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The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received two awards in the 2022 Southeastern Museums Conference Publication Design Competition for its quarterly newsletter, Facet. Photo Courtesy of The Georgia Museum of Art.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received both a gold in the magazines and newsletters category and a Best in Show award in the 2022 Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) Publication Design Competition for its quarterly newsletter, Facet. The competition showcases the best in the profession and provides benchmarks for regional publication efforts in southeastern museums. This is the third year in a row that the museum has won Best in Show for one of its publications. Noelle Shuck, the museums graphic designer, said, Facet is a publication Ive been working on since 2013, when I was employed at the Adsmith. When the graphic designer position was created and I joined the museum staff in January of 2020, one of my initial duties was to redesign Facet and give it a little refresh. My communications department colleagues and I conceptualized a smaller format f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Amara Granderson, center, in âFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf,â directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, at the Booth Theater in New York, April 10, 2022. The busy choreographer returns to the stage, maybe for the last time, in her celebrated trilogy exploring Black life. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
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| Major Rodin exhibition opening at the High Museum of Art | | Air-powered art from a newly minted winner of a 'genius grant' | | Swiss artist Gérard Schneider on view at Perrotin Matignon until December 17th |
Auguste Rodin (French, 18401917), The Thinker, large version, modeled 1903, cast by Alexis Rudier 1928, bronze, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Jacob Epstein Collection, 1930.25.1.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will open the exhibition "Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern" this Friday, Oct. 21. Featuring 60 works by the revered artist, from his most famous compositions like The Thinker to lesser-known works, the exhibition follows Rodins rise to eminence in America in the 20th century and highlights the collectors, critics and curators who helped make it happen. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) is one of the most celebrated sculptors of the modern age, represented in museums and private collections across the globe. However, this was not always the case. From his first sculpture to enter an American museum in 1893 and culminating with his popular revival in the 1980s, Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern on view at the High Oct. 21, 2022-Jan. 15, 2023 follows Rodins rise to eminence in America due in large part to the collectors, critics and ... More | |
Paul Chan in his studio in Brooklyn, Oct. 3, 2022. After a detour into publishing, Chan offers recent works in a show titled "Breathers" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Todd Heisler/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK, NY.- The title of a forthcoming exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Paul Chan: Breathers, has at least several meanings, reflecting the artists talent for wry understatement. For starters, it refers to one of the series by Chan featured in the show, which has about 40 works and will be on view Nov. 17 to July 16, 2023. The nylon figures in works like Katabasis and Trithagorean Hoga (both from 2019) are inflated by fans breathing, in a way a concept that will be familiar to anyone who has seen flailing forms in front of various roadside businesses. Im glad the Walker wants their space to feel like a used car dealership, the Brooklyn-based Chan joked recently. A light touch is one of his signatures. Theres a lot of humor in his work, said Eleanor Cayre, an art collector and adviser in New Yor ... More | |
Sans titre, circa 1985. Acrylic and metal foil on paper. 149.6 à 107 cm | 58 7/8 à 42 1/8 in. © Schneider, ADAGP Paris, 2022. Courtesy of the Estate of Gérard Schneider and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Born in 1896 in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, Gérard Schneider, currently on view through December 17th at the Perrotin Matignon, grew up in Neuchâtel, where he was surrounded by art from an early age his father was a cabinetmaker and antique dealer. He quickly developed a keen interest in mastering classical techniques as well as a great appetite for discovery. His artistic training began at the age of twenty when he went to Paris to study at the National School of Decorative Arts, before moving to the National School of Fine Arts in 1918 to work under Fernand Cormon who had taught many masters of modern art such as Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Schneider settled permanently in Paris in 1922, devoting the following years to the study of art techniques and art history. In 1926, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon dAutomne, where his submission, LAllée hippique, was well received. In addition ... More |
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| Ippodo Gallery opens an exhibition of kinetic sculpture by Susumu Shingu | | Susquehanna Art Museum opens an exhibition of works by Doug Navarra | | Tammie Rubin, of recently awarded Tito Prize, joins C24 Gallery |
Moon Boat NY, 2022, Sculpture. Stainless steel, Aluminum, Carbon fiber, Polyester cloth Φ 1600 mm, 63 in / H 2135 mm, 84 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery is presenting renowned kinetic sculptor Susumu Shingus first solo exhibition in the United States. Sculpting with Wind opened October 20th and runs through December 29th, 2022. Susumu Shingus kinetic sculptures oppose the perception that our environment is eternal and static. As natural forces activate a Shingu sculptures hinged joints, the viewer becomes keenly aware of their own participation and relative scale in Earths ecosystem. The artists work strives to foster appreciation for our unique and shared home, planet Earth. Shingus permanent large-scale outdoor sculptures serve as a visual reminder of the constancy and immensity of the Earths natural forces wind, water, light, and gravity that affect our human lives. Shingus large-scale public works have been installed in Brazil (São Paulo1), France (Margaux2; Chambord3; Paris⁴), Italy (Milan ... More | |
Oliver Chilled Plow Works with Redactions, 17" x 14", gouache, ink, pencil, found document, 2019.
HARRISBURG, PA.- Lies and Redactions: A Survey, Susquehanna Art Museums newest exhibition, features work by Doug Navarra from 20062021. Spanning numerous distinct series in Navarras career, this extended investigation of mark-making has evolved to include historic found documents, bold minimalistic redactions, and layered geometric patterns. Early pieces on view highlight Navarras integration of found documents into his drawing and painting practice. When my personal history as a 21st century artist is added to a 150-year-old piece of paper, it transforms the context of the page from a minor historical record into a contemporary and self-expressive work of art. The progression of the found document pieces demonstrates the artists ability to work collaboratively with the past by navigating the marks already found on
the documents themselves. Navarras recent work shifts away from the inclusion of histor ... More | |
Tammie Rubin. Photo by Whitney Devin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist and educator Tammie Rubin has joined our roster of represented artists. On the heels of her recent C24 Gallery exhibition Mythodical, with Eleen Lin, Rubin was awarded the Titos Prize in Austin, Texas this past April in recognition of her outstanding body of work. Her solo exhibition, I Pick Up My Life is currently on view through November 12th at Galleri Urbane in Dallas. The show includes her signature ceramic work along with pen and ink drawings and multi-media installations. Rubins artwork transforms familiar objects into mythic sculptures and installations that explore the gaps between the readymade and the handcrafted object, opening up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Her ceramic pieces created from slip cast porcelain over everyday objects result in otherworldly constructions that range from the sacred to the whimsical. Her work in Big Mediums Pylon Project (currently ... More |
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| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquires Justine Kurland's monumental series Girl Pictures | | Art Gallery of New South Wales unveils important works in the new Yiribana Gallery | | Phillips to present exclusive selection of Polaroids by Ellen von Unwerth in November 2022 |
Justine Kurland, The Wall, 2000. Girl Pictures: All photographs by Justine Kurland. Printed 1997-2002. 12 x 15 inches framed. C-print. Purchased through the gift of Robinson A. and Nancy D. Grover and the Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The most celebrated series in the artists oeuvre thus far, Kurlands Girl Pictures (19972002) is emblematic of teenage experience. Started in New Haven, Connecticut, the series tells a fictional story of an empowered community of young women. All 69 photographs on view October 26, when the artist will deliver the Wadsworth's annual Emily Hall Tremaine Lecture in Contemporary Art.
By documenting teenage girls as rebels at play in bucolic frontier landscapes, the series offers a feminist recasting of vagabond narratives like Jack Kerouacs On the Road (1957) in photographs made between Connecticut and Californiaincluding New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas among others. Kurland took to the American road on solo trips over five years beginning in 1997 ... More | |
Iluwanti Ken 'Walawulu ngunytji kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting)' 2022, ink on primed linen, 257.6 x 407 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, commissioned and funded with the support of the Dobell Foundation in celebration of the opening of Sydney Modern Project and the Gil and Shay Docking Drawing Fund 2022. © Iluwanti Ken. Media contact: [email protected]
SYDNEY.- Over 160 works, including special new acquisitions and projects, have been installed in the inaugural display of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in the newly relocated Yiribana Gallery at the Art Gallery of New South Wales the first gallery visitors encounter in the new building which opens on December 3. The Art Gallerys Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curatorial team have worked in close collaboration with artists from across the country from New South Wales to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, Arnhem Land, Cape York Peninsula and the Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait Islands to develop new and distinct projects inspired by ideas of generosity and care that emphasise connections between people ... More | |
Ellen von Unwerth, The Red Baroness, Karen Mulder, Cannes, 1991. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips has announced ULTIMATE ELLEN VON UNWERTH, an exclusive selection of 20 unique Polaroids taken by the celebrated photographer Ellen von Unwerth. The majority of these works were created during editorial assignments for international publications, including Vogue US, Vogue Italia and The Face, in the supermodel heyday of the 1990s. Advertising campaign images include Paris Hilton for Guess in 2004 and Alessandra Ambrosio for Victorias Secret in 2005. This curation, showcasing Ellens instantly recognisable images of strong, sensual and playful women, will be unveiled for the first time in Phillips Paris galleries from 7 to 11 November. The Polaroids will then travel to London for a public preview from 16 to 22 November at 30 Berkeley Square before being offered in the Photographs auction on 22 November. Expressing her enthusiasm for presenting the Polaroids for the very first time, Ellen von Unwerth outlines ... More |
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| "Mine of the Commander of the Faithful" coin from year AD 712 to be auctioned for first time | | Exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sola Olulode opens at Sapar Contemporary | | Simple furniture from a revolutionary: An exemplary Gerald Summers Collection comes to auction |
"Mine of the Commander of the Faithful" coin from year AD 712. Coin estimated to fetch in excess of £700,000. Dates with AH are given according to the Islamic calendar. This coin is dated AH 93, meaning that it was struck 93 years after the Prophet Mohammeds emigration to Medina in AD 622.
LONDON.- An exceptionally rare Mine of the Commander of the Faithful Islamic gold coin dating from AD 712 is being offered at auction for the first time. While most Umayyad gold coins (from the Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 to 750) are fairly common, ones that bear the words Madin Amir al-Muminin in the fourth and fifth lines on the front of the coin, which translates as Mine of the Commander of the Faithful, are rarely seen. This is also the first time that one from this specific year, AH 93 (= 711/12 AD), has ever come to auction, making it one of the most historically significant and highly desirable of Islamic coins. The coin, a gold dinar, will be offered in Classical Numismatic Groups Islamic auction in London on October 27, 2022 and is expected to fetch in exc ... More | |
Sola Olulode, First Kiss, 2022. Image Courtesy of Sapar Contemporary and the Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting Could You Be Love, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sola Olulode (UK). Olulode's first solo show in New York inhabits a space of Black figuration that attends to the promise of love. Remaking the whole world, both natural and interior spaces, into a queer ecology of tenderness and intimacy. Wherein love is a cultural commons for Black queer social life. Olulodes signature monochromatic works express the emphatic nature of desire. Building toward a color imaginary for falling in love. Moving from works in hues of blue and yellow to her lawn series that fill the frame with a textured green landscape. Color production is a central scaffolding technology within her work. The cascading pigments and tones are not background to the figures. Olulodes color choices radiate across the canvas, affectively marking and wrapping the characters in their warmth. Drawing the viewe ... More | |
Gerald Summers, For Makers of Simple Furniture Type P Chair, circa 1934.
EDINBURGH.- An important collection of the work of English modernist designer Gerald Summers (1899-1967) comes for sale in London later this month. The MODERN MADE auction at Lyon & Turnbull on October 28 includes 23 pieces of 1930s furniture by Summers lovingly acquired over many years. Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their London shop, Makers of Simple Furniture, in 1931. For a decade, until the firms closed with the onset of the Second World War, Simple Furniture produced more than 200 designs conceived in the modernist creed as furniture for the concrete age. The emphasis was very much on function, modern materials, and machine methods of manufacture. A thing had to do a job, Butcher said, and so Gerald designed it to do the job it was meant to do. At the time it was sold through department stores and furnishing shops in London, such as Heals. Like so much of Bri ... More |
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A new art prize: The Belvedere Art Award
VIENNA.- The Belvedere Art Award was established in 2022 to reflect forward-looking dynamics in society and contemporary art. Funded by Vendome Projects, the art award advances an inclusive, queer-feminist, future- and diversity-oriented approach in response to current discourses and the awareness of the many exclusions in the museum and exhibition fields, not the least of which is manifested in the awarding of prizes. Local and international experts will determine the prize winner: in a two-stage selection process, each of the five nomination jury members will identify two emerging artists with a connection to Austria. A five-member selection jury will then determine the winner of the award. Age, gender, and nationality do not play a role in the selection process. In addition to the prize money ... More
A Polish artist with varied talents
NEW YORK, NY.- Growing up in Lublin, Poland, Agnieszka Polska had little access to contemporary art. So a visit to the Tate Modern on a trip to London as a teenager, she said, was a revelation. Two decades later, Polska is an artist and filmmaker whose video works have been featured at institutions like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Berlins Hamburger Bahnhof, where in 2018 she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie. But she continues to be influenced by that visit to the Tate Modern, particularly one piece she saw, Bruce Naumans video Good Boy Bad Boy (1985). It is a work about how art can affect the viewer, about how powerful art is and how it can be used for good and bad reasons, good and bad practices, said Polska, 37. I ... More
A pioneering artist and her nemesis, side by side
NEW YORK, NY.- Dont talk to me about Monet! That command, from American artist Joan Mitchell, indicated how much she hated being compared to Claude Monet, as the art historian Suzanne Pagé discovered when she visited her in Vétheuil, near Paris, in 1982. She was a very strong personality and could be very direct, said Pagé, who, that same year, staged a major solo show of Mitchells work at the Musée dArt Moderne in Paris. She described the painters residence as a very pretty house with a terrace and garden, where she hosted and mentored many young artists, with music always playing in the background. It was as if she was painting the musical notes, Pagé said. Thirty years after her death, Mitchell is now being officially paired with Monet. Two exhibitions collectively titled ... More
Catskill Art Space opens with James Turrell and a lofty vision
LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY.- On Oct. 22, a stretch of Main Street in this hamlet in New Yorks Sullivan County will join the list of often unexpected and rural places to see art installations by James Turrell. The Catskill Art Space, a local arts nonprofit that is celebrating its half-centennial with a rebranding as a new art destination, will include not just a Turrell work, Avaar, but also two Sol LeWitt wall drawings. The three artworks are semi-permanent loans that will be on long-term view alongside rotating shows of works by artists with connections to the region. Work by artists of this caliber is certainly a stretch for an organization of our size, said Sally Wright, the executive director of the organization, which was known for 50 years, until last month, as the Catskill Art Society. Its also a stretch for a town with a f ... More
Strawberry Hill House announces the acquisition of a magnificent 17th-century Chinese vase with a macabre past
LONDON.- One of the most iconic and macabre objects owned by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) has been reacquired by Strawberry Hill House, thanks to the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The beautiful, large blue and white vase achieved a certain notoriety after Walpole's favourite cat, Selima, drowned in it while trying to catch goldfish, which the author kept in it. The incident was later immortalised in a mock-heroic ode by Walpoles friend, the poet Thomas Gray - Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (1747). The cats death actually occurred at Walpoles London house, in Arlington Street. The bowl, along with many other work ... More
A new leader at New York Theater Ballet and a call for new audiences
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Melendez is a stickler for dramatic detail. In a recent rehearsal of the pas de deux from Agnes De Milles Carousel, Melendez, the new artistic director of New York Theater Ballet, watched the dancers with close attention, frequently stopping them to ask about the intention behind each movement. When you put your hand out to raise her chin, what is that? he asked Nathan Rommel, a recent recruit. Rommel reflected for a moment and came back with an answer. OK, I want to see that, Melendez said. On a chair in the small studio at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village lay a worn paperback copy of An Actor Prepares, Stanislavskis 1936 exploration of the actors craft. Melendez requires all new dancers in the company to read it. I have to train the danc ... More
Review: Seven dancers step into the rhythm of a Moroccan night
NEW YORK, NY.- It begins with the mystical image of seven men facing the back of the stage, their bodies lit in silhouette in front of a painted gauze backdrop that sometimes looks like marble and at other times, clouds. The landscape is trippy ominous and enigmatic as the dancers, taking their time, slowly round over to pick up jackets placed at their feet. In a daze of slow motion, they put them on: one sleeve on, one hanging limply. Their arms rise and fall. Are they praying to an unseen god? Gradually their feet begin to echo a rhythmic step that has them bouncing in place or gliding across the stage until they form a wide circle, finally spinning around to show us their faces. Its hypnotic, this eternal rhythm. When they all get going, its like the sound of a heartbeat: seven dancers, one sound. The titl ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Domenico Zampieri was born October 21, 1581. Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino; October 21, 1581 - April 6, 1641) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, or Carracci School, of painters. Domenichino's work, developed principally from Raphael's and the Carracci's examples, mirrors the theoretical ideas of G. B. Agucchi, with whom the painter collaborated on a Treatise on Painting (Domenichino's portrait of Agucchi in York occasionally has been attributed to Annibale Carracci). In this image: Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637â38, Cathedral of Naples.
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