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From left: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkles THEY: The Meeting," 2021 and Cy Gavins Bather (Tom Moores Jungle), 2019, from the exhibition Black Melancholia opening Saturday at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., June 21, 2022. A group show at the museum finds a positive value to looking inward, as it celebrates Black endurance. Lauren Lancaster/ The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- A racist attack on Black Americans, with the spectacle of real-time pain it carries, tends to make news. But the depression that racism itself generates the dread, anger and despair that create a low-pressure area in the soul goes pretty much unreported. Its that chronic condition that forms the basic theme of Black Melancholia, a stirring group show that opens Saturday at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College here. At least one other recent exhibition has approached this subject, Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, conceived by curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) and realized by the New Museum in Manhattan last year. That show was a high-impact affair with big A-list objects from starry collections spread over several floors. The Hessels gathering of work by 28 artists is far more modest in scale, and largely homegrown. (With a few outstanding exceptions, most of the art is from the museums holdings.) The Hessel sh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gio Swaby: Fresh Up is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg through October 9, 2022.
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| Green Mountain Falls Skyspace by James Turrell opens in the Rocky Mountain West | | After decades of searching, 1898 film of New Orleans Mardi Gras is found | | Monumental Richard Serra sculpture in custom-designed building by Thomas Phifer goes on view at Glenstone Museum |
James Turrell, Green Mountain Falls Skyspace, 2022. © James Turrell. Photo by Jeff Kearney, TDC Photography.
GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS, COLO.- Green Mountain Falls Skyspace, an experiential work by iconic light and space artist James Turrell (born 1943), officially opened on June 18 to kick off the 2022 Green Box Arts Festival. Newly named upon completion by the artist, the installation is the first Skyspace in the state of Colorado and the first in the world to be nestled into the side of a mountain. An instant pilgrimage destination, Green Mountain Falls Skyspace will attract global art enthusiasts, first to Green Mountain Falls and ultimately on a spirited trek through an entrancing conifer forest for the ultimate rewarda transcendent, sensory work of art. The Historic Green Mountain Falls Foundation commissioned the 18-foot-tall Skyspace that takes viewers on a one-of-a-kind kinetic light and color encounter. Green Mountain Falls provides visitors with the opportunity to slow down and experience something truly unexpected and unlike anything ... More | |
A still image from film provided by the Eye Filmmuseum shows the 1898 Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. The recently discovered film has stunned local historians. Eye Filmmuseum via The New York Times.
by Alex Traub
NEW YORK, NY.- Arthur Hardy, the publisher of an annual New Orleans Mardi Gras guide, began searching in the 1980s for a film of the parade that old silent film catalogs said had been produced in the 19th century. He wrote to every expert he could think of. He tried the Library of Congress, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He failed and lost interest then resumed trying. He kept getting the same response, he recalled: Youll never find it. Hardy tried reaching out to Wayne Phillips, a curator at the Louisiana State Museum. Phillips tried Will French, a corporate lawyer who works in film financing and who serves as the in-house historian of the Rex Organization, among the most prominent groups that organize Mardi Gras floats. In March, French tried Mackenzie Roberts ... More | |
Richard Serra, Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, 2017. Forged steel © 2022 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy: Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Today, Glenstone Museum announced that the sculpture Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, 2017, by Richard Serra joined the outdoor sculpture program in a new building. Sited along the Woodland Trail in a densely wooded area across a restored stream, the 4,000-square-foot concrete structure was designed by Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, in collaboration with the artist Richard Serra. The building is the first new construction on Glenstones grounds since the opening of the Pavilions in 2018 and invites visitors to experience an entirely new part of the Glenstone landscape. One of the most influential artists of his generation, Richard Serra (American, b. 1938), has devoted his decades-long sculpture practice to considering the dynamic between form, space, and material. Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure ... More |
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| Xavier Hufkens announces the representation of Cecilia Vicuña | | Inside the Orange Box: A Lifetime of Collecting, Property from an Important European Collector totals $2,404,029 | | Hauser & Wirth opens Mika Rottenberg's first major presentation of her work on the West Coast |
Cecilia Vicuña portrait, photo: Jason Schmidt.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced that Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago, Chile) has joined the gallery. Vicuña has dedicated her life to reclaiming the ancient indigenous knowledge of her homeland and positioning it in dialogue with the contemporary world. Through poetry, painting, installations and ritualistic performances, she aims to awaken a spirit of collective activism in her audiences and to disrupt the negative forces that are destroying both the planet and humanity. Vicuña is particularly known for two ongoing bodies of work that she has been making since the 1960s: precarios and quipus. Both have their origins in ancient Andean traditions. The former are diminutive spatial poems crafted from feathers, stone, plastic, wood, wire, shells, cloth, and other artificial detritus, which are often looped together into organic constellations. The quipus are based on an ancient Andean method of communication and record-keeping involvin ... More | |
A Unique, Custom Petit H Denim & Black Ãvercalf Leather Shadow Birkin 40 with Palladium Hardware, Hermès, 2010, Price Realised: 63,000 000 / £54,170 / $65,871. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
MILAN.- Inside the Orange Box: A Lifetime of Collecting, Christies first handbags and accessories auction in Italy, and the largest single owner collection of Hermès ever offered by the department, totalled 2,299,248 / £1,976,997 / $2,404,029. The auction achieved a sell-through rate of 99% by lot and attracted international bidding from 39 counties, with millennial collectors accounting for 53% of new registrants to the sale. The extraordinary single owner auction was a celebration of one collectors passion, showcasing a unique collection of Hermès handbags, accessories, lifestyle objects, textiles, jewellery, watches and more. The leading lots of the sale included a rare 2010 denim and black Evercalf leather Shadow Birkin 40 customised by Petit H (estimate: 10,000-12,000), which sold ... More | |
Mika Rottenberg, 2018 © Kunsthaus Bregenz. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting a solo exhibition by Mika Rottenberg, the first major presentation of her work on the West Coast, in anticipation of the global release of Remote: her first feature-length film, made in collaboration with filmmaker Mahyad Tousi. The artists first Los Angeles exhibition features video works Spaghetti Blockchain (2019), Cosmic Generator (2017), NoNoseKnows (2015), and Sneeze (2012) in addition to new kinetic sculptures, drawings, and installations. Rottenberg illustrates the absurdity of humanitys rampant production, distribution, and consumption of objects by juxtaposing existing industry with her own, often unexpected, manufacturing systems. I think of objects in terms of the processes behind them and the idea that humankind is captured in everything around us. I want to make these processes more vi ... More |
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| Foam opens an exhibition of Surinamese wedding portraits | | Cooke Latham Gallery opens 'Glitch: The City as Palimpsest', a group exhibition curated by Huma Kabakci | | 55 Walker opens an exhibition of works by Sonia Gechtoff |
Gaitri-Sweeb © Aldith Hunkar.
AMSTERDAM.- From 24 June, Foam will present the exhibition Surinamese Wedding Portraits, a collection of memorable portraits that together cover almost a century of Surinamese history. The photographs span the period from 1846 to 1954, when Surinam was still a Dutch colony. The family photos and stories show the extent to which Surinamese people, under Dutch administration, migrated to all corners of the world. They often found their partner elsewhere, in places like Aruba, Curaçao or Bonaire, in the former Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands or North America. The strength of this collection of personal photos therefore lies in the multitude of different engagements that stretched across the globe. With over one hundred wedding pictures and stories, this exhibition portrays the wedded lives of Surinamese people between 1846 and 1954. The portraits tell the story of the countless personal bonds that often transcend national boundaries, ethnicity or re ... More | |
Glitch: The City as Palimpsest installation view, courtesy the artists and Cooke Latham Gallery, Photography by Ben Deakin 2022.
LONDON.- Cooke Latham Gallery opened Glitch: The City as Palimpsest, a group exhibition curated by Huma Kabakci including works by Radhika Khimji, Hamish Pearch, Shahpour Pouyan, Jaro Varga and Adia Wahid. A palimpsest is a manuscript that has been modified or changed but that still retains traces of earlier text. In this exhibition Kabakci uses the palimpsest as a metaphor for the city; a site of multiple writings, re-writings and erasures. Working in a variety of different media the five artists negate the concept of any city as having a fixed identity and instead reveal the urban environment as existing in a constant state of flux; subject to the changing environmental, social and economic forces that define it. Adia Wahid creates diagrammatic paintings in which visual formulas repeat across the canvas. Mesmeric in their order they also draw attention to the errors, the glitches that occur ... More | |
Sonia Gechtoff, Riders of the Wave, 1992.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sonia Gechtoff (b.1926, d. 2018) was an acclaimed painter who began her career in Beat-era San Francisco but lived most of her life in New York City. Gechtoff was overlooked for much of her career but has received renewed interest in her early career palette knife paintings and later career works which synthesized painting and drawing. This exhibition, organized in partnership with David Richard Gallery and the Sonia Gechtoff Estate, includes paintings on canvas and paper made between 1958-2017. Gechtoff is best known for her atmospheric abstractions of swirling colors redolent of seas, skies or smoke. Inspired by the work of Clyfford Still, Gechtoff developed a distinct technique of palette knife painting. Her drawings were executed similarly, with long deliberate strokes of graphite that evoke windswept grasses and vegetation. By the 1970s, Gechtoff had fully transitioned from oil paints to acrylic. Until this point, she had considered painting and drawing to be ... More |
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| A quiet word with Italy's master of horror | | Asya Geisberg Gallery opens 'A Window Scrubbed for the Moon' curated by Melanie Daniel | | Cassandra Miller named Director of Marketing and Communications at Munson-Williams |
Profondo Rosso, the store opened by Argento and Luigi Cozzi in 1989, in Rome, on June 14, 2022. Elizabeth Bick/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- For a man who has spent nearly 50 years scaring the pants off movie audiences, Italian director Dario Argento does not come across as frightening at all. Soft-spoken, even a bit reserved, Argento was eager to wrap up a recent interview so that he could see his grandchildren the offspring of his daughter, actress Asia Argento before traveling the next day to New York, where Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-film Retrospective is running at Lincoln Center through June 29. I wont see them for a while, he said of the children, before shooing his interviewer out the door. Hardly the modus operandi of a master of horror. But that doesnt mean that Argento, 81, is not still up for a bit of mayhem or gore. His most recent film, Dark Glasses, which premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival ... More | |
Alessandro Keegan Lunar Bloom, 2022. Oil on linen, 52h x 38w in 132.08h x 96.52w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting A Window Scrubbed for the Moon, a group exhibition of mindscapes and microcosms that hew elements from the real world and radiate through an otherworldly prism. A window is gleaming and ready for the moons face and a flood of wavering silver light. Enter the magical territory of Kim Dorland, Alessandro Keegan, Susan Klein, Mark Laver, Kirsten Lepore, Lisa Sanditz, and Jakub Tomá. We see the transformation of places known in the world, of places lost, and of places that don't yet exist. They resist summary documentation and truly yield to the extraordinary. Paintings, sculptures and moving images demonstrate the idea that through observation and invention, the nothing has the opportunity to become everything. All of the works in the exhibition are landscapes, but not in the conventional sense. They contain stories that revel in the powers of the imagi ... More | |
She served most recently as the Executive Director of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra in Oneonta.
UTICA, NY.- Cassandra Miller of Oneonta has been named Director of Marketing and Communications at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. She served most recently as the Executive Director of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra in Oneonta, as a lecturer of communications at SUNY Oneonta, and as a marketing consultant to a number of arts organizations in the region and in Baltimore, MD. In her new position, Miller will oversee all aspects of marketing and communications for Munson-Williams including identity and brand, media relations, advertising, publications, general web content, electronic communications, social media on multiple platforms, and marketing analytics. Munson-Williams President and CEO Anna DAmbrosio said Miller was selected following a national search. We are excited to welcome Cassandra to the Munson-Williams leadership team. She is a dedicated, thoughtful professional. Her ... More |
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Damien Hirst âBeautiful Tropical, Jungle Painting (with pink snot)â | London | June 2022
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James Rado, co-creator of the musical 'Hair,' is dead at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- James Rado, who jolted Broadway into the Age of Aquarius as a co-creator of Hair, the show, billed as an American tribal love-rock musical, that transfigured musical theater tradition with radical 60s iconoclasm and rock n roll, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 90. Publicist Merle Frimark, a longtime friend, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was cardio respiratory arrest. So much of the power of Hair resided in its seeming raw spontaneity, yet Rado (pronounced RAY-doe) labored over it for years with his collaborator Gerome Ragni to perfect that effect. Contrary to theatrical lore, he and Ragni were not out-of-work actors who wrote Hair to generate roles they could themselves play, but New York stage regulars with growing résumés. They met as cast members in an Off Broadway revue called Hang ... More
Art Bridges announces new collection loan partnership
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Today, the Art Bridges Foundation announced the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, a new initiative dedicated to bringing American art out of storage and on view into communities across the U.S. To launch this program, Art Bridges has partnered with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE), and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR) to make artworks from their permanent collections available as long-term loans. At museums across the U.S., a significant portion of their collections sit in storage. These collections consist of important works of art that are inaccessible to the public. While most museums would like to get art out of storage and on view, financial constraints and staff capacity severely impact their ability to lend artwork to other institutions. Now, the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership presents a new lending model that allows museums to circ ... More
The Centennial edition of the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show returns with an all-star line-up of design luminaries
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- The East Hampton Historical Society announces the highly anticipated return of the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on the grounds of Mulford Farm, Saturday, July 16, through Sunday, July 17. In celebration of its 100th Anniversary, the East Hampton Historical Society is thrilled to welcome back an All-Star cast of Honorary Chairs from past Antiques Shows for a very special VIP Preview Cocktail Party on the evening of Friday, July 15. Design luminaries include Jonathan Adler Simon Doonan Stephen Drucker Steven Gambrel Ina Garten Celerie Kemble Aerin Lauder Charlotte Moss David Netto Tom Samet Scott Sanders Marshall Watson In addition ... More
'Corsicana' review: Four lost hearts in the heart of Texas
NEW YORK, NY.- The difference between comedy and tragedy is often just a matter of timing. Bring the curtain down early enough and even Macbeth can have a happy ending; in the backstory of a play full of laughs, youll often find a bucket of tears. Will Arberys Corsicana, which opened Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons, is that second kind of play; if its story began any earlier than it does, it would be an emotional bloodbath. Instead, without ignoring the bone-deep sadness of characters confused and stymied by loss, it lets us watch them climb their way out of it heading toward joy and sharing some in the process. The immediate cause of the sadness for Christopher (Will Dagger) and Ginny (Jamie Brewer) is the death of their mother several months before the action. Though they have different fathers, both of whom ... More
Meghan Stabile, who linked jazz and hip-hop, dies at 39
NEW YORK, NY.- Meghan Stabile, who saw jazz and hip-hop as genres that could cross-pollinate and who, hoping to bring jazz to younger audiences, started a shoestring business producing concerts that explored the intersection of the two, died on June 12 in Valrico, Florida. She was 39. Maureen Freeman, her grandmother, said the cause was suicide. She said that Stabile had recently relocated to Valrico hoping that might help in her struggles with depression. Stabile began producing shows while still a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston. She took to calling them Revive Da Live, a name that, at a time when turntablists were dominant, captured her interest in backing hip-hop artists with jazz musicians performing live. Its an organic hybrid, she told The Boston Globe in 2012. Jazz is in hip-hops DNA. Once ... More
Flamenco within and beyond a boundary
NEW YORK, NY.- Whether showing off or baring their souls, flamenco dancers tend to be soloists. Confining eight of them within a border an area outlined with tape on the floor has the flavor of a social experiment. How will they share the stage? This is the conceit of Fronteras, or Borders, which Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana debuted at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. You dont have to read the program note to understand that the choreographers, guest artists José Maldonado and Karen Lugo, are against the imposition of boundaries, social and artistic, and want to transcend them. But the limits they have imposed on themselves and their fellow cast members are fruitful. This is an uncommonly deft balancing of the individual and the group in flamenco, and solid entertainment to boot. In some ways, Fronteras is a standard flamenco show, with standard ... More
In a first, tribes will jointly manage a national monument
NEW YORK, NY.- Bears Ears National Monument, whose red-rock landscape sprawls across more than 1.3 million acres in southeastern Utah, will be managed jointly by the federal government and Native American tribes in what administration officials said represents a one-of-a-kind model of cooperation. The arrangement to preserve the national monument was ratified in an agreement that was signed Saturday and commemorated with the unveiling of a new Bears Ears welcome sign, which includes the insignia of the five tribes that will help run the monument, the Interior Department said in a statement. Today, instead of being removed from a landscape to make way for a public park, we are being invited back to our ancestral homelands to help repair them, Carleton Bowekaty, the lieutenant governor of the Zuni Pueblo ... More
Sky-high demand for Asian coins and currency puts Heritage Auctions in spotlight
DALLAS, TX.- What has long been quietly understood is now out in the open, undeniable public knowledge: the demand for rare Asian coins and paper money is soaring. Nowhere will that be more evident than at Heritage Auctions semi-annual Signature® event held in tandem with the Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair, in which collectors, investors and enthusiasts alike have a chance to acquire some of the best pieces the market has to offer. Heritage Auctions received an exceptionally positive welcome to our addition of a Platinum Session to the sale in December, so we are thrilled to make this a permanent feature to our Hong Kong events, says Cristiano Bierrenbach, Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President of International Numismatics. This event only solidifies Heritage Auctions position ... More
The Immigrant Artist Biennial appoints new Associate Director
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Mikaela Ekstrand has been appointed Associate Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Ekstrand is a Swedish, Guyanese, and American New York-based writer, curator, and cultural strategist. As TIAB looks towards its future, Ekstrand is the organizations first Associate Director and will work closely with its Founding Director Katya Grokhovsky. Ekstrand has been deeply involved with many facets of TIABs fundraising, public relations, curatorial, and operational activities. I decided to formalize her role as Associate Director to create a sustainable team structure to benefit the longevity of the organization, says Grokhovsky. Ekstrand was a Curatorial Advisor for the 2020 biennial and will continue to serve as Co-Curator for the 2023 edition. Most notably, Ekstrand created TIABs Patron Circle ... More
Innovative artist ThankYouX to offer three NFTs and two art pieces at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 29, the innovative artist ThankYouX (@thankyouX), known for his seamless blending of the physical and digital spaces, is dropping three NFTs and two art pieces as a new collection. The collection will be presented exclusively by Bonhams in partnership with Nifty Gateway and is collectively known as Holding On. The group of NFTs includes Expectations, an edition of 20 offered for $999 each; Found, a 20-minute open edition offered at $420 each as well as Reborn, an edition of 10 offered exclusively to existing ThankYouX collectors at $1,999 each. Holding On is an exhibition of ThankYouXs most recent works which reimagines the mundane - in this case a once-beloved vintage pickup truck - with expressions in both the physical and digital spaces. Reborn and Found each depict the same truck ... More
Performing and creating as equals across the age gap
NEW YORK, NY.- The sound of heavy footfalls filled a studio at Abrons Arts Center on a recent afternoon, as choreographer Mariana Valencia and her young collaborator, Heera Gandhu, walked decisively around the room. With their arms raised to one side and hands gnarled into claws, they called to mind the classic move from Michael Jacksons Thriller, but their faces betrayed little emotion. The recognizable gesture, combined with their even-keeled energy, managed to say horror movie and postmodern dance at the same time, a fitting encapsulation of their interests. Later in the rehearsal, reclining on the floor, they asked each other: What was it like when you were 12? When I was 12, I would decorate my room with magazine pages, Valencia said. Magazines who has those? Heera replied incredulously. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Stuart Davis died June 24, 1964. Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, N.Y.
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