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From left: Roy Lichtensteinâs âThinking of Him,â 1963; Marjorie Striderâs âGirl with Radish,â 1963; and Rosalyn Drexlerâs âSelf-Portrait,â 1964, on display in âNew York 1962-1964â at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, July 19, 2022. Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and âPietaâ â itâs all at the Jewish Museum. Lila Barth/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: Time, Life, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Mad magazine. To me, Time and Life pegged him an engaged citizen; JAMA, as a conscientious professional. But Mad? With its Alfred E. Neuman mascot and anarchic, sacred-cow-skewering humor? It signaled some whole other kind of reader, one with a taste for cultural weirdness akin to the one I was developing. That taste ran through the early â60s, a manic era and a hinge moment between the Cold War and Vietnam, civil rights and Black Power, repression and liberation; beatnik and hippie; ab-ex and pop. Itâs the era documented in the smart, split-level show called âNew York: 1962-1964â at the Jewish Museum, an institution that, we learn, played a significant role in the cultural shifts. This survey of close to 300 works of art and ephemera, in a suave desig ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Pop art iconâs unique "Cars" series of automotive art and the exceptionally rare Mercedes-Benz vehicles that were its subjects appear in public in the US for the first time in over three decades.
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| Andy Warhol's "Cars" series go on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum | | The Lyman Allyn Art Museum showcases art from the Sol Lewitt Collection | | Artpace Summer Resident Artists debut new exhibitions |
The Pop art icons unique Cars series of automotive art and the exceptionally rare Mercedes-Benz vehicles that were its subjects appear in public in the US for the first time in over three decades.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Appearing for the first time in North America in over 30 years, "Andy Warhol: Cars Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection" will go on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition will open to the public on July 23rd and will present a rare and exclusive look at the relationship between the Cars artwork series and the vehicles it depicts. Taking place in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery on the museums first floor, the unique display features five of the eight Mercedes-Benz vehicles ultimately depicted in Warhols final commission. Among the extremely rare assemblage are some of the most iconic and valuable cars in the world. A 1937 W 125, on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany, was initially built for Grand Prix racing and features a supercharged eight-cylinder engine producing 637 horsepower, making it one ... More | |
Sol Lewitt, Color Bands (Wadsworth Portfolio), 2000, linocut on paper. LAAM, Gift of Anthony and Elizabeth Enders. 2015.10.86. © 2000, The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museums latest exhibition, Sol LeWitt: Artist and Collector at Play, examines friendship, humor and collaboration in modern and contemporary art, with art from the Sol LeWitt Collection. The exhibition will be on view through Oct. 16. The pioneering conceptualist artist Sol LeWitt (American, 19282007) collaborated with many artists and cultivated deep and lasting artistic friendships, acquiring a wide range of modern and contemporary art. Exploring LeWitts own art and that of his friends and contemporaries, this exhibition focuses on vibrant, dynamic, and humorous objects, with loans from the LeWitt Collection in Chester, Connecticut, and related art from the Lyman Allyns collection. With close to 40 objects, the exhibition includes art from the late 1960s onward, as artists sought new ways of working and exploring ideas, rejecting traditional art forms and methods. ... More | |
Jonesy, still from Untitled Video co-produced by Lindsey Taylor, as part of the installation for Jonesy Presents Hot Action At Artpace. Courtesy of the artist.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced the opening of their Summer 2022 International Artists-in-Residence exhibitions. On July 21, from 6-9pm, Hellen Ascoli (Guatemala City, Guatemala / Baltimore, Maryland), Jonesy (Los Angeles, California), and Betelhem Makonnen (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia / Austin, Texas) revealed work created during their Artpace residencies. The three artists were selected by Andy Campbell, Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern Californias Roski School of Art and Design. Hellen Ascolis Artpace project, (she re-members) siendo somos, takes inspiration from the artists forthcoming book En los hilos encontré, a pedagogical resource to support learning and teaching the embedded knowledge of the back-strap loom. Ascoli began working on the book six years ago after working as an educator at a textile museum in Guatemala. Throughout her time there, the artist noticed youn ... More |
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| Exhibition presents an exploration of Andreas Eriksson's print practice over the last two years | | UOVO announces Art Finance | | To illuminate history, an artist turns out the lights |
Andreas Eriksson, 'Vanland ', 2021. Screenprint on paper, 200 x 120cm (78 3/4 x 47 1/4in). Framed: 207 x 127 x 5cm (81 1/2 x 50 x 2in). Copyright Andreas Eriksson. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting Multiple V, an exploration of Andreas Erikssons print practice over the last two years. The presentation brings together a range of media including screen-print, lithography, etching and drypoint. The Swedish artist is known for his subtly textured depictions of the natural world, describing them as existential landscapes. Highlights include Vanland', a striking screen-print edition produced in collaboration with Kunstatelieret in Copenhagen. This meditative work expands Erikssons formal language whilst remaining characteristic of his distinctive style. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, it draws the viewer into a rich conceptual investigation of the artists rural surroundings in Medelplana, Sweden. Meticulously placed areas of colour and shape create a patchwork ... More | |
UOVO will offer loans against art from $1 million to $25 million. Photo: Halkin/Mason Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- UOVO, the premier provider of fine art and collections storage and services, is pleased to announce UOVO Art Finance, a seamless way for clients to leverage their art collections while works are safely stored in UOVOs state-of-the-art facilities. UOVO will offer loans against art from $1 million to $25 million. Using artworks entrusted to its care as collateral, UOVO prioritizes ease of process while ensuring that works are protected with the utmost security for the duration of the loan agreement. UOVO is thrilled to add this offering to its expanded suite of services as another way to support its clients and their collection-related needs. The addition of this service follows the announcement of the companys expansion to South Florida, San Francisco and Dallas and the recent acquisition of Garde Robe, all of which demonstrate UOVOs commitment to meeting a broader and ever-changing set of needs from the communities it ser ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Dario Lasagni/New Museum, an installation view of Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid at the New Museum in New York. Dario Lasagni/New Museum via The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- When you first alight on the fourth floor of the New Museum, where Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga has her first solo museum exhibition in New York, it may take you a second to realize whats different. But start to walk around the soaring gallery of Off-Grid and it will dawn on you: There is no familiar electrical brightness here, only whatever light streams through distant windows. Massimiliano Gioni, the museums artistic director, began discussing the idea for an exhibition with Kiwanga in January 2021. It was to include a commissioned work that would be developed over the following year and a half. But from the very beginning, one thing was certain, Gioni said in a recent conversation: Removing the lights was probably the first decision ... More |
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| Freelands Foundation offers 'Space to Dream' with grants to seven Black-led organisations working in visual arts | | Stephenson's Auctions recalls the 'Fab '50s and More' with July 29 pop culture auction | | Charles Gaines's first public art project, The American Manifest debuts in New York |
Jewelled Tales of Libya exhibition at the Arab British Centre. Photo Jaime Asensio.
LONDON.- Freelands Foundation has today awarded seven new grants to small and medium sized, Black-led organisations working in visual arts embedded in communities across the UK. These were selected by the Foundations Diversity Action Group from over 120 respondents from across the country to an Open Call. The Space to Dream fund continues the Foundations ongoing work to address racial inequality in the visual arts. This includes a commitment of £3m to organisations working to enact change in the sector for Black and Brown artists and practitioners, and a major research commission in partnership with the Runnymede Trust. 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Brixton will partner with curatorial duo Languid Hands to build to lead an ambitious public programme of exhibitions, events and residencies with Black and Brown artists, as well as development programmes for emerging curators and young ... More | |
Circa-1930s Neon Products Inc., optometrists or opticians neon trade sign, estimate $2,000-$4,000.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- On July 29th, Stephensons Auctions will return to the days of sock hops, drive-ins and old gold Chevys as they host a colorful 252-lot auction titled Fab 50s and More. The sale features an outstanding single-owner collection of advertising signs and store displays; boardwalk amusement games, vintage clocks and telephones; cash registers, vending machines, railroadiana, a diner double-booth, vibrant Fiestaware, and a Dunhill stainless steel soda fountain and related accessories. The saleroom will be filled with not only colorful sights but also the nostalgic sounds of vintage radios, a Bally Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man pinball machine and other games; and a Seeburg Select-O-Matic jukebox, wall-mount speaker and Wall-o-Matic tabletop music selector. This is a single-owner collection that comes to us from a Montgomery County (Philadelphia) estate. The collector had ... More | |
Installation view. Photos by Michael Hull, Courtesy of Times Square Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Creative Time, Governors Island Arts, and Times Square Arts are presenting the first public art exhibition by Charles Gaines, The American Manifest. The serialized public art installation will unfold in three parts, or chapters, across three locations over the course of two years Times Square, Governors Island, and Cincinnati. The project debuted in New York City on July 13, 2022 in Times Square with a new iteration of the artists pioneering Manifestos performances coupled with an installation of sculptures of the complex root systems of the American Sweetgum tree on view through the summer. Moving Chains, a monumental, kinetic sculptural work sited on Governors Island in New York Harbor opens next in early October 2022 before journeying to the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati in the summer of 2023. Tracing the flow of these northeastern waterways the historically charged rivers and ports of ... More |
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| Baltimore Symphony's new conductor breaks a racial barrier | | Milly Peck's solo show 'Front of House' opens at VITRINE Fitzrovia | | Flint Institute of Arts appoints Tracee Glab new Executive Director |
Jonathon Heyward is the first person of color to be the orchestras music director in its 106-year history.
BALTIMORE, MD.- For decades, the 25 largest orchestras in the United States have been led almost exclusively by white men. That is going to change. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Thursday that it had chosen Jonathon Heyward, a rising African American conductor, as its next music director. He will begin a five-year contract in Baltimore at the start of the 2023-24 season. Heyward, 29, who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of an African American father and a white mother, will be the first person of color to lead the orchestra in its 106-year history. In an interview, he said he would work to expand the audience for classical music by bolstering education efforts and promoting underrepresented artists. This art form is for everyone, he said. Heyward will succeed Marin Alsop, the first female music director of a top-tier American orchestra, whose tenure in Baltimore ended last year. His appointment comes amid a broader reckoning ... More | |
Milly Peck, New Sculpture, 2022. Courtesy the artist and VITRINE London/Basel.
LONDON.- Front of House is a solo show by British artist Milly Peck. The exhibition presents new sculptural works influenced by studies of residential buildings produced on residency as part of the Bridget Riley Fellowship at the British School at Rome in Italy during 2021. These three-dimensional works are being shown together with drawings on paper from an extensive series of still life studies, which were also produced in Rome, alongside a new outdoor sculpture. Pecks research during the residency was centred around the physicality of ancient Roman stage-sets, particularly the prevalence of temporary wooden structures used before the later construction of permanent stone theatres. The artist is interested in the depiction of these early theatrical backdrops in Roman frescoes, particularly according to archaeologist August Maus system of identification of the Second Style which commonly feature dramaturgical imagery, which typically played ... More | |
Glab, who previously served as the FIAs Curator of Collections and Exhibitions since 2009, began the role in July.
FLINT, MICH.- The Flint Institute of Arts has appointed Tracee Glab as its new Executive Director. Glab, who previously served as the FIAs Curator of Collections and Exhibitions since 2009, began the role in July. She succeeds John B. Henry, who announced his retirement this year. My tenure as curator at the FIA has been the most rewarding part of my museum career, and I look forward to leading the museum into the next chapter, Glab said. With its stellar art collection and esteemed Art School in the heart of the Flint Cultural Center, I am excited to build on the strong foundation at the FIA and to engage the public in the arts in new and innovative ways. Glabs knowledge and expertise of art history and visitor engagement are reflected in the breadth of programs and publications she has managed and developed at the FIA. She has overseen more than 100 exhibitions and curated 40 exhibitions, working with the ... More |
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Sculptor Steve Tobin explains how he made his 18-foot tall âTrinity Rootâ sculpture
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Tom Bender's Collection, featuring elite troves of Carson City coins, Indian and Lincoln cents, offered at auction
DALLAS, TX.- A passion can be sparked by any number of factors. In the case of renowned U.S. coins collector Tom Bender, a call to his brothers renewed his interest in a hobby handed down from his father. I started collecting coins as a kid, Bender says. My father collected, and had a few in a safety deposit box. I looked through the box and saw some of the coins, and I called my brothers, and we all wanted to keep some of his coins. That really rekindled my interest. That revived interest in the hobby that started during Benders childhood has evolved into one of the finest collections of U.S. coins a trove that included the finest PCGS Registry Set of Carson City coinage, the finest complete certified $3 Gold Proof set ... More
"Under Pressure: New Works by Bret Price" at The Muck Gallery
FULLERTON, CA.- The Muck announced the opening of Under Pressure, which will be on view in the Main and North Gallery July 21st through September 18, 2022. The exhibition features new works created and curated by critically acclaimed Orange County sculptor Bret Price. Known primarily for his work as a sculptor of monumental steel, these new pieces are relatively small and compact. Created with a 40-ton Hydraulic Press, these compressed pieces bring to mind objects like scholar stones, ancient Celtic ruins, pixelated smoke, hieroglyphs, and ironed silk. Of his new works, Price says My mantra is that I love to see and make things Ive never seen before. Thats the driving force. Prices work first came to The Muck in 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of its new outdoor Sculpture Garden. Set ... More
Agial Art Gallery opens "A Search for the Fantastic: The Doche, Séraphim and Barrage Group"
BEIRUT.- Agial Art Gallery opened A Search for the Fantastic: The Doche, Séraphim and Barrage Group" on Thursday, 21 July. A flashback to modern Lebanon of the 60s and 70s, pre-war Beirut, through this exhibition linking the works of a group of 3 avant-garde artists friends, Georges Doche, Juliana Séraphim and Fadi Barrage who have disappeared and been lost over time... This project aims to create an identity for three Lebanese avant-garde artists and bring them together under the same school by highlighting the influence of the imaginary and the fantastic on their work. The exhibition highlights the artistic journey of Georges Doche (1940-2018), Juliana Séraphim (1934-2005) and Fadi Barrage (1940-1988) through a selection of 25 works, and therefore represents a tribute and a revelation of their friendship. The various works proposed ... More
Smoke rises: A jazz room returns on the Upper West Side
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Friday evening at Smoke, the storefront Upper West Side jazz club thats been mostly shuttered since the spring of 2020, owners and staffers scrambled about as you might expect in the run-up to a long-awaited reopening. As the crowd took its seats for a preview concert, technicians climbed ladders and handled minor crises. One of the venues co-owners, Paul Stache, consulted with an engineer on the in-room and livestream sound, while the other, Molly Sparrow Johnson, kept tabs on a wait staff that would be serving an expanded capacity of about 80 when it reopened Thursday. The band, meanwhile, couldnt have looked more calm. On the newly widened bandstand, with red curtains as plush as the inside of a jewelry box as a backdrop, pianist David Hazeltine and his long-standing trio the cats, as Stache ... More
New multisensory installation by Icelandic artist and musician Jónsi transports visitors inside a volcano
TORONTO.- A unique sensory experience from one of Icelands most acclaimed artists and musicians, this summer the Art Gallery of Ontario invites visitors to step inside a volcano. Created by Jón Ãór "Jónsi Birgisson, Hrafntinna (Obsidian) (2021) immerses visitors in a dark ring of sound, scent, lighting and reverberation, for a dramatic re-imagining of the 2021 eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano. Curated by Xiaoyu Weng, the AGOs Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, this is the first artwork by Jónsi to be acquired by a public museum internationally. Free for AGO Members, Annual Pass holders, all Indigenous Peoples, and visitors aged 25 and under, the installation opens to AGO Members on July 22 and to AGO Annual Pass holders and the public on July 23. Internationally renowned as the lead singer ... More
Skoto Gallery presents an exhibition of welded steel and mixed media sculptures by Olu Amoda
NEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting Rite of Passage, an exhibition of welded steel and mixed media sculptures by the Nigerian-born sculptor Olu Amoda. This is his third solo exhibition at the gallery. Over the last three decades Olu Amodas work continues his rigorous exploration of an independent system of thinking in art-making and design principles that consciously strike a balance between material, form and technique. A prolific artist with a varied and dynamic oeuvre that include sculptures, furniture design, murals and multimedia installations, he has consistently demonstrated an uncanny ability to focus on a given theme and generate a cohesive and vigorous body of work, a veritable product of intense and deep reflection. Characterized by an open, process-oriented form of engagement that explore what it means to be an artist working ... More
She wants to heal the world through second line
NEW YORK, NY.- In most places, people either watch parades or march in them. In New Orleans, they have another option: second line. As a noun, second line refers to those who follow a brass band through the streets during Mardi Gras, or on any given Sunday, or on the way back from the cemetery in a jazz funeral, as dirges and hymns are replaced with joyful music for dancing. A second line isnt official or planned. It grows, all ages rolling in with handkerchiefs and umbrellas, turning a parade into a peripatetic party. As an adjective, second line can describe a characteristic beat, an Afro Caribbean rhythm that runs through New Orleans music, from which it spread into the rest of the worlds jazz, R&B and funk. Second line is also a verb. To second line is to dance. There arent set steps. Everybody does it a little differently. Most practitioners ... More
Holding out for a hero? Ballet Theater has it covered.
NEW YORK, NY.- As soon as Daniel Camargo mentioned his early love of the ballet video Born to Be Wild: The Leading Men of American Ballet Theater, his dancing immediately made sense the brash attack, the dramatic flair, the boundless energy. Camargo, who hails from Brazil and who joined American Ballet Theater this past season as a guest artist, is not dissimilar to the generation of male dancers Angel Corella, José Manuel Carreño, Vladimir Malakhov and Ethan Stiefel showcased in that installment of Great Performances: Dance in America. Their sensibilities were different, but they were stage animals, too. Now, there is Camargo, who was named principal last week the same week he performed three shows of Kenneth MacMillans version of Romeo and Juliet, which was a new production for him. His first Romeo, like ... More
A global hit, 'Notre Dame de Paris' finally lands in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- When Americans are asked to name French musicals, their go-to is Les Misérables, which opened in Paris in 1980 before an extensively retooled English version went on to conquer the world a few years later. That, or some of the films that Jacques Demy directed in the 1960s, like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. Usually not mentioned on our shores are the wildly popular homegrown stage musicals that appeared in France in the late 1990s. But now the most famous of them, Notre Dame de Paris, is having its New York premiere at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, and will run there through July 24. One of its creators has issues with the terminology used to describe his work, though. I dont think of Notre Dame de Paris as musical theater, composer ... More
At this summer's Aix Festival, the only laughter is bitter
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Few opera institutions have as strong a track record in new work as the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Two of the most significant pieces of the 21st century have originated here: Written on Skin, in 2012, and Innocence, which premiered last year. But the lesson of the festival is that you cant just pop out a masterpiece a decade. You have to chug away with commissions, big and small, year in and year out, knowing that the vast majority will be, if not duds, then far from perfect. A tiny percentage of new operas end up with lasting importance, and thats the numbers game Aix is playing. Sheer volume is key, as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with its recent pledge to present at least two contemporary titles a season, is learning. Aix, too, is putting on two premieres at this years edition, which runs through July 23. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Edward Hopper was born July 22, 1882. Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life. In this image: A woman looks at the painting "South Carolina Morning" by American artist Edward Hopper during a press conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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