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The Searchers from the series History.
DAYTON, OH.- Toy cowboys, Barbie dolls and baseball players set the stage for David Levinthals photographs and reference iconic images and events that shaped postwar America. Despite their playful veneer, Levinthals images provide a lens to examine the myths and stereotypes lurking within our most beloved pastimes and enduring heroes. In doing so, Levinthal encourages us to consider the stories we tell about ourselveswhat it means to be strong, beautiful, masculine, feminine, and American. I have long been a fan of Levinthals photographs, said Chief Curator Dr. Jerry N. Smith. So many of the images look like Hollywood film stills, but from a film you cant quite put your finger on. There is a lot to see and enjoy with his work. American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs at the Dayton Art Institute brings together six of the artists best-known bodies of work to explore ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Maureen Paley is presenting the first exhibition at the gallery by New Zealand artist Fiona Connor who is based in Los Angeles. Fiona Connorâs work draws attention to specific objects and architectural spaces and seeks to investigate and interact with social arenas such as public parks, night clubs or exhibition venues.
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| Pace presents Sonia Gomes's first-ever solo show in New York | | "Aljoscha: Distant Posterity" opened at the Priska Pasquer Gallery | | Castaway Modernism: Basel's acquisitions of "Degenerat" Art examined in new exhibition |
Sonia Gomes, Constelação II, 2022 © Sonia Gomes.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is presenting Sonia Gomess first-ever solo show in New York at its 540 West 25th Street gallery. Gomes, who is known for her use of textiles and everyday materials in her complex assemblages, brings physicality and movement to the fore of her work. On view from November 4 to December 17, this presentation, titled O mais profundo é a pele (Skin is the deepest part), also marks the artists first solo exhibition with Pace since she joined the gallerys program in 2020. Gomes, a largely self-taught artist, first gained international recognition when the late curator Okwui Enwezor included her work in the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first living Afro-Brazilian woman artist to have a monographic show at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), and in 2021 she participated in the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and the Liverpool Biennial in the UK. Born in 1948 in Caetanópolis ... More | |
Aljoscha, "Distant Posterity", 2022, Installation view, Courtesy: PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY.
COLOGNE.- Priska Pasquer is hosting for the first time the Ukrainian artist Olexiy Potupin, aka Aljoscha. In his solo exhibition Distant Posterity, he uses new paintings, installations, and sculptures to depict a future vision of the world. Its populated by new species of creatures that have overcome hatred and violence. The fantastical objects, sculptures, and landscapes appear strangely weightless and sublime. They set the scene for the unknown, the indescribable that Aljoscha tries to fathom. Driven by the question of how we see our biological future, he incorporates philosophical, ethical, and scientific questions into his artistic exploration. Against this backdrop, hes developed an anticipatory theory of evolution called bioism a manifesto under which Aljoscha subsumes his artistic work. ... More | |
Marc Chagall, The Pinch of Snuff (Rabbi), 1923-1926. Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 89.2 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel.
© 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich
Photo: Martin P. Bühler
BASEL.- The Kunstmuseum Basels classic modernism division boasts one of the most prestigious collections of its kind. Yet the work of assembling it was begun at a comparatively late date. In the summer of 1939, the Kunstmuseum acquired twenty-one outstanding works of German and French modernism. Denounced as degenerate, they had been forcibly removed from German museums in 1937 in pursuance of Nazi cultural policy, then categorized as internationally salable and sold through the art market. The exhibition Castaway Modernism at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau sheds light on the various aspects of this turning point in the history of the Basel collection. It interweaves the widely told and popular story ... More |
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| First major UK exhibition devoted to women artists working in Germany in the early 20th century opens | | Museum Kaap Skil unveils 17th century wedding dress from the world-famous Texel shipwreck | | Kunstmuseum Den Haag acquires the plaster version that served as a model for Hans Arp's last stone sculpture |
Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait (detail), 1889. Pen, brush and ink on drawing carton, 31.2 x 24.2 cm. © Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents Making Modernism, the first major UK exhibition devoted to women artists working in Germany in the early 20th century. It includes 67 paintings and works on paper primarily by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, with additional works by Erma Bossi, Ottilie Reylaender and Jacoba van Heemskerck. Most of these artworks have never been exhibited in this country before. Although less familiar than their male counterparts, these artists were central to the development and dissemination of modernism. Seen through the lens of its female practitioners, key themes of modernism such as self-portraiture, still-life and urban and rural scenes are re-evaluated, and attention is focussed on the female body, childhood and maternal experience. The exhibition is arranged thematically ... More | |
The Dress. © Museum Kaap Skil.
OUDESCHILD.- Museum Kaap Skil has once again unveiled an extraordinary new find from the world-famous Palmwood Wreck: the Silver Dress, a 17th century dress with interwoven pieces of silver. Recent research suggests that it was most probably a wedding dress. It is the second dress to be discovered from the 17th century shipwreck. The almost completely intact silk dress from the Palmwood Wreck previously made international news. Both dresses are on display from the 13th of November in the new exhibition, together with a selection of the most exclusive artefacts found in the wreck. The findings belong to the province of North-Holland and have been granted to the museum on long-term loan. The salvaged 17th century wedding dress consists of separate parts, in contrast with the other dress from the Palmwood Wreck. The body of this expensive silk garment, the bodice and the skirt, are still attached. Originally, the dress was most proba ... More | |
Hans Arp, Scrutant lhorizon, made in 1964.
THE HAGUE.- It has graced The Hagues Bezuidenhoutseweg since 1966: Hans Arps (1886-1966) four-metre tall sculpture Scrutant lhorizon, made in 1964. Few people know that this was the last stone sculpture Arp worked on before he died. In 1964 Kunstmuseum Den Haag acquired the plaster version that served as a model for the monumental sculpture. After his death Arps widow Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach asked the museum to have a number of bronze versions cast using the plaster model. The bronze sculptures went straight to private collections. Some fifty years on, one of those bronzes has finally found its way back to the museum. In a true connoisseurs exhibition, Hans Arp The Final Work, from 29 October 2022 to 16 April 2023 at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, will highlight the history of the sculpture and its special relationship with the museum. Thanks to the diligence of the Municipal Committee for Art Commissions, in 1963 ... More |
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| P·P·O·W to publish The Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné | | Paul G. Allen and the art he didn't sell | | Ishara Art Foundation presents the first solo exhibition of artist Navjot Altaf in the Arabian Peninsula |
Untitled (Self-portrait), c. 1974-75, acrylic on canvas with hand painted frame, 15 x 17 1/4 x 3/4 in., 38.1 x 43.82 x 1.91 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W has announced that the Cantor Art Centers Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI)a series of long-term installations, special exhibitions, research and education projects that operate in tandem with the museums ever-expanding collection of works by Asian American and Asian diaspora artistshas launched the Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné (MWCR) in collaboration with Stanford Libraries, and the Martin Wong Foundation (MWF). The MWCR is a free online resource featuring the paintings, drawings, poetry, and ceramics of artist Martin Wong (194699). In addition to detailed records of over 800 works of art, the project features new essays by scholars and curators, a comprehensive illustrated chronology, and a wealth of primary source material including newly published interviews, a 1991 audio recording of Wong speaking about his work, and a film portrait from the last decade of his life by Charlie Ahearn ... More | |
Georges Seurats Les Poseuses Ensemble (Petite version) (1888) is auctioned during the Paul Allen sale at Christies in Rockefeller Center in New York, on Nov. 8, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A Vincent van Gogh landscape to die for. A sacred scene by Sandro Botticelli that puts a lump in your throat. One of Jasper Johns stunningly subtle map paintings. Those were just a few of the treasures on view last week when Christies auction house broke records by selling more than $1.5 billion in art from the estate of Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who died in 2018. But I was frankly surprised to see those works in the Christies showrooms. Ten years ago this fall, I had a chat with Allen about his collecting, and he kept coming back to the importance of public access to art: People should be able to see these pictures, and enjoy them, and appreciate them, and think about them, he told me. He talked about his own love of public museums: His first visit to the Tate in London was mind-blowing (Allens favorite adjective); he was stunned by the Monets at the Louvre. He waxed on about the role great objects can play ... More | |
Installation view.
DUBAI.- Navjot Altafs practice stands at the intersection of art and activism. With a career spanning over five decades, she is among the leading voices of her generation to regard art as a medium of social change. Formerly based in Bombay, Navjot relocated to Bastar in the rural districts of Central India during the late 1990s to work with indigenous artists and communities that have borne witness to the enormous scale of deforestation, mining, pollution and displacement. Through collaborations with artists, activists, workers and organisations, her projects trace the complex connections between human exploitation and environmental crises that lie at the heart of climate change today. Pattern presents works by Navjot created since 2015, the year of the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the Paris Climate Accords. These events marked a watershed moment in announcing a global agreement towards the mitigation of carbon emission levels among nearly 200 countries. Since then, ... More |
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| Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on conjuring 'Becky Nurse of Salem' | | Rachel Uffner presents group show "Encounter" and "Sacha Ingber: The difference between Right and Wrong" | | American Beauty: Rock & Roll & Mid Century Auction at Rivich Auction |
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Tuesday morning, playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Rebecca Taichman were gazed at a window, diamond-paned and much-repaired, on the second floor of the New-York Historical Society. A showpiece of the Societys exhibition The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, the window had once stood in the home of Rebecca Nurse, a Salem woman who was hanged for witchcraft in 1692. At 71, she was the eldest among the trials two dozen victims. Rebecca Nurse looked through this, Taichman marveled, snapping a picture with her phone. Its very powerful, like stepping into memory. Ruhl tried to see through the window, but the window didnt make it easy. The panes were thick, the glass distorted in several places. This, she said, was like trying to see back into the past, trying to understand, as an artist, what had happened in Salem. Theres this veil were trying to pierce, she said. We keep tellin ... More | |
Sacha Ingber, Cold Plunge, 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Uffner Gallery recently began "Encounter: Charles Burchfield, Louisa Chase, Anna Jung Seo, Claude Lawrence, Ryan Mrozowski, Soumya Netrabile, Alice Neel, Laurie Nye, Norma Tanega" a group show by a multi-generational group of artists who use diverse approaches to nature and landscape in painting. The exhibition is curated by Augusto Arbizo and will continue through January 7th, 2023. Artists encounter and experience the natural world as the site of contemplation and storytelling. They contend with landscape as a space rich with meaning and possibilities, from corporeal events to spiritual occurrences. Topography, light, nature, climate, the vicissitudes of time and the consequence of human presence (or absence)have inspired and challenged each of the painters featured in this exhibition. Recurring elements, motifs, and ideas can be found throughoutsun and moon, the horizon as periphery, location a ... More | |
Vasarely Kinetic Composition, Red Sphere. 26.5 in W x 30.5 in H; signed and numbered 131/150. Estimate: $400 - $800
CHICAGO, ILL.- Rivich Auction, located in Fulton Market Chicago presents: AMERICAN BEAUTY: Rock & Roll & Mid Century AUCTION this Sunday November 27th at 10 am Central Time. Ready to turn to ESTATE AUCTIONS for Holiday Shopping? We have been the alternative to big box stores for over 30 years and this year Rivich Auction is bringing the best in 20th C. Do you call it Vintage, Rock Memorabilia, Mid Century, or Design? Each piece will be perfect as a gift or in your home, bidding is easy and fun, we ship around the world and have a courier service for large items in the 48 states. Pick up is also quick and easy at our Chicago location. SHOP SMALL, STYLISH AND SUSTAINABLE this season with Rivich Auction. On 3 auction platforms including LIVEAUCTIONEERS, BIDSQUARE, and the RIVICH AUCTION APP in your app store, this auction has over 400 ... More |
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Natalie Christensen, Minimalism in Photography, The Original by publisher teNeues
SANTA FE, NM.- Cover artist, Natalie Christensen is a fine art photographer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico whose work is featured in teNeues Books newest release MINIMALISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY, The Original. Photographer Natalie Christensens focus is on banal peripheral landscapes unnoticed by most - commonplace architecture and streetscapes deconstructed to color fields, geometry and shadow. Sometimes I get a glimpse of the sublime in these ordinary places. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and influenced by her 25 years as a psychotherapist, her work favors psychological metaphors. The symbols and spaces in my images are invitations to explore a rich world concealed from consciousness, tapping into something deeply familiar to our experience; often disturbing ... More
Michael Simpson Paintings now on view at GIANT Gallery
BOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT is now presenting Michael Simpson Paintings, an exhibition of a significant body of work including new and previously unseen Squint paintings. Michael Simpson Paintings will continue at GIANT Gallery until 29 January 2023. A leper squint was a feature built into the walls of medieval churches across Europe, allowing sufferers of leprosy and other undesirables to view sermons while remaining outside and away from the congregation. In Simpsons paintings, the squint appears as a narrow rectangular aperture placed high up on outer walls with various architectural means to reach it, from platforms to steps, ladders and rungs. In each painting, the focus point of the squint invites the viewer to approach, and yet the almost comedic inefficacy of the structure, through its size an ... More
Art tells New Jersey stories at Newark's new Terminal A
NEW YORK, NY.- Move over, LaGuardia Airport. Newark Liberty International Airports just-completed Terminal A makeover comes with two monumental new works of art. Not since the Works Progress Administration commissioned 10 murals by Arshile Gorky in 1937 for the Newark Airport Administration Building only two of which still survive, now preserved at the Newark Museum of Art has the New Jersey airport boasted any significant art to call its own. A ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday will inaugurate the 1-million-square-foot facility, which is expected to open to the public before the end of the year. Weve tried to make art a signature part of the whole airport construction for them to be appealing and inspiring, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York ... More
New Southern California exhibitions reveal riches of art and tradition
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Most people probably know piñatas as ephemeral paper-and-cardboard sculptures, made to be smashed by children to get the treats hidden inside. But at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, they are complex, beautiful works of art and storytelling. Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration, which runs from Oct. 29 to April 30, is just one of several exhibitions opening this fall in Southern California that celebrate the talents and works of Latino artists. More than 80 piñatas are featured, including a 12-foot-long string of rosary beads, a life-size lowrider and swarms of tiny hummingbirds and Monarch butterflies. Although the history of the piñata is not well documented, it is believed to have originated in ancient China, which had a tradition of shattering a ceramic ox full of s ... More
La Brea Tar Pits begins an unusual rebrand
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The La Brea Tar Pits are among Los Angeles best-known attractions and among the least understood. The sprawling, grassy grounds on the Miracle Mile are probably better known for the fake mammoth family than for the institutions scientific contributions. Thats why the museums curators are hoping a long-awaited revamp could breathe life into the landmark. I live in the area, and I run through the grounds in the morning, and pass by patches of tar bubbling up, said Adam Popescu, a reporter based in LA. There are kids playing soccer, some homeless people in tents, a boot-camp exercise class. They have visitors, but its a space that people come to and theyre not really sure what theyre seeing. Most people think its dinosaurs. Or people think its fake. There are ... More
The ceramics obsession has moved to our walls
NEW YORK, NY.- The thing with ceramics, said Charlotte Smith, a ceramist in Atlanta, is that the possibilities are endless. At her studio, Smith has tile samples on display. There are concave rectangular tiles coated in an emerald green glaze; thin square tiles with hand-drawn black lines that form patterns; and circular tiles with matte pastel glazes. The feature they all have in common is that they were handmade by Smith, who uses an extruder before firing and glazing each one, resulting in tile pieces that are not uniform. I think someone can look at this and know that it was obviously not made by a machine, Smith said. There are imperfections in it. But such imperfections, she added, have become a draw for homeowners seeking to redecorate their spaces with something with more charact ... More
'The Old Man & the Pool' review: Wading into Mike Birbiglia's comfort zone
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Birbiglia knows what hes doing. At this point, his act is baked to golden perfection. Exploring new territories or branching out into unexpected formal terrain is not in the cards for this comedian. His new solo show, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool, directed by his regular collaborator Seth Barrish, is built along the same lines as his previous outings. To wit, the circular storytelling that elegantly returns to its starting point, leaving little doubt that we will meet the first scenes physician again at the end. As usual, the derision is mostly self-deprecating, though Birbiglias family is also the object of ribbing that can be infused with a touch of passive-aggressive edge. Once again, the descriptions of his health issues are graphic and groan-inducing: Birbiglias body is his greatest foe ... More
Lyon & Turnbull announces results of Design Season sales
LONDON.- The Modern Made sale held by Lyon & Turnbull at the Mall Galleries on October 28 included 23 pieces of 1930s furniture by Summers from a collector who has long championed his work. Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their London shop, Makers of Simple Furniture, in 1931. For a decade, until the firms closed with the onset of the Second World War, Simple Furniture produced more than 200 designs conceived in the modernist creed as furniture for the concrete age. The emphasis was very much on function, modern materials, and machine methods of manufacture. Having worked as an apprentice within the aviation industry, Summers had seen the benefits of birch plywood that could be versatile, strong and cheap but also avant garde. He sold his f ... More
A tenor's Met Opera debut, long delayed, is worth the wait
NEW YORK, NY.- It took a few tries for Benjamin Bernheim to make his Metropolitan Opera debut. Having sung on the major stages of Europe in London, Paris, Vienna and elsewhere this French tenor (and champion of the French repertoire) was meant to arrive at the Met in 2020, in Charles Gounods Roméo et Juliette. Once the pandemic wiped out live performance for most of that year, as well as the one to come, it was time for another plan. And now, after a few false starts, after navigating the complicated logistics of opera and making adjustments to spend time with his daughter in Zurich, Bernheim is starring as the Duke of Mantua in Giuseppe Verdis Rigoletto through Dec. 8. If you think of it like tennis and the Grand Slams, the Met was sort of the last, he said in a recent interview, r ... More
Review: A dance for our times travels to a dark place
NEW YORK, NY.- The opening of Wakatt casts the stage in a radiant glow as a half sun fills its horizon. Is it setting or rising? Does it matter? The arresting sight offers a glimpse of warmth, a sense of hope. That ends fairly quickly as dancers, frozen in silhouette, appear and disappear in a series of blackouts. Was one anonymous figure wearing a padded vest with a suspicious red light? As Wakatt becomes increasingly volatile, the idea that this figure might be a suicide bomber makes more and more sense. Despite moments of euphoria, Wakatt, choreographed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly and performed by his Belgium-based Faso Danse Théâtre, sticks to the dark side. In the Mooré language of Burkina Faso, the title translates to our time, which, for Coulibaly, has become a culture of fear. Wakatt i ... More
Longtime Philly Exec Director & Chief Curator to retire
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Something of a public art movement has taken hold in this country in the 40 years since Penny Balkin Bach joined the Association for Public Art in 1980. Bach has played a major role in the maturation of the field. Most critically, early on she posed questions about public art and community that today echo ever louder as issues surrounding public monuments spill over into the mainstream. The Association, formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. It was chartered in 1872 as the nations first organization devoted to public art and has evolved over time to become one of the few non-profits in the U.S. that preserves historic works as well as commissions new ones, and interprets a vast collection of public art. So many of the projects t ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".
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