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The artist Judy Chicago with her minimalist sculptures, Moving Parts, in her studio in Belen, N.M., Sept. 13, 2023. The pioneering feminist artist rules the New Museum with a six-decade survey, but she shares the stage with her sisterhood. (Gabriela Campos/The New York Times)
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK, NY.- Judy Chicago was anxious, unusually so. For most of her six-decade career as a feminist multimedia-ist, she was out of step with the art establishment occasionally crossing paths with the institutions that canonize cultural weight but mostly zigging off course: a 5-foot-1 dynamo in platform sneakers, doggedly pursuing her own goals. Now, though, the art world is paying attention to what she has been saying: that when art by women is viewed holistically, through the arc of history, it can shake everything us to the core. It is enthralling and unnerving to suddenly have her own work understood this way, she said last week, as she marched in her embroidered denim through Herstory, her first major New York survey ever at the New Museum. Spanning four floors, it includes a grounding show-within-a-show of more than 80 artists and thinkers, including Hilma af Klint, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia OKeeffe, Virginia Woolf and Frida Kahlo, giving ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Wurrdha Marra on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
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| The Norton Simon collection exhibits 'Benevolent Beings: Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from South and Southeast Asia' | | Almine Rech now represents the Estate of Serge Poliakoff | | The Bruce Museum presents 'Harry Bertoia: Sculpture for Living' opening tomorrow |
Dipankara Buddha (detail), c. 16001650, Nepal. Gilt and enameled copper with semiprecious stones and pigments, 32-1/2 in. (82.6 cm). Norton Simon Art Foundation.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Benevolent Beings: Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from South and Southeast Asia, an exhibition that explores how representations of protective deities have been seen to offer blessings, guidance and security to their devotees. Through 44 artworks drawn solely from the Norton Simons extensive collectionsmany of them being exhibited for the very first timethe exhibition examines the original context and evidence of use of these works, which range from utilitarian and instructive votive objects, to stone and bronze sculpture of bodhisattvas and merciful gods, to highly ornate gilt bronze buddhas. As such, the objects are organized in accordance with the general layout of a Buddhist temple from 13th- to 18th-century South ... More | |
Portrait of Serge Poliakoff, 1968 © Alexis Poliakoff / Courtesy of the Estate and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced its collaboration with the Estate of Serge Poliakoff. On the occasion of Paris+ par Art Basel 2023, the gallery will be showing a historic work from 1950. This inaugural presentation will be followed by a solo exhibition next year of the artist's work at Almine Rech Paris. Serge Poliakoff (Moscow, January 8, 1900 October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ãcole de Paris (Tachisme). Poliakoff's early life was marked by upheaval and displacement due to political unrest in Russia. He fled the country during the Russian Revolution and eventually settled in Paris in the 1920s. Poliakoff was exposed to the avant-garde art movements of the time, particularly Cubism and Fauvism, which influenced his early work. Over time, he developed his unique style, moving towards pure abstra ... More | |
Harry Bertoia (American, b. Italy, 19151978), Untitled, c. 1970s. Beryllium copper on brass plate, 39 ½ x 9 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. Harry Bertoia Foundation. © 2023 Estate of Harry Bertoia / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
GREENWICH, CT.- On October 14, 2023, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT will present Harry Bertoia: Sculpture for Living, an exhibition featuring fifteen exemplary sculptures and furniture designs by Bertoia, some never-before exhibited. While Harry Bertoia (American, b. Italy, 19151978) is well known for his sculptures and pioneering use of sound as sculptural material, most of his creative output was made for domestic spaces, to be actively lived with not passively observed. From the beginning of his career, he frequently made works for friends and family, and his now-iconic collection of seating for Knoll revolutionized the way we perceive and interact with furniture and helped define midcentury modern interiors and outdoor living spaces. These functional pieces, renowned for their elegant ... More |
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| National Portrait Gallery announces jurors and call for entries for next triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition | | Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents 'Five Paintings 2013 - 2015' by Wade Guyton | | Norton Museum of Art to host exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces |
Anthony Cuts under the Williamsburg Bridge, Morning by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, first prize winner of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, marquetry hybrid (wood veneers, oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, shellac, and sawdust on wood), 2020. Collection of the artist. Copyright Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Courtesy of Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced an open call from Oct. 2 through Jan. 26, 2024, for submissions to its seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Established in 2006, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition invites artists (ages 18 and over) living and working in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to submit one portrait created in the past three years for consideration by a panel of experts. Selected artworks, including three prizewinners, are then featured in a museum exhibition. The competition focuses on broadening the definition of portraiture while ... More | |
Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2015.
PARIS.- Five Paintings 2013-2015 is Wade Guyton's first exhibition in a French museum. It is based on the painting Untitled (2013), which entered the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne in 2022, thanks to a special donation. Created between 2013 and 2015, the five paintings are from a period during which Guyton made a variety of black paintings. Four of them were conceived from a single Photoshop file composed exclusively of black: the printed image competes with white, its reserve space. This creates an ambiguous relationship between figure and background and, more broadly, between the works and the wall on which they are hung. The porosity of the boundaries creates a tension between abstraction and figuration that should allow each painting to find the right form. The fifth canvas in this body of works, never exhibited before, extends this tension by juxtaposing two exhibition views on which there is a 'mise en abyme' of the two monumental paintings presented here. Wade Guyton ... More | |
Edouard Manet, Young Woman in a Round Hat, circa 1877-1879. Oil on Canvas, 21 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation on loan to the Princeton University Art Museum.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art will host Artists in Motion: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Collection, highlighting Pariss vibrant and influential artistic environment during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman. The exhibition features nearly forty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by celebrated artists like Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Ãdouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Chaïm Soutine. Exploring the intersecting lives and journeys of these renowned Paris-based artists, the show illustrates their experimentation with painting techniques that emphasize personal and subjective experiences. The exhibition will be on view at the Norton from ... More |
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| Theater industry leader takes top job at New York Performing Arts Library | | Superb collection of Viola Frey works highlighted in Bonhams Modern Design │ Art Sale | | MCA Australia appoints Rebecca Ray as Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions |
Roberta Pereira, the director of the Playwrights Realm, will lead the library, which is home to more than eight million items relating to music, theater and dance. Photo: Jonathan Blanc/NYPL.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- Roberta Pereira has had a career-long goal to make the performing arts accessible for all. So when she saw a posting for an executive director position at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, one of the countrys leading repositories relating to music, theater and dance, she had an immediate thought: dream job. I believe the arts are stronger when more people can participate, said Pereira, 43, who will become the first Latino to lead the institution, which is home to more than 8 million items. And the librarys mission is free access and knowledge for all. Pereira, currently the executive director of the Playwrights Realm, an off-Broadway theater company devoted to early-career playwrights, will start the job in January. She succeeds Jennifer Schantz, ... More | |
Biography of a Civilization, 1969 by Viola Frey (1933 2004), estimated at $4,000 6,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- 33 ceramics, paintings and sculptures from the collection of Bill and Peggy Foote, leading collectors of Freys work, will be offered. Through a lifelong partnership, the Footes collected approximately 100 pieces by Viola Frey, exhibiting her work in their Oakland home over a period of 40 years. Frey, born in Lodi, California, is recognized as one of the central figures of Californias Funk Art movement. Over a span of five decades, Frey showcased an aptitude for multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, bronze and glass, however it was her work in the field of ceramic sculpture that pushed her to the movements forefront. Frey played a crucial role in bringing ceramics into the contemporary art world, employing a technique-heavy practice of intricate glazing and meticulous construction while creating a diverse body of work that reflected the intellectual rigor of her surrounding artistic communities. Highlights in the sale include the ... More | |
Rebecca Ray Rebecca Ray at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Photo: Mark Mohell.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announced today the appointment of Rebecca Ray as Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions. Ray will commence her new role on 31 October 2023. Rebecca Ray is a Meriam Mer woman from the Torres Strait Islands and is an experienced First Nations curator, writer and cultural heritage researcher with a passion for anti colonial/decolonised methodologies and practice. Ray brings to the role a wide range of curatorial experience working from grassroots communities and remote art centres, museums, and galleries at regional and national levels. Ray comes to MCA Australia from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Canberra, where she was First Nations Curator, responsible for the development of new exhibition and collection policy frameworks to broaden the inclusion of living First Nations sitters and artists, particularly from regional and remote places. She was co- ... More |
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| NGV's new Indigenous art and design exhibition Wurrdha Marra opens on the ground floor of The Ian Potter Centre | | Hilary Harkness's first exhibition with P·P·O·W is now open | | Art Antwerp expands its international gallery list for the third edition of the art fair |
Installation view of Wurrdha Marra on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October 2023. Photo: Tom Ross.
MELBOURNE.- The ground floor of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square is home to Wurrdha Marra, a new dynamic and ever-changing exhibition space dedicated to displaying masterpieces and new works from the NGVs First Nations art and design collection. Wurrdha Marra means Many Mobs in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language and is the name newly bestowed upon this gallery space by the Wurundjeri Council. Wurrdha Marra showcases work from emerging to senior artists from different time periods and regions, including Tony Albert, Treahna Hamm, Kent Morris, Marlene Gilson, Rover Thomas, Christian Thompson, Gary Lee, Nicole Monks, Gali Yalkarriwuy, Dhambit Mununggurr, Nonggirrnga Marawili and more. Traversing the ground floor and foyer of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Wurrdha Marra includes a number of new and ... More | |
Hilary Harkness, Experienced People Needed, 2018. Oil on linen mounted on panel, 14 x 22 3/4 ins., 35.6 x 57.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is opening today Prisoners from the Front, Hilary Harknesss first exhibition with the gallery, her first solo exhibition in over a decade, and the largest exhibition of her work to-date. In her meticulously rendered small-scale paintings, Harkness fuses traditional painting techniques with a distinctly contemporary sensibility to explore power struggles inherent in sex, race, and class systems on an uncensored stage. A culmination of works from 2019 - 2023, The Arabella Freeman Series is an episodic drama which chronicles an alternative narrative of the making of Winslow Homers iconic Civil War painting, Prisoners from the Front, 1866. With painterly sophistication, Harkness intertwines her singular imagination with in-depth research into American Civil War history and the ancestral history of her wife Aras family to challenge our visual ... More | |
Bernard Villers, Gris de Payne,1994. Photo: Irène Laub gallery.
ANTWERP.- Art Antwerp, the contemporary art fair organised by Art Brussels, is set to return for its third edition from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 December 2023 at Antwerp Expo. This year, the fair welcomes 72 participating galleries from 12 different countries. Among these 72 galleries is a mix of well-established galleries with over a decade of contributions to the art world, as well as young and exciting galleries. Featuring a strong programme, half of the galleries come from Belgium, of which 16 of these galleries are from Antwerp itself, while the other half, totaling 37 galleries, come from abroad, keeping the DNA of the fair international and most definitively strongly locally rooted. Launched during the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2021, Art Antwerp thrived last year for its second edition by welcoming nearly 12,000 visitors, establishing itself as a prominent fixture in the Belgian contemporary art calendar ... More |
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Paolozzi collection to feature at Cheffins Art & Design Sale
CAMBRIDGE.- A collection of items which belonged to the late sculpture and graphic artist, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 -2005), will go under the hammer as part of the Cheffins Art & Design Sale on 26th October. Consigned from the estate of Freda Paolozzi, Eduardo Paolozzis ex-wife, the collection includes a number of never-before-seen items created by the groundbreaking Scottish artist during his career. Freda Paolozzi was a textile designer and married Eduardo Paolozzi in 1951, the pair had a successful marriage living in Essex before divorcing in 1988, and Freda set up home in Cambridge until her death in 2023. Included in the collection is a copper and brass table lamp, designed by Paolozzi, which is believed to be a one-off creation, having not been seen on the open market before, and which has an estimate of £400 - £600. ... More
Isabella Icoz appointed partner in London
LONDON.- Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin announced the appointment of Isabella Kairis Icoz as Partner, based in London. For over a decade, Icoz has played a pivotal role in developing the gallerys presence in Europe and the UK, having held the position of Senior Director in London since 2019. Icoz was instrumental in the successful launch of the gallerys inaugural UK outpost at Cromwell Place in South Kensington in 2020 and has overseen the UK debuts of many of our artists. In her new role, Icoz will collaborate closely with the gallery founders and partners Carla Camacho and Jessica Kreps, who are based in New York, to strengthen the gallerys connections in the UK and Europe and provide a bridge for its artists activity in the region. Icoz will drive the gallery's programme, sales, and curatorial initiatives in the UK and Europe, ... More
Scream queen? More like stream queen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Once upon a time, there was a princess in Denmark who aspired to become an artist. Though she was the eldest child of the countrys reigning king, for the first 12 years of the princesss life, only men had the right to inherit the throne. That changed when the Danish constitution was amended in 1953, and the princess became her fathers presumptive heir soon after turning 13. She continued to pursue her interest in art throughout her teenage years, producing drawings by the stacks before largely stopping in her 20s. Around the time the princess turned 30 and after she had earned a diploma in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and had studied at Aarhus University in Denmark, the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics she read J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. ... More
Reko Rennie creates a powerful new work for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia today unveiled a new site-specific sculpture Remember Us (2023) by contemporary Australian artist Reko Rennie. Rennies work is the sixth Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission and will be on view from 4 October 2023 until September 2024. Melbourne-based artist and Kamilaroi man, Reko Rennie (b. 1974), is well-known for his diverse practice working across sculpture, painting, video work and installation. Rennies art draws upon his Aboriginal identity to provoke discussions surrounding Indigenous culture, self-determination and identity in contemporary urban environments. 'Remember Us (2023)' is a memorial to the 551 Aboriginal people who have died in police custody, at the time this work was made, since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths ... More
Highlights of Brâncuşi's creative career featured in exhibition at Timişoara National Art Museum
ROMANIA.- The exhibition Brâncuși: Romanian Sources and Universal Perspectives aims to illustrate the particularity of the artist who managed to create pure forms, free of any influence. By reaching in and extracting the essence of beings and objects, Brâncuși crossed geographical, historical and formal borders and, today, remains an artist who defies all labels. His work was enriched both by his own biographical experiences and by his natural curiosity to continually discover new horizons: he would leave Romania at the age of twenty-eight, on a pilgrimage across Europe, led by the mirage of Pariss artistic life. Nevertheless, his Romanian heritage would be present in his mind, serving as the foundation of his development as an artist over which he would layer images, shadows and lights long into his years of creative maturity. Accordingly, ... More
Salman Rushdie to write memoir about stabbing attack
NEW YORK, NY.- Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed novelist and free speech advocate who was viciously attacked at a public event last year, will write a memoir about the experience, his publisher, Penguin Random House, announced Wednesday. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder will be published April 16, the publisher said. This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art, Rushdie said in a statement. Rushdie was attacked onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, a summer arts community in New York, where he was scheduled to speak about the United States as a safe haven for exiled writers. As the event was about to begin, a 24-year-old man jumped onstage and stabbed Rushdie repeatedly in the face and the abdomen before members of the audience ... More
First museum exhibition honoring Gaby Aghion, the founder of the French fashion house Chloé
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé , the first museum exhibition honoring the visionary Jewish entrepreneur Gaby Aghion (1921-2014) and her legacy as the founder of the French fashion house Chloé. Casting a new light on the labels 70-year history with nearly 150 garments as well as never-before-exhibited sketches and documents from the Chloé Archive, this exhibition highlights Aghions vision of effortless, luxurious fashion, and the work of iconic designers who began their careers with the brand, including Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, and Phoebe Philo. The exhibition showcases Aghion as a leader whose work altered the course of the global fashion industry in liberating women's bodies from the restrictive attitudes and styles of the time, as well as pioneering ... More
Opening today 'Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style' at Museum of London Docklands
LONDON.- A red coat worn by Princess Diana and a tweed coat worn by EastEnders Dot Cotton will go on display alongside clothing from M&S, Moss Bros and Wallis in a new major exhibition at Museum of London Docklands showcasing the role of Jewish designers, makers and retailers in making London an iconic fashion city. From East End tailors to the couture salons of the West End, Fashion City tells the stories of Jewish makers who became leaders in their industries, created some of the most recognisable looks of the 20th century, founded retail chains still on the high street today, and dressed the rich and famous- from David Bowie and Princess Diana to Mick Jagger and Muhammad Ali. Featuring fashion and textiles, oral histories, objects, ephemera and photography, Fashion City uses the places and spaces of London to weave ... More
'People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100' is presented as part of museum's centennial
NEW YORK, NY.- Step into a world where a stained-glass masterpiece by Richard Morris Hunt, a mouthguard used by boxer Joe Louis, a 1985 street art painting by Sandra Lady Pink Fabara, a golden Tiffany & Company tea and coffee set, and a sequined Halston ensemble worn by Lauren Bacall, all come together to reveal fascinating tales of New York City. Each object represents a unique piece of the citys vibrant history and all a part of the Museum of the City of New Yorks eagerly anticipated new exhibition, People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100. Opening today, the exhibitionpresented as part of the Museums Centennialfeatures a selection of MCNYs 750,000+ object collection, including many rarely seen items such as a porcelain doll created in 1864, sold to benefit Civil War efforts in Brooklynone of the first objects ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to former US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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