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Installation view of Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-GardeÂFrom Signac to Matisse and Beyond, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 27, 2020ÂJanuary 2, 2021. Digital Image © 2020 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Robert Gerhardt.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Every exhibition tells a story, usually about an artist or groups of them. Occasionally, however, some shows focus on non-artists: individuals who work as art dealers, curators, critics or collectors. Essential to a functioning art world, they donÂt make things. They make things happen. Such shows have been on the rise in New York lately, revealing the broader contexts of modern art. The latest is the bountiful ÂFélix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde  From Signac to Matisse and Beyond at the Museum of Modern Art. (Its immediate predecessors include last yearÂs ÂLincoln KirsteinÂs Modern at MoMA and ÂEdith Halpert and the Rise of American Art at the Jewish Museum.) The suave and brilliant Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) is the ideal subject for a show of this kind, because he was one of the busiest, most fascinating players in Parisian cultural circles in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. A confirmed dandy, he worked as a critic, editor, translator, curator, journal ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery for their August Timed Marketplace Auction on Mon, Aug 31, 2020 11:00 AM CDT, featuring fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. In this image: Colima Redware Dog Effigy Vessel. Estimate $1,600 - $2,400.
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| | Fabrics with powerful stories to tell | | Art-rock legends Pylon to release Pylon Box via New West Records | | Latvian art biennial has a coronavirus twist |
A sculpture, Lagrima, by Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes at her studio in Sao Paulo, Aug. 18, 2020. Gabriela Portilho/The New York Times.
by Jill Langlois
SAO PAULO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tucked away on a bottom shelf in Sonia Gomes studio here is a small cardboard box. Inside, two scarves one woven in mustard-colored cashmere and the other in a printed silk are carefully folded. A handwritten letter sits on top. The thought that a small part of me could become a part of your work really inspires me and makes me smile, it read. The scarves, from an admirer of her work, were gifts, like the other secondhand textiles stretched across the metal screens on Gomes studio walls and hanging from the hooks in its ceiling an antique wedding dress in layers of cream lace and silk, a sky-blue tablecloth with white embroidered flowers that once belonged to a friends grandmother, fragments of gold lamé that used to be parts of a ... More | |
Comprehensive 4xLP box set remastered from the original tapes features eighteen unreleased recordings. Photo: Brian Shanley
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Seminal art-rock legends Pylon will release Pylon Box on November 6, 2020, via New West Records. The comprehensive 4xLP box set includes their studio albums Gyrate (1980) and Chomp (1983), which have been remastered from their original tapes and will be available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 35 years. Pylon Box includes 47 total tracks, 18 of which are previously unreleased recordings. In addition to the remastered studio albums, the collection also includes Pylons first ever recording, Razz Tape. The previously unreleased 13-track session predates the bands legendary 1979 debut single Cool b/w Dub. Also included is Extra, an 11-song collection featuring a recording made before frontwoman Vanessa Briscoe Hay joined the band, along with the Cool b/w Dub single (which Rolling Stone named one of the 100 Greatest ... More | |
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, chief curator of the RIBOCA2 biennial Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art titled "and suddenly it all blossoms", poses on August 29, 2020. Gints Ivuskans / AFP.
RIGA (AFP).- The coronavirus pandemic has shut down art exhibitions around the globe, but organisers of the RIBOCA2 biennial in Latvia have pushed ahead, reimagining the event to reflect challenging times. To ensure social distancing, installations by nearly 70 international artists are showcased at the sprawling 20-hectare (50-acre) Soviet-era Andrejsala industrial port in Riga, long abandoned and given up to nature. Titled "and suddenly it all blossoms", this year's edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art has also been shortened from five months to three weeks that run from August 20 through September 13. It stretches from Andrejsala's ramshackle port warehouses, past grain silos and old piers. "Andrejsala is a unique place inside the city, where former port buildings and constructions live together with ... More |
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| | Fire near Greek archaeological site of Mycenae dies down | | Ars Electronica Festival announces high-resolution interactive 3D tour of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral | | New Yorkers celebrate Met's reopening as a sign life is returning |
A firefighting helicopter drops water to extinguish flames during a wildfire near the archaeological site of Mycenae in the northeastern Peloponnese, on August 30, 2020. Eurokinissi / AFP.
(AF).- A wildfire near the ruins of the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece that prompted the evacuation of visitors to the archeological site was contained Sunday, firefighters said. The fire that started at noon near the tomb of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae who was killed during the Trojan War, "is partially under control", Greek Fire Brigade said. The flames licked the ruins but the fire department insisted there was no danger to the site's museum. The fire went through "a section of the archaeological site and burnt some dry grass without menacing the museum", the commander of the southern Peloponnese region's fire brigade, Thanassis Koliviras told Athens News Agency. The Ministry of Culture issued a statement saying that according to a first inspection, "the fire hasn't caused damage to the antiquities" adding that "a team of experts will assess the consequences" later. In the second millennium BC Mycenae was one of the major centres of civilisation i ... More | |
The novel insights through the layers of the Cathedral Church were created as a cooperative effort between the Ars Electronica Futurelab, ScanLAB Projects, RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems and the Dombauhütte St. Stephan zu Wien. Photo: Ars Electronica - Robert Bauernhansl.
VIENNA.- Virtual reality applications are recently gaining popularity, not least due to the corona virus pandemic. In times of (post-) lockdown, it is becoming increasingly important to create new communication channels and immersive experiences that allow viewing and connecting to a distant world as if it were realbe it museum tours, concert visits or even lectures at universities. Such immersive experiences are created with the combination of ultra-high-quality video and spatial audio, together with the (remote) presentation in a large-screen immersive environment. Since 2009, the Ars Electronica Center has been offering such immersive experiences at the Deep Space 8K. Its most recent production, a virtual interactive 3D tour of Viennas St. Stephens Cathedral, will be premiered live at this years Ars Electronica Festival. 21 Billion Laser Points Make the Spectacular ... More | |
Daniel H. Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, stands in front of the museum as it reopens to the public on August 29, 2020. Kena Betancur / AFP.
by Catherine Triomphe
NEW YORK (AFP).- With visitors raising their arms in a sign of victory, clapping and lining up eagerly at ticket windows, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its doors to the public on Saturday in a festive atmosphere -- a sign for many that the largest US metropolis is returning to normality after a nearly six-month closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. "I am a huge supporter of all the museums, and I'm so excited to be here," said Michelle Scully, a 39-year-old public relations worker who was near the front of the queue at the imposing edifice on Fifth Avenue, next to Central Park. "It's a really important moment for the city and everything kind of comes back to life," she told AFP, "...so of course I'm here." New York, she added, is "the best city in the world, and we're here. We're not going anywhere. It's going to come back better than ever." Along with the hundreds ... More |
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| | Cade Tompkins Projects celebrates the opening of the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care | | Daylight Books to publish 'Kicking Sawdust: Running Away with the Circus and Carnival' by Clayton Anderson | | Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum features a century of wood engraving |
Installation view of a work by Emily Steinberg at the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care. Photo: Samuel Morgan Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cade Tompkins Projects announced the curation of a collection of over 1,250 works of contemporary art within the new 25-floor, 730,000 square-foot building designed by architects Perkins Eastman. The building was designed to focus on patient care and family amenities, support services, as well as research and academic offices, all of which are contained in this multi-use building of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, located on the Upper East Side. The art collection includes works by national and international emerging talent as well as important historic New York City based artists. The mediums range from monumental oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs. The themes which run through the collection are based on the iconic Milton Glaser I ❤ NY concept sketch ... More | |
Acrobat Rehearsal.
NEW YORK, NY.- Clayton Anderson was living the life of a 19 year old, had secured a funky apartment near the water in Miami Beach, was waiting tables and hanging out with friends, when his life took a decidedly atypical turn. The courtyard payphone rang and his father on the other line said he needed to come help the family run their cinnamon roll concession with the travelling carnival. At the insistence of his artist friend Jack Pierson (who contributed the book's introduction), Anderson bought a camera and documented the years he was on the road between 1988 and 1992. The resulting book of 75 black and white photos, Kicking Sawdust: Running Away with the Circus and Carnival, doesn't glamorize, it humanizes. While not the everyday experience for most, the collection of images normalizes the day to day existence of life on the road. When daily life is shared-with anyone, in any contextthis intimate kind of knowing ... More | |
Anne Julie Desmet (b. 1964), Brooklyn Bridge: Afternoon, 2015. Wood engraving and 2 linocut blocks on ivory paper, 24.6 x 17.3 cm. Collection of Nigel Hamway © Anne Desmet.
OXFORD.- Orignally scheduled for March 2020, Scene Through Wood celebrates one of the most astonishingly skilful and richly creative forms of visual art. Curated by Anne Desmet RA, currently the only engraver elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, the exhibition marks 100 years since the founding of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920. It includes 120 works from the Ashmoleans outstanding collection of many thousands of prints, plus loans from private collections by leading artist-engravers from the 1790s right up to the present. They range over Romanticism, modernism and abstraction, to extraordinary photo-realistic works that defy belief. It demonstrates the endless versatility of the medium which has been used to depict the whole theatre of life, from work and play, war and ... More |
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| | Coronavirus forces London tourist guides to adapt | | It's hard to make dignity interesting. Chadwick Boseman found a way. | | Venice Film Festival seeks to dodge coronavirus and controversy |
Tour guide Joel Robinson (L) leads a group of tourists on a Jack The Ripper tour in London on August 24, 2020. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
by Benoît Pelegrin
LONDON (AFP).- "I don't know if you're aware, but we're living through a pandemic right now," says Joel Robinson with a smile as he introduces his Jack the Ripper tour in London's East End. Robinson, a trained actor and history buff who works for the tourist company London With A Local, goes on to explain social distancing best practice to his nine clients. Although he doesn't wear them himself, he advises the tourists to wear masks and gloves before they set off through the once-gloomy alleyways of Victorian-era London. Down darkened side streets and past shiny new buildings, Robinson recounts the tale of the still unidentified serial killer of five women who stalked the streets of Whitechapel in 1888. London's tourist guides are resuming their work slowly as lockdown restrictions are eased, and adapting to new health and safety rules to curb the spread of the virus. Numbers are currently limited but it's the background of the clients that has changed the most. Where ... More | |
Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan. 30, 2018. Brinson+Banks/The New York Times.
by Wesley Morris
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The problem with dignity is that theres not much an actor can do with it. Not when hes playing Jackie Robinson or Thurgood Marshall, not when youre the leader of a made-up African kingdom, like Wakanda. For a performer, dignity can seem like an anchor or a void. What can he show us of a baseball legend or a titan of jurisprudence that they hadnt previously revealed? In playing dignity, Chadwick Boseman, who died Friday, at just 43, of colon cancer, often seemed tasked to perform its burden. But there was always more to him in these parts than heft. He pumped in plenty of its opposite: lightness. In Marshall, instead of bearing down on the mans owlish brilliance, Boseman turned the concept of whats actionable into physical action. He was light, quick, smooth, chic. He sprinkled the truth with herbs and spices. Amazingly, between his work as Robinson and Marshall, Boseman also played the great American superstar James Brown in Get On ... More | |
In this file photo taken on August 31, 2019 Australian US actress Cate Blanchett arrives for the screening of the film "Joker" on August 31, 2019 presented in competition during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. The uncertain lineup of stars and dearth of top names leaves Australian actress Cate Blanchett, president of the jury, to take up the mantle of celebrity - and social activism - at Venice. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- What if you threw a film festival and nobody came? That, in essence, is the challenge facing organisers of this year's Venice Film Festival, the glamorous annual competition where stars, critics, photographers and industry executives mingle on the bustling Lido, overlooking sandy beaches and the blue Adriatic. Provided, of course, it's a normal year. But in 2020, the world's oldest film festival is forced to walk a tightrope between preserving its lustre as the premier launch pad for Academy Award-winning films, while safely navigating the coronavirus crisis and averting the controversy over gender inequality that has dogged it in the past. Opening Wednesday and continuing until September 12, the prestigious event now in its 77th year will be the first international film festival since the pandemic shuttered competitions around ... More |
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All migrants moved off stranded Banksy rescue boat
ROME (AFP).- All of the migrants on board a rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy have been transferred to other vessels, the team behind the mission said after their pink-and-white ship carrying more than 200 passengers sent an urgent call for help. An Italian patrol vessel rushed to the stranded MV Louise Michel in the Mediterranean and took in 49 of the most vulnerable people on Saturday, the coastguard said. The remaining migrants on board, around 150 people, were received by a vessel chartered by German NGO Sea Watch and medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), according to tweets from both organisations and the Louise Michel's crew. "For those most recently embarked, medical assessment is ongoing, with the clinic full & #MSF medics treating people for fuel burns, dehydration, hypothermia & traumatic ... More
Ready, set, Zoom: India gypsy dancers take their art online
JODHPUR (AFP).- As a blackout plunged her desert dwelling into darkness, Suwa Devi, a dancer belonging to India's Kalbeliya gypsy community, asked her neighbour to turn on his jeep's headlights so she could continue teaching her Zoom class, outside. The coronavirus pandemic has forced many people to go online, but the largely nomadic, marginalised Kalbeliya face bigger challenges than most, with several living in mud huts or tents with patchy electricity and non-existent wifi. "In the beginning, I had no idea how to make this work," dancer Aasha Sapera told AFP, describing her early forays into hosting classes on Zoom. "We had so many internet problems. Lessons would often get cancelled because the connection was terrible," said Sapera, whose students span the globe from Japan to Brazil. Virus restrictions wiped out the 26-year-old single ... More
For David Hallberg, a swan song in pictures
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- David Hallberg is not on a plane. He is not dashing between Moscow and Milan, London and Sydney, readjusting to time zones, settling into rented apartments, reconnecting with favorite partners and old friends. Hallberg, 38, who made ballet history in 2011 by becoming the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal, is not rehearsing and performing in Eugene Onegin, Giselle, The Winters Tale or Nureyev some of the ballets he was supposed to dance this year, with the Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Royal Ballet and La Scala Ballet. It was to have been a final tour, Hallbergs swan song as a dancer, before he takes up the position of director of the Australian Ballet in January. But everything changed with the coronavirus pandemic. After a leisurely road trip in the United ... More
Aperture announces Gregory Halpern's new book 'Let The Sun Beheaded Be'
NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture and the Fondation dentreprise Hermès present Let the Sun Beheaded Be, the latest book by influential contemporary photographer Gregory Halpern. This compelling new series of photographs presents a thoughtful and visually striking depiction of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas region with a complicated and violent colonial history. The title of the book is borrowed from Martinican writer Aimé Césaire (19132008), whose Surrealist poetry inspired Halpern during his time in Guadeloupe. The project, developed over the course of several months, commingles life and death, nature and culture, and beauty and decay in enigmatic color images of the archipelagos residents and lush landscape, as well as monuments related to the brutality of its past. Conscious of that history, and of ... More
Vienna Art Week announces it will go ahead as planned in November
VIENNA.- In a year that has been marked by cancellations, some good news has arrived for the art world. The popular Vienna Art Week will go ahead as planned throughout the city of Vienna from 13-20 November when contemporary artists, architects, designers, arts and educational institutions will be endowing art collectors, aficionados and professionals with a unique taste of the ever-growing contemporary art scene in the city of Vienna. Co-curated by Robert Punkenhofer, Director of Vienna Art Week and Founder of Art & Idea, and Angela Stief, Chief Curator of Albertina Modern, this years festival will focus on the theme of Living Rituals where local contemporary artists have been invited to explore how rituals serve the social cohesion and structures of everyday life. Vienna Art Week will combine the theme of Living Rituals with a talks ... More
Audience left amazed and inspired at Barbara Anna Husar's Bregenz Air Festival
BREGENZ.- The cultural highlight on Sunday evening, 23 August, was the surprise of the Summer of Art on Lake Constance. At the invitation of Historische Schifffahrt Bodensee, Barbara Anna Husar's social sculpture Flying Udder acted as both, an experiment and as a stage for a one-of-a-kind concert experience between teats, sky and water. All of this took place on and above the Hohentwiel (1913) and Oesterreich (1928) on their maiden voyage as a future satellite for art institutions. When Historische Schifffahrt Bodensee managed to bring Barbara Anna Husar on board to create an art event for the maiden voyage of the newly restored Art Déco motor ship Oesterreich as the first historical art ship in Europe with her social sculpture FLYING UDDER, none of the protagonists really knew how exciting this first joint cruise with and on both historic ... More
Film crew spent 3 years in remote Balkan hamlet. Will they ever leave?
BEKIRLIJA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the producer and two directors of Honeyland returned to the setting of their documentary in North Macedonia for the first time since it earned two Oscar nominations in February, something fundamental had changed. The film chronicles the tensions between Hatidze Muratova, a local beekeeper, and a farmer in the remote hamlet of Bekirlija. Squeezed between two rocky hills and circled by imperial eagles, the village was still reachable only in an off-road vehicle, via a steep, rutted track. Most of the houses were still in ruins, slowly sliding into the undergrowth. And Muratova, one of the hamlets last inhabitants and the star of Honeyland, was still waiting for the filmmakers with a smile and a strong coffee. But Muratovas cramped, dark living room, site of the movies most moving scene, ... More
British Journal of Photography announces the 200 shortlisted and 100 winning images for Portrait of Britain
LONDON.- In the wake of Brexit and the midst of the coronavirus crisis, Portrait of Britain 2020 the fifth anniversary of the national photography award celebrates the many faces of modern Britain at a momentous time in our history. Set to comprise one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary portrait photography ever held, the winning portraits have been selected by industry-leading judges including Simon Bainbridge, Editorial Director of British Journal of Photography, Martin Usbourne, co-founder of Hoxton Mini Press and Parveen Narowalia, Digital Picture Editor at British Vogue. The exhibition will launch on JCDecaux UK s nationwide network of digital Out-of-Home screens on 1 September, displaying the 100 winning images throughout the month in rail stations and shopping malls, on high streets and digital bus shelter screens, ... More
The Rubin Museum of Art will reopen to the public on September 12
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art announced its reopening to the public on September 12, with exclusive member preview days on September 10 and 11. The Rubin will return to its regular Museum hours, open five days a week: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Friday from 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with free admission from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Visitors will encounter the new installation, The Lotus Effect, comprising folded lotuses submitted by the public as symbols of gratitude and compassion. The shop will also reopen, while Café Serai will remain temporarily closed. Timed entry tickets are now available for visits through September 26. The Rubin hopes to be an oasis during this difficult time. We know that the art and ideas from our collection serve as a source of comfort for many during these ... More
An exhibition borne of a collaboration with area teens during Covid-19 comes to Guild Hall
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Guild Hall is presenting the exhibition, A Small Taste of Freedom by photographer Lindsay Morris. This exhibition is on view August 21, 2020 - January 3, 2021 in the Guild Hall lobby gallery. A Small Taste of Freedom resulted from a collaboration between the artist Lindsay Morris and the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC). Composed of portraits and audio interviews of GHTAC members living under New York States stay at home order during the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition captures the everyday happenings, coping mechanisms, and escape modes of area teens living through this historic moment. Morris series is a true reflection of the challenges teenagers faced as their final months of school, graduation, prom, and other rites of passage slipped away. The project began as a portrait series of high school ... More
1986 Michael Jordan rookie card sells for world record $420,000 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A 1986 Michael Jordan rookie trading card set a world record Sunday, Aug. 30, when it sold for $420,000 at a public auction of sports memorabilia held by Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. That smashes the previous record set in May, when Heritage sold a 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan No. 57 PSA Gem Mint 10 for $96,000. The Jordan rookie that sold Sunday, during Heritage Auctions August 29 - 30 Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles event, is the lone 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan No. 57 graded a Pristine 10 by SGC. The Gold Label card just became the gold standard. The Michael Jordan rookie card came to us ungraded, and we knew it was special from the very first moment we saw its condition, said Chris Ivy, Heritages Director of Sports Auctions. The SGC Pristine 10 Gold Label grade represents the best of ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Helen Levitt was born August 31, 1913. Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time. She lived in New York City and remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years. New York's "visual poet laureate" was notoriously private and publicity shy.
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