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Guitar's place in American art features paintings, photography, and seminal instruments
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, the first exhibition to explore the instruments symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present. Featuring 125 works of art as well as thirty-five exceptional instruments, Storied Strings will be on view in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023. The companion photography exhibition Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today, which celebrates Nashvilles diverse music scene, will be presented concurrently in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from April 21 through August 20, 2023. Organized by Dr. Leo G. Mazow, the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Storied Strings explores fascinating connections and contrasts that show ... More

Review: These rites of spring push back at ruthlessness
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past decade, South African choreographer Dada Masilo has become internationally known and respected for her bold, socially conscious adaptations of canonical ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake. With her current touring production, The Sacrifice (2021), she responds to source material that is a bit more contemporary but carries just as much historical weight: Pina Bauschs The Rite of Spring, which Bausch choreographed in 1975 to Stravinskys groundbreaking 1913 score. (The music originally accompanied Nijinskys earth-pounding modernist choreography, a pairing that caused a riot at the ballets Paris premiere.) In a program note for The Sacrifice, which opened at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, Masilo explains that she first encountered Bauschs Rite as a student at the Performing ... More

National Gallery of Art acquires work by Mel Chin
WASHINGTON, DC.- Mel Chin (b. 1951) is a conceptual artist known for his research-based approach that encourages greater awareness of and dialogue around social and environmental issues. The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired Landscape (1990), the first work by the artist to enter the collection, through a gift of the Collectors Committee. Landscape addresses idealized representations of nature in the past and the reality of nature in the present. A pivotal work in Chins career, Landscape comprises a 14-by-14-foot room featuring three works of art, each referencing specific cultures with strong historical painting and philosophical traditions relating to the landscape. The first work, on the wall opposite the rooms entrance, is created in the style of a 14th-century Persian miniature. Featuring hills, sky, and a river, the painting references ... More

Gabriella Smith's music marvels at nature with grooving joy
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 2014, composer Gabriella Smith took a hike through the Lost Coast in Northern California. Populated by bears, mountain lions and Roosevelt elk, its an area so rugged that the scenic Highway 1, which runs along the water, has to detour far inland. She kept a tide log on hand for portions of the trail that follow the shore. You have to be careful, she said, not to be swept away. The wildness surprised her. I felt so much awe being there, Smith said. And she liked the sound of the name: the poetry of the words lost and coast together, the multiple meanings it suggests. It was, as John Adams, one of her mentors, would say, a title in search of a piece. She wrote a cello solo with looping electronics for Gabriel Cabezas, a friend and former classmate at the Curtis Institute of Music, inspired by the image of a trail being ... More

Michel Verjux: "THE ADVANTAGE OF CLARITY" now on view at Centre d'art Chasse-Spleen
NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE.- The Art Center of Chasse-Spleen Castle will be hosting until October 1, 2023, under the curatorship of Didier Arnaudet, several lightings from the exhibition "THE ADVANTAGE OF CLARITY" in its spaces, as well as small sculptures and drawings, and artistic forms also appreciated by artist Michel Verjux. Michel Verjux has been using lighting as a physical tool for almost 40 years. In this way, he summons up an elementary visual language, made up of projected, directed, adjusted and focused light, in a space to be invested and described, in a given time that allows us to see a certain number of elements making up the environment. For the artist, to light is to make appear, to pass from invisibility to visibility, from anonymity to particularity. It is also to bring the visitor to play the game that he proposes to him, even ... More

American artist Jessica Cannon now on view at Polina Berlin Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Polina Berlin Gallery is now presenting Veils, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Jessica Cannon, on view since May 24, and continuing through June 24, 2023. Jessica Cannons mystic landscapes confront time with a sense of ontological awe. She employs personal and symbolic language in concert with geometric motifs to depict the horizon and the space beyond it. For portions of the pandemic, Cannon traveled to New Mexico and Wyoming for residencies. During her time in the West, she experienced a sense of scale and vastness that she conveys in her intricate topographies of liminal spaces. Working with serial form, Cannon unearths celestial symbols of the infinite as she paints what she considers to be small icons and maps of consciousness. Structured by spirals or triangles, the works that comprise ... More

Xavier Hufkens presents monographic of work by American artist Milton Avery
BRUSSLES.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting until June 10th, 2023, Forms from Nature, the gallerys first solo exhibition of works by the American master, Milton Avery (1885-1965). It is also the first monographic presentation of Averys work in Belgium. Focusing on his affinity with the natural world, the artists most enduring source of inspiration, this exhibition charts the development of Averys practice over a span of three decadesfrom the 1930s to the 1960s. These selected worksoils, watercolours, and line drawingshighlight the artists distinctive approach to colour, light, and composition. Milton Avery was born in Altmar, New York, in 1885 and moved with his family to Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of thirteen. He left school in 1901, at the age of sixteen, to work at the Hartford Machine and Screw Company to support the family. Following ... More

Beautiful antique Quebec furniture pieces dominate the list of top lots from Belzile Collection
NEW HAMBURG.- An important, circa 1820 Quebec armoire in alligatored yellow paint with the family nickname Armoire Crocodile sold for $29,500, and a Louis XIII armchair from the Bastien family on the Huron-Wendat reserve in Loretteville, Quebec rang up $21,240 at the sale of the Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile collection held May 13th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., online and live at the Marriott Courtyard West Island in Quebec, Canada. It was the first auction ever held outside of Ontario for Miller & Miller, which typically holds online-only auctions that have been highly successful, but the Jean-Marc and Danielle Belzile collection was too excellent to pass up. Beginning in the 1960s, the couple set out to find the rarest, most iconic and most unusual antiques in all of Quebec. They retained most of what they found in their personal collection, ... More

'Alchemy' featuring many post-war and contemporary artists now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac
LONDON.- Bringing together major works by some of the most influential European and American artists of the post-war and contemporary periods, Alchemy examines the enduring fascination with material transformation and alchemical thinking in artmaking. The group exhibition, now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac until July 29th features works by artists who have engaged with alchemical ideas at key moments in their practice, including Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Sturtevant, Emilio Vedova and Andy Warhol. Assembling a group of art- historically significant works, including many shown for the first time in the UK, the exhibition highlights how ideas of material, artistic and philosophical transmutation both inform, and are redefined by, these pioneers of art. While typically associated with ... More

American architect, artist and educator Steven Holl presents 'Half Earth' linked to the protection of Nature
MILAN.- From 26th May to 14th July 2023, Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura presents HALF EARTH, a new exhibition of work by architect, artist and educator Steven Holl (Washington, 1947) curated by Steven Holl Architects. The exhibition project five years after the first exhibition One Two Five curated by Marco Sammicheli is a reflection on the role of architecture as an activity which, today, is inevitably and inescapably linked to responsibilities to Nature. The exhibition, from a concept by Fulvio Irace, takes its title from the work of the same name on biodiversity by the scholar Edward Osborne Wilson who, in the 1970s, attempted to map animal and plant species from all over the world, in order to identify those places where man had the most room to act on the environment while still protecting it. Today, more than ever, the idea of rethinking ... More

Todd Tubutis selected as director of the Center for Creative Photography
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Following a national search, Todd Tubutis has been named director of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Tubutis has 20 years of experience in organizational leadership and management, strategic planning, fundraising, and institutional outreach, as well as record of innovative exhibition development and curatorial initiatives. Since 2019 Tubutis has served as director of the Art Museum of West Virginia University. From 2015 to 2019, he was associate director at the University of Nebraskas Sheldon Museum of Art. Earlier in his career, Tubutis was executive director of Blue Sky Gallery, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, Oregon. I am thrilled to be joining the talented staff of the Center for Creative Photography as its next director, said Tubutis. It is a true honor ... More