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Mariet Westermann, the vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, at her residence with art by Hashel Al Lamki, right, and Majid Alyousef, left, on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, Nov. 19, 2023. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation on Monday announced that it had named Westermann director and chief executive of its museum group. (Katarina Premfors/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time when cultural institutions all over the country are struggling to make a case for themselves in a digital world, and job descriptions for arts leaders have grown increasingly complex, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation on Monday announced that it had named Mariët Westermann director and CEO of its museum group. Westermann, the vice chancellor of New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, will be the first woman to direct the museum group, overseeing the foundation and its flagship institution in New York, as well as its global outposts in Venice, Italy; Bilbao, Spain; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. She has run a major operation in a foreign country, said museum Chair J. Tomilson Hill. Shes got great credibility in the art world, and she will be able to attract and retain extraordinary curators and other talented professionals. The choice of Westermann, 61, to replace Richard Armstrong, who retired as director la ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A new exhibition on view at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, this November, presents a stunning selection of set and costume designs from a major private collection.
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| Publication of the Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné announced | | Off the court and field, top athletes become players in the art market | | Radcliffe Bailey, artist who explored Black migration, dies at 54 |
Robert Indiana ART, 1970. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, an ongoing project dedicated to documenting the artistic practice of American artist Robert Indiana (b. 1928, d. 2018), is now available online. Published by RI Catalogue Raisonné LLC using Panopticon software, and authored by Simon Salama-Caro, founder of the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, this free digital publication documents the artists paintings and sculptures conceived between 1955 and 2007. "This is a new resource for the continued study and celebration of the work of Robert Indiana, one of Americas most influential artists, said Simon Salama-Caro, who was entrusted by the artist in 1998 to prepare a catalogue raisonné of his work. We hope that scholars, educators, arts professionals, and anyone wishing to gain a refined knowledge of the work of Indiana will use this new tool to learn about the breadth and depth of his oeuvre. Works inc ... More | |
A portrait of Carmelo Anthony painted by artist Kehinde Wiley in 2014, at Anthony's home in Westchester, New York, on Oct. 27, 2023. (Elias Williams/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin and Emmanuel Morgan
NEW YORK, NY.- Carmelo Anthony, the 10-time NBA All-Star who announced his retirement in May, said that when he was starting out as a professional basketball player he did not understand art but grew to appreciate it and began collecting as he matured. Now paintings by major Black artists including Nelson Makamo, Swoon, Rashid Johnson and Kehinde Wiley line the walls of his home in Westchester, New York. Its the emotional attachment that you have when looking at a piece, which makes you want to go back and see it over and over and over again, Anthony, 39, said. You learn something every time you look at it. Professional athletes have grown more serious about buying art in recent years, not unlike other ... More | |
Artist Radcliffe Bailey at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, June 18, 2011. (Erik S. Lesser/The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Radcliffe Bailey, a Georgia-based artist whose collage paintings and sculptural assemblages incorporated family tintypes, African figurines, disassembled piano keys and other objects in an exploration of both his personal history and the broader sorrows and joys of the Black experience, died Nov. 14 at his home in Atlanta. He was 54. The cause was glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer, his brother, Roy, said. Over the course of his career, Bailey continually drew inspiration from Atlanta, where he had lived since childhood from its tangled legacy of slavery and Civil War bloodshed, but also from its rich history of Black culture and achievement. His work became a common sight around the city. Among his public works is the mural Saints, a 40-foot-long ... More |
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| iLiana Fokianaki appointed new Director of Kunsthalle Bern | | Thaddaeus Ropac presents an exhibition of sculptures by Richard Deacon | | 'Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence' opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
iLiana Fokianaki. Photo: Panos Davios, 2023.
BERN.- The Board of Kunsthalle Bern announced the appointment of iLiana Fokianaki as its new Director. iLiana Fokianaki brings a wide range of experience as a curator, writer, theorist, and founding director of State of Concept, an independent art institution in Athens, Greece. She will begin her tenure in April 2024. She succeeds Kabelo Malatsie, who has served as Kunsthalle Berns Director since April 2022 and who concludes her tenure in February 2024. Speaking on behalf of the seven-member selection committee, the co-presidents of Kunsthalle Berns Board, Lorenza Donati and Benjamin Dodell, are delighted to have found in iLiana Fokianaki a Director whose experience at the intersections of curatorial practice and societal change will serve Kunsthalle Bern well in the coming years. Both Fokianakis previous activities as well as her proposal for the Kunsthalle Bern reflect her strong engagement with ... More | |
Richard Deacon, About Us (Green), 2023 Painted and lacquered stainless steel on mild steel base, 389 kg. 146 x 76 x 62 cm (57.48 x 29.92 x 24.41 in).
SALZBURG.- In this exhibition, Richard Deacon presents sculptures from six groups of works, each characterised by the distinct use of a different material, ranging from steamed wood to glazed ceramic to stainless steel. The sculptures are invariably marked by the artists experiments with diverse materials and his deep-rooted interest in their specific consistencies and qualities. Deacon remains faithful to the principles of craftsmanship that have driven his practice since the beginning of his career and constitute an integral part of his aesthetic. Among Richard Deacon's most recent works are a group of small-scale ceramic sculptures, a medium the artist has been associated with for over 20 years. Marked by their shiny, glass-smooth finish, these works manifest the artists preoccupation with surface, form and colour. The final ... More | |
Kehinde Wiley, The Death of Hyacinth (Ndey Buri Mboup), 2022. Oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon. © 2022 Kehinde Wiley. (detail)
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is exhibiting Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, the artists new, monumental body of work created against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the global rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. The exhibition had its US premiere earlier this year at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Expanding upon American artist Kehinde Wileys Down series from 2008, An Archaeology of Silence meditates on the deaths of young Black people slain all over the world. These 26 works stand as elegies and monuments, underscoring the fraught terms in which Black people are rendered visible, especially when at the hands of systemic violence. Wiley has said, That is the archaeology I am unearthing: ... More |
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| Barry Art Museum to double its gallery space with new expansion | | Fresh-to-the-market drawing by leading Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele to be auctioned Nov. 22 in London | | Norman Rockwell Museum mounts first major American retrospective of Leo Lionni exploring his art and life |
Architectural rendering of the expansion project done by Saunders + Crouse Architects.
NORFOLK, VA..- The Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University will double its gallery space by adding a three-story wing that will include a multiuse event space, a community gallery, an educational laboratory and more. The announcement comes on the fifth anniversary of the museums public opening in 2018. Founded by art collectors Carolyn and Richard Barry, the Barry Art Museum houses a significant collection of contemporary glass, American and Marine paintings and historic dolls and automata. With the gift of the Waitzer Glass Collection in 2022, featuring 165 works of 20th-century and contemporary glass sculpture, the museum collection has expanded beyond the capacity of its current space. "Embarking on this major expansion within just five years is a testament to the transformative power of art, said Lewis Webb, Barry Art Museum board president. Whether you're a student, faculty member or simply a lover of art wi ... More | |
Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918), Melanie Schiele, 1908, original paper-on-pencil drawing of the artists older sister. Size: 31cm x 22cm (12.2in x 8.66in). Estimate of £50,000-£70,000 ($62,025-$86,835). Image courtesy of Chiswick Auctions, London.
LONDON.- An original drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele comes to auction for the first time at Chiswick Auctions on November 22. The well-documented 1908 pencil-on-paper sketch of the artists older sister Melanie is expected to achieve £50,000-£70,000 ($62,025-$86,835) as part of the London firms sale titled 20th Century Art: Paintings and Original Works on Paper. Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918) was a prolific draftsman. In his most active years, he easily averaged a drawing a day. His early works (Schiele had his first exhibition in the town of Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1908) display strong similarities to those of Klimt, as well as influences from Art Nouveau. Because of the intensity and explicit sexuality of his paintings including his nude self-portraits Schiele was viewed by many in the art world as the enfant ... More | |
Leo Lionni (1910-1999), Invitation Design for Olivetti, c.1956. Showroom invitation. © Leo Lionni. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Lionni Family.
STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Norman Rockwell Museum presents the first major American retrospective of artist Leo Lionni, a groundbreaking modernist graphic designer and magazine art director who gained worldwide popularity as the writer and illustrator of nearly 40 childrens books in as many years. Opened November 18 and running through May 27, 2024, Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni explores the artists vision and legacy across three distinct yet interrelated domains: graphic art and design; childrens books; and personal works in various media. The diversity of his legacy, and the relative separation of these fields during his lifetime, has resulted in a less than complete view of Lionnis work and influence. This exhibition brings together Lionnis achievements within the frame of a single, if expansive, artistic life, observed Norman Rockwell Museum Deputy Director and Chief Curator ... More |
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| Design Museum launches new display space for design research | | As Morocco tries to rebuild after quake, tradition is top of many minds | | John Michael Kohler Arts Center hosts community celebration of HMong Textile Art |
Dark Matter Labs. © Felix Speller for the Design Museum.
LONDON.- The Design Museum today announced a new display space for design research responding to environmental crises, opening to the public on Monday 20 November 2023. This will be the first display in a series curated by Future Observatory, the Design Museums national research programme for the green transition coordinated in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Located on the museums second floor balcony, the Future Observatory display will showcase innovative design research projects from across the UK. This is conceived as a permanent space to champion cutting-edge design research on environmental issues, introducing visitors to thought-provoking and innovative ways in which designers are responding to climate breakdown. The display signals the importance of placing design at the heart of the green transition, for both the museum and the broader desi ... More | |
Boujemaa Kouti, a survivor of the 1960 earthquake in Morocco, shows the grave of a victim of the 1960 earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, on Oct. 8, 2023. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
by Aida Alami
AGADIR.- Boujemaa Kouti still remembers the screams of his neighbors trapped under the rubble of their houses, calling for help that horrific night 63 years ago. He was just 8 and asleep when a large earthquake struck Morocco in 1960, wiping out entire neighborhoods in the coastal city of Agadir, near the Atlas Mountains, and killing at least 12,000 people. I saw stars when I woke up, Kouti said, and then he heard people screaming Save me calling for their family. Koutis older brother died, and the Kouti family lived in tents for almost a year as Agadir was mostly rebuilt at a location nearby deemed safer. Rubble was bulldozed and cleared, and a vast amount of concrete was poured as buildings with stricter seismic standards went up. The Agadir Oufella, ... More | |
Xao Yang Lee, American Flag (detail), 2019; reverse appliqué on cotton. On view in Cloth Origins: Textiles from the HMong Journey. Courtesy of the artist. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
SHEBOYGAN, WI.- The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, opened two exhibitions exploring contemporary and traditional HMong art with a free community celebration. The exhibition Cloth as Land: HMong Indigeneity, on view Nov. 18 through June 16, 2024, features artwork by three contemporary Hmong artists and works from JMKACs collection of Hmong textiles. HMong Indigeneity lives in teb chawsland, country, and place. For a people without teb or chaws, however, where has HMong Indigeneity gone when it is still very much alive? This exhibition gives form to HMong Indigeneity by looking at kinship through cloth as land. Cloth Origins: Textiles from the HMong Journey, on view through Jan. 14, 2024, unravels ancient textile practices rooted in human connections, landscapes, and ancestral wisdom that nourish people through kinship. ... More |
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Queerness in Chinese contemporary photography subject of 21-artist exhibition at Eli Klein Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is showing (In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography a group exhibition of 21 artists who see queerness as a possibility, embracing the imaginative even when the status quo might otherwise be limiting. The title acknowledges that the means through which each artist expresses this notion takes a variety of modes in the photographic medium, at times boldly and directly celebrating the beauty of queer bodies and at other times obliquely gesturing, winking, or suggesting that another reality is at play. This range of photographic expressions of queerness is similar to common understandings of discursive approaches in Chinese culture, from the artfully indirect to the abundantly explicit. The show brings together the present and future, a spectrum of genders and sexualities, ... More
Big Apple Circus review: A show that bends over backward for you
NEW YORK, NY.- If confetti supplies have plummeted, if a spangle shortage now afflicts Manhattan, blame a tent at the southwestern corner of Lincoln Center. Yes, the Big Apple Circus has returned, and for a little over a month New York will glimmer more brightly. In recent years, a return has been less certain. In 2016, after operating as a nonprofit for nearly 40 years, the original outfit shut down and filed for bankruptcy. An affiliate of a corporate restructuring firm bought it in 2017, then switched out its management and character several times. In 2021, it was sold again, to a corporation that counts famed aerialist Nik Wallenda as a minority owner, and became a bit more death-defying. This season, Big Apple has imported a German troupe, Circus Theater Roncalli, which is mostly a cause for rejoicing. Roncalli stands as a skillful ... More
Clare Woods joins Stephen Friedman Gallery
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announced representation of Clare Woods. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Woods visceral paintings are characterised by fluid mark-making and vibrant colours. Originally trained as a sculptor, much of the artists work is occupied with exploring physical form in two-dimensional space. Fusing diverse influences from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Marlene Dumas and Wolfgang Tillmans, Woods destabilises traditional art historical genres including landscape, portraiture, and still life. Themes such as beauty, mortality, and loss underpin her practice. Woods compositions evolve from an archive holding thousands of found and personal photographs. Using instinctive, free-flowing brushstrokes, Woods defamiliarises her source imagery by breaking them down ... More
Museum of the Home announces temporary gallery closure to introduce new stories to Rooms Through Time galleries
LONDON.- Museum of the Homes world-renowned Rooms Through Time galleries will have a major overhaul, revealing new stories that represent the many communities surrounding the Museum. The Real Rooms project will commence construction from Sunday 7th January 2024 and will put personal stories and lived experiences at the heart of the new displays in the Branson Coates wing. The wing will re-open in mid-summer 2024. The project will tackle the imbalance in representation within Museum of the Homes Rooms Through Time, fulfilling its vision to better reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together. Real Rooms will be more inclusive of the complex histories of migration and identity ... More
Rob Lyon joins Hales
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales announced representation of British artist Rob Lyon in collaboration with Adams and Ollman, Portland, Oregon, USA. Lyon was recently included in the group exhibition The Reason for Painting at Warwick Arts Centre (2023), and he will have a solo show at Hales London in February 2024. Lyon (b. 1982 Lancashire, UK) lives and works in Sussex, UK. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Law from Bristol University, UK. Lyon is a self-taught painter, who has been developing his practice over the past decade. The Sussex landscape is an anchoring point for the artist, who spent his childhood on the Downs and returned as an adult. The paintings, although drawn from Lyons locale, are imagined landscapes. Expanding on Paul Nashs concept of genius loci the spirit of place, Lyon thinks about how ... More
Thierry Goldberg Gallery opens an online exhibition of works by Lola Erhart
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Gallery is pleased to present Un Solo Cuerpo, an online exhibition of works by Lola Erhart. The exhibition will be on view from November 18th to December 16th, 2023. Un Solo Cuerpo presents a rumination on the female figure as an ambidextrous signifier: of motherhood, of sexuality, of comfort, of capability. Erharts gestural brush strokes create a writhing denouncement of space and time; it is this ephemeral revision of space that underscores the empathy with which she captures her subjects. This exploration of feminine physicality bestows an undeniable honesty to Erharts work, proffering viewers a novel conception of a passionate, tempestuous womanhood. Erhart skillfully merges fleeting spatial constructs with spiritual realism in Flor con pantalon a rayas. Against a dynamically shifting grey backdrop, ... More
In celebration of museum's tenth anniversary, Museo Jumex opened 'Everything Gets Lighter'
MEXICO CITY.- On November 18, in celebration of the museums tenth anniversary, Museo Jumex opened Everything Gets Lighter guest curated by Lisa Phillips, the Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The exhibition features works from the Colección Jumex from 66 international artists whose explorations and poetic evocations of light and lightness offer a counterweight to the existential threats that surround us today. The exhibitions title is inspired by the poem Everyone Gets Lighter by the celebrated late artist John Giorno, who read his poetry at the Fundación Jumex in Ecatepec two decades ago. Giornos work has been lauded over the decades for its powerful but delicate approach to the complexities of mortal existence and his embrace of the luminosity and renewal that come with the experience of ... More
A cat, a bat, and a snail subjects of Maude Maris's new solo exhibition at Praz-Delavallade Paris
PARIS.- Praz-Delavallade Paris is now showing Maude Maris 's new solo exhibition with the gallery, on view since 18 November to 6 January. The animals who float through the dreamy atmospheres of Maude Mariss new paintings are mainly ones she knows from around her studio in Normandy: a cat, a bat, and a snail are among them. Each seems endowed with a magic whose properties we cant know, as if at the center of a creation myth just unfolding. The cat, viewed from above, rests on a blanket of night sky, stars arrayed before it like playthings. The bat hangs before a brushy field of blue, joined only by a disc of moon. And the snail glides through an overcast sky, the barest suggestion of land beneath. Our vantage on each of the animals disorients; we may not be their intended audience. ... More
'Recollections of Rondo' by Melvin Smith and Rose Smith memorialize and celebrate a lost American place
NEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort is currently showing Recollections of Rondo, its first exhibition with the visionary Minnesota-based artist couple Melvin Smith and Rose Smith. This presentation features a selection of key works from the vast, ongoing, collaborative project the Smiths refer to as Rondo, which consists of painted portraits made by Rose, and collages of urban scenes along with architectural sculptures made by Melvin. Initiated in the 1990s, Rondo documents the artists memories of civic life in their vibrant Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota as it existed prior to being bulldozed in the 1960s for construction of the Interstate 94 highway. Now both in their 80s, Rose and Melvin have focused for three decades on a unique shared artistic mission to recall that lost enclave, which was the center of Black life in St. Paul ... More
AstaGuru's International Iconic Auction to showcase works by global artvisionaries
MUMBAI.- Titled International Iconic, AstaGurus upcoming auction will showcase a medley of works by revered and iconic global artists. The collection puts a spotlight on the emergence and impact of modern art in the 20th century with creations by masters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, and Fernando Botero. The International Iconic Auction will be held on November 23-24, 2023. Talking about the landmark auction, Larissa Guimaraes, International Art Consultant, AstaGuru Auction House, says "AstaGuru's International Iconic auction in November is a remarkable opportunity for collectors to immerse themselves in the global art market, all while acquiring pieces that are sure to remain timeless and coveted. These artworks are the cornerstone of any discerning collection, ... More
Biennale of Sydney announces artists, locations and initial programming for 2024 edition: Ten Thousand Suns
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney has today announced the artists, locations and initial programming for its 24th edition, titled Ten Thousand Suns, being presented free to the public from 9 March to 10 June 2024. A major international art festival and the largest contemporary art event of its kind in Australia, the 24th Biennale of Sydney will be presented at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and for the first time at Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, UNSW Galleries and at the iconic and recently restored White Bay Power Station. With the artistic direction led by Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney proposes celebration ... More
New exhibition shines a spotlight on stage and screen
GLASGOW.- A new exhibition on view at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, this November, presents a stunning selection of set and costume designs from a major private collection. Stage and Screen features works on paper from the James L Gordon Collection, on show in Scotland for the first time. Covering designs for theatre, film and television, this visually engaging exhibition offers a rare glimpse into this unique personal collection of rich and diverse material. With a few earlier exceptions, the James L Gordon collection comprises set and costume designs for British theatre productions from about 1900 to the 1990s, and British and American designs for film and television from the 1930s onwards. The designs are almost all two-dimensional: drawings, watercolours, paintings and collages, rather than three-dimensional ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Belgian painter René Magritte was born November 21, 1898. René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art and conceptual art. In this image: Surrealist portrait of patron Edward James Le Principe du Plaisir (Pleasure Principle). Courtesy Sotheby's.
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