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A stone panel, dating to the eighth century, of Kâab Kanteâ, a ruler of the ancient Maya kingdom of Sak Tzâiâ, in Chiapas, Mexico, June 14, 2022. Before the pandemic, the long-sought ruins of Sak Tzâiâ, a small but influential Maya civilization, were discovered on a cattle farm in Mexico, but it wasnât until this summer that archaeologists returned to excavate the site. Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times.
by Franz Lidz and Meghan Dhaliwal
CHIAPAS.- On a bright, buggy summer morning, Charles Golden, an anthropologist at Brandeis University, slashed through the knee-high grass of a cattle ranch deep in the Valle de Santo Domingo, a sparsely populated region of thick brush and almost impenetrable jungle. Only the raucous half-roar, half-bark of howler monkeys pierced the ceaseless mating call of cicadas. Were coming to whats left of the Sak Tzi dynasty, Golden said. Golden approached a barbed wire fence enclosing a pasture, then limboed under it and surveyed the vista beyond: the crumbling ruins of Sak Tzi, a Maya settlement at least 2,500 years old. Spread across 100 acres of tangled vines and lumpy earth were reminders of lost grandeur: giant heaps of rock and rubble that had once been temples, plazas, reception halls and a towering, terraced palace. Directly ahead were the remains of a complex of platforms that had formed the acropolis. In its prime, it was dominated by a 45-foot-hi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In occasion of the 2022 Venice Biennale, Ca' Pesaro- International Gallery of Modern Art intends to celebrate the important moment of renaissance in the global art world by taking inspiration from its own collection and strong holdings of one of the most important voices of post-World War II Italian art, Afro Basaldella.
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| Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of works by Richard Jackson | | Phillips' New Now Sale features dynamic works spanning emerging and established artists | | Exhibition of new work by London-based artist Do Ho Suh opens at Lehmann Maupin |
Installation view, RICHARD JACKSON WORKS, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, until 23 December 2022 © Richard Jackson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich.
ZURICH.- A pre-eminent figure in American contemporary art since the 1970s, Richard Jackson is influenced by both abstract expressionism and action painting. His work explores a performative painting process that extends the potential of his chosen medium by upending its technical conventions. Returning to Hauser & Wirth Zurichs gallery on Limmatstrasse this September, Jackson debuts an interactive Shooting Gallery (2020), the most recent example of his painting machines which will be activated by the artist in the ground floor space. In addition, the exhibition presents a survey of Jacksons Neon works from the past 30 years, works on paper and a new installation titled 1000 Pictures from the artists seminal Stacked Paintings series, consisting of one thousand ... More | |
Jim Dine, Night Fields, Day Fields.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 28 September, Phillips New York will kick off its live auction season with the ever-anticipated New Now sale. Featuring 260 lots, the sale will appeal to new and seasoned collectors alike, featuring works by auction newcomers Tammy Nguyen, Ana Benaroya, and 13 other debut artists, alongside established names like Yayoi Kusama, Katharina Grosse, and Jim Dine. Avery Semjen, Head of New Now, New York, said, Phillips New Now sales have become a mainstay of the auction world over the last several years, being regarded as a barometer for the health of the market at large. We are delighted to present such a strong September sale, as we welcome collectors back into our galleries and continue our momentum from the spring forward. After setting a new auction record for the artist in May, we are proud to offer Yayoi Kusamas Hat as the star lot of the sale, embodying the best features of her iconic oeuvre. The work will be ... More | |
DO HO SUH, Jet Lag, 2022 (detail). Polyester fabric, stainless steel, 130.64 x 412.57 x 1.17 inches 331.83 x 1047.93 x 2.98 cm © Do Ho Suh Photo by Jeon Taeg Su.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Do Ho Suh. Working across various media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, and film, Suh engages ideas of home, memory, psychic space, and displacement. In this exhibition, Suh expands on his exploration of the politics and subjectivity of memory, a concept that has remained central to his practice over the last 25 years. Suh has long been interested in the role of public monuments, first explored with Public Figures (1998) and particularly in what he refers to as the self-authorizing framework of the pedestal. The presentation opens with Inverted Monument (2022), a large-scale sculpture made of extruded thermoplastic polyester developed as part of an ongoing research project with a robotics team ... More |
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| Exhibition features artists who have all faced censorship in their careers | | John Giorno at Frieze Sculpture Park | | Pulitzer presents major exhibition celebrating the achievements of acclaimed artist Barbara Chase-Riboud |
Helen Beard, Selenicereus Grandiflorus (Queen of the Night), 2022, Oil on Canvas, Image courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- Unit London presents Sensitive Content, an exhibition exploring the issue of artistic censorship from 13 September - 16 October, 2022 ● Sensitive Content features artists who have all faced censorship in their careers, particularly those who have been censored because they platform marginalised groups ● The exhibition examines the courageous ways artists have resolved to create work from nuanced perspectives on sex, beauty and politics, despite censorship ● Curated by artist Helen Beard, and art historians Alayo Akinkugbe and Maria Elena Buszek, the exhibition surveys censored artworks from the 1940s to the present day Sensitive Content brings together artists who have first-hand experience of censorship, and in particular, those who are censored on the basis of their work depicting or giving voice to systematically marginalised groups. The exhibition seeks to demonstrate ... More | |
Portrait of John Giorno in his studio, 2019 © Courtesy of The John Giorno Foundation and Almine Rech. Photo: Dan Bradica.
LONDON.- The John Giorno Foundation and Almine Rech present SPACE MIRRORS MIND, a sculpture by John Giorno, exhibited for the first time, from the late series entitled Stone Poems: a found glacial granite into which a poetic phrase is engraved. This work from the late series entitled 'Stone Poems' portrays the dynamic between the intangibility of language and the solid materiality of stone. Similar works were shown in 2017 at the Château de Versailles outside Paris as part of Voyage dhiver, an exhibition organized by the Palais de Tokyo. John Giorno (1936-2019) is recognised as one of the most innovative poets and artists of the twentieth century. His kaleidoscopic work fused and furthered poetry, visual art and activism, pushing text off the printed page and into the social realm. Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of the Drawing Center, New York, writes in the publication for the Giorno retrospective at , ... More | |
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #13, 2008. Bronze with black patina, silk, wool, and synthetic fibers with steel support, 86 3/4 à 45 à 34 1/2 inches (220.3 à 114.3 à 87.6 cm). Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Bebe and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2018.01.01. Photography by E.G. Schempf, 2019. © Barbara Chase-Riboud.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- This fall the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes, a major monographic presentation examining the artistic vision of the Paris-based artist, novelist, and poet, Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. Philadelphia, 1939). On view from September 16, 2022, to February 5, 2023, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes brings together some 40 major sculptures from the 1950s to the present day, accompanied by 20 drawings. The exhibition illustrates how the artist has developed a highly original visual language that is also fundamentally global and transhistorical, with influences ... More |
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| Exhibition presents an exhibition featuring seven Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia | | Phillips to offer photographs from the collection of Peter C. Bunnell | | Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens 'Luigi Pericle: A Rediscovery' |
Suada Demirović, Home the terrible beauty of unbelonging, 2021. Photo: Suada Demirović. © Suada Demirović / VISDA.
COPENHAGEN.- This September, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst) presents an exhibition featuring seven Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia. Taking their multicultural background as a point of departure, they create works about war, migration, belonging and asylum policies. In the 1990s, the wars in the former Yugoslavia prompted more than half a million people to flee their home, primarily from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This year, exactly 30 years have gone by since 20,000 of them came to Denmark as part of what was, at that time, the most challenging refugee situation in Europe since World War II. Many of these refugees eventually chose to stay in Denmark, and today the Danish contemporary art scene bears the imprints of several prominent artists from the former Yugoslavia. Artists who trained at Danish art academies, but who often venture beyond ... More | |
Minor White, Selected Figure Studies of Tom Murphy, 1947. Estimate: $8,000 12,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the sale of photographs from the collection of renowned curator, teacher, historian, and author, Peter C. Bunnell (1937-2021) in a series of live and online auctions in 2022 and 2023. In his curatorial roles at The Museum of Modern Art and Princeton University Art Museum, and as a Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton, Bunnell professionalized the study of photographic history, conferring a higher degree of rigor and status to the medium, and inspiring an entire generation of photographers and curators. Starting with the first group of works to be sold on 12 October, proceeds from the sales will be distributed to six institutions with whom Bunnell was associatedRochester Institute of Technology, Ohio University, Yale University, The George Eastman Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and ... More | |
Untitled spring 1960. Indian ink on paper, 42 x 30 cm. Private collection.
LONDON.- This autumn, the Estorick Collection presents the work of Luigi Pericle (1916-2001), whose intense, enigmatic imagery was the subject of numerous exhibitions in Britain during the early1960s. Shortly thereafter Pericle retreated from the art system and for the rest of his life worked in a secluded house on Monte Verità (Mount Truth) in Switzerland. Having fallen into oblivion for several decades, his work was dramatically rediscovered in 2016 with the purchase of the artists former residence, which proved to be a treasure trove of paintings and graphic works. Luigi Pericle: A Rediscovery runs from 14 September until 18 December at the Estorick Collection. A Swiss painter of Italian origin, Pericle was also an illustrator, writer, and a scholar of esoteric philosophies such as astrology, theosophy and alchemy. During the 1960s his imagery was greatly admired by figures such as Herbert Read ... More |
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| JD Malat Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Santiago Parra | | Semiose opens an exhibition of works by Xie Lei | | Shaikha Al Mazrou presents Red Stack, 2022 at Frieze Sculpture 2022 |
Santiago Parra, Untitled , 2022. Mixed media on canvas, 64 5/8 x 50 3/4 in. 164 x 129 cm
NEW YORK, NY.- JD Malat Gallery is presenting Unconscious, a solo exhibition by Santiago Parra, an internationally-recognised abstract artist, born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1986. Following Black Matter, Parras groundbreaking solo exhibition in St. Moritz, Switzerland, JD Malat Gallery is extremely proud to firstly showcase his most recent work in New York. Unconscious presents the viewers with seven large-scale monochromes, constituting a visual diary with a glimpse into the artists uncontrolled reservoir of feelings, thoughts and ideas. The show is particularly thrilling as Parras new paintings bring us back to his earlier body of work. It brings out a greater sense of tenderness, conveyed through Parras smoother application of brush strokes, which flow through the canvas, gradually weaving an infinite knot. Through incorporating marble dust into ... More | |
Installation view.
PARIS.- Jean Genets Un Chant dAmour (1950), the sole film directed by the writer, stands as an unconventional landmark of cinematic culture. In the film, Genet portrays the amorous and sexual frustrations of men in prison, in an often suggestive and sometimes poetic manner. As with the authors written work, the notion of desire is the driving force behind the film, which in fine interweaves fantasies, potential relationships and real sexual acts. Xie Lei has appropriated both this iconic title and the concept of desire. Un Chant dAmour does not however serve as an influence or a subject of simple reverence, but rather as a clear starting point for a series of paintings. Genets convicts exist in a huis-clos, where the photography, accomplished notably by Jean Cocteau, is resolutely minimalist. Xie Leis recent paintings are structured in a disconcerting parallel to the film, through his obsession with detail and the absence of distanced perspective. The specta ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Lawrie Shabibi announced that Shaikha Al Mazrou (b. 1988, UAE) will present Red Stack, 2022 at Frieze Sculpture 2022 in Regents Park, London. The public art exhibition runs alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters and will be open from 14 September until 13 November 2022. Shaikha Al Mazrous sculptures are expressions of materialityarticulations of tension and the interplay between form and content. Central to her practice is her irreverent use of material and its apparent contradictions, using durable materials that are made to resemble something soft, pliable or ephemeral. Fascinated by notions of physical space, Al Mazrous sculptures and installations materialise as simple gestures that emphasise the representation of tension, weight and space, whilst borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art, colour theory and geometric abstraction. Red Stack develops the forms and la ... More |
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The Montclair State University Galleries announces 'Nothing Under Heaven' by Joseph Liatela
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair State University Galleries present the exhibition Nothing Under Heaven by Joseph Liatela from September 13 through December 9, 2022. The exhibition is on view at the University Galleries newly reconfigured flagship exhibition space, the George Segal Gallery. The artists first solo museum exhibition brings together new commissions and recent works that explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems. Exhibited alongside photography by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and religious art by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) from the University Galleries collection, Liatela invokes a range of stories to assess what it means to move together, remember together, and repair together. In Nothing Under Heaven, Liatela correlates spaces of communal experience churches, medical institutions, ... More
Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist who became a pop star, dies at 87
NEW YORK, NY.- Ramsey Lewis, a jazz pianist who unexpectedly became a pop star when his recording of The In Crowd reached the Top 10 in 1965 and who remained musically active, and continued to defy categorization, for more than a half century after that died on Monday at his home in Chicago. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. No cause was given. Lewis, who had been leading his own group since 1956, had recorded with the revered drummer Max Roach and was well known in jazz circles but little known elsewhere when he and his trio (Eldee Young on bass and Redd Holt on drums) recorded a live album at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington in May 1965. The album included a version of The In Crowd, which had been a hit for the R&B singer Dobie Gray just a few months earlier, and which was released ... More
Pangolin London opens an exhibition of works by Jon Buck
LONDON.- For as long as Jon Buck can remember he has been interested in the natural world and its magnificent diversity of form and colour. Unlike many artists however, Bucks inspiration to create art that celebrates this diversity is not purely focused on visual representation but richly informed by our scientific and cultural evolution. Jon Bucks own evolution as an artist has seen his work develop over the past four and a half decades from his first hyperreal highly-coloured resin sculptures to pared back forms cast in bronze. At first, the surfaces of the bronzes were inscribed with repeating patterns or simple lines which Buck discovered could convey a clearer expression and illicit a more powerful response. In recent years, the lines Buck inscribed into the surface have transitioned into shapes or glyphs that protrude from it, initiating a personal ... More
In a final homecoming, the Queen's coffin arrives in London
LONDON.- Crowds of Londoners lined the streets as Queen Elizabeth IIs coffin arrived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night, standing by to catch a glimpse of the royal hearse as it was driven from the Royal Air Force base in the citys west to the queens official residence. It was a homecoming of sorts. The queen spent most of her time living at Buckingham Palace after her coronation in 1953, although in recent years she increasingly spent time at Windsor Castle and Balmoral Castle in Scotland. That Scottish home is where she spent her final days, and where she died Thursday. Over the weekend, the queens coffin was moved from Balmoral to Scotlands capital, Edinburgh, where visitors paid their respects. The queens daughter, Princess Anne, accompanied the coffin back to London. Since early Tuesday, people had flocked to the Mall, ... More
King Charles inherits untold riches and passes off his own empire
LONDON.- King Charles III built his own empire long before he inherited his mothers. Charles, who formally acceded to the British throne Saturday, spent half a century turning his royal estate into a billion-dollar portfolio and one of the most lucrative moneymakers in the royal family business. While his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, largely delegated responsibility for her portfolio, Charles was far more deeply involved in developing the private estate known as the Duchy of Cornwall. Over the past decade, he has assembled a large team of professional managers who increased his portfolios value and profits by about 50%. Today, the Duchy of Cornwall owns the landmark cricket ground known as The Oval, lush farmland in the south of England, seaside vacation rentals, office space in London and a suburban supermarket depot. (A duchy is a territory ... More
Napa Valley College presents From This Moment On...Painting as Response to Wildfire
NAPA, CA.- Artist Nancy Willis paints moments of everyday life from domestic and exterior scenes. Her own garden has been the backdrop of many eventful dinner parties, lit by candles and strings of lights hanging from the redwoods. Moments from these events became motifs and recurring themes in her paintings. Willis connection to her surroundings became much more acute with the wildfires of 2020. She was evacuated three times that fall and during the Glass Fire lived in a Napa hotel for 30 days. Her front yard in Deer Park hosted fire engines and first responders, working tirelessly to save the forested neighborhood and her house was sparred. The artist turned to painting with a sense of urgency, going back into some completed paintings and modifying them with the smoke and orange glow that she saw the night she left. When she returned, ... More
Ishara Art Foundation presents Pattern, the first solo exhibition of artist Navjot Altaf in the Arabian Peninsula
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 ... More
Woody Auction to offer the Karen and Van Turner Collection
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The lifetime collection of Karen and Van Turner of Oklahoma a remarkable assemblage that features a strong showing of French cameo glass but is also well-rounded with art glass, Belleek, Peachblow, Royal Doulton, Pickard, Loetz, Royal Bayreuth and more will come up for bid on Saturday, September 24th, by Woody Auction, online and live at the Woody Auction hall. Most of the pieces in the 472-lot auction are antique, turn-of-the-century and highly collectible, in excellent condition. The Turners only sought out the very best when adding to their collection. Every item will be sold to the highest bidder, without reserve, starting promptly at 9:30 am Central time, in Woody Auctions modern, 5,000-square-foot auction hall, located at 130 East 3rd Street in Douglass. There are multiple candidates for top lot of the auction, ... More
Asya Geisberg Gallery opens second solo show with Rodrigo Valenzuela
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Afterwork, the second exhibition at the gallery by Los Angeles-based Rodrigo Valenzuela. Recently the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a research fellowship at the Smithsonian Museum, Valenzuela has completed a photographic series based on the ghostly absence of workers in an indeterminate time and place, at once futuristic and harking back to a century ago. In staged sets suggesting abandoned factories, Valenzuela wishfully foments a revolution, enabling workers powerless in the face of relentless international movement of capital to flee or perhaps overrun their workplaces. As in a science-fiction universe where we feel a potential reality just out of reach of our present, Valenzuelas scenes meld mechanical objects with steam or smoke, suggestive of steel manufacturing, ... More
Studio glass by Dale Chihuly, ceramics by Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee headline Heritage's September Design Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Rare is the contemporary art movement that evolves and innovates as nimbly as studio glass. Given the mediums roots in historic Venetian practices, todays glass artists in America and beyond continue to forge breathtaking new methods and aesthetics in this dynamic material. This month, in its Sept. 29 Design Signature® Auction, Heritage offers a rich collection of contemporary studio glass works by more than 140 artists. These are emergent superstars and the industrys most celebrated artists who mentored them. Other high points of this auction are contemporary ceramics by distinguished artists from America, Europe and Japan. Here, too, are select works of American streamline ... More
Javier MarÃas, to many the greatest living Spanish novelist, dies at 70
NEW YORK, NY.- Javier MarÃas, a Spanish novelist whose elegant style and intricate plots centered on espionage, murder and betrayal won him comparisons to Marcel Proust and Ian Fleming, died Sunday at his home in Madrid. He was 70. His publisher, Alfaguara, said the cause was pneumonia. Although he was not particularly well known in the United States, MarÃas was among the few writers to combine critical praise with a bestseller readership: He sold about 8 million copies of his 14 novels, four books of short stories and dozens of essay collections. His books were translated into 46 languages; his 1992 novel Un Corazón Tan Blanco, published in English in 1995 as A Heart So White, sold 1.3 million copies in Germany alone. MarÃas occupied a reputational perch in Spanish culture that would be almost inconceivable for an American author. His ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Renzo Piano was born September 14, 1937. Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world." In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100. In this image: Italian architect Renzo Piano, right,waits to receive the Danish Sonning Prize and its 1 million kroner (US$190,000) award during a ceremony Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008, at Copenhagen University in Copenhagen. His wife, Emilia Rossato, left, was seated next to him during the ceremony. The architect received the award for "commendable work that benefits European culture" and Piano's works include the New York Times building and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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