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Einar and Jamex de la Torres Colonial Atmosphere, a mixed-media installation at the Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, Calif., June 11, 2022. As the center debuts, its founder hopes to inspire a renaissance in a region of California lacking public arts funding. Carlos Jaramillo/The New York Times.
by Patricia Escárcega
RIVERSIDE, CA.- As a child, Cheech Marin loved collecting objects baseball cards, stamps, marbles and then organizing them obsessively. I had a mania for codifying them and putting them in some kind of collection or whole set, said Marin, 75, who is best known as the mustachioed, Chicano half of the classic stoner-comedy duo Cheech & Chong. In the 1980s, buoyed by steady film and TV work, Marins natural inclination toward collecting found its fullest expression when he fell in love with the works of Los Angeles-based Chicano artists like John Valadez, George Yepes and Patssi Valdez. Their works, which synthesized Mexican and American influences and delivered news from the front, felt revelatory, like listening to the Beatles for the first time, said Marin, who grew up in a third-generation Mexican American family in South Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Since then, Marin has amassed a collection of more than 700 paintings, drawings, scul ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Art Basel in Basel 2022. Courtesy Art Basel
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| Gagosian Basel presents an exhibition of ceramic works by Theaster Gates | | Rörstrand exhibition urn donated to Nationalmuseum | | Taubman Museum of Art presents Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection | 
Theaster Gates, Untitled (King #3), 2022. High-fired stoneware with glaze, 45 1/16 x 15 1/4 x 16 inches, 114.5 x 38.7 x 40.6 cm © Theaster Gates. Photo: Chris Strong. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
BASEL.- Gagosian is presenting ASHEN, an exhibition of new ceramic works by Theaster Gates that emerged from the artists exploration of heat, pressure, time, and material accumulation through the form of the vessel. The exhibition represents a return to Basel for the artist, who presented Black Madonna at Kunstmuseum Basel in 2018. ASHEN records Gatess reflections on the pyrogenic through the tenacity and metamorphosis of clay when transformed by flame. The presentation features glazed stoneware fired in a traditional Japanese anagama wood-burning kiln. The calefaction causes accumulations of ash and kiln particulate to build up on the surfaces of the works, exposing the nature and order of the alchemical processes. These material transmutations result from extreme heat maintained over extended ... More | | 
Anton Vogel, manufactured by Rörstrand, Urn, 1884. Flintware. NMK 29/2022. Photo: Viktor Fordell/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has been gifted a large exhibition urn made at the Rörstrand porcelain works in Stockholm. Produced in 1884, the urn is decorated with delicate motifs by Anton Vogel. It has been donated to the museum by Lars Vogel, the artists grandson. The urn is shaped like a classic amphora with ornamental handles. Evenly spaced, gold-painted decorative relief in Renaissance style frames the body, where exotic orchids, butterflies and hummingbirds are depicted in a naturalistic style. The decoration is the work of Anton Vogel (18591935), who moved from Germany to Sweden in 1883 to take up a position as decorator and teacher of porcelain painting at the Rörstrand works in Stockholm. The role of exhibition urns was to catch the eye of visitors at worlds fairs and generate astonishment at the size of the artefacts and their artistic or technical execution. Once ... More | | 
Robert Henri, Johnny Patton, n.d. Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art is presenting Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection, on view now through Sept. 4, 2022. The exhibition features 93 works from 64 American artists spanning the period of 1861 to 1975, collected over a period of 25 years by Cynthia and Heywood Fralin. It marks the first time all of the works are on view together. The Fralins are among the nations most ambitious and discerning collectors of late 19th-century to mid-20th-century American art, noted Dr. Karl E. Willers, Taubman Museum of Art chief curator and deputy director of exhibitions and collections. The Fralin Collection contains truly extraordinary examples of artworks by some of the best known and respected American painters of their time who continue to influence and inspire today - from Mary Cassatt to John Singer Sargent; from Winslow Homer to Norman Rockwell; from Georgia OKeeffe and Gr ... More |
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| Christie's presents DJ Kool Herc & The Birth of Hip Hop | | Moderne Gallery opens 'Important Studio Ceramics: 1932-2022' | | New Colby Museum exhibition reveals previously unseen works by Andrew Wyeth | 
Self-portrait, painted by Kool Herc in 1974. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- On August 11, 1973, 18-year-old Clive Campbell known as DJ Kool Herc and his younger sister Cindy decided to celebrate the end of summer with a back to school party. Held in the rec room of their apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx this party has since been recognized as an iconic moment in the history of music and popular culturethose in attendance witnessed the Birth of Hip Hop. Half a century later, this legendary party lives on as a transformative night in the global arc of modern art history and culture. The technical innovations of a young, gifted Black man of Jamaican descent sparked a cultural moment that has blossomed into the most potent and influential global musical culture of our time. This August, Christies, in collaboration with Payal S. Parekh, announced DJ Kool Herc & The Birth of Hip Hop, a single-owner sale of the ... More | | 
Monumental Totem by David Gilhooly, 1991.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Moderne Gallery, the Philadelphia-based authority on high quality, vintage 20th Century furniture, lighting and accessories since 1984, announces Important Studio Ceramics: 1932-2022, a new exhibition of important American and international studio ceramics. The show opens Friday, June 17, 2022 and runs through September 24, 2022. The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the gallerys groundbreaking exhibition Ceramic Masterworks: 19622002, mounted at Moderne Gallery in collaboration with Helen Drutt, a world-renowned gallerist and curator who elevated American and international studio ceramics to the global stage. Robert and Joshua Aibel, co-directors of Moderne Gallery and curators of Important Studio Ceramics: 1932-2022, have brought together more than 100 sculptures and vessels by major ceramic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Building on Moderne Gallerys existing ceramic collection, ... More | | 
Andrew Wyeth, Dr. Syn, 1981. Tempera on panel. © 2021 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS). Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
WATERVILLE, ME.- A new exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, offers the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered series of drawings in which the artist Andrew Wyeth (19172009) imagined his own funeral. Created in the early 1990s, the drawings, now known collectively as the Funeral Group, depict Wyeths friends, neighbors, and wife, Betsy, surrounding a coffin at the base of Kuerners Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a site the artist long associated with death. Some of the drawings offer a view inside the coffin, revealing a rare self-portrait. Conceived before the current moment, this exhibition offers viewers a powerful resource for sense-making during a time that continues to test our resilience and ask each of us to recognize human interdependence and vulnerability, said Jacqueline Terrassa, ... More |
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| Sotheby's expands its presence in Monaco | | Edgar Allan Poe letter extending his condolences to a fellow writer sold for nearly $155,000 at auction | | The Drawing Center opens 'The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present' | 
Installation view. Courtesy Sotheby's.
MONACO.- Sothebys is set to expand its presence in Monaco by establishing a permanent gallery for private sales in the city. Following the success of the seasonal gallery launched last summer, Sothebys will now take up permanent residence in the same space at 20 Avenue de la Costa, and relocate its Monaco office to the address, with Louise Gréther, the newly appointed director of Sothebys Monaco, joining the team. Louise will formally take over leadership at the end of this year, when Mark Armstrong is to retire after 40 years at the helm. The new gallery - which will showcase both fine art and the finest luxury items - marks the next step in Sothebys expansion of its dedicated private sales galleries across the globe. This follows the recent announcement of a new space in Aspen opening this month, and with the launch of galleries in Palm Beach, East Hampton and Los Angeles in recent years. Select auction highlights f ... More | | 
Edgar Allan Poe Autograph Letter Signed. Sold For: $154,958 (w/BP). Estimate: $150,000 + Auction.
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare Edgar Allan Poe letter extending his condolences to a fellow writer sold for $154,958, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The one-page letter is signed Edgar A. Poe, dated August 24, 1846. Addressed from New York, a handwritten letter to writer Frederick William Thomas, who, from 1841 until 1850, worked as a clerk in the United States Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., for which he selected a library. The letter, in part: I send the MS. to the address you desireall of it not published in the Broadway Journal. Should you wish copies of the portion published, I think I may be able to find them. You make no allusion in your letter to the subject of your last, and I have misgivings that you may not have received the reply which I promptly and cordially sent. My reason for fearing this is first, that you say nothing, and, secondly that I trusted my ... More | | 
William Morris, Design for Chrysanthemum Wallpaper, 1877. Pencil and watercolor on paper, 40 x 26 1/2 inches (101.6 x 67.3 cm). William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bringing together more than 200 objects from across the globe, The Clamor of Ornament explores ornament in architecture, art, and design through the lens of drawing. On view from June 15 through September 18, 2022, the exhibition spans all three of The Drawing Centers galleries and features a broad range of drawings, prints, books, textiles, and photographs dating from the fifteenth century to the present. Foregrounding ornaments potential as a mode of communication, a form of currency, and a means of exchange across geographies and cultures, The Clamor of Ornament both celebrates and interrogates ornaments fluidity by making connections between motifs, methods, and intentions. The Drawing Centers mission is to produce exhibitions and scholarship on drawing of all ... More |
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| Tatiana Trouvé takes over Centre Pompidou's Galerie 3 | | Hudson River Museum presents its new exhibitions for Summer 2022: Order / Reorder: Experiments with Collections | | VIVE Arts unveils two new VR artworks by Albert Oehlen and Wu Tsang at Art Basel | 
Tatiana Trouvé, Notes on Sculpture, 2021. Patinated bronze, aluminum, paint. 115 x 35 x 30 cm. Private collection, Berlin. Photo © : Florian Kleinefenn © Adagp, Paris, 2022.
PARIS.- For this monograph at the Centre Pompidou, Tatiana Trouvé was invited to take over the approximately eight hundred square metres of Galerie 3. This exhibition space is structured and recomposed by drawing, which has been at the heart of the artist's work since she first began. Whether hanging on the walls or suspended from the ceiling, all of these drawings in a variety of presentations, including some large formats specially created for the exhibition, maintain a dialogue with the sculptures, but also with the floor, which the artist has entirely recreated, thus constituting a visual layout that produces an experience of disorientation. Born in Cosenza (Calabria) in 1968, Tatiana Trouvé spent her childhood in Dakar, Africa, before moving to France where she studied art at Villa Arson (Nice), followed by two years at Ateliers 63 in Haarlem (Netherlands). Today, she is one of the most international artists of her ... More | | 
Rigoberto Torres (American, b. Puerto Rico, 1964), Keon and Jeanine, 1995, Painted plaster. Collection of the Hudson River Museum. Museum Commission, 1995 (1995-Torres-2). © Rigoberto Torres.
YONKERS, NY.- Art as both creative output and curated object is in constant dialogue with the past and the present. It is this never-ending conversation that pushes art into its future, forcing us to continually reimagine the ways in which we project a vision of ourselves and the world around us. Order / Reorder: Experiments with Collections explores approaches to looking at American art that consider expressions of American identity from new perspectives. The exhibition is co-curated by Laura Vookles, Chair, Curatorial Department, Hudson River Museum, and Bentley Brown, Adjunct Professor of Art History at Fordham University and PhD Fellow, NYU Institute of Fine Arts. The works on view range across genres: portraiture, figural studies, still life, landscape, and abstraction. Recent additions to the Museums collection and other artworks on view for the first time are ... More | | 
Albert Oehlen, Basement Drawing, behind-the-scenes process, courtesy of the artist, VIVE Arts and MacInnes Studio.
BASEL.- VIVE Arts has partnered with Art Basel in Basel to premiere their latest collaborations with Albert Oehlen and Wu Tsang, presenting both artists first explorations into virtual reality in their dedicated lounge at the fair, located in Hall 1 in Messe Basel. The groundbreaking new artworks Basement Drawing by Albert Oehlen and Wu Tsangs A mighty mass emerges, are being show from 16 19 June 2022. Public viewings of the works will be on a first-come, first-served basis on the day at Art Basel. Celina Yeh, Executive Director, VIVE Arts said We are delighted to debut the first ever VR artworks by Albert Oehlen and Wu Tsang at Art Basel in Basel. We hope that audiences will enjoy these two very different approaches to the medium as Tsang poetically explores the ocean world of Moby Dicks whale, while Oehlen plays with reality and fiction, transporting visitors to a real moment with the artist in t ... More |
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 Kehrer Verlag publishes 'Gouzelle Ishmatova: My Country is Female'NEW YORK, NY.- What is it to be a Russian woman today? In My Country Is Female, Gouzelle Ishmatova finds the strength of her homeland lies within its women. After moving to Western Europe at age twenty-five, Ishmatova began using photography as a tool to understand the places she left behind. In her decade-long project, her images began to reveal that Russias true inner strength revolves around female fortitude. Using images from her familys own archive, alongside documentary and staged imagery, the series reflects on Russian women of the past and while meditating on their future identities. For Ishmatova, Russia itself is a woman she is abused, she suffers, she struggles, she forgives, and she never gives up. Introduction by Gouzelle Ishmatova: I think of Russia as Her. She is abused, she suffers, she struggles, ... More  Maureen Paley presents 'Tom Burr's 'detention/suspension/expulsion' at Studio MLONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting a new exhibition by Tom Burr. This is his second exhibition with the gallery and his first solo project presented at Studio M. The two works in the room are part of a sporadic group begun in the mid 2000s hinged structures which are both abstract and descriptive, mimicking bodies, furniture, blank forms and surfaces, pieces of architecture. They suggest ways to occupy, or be occupied by space generally, as well as the specific spaces theyre placed in. The title of the exhibition came from the room itself and the building that contains it: a room with a pedagogical past, now used for exhibition, exposure and transaction. The two structures are put in relation to one another, each set apart but in tandem alone together one raised on a carpeted platform, the other on the wood ... More  Sargent's Daughters is now representing Yevgeniya BarasNEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters announced representation of New York-based artist Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union). The artist will have a solo show at Sargent's Daughters in the autumn of 2023. Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns (New York, NY); Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, MI); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); Inman Gallery (Houston, TX); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York, NY); Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY); as well as internationally. She is represented by The Landing (Los Angeles, CA) and Sargents Daughters (New York, NY). Baras' paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found ... More  Shauneille Perry Ryder, pioneering theater director, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Shauneille Perry Ryder, an actor, playwright and educator who was one of the first Black women to direct plays off-Broadway, most notably for the New Federal Theater in New York City, died June 9 at her home in New Rochelle, New York. She was 92. Her daughter Lorraine Ryder confirmed the death. Shauneille Perry Ryder, who was known professionally as Shauneille Perry, directed 17 plays at the New Federal Theater from 1971 to 2006, each a part of the companys mission to integrate artists of color and women into mainstream American theater. The theater, founded in 1970 by Woodie King Jr. in lower Manhattan and now housed on West 42nd Street, has been a mecca for Black actors and directors. She was personable with actors, but she put her foot down, King said, referring to her attention to detail. Im ... More  New Corcoran photo exhibit celebrates fatherhood & Black masculinityWASHINGTON, DC.- It Takes A Village: Basics of Boyhood and Messages for Manhood which examines how social media impacts the public and mental health of both content creators and the broader Black community announces the opening of their photography exhibition, Framing Fatherhood, on June 18 at George Washington Universitys Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC. The exhibit will showcase over 75 photographs from 14 prominent Black, male photographers from across the country. Framing Fatherhood was created by award-winning digital storyteller, director, producer and filmmaker Dr. Imani M. Cheers, who was inspired by her own photojournalist father D. Michael Cheers and her commitment to showcasing positive images of Black men. The new exhibition, along ... More  MOMENTUM announces Tenthaus as curator for its 2023 editionJELÃYA.- Tenthaus Art Collective has collaborated together in various constellations since 2009. Characterised by an open, process-oriented form of participation and collaboration, its focus is on local contexts, exploring collectivity and inclusion through different forms of engagement. Tenthaus began as an artists-in-schools project in Norway. Over a decade later, the collective continues to maintain strong relations with the community, while working to cultivate and nurture its environment. Tenthaus now encompasses a project room, an exhibition space and a mobile studio, as well as a wide range of curatorial projects. As a collective, Tenthaus continuously reimagines itself, exploring what it means to be artists working with the public, and what makes a relevant socially engaged practice. Working with discursive events ... More  The V&A celebrates 150 years in east London with launch of year-long Reinvent FestivalLONDON.- On 24 June 2022, the V&A celebrates 150 years of its museum in Bethnal Green (now Young V&A), which opened in 1872 as east Londons first ever museum. It also kicks off the countdown to Young V&As opening (formerly V&A Museum of Childhood) in summer 2023 following its major redevelopment into a new national museum and creative powerhouse dedicated to 0 to 14-year-olds. To mark the moment while construction continues, Young V&A is taking its creative programme into the community throughout its birthday year with the launch of the Reinvent Festival its most ambitious festival to-date. Celebrating 150 years with 150 ways to be creative, Young V&As Reinvent Festival offers a series of family friendly events, activities and pop-ups in partnership with venues across east London from the Queen ... More  Phillips announces highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sales in London on 29 and 30 JuneLONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the 20th Century & Contemporary Art sales in London this month. Seminal works by the likes of Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois and Nicolas de Staël sit alongside emerging and contemporary stars Simone Leigh, George Condo and Flora Yukhnovich. The Evening Sale will take place on 30 June at 4pm BST, after the Day Sale on 29 June at 1pm BST. Olivia Thornton, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Europe, said, These sales showcase many international names from both emerging and established markets, reflecting current collecting tastes across the 20th and 21st centuries. Season after season, Phillips commits to bringing women artists ... More  Heritage Auctions sells Batman cover art for record-setting $2.4 million DALLAS, TX.- The Dark Knight returned Thursday to claim the record for the most expensive mainstream American comic book cover art sold at auction. Frank Miller and collaborator Lynn Varleys original art for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book Ones iconic cover, featuring Batman in silhouette against a sky split open by lightning, sold at Heritage Auctions Thursday for $2.4 million. The work comes from a collector who acquired it directly from Varley and is among the centerpieces of Heritages June 16-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. The artworks price tag reflects The Dark Knight Returns reputation as the comic book that hit shelves and spinner racks like a bolt of lightning in February 1986 and provided Batman (if not the entire comics industry) with what critic Elvis Mitchell calls a savage rebirth. It remains ... More  Terra Foundation appoints Turry Flucker VP of Collections and PartnershipsCHICAGO, IL.- The Terra Foundation for American Art welcomes Turry M. Flucker as its Vice President of Collections and Partnerships. In this newly created position, Flucker will oversee the foundations 750-object American art collection with the goal of sharing expansive narratives of American art locally and globally, as well as foster collaborative, interdisciplinary partnerships throughout the field. Flucker, who currently serves as director and curator of Tougaloo College Art Collections in Tougaloo, MS, brings nearly 30 years of experience to the position. He will begin at the foundation on August 1. At Tougaloo College, Flucker provided the artistic vision guiding the stewardship of the colleges 1,500-object art collections and cultivated a wide range of national partnerships. He facilitated preservation and digitization ... More  Neue Auctions to offer the Marvin Drucker collectionBEACHWOOD, OH.- On Saturday, June 25th, Neue Auctions will offer, online, the Asian art collection of the late Marvin Drucker, including French furnishings. The auction, beginning at 10 am Eastern time, will feature bronzes, porcelains, carved hardstones, lacquer ware, cloisonné, snuff bottles, Wedgwood, Luster ware, Lalique glass, 18th century English porcelains and more. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. A lifelong love of Asian art resulted in an enormous collection displayed beautifully in an East Side of Cleveland luxury apartment that housed the collections of Marvin and Sandy Drucker, said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. She added, The collection is heavily populated by artistic artifacts from both China and Japan. Many are affordable ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish sculptor and storyteller Juan Muñoz was born June 17, 1956. Juan Muñoz (17 June 1953 - 28 August 2001) was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.
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