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The life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, April 23, 2024. The statue is the first one of its kind found to date in the Huasteca, a tropical region spanning parts of several states along the Gulf Coast of Mexico. (Sebastian Hidalgo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The 6-foot-tall woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient Mesoamerican athlete. Her expression is fierce, her pose triumphant. In her right hand, she grips the severed head of a sacrificial victim by the hair. The sculpture is the first life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer found to date in the Huasteca, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 20 April 2024, the great Chagall exhibition opened to the public at the Polo Museale - Castello Conti Acquaviva D'Aragona in Conversano. Dream of love: over 100 beautiful works through which the entire life and work of one of the most universally known and loved artists is told: Marc Chagall.
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| Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein stages the first retrospective since the death of Barry Le Va | | Sperone Westwater's first solo exhibition of artist Jim Gaylord's work opens in New York | | Exhibition presents five mural-sized paintings executed between 2001-2013 by Jeff Koons |
Barry Le Va, Sculptured Activities, 1987. Color woodcut on paper, 104 x 80,5 cm. From a 25-piece series. Courtesy Galerie Jahn und Jahn, Munich/Lisbon © Estate of Barry Le Va, David Nolan Gallery, New York.
VADUZ.- Barry Le Va (19412021) is regarded as a moderniser of sculpture in post-1960s art. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is staging the first retrospective since the death of the US artist, whose multidisciplinary oeuvre is associated with process art and ... More | |
Jim Gaylord, Ballad, 2024. Cutout watercolor paper, 34 x 26 x 1 1/2 inches (86,4 x 66 x 3,8 cm) 37 1/8 x 29 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (94,3 x 74,3 x 6,4 cm) frame.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Chiaroscuro, the gallerys first solo exhibition of artist Jim Gaylord. The show of eight hot-pressed watercolor paper and cast marble and resin works embraces themes of iconography, formalism and geometry. With this body of work, Gaylord departs ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Antiquity I (Grass), 2010. Oil on canvas, 108 x 84 inches, 274.3 x 213.4 cm
LONDON.- Skarstedt started the spring season with a solo exhibition of the American artist Jeff Koons. Presenting five mural-sized paintings executed between 2001 2013, the exhibition features work from his Easyfun-Ethereal series first commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in 2000, alongside artworks from the Popeye and Antiquity ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the fate of artworks and artefacts between looting, displacement and restitution | | Yamini Nayar "Ouroboros" opens at Thomas Erben Gallery | | Rachel Harrison presents a new body of work at Konrad Fischer Galerie |
Exhibition view, The Life of Things, 2024. Photo: Edwin Husic.
LINZ.- This exhibition of the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz in Collaboration with the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl - Salzkammergut 2024 explores the fate of artworks and artefacts between looting, displacement and restitution through contemporary artistic responses. The range of works on show curated ... More | |
Feeding the Silkworm, 2024. Archival pigment print, 50 Ã 40in., edition of 5 (+1 AP).
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben is presenting Ouroboros, Yamini Nayars eighth exhibition with the gallery dating back to the artist's first show in 2009 (with Sheela Gowda) and including solo presentations at NADA, Art Cologne and the India Art Fair. This exhibition is presented conjointly with Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. Nayar chooses the image ... More | |
Installation view, Rachel Harrison, Bird Watching, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, 2024 | photo by Roman März.
BERLIN.- Konrad Fischer Galerie announced its debut exhibition with Rachel Harrison. For the past thirty years, Harrison has harnessed the tools of abstraction to touch a cultural nerve. This new body of work heightens her longstanding interest in the effects of mediation, used here to cross competing visual regimes and as a spur to formal ... More |
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| British Pakistani artist Haroun Hayward's second solo show with Hales opens in New York | | Sarasota Art Museum offers a tactile sensory experience with new celestial exhibition | | Miles McEnery Gallery now representing Tracy Thomason |
Haroun Hayward, Nightdrive through Babylon (Cornstook in Landscape) No. 4, 2024, Oil paint, oil stick, oil pastel, and gesso on panel, Framed 124.6 x 91.4 x 6.6 cm, 49 x 36 x 2 5/8 in. Photo by Damian Griffiths.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales opens Landscape of the Vernal Equinox, British Pakistani artist Haroun Haywards debut exhibition in New York. In his second solo show with Hales, Hayward continues to remix and repeat a refined visual language in search ... More | |
Anne Patterson and Patrick Harlin. Installation view of The Truth of the Night Sky at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2024. Photo: Ryan Gamma.
SARASOTA, FLA.- Dramatically lit sculptures, galactic paintings and thousands of vibrant ribbons set against an orchestral composition escort visitors beyond Earths atmosphere in The Truth of the Night Sky: Anne Patterson and Patrick Harlin. Experience the exhibition through Sept. 29 at ... More | |
Thomason lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn-based artist Tracy Thomason creates intuitive paintings connected with the body. She pestles marble dust into oil paint, creating canvases that step into the three dimensional with their topographical surfaces. Gestural lines and abstract forms traverse the canvas, mimicking bodily figures and natural structures. Poppy bright palettes, sometimes metered with pure black ... More |
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| Kunstparcours at Gropius Bau challenges rules and discovers new playing fields | | Imperial Fabergé & Russian works of art shine in Heritage's inaugural dedicated Auction of Russian Art | | Keith Haring mural on public display for first time in Stanley Museum of Art exhibition |
Radical Playgrounds. Ein Kunstparcours am Gropius Bau, Lozzi Wurm. Photo: Camille Blake.
BERLIN.- The parcours Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration, curated by Joanna Warsza and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, opened in the presence of Minister of State Claudia Roth. International artists are transforming the space beside the Gropius Bau into an artistic fun fair where visitors can train for eleven weeks to challenge rules and play freely with each other. From ... More | |
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna: An Imperial Fabergé Two-Color Gold and Opalescent Pink Guilloché Enameled Diamond-Shaped Clock.
DALLAS, TX.- Revolutions and wars tend to both make and break histories, and the eruptions that threaten to erase the past can also add layers of understanding and meaning to the difference between before and after. In terms of consequences, the Russian Revolution of 1917 is one of the most studied and remarkable as the Bolsheviks ... More | |
Keith Haring at work on the mural at Ernest Horn Elementary School, 1989. Photographer unknown. Image courtesy of Colleen Ernst. © Keith Haring Foundation.
IOWA CITY, IOWA.- At the height of his career, Keith Haring visited students at Ernest Horn Elementary School in Iowa City and painted the mural A Book Full of Fun (1989). The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art uses this mural as a lens to reconsider Harings broader impact as an artist in To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa ... More |
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Exhibition of new and recent work by Amy Sillman opens at Gladstone
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone presents To Be Other-Wise, an exhibition of new and recent paintings, works on paper, and a video by Amy Sillman. Depicting both recognizable and reimagined forms, Sillman's paintings push and pull between overt abstraction and ciphered figuration. In To Be Other-Wise, Sillman lays bare the time and space in which abstraction is made through a sequential unfolding of thought and process. Her serial works on paper reveal an analog animation process, unfurling the various stages of mark-making that in paintings are compressed into buried layers. Sillman embraces an artistic process that champions improvisation and challenges conventional notions of form and representation. Sillmans work in painting and drawing has been shaped by her basic notion of artmaking as a conduit for change. Rather than working toward ... More
Good Morning, Beautiful! Rachel Libeskind exhibits at signs and symbols
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Good Morning, Beautiful!, Rachel Libeskinds third solo exhibition with the gallery. Im not a philosopher, but some of my best friends are. Sometimes they like to talk about what exists, and in what way. If a bowl exists, does the empty space inside it exist too? If the space isnt an existing thing, what makes the bowl, which is defined by this space, what it is? Empty spaces are interesting subjects in that way. Theyre absences that are never really quite absent. They are unheimlichuncanny. They can be haunting. Is a haunting a real thing? Or is it just another absence, a hole in reality? Rachel Libeskind seems to be haunted by a certain absence or emptiness, and so is her work. That absence has a namewell, many names: DDR, for Deutsche Demokratische Republik; GDR, for German ... More
National Museum of Asian Art presents "Do Ho Suh: Public Figures"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art presents Do Ho Suh: Public Figures, a sculpture by contemporary Korean artist Do Ho Suh commissioned to celebrate the museums 100th anniversary. The monumental plinth was unveiled April 27 and installed on the museums Freer Plaza for five years, facing the National Mall in Washington, D.C. First presented as part of Public Art Funds 1998 exhibition Beyond the Monument (Brooklyn, New York), Public Figures challenges the notion of heroic individualism and the stability of national narratives. For the work, Suh created a plinth for a monument; however, its imposing form is not a base to support a heroic figure or to mark a particular historic event, but rather a massive weight held aloft by many small, individualized figures caught in mid-stride. Prominently ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition of works by Markus Selg
BERLIN.- Gallery spaces are generally neutral in their appearance and create a zone of calm around their exhibits. Galerie Guido W. Baudach is also such a white cube, but in Markus Selg's exhibition TWIN ZONE, the ban mile around the works dissolves, as does the closed box of the exhibition space itself. At first glance, TWIN ZONE looks like a traditional exhibition of large-format computer prints and sculptures. However, thanks to the augmented reality app that Markus Selg developed for this project, the virtual twins of these sculptures and paintings as well as earlier works that are not physically present, such as Teerhof from 1999, can also be experienced in the gallery. They appear unexpectedly on the audience's smartphone displays and float gently through the room or appear as additional exhibits on the walls. The presence of digital artworks ... More
The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes three new exhibitions
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes three new photography exhibitions this spring: Picture This: Recent Acquisitions, Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts, and The Artist Speaks: Cara Romero. The works on view have been selected from over a thousand photographs received as gifts to the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art collections in the last three years, culminating with the merger of the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art. The combined photographic art collection now contains over fifteen thousand works spanning mediums such as photography, video, and new media. This exhibition showcases a variety of important themes and genres, including Portraiture, Abstraction/Manipulation, and Modernism. Guests ... More
Cheyney McKnight debuts solo exhibition presenting the Black experience through an Afrofuturist lens
NEW YORK, NY.- The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance presents The Ancestor's Future: An Afrofuturist's Journey Through Time, artist and historian Cheyney McKnight's first solo exhibition featuring her performance pieces, photographs, and clothing designs that are transformed into modern textiles while highlighting the Black experience in America with 18th and 19th-century silhouettes. The exhibition, exploring themes of community bonds, health, climate change, and adaptation, will be on view from May 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024, and is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, April 30, from 6 pm to 8 pm at The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. The Ancestor's Future is a significant exploration of Black America's past, viewed through the lens of Afrofuturism. McKnight's work delves into a distant future ... More
Cooke Latham Gallery presents 'Fani Parali: Children of the Future'
LONDON.- In her ambitious new exhibition for Cooke Latham, Fani Parali invites viewers into an alternate realm, a space designed for and inhabited solely by children. Through this inversion of our own reality Parali, like all truly great purveyors of science fiction, not only looks ahead reflecting upon the challenges facing the next generation but also invites critical analysis of our societal status quo. Parali has crafted a new soundscape by channelling multiple voices, using recordings of both professional singers and children to create a call-and-response between the 'machine' of the gallery and the 'children' who inhabit it. A raw look into the increasingly symbiotic relationship between humans and machines, Children of the Future addresses the ramifications of unbridled technological progress on future generations. Though an implicit sense of terror ... More
Tony nominations snubs and surprises: Steve Carell and 'The Wiz' miss out
NEW YORK, NY.- The day of the Tony Award nominations is like college acceptance day a bit earlier in the spring, but on the scarcity model: Of the dozens of artists eligible in each category, only five or so are admitted. That means some great work gets left by the wayside but also, because the number of nominators is small enough to be idiosyncratic, that plenty of outcomes defy all prediction. Here are our thoughts on this seasons inadvertent (and possibly advertent) snubs, delightful (or mystifying) surprises and other notable anomalies. Television stars are considered good box office but not always good Tony bait. This years crop, including Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper, complicates that wisdom. Paulson is a likely winner but the men are already canceling each other out. Although Carell, in his Broadway ... More
'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' tie for most Tony nominations
NEW YORK, NY.- A semi-autobiographical Alicia Keys musical and a play about a group of musicians struggling to record an album each got 13 Tony nominations Tuesday, tying for the most nods in a packed Broadway season when shows need all the help they can get. The musical, Hells Kitchen, features some of Keys biggest hits as well as new songs by her. The play, Stereophonic, David Adjmis exploration of creativity and conflict inside a recording studio, is now the most-nominated play in Tony Awards history, besting a record set in 2021 by Slave Play, which had 12 nominations. A star-studded production of Merrily We Roll Along that turned a storied Stephen Sondheim flop into one of the seasons biggest hits is favored to win the musical revival category. But it faces several other big revivals, including a lavish production of Cabaret starring ... More
Killer asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked space rocks
NEW YORK, NY.- A couple of years ago, a team of researchers dedicated to finding killer asteroids before they kill us came up with a neat trick. Instead of scanning the skies with telescopes for asteroids, the scientists wrote an algorithm that sifts through old pictures of the night sky, discovering about 100 asteroids that had been overlooked in those images. On Tuesday, those scientists, with the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington, revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were discovered by all of the worlds telescopes last year. This is a sea change in how astronomical research will be conducted, said Ed Lu, executive director of the institute, which is part of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group that Lu helped found. The finds include about 100 near- ... More
Daniel Radcliffe on breaking the spell with his first Tony nomination
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Radcliffe caught the first batch of Tony nominations during the announcement at 8:30 a.m. He texted congratulations to his Merrily We Roll Along co-star Jonathan Groff, who was nominated for best actor in a musical. But then dad duty called before his own category, featured actor in a musical, was announced at 9:00. I was in the middle of doing breakfast and trying to put my son down for his morning nap, so I got a text from a member of the cast letting me know I was nominated, said the actor, 34, who stars as the lyricist and playwright Charley Kringas in the acclaimed revival of the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, Merrily We Roll Along. Radcliffes Tony nomination for his fifth Broadway role since his 2008 debut in Equus is the first of his career. And its extra special, he said in a phone ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs--at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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