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Maïmouna Guerresi, Sebaätou Rijal & Villes Nouvelles and Ancient Shadows, installation view of the series Sebaätou Rijal, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and the Aga Khan Museum. Photo: © Aly Manji.
TORONTO.- Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival opened the 27th edition of the annual citywide event spanning May 2023. As part of this yearâs Core Program, artists present lens-based works in exhibitions, site-specific installations, and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto. Among these are CONTACTâs critically acclaimed Outdoor Installationsâa central component of the Festivalâs program. This year CONTACT welcomes several guest curators activating 21 sites across the city. The Festival runs April 28 â May 31, 2023, and is free and open to the public. Among the almost 100 artists, documentary photographers, and photojournalists featured across the Core Program of gallery exhibitions and outdoor installations are: Farah Al Qasimi, Joi T. Arcand, Hélène Amouzou, Nabil Azab, Genesis Báez, Ursula Biemann, Catherine Blackburn, Mary Bunch, Jawa El Khash, Lindsey french, Karina Griffit ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Niki de Saint Phalle, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2023, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
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| Sotheby's Design Sale - curated by Diana Picasso - featuring €1 million Lalanne apple | | Rare and important Iznik water bottle at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art sale | | For this glass blower, art is a full-body sport |
Led by 50 major works from inimitable sculptors Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne including a monumental 1 million golden apple. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 24 May, Sothebys Important Design auction will offer a panorama of creations from the early 20th century to the present day. Testament to the intersection of art and design, art historian, jewellery designer and granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, Diana Widmaier Picasso has guest-curated the auction. Major artists from across each of the key periods of design from Art Nouveau through to Contemporary will star in the sale, including Pierre Chareau, Jean-Michel Frank, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Paul Dupré-Lafon, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Jean Royère, Gio Ponti, Martin Szekely and Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. The sale will also feature a French private collection of Picasso ceramics. Among the star lots are several major creations by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne intended to populate parks and gardens: from Claudes ... More | |
An important Iznik pottery water bottle (surahi) Turkey, circa 1575. Estimate: £100,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare and important 16th century Iznik pottery water bottle known as a surahi is to be offered at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art sale in London on Tuesday 23 May 2023. Made in Turkey in around 1575, the 37.8 cm. high bottle is estimated at £100,000-200,000. The water bottle comes from the collection of the Rolin family. The Belgian businessman Leon Rolin (1871-1950), nicknamed 'The Lion of Cairo', was the owner of one of the largest civil contractors in Egypt. His firm built the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, which on its opening in 1910 was the most luxurious hotel in Africa. (It was taken into public ownership in 1958 and is now a presidential palace). Inspired by their surroundings, Leon and his wife, Madeleine formed a collection of Islamic art which was added to by their daughter Jacqueline. She later returned to Belgium and distributed her rich collection amongst her children and their descendants. Oliver White, ... More | |
Glass artist Deborah Czeresko creates a piece at Urban Glass in Brooklyn on April 17, 2023. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
by Joshua Needelman
NEW YORK, NY.- Glass blowing, it turned out, was where Deborah Czeresko found a craft that engaged her whole body. After college, Czeresko tried out graphic design (really boring) before realizing she needed something that would energize her on a holistic level. She found the solution in a class at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, now known as UrbanGlass: Glass blowing, she learned, required grip strength, endurance and balance. Its like a sport out there, in that it is physical, and its moving all the time, Czeresko said. So the knowledge was taken in through my body and came out through my body. After honing her craft, Czeresko exhibited her work at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, including a permanent exhibit at the latter. (Her most commercially recognizable ... More |
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| A faster delivery for fans of manga | | Grace Bumbry, barrier-shattering opera diva, is dead at 86 | | Born of grief, a couple's Off Broadway incubator marks 20 years |
VIZ Media will give North American readers new installments of stories in English on the same day they are released in Japan, an effort to cut down the wait time and combat rampant piracy.
by George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK, NY.- VIZ Media, a publisher devoted to manga and anime, on Tuesday will begin offering translated chapters of popular manga to audiences in North America on the same day they are released in Japan. The simultaneous publication of titles through the companys VIZ Manga app is part of an effort to get manga more quickly into the hands of fans at a time of booming readership, the company said. And it may also help fight pervasive piracy. In the last few years, manga became so much bigger, said Ken Sasaki, the CEO of VIZ Media, which is based in San Francisco and is a subsidiary of the Japanese publisher Hitotsubashi Group. I think readers are finally aware that there are so many other genres. Manga sales hit $550 million in 2021, Milton Griepp, the CEO of ICv2, an online pop culture trade publication, said last year at New York Comic Con. Sales jumped ... More | |
African American singer Grace Bumbry in a dressing room at the Met Opera, in New York, in 1967. (Sam Falk/The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Grace Bumbry, a barrier-shattering mezzo-soprano whose vast vocal range and transcendent stage presence made her a towering figure in opera, and one its first, and biggest, Black stars, died Sunday in Vienna. She was 86. Her death, following a stroke in October, was confirmed in a statement by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she was long a mainstay, performing more than 200 times over two decades. Growing up in St. Louis in an era of segregation, Bumbry came of age at a time when African American singers were a rare sight on the opera stage, despite breakthroughs by luminaries like Leontyne Price and Marian Anderson. But with a fierce drive and an outsize charisma, Bumbry broke out internationally in 1960, at 23, when she sang Amneris in Verdis Aida at the Paris Opera. The following year, she landed in something of a national scandal in West Germany when Wieland Wagner, ... More | |
Jenny and Jon Steingart, the founders of Ars Nova, at their home in Manhattan, May 1, 2023. (Gillian Laub/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2002, Jenny and Jon Steingart founded the off-Broadway incubator Ars Nova as a way of honoring Jennys brother, Gabriel Wiener, who in 1997 died of a brain aneurysm at age 26. Now, as the nonprofit theater is marking its 20th anniversary, the couple is facing another wrenching struggle: Jon has ALS, the severe neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Every painful experience in my life if I have to live through it, I am going to come out on the other side with a lesson and a way to give back in some way, Jenny Steingart said in a recent interview at their home on the Upper West Side. Because a loss without some meaning behind it is really hard to live with. So this anniversary, to be celebrated with a gala on Monday, also finds the Steingarts feeling great satisfaction, having created an institution that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has played a crucial role in the professional development ... More |
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| White Cube announces inaugural shows at New York gallery opening this fall | | Elisabeth Wild's 'Imagination Factory' curated by Marianne Dobner now on view at MUMOK | | Building a better Colonial Williamsburg |
Ilana Savdie, The MouthBriefly Shut Itself, 2022. © The artist. Photo © Lance Brewer.
NEW YORK, NY.- White Cube announced the opening of its New York gallery this fall, at 1002 Madison Avenue in the citys Upper East Side. Housed in a historic former bank constructed in 1930, the three-story space is the gallerys first permanent location in the United States after launching the seasonal White Cube West Palm Beach gallery in 2021. This year also marks 30 years since the 1993 opening of White Cubes first location on Duke Street in London. The inaugural exhibition at White Cube New York, titled Chopped & Screwed, will occupy two floors of the new gallery. Curated by Courtney Willis Blair (Senior Director, US), the show explores the idea of distortion as both a formal and conceptual tool used to examine and subvert well-established narratives or systems. ... More | |
Installation View.
VIENNA.- The turbulent biography of Elisabeth Wild (née Pollak, * 1922 in Vienna, 2020 in Panajachel, Guatemala) reads like a recap of the twentieth century. Marked by flight and displacement, national identification and disidentification, her life seemed constantly to hit the reset button. This is not least evident in her oeuvre, which is highly diverse in terms of the media she usedincluding painting, sculpture, and textile design as well as collages and subsequent installations. MUMOK presents her first retrospective exhibition, turning the spotlight on her late works as well as her previously unknown early works. With her first major presentation in Vienna on view at the MUMOK, Wilds story comes full circle. At the heart of the conceived exhibition is her artistic development, which reads like a ride through twentieth- and twenty-first- ... More | |
Kody Grant, who has worked at Colonial Williamsburg since 2015, portrays Oconostota, a Cherokee leader who came to Williamsburg in 1777 on a diplomatic mission, in Williamsburg, Va., April 27, 2023. (Matt Eich/The New York Times).
by Jennifer Schuessler
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Those who come to Colonial Williamsburg on a nostalgia trip will find some of what they are looking for. The fife-and-drum corps can still be found marching down Duke of Gloucester Street, whose storefronts are full of costumed interpreters making 18th century wigs, or reenacting the political debates that helped birth the American Revolution. But approach the stocks and pillories in front of the courthouse to re-create a goofy photo from a long-ago school trip, and you will find the headpieces bolted shut. They were closed up in the spring ... More |
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| SFMOMA appoints Gamynne Guillotte as Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer | | Largest Norman Foster retrospective to be held at Centre Pompidou, Paris | | Fondazione Giuliani hosting exhibition by Raphaela Simon |
Gamynne Guillotte. Photo by Christopher Myers.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today announced the appointment of Gamynne Guillotte as the Leanne and George Roberts Chief Education and Community Engagement Officer. The position is an integral part of SFMOMAs leadership team and is responsible for anchoring the institutions efforts to connect with a wide range of audiences through educational and public programs, in-gallery experiences, community partnerships and off-site collaborations. Guillotte brings two decades of experience working at the intersections of art, the built environment and public engagement, developing projects grounded in research and listening that address the changing needs of artists and the public. She joins SFMOMA from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), where she most recently held the position of Chief Education ... More | |
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters (1986). Copyright: Ian Lambot / Foster + Partners.
PARIS.- The largest retrospective spanning the entire oeuvre of Norman Fosters work over the last six decades will open at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in May this year. Covering nearly 2,200 square-metres, the exhibition reviews the different periods of the architects work, highlighting seminal projects, such as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (Hong Kong, 1979-1986), the Carré dArt (Nîmes, 1984-1993), Hong Kong International Airport (1992-1998) and Apple Park (Cupertino, United States, 2009-2017). Norman Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners and President, Norman Foster Foundation, said: This exhibition traces the themes of sustainability and anticipating the future. The birth of the practice in the 1960s coincided with the first signs of an awareness ... More | |
© Raphaela Simon. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
ROME.- Fondazione Giuliani is now opening Blaue Nacht, German artist Raphaela Simons first exhibition in Italy, and her first ever solo exhibition in an institution. Known for her large-scale paintings of deceptively simple, non-distinct forms set against monochromatic backgrounds, Simon works through different junctures to create a series of layers on the canvas, overpainting and modifying previous elements over and over again, in an often unremitting, slow process. Still bearing visible traces of their earlier forms, each painting becomes a sort of palimpsest, with subtle gradations of colour and reflections of light emerging through the different layers, adding nuance to the composition. Working within an indeterminate margin between representation and abstraction, Simon titles her works after ordinary objects and designs, ... More |
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Joyride Bookshop to open at The New Children's Museum
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- Young book lovers might be familiar with the colorful Joyride mobile bookshop that pops up at community fairs, parks, schools and other kid-focused nonprofit organizations and businesses. Now, founders Katie Turner and Susie Horn will have a new home at The New Childrens Museum downtown. We believe that all children need to see themselves and others in a book, said Turner, who explained that the original concept was hatched during the pandemic. Friends through their children, Turner and Horn turned to their youngsters for feedback and input as they crafted a mission to provide a space for all children to discover the wonder, humanity, and capacity of books created and curated just for them. They also were determined to focus on community partnerships, like the one with NCM. The Joyride Truck was a hit at the recent ... More
Max Hooper Schneider exhibits at François Ghebaly Los Angeles in 'Falling Angels'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- François Ghebaly Los Angeles recently opened the exhibition 'Falling Angeles' by artist Max Hooper Schneider which will end on June 10th. Angels of immanence are not the pink-hued and bewinged putti of the Italian Renaissance. They are Breughels rebel angels, fallen angels who wear no halos, know no gods, and consider transcendence and the supernatural dangerous inventions. They are terrifying and demonic as well as sublime. They can be summoned but they are fickle and may not come. They promote contact with bodies you would rather avoid and prohibit contacts you desire. They allow you to believe you are an independent thinker but in the manner of autonomic judgments sourced in inherited taxonomies and classificatory regimes, will, according to whim, exercise their dictatorial powers, ... More
Celebrities are instantly recognizable - or are they?
NEW YORK, NY.- In this exhibition, now open at Staley Wise Gallery since May 5th and ending on June 24th, 2023, the viewer is challenged to identify who the celebrity is in the photograph. Some are readily known by hair, hands, clothing, and posture. Some others are not so easy. Perhaps thats where the fun comes in, and perhaps the real person emerges. Sometimes, the element of disguise or concealment is a collaboration between artist and subject and reveals just as much as it hides. Ellen von Unwerths photograph of Lady Gaga illustrates this. Elvis Presleys gait, Roy Lichtensteins paintbrush, and Michael Jordans heroic stature are also represented in images by Alfred Wertheimer, Abe Frajndlich, and Herb Ritts. Each image tells us something about its subject while being far from the traditional portrait. ... More
The Armory Show announces 2023 exhibitors
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show is pleased to announce over 225 leading international galleries exhibiting in the 2023 edition, representing more than 35 countries and showcasing over 800 artists. New Yorks Art Fair will return for its third year at the Javits Center September 810, with a VIP Preview on September 7. More than 140 exhibitors from the previous edition are returning to The Armory Show in 2023, including 303 Gallery (New York), Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, Hong Kong, Palm Beach), James Cohan (New York), Instituto de Visión (Bogotá, New York), Kasmin (New York), Sean Kelly (New York, Los Angeles), Simon Lee Gallery (London, Hong Kong), Josh Lilley (London), Victoria Miro (London, Venice), Almine Rech (New York, Paris, Brussels, London, Shanghai), Larkin Erdmann (Zurich), Nara Roesler (São Paulo, ... More
NWO grant for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen research into gifts and bequests from women
ROTTERDAM.- Art historian Bram Donders, who works as a researcher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant for his research project, Bequeathed, into women who have gifted or bequeathed artworks to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen since 1849. The significance of female donors and legators has never previously been the subject of study despite the fact that women have played an important role in shaping the museums collection: approximately one in five donors have been women. Kandinskys painting Lyrical (1911), for example, part of the Highlights Presentation in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, was bequeathed to the museum by Marie Tak van Poortvliet (1871-1936), an important collector of modern art. It is just one of many examples in the history of a museum ... More
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens awarded $650 K from the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announced today that it has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) initiative, a partnership between the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy and Alice L. Walton Foundation. The funding provided by LAM enables the Cummer Museum to establish the Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Curator, a new position named in honor of the Jacksonville native and internationally regarded educator, scholar and transformational leader. More than 60 years ago, Ninah Cummer created the Cummer Museum to serve as an educational and civic resource for the people of Jacksonville. The Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Curator will work collaboratively with museum leadership and colleagues on the development of exhibitions, ... More
Artworks revealed for Vivid Sydney Lighting of the Sails: Life Enlivened 2023 by John Olsen and Curiious
SYDNEY.- Acclaimed Australian artist John Olsens vibrant paintings of life and energy within the natural world will illuminate the Sydney Opera Houses sails in the annual Lighting of the Sails for Vivid Sydney from 26 May 17 June 2023. Lighting of the Sails 2023 fittingly honours the legendary artist in the 50th anniversary year of the Opera House, home to Olsens captivating mural Salute to Slessors 5 Bells. Prior to his passing, Olsen worked closely with Destination NSW, the Sydney Opera House, curator Dr. Deborah Hart and creative technologists Curiious on the concept for Life Enlivened (2023). Distilling the essence of Olsens esteemed sixty-year career, the animated artwork traces an arc through his enduring fascination with the Australian natural environment, aligned with the festivals 2023 creative direction, Vivid Sydney, Naturally. ... More
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
NEW YORK, NY.- I mean, look: Im bowled over right now, the polymathic musician Rhiannon Giddens said from her home in Ireland on Monday, shortly after winning the Pulitzer Prize for music. She was speaking in a phone interview with composer Michael Abels, who joined separately by phone from the United States. Together, they wrote the Pulitzer-winner, Omar, an opera about Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim scholar who was captured in Africa in the early 1800s and sold into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina. It was there that the work premiered last May, at Spoleto Festival USA. Giddens wrote the libretto based on Saids autobiography, and recorded self-accompanied demos that Abels then responded to with a fleshed-out score. The result was a multigenre, multicultural swirl a tour through the sound worlds of Islam, bluegrass, ... More
Comedy is in their (identical) DNA
NEW YORK, NY.- The twins took the stage in matching red cowboy boots. On a recent Wednesday night in Brooklyn the kind of chilly, misty night made for staying in about 200 people had come out to see them. The audience at Littlefield, a performance space in Gowanus, sipped cocktails through Twizzlers and ate tacos in folding chairs, hugging and laughing as they settled in for a night of comedy. The occasion was the New York premiere of Pennies From Heaven, a short film starring the 26-year-old identical twin comedians Annabel and Sabina Meschke. In the film, the sisters play convenience store clerks who stumble on a pickup truck full of pennies in the desert, leading them on an adventure through a supremely silly, surreal world. Brimming with goofball tomfoolery in every frame, Pennies conjures a vibrant twinematic universe ... More
Long Play rises to the top of New York classical music festivals
NEW YORK, NY.- Long Play has been around only since last year, but it is already the most important classical music festival in New York City. And, based on the 15 concerts I attended during its second edition, which unfolded and overlapped in spaces around Brooklyn from Friday through Sunday, this festival by the Bang on a Can collective could even stand to get a little bigger. Capacity crowds amassed at Pioneer Works to hear Meredith Monks ensemble collaborate with the Bang on a Can All-Stars; at Roulette to hear the Philip Glass Ensemble; at the Mark Morris Dance Center to hear a new repertory group investigate music from the early 1990s by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill. These in-demand sets couldnt fit everyone who wanted to hear them, but with two or three other events always close by, nobody ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and illustrator Hokusai died May 10, 1849. Katsushika Hokusai (c. October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjuroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Women in various walks of life' (around 1793) during a press preview of the Hokusai retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
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