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A photo provided by via Mudam Luxembourg; Photo by Mareike Tocha shows a view of the recent Peter Halley exhibition Conduits: Paintings From the 1980s at Mudam, the contemporary art museum in Luxembourg. With four shows of work from the 80s traveling the globe, the artist is still seeing what he can get away with. (via Mudam Luxembourg; Photo by Mareike Tocha via The New York Times)
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK, NY.- The colors of a Peter Halley painting are assaultive lurid hazmat oranges and jaundiced yellows nearly blinding in their acid-dipped fluorescence. And thats before the dread creeps in, the suspicion that despite being connected in innumerable ways, each of us has never been more alone. In the 1980s, Halley devised a simple vocabulary: cells and conduits, rendered in a queasily unnatural palette and precise geometric space, that cut to the heart of a nascent computer age whose byproduct was intensifying social isolation. It turned out that moment never really ended. Seen today, Halleys paintings of the 80s, with their hermetic chambers tethered to the outside world by data lines, have a premonitory quality, anticipating the total triumph of the digital revolution. A lot of younger people give me credit for that, Halley told me, sitting in his West Chelsea studio in late winter, a half-dozen assistants busy organizing paintings set to depart for Mudam ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Stroll Garden (Los Angeles) debuted There are things Iâd rather whisper, the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Taylor Kibby, featuring all new sculptural work that showcases Kibby's signature ceramic chain link motif.
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| Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach opens an exhibition of works by Makoto Saito | | Gina Pane presents exhibition at Mennour that focuses on her student years at the Beaux-Arts de Paris | | Walker Art Center opens first retrospective of artist Pacita Abad in April |
Makoto Saito, Bed, 2022. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 44 ½ x 59 inches (113 x 150 cm) Courtesy of Acquavella Galleries and Taka Ishii Gallery.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Acquavella Galleries announced its first solo presentation of works by the renowned Japanese artist Makoto Saito. On view April 14 through May 28, 2023, at Acquavellas Palm Beach location, in TIME features twelve new and recent paintings inspired by the noted American artist Edward Hopper, marking the international debut of this body of work. Saitos deep interest in Hoppers oeuvre goes back nearly forty years, to when he first saw Hoppers painting House by the Railroad (1925) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Compelled by Hoppers ability to capture the American ethos of the early 20th century, and by the narrative qualities of his paintings, Saito began exploring this series a decade ago, and only recently returned to transcribe the works onto canvas. In these paintings, Saito extrapolates Hoppers world into his own, conceptually merging the timelines of the two, transcending tempo ... More | |
Gina Pane, Sans Titre, 1961-1964. Huile et collage de papier peint à l'huile sur toile / Oil and collage of oil painted paper on canvas, 46 x 33 x 1,5 cm, (18,11 x 12,99 x 0,59 in.). Framed Dimensions: 51 x 38 x 4cm. © Gina Pane, Adagp, Paris, 2023. Photo. Archives Mennour. Courtesy Anne Marchand and Mennour, Paris.
PARIS.- Mennour gallerys fifth exhibition of the work of Gina Pane (Biarritz, 1939 Paris, 1990) focuses on the pictorial and graphic investigations she undertook in the period running from her student years at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (1961-1964) up until 1969-1970. Coming before the ecologically oriented actions that she executed alone in the natural landscape (1968-1970) and the heavily symbolic, ritualistic actions based on wounding that she performed in front of an audience (1971-1979), these early productions were where Gina Pane worked out the foundations of her artistic practice and took a stance on the world around her. Preserved in her studio all her life long, the works are given pride of place here for the first time. All these paintings, preparatory sketches, and lithographs ... More | |
Pacita Abad, If my friends could see me now, 1993, lithograph with pulp-painted chine-collé and metallic powder, 44-1/2 x 30-1/8 in., edition 23/30, courtesy the Pacita Abad Art Estate; photograph by Rik Sferra.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center opened the first retrospective of artist Pacita Abad (U.S., b. Philippines, 19462004), featuring significant and rarely-seen works from across her 32-year career. Pacita Abad serves as the most comprehensive exploration of Abads works to-date, including more than 100 objects drawn from private and public collections across Asia, Europe, and the United States. A largely self-taught artist, Abad developed a distinct visual vocabulary that embraced the artistic traditions of global cultures and actively blurred the boundaries between fine art and craft. While Abad was engaged in artistic and political dialogues during her life, the depth, range, and inventiveness of her work is only now coming to prominence. The presentation positions Abad within art historical narratives, providing new insights into her conceptual and aesthetic ... More |
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| A new exhibition exploring culture and identity opens at Scandinavia House | | Rare Rosebud Agency sketchbook to highlight Hindman Native American Art Auction | | Exhibition questions the idea of family through art from the 17th Century to the present day |
NEW YORK, NY.- Now on view at Scandinavia House, Arctic Highways brings together the artwork and handicrafts of 12 Indigenous artists from Sápmi, Canada and Alaska in an exhibition highlighting the thriving cultural and spiritual communities of the Arctic region. Curated by Indigenous artists Tomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, Dan JÃ¥ma and Britta Marakatt-Labba, the exhibition includes their own works alongside those of artists Matti Aikio, Marja Helander, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Olof Marsja, Máret Ãnne Sara, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Maureen Gruben and Meryl McMaster. The exhibition includes a wide range of artworks and duodji Sámi handicrafts including Britta Marakatt-Labbas narrative embroidery portraying motifs from Sámi culture and history; sculpture works by Máret Ãnne Sara utilizing traditional objects such as the komsekula silver amulet (believed in Sámi culture to have protective powers); handmade clothing and sculpture works by Laila S ... More | |
Northwest Coast Carved Speaker Staff. Estimate: $20,000-30,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Hindmans April 21st Native American Art auction will be anchored by a strong selection of 19th century ledger art, highlighted by a one-of-a-kind Rosebud Agency sketchbook, by Native artist Jack, which descended directly through the family of Captain Charles A.H. McCauley. The ledger art alongside the 19th century weaponry and beadwork portrays warriors and life on the Plains. The sale also features material from the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes, historic and modern Puebloan pottery and paintings, and ethnographic objects from the Arctic. Hindman will also present property from the following significant collections: Paul Gray, Robert Streett, James Frasca, Smith Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, Larry Goldstone, Donald W Wallace and Judith S Wallace, Estate of Harlan and Mildred Pratt, Leonard and Joan Horvitz, Moreland Hills, Ohio, Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia, Peter Sin ... More | |
Emma Brownlow, A Foundling Restored to its Mother, 1858 © Foundling Museum, London.
LONDON.- One word, with many meanings: family lies at the heart of all our lives and is considered one of the most important units of society. Uncover and explore new perspectives on what family is and can be, through this original, insightful exhibition if you think you know what family means, think again. The Foundling Museum opened Finding Family, an exhibition that questions the idea of family through art from the 17th Century to the present day, running from 17 March to 27 August 2023. Involving participants of Tracing Our Tales, the Museums award-winning programme for young care leavers, Finding Family presents their creative responses to works of art and the exhibitions themes, from the context of their own lived experience, with challenging, moving and surprising results. Is it Blood? Is it Connection? Is it Love? Is it Bond? Within the framework of these four key themes, Finding Family presents ... More |
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| Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, who built an empire of tulle and satin, dies at 99 | | Emma cc Cook and James Castle at Adams and Ollman | | New exhibitions open at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson |
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter with her husband, Jack, at I. Kleinfeld & Son, her Brooklyn bridal shop, which she ran like a benevolent matriarch, on March 26, 1987. Kleinfeld Schachter, who built the empire of tulle and satin known as Kleinfelds, the bridal superstore that for decades drew women from all over the world to the unlikely locale of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, died on March 29, 2023 in Manhattan. She was 99. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, who with her husband, Jack, built the empire of tulle and satin known as Kleinfelds, a bridal superstore that for decades drew women from all over the world to the unlikely locale of Bay Ridge, a neighborhood in New York Citys Brooklyn borough, died March 29 in Manhattan. She was 99. The cause was an intestinal blockage, her son Robert Schachter said. I. Kleinfeld & Son, as it was formally known, was a family business, originally a small fur concern started by Schachters father, Isadore Kleinfeld. But it was Schachter, known as Miss Hedda, and her husband although his initials were J.S., was nonetheless known as Mr. K. who expanded ... More | |
Installation view.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Emma cc Cook with a selection of historical works on paper by self-taught artist James Castle. The rural American West has long been a subject of artistic exploration and site of cultural production, reflecting broad discourses surrounding identity, history, environment, and erasure. Both Cook and Castle depict this charged landscape from different time periods and vantage points, revealing striking parallels and marked distinctions. This special exhibition will be on view at the gallery April 8 through May 6, 2023. For Dibbler Stick, Cook approaches her subject via robust world-building. Central to the presentation is a large cinematic painting, The wonderful company, Pittsburg, CA, 94565, that reveals an eerily beautiful cascade of indistinct cropshypnotic, oppressive, and void of humans or habitationthat stretches as far as the e ... More | |
Raven Chacon: While hissing is organized by Laura Copelin and Julio César Morales, Co Chief Curators, with assistance from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator.
TUCSON, AZ.- While hissing is an exhibition by artist, performer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon that celebrates sound as a medium for resistance and connection. The installation features a collection of graphic scores dedicated to contemporary Indigenous women working in the field of new music, and a three-channel video installation that resounds with voice and instrument. Chacon amplifies Indigenous womens voices, centering their leadership and vision both as carriers of memory and authors of culture. Subrosa expands on a cumulative body of work by artist Na Mira that imagines scenes from White Dust From Mongolia, an unfinished film by the late artist and author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Mira works with intuitive and experimental processes to create an immersive installation featuring nonlinear films, radio transmissions, and the color red ... More |
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| At Christianity's holiest site, Rival monks struggle to turn other cheek | | Helping people of color find their footing in the arts | | Exhibition includes a large selection of sculptures and drawings by Grace Schwindt |
Israel Border Police at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, a tangled knot of several chapels, monasteries and shrines, in Jerusalem on Aug. 22, 2022. Monks from Egypt and Ethiopia have for centuries contested who owns a tiny monastery on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and resurrected. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
JERUSALEM.- As Orthodox Christians descended on Jerusalem this Easter week to visit the holiest site in their religion, a more earthly concern hovered over the holiday: Would rival monks keep the peace this year or again engage in clashes? In a centurieslong conflict, Egyptian Coptic monks and Ethiopian Orthodox monks have competed for control of a small monastery located on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built at the site where Christians believe Christ was crucified, entombed and resurrected. Despite the monasterys sacred location, it has become a site of petty quarrels that occur on a near-annual basis, and sometimes ... More | |
Johnson, who also serves as a trustee for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and other nonprofit organizations, said his investment was intended to help arts institutions more quickly meet their goals, such as improving diversity and connecting artists of color with curators who understand them. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Having worked for two decades as an arts professional, Lise Ragbir has stories to tell. When I first moved to New York, I was a young Black woman moving into a predominantly white art industry, she said in a video interview. I was fresh out of school and learned that I didnt have a certain look, which some recruiters were very candid about. This month, she opened an agency called Verge, a recruitment firm that identifies talented employees of color and helps them settle into positions at all levels in the commercial and nonprofit sides of the art world. Despite a recent wave of efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the arts, Ragbir that many organizations were struggling ... More | |
ANTWERP.- Zeno X Gallery presents Grace Schwindts third solo exhibition, Lacuna. The show includes a large selection of sculptures and drawings created by the artist on the occasion of her recent solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen. In her practice, Grace Schwindt (b. 1979 in Offenbach) brings together various disciplines, including performance, sculpture, drawings, installations and film. The interaction between these different media generates a multifaceted oeuvre whose different components keep inspiring and influencing each other. A central element of her work is her research into the vulnerability of the body, the relationship between humans and their environment, and the way history and memories are constructed in Western, capitalist society. She often draws on personal stories to explore how social relations and power structures determine the actions of individuals. The title of the exhibition, Lacuna, is a ter ... More |
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Artist Cj Hendry is building a 2-storey, 5,000 sqft adult-size indoor playground for solo exhibition
BROOKLYN, NY.- Brooklyn based conceptual artist, Cj Hendrys tenth solo show, Plaid will present a new suite of large-scale, hyper-realistic pencil drawings in her signature heuristic exhibition format in Brooklyn this April. Hendrys practice intersects, the literal and conceptual. Plaid in its figurative form is a collection of two-dimensional drawings comprising perpendicular lines in dry brush strokes, a departure from Hendrys historic paint drawings, that are glossy and three-dimensional. The conceptual is articulated in a 5,000 sqft labyrinth installation Plaidground for adult-consumption and play, designed to mimic the Plaid pattern featured in the works. With a precedence on how the work is experienced, Hendrys conceptual practice hones a literal element, that is magnified, extending the scale. Hendry ... More
Joint multimedia exhibition features over 100 images of Ukrainian life and war
NEW YORK, NY.- In Ukraine, Magnum Photos and Spilka are presenting Ukrainian Perspectives: Photography from the 1940sNow, a joint photography multimedia exhibition at ChaShaMa at 227 W 29th Street in Chelsea. Accompanying the exhibition will be five live and online panel events covering a range of critical topics surrounding the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of photography in todays landscape, and decolonization in Ukrainian art. On April 12th, there will also be an auction of many of the works on view benefitting Spilkas crucial relief work on the ground in Ukraine. This exhibition, curated by Fred Ritchin and Ira Lupu, offers a visual response to political pressures that have been shaping Ukrainian representation for centuries, reclaiming narrative control by offering a glimpse ... More
12th Nationwide Educational Campaign brings city leaders together to address water supply issues
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA.- Water quality and future shortages remain one of the nations top priorities as the 12th annual Wyland National Mayors Challenge for Water Conservation gets underway this April in cities across the United States. The annual campaign brings together residents and civic leaders to see who can be the most water wise, April 1-30, by making a series of online commitments to changing daily behaviors to reduce water waste over the coming year. This year students from thousands of schools across the country can also make water conservation commitments that directly support their citys standings. The challenge was conceived over a decade ago when a handful of mayors in south Florida approached the Wyland Foundation, a non-profit community service group, to h ... More
Historic Milanese building to home new collection presented by SEM during Design Week 2023
MILAN.- The products showcased are customised and feature natural colour shades. The idea behind Casa SEM was to find a home for all of the brands collections, which thus become the undisputed protagonists of an elegant and contemporary home. The desire to explore and use natural materials for the catalogues most iconic pieces underlies the special exhibition layout designed by Motta Architecture for CASA SEM. The handcrafted quality of the production process enhances the unique raw quality of each item displayed. A range of natural colour shades sets the tone for all the products displayed, thus creating a sensual sequence of objects inside each room. The concept of customisation has been one of SEMs distinctive traits from the start. In its projects, the principles of craftsmanship go hand in hand ... More
From self-taught designer to sought-after couturier
NEW YORK, NY.- Designer Esé Azénabor-Grembowski has gained a following in the past few years for her grand wedding dresses with dramatic silhouettes and detachable pieces. Stylists and Hollywood celebrities have requested her designs for red carpet events, TV appearances and weddings. She was even mentioned in the 2022 remake of the film Father of the Bride, alongside two of her idols, Vera Wang and Zuhair Murad. To be included with these two iconic designers is such an honor, said Azénabor-Grembowski, who migrated from Nigeria to Ontario, Canada, with her family in 1997 when she was 10. She moved to Dallas in 2011 for a graduate program in accounting at Southern Methodist University and has lived in the city since then. As a Black woman in this industry and knowing from where I came fr ... More
Silverlens announces new artist representation: Stephanie Syjuco, Poklong Anading, and Taloi Havini
NEW YORK, NY.- Silverlens announced its representation of artists Stephanie Syjuco, Poklong Anading, and Taloi Havini. Dedicated to representing Southeast Asian Diaspora artists, Silverlens continues to increase global awareness and access to the narratives and histories of these artists and this region. In 2024, Syjuco will present a solo exhibition at Silverlens Manila, while Havini will hold her first-ever exhibition with Silverlens in its New York location. Anading will hold an Online Viewing Room presentation with the gallery later this year. We are incredibly honored and excited to be working with Stephanie and Poklong whom we have known for many years. Taloi was introduced to us by Martha Atienza, and it was an immediate understanding on both her part and ours that we just needed to join forces. All ... More
Tortona Design Week returns as one of the must-sees of Fuorisalone 2023
MILAN.- With an unprecedented look and communication strategy, Tortona Design Week, in collaboration with the Double Malt Communication Agency for the first time, presents its 2023 edition entitled, Future to Share: an ambitious project promoting a future based on the importance of sharing and inclusiveness. Today, technology, innovation and circularity represent the cornerstones upon which everyday life should be founded, in order to build a tomorrow that is capable of promoting self-production and sustainable urban manufacturing. This year's participants include: TCL, Nardi, GAC Europe, Hainan Lizu, Delta Light, Decor Lab, Lechler, nhow Milano, Festool, Lexus, Zip Zone Events, YOOX, Keio SDM, Freehand Furniture Co, Officina 14, ADF-GARDE, Noroo, Swatchbox, UMPRUM (The Academy of Arts, Archit ... More
'Night Contains Multitudes' on view at Benton Museum of Art
CLAREMONT, CA.- The nightvelvety, fraught, imperceptible, inevitablehas been explored by artists across all times and places. This exhibition charts this vast territory of the night through more than 50 works by artists including Ansel Adams, Leonard Freed, Ed Ruscha, June Wayne, Carrie Mae Weems, and James McNeill Whistler. Night Contains Multitudes takes a conversational and multivalent approach to artists engagement with the night. For artists, night can be a natural phenomenon as well as a metaphor. It can be an aesthetic challenge that pushes an artists ability to represent darkness and invisibility or a historical marker under threat after the invention of electricity. It is a time of inspiration and creativity as well as fear and troubled reflection. Night can be quiet and contemplative; it can be the p ... More
On view now at Asheville Art Museum: 'Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller's Plans to Save the Planet'
ASHEVILLE, NC.- Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fullers Plans to Save the Planet brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fullers strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering. This exhibition features two major suites of prints by Buckminster Fuller among other remarkable works from his multi-decade career and is presented in three sections: Inventions; Synergetics; and Black Mountain College and Lasting Influence. The Inventions portfolio, assembled in 1981 from Fullers career of explorations along with several existent models, represents Fullers foresight. In the late 1970s, Fuller published a series of mathematical systems and phil ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Ukrainian-American sculptor Louise Nevelson died April 17, 1988. Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. In this image: Installation view.of an exhibition at McCabe Fine Art that presented a diverse selection of Louise Nevelsonâs late career works.
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