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The photographer Tommy Kha with his floor piece, âArticle,â (2022), dye sublimation on fleece, in New York, Feb. 25, 2023. Khaâs portraits blend his Asian heritage with the mythology of the South. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
by Michael Adno
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, photographer Tommy Kha hardly spoke to his mother, except for the occasional times they made portraits together at home in Memphis, Tennessee. At times, the distance grew, turning mean. He was queer; she was disappointed. He left the South, first for grad school at Yale, then for New York City. But in the past decade, he returned to Memphis as often as he could to make work. In the intervening years, those portraits he made with his mother, May Kha, as the central subject, untangled some of the knots between them. And as Kha started to make photographs around home, he revealed Memphis in a way only a second-generation Asian American could. âHalf, Full, Quarter,â his new monograph from Aperture, and âGhost Bites,â an exhibition of his at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York, tell part of that story. Kha, 34, grew up in the Whitehaven neighborhood of Memphis, the home of Elvis Presleyâs Graceland. Outside the South, people met his origin story with disbelief. âBut wher ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Richard Tuttle, Village V, Modern Art Bury St, exhibition view, 4 March - 6 April 2023. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. Courtesy: Modern Art, London.
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| Skarstedt opens an exhibition conceived in honor of what would have been Martin Kippenberger's 70th birthday | | Mitchell-Innes & Nash celebrates pioneering Brazilian artist Antonio Henrique Amaral with 1st U.S. exhibition | | A changing of the guard at the Whitney brings a new Director | 
Martin Kippenberger, Untitled (from the series Jacqueline: The Paintings Pablo Couldnt Paint Anymore), 1996. Oil on canvas, 180.3 x 149.9 cm. Signed M.K. 96 Paris (on the reverse).
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt is presenting the exhibition, Martin Kippenberger: Paintings 1984-1996. Conceived in honor of what would have been Martin Kippenbergers 70th birthday on February 25th, the exhibition looks at the many through-lines of some of the most important series in his short but wildly influential career. The exhibition features paintings from such well-known bodies of work as the The I.N.P. Pictures, Self-Portraits, Fred the Frog, War Wicked, Hand-Painted Pictures, and Jacqueline: The Paintings Pablo Couldnt Paint Anymore, along with paintings illustrating his deep affinity for the motif of the egg. Martin Kippenberger: Paintings 1984-1996 also celebrates the release of Volume Two of Kippenbergers catalogue raisonné, published by the Estate of Martin Kippenberger in collaboration with Galerie Gisela Captain. Kippenbergers oeuvre is marked ... More | | 
Antonio Henrique Amaral, The Poet's Flight ou Mergulhadores, 1965, Signed and dated "1965"; titled on the artist's label on the reverse. Oil on Eucatex, 39 1/4 by 27 1/2 in. 99.7 by 69.9 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash opened its first solo exhibition, this past March 9th, for Brazilian artist Antonio Henrique Amaral (1935-2015) since taking on representation of the artists estate in 2022. Antonio Henrique Amaral: O Discurso will be on view in Chelsea through April 15, 2023 and features more than 12 paintings ranging in date from the 1960s to the 1990s focused on the artists main themes: Bocas, Batalhas and Bananas. It is the largest concentration of the artists work seen outside of South America since 1996. A pioneering figure in Brazilian and Latin American art, Amaral developed his signature style during the second half of the 20th century, coming of age under the 1964 coup détat which installed military rule in his home country. His visceral and allegorical works of this period deal with political violence and existential discontent through an incisive visual approach ... More | | 
Adam D. Weinberg. Photograph by Scott Rudd.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- After 20 years of leading the Whitney Museum of American Art and overseeing its risky yet immensely successful move from Madison Avenue to the meatpacking district Adam D. Weinberg is stepping down as director this fall, the board said Wednesday. In an unusual joint announcement, the museum also said it had already selected Weinbergs successor: Scott Rothkopf, 46, current senior deputy director and chief curator, who will become director Nov. 1. We have an opportunity to have a seamless transition, said Fern Kaye Tessler, president of the Whitneys board of trustees, describing Weinberg as a once-in-a-lifetime director and Rothkopf as an agent of change. He has helped the Whitney move forward in equity and inclusion, she added of Rothkopf. Hes been committed to ensuring that the collections and the staff reflect contemporary America. Weinbergs departure is not entirely ... More |
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| Annely Juda Fine Art presents a curated selection of works by Anthony Caro | | Musée des Arts Décoratifs opens an exhibition dedicated to the designer François Azambourg | | PhillipsX presents Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar: The Age of Energy | 
Installation view Caro and Music, Annely Juda Fine Art, 9th March 6th May 2023.
LONDON.- Anney Juda Fine Art is presenting the exhibition: Caro and Music. A curated selection of works by Anthony Caro (1924-2013), the exhibition highlights the importance of music as an influence throughout his distinguished sculptural career, and includes work dating from 1971 2010 as well as works from the Concerto Series of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Throughout the exhibition, the music that Caro listened to will be played in the galleries and will be heard whilst viewers experience the sculptures. exhibition will run from 9th March 6th May 2023 and is being shown concurrently with Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture at Pitzhanger Manor from 9th March to 10th September 2023. Caro and Music is curated by Paul Moorhouse, CEO of the Anthony Caro Centre. In making the abstract physical material of his work expressive, Anthony Caro embraced an element that was ... More | | 
François Azambourg, Mesh Armchair, 2008. Cinna edition. Deployed steel sheet, crumpled, steel tube base, polyester thermosetting © Les Arts Décoratifs / Photo: Charlaine Croguennec / Hom project.
PARIS.- From March 9th through July 2nd, 2023, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents the exhibition Légèretés manifestes (Lightness), dedicated to the designer François Azambourg. Recognized as one of the greatest figures of French design today, François Azambourg is a creator and a poet, engaged in the pressing ecological issues of our time. Rooted in constant search of lightness, economy of means and simplicity, his approach is open and without constraint. In a world increasingly thirsty for objects and products, it is his long-lasting experimentations that nourish his works. With nearly 200 works on display, this exhibition invites visitors into Azambourgs unique creative world, featuring furniture, vases, lighting, and mobiles from his studio, as well as works held by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Centre Pompidou, ... More | | 
L'amour Naissant, 2023, 162 x 130 cm.
LONDON.- PhillipsX will be opening The Age of Energy, a selling exhibition in collaboration with Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, with the support of SETAREH, and curated by Kamiar Maleki. Featuring 13 oil paintings which explore themes of loss of identity and disconnect due to traumatic events, as well as the reawakening and spiritual transformation that can lead to a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us these works oscillate between the abstract and figurative. Each of Behnam-Bakhtiars paintings in The Age of Energy depict the internal structure of trees which he connects with trauma-recovery and healing. A crucial element in nature which sustains, amongst other things, human life through oxygen production, trees are integral to our existence and the planet and, similarly to us, have a broad spectrum of important internal processes which are not always obvious or visible. The Age of Energy will be on view in Phillip ... More |
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| Art Central returns with critically acclaimed and uniquely curated programme of installation and video art | | Clars Auction Gallery announces highlights of March auctions | | Maureen Paley opens 'Michael Queenland: Rudy's Ramp of Remainders Redux' | 
Anne Samat, Mother weave through eternity 1, 2022. Rattan sticks wooden and plastic ornaments metal beads and washers, 70 x 38 x 5 in. Courtesy of the artist and MARC STRAUS.
HONG KONG.- Art Central, presented with Lead Partner UOB, is delighted to announce the Fairs immersive installation art projects alongside an extensive programme of public talks, and video art presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center. As a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week, the Fairs eighth edition will be held from Wednesday 22 March to Saturday, 25 March 2023 (Preview Tuesday, 21 March) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, showcasing the next generation of talent from Asias most ambitious galleries and artists. Art Central previously announced its gallery line-up and highlights across three gallery sectors Central Galleries, Curated Booths, and Solo Presentations, featuring 72 influential galleries from Hong Kong, Asia and beyond. Differentiated as the incubator of the next generation of contemporary art in Asia, Art Central works with a distinguished ... More | | 
This work by Andy Warhol is estimated at $25,000 to $35,000.
OAKLAND, CA.- Asian Art department will present two fine modern Chinese watercolor landscape paintings. The first painting is by Ou Haonian (b. 1935) depicting Taipei, Taiwans Mount Shamao and the second painting is attributed to 20th century Chinese watercolor master Li Keran (1907-1989) of a village scene. Both paintings hail from the estate of Albert and Aiko Hyderman. Albert Hyderman (1899-1992) was a successful businessman and art collector. Hyderman was the owner of P. Wiest and Son department store in York, Pennsylvania. Hyderman was also a close friend and patron of Thomas Hart Benton, the regionalist painter from Missouri. Upon his retirement, Albert and his family spent many winters residing in Italy and ultimately in Hong Kong where he collected numerous famous Chinese watercolor paintings. This March Clars will be offering an intriguing piece from the circle of Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, one of the leading figures of Spanish Renaissance painting. El G ... More | | 
Rudys Ramp of Remainders, 2012, installation view, The Foundation of the Museum:
MOCAs Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2019/2020.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley announced a new exhibition by Michael Queenland. This will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery and his first presented at 60 Three Colts Lane. Michael Queenland's sculptural assemblages explore socio-political environments from a position of empathy. Interlacing elements from the first iteration of Rudys Ramp of Remainders presented at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2012, Rudys Ramp of Remainders Redux presents a focused iteration with new works especially produced for this exhibition, he extends his observations of cultural, communal, and biographical forms that are at once removed from their original context and repositioned to form new pathways for meaning and interpretation. I learned how to make things from my father. He had his own business as a general contractor. I spent a lot of my childhood on jobs with him building bathrooms, bedroom additions, and laying ... More |
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| Modern Art now offering two exhibitions on the work of Richard Tuttle | | Major new commission for national collection through Wesfarmers Partnership | | Gagosian New York opens exhibition of late works by Helen Frankenthaler | 
Richard Tuttle, Village V, Modern Art Bury St, exhibition view, 4 March - 6 April 2023. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. Courtesy: Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art opened on March 4th two consecutive exhibitions by Richard Tuttle, together forming a large-scale solo presentation of both new and historical work in Tuttles sixth showing with the gallery. The exhibition will continue through April 6th, 2023. The first part is a restaging of Tuttles historical installation Village V, which is one of a larger constellation of Village works by Tuttle. Each containing a different iteration of the same exhibition components - a central sculpture and three groups of drawings Tuttles Villages are about the reciprocated exploration between sculpture and drawing. Originally exhibited in 2004 at the Drawing Center, New York, Village V was subsequently shown on three further occasions between 2006 and 2011 at Aspen Art Museum, Sperone Westwater, New York and Hugh Lane, Dublin. Almost two decades after its conception, Modern Arts ... More | | 
Jonathan Jones, Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi peoples, Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM, Wiradjuri people, collaborator, Beatrice Murray, Wiradjuri people, collaborator, untitled (walam-wunga.galang) (detail and installation view), 202021, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Wesfarmers © Jonathan Jones.
CANBERRA.- Now on display for the first time at the National Gallery of Australia, 'Jonathan Jones: untitled (walam-wunga.galang)' was commissioned and generously supported by Wesfarmers Arts, the Gallerys Indigenous Arts Partner since 2012. Wesfarmers Managing Director Rob Scott says Wesfarmers has enjoyed a wonderful partnership with the National Gallery and we are especially pleased that our collaboration includes the commissioning of this major new work by Jonathan Jones as a gift of Wesfarmers to the national collection. Its a truly timeless work that represents millennia of continuous cultural practice by First Nations people in this country and a powerful symbol of the ... More | | 
Helen Frankenthaler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Drawing within Nature: Paintings from the 1990s, an exhibition of twelve paintings and three large-scale works on paper by Helen Frankenthaler. This will be the first time since early in that decade that a group of the artists paintings from this era have been presented in New York, with some that have never previously been exhibited. Frankenthalers celebrated 1952 composition, Mountains and Sea, was the first of her soak-stained canvases and was highly influential in the development of 1960s Color Field painting. By the 1970s, though, she had amplified her methods to include the expressive possibilities of surface inflection and density. Over the course of the 1980s, highly painterly canvases became her principal pictorial means, soon resulting in, during what would be her final decade, canvases of the greatest dramatic impact of her entire career, some of an unexpectedly large ... More |
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 Anna Zorina Gallery opens Tom Poelmans' first show with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting Tom Poelmans first show with the gallery, My Third Eye is My Hand. With his New York solo debut exhibition, the artist introduces his latest body of work that serves collectively as a self-portrait. Poelmans is a contemporary artist whose work is characterized by an imaginative exploration of metaphysical spaces. His creative vision casts a view into fantastical and surreal landscapes inhabited by characters that transgress the boundaries between reality and fiction. Notably, the artist employs masks as a central theme, as well as birds and other art historical iconography to imbue his paintings with a sense of familiar yet uncanny symbolic meaning. Poelmans works feature masked figures engaged in a journey of self-discovery, depicted amidst various symbols of life and death that serve ... More  Maryse Condé, at home in the worldNEW YORK, NY.- Maryse Condés long life and career at 86, the Guadeloupean writer has published more than 20 books has been shaped by some of the worlds biggest political and cultural upheavals. And she, in turn, has played a role in interpreting those shifts. With roots in Guadeloupe, but encompassing the years she spent in Africa, Europe and North America, her work has explored the many threads of the Black diaspora always keeping the Caribbean at the center. In the past few years, Condé has been showered with honors and accolades across the globe. And even if she plays it down My children and grandchildren must be proud, but I dont think about it much, she says its prompted her to reflect on her dizzying journey and extraordinary life. The world changes and the writer changes with it, Condé recalled by email ... More  Ian Falconer, creator of Olivia, the energetic piglet, dies at 63NEW YORK, NY.- Ian Falconer, who had built a successful career designing opera sets with David Hockney and drawing covers for The New Yorker when he turned a character he had originally created as a Christmas gift for a niece into Olivia, a childrens book about a rambunctious piglet that became a publishing sensation, died on Tuesday in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was 63. His lawyer and agent, Conrad Rippy, said the cause was kidney failure. Falconer hit the childrens book jackpot in 2000 with Olivia, which was named a Caldecott Honor Book and remained on the childrens picture book bestseller list of The New York Times for 107 weeks. He introduced his young heroine with understated drawings in gray, black and red. This is Olivia, the first page read, under a drawing of the piglet singing from a book titled 40 Very Loud Songs. She is good at lots of things. ... More  Ans Westra, 86, dies; Her photos captured a changing New ZealandMELBOURNE.- Ans Westra, a Dutch-born photographer who created the most comprehensive record of New Zealands social history, comprising more than 300,000 powerful images, died Feb. 26 at her home outside Wellington, New Zealands capital. She was 86. The cause was cardiac complications, said David Alsop of Suite Gallery in Wellington, her friend and gallerist. From her arrival in New Zealand more than six decades ago until the end of her life, Westra chronicled the lives of her compatriots with unflinching determination in frames that were praised for their realism and spontaneity. The subjects of her Rolleiflex camera typically fell outside the white conservative New Zealand mainstream, including Māori, New Zealands Indigenous people. Her wide-ranging focus sometimes led her into controversy. Washday at the Pa, her 1964 ... More  Rafael Viñoly, from the drawing board to the keyboardNEW YORK, NY.- The great trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once told a group of graduating college students, Music is the art of the invisible. It gives shape and focus to our innermost inclinations and can clearly evidence our internal lives with shocking immediacy. Marsalis creative home, of course, is Jazz at Lincoln Center, a collection of performance spaces tucked into the fifth floor of the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in New York City. The complexs crown jewel is the Appel Room, designed by Rafael Viñoly, who died on March 2. The space is intimate and sweeping, thanks largely to Rafaels love of glass and the way it frames the adopted city to which he was endlessly devoted. Through the course of our intersecting lives, I spent countless rich and meaningful hours with Rafael. But to really understand him, Id have to meet him twice: first ... More  Exhibition reflects on Black British culture, people and geographies, exploring the notion of homeEDINBURGH.- What is Black Britain? In 2021, photographer and writer, Johny Pitts, and poet Roger Robinson circumnavigated the British Coast, including time in Scotland, in search of an answer. The resulting project, Home is Not a Place presented as an exhibition at Stills, supported by Photoworks, and a book published by Harper Collins, reflects on Black British culture, people and geographies, exploring the notion of home. 'My photographic practice involves trying to celebrate Black spaces, capture them while theyre still here and give them a home. If not in a literal sense, in a figurative sense, for me home is somewhere that you take with you. -Johny Pitts Traveling in a red mini cooper along the Thames and then from Margate to Lands End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John OGroats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea, Pitts and Robinsons ... More  'Marina Faust: Ambulant # 05' now on view at Upper BelvedereVIENNA.- The exhibition 'Marina Faust: Ambulant # 05' is now on view since March 8th and will continue to 15 October 2023 as part of the series CARLONE CONTEMPORARY at the Upper Belvedere. The Austrian artist and photographer Marina Faust shows as part of the series CARLONE CONTEMPORARY a mobile light sculpture constructed by harnessing an intentionally improperly reassembled chandelier within a moving metal frame. The Belvedere collection's latest acquisition stands out for its elegance, agility, and wit. General Director and Curator Stella Rollig: "Marina Faust's object flirts aesthetically with the bourgeois norms of classicism, but transposes them into a new frame of reference that alludes to industrial mass production. Carlo Innocenzo Carlone's Baroque allegorical ceiling fresco lends ... More  Gina Osterloh expands perceptions in 'Mirror Shadow Shape'COLUMBUS, OH.- The Columbus Museum of Art presents the work of Gina Osterloh (b. 1973, San Antonio, TX) in the artists first major museum survey, Mirror Shadow Shape, on view Feb. 24-Oct. 8, 2023. Osterlohs studio-based practice uses photography, film, performance and drawing to examine the preconceived ways we understand ourselves and others. The exhibition is organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and guest curated by Anna Lee, photography curator for special collections at Stanford University Libraries. Mirror Shadow Shape is comprised of roughly 40 works created between 2005-2020, showcasing large-scale photographs and video. Camouflage, erasure, assimilation and replication are recurring themes across Osterlohs work. In her photographic, moving image and performance-based pieces, the artists ... More  Beaverbrook Art Gallery unveils Harrison McCain Pavilion designed by KPMB ArchitectsFREDERICTON NB.- KPMB Architects has completed their latest cultural project, the Harrison McCain Pavilion, an addition to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The elegant 9000-square-foot pavilion is the final and most public phase in the gallerys three phase expansion and situated directly across from the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. Designing the Harrison McCain Pavilion for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery presented an important opportunity to provide a greater sense of inclusivity and accessibility into a Fredericton landmark, says KPMB Founding Partner, Shirley Blumberg. We hope the new addition will become a catalyst for even more meaningful engagement with the community. The Harrison McCain Pavilion manifests the Beaverbrook Art Gallerys mission to bring art and community together. Through the structures ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia was born March 10, 1915. Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy - November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Since 2000, Wright has sold more than 550 sculptures by Bertoia -- more than any other auction house or gallery.
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