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In an undated image provided by Jason Mandella, an installation view of Duane Slicks exhibition, The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn., his first solo show in a museum. For the 60-year-old artist and professor, this first museum solo is long overdue. Jason Mandella via The New York Times.
by Dawn Chan
NEW YORK, NY.- As a boy growing up in the Midwest, artist Duane Slick recalls, spending weekends with his parents and his six siblings at functions with their fellow Meskwaki and Ho-Chunk people was an important part of his life. But the visits also meant that show-and-tell became a fraught activity once he returned to school. When the family piled into their station wagon for the drive back to their white stucco home in Cedar Falls, Iowa, his mother would turn around and say, When you get to school on Monday and they ask you to do show-and-tell, just tell them that you went to visit your grandparents. The white man doesnt understand the Indian, shed say. And if you tell them anything about what youve done and what youve seen, the first thing theyre going to do is try to take it all away. During his teenage years, however, he found a loophole in his parents law. With the smile of someone who has stumbled across a secr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Almine Rech is presenting 'Mythe', a selection of works by artist Eugène Leroy, on view from April 9 to May 28, 2022. Photo: Ana Drittanti © Estate of the Artist and Almine Rech.
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| MoMA opens a presentation of paintings by Susan Rothenberg from the museum's collection | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new work by Vera Lutter | | Georgia Museum of Art receives two SECAC Awards |
Susan Rothenberg. Green Bar, 2008. Oil on canvas. 88 x 66″ (223.5 x 167.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Agnes Gund.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Susan Rothenberg, the first solo presentation of the artists work at the Museum, on view from April 15 through June 12, 2022. Installed in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium, the presentation includes a dozen paintings, all drawn from MoMAs collection, that span the arc of the artists career over nearly five decades. Susan Rothenberg is organized by Cara Manes, Associate Curator, with Lydia Mullin, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture. At the start of her career in the early 1970s, Susan Rothenberg (19452020) began painting ambitious, critically acclaimed images of horses, such as Triphammer Bridge (1974) and Black in Place (1976), which are both included in this installation. Deploying what would become a signature palette dominated by dirty whites and muted reds, Rothenberg bisected, isolated, and flattened her ... More | |
Vera Lutter, Detail of Columns, Acropolis: August 26, 2021, 2021. Unique gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 in 61 x 50.8 cm © Vera Lutter. Courtesy Gagosian.
ATHENS.- Gagosian is presenting Fragments of Time Past, an exhibition of new work by Vera Lutter featuring photographs of Atticas ancient architecture, together with her images of the Greek temples of Paestum, Italy, and of classical statues housed in New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is Lutters first solo exhibition in Athens in more than fifteen years. In response to an editorial commissionher firstfrom the New York Times Magazine, Lutter visited the Acropolis and Platos Academy in Athens, and the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounio in August 2021, braving the extreme heat and wildfires that threatened Greece that summer. Given the lengthy exposure times of her photographs, individuals passing through the sites have left no visible traces in the images, while the blurring of windswept trees contrasts with the unchanging solidity of the architecture. Employing the durational aspects of her medium ... More | |
Catalogues for two exhibitions that received awards for Curatorial Excellence from SECAC: Emma Amos: Color Odyssey and Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.
ATHENS, GA.- In January, SECAC presented the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia two Awards for Curatorial Excellence. The Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials went to Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, for the exhibition Emma Amos: Color Odyssey. Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical Materials was awarded to Jeffrey Richmond-Moll for Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism. Both awards recognize curators who exceed expectations in the design, publication and/or community engagement of an exhibition. William Underwood Eiland, the museums director, said, as recipients of the two awards for outstanding exhibitions from SECAC, our curators Shawnya Harris and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll illustrate ... More |
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| The Kunstsammlung NRW presents Lygia Pape's first solo exhibition in Germany | | Kurt Cobain's iconic Smells Like Teen Spirit music video Fender guitar heads to Julien's Auctions | | Chemould Prescott Road opens an exhibition of works by Tanujaa Rane |
Lygia Pape, Livro do tempo (Book of Time) (Detail) 19611963, Tempera and acrylic on wood, © Projeto Lygia Pape, installation view K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2022, photo: Achim Kukulie.
DUSSELDORF.- The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is dedicating the first comprehensive solo exhibition to the Brazilian avant-garde artist Lygia Pape (19272004). Titled The Skin of ALL, the exhibition presents the artists multifaceted, transgressive oeuvre, which she developed over five decades. Lygia Pape, together with Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, was one of the key figures of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. Her specific understanding of geometric abstraction resulted in a radical new conception of concreteconstructivist art. In addition to ethical and socio-political issues, Lygia Pape made her poetic works fruitful for experimental experiences that involved all the senses. The exhibition at K20 includes abstract-geometric paintings, drawings, reliefs, unique woodcuts, two ballet compositions, and poems, as well as films, multisensory experiments, collective performances, and imme ... More | |
1969 Fender Mustang Competition Lake Placid blue finish electric guitar used by the Nirvana frontman in their seminal and cultural defining 1991 music video ignited the Alternative Rock revolution.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars, has announced that the Fender Mustang electric guitar played by Kurt Cobain in Nirvanas iconic Smells Like Teen Spirit music video will be publicly sold for the first time at auction as part of their Music Icons three-day auction event taking place on Friday, May 20th, Saturday, May 21st, and Sunday, May 22nd 2022 live at Hard Rock Cafe® New York and online at juliensauctions.com. In honor of the upcoming Mental Health Awareness Month in May, a portion of the proceeds from the auction of this legendary guitar and select Kurt Cobain items will benefit Kicking The Stigma, the Indianapolis Colts and the Jim Irsay familys national initiative to raise awareness about mental health disorders and to remove the stigma too often associated with these illnesses. In its now classic opening power riff, Nirvanas breakout h ... More | |
Mystical Unicorn Connections. Woodcut on Himalayan rice paper, fibre glass. Set of 4, site-specific dimensions - current configuration- 48 x 47 x 31 in.
MUMBAI.- Tanujaa Rane is a printmaker who has been working in the medium of etching for over twenty years. She has within her studio, a printing machine, which restricts the size of paper that Tanjuaa is able to use. But she is able to overcome this restriction that the printing-machine or paper allows by creating and spreading her work over several frames, making for exceedingly large format work by creating grid like structures wherein the image flows from one paper on to the other. The scale of imagery that the artist achieves, thus displaces the fragility of subject and the delicacy of line. Images of routine life, from objects to insects that are part of the everyday, form the imagery in Tanujaa's work. Personal stories are transformed into metaphorical images. Quite often, in trying to stretch or expand a form into a bigger format Tanujaa begins to treat her etching almost like a painting, using colour intaglios, which fill the spaces within the expanse of the line. Tanujaa returns with a ... More |
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| Otis Redding's widow holds on to the past and shapes her city's future | | Walead Beshty opens an exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in London | | Paleis Het Loo reopens to the public |
Zelma Redding, the widow of Otis Redding, at her home outside Macon, Ga., where she is preparing to open the Otis Redding Center for the Arts, April 13, 2022. Lynsey Weatherspoon/The New York Times.
MACON, GA.- Zelma Redding is involved in one of those complicated long-term relationships fueled by passion, pain and habit that her husband, Otis Redding Jr., once sang about with the singular mix of combustibility and tenderness that made him a global star. Zelma Redding, 79, still lives on the sprawling ranch outside of Macon, Georgia, that her husband bought for his family in 1965, two years before his small private plane nose-dived into a Wisconsin lake on the way to a concert. She had him laid to rest next to her driveway by a stand of tall pine trees. Her name is carved into the empty tomb next to his. She likes the fact that she can see the graves from her living room window. In the 54 years since his death, she has not remarried. Never will, she said. I love being Mrs. Otis Redding. Im the only one. Such are the contours of Macons greatest contemporary love ... More | |
Walead Beshty, Single Sided RA-4 Full-Spectrum Color Relief (D-Max), Los Angeles, California, January 12, 2022, Fujicolor Crystal Archive Type II, Em. No. 859809B217, 01022, 2022 © Walead Beshty.
LONDON.- 'Addendum represents the seventh collaboration between Walead Beshty and Thomas Dane Gallery, the fifth of his monographic presentations at the gallery, and also the fifth of his projects with us in London. Typically, Beshtys work would defy the idea of any additions, footnotes, addenda or appendixes. Often characterised as a continuum, it offers an almost perfectly tautological and literal representation of art-making and its systems. In other words, Beshtys pictures, objects, sculptures and installations are created following a strict set of pre-existing parameters and procedures. Their existence, shape and form are almost entirely pre-conditioned by these systems and often activated by their handling, transportation, viewing, and even commerce. In the last thirteen years of us working together, Beshtys artworks have accumulated, recycled and, ... More | |
Together with photographer Sander van den Bosch, Kossmanndejong are measuring and photographing all floors of the palace. Visitors will soon be walking on 'invisible' carpets, in order to experience the original atmosphere of the rooms as fully as possible. Paleis Het Loo.
AMSTERDAM.- Paleis Het Loo, the largest 17th-century palace of the House of Orange-Nassau and a national museum since 1984, is open for visitors as of today. It has been closed for a long time due to a thorough renovation. Kossmanndejong is working with the museum to give the palace a new lease of life. Kossmanndejong are still developing the exhibitions in the new underground extension. But you can now visit the renewed palace routes, the audio tours and a presentation on the history of Paleis Het Loo in the renovated historic palace. Your visit starts at the servants entrance, a room Kossmanndejong transformed to tell the history of Paleis Het Loo. A film brings a model of the palace and gardens to life and takes you on a journey through time, from the construction of the palace to the current renovation. ... More |
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| American Friends of Museums in Israel announces fine art online benefit auction hosted by Artsy | | Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen launches ifa Agora platform | | MSU Broad Art Museum breaks collection narratives with new exhibition |
Jeff Koons, Diamond (Red), 2020. Porcelain with metallic chromatic coating, 12 1/5 x 15 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches. Edition of 599.
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Friends of Museums in Israel represents and raises funds for eight outstanding and diverse museums throughout Israel: Design Museum Holon, Haifa City Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Hermann Struck Museum, Mané-Katz Museum, National Maritime Museum, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem. The online auction features over 70 works including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by celebrated artists including: John Baldessari, Robert Baras, Christiane Baumgartner, Katherine Bernhardt, James Casebere, Anton Corbijn, Jim Dine, Todd Hido, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Beatriz Milhazes, Yue Minjun, Richard Misrach, Robert Motherwell, Shirin Neshat, Odinakachi Okoroafor, Tom Otterness, Asli Ãzok, Richard Prince, Sayed Haider Raza, Donald Sultan, and Ai Weiwei, ... More | |
Sibylle Bergemann, Marisa and Liane, Sellin, Rügen, 1981. 430 à 288 mm. Black-and-white-photography, carbon print on Canson Platin Fibre Rag.
STUTTGART.- ifaInstitut für Auslandsbeziehungen announced the new central platform for its network, collection and archive in the field of artthe ifa Agora. Now, for the first time, ifas significant art collection is made accessible to all, bringing it together with ifas international activities in the digital space. The new online platform provides a place for transcultural exchange. The ifa collection currently comprises some 24,000 contemporary artworks (20th and 21st-century) from the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and beyond. Built up over five decades, this collection provides the basis for the ifa Agora, a knowledge repository that presents ifas past and current work and provides access to external knowledge, reports and reviews. The platform provides space for ifas transcultural networks, which are made accessible worldwide in digital form and are constantly being expanded ... More | |
History Told Slant: Seventy-seven Years of Collecting Art at MSU installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2022. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography.
EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University is presenting History Told Slant: Seventy-seven Years of Collecting Art at MSU, on view from Jan. 15Aug. 7, 2022. This exhibition takes an expansive view of the collection at the MSU Broad Art Museum, reveling in the great breadth of works within the collection while also confronting the dominant narratives that shape its contours. History Told Slant coincides with the museums 10th year anniversary, as part of a roster of exhibitions highlighting the Zaha Hadid-designed building, the museums collections, and conversations between the unique architecture and the artwork within. Taking cue from the great poet Emily Dickinson, who encourages us to tell all the truth but tell it slant, the exhibition breaks with conventions of the western art historical canon to acknowledge gaps ... More |
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Art Rupe, who brought rhythm and blues to the mainstream, dies at 104
NEW YORK, NY.- Art Rupe, the founder of Specialty Records, an innovative independent label based in Los Angeles that brought rhythm and blues into the mainstream and helped set the table for the rock n roll era with singers like Little Richard and Lloyd Price, died Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 104. His death was announced by his daughter, Beverly Rupe Schwarz. Rupe created Specialty in 1946 with a niche audience in mind (hence the name). The major labels of the time, focused on mass-market pop hits, ignored the urbanized, blues-based music that appealed to Black audiences in the big cities. Rupe hoped to capitalize on this oversight by showcasing acts with a big-band sound expressed in a churchy way, as he put it to Arnold Shaw, the author of Honkers and Shouters: The Golden ... More
Overlooked no more: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, writer of Levantine Identity
NEW YORK, NY.- In the debate over Israels place in the Middle East, Egyptian-born Israeli writer Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff deserves a central place. In her books and essays, she observed the collision of ideas and culture between East and West and explored how different groups can find symbiosis through a wide prism of humanism. Kahanoff is best known for her essays celebrating Levantinism, a social model she created that embraces the idea of a multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance, Deborah Starr and Sasson Somekh wrote in their introduction to Mongrels or Marvels (2011), a collection of Kahanoffs essays that they edited. Kahanoffs work touches on the emerging Israeli culture, including the divide ... More
Paul Siebel, singer whose career was notable but brief, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Siebel, a folk singer and songwriter who drew comparisons to Bob Dylan in the 1960s and 70s but dropped out of the music business, hindered by stage fright and disappointed by the lack of attention his work received, died April 5 in hospice care in Centreville, Maryland. He was 84. The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, his nephew, Robert Woods, said. Siebel had lived in nearby Wye Mills. In the mid-1960s, Siebel moved from the folk music scene in Buffalo, New York, to the more thriving one in New York City's Greenwich Village. He knocked me out, said folk singer and multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg, who backed Siebel in performances and remained his friend for decades. He was a great singer and songwriter. But he had the worst stage fright of anyone I ever met. If not for the stage fright, ... More
Adams and Ollman opens solo exhibitions of works by Rose Dickson and Ryan McLaughlin
PORTLAND, ORE.- Rose Dickson uses shape and pattern to understand relationships of touch, unity, boundaries, overlap, tension, and violence. Employing a system of archetypal forms throughout her work, Dickson is engaged in a speculative alchemy using a range of media including paint, cast metal, wax, and ceramic that explore the qualities inherent in each form and the essential, transformative relationships they create when brought together. Night Vision, Dicksons exhibition at Adams and Ollman and organized with Melanie Flood Projects, includes new two and three dimensional works. Dicksons work focuses on process to reveal a proto-language of emotional connectedness. Her abstract forms, simultaneously archetypal and futurist, share characteristics with the body, tools and ornament. In a series of new ... More
François Ghebaly announces the representation of Victoria Gitman and Em Kettner
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Victoria Gitmans deceptively diminutive oil paintings depict closely observed surfaces: dyed furs of vintage handbags, geometric tessellations of sequins or beads, glinting costume jewelry. Each painting is months in the making and a product of deep looking and careful craft, bestowing an auratic quality through a palpable sense of sustained, intimate attention. Sometimes cropped close and sometimes resting on monochromatic surfaces, they carry a visual weight and tactility, luring the viewer into a close proximity where vision and touch begin to merge. "There's something to this painting that escapes capture by the camera, just as much as it escapes capture by language," the critic Barry Schwabsky once noted about her work. "It's painting in the purest sense." Victoria Gitman was born in 1972 in Buenos ... More
Casemore Kirkeby opens 'Considered Interactions'
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One considers the origin of a search as an extended view into the effort of returning to a place or idea and seeking the differences instead of dwelling in sameness. The attention provided to place suggests a challenge since distinctions vary from multiple points of control: change of environment, change of body dynamics, to what is beyond our control: light, weather, time. Even disappearance is an available risk given the dependence of a return. This exhibition considers a generative process of image making and the visual distinctions from one moment to the next that call attention to the process of its very creation through each frame. In each of these works a series of considered interactions result in the inquiry into the real and representative, the natural and artificial and how we designate space for ourselves ... More
What happened to classical musicians after the Nazis?
NEW YORK, NY.- On April 16, 1955, soprano Camilla Williams became the first Black singer to appear at the Vienna State Opera, bowing as Cio-Cio-san in Puccinis Madama Butterfly. Critics hailed it as a landmark and said it illustrated how much Vienna had changed since the end of World War II, a decade earlier. What went undiscussed by the newspapers at Williams debut, however, were the colleagues she performed with: among others, Wilhelm Loibner, Erich von Wymetal and Richard Sallaba, all of whom were active musicians in Austria under National Socialism. Sallaba, a tenor, sang in several performances of Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos for the Nazi leisure organization Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) between 1941 and 1943. On July 15, 1942, Loibner conducted a performance of Smetanas The ... More
Photoworks hosts acclaimed photographer Amy Toensing
GLEN ECHO, MD.- Photoworks hosts acclaimed National Geographic photographer Amy Toensing for a solo exhibition of her work in the Photoworks Gallery April 15 to May 15, 2022. Toensing is a photojournalist and filmmaker known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Members of the public are invited to an opening reception April 22 from 7-9 pm. On April 23 from 10 am to noon, Toensing will offer a limited number of private portfolio review sessions for photographers working on a documentary project. Sessions are by appointment only. For more information or to request a portfolio review, please contact Emily Whiting at [email protected]. The exhibit, Two Stories, includes 25 photographs selected from two documentary projects in Toensings extensive portfolio of work, which ... More
Harry W. Bass, Jr. gold coin exhibit departs ANA Money Museum
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The American Numismatic Association and the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation announced today that the Harry W. Bass, Jr. collection of U.S. gold coins and patterns on display at the Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., will be returned to the Foundation and sold at auction. The Money Museum has been this collection's temporary home since October 2000. According to F. David Calhoun, executive director and a trustee of the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation, the Foundation's board of directors recently made the decision to deaccession the Harry Bass Core Collection (HBCC) the celebrated coin collection that Harry W. Bass, Jr. assembled in order to concentrate on funding Dallas-area nonprofit organizations, with specific emphasis on early childhood ... More
Pulitzer presents exhibition of works by nine artists who engage viewers as co-creators
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Assembly Required, an exhibition of work by nine artists who invite the public to shape and co-produce their artworks. The artist Francis Alÿs, Rasheed Araeen, Siah Armajani, Tania Bruguera/INSTAR, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Lygia Pape, and Franz Erhard Waltherwere selected for their shared belief in public action and its role in transforming society. Taken as a whole, the work in Assembly Required poses vital questions about how art enables us to imagine new ways of being in the world. On view from March 4 through July 31, 2022, Assembly Required has been curated by Pulitzer Arts Foundation Curator Stephanie Weissberg. Pulitzer Executive Director Cara Starke notes, Throughout the run of Assembly Required, the Pulitzer ... More
Kevin Lippert, publisher of architectural books, dies at 63
NEW YORK, NY.- When Kevin Lippert was a graduate student in architecture at Princeton University in 1981, he and his fellow students were encouraged to study historical texts. But these books were old, fragile, oversized and cumbersome, and access to them was limited. It occurred to him that if they could be reprinted in smaller formats and made available at a reasonable price, students would happily pay for them. And so he gave his idea a whirl. He persuaded the schools librarians to let him take out rare books and copy them; if students had their own copies, he argued, they would not be damaging the originals. In a pilot project, he experimented first with Recueil et Parallèle des Edifices de Tout Genre (Survey and Comparison of Buildings of All Types), a book published in 1800 by French architect Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German sculptor Otto Piene was born April 18, 1928. Otto Piene (18 April 1928 - 17 July 2014) was a German artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts. In this image: MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibition "Otto Piene: Lichtballett." October 21, 2011 - December 31, 2011.
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