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Evan Browne looks over part of the massive collection of Star Trek memorabilia left by her brother Troy Nelson, who died in February, in Bremerton, Wash., on March 13, 2024. Browne says her brother Troys love of Star Trek began with the original series, which he and his siblings watched at dinnertime. (Connie Aramaki/The New York )
NEW YORK, NY.- Troy Nelson and his younger brother Andrew were almost inseparable. The two youngest of six, they were born two years apart. They lived together in their childhood home in Bremerton, Washington, for more than half a century. Near their home, there is a park bench on which they carved their initials as young boys. The Nelson brothers never married or had children. They worked together at the same senior home. They even once, as teenagers, dated the same girl at the same time while working different shifts at the same pizza ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This exhibition at Gandy Gallery brings together Esther Ferrer (1937, Spain) and Birgit JÜrgenssen (1949-2003, Vienna). Esther FERRER, Series: In the frame of art - Reversible, 2008/2009, 8 frames painted with aluminium paint on one side and black varnish on the other + feet, 54 x 43 x 6 cm Esther FERRER , Series: In the frame of art: Frame which frames frame, which frames frame etc. Monochrome, 8 wooden frames, painted in white oil, 50 x 42 x 5 cm Birgit JÜRGENSSEN, Houdini, 1990, B/w photographs, fabric, 120x120 cm, signed, dated, titled, Estate Birgit JÜrgenssen (ph735).
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| 'Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance' opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | | In Raymond Saunders' paintings, an education on how to rebel | | San Antonio Museum of Art presents 'Ãngel RodrÃguez-DÃaz: The Goddess Triptych' reunited focus exhibition |
Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, ca. 14801556), Portrait of Giovanna de Rossi, ca. 1505 Oil on wood, 14 3/16 Ã 11 in. (36 Ã 28 cm) Musee des Beaux Arts, Dijon. Photo: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance. This is the first exhibition to examine an intriguing but largely unknown tradition of Renaissance painting: portraits designed as multisided objects in which the sitters images were concealed behind a hinged or sliding cover, within a box, or by a dual-faced format. Private portraits were often hidden beneath other paintings ... More | |
Raymond Saunders, Dr Jesus, 1968. Acrylic, chalk, collage, and mixed media on canvas, 61 1/2 x 55 inches (156.2 x 139.7 cm).
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NEW YORK, NY.- As much as they are works of art, the assemblage-like paintings of Raymond Saunders are works of archaeology. In Post No Bills, a four-decade overview of his work at two galleries David Zwirner in Chelsea and Andrew Kreps in Tribeca one gets the sense that the artist is excavating his own paintings, literally digging ... More | |
Ãngel RodrÃguez-DÃaz, American, born Puerto Rico, 1955-2023, La Primavera, 1994, Oil on canvas, 78 x 65 in. (198.1 x 165.1 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Sandra Cisneros, 2013.43.2, © Estate of Ãngel RodrÃguez-DÃaz, Photography by Peggy Tenison.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- This year, SAMA honors the legacy of Ãngel RodrÃguez-DÃaz (born San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1955died San Antonio, Texas, 2023) and celebrates the acquisition of Yemayá, the central painting of the artists Goddess Triptych. The other portraits, The Myth of Venus and La Primavera, entered the collection in 2013 as gifts from renowned author Sandra ... More |
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| A lifetime under the moon's shadow | | Vik Muniz: 'Scraps and Legal Tender' on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | | Gió Marconi opens Alex Da Corte's first exhibition in Milan since 2015 |
Jay M. Pasachoff, who was a longtime astronomy professor at Williams College, in the Hopkins Observatory at the college in Williamstown, Mass., Aug. 10, 2017. (Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A total solar eclipse may be one of the most profoundly visceral experiences you can have without ingesting anything illegal. Eight times, Ive been through this cycle, feeling the light melt and seeing the suns corona spread ... More | |
Vik Muniz, Amelia Earhart, Legal Tender, 2024; archival inkjet print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting Scraps and Legal Tender, a solo exhibition of two photo-based series by Vik Muniz. In Scraps and Legal Tender, Muniz continues to utilize unorthodox materials to subvert notions of image production, value, and the permeable distinctions between an art object and the idea of it. The exhibition will be on view through April 27, ... More | |
Alex Da Corte. Photo Hedi Slimane
MILAN.- World Leader Pretend is an exhibition of new painting, sculpture and installation by Venezuelan-American artist Alex Da Corte. It is Da Corte's first exhibition in Milan since Devil Town at Gió Marconi in 2015, and his first exhibition in Italy since the 2019 Biennale di Venezia. The artist has been the subject of recent survey exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and the 21st ... More |
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| Solo exhibition by Zhang Yingnan on view at KÖNIG SEOUL | | The Vancouver Art Gallery launches three curatorial residencies | | Exhibition of new paintings by Carrie Rudd opens at Polina Berlin Gallery |
Zhang Yingnan, Way back home, 2024. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 cm. 11 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. Unique.
SEOUL.- KÃNIG SEOUL is presenting, MELTING, a new solo exhibition by Zhang Yingnan, his second-ever show in Korea, and first in 10 years. This presentation is comprised of 11 new paintings, all made within the last year, showcasing the Beijing-based artists near-photorealist take on architecture of interior spaces, always ... More | |
Pantea Haghighi.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the appointment of three Vancouverbased Curators in Residence: Pantea Haghighi, Makiko Hara and Nya Lewis. Through wide-ranging projects spanning exhibitions, performances, research and publications, Haghighi, Hara and Lewis will bring an exciting breadth of experience and expertise while offering new ... More | |
Work by Carrie Rudd. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Polina Berlin Gallery presents The Narcissism of Small Differences, an exhibition of new paintings by Carrie Rudd, on view from April 3 through May 4, 2024. How do you speak the language of painting? Is it a single brushstroke, a carefully-rendered surface, a choice of color? In the case of abstraction, language becomes even more slippery, fleeting from the ... More |
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| William John Kennedy's 'Lost Archive' of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana Photographs - opens in London | | Mendes Wood DM Sao Paulo presents 'Funduras' by Solange Pessoa | | Eleven new member dealers from across the United States join the Art Dealers Association of America |
Shot by the late William John Kennedy in the early 60s, these images, which were lost to the world for nearly 40 years, capture the two men in the nascent stages of careers that would come to redefine the landscape of contemporary art.
LONDON.- A Central London residence entirely dedicated to exhibiting the forgotten photographic archive of 1960s photographer William John Kennedy (b.1930 - d.2021), who documented bohemian New York life and many of its most fascinating characters will be open to visit from April 2nd. ... More | |
Solange Pessoa, FrugÃvoros, 2020-2021. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Photo credit: Daniel Mansur.
SAO PAULO.- In Funduras, Solange Pessoa presents an unexpected quality of minerals: Weightlessness. The artist mobilizes something that is removed from our imaginary and the language of stones and brings geological forces from the depths of the earth to the surface. From surface and weightlessness, singular chromatic movements stand out. Along this path, from charcoal ... More | |
These eleven galleries join the ADAAs contingent of over 200 members, each of which is admitted after an evaluation of their exhibition and programming history, established expertise, and intellectual rigor, ensuring that each member is emblematic of the very best that the American art market offers.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced the addition of 11 new member galleries: Berry Campbell (New York), Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York), Hales Gallery (New York), Nina Johnson (Miami), Klaus ... More |
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'Newcastle' by Luke David Kellett published in April 2024
LONDON.- This new book presents a typology of 100 portraits of households in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia taken in 2020 during some of the strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world. The restrictions allowed photographer Luke David Kellett a unique opportunity compile a visual representation of architecture and inhabitants of Newcastle and contribute to a collective memory of the period. Ive only felt compelled to work on major bodies of photographic work twice in my life, on both occasions Ive picked up my camera and started shooting. I think its my way of understanding what is occurring around me, I use my camera as a bit of a shield and a tool to mentally process situations. Each photograph in book was made on large-format camera with great care for uniformity of perspective and framing. Kelletts intent was ... More
Rune Bosse will take over the greenhouse in the Ordrupgaard Art Park
CHARLOTTENLUND.- On April 6, Rune Bosse will take over the greenhouse in the Ordrupgaard Art Park with a site-specific living sculpture that will restore the building to its original function as a plant nurseryalbeit in a new format. With a scientific and philosophically investigative approach, Bosse creates a field of grain that grows straight upward, rising monumentally in space. The installation invites visitors to enter into the structure. Surrounded by walls of grain reaching up toward the sky, viewers are confronted with roots that are normally hidden beneath the earths surface, but which are now exposed in their vulnerability. Throughout its exhibition period, running from April to November, Behind the Surface will undergo continual change. Rune Bosse (born 1987) has truly made a mark with his enchanting living sculptures, ... More
Secrets of a Danish castle
NEW YORK, NY.- My first conscious memory occurred on the lower landing of a staircase that spiraled up four floors of the 14th-century, moat-encircled Gjorslev castle in Denmark. I was hugging the railing while my tweed-clad grandfather, Edward Tesdorpf, who owned the place, smiled at me as he walked down the hall to take care of his ever-expanding farm businesses. I was 3 years old. And now, five decades later, Im standing on the same spot, this time with a statuesque Danish woman in stylish Japanese casual wear. This is roasted and steamed tea from Korea, Mette Marie Kjaer tells me, offering a pleasant cup of miso-tinged brew. Kjaer runs her Asian tea company, Sing Tehus, from a rented wing of the castle, offering tea ceremonies and yoga retreats while maintaining Gjorslevs status as the oldest continuously inhabited ... More
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung appointed chief curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo
SAO PAULO.- Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announced that Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung will be the chief curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, scheduled for the second half of 2025. Born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a prominent figure within the global contemporary art scene. His unique, interdisciplinary trajectory combines institution building as a practice, curatorial praxis with emphases on performativity, sonic, installative and visual arts, critical theory and discourse with an academic background in medical biotechnology and biophysics. Ndikungs commitment to the intersection of art and science, together with his innovative vision, culminated in his appointment as director and chief curator of Berlins Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) as of January 2023, after his tenure as ... More
Prats Nogueras Blanchard opens new gallery space with exhibition by Muntadas
BARCELONA.- Prats Nogueras Blanchard will open its space in Barcelona on April 6, 2024 with an exhibition by Muntadas. The exhibition titled PARATOPIAS presents projects carried out at various times and contexts. The works are gathered around the word paratopia, a conceptual term defined by the linguist Dominique Maingueneau and used by Muntadas. Dominique Maingueneau writes: Art is an activity that can only be practiced at the cost of paratopia, the impossibility of belonging to a place, a community, a time or a language. To find one's place in the paratopic space of Art, one must renounce the possibility of fully occupying any place whatsoever. This impossibility of belonging is not something imposed on artists: it's something they work out through their creations. They must construct, in the same movement, their works and the ... More
A Secondary Eye to open new gallery in Sydney
SYDNEY.- A Secondary Eye has announced the launch of a new gallery space located within the arts district of Woollahra, Sydney on Friday 3 May 2024. Led by Jesse-Jack De Deyne, a specialist with extensive experience working in the secondary market for Australian Indigenous art and Boris Cornelissen, former Contemporary Art Specialist at Sothebys London and Hong Kong, A Secondary Eye was founded in 2020 with a focus on further developing the secondary market for art and collectibles in Australia. Specialising in the secondary market for First Nations and contemporary Australian art, A Secondary Eye has exhibited and sold works by some of the most important and sought-after artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Queenie McKenzie, Paddy Bedford, John Mawurndjul, Bill Whiskey, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Gordon ... More
Madonna and Barbra are fans. Broadway, meet Lempicka.
NEW YORK, NY.- Playwright Carson Kreitzer specializes in difficult women, disparaged women, women who should be better known. But 14 years ago, when a friend suggested painter Tamara de Lempicka as a potential subject, Kreitzer wasnt initially enthusiastic. The name meant nothing to her. Then in a used bookstore, a cover with Lempickas name caught her eye. Flipping through the monograph, image after glossy image, Kreitzer realized that she already knew Lempickas brash, gleaming work. She had seen it reproduced in Madonna videos and in Van Cleef & Arpels ads. There in that bookstore she felt compelled to write something as big, bold and richly colored as the paintings. Tamara made me a musical writer, Kreitzer, who had never written a musical before, said in a recent phone interview. She demanded ... More
For 50 years Ailey II has been a proving ground, not just for dance
NEW YORK, NY.- Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, turns 50 this year. Since its creation, some things have remained consistent: It has always served as a bridge between student and professional life. It has always been filled with ambitious young people aspiring to join the main troupe. And, as members of every generation agree, the experience has always been demanding extremely so. Its a pressure cooker, said Francesca Harper, who has been the artistic director of Ailey II since 2021. As has been the norm, the current group which is performing a 50th-anniversary program at the Joyce Theater beginning April 9 consists of a dozen dancers who stay with the company for two-year terms. Between classes, rehearsals and an extensive touring schedule that combines performances with ... More
5 classical music albums you can listen to right now
NEW YORK, NY.- Julia Perry, who would have turned 100 this month, achieved some real recognition during her lifetime, but in a tale all too common for composers who arent white men fell into obscurity after her death in 1979. There have been recent efforts to revive her works, including her Violin Concerto, written in the 1960s and now recorded by the Experiential Orchestra under James Blachly, with Curtis Stewart as the soloist. This brooding, 25-minute piece begins with a passionate violin cadenza, played like the rest of the concerto with heated commitment from Stewart, and then evolves frequently, without defined section breaks. It is a fine example of the sober yet seething angularity of its era, leavened with warm strings and hints of Coplandesque expansiveness. Its a vigorous work of mid-20th-century neoclassicism, and has ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Melchior d'Hondecoeter died April 03, 1695. Melchior d'Hondecoeter (c. 1636 - 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. In this image: Still Life with Cock, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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