conjunction with the 2023 Fotografia Europea festival, titled Europe Matters: Visions of a Restless Identity, Collezione Maramotti is presenting No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss, the first Italian exhibition by photojournalist Ivor Prickett. With over fifty photographs taken in conflict zones from 2006 to 2022, No Home from War is the largest show of Pricketts work to date. After studying Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, Prickett began working in Europe and the Middle East, striving to convey and denounce the effects of war on the civilian population on the people whose lives it ravages and uproots ... More |
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| Writers, seeking pay change for the streaming era, prepare to strike | | A Must-see event: Tune in to the greatest auction of television history at Heritage in June | | Miles McEnery Gallery now representing Rosson Crow |
Ticket holders wait in line to see the "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", while members of the Writers Guild protest outside the theater in New York, Jan. 7, 2008. In the 16 years since the entertainment industrys last strike, sweeping technological change has upended the television and movie business. (Annie Tritt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When the most recent Hollywood strike took place 16 years ago the internet had not yet transformed the television and movie businesses. Broadcast networks still commanded colossal audiences, and cable channels were still growing. The superhero boom had begun for movie studios, and DVDs generated $16 billion in annual sales. Since then, galloping technological change has upended Hollywood in ways that few could have imagined. Traditional television is on viewership life support. Movie studios, stung by poor ticket sales for dramas and comedies, have retreated almost entirely to franchise spectacles. The DVD business is over; Netflix will ship its last little silver discs on Sept. 29. Its a streaming world now. The pandemic sped up the shift. What has not changed ... More | |
Adam West "Batman" and Burt Ward "Robin" Hero Crimefighting Costume Ensembles from Batman (ABC TV, 1966-1968).
DALLAS, TX.- It began simply enough in 1989, with two hand-painted title cards from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson that appeared before commercial breaks and promised "More to Come." These were the first of more than 10,000 artifacts James Comisar acquired over more than three decades of collecting and conserving, restoring and protecting television history. More to come. No kidding. Comisar spent decades and millions of dollars gathering decades' worth of sets, props and costumes spanning the medium's birth to its Golden Age to the era of Peak TV from Howdy Doody to Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy to Star Trek, Bewitched to I Dream of Jeannie, The Office to ER, Moonlighting to Mad Men, All in the Family to Breaking Bad. He assembled enough material to fill the television history museum he long dreamed of opening. But after decades of trying to establish that museum to no avail, Comisar came to a difficult decision: If these TV ... More | |
Her inaugural solo exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery will open in May 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Los Angeles-based painter Rosson Crow is situated in the school of contemporary West Coast painting. Rendered in oil, acrylic, and photo transfer, her distinctly Californian compositions are hyper saturated in both palette and Crows own lexicon of cultural and historical references. Immersive in scale, her works approach canonical history painting with a contemporary wit. Rococo-era parlours ornamented with marble busts and crystal chandeliers turn catastrophic by vegetal overgrowth and flooded floors. Ethereal landscapes are littered with bitten, fleshy fruit, empty soda cans, and overturned antiquities plastered with bumper stickers. Reminders of reality interrupt otherwise utopian scenes, casting a light on todays consumerist excess. Rosson Crow (b. 1982 in Dallas, TX) received her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Center, Cinci ... More |
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Converse Auctions to offer the Willis R. Michael Fine Antique Clock Collection
PAOLI, PA.- The fine antique clock collection of Willis R. Michael (1894-1969), one of the founders of the NAWCC (National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, Inc.), who also served as the groups second president from 1949-1951, will headline Converse Auctions online-only May Antique Auction on Friday, May 19th, beginning at 12 noon Eastern time. Mr. Michaels interest in clocks began in 1937, when he purchased his first grandfather clock in Lancaster, Pa. His collection grew to over 400 clocks and 225 watches. Trained as a tool-and-die maker, he owned a successful specialized tool-and-die company. He was also a Freemason and held leadership positions within the Masons, helping develop the Dudley Masonic pocket watch. The auction will also feature Modern designer and antique furniture ... More
'Azita Moradkhani: The Real Beneath' solo exhibition on view at Jane Lombard Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Iranian-American artist Azita Moradkhanis first solo exhibition in New York, The Real Beneath. The artists work was previously shown at the gallery in last springs group exhibition say the dream was real and the wall imaginary, curated by Joseph R. Wolin. Reflecting upon her own experiences as a woman in both Iran and in the U.S., Moradkhanis practice is rooted in the personal, and inescapably, the political; her new body of work is contemporaneous with the Woman Life Freedom revolution and other movements for womens rights internationally. The exhibition will feature finely-detailed drawings in colored pencil that intertwine the lacey filigree of delicate lingerie with charged imagery. A selection of hand-painted body casts, of and by the artist, and gauzy ... More
KÖNIG GALERIE opens an exhibition of works by Monira Al Qadiri
BERLIN.- KÃNIG GALERIE is presenting the first solo exhibition at St. Agnes of Monira Al Qadiri, one of the rising voices in art from the Middle East and one of the newest faces to the program. CRUDE EYE brings together a selection of recent works that investigate one of the artists foremost concerns: the social and political history around petroleum production and energy dependence. The Berlin-based Al Qadiri originally hails from Kuwait, an epicenter of oil mining and refinement, whose discovery is relatively recent to the larger history of the Gulf Region. Al Qadiri is an artist whose work routinely brings cultural history to bear on the story of oil. Viewers are greeted to CRUDE EYE with the installation SEISMIC SONGS, which features a dinosaur singing karaoke, which despite its ludic tone, actually revisits the discoveries ... More
The exhibition 'Julian Schnabel and Italy' now on view in Milan
MILAN.- In 1977, an unknown American painter named Julian Schnabel was living in Milan and painted some Italian paintings in the basement of a residencia at via Gentilino 9 near the piazza 14 di Maggio. At the time, nobody saw them except Ruggiero Jannuzelli who owned the residencia and who bought them, and put one with a black cross in the church at his home in Voghera. Almost fifty years later, the exhibition Julian Schnabel and Italy, now presented by Robilant+Voena, pays homage to the enduring relationship between that unknown American artist and the country where he made paintings in a basement all those years ago; how Italy has influenced his creativity and how he, in turn, has reflected the rich history and culture of Italy in his art. Offering an insight into the importance of Italy for Schnabel over ... More
National Academies members demand answers about Sacklers' donations
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 75 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine demanded on Thursday that the organization explain why it has for years failed to return or repurpose millions of dollars donated by the Sackler family, including some who led Purdue Pharma. The companys drug, OxyContin, helped set in motion a prescription opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The New York Times reported this month that even as the National Academies advised the government on opioid policy, the organization accepted $19 million from the Sackler family and appointed influential members to its committees who had financial ties to Purdue Pharma. One report issued by the National Academies claimed that 100 million Americans were in chronic pain. The ... More
Coloring history's gray areas with moral outrage
NEW YORK, NY.- When Ãric Vuillard was an infant, his mother used to carry him down from their apartment into the streets of Lyon to wait for his father, who was participating in the student protests that were roiling France around the time he was born, in May 1968. I am both happy and proud that my date of birth coincided with these events, Vuillard said in a recent video interview from his home in Tours, central France. As a writer, Vuillard has drawn on this background of protestation and distrust of power structures to produce a succession of short, biting historical narratives, distinguished by a tone of ironic exasperation. The latest, An Honorable Exit, delves into Frances defeat in the First Indochina War (1946-1954), the colonial abuses that preceded the loss, and the American role in Frances war effort in North Vietnam ... More
Tim Hecker helped popularize ambient music. He's (sort of) sorry.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tim Hecker could not name his most streamed song on Spotify, even after several guesses. Was it Chimeras, the electronic musician guessed by phone before a recent Berlin performance, selecting a 2006 piece where prickles of electric guitar scatter like a galaxy around a lulling beat? (Not in the Top 10.) He tried Sketch 3, an 80-second piano reverie he considered an oddball. Closer, in second place. Informed that Boreal Kiss, Pt. 1 a deep cut from his obscure 2001 debut that sounds like a glass harp routed through a dial-up modem had 6 million streams, far more than everything else in the Top 10 combined, he chuckled. That is crazy, crazy, he said slowly. Back then, he was a civil servant in Ottawa, Ontario, who had just finished a masters in political philosophy and was making ... More
National Gallery of Art appoints Laura L. Lott as Administrator
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art today announced the appointment of Laura L. Lott as administrator, leading the operational, architecture, and sustainability strategy of one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. When Lott begins her tenure on July 3, she will become the National Gallery's eighth administrator since the museum was founded in 1937 and will succeed Sheila McDaniel, who will depart in early summer. The National Gallery's administrator is a member of the senior leadership team, overseeing the divisions of administrative support, architecture and capital improvement, facilities, horticulture, personnel, procurement, and security, which together comprise nearly one-half of the museum's staff. Since 2015, Lott has been president and chief executive officer of the Am ... More
The wild life and times of a soon-to-be former City Ballet dancer
NEW YORK, NY.- Harrison Ball, a principal at New York City Ballet, has tears in his toes. His sesamoid bone is crushed and, he said, dying. There is bone shard sticking into a tendon in his foot. His arthritis is so bad that his doctor told him it was comparable to that of an elderly person. He cant do his job if he cant pirouette. So Sunday, hes leaving his job. Hes barely 30. Such an early farewell is not the norm. But for Ball, who was promoted to the rank of principal dancer just last year, the injuries were too much. Its gotten to the point where I just cant do my job without being in an enormous amount of pain, he said. Even with that pain, Ball has been performing in new, intriguing ways. As the Poet in La Sonnambula and Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, both George Balanchine ballets, his seriousness ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci died May 02, 1519. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. In this image: Codex Forster 1¹, 6v-7r, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), pen and ink, Italy (Florence), about 1505, V&A: Forster MS.141/1, Forster Bequest. © V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum.
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