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Theaster Gates Burn Baby Burn, and A Song for Frankie, in the exhibit Social Works, at the Gagosian, part of an exhibit, Social Works, featuring 12 Black artists engaged with their communities, in New York, June 22, 2021. In his first show at the gallery, Sargent seeks to expand the ways people can engage with art. Kendall Bessent/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Theres a chill breeze blowing through Gagosians West 24th Street galleries this summer in the form of the group show Social Works, organized by Antwaun Sargent curator, critic and author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion in his debut project as a Gagosian director. The 12 artists span generations and formal disciplines. And in the work here, much of it made during the past pandemic-gripped year, they survey some of the wide social landscape encompassed by Black as an identity. Part of the terrain lies in textbook history. The bitter trade in Titus Kaphars painting of that title is European colonialism and slavery. A turbulently textured wall relief by Allana Clarke, made from rubber and hair-bonding glue and titled There Was Nothing Left for Us, suggests a silhouette of continental Africa. Four large abstract collage paintings by architect and social organizer Rick Lowe, of Proj ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 05: A person views "Aged in Harmony" by Milo Matthieu and "Stranger #10" by Kojo Marfo during the "Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self" press preview at Christie's on August 05, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP. Cindy Ord / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP.
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| Oxford University to collect the artefacts from its COVID research | | Rhizome receives largest donation in the organization's 25-year history, from artist Rafaël Rozendaal | | Jules de Balincourt joins Pace Gallery |
This glass safety cabinet from the labs of the University's Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (CBF) at the Churchill Hospital was used to grow, infect and harvest cells for the COVID-19 vaccine.
OXFORD.- Oxford Universitys History of Science Museum and the Bodleian Libraries are joining forces to collect the stories of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extraordinary responses to this global challenge across Oxford University. The global pandemic is history in the making, and these two Oxford institutions are playing a critical role in capturing and preserving this history. The material heritage objects and documents captured for this project along with personal stories will be collected for researchers and the public to study and explore. Few institutions have contributed as much to COVID research over this period as Oxford University. Oxford University staff and students, and anyone connected with the Universitys response to the pandemic are invited to share objects, documents and personal stories ... More | |
Rafaël Rozendaal, Endless Nameless (2021) detail, 1000 pngs created by generative algorithm and minted as NFTs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rhizome, the leading born-digital art and culture organization and longtime affiliate of the New Museum, announced receipt of the largest donation in the organizations twenty-five-year history, from artist Rafaël Rozendaal, through a sale of Rozendaals Endless Nameless on the Art Blocks platform. This past Friday, July 30, 1000 NFTs were created through a generative algorithm and auctioned off; a 50% split of the resulting sales directed more than 164 Ether (a cryptocurrency) to Rhizome, amounting to $430,000 at today's USD-Ether exchange rate. An artist long associated with the Rhizome community, Rozendaal has work included in Net Art Anthology, Rhizome's exhibition of one hundred works that define internet art as a diverse field of practice. Rozendaal is also heavily represented in the ArtBase, an archive of more than 2,300 works of new ... More | |
Jules de Balincourt, Portrait, 2021. Photography by Melissa Goodwin, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, announced the gallerys representation of Jules de Balincourt in collaboration with Victoria Miro and Thaddaeus Ropac. Pace will debut de Balincourts painting New Arrivals at its East Hampton space in August, and the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in Hong Kong in March 2022. de Balincourt is known internationally for colorful, radiant paintings that meditate on the social, political, and cultural dynamics of an increasingly globalized world. Shifting from a broader sociological view of borders, territories, and nation-states in his map paintings, the artists psychological landscapes bring us closer to humanitys troubled relationships to natural and urban settings. Dissolving the boundaries between individuals and their environments reveals tensions created by privilege, geographic mobility, and labor. ... More |
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| Blondie + Hackatao partner to release crypto art series 'Hack the Borders' | | Christie's presents 'Say It Loud II: Visionaries of Self' in partnership with Destinee Ross-Sutton | | Candice Lin's new commission in solo museum show at the Walker Art Center |
Undeniably one of the most trailblazing and influential bands of our time, Blondie is pioneering frontwoman/songwriter Debbie Harry, guitarist/conceptual mastermind Chris Stein and powerhouse drummer Clem Burke, along with now long standing band mates bassist Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Legendary New York rock band Blondie and crypto art pioneer duo Hackatao announce their collaboration and the release of the first in a series of animated digital artwork, Hack the Borders, on August 6th at 6:30 pm ET - click here for a preview teaser. This unique artistic partnership connects the two very different art scenes from which their creators have hailed - it is a present day manifestation of the punk rock movement, fittingly in the form of crypto art. Released through the digital art online auction platform Nifty Gateway Hack the Borders nods to one of the greatest art pioneers of all time, Andy Warhol. Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry and her friend Warhol created an everlasting cultural moment with the Commodore ... More | |
Johnson Eziefula (b. 1998), Glorias Trip to Paris. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 44 ¾ x 35 ½ in. Executed in 2021. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies, in partnership with visionary curator Destinee Ross-Sutton, announced the second edition of Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self from August 5-19. The exhibition is also accompanied by a robust schedule of educational programming including a compensated course on business skills for artists hosted by Christies Education. In continuing the Say it Loud exhibition series, Christies aims to provide a necessary and ongoing global platform for the amplification and celebration of individual Black artists distinct perspectives, narratives and lenses. This year, Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self features 32 works presented in an online auction format, complemented by an exhibition at Christies New York galleries, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the artists and their representatives. A portion of remitted proceeds will go toward funding the BLACK ARTIST COLLECTIVE, a foundation ... More | |
Candice Lin, System for a Stain, 2016. Wood, glass jars, cochineal, poppy seeds, metal castings, water, tea, sugar, copper still, hot plate, ceramic vessels, mortar and pestle, Thames mud, jar, microbial mud battery, vinyl floor. Dimensions variable. Commissioned by Gasworks. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Andy Keate.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Los Angelesbased artist Candice Lin (b. 1979) investigates the legacies of colonialism, racism, and sexism by mapping the trade routes and material histories of a range of colonial goods. Often taking shape as DIY apparatuses, or what have been described as flayed circulatory systems, her multilayered and sensorial installations combine commodities such as sugar, cochineal, and tea into liquid distillates that circumnavigate the space of the gallery. Lins sculptures manifest as tangible inquiries into histories of exoticism, Western degradation of and desire for the Other, and the logic and legacy of oppressive structures and systems. Co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Carpenter Center for the Visual ... More |
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| Brian Clarke creates field of poppies in memory of his friend Linda McCartney | | New display 'Inspiring Walter Scott' opens at the National Museum of Scotland | | Batik on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum |
Begun in 2019 in Seville, Clarke completed Vespers in 2020 in London following the first UK lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.
LONDON.- A spectacular exhibition of watercolours Brian Clarke, who is widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained-glass today, has gone on show at Phillips in London. Brian Clarke: Vespers opened today and will run until 10 September 2021. It is available for sale via the HENI Leviathan online platform. The centrepiece of the exhibition are over 500 watercolours of poppies which the artist has conceived to resemble a field full of flowers. These are reminiscent of the meadows in East Sussex where in the 1980s, the artist and his close friend Linda McCartney used to throw packets of seeds into the roadside fields, and poppies sprang up in those places. I just tried to capture that feeling that I particularly remember with Linda of all these poppies growing up out of this nothingness, out of just throwing these packets of seeds. And, what happens with watercolour, because its such a liquid medium, it reminded me ... More | |
Display curator Dr Anna Groundwater with a replica of a casket which is associated with Mary, Queen of Scots and which featured in Scott's work. Photo: Neil Hanna.
EDINBURGH.- A new display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Scotlands foremost writers, Sir Walter Scott. Inspiring Walter Scott explores his historical fiction through the real objects that inspired him. Drawing on his passion for collecting antiquities, Scott wove tales of political resistance and personal romance from Scotlands past, that still inspire audiences today. Examples on show include the gilt spurs owned by Auld Wat Scott of Harden (1550-1629), and described by Scott in his poem, The Reivers Wedding. Auld Wat an ancestor of Sir Walters - was a notorious reiver, who lived at a time when ancient Anglo-Scottish enmity was carried out in cross-border raiding. Also featured is an ingenious 18th century sporran purse lock, donated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1783. Scott, as a leading member of ... More | |
The process of Batik is a much-treasured form of wax-resist dying, a method which can be traced back to ancient Egypt and which has long been practiced throughout Africa and Southeast Asia.
LONDON.- Now on show at the Fashion and Textile Museum, Annie Phillips: Ancient Technique and Contemporary Art presents more than 30 modern examples of a historic form of wax-resist dyeing: the art of Batik. This display explores Phillips practice across a 30-year career, highlighting how her craft skills work in perfect balance with her distinctive vision, creating textiles that celebrate colour, movement and form. It was early evening in 1988, when artist Annie Phillips first made her way down the crowded, cobbled streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. From each of the open-fronted shops she passed, there emanated a smell of melting wax. Around pots of the honey-like substance, men and women huddled, deftly applying the thick liquid to lengths of fabric, draped artfully across wooden poles. Annie was mesmerised by what she saw that evening, captivated by the masterful sleight of hand with which these artists carried out ... More |
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| Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, rock journalist, dies at 75 | | CUE Art Foundation presents 'Lizania Cruz: Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City' | | The Contemporary Dayton opens three new exhibitions featuring three women artists |
Ms. Kennealy-Morrison said her book Strange Days was a response to Oliver Stones movie. Critics said it was an attempt to gain attention and usurp another love interests place in the Morrison mythos.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who wrote about rock when music journalists were just beginning to take it seriously, and through her work met Jim Morrison, frontman of the Doors, with whom she said she had a marriage of sorts, died on July 23. She was 75. Her death was announced on the Facebook page of Lizard Queen Press, a publishing enterprise that she founded and that published her recent books. The announcement did not give a cause or say where she died. In the late 1960s, originally as Patricia Kennely (she later changed the spelling of her last name and, in 1979, added Morrison), she was a writer for and then editor of Jazz & Pop, a small but well-regarded magazine. She interviewed Morrison in 1969, and when they shook hands there was a visible shower of bright blue sparks flying in all directions, she wrote in a 1992 ... More | |
Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021. C-print photograph on archival paper, 20 x 30 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City, a solo exhibition by Lizania Cruz, curated and mentored by Guadalupe Maravilla. The exhibition is the second chapter in Cruzs ongoing project Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary, a body of work in which the artist collects and examines public testimonies alongside individual and national archives in order to understand how Dominicans internalize state-sanctioned historical narratives that result in the repression and erasure of African heritage within the Dominican Republic. Throughout the exhibition, Cruz employs personal and national archives and oral histories as a means to question how the creation and acceptance of the nation-state as an institution formulating identity and belonging reinforces systems of white supremacy within the Dominican racial imaginary. Central to the exhibition is ¡Se Buscan Testigos! [Looking fo ... More | |
Mychaelyn Michalec, The lone and level sands stretch far away, 2020, hand and machine tufted yarn on stretched cloth, 64 x 68 inches. Image: John Sousa.
DAYTON, OH.- The Contemporary Dayton, has organized three exhibitions of work by three women artists to present in its new galleries at the historic Dayton Arcade. This powerhouse trio features some of the most provocative and iconoclastic artists working today: Chicago-born, New Jersey-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, Dayton-based fiber artist and painter, Mychaelyn Michalec, and Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker, Sara Cwynar. The three exhibitions will open the night of Friday, August 6, 2021 and be on view through October 24, 2021. With our vigorous strides to present the ideas and expressions of artists whose work emanates from Dayton and Ohio, nationally and internationally, and whose practice speaks to prominent issues of our time, The Cos Executive Director, Eva Buttacavoli, states, we are excited to exhibit three women artists whose work is charged with commentary on social attitudes ... More |
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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors allocates over $22 million for arts and creative recovery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has allocated over $22 million for arts and creative recovery from its American Rescue Act (ARP) Phase One spending plan. These one-time funds will address six crucial needs in the arts and culture sector: relief and recovery grants for community-based organizations; jobs for artists and creative workers; a marketing initiative that amplifies reopenings in the cultural sector and encourages tourism within that sector; strengthening creative career education and pathways for LA County youth; arts education; and support for justice-involved youth. The $22M will be managed and distributed by the Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture), and includes $750,000 for arts education programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The County described its $975 ... More
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens a solo exhibition of new work by Ron Cooper
SANTA FE NM.- Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work, Ron Cooper: Cars & Bars, on view July 30 through September 4, 2021. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street. Ron Cooper: Cars & Bars is Coopers first solo exhibition in his home-state of New Mexico since 2015. When visiting Ron Coopers Taos studio, one is immediately aware of the artists other passion cars vintage cars that he races. His 1936 Black Beauty Ford five window coupe parked directly in front of the studio is the first attraction even before entering the building. But there is a relationship here much like Coopers art, these beautiful cars, including the two that will be on display in Ron Cooper: Cars & Bars, draw the viewer in with their simple, classic forms, finish-fetish surfaces, and custom detailing. As an early member of the 1960s Ca ... More
Oil paintings by Ram Kumar and Jean Charlot lead Bruneau & Co's online auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Original oil on canvas paintings by Ram Kumar (India, 1924-2018) and Jean Charlot (Hawaii/Calif./Mexico, 1898-1979) will headline an online-only Summer Antiques & Fine Art estate auction slated for Thursday, August 19th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, beginning promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. Over 400 quality lots will come under the gavel. The catalog is packed with paintings, decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, silver, Asian arts and collectibles, pulled from prominent estates and collections across New England. Internet bidding will be available on multiple platforms: LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com, bidLIVE. Bruneauandco.com and the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes or GooglePlay. These online auctions have become a fixture for us throughout COVID-19, said Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer ... More
Zhang Yanzi solo exhibition "Where the Heart Is" opens at Ora-Ora
HONG KONG.- Ora-Ora opened a new solo show by leading Chinese artist, Zhang Yanzi, entitled Where the Heart Is. The exhibition opened on August 5 at Ora-Oras new premises in renowned Hong Kong arts and heritage hub, Tai Kwun, in advance to the grand opening in September 2021. Hong Kong gallery Ora-Ora presents a brand-new show by Chinese artist Zhang Yanzi, entitled Where the Heart Is. The artist was visiting her daughter in New York City when the pandemic struck, forcing her into several months of lockdown in the city. Having observed at first hand strife and dissonance, rising tensions, and chilling outbreaks of disunity and disharmony, the artist drew inspiration from modern civilizations unprecedented stress test. Refusing to be disheartened, Zhang Yanzi uses these episodes as a catalyst for a wider incursion ... More
How do you capture four decades of hip-hop? Very broadly.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1990, hip-hop was in the throes of an identity crisis. That summer, MC Hammer released U Cant Touch This, his flashy, breakout single that, thanks to the flamboyant fashion and quick footwork in its video, became a pop music phenomenon. Hot on its heels a few months later was Vanilla Ices Ice Ice Baby, which sampled Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie and became the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. While wildly popular in the pop mainstream, both songs were in differing but related ways derided in hip-hop, kept at arms length. Rap music, then still barely over a decade old, had only just begun to reckon with attention from outside the genres walls. These hits including one from a white rapper, no less were different, nigh unprecedented phenomena. ... More
Germany fines musical instrument sector for orchestrating prices
FRANKFURT (AFP).- Germany's competition watchdog said Thursday it has slapped three leading makers of musical instruments and two dealers with heavy fines for price-fixing. The Federal Cartel Office said in a statement that it fined heavyweights Yamaha, Roland and Fender a total 21 million euros ($25 million) for acting in concert to "systematically" limit price competition. Two dealers, Thomann and Music Store, were also fined. According to the watchdog, the companies colluded in setting minimum prices for their goods. When these were undercut, the instrument makers would contact the dealers and ask them to increase their prices. Yamaha and Roland both used price-tracking software to monitor and ensure dealers stayed in tune with minimum prices, the cartel office said. "For years, manufacturers and retailers of musical instruments have ... More
A milestone for Broadway as 'Pass Over' begins performances
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anne Grossman and Jennifer Rockwood hustled into Broadways August Wilson Theater shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday and, beneath their face masks, smiled. They had shown their proof of vaccination, passed through metal detectors, and, as they stepped down into the lobby, marveled at being back inside a theater. Its thrilling, Grossman said, and a little unsettling. The two women, both 58-year-old New Yorkers, were among 1,055 people who braved concerns about the highly contagious delta variant in order to, once again, see a play on Broadway. It was the first performance of Pass Over, by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, which is the first play staged on Broadway since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered theaters in March of 2020. I wanted to be part of the restart of live theater. Rockwood said. The ... More
Mirvac signs five-year partnership with Biennale of Sydney
SYDNEY.- Leading Australian property group, Mirvac, has today announced a five-year partnership with major international contemporary art event the Biennale of Sydney. As Principal Partner, Mirvac will support the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus, in 2022, and the 24th and 25th editions in 2024 and 2026. With a purpose to reimagine urban life, and a commitment to enrich the communities in which it operates, Mirvac, in partnership with the Biennale, will roll out a suite of events, activations and exhibitions over five years that provide free access for everyone to enjoy art and culture from the events local and international participants. The agreement provides Mirvac a new platform for experience-based opportunities across its residential, office, retail and build to rent assets, as it brings art to the places where people live, work and play every ... More
National Academy of Design announces appointment of senior curatorial and development staff
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy of Design announced the appointment of three senior staff members today: ● Thomas E. Moore, III as Director of Development ● Sara Reisman as Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs ● Adrienne Elise Tarver as Director of Programs We are pleased to welcome Thomas E. Moore, III, Sara Reisman, and Adrienne Elise Tarver to our growing team at the National Academy of Design. They join the Academy at a critical moment and will each be integral to shaping the future of the Academy as a dynamic center of art and architecture, said Gregory Wessner, Executive Director of the National Academy of Design. Thomas E. Moore, III joins the National Academy as Director of Development. Most recently the Director of Individual Giving at New York Road Runners (NYRR), Moore is a graduate ... More
Arthur French, Negro Ensemble Company pioneer, dies at 89
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Arthur French, a prolific and acclaimed (if relatively unsung) actor who was a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company, died July 24 in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 89. His death, in a hospital, was announced by his son, playwright Arthur W. French III, in a post on Facebook. French more or less stumbled into his theatrical career. After abandoning early plans to become a preacher, he aspired to be a DJ, but when he showed up at the DJ school that he had hoped to attend, he found that it had closed after bribery investigations began into the radio payola scandal of the late 1950s. Fortunately, the Dramatic Workshop, where Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler taught, was located in the same building, and French signed up for classes. He was coached by actress Peggy ... More
Baltimore Symphony fires flutist who shared COVID conspiracy theories
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Thursday said it had fired a musician who provoked controversy earlier this year when she shared COVID-19 conspiracy theories and other misinformation on social media. Emily Skala, 59, the orchestras principal flutist for more than three decades, shared posts casting doubt on the efficacy of vaccines and masks. Her posts drew criticism from musicians, audience members and donors in Baltimore and beyond. The orchestra said it was dismissing Skala because she had repeatedly violated its policies, although it did not offer details except to say that the problems went beyond social media posts. Skala said in an interview that the orchestras leaders had also accused her of breaching safety protocols by not submitting to coronavirus tests before visiting the Baltimore ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Andy Warhol was born August 06, 1928. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.
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