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The architects Dominique Perrault, left, and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost on the sun terrace of Villa Weil, segmented by piers, running across the back rooms of the 1968 house by Jean Debuisson, in Senlis, France, Dec. 10, 2022. The architect planners for the 2024 Olympics found an aging country house by Jean Dubuisson that needed life support and a new mission. (Maxime La/The New York Times)
by Joseph Giovannini
SENLIS, FRANCE.- For many architects, time is measured in projects, and when Dominique Perrault and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost partners in life and in the firm of Dominique Perrault Architecture went looking for a weekend country house outside Paris, they were looking, Perrault said, for a balance between city and nature. But they really werent thinking about a cozy farmhouse needing a little TLC. They wanted something more ambitious, something with scope, perhaps an architectural cause. They were looking for a project, he said, because our life is a project. They were already used to making no small plans, as American architect Louis Sullivan once advised young architects. In 1989, early in his career, Perrault then 36 won a competition to design and build the treasured National Library of France in Paris. Perrault Architecture is now master-planning the 2024 Olympics in Paris, which includes transforming a largely abandoned ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The first exhibition on Augustus in Germany for 34 years presents 220 objects such as statues, busts, reliefs, murals, coins and ceramics from the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Capitoline and Vatican Museums in Rome, the Archaeological National Museum in Naples and other important European museums and collections come from the pictures and monuments of this time. The exhibition is on view at Bucerius Kunst Forum through Jan 15, 2023.
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| Maya Ruiz-Picasso, artist's daughter and inspiration, dies at 87 | | Fernando Zóbel's work and his unique gaze on the art of the great masters now presented at the Museo del Prado | | 'The new pictures of Augustus: Power and Media in Ancient Rome' explored in new exhibition |
Maya à la poupée, 16 janvier 1938 Paris. Huile sur toile, 73,5 x 60 cm D.B.G. : 16.1.38. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 Inv. : MP170 © Succession Picasso. Photo: Adrien Didierjean/Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais des Champs Elysées.
NEW YORK, NY.- Maya Ruiz-Picasso, a daughter of Pablo Picasso who as a child was painted and drawn by her famous father numerous times, and who after his death in 1973 was frequently consulted for her knowledge about his works, died Tuesday in Paris. She was 87. Her daughter, Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso, an art historian, said the cause was pulmonary complications. Ruiz-Picasso was the child of Picassos long relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, with whom he became involved in 1927 although he was married at the time to Olga Khokhlova, a Russian ballet dancer. He remained married until his wifes death in 1955 and had other lovers as well, but he spent considerable time with Walter and their daughter during the tumultuous years of the Spanish Civil War and World War II ... More | |
Allegory of Chastity, 1505 Lorenzo Lotto Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art. Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.147.
MADRID.- In Room C of the Jerónimos Building and on display until 5 March 2023, the Museo del Prado is presenting the result of a lifetime of contemplation manifested in the drawings, sketches and reflections on art and artists in hundreds of sketchbooks now presented to the attentive gaze of every visitor interested in engaging with the art of the past in order to bring it to life in the present. Organised with the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, the exhibition has benefited from the support of the Ayala Foundation (Manila) and Fundación Juan March. The exhibition is curated by Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art at the University of Harvard, and Manuel Fontán del Junco, director of Museums and Exhibitions at Fundación Juan March, both closely connected to the artist in professional and institutional terms. Zóbel ... More | |
Kopf des Augustus mit Bürgerkrone Um 40 n. Chr. München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Inv. GL 350A © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek.
HAMBURG.- Augustus marks a turning point in Roman history. The first emperor (27 BC to 14 AD) not only possessed immense power, but also used novel communication strategies. With the exhibition The New Pictures of Augustus. Power and media in ancient Rome a central aspect of ancient image culture: the veritable boom in images that broke ground under the first Roman Emperor Augustus. The first exhibition on Augustus in Germany for 34 years presents 220 objects such as statues, busts, reliefs, murals, coins and ceramics from the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Capitoline and Vatican Museums in Rome, the Archaeological National Museum in Naples and other important European museums and collections come from the pictures and monuments of this time. The sole rule of Augustus and the accompanying ... More |
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| A Christmas tree brings life to a destroyed Palestinian village | | Stephenson's Jan. 1 auction features estate treasures from Philadelphia and beyond | | Mimi Kilgore, arts patron and de Kooning muse, dies at 87 |
Former residents and descendants gather for a tree lightning event in the Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit, Israel, Dec. 10, 2022. For former residents of Iqrit, where Israeli forces leveled everything but the church in 1951, religious rituals bind them to a place from which they were expelled. (Samar Hazboun/The New York Times)
IQRIT, ISRAEL.- Amid the limestone ruins of homes in a village razed by Israeli forces long ago, a Christmas tree adorned with red and gold baubles went up on a recent evening, watched by a crowd of former residents and their descendants. Shahnaz Doukhy, 44, her husband and two sons were among about 60 people who attended the tree lighting in the shadow of a roughly 200-year-old church, the only structure left standing after soldiers destroyed the Palestinian Christian village during Christmas 1951. Its good for our kids to come and know that this is the land of their ancestors, Doukhy said. And for them to continue with their kids, added her husband, Haitham Doukhy, 53. This is what connects us here, even if the village is no longer here. The couple put up a tree for the first time last year, hoping to start a tradition for the families of people expelled from Iqrit decades ago ... More | |
Art Nouveau Smith Patterson & Co., brooch incorporating enameled watch. 14K yellow gold cast pin designed as woman with flowing hair set with 2.5mm round, early-cut accent diamonds. 30mm watch enameled with woman in profile with early-cut accent diamonds in hairpiece and necklace. Inscription with 1907 date. Original Smith Patterson Boston box. Estimate $1,000-$2,000
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- For more than 60 years, family owned and operated Stephensons Auctioneers has earned an impeccable reputation based on its sales of fresh-to-market art and antiques from the Philadelphia areas most elegant estates. Traditionally, their most anticipated event of the year is their Jan. 1 New Years Auction, which, for 2023, will feature high-quality fine and decorative art, jewelry, silver, fine furniture; and other valuables and personal property from residences in the Mid-Atlantic region. All forms of remote bidding will be available for those who cannot attend in person, including phone, absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Throughout the year, we set aside rare and beautiful pieces specifically for our New Years Day event, said Cindy Stephenson, owner of Stephensons Auction. Our regular ... More | |
Unknown author, The artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his studio. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Local Number SIA2011-2241.
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- In the summer of 1970, painter Willem de Kooning went on a curious afternoon date with Mimi Kilgore, a radiant young Houston heiress and fixture in the arts world. The outing, a public tour of notable Hamptons homes in New York, was an unlikely way to spend an afternoon for de Kooning. As a titan of 20th-century art who had a house and studio in Springs, an enclave of East Hampton, he was something of a local attraction himself. But he and Kilgore, 34 years his junior, had met at a party just weeks before, and already he was smitten. At one house Kilgore came upon a frog that had been flattened by a car tire. Finding that it reminded her of an abstract shape from one of his paintings, she presented it to de Kooning as a quirky gift. But he saw it as something more. He kept the frog for the rest of his life, a symbol of his devotion to a friend, lover and muse who would remain a source of inspiration for years and who would, by many accounts, help reinvigorate ... More |
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| Featured exhibition: "Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision" on view at the Getty Center | | Hamiltons Gallery presents a new series by the renowned Australian photographer Murray Fredericks | | The Love of Print: Glasgow Print Studio celebrates 50 years with new exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum |
Uta Barth, and of time (aot 4), 2000. Chromogenic prints. Getty Museum. © Uta Barth.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- The Getty Center is currently presenting the featured exhibition "Uta Barth: Peripheral vision by artist Uta Barth through February 19th, 2023. The exhibition has been running since November 15th, 2022. For more than forty years, Los Angelesbased artist Uta Barth (born in West Germany, 1958) has made photographs that investigate the act of looking. In her multipart works, she explores the ephemeral qualities of light and its ability to overwhelm and entirely destabilize human vision. In certain series, the repetition of motifsincluding aspects of her homecreates a rhythm that suggests movement, carrying viewers from one image to the next. Barth also highlights photographys abiding connection to the passage of time with her sequential images captured at intervals over a particular period. This exhibition traces Barths career from her early experimentations as a student ... More | |
BLAZE, Murray Fredericks. Hamiltons exhibition features 8 large scale, archival pigment prints mounted to aluminium. The photographs will be accompanied by the film BLAZE, an observational documentary by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor).
LONDON.- Hamiltons Gallery is currently presenting BLAZE, a new series by the renowned Australian photographer Murray Fredericks. This astonishing body of work is on view from 14th November 2022 to 21st January 2023. Fredericks new series has fire as its central theme whilst transporting you to the vast regions of the Australian salt planes and wetlands. Hamiltons has represented Murray Fredericks for over a decade. His atmospheric photographs border on the sublime giving rise to the emotional and physical sense of an overwhelming awe of nature. These large-scale, colour photographs are set against the vast expanse of the Australian landscape, in particular flooded lakes and river ... More | |
Adrian Wiszniewski, Sculptress, 2018. Lasercut woodblock. Courtsey the artist and Glasgow Print Studio.
GLASGOW.- A new exhibition celebrating 50 years of printmaking at Glasgow Print Studio opened at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Friday 18 November. The Love of Print showcases artworks created by celebrated Scottish artists in the five decades since it was formed in 1972. The exhibition has been co-produced by GPS and Glasgow Life, the charity responsible for culture and sport in the city. The Love of Print brings together over 225 significant prints by 130 artists, which collectively embodies a Whos Who of Scottish art over the last 50 years. Work by illustrious artists like Alasdair Gray, Barbara Rae and John Byrne represent some of the earliest pieces from Glasgow Print Studios incredible archive. Many of the New Glasgow Boys worked with the studio to produce some of the most identifiable pieces of their career ... More |
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| Making skate films into art | | Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber acquire world rights to the films of Yvonne Ranier | | Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presenting "Rome is still falling", works by Robert Smithson |
Filmmaker William Strobeck in Brooklyn, Dec. 12, 2022. Strobeck brings rare intimacy to his skateboarding films. (Jiro Konami/The New York Times)
by Jonathan Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- Only one film played at the Village East cinema on a recent crisp Monday night, but the crowd inside and outside of the theaters regal lobby buzzed with energy. Outside, skateboarders in hoodies and tiny beanies huddled beneath clouds of weed and cigarette smoke. Inside, someone behind a makeshift bar poured wine into tiny plastic cups. Posters for the theaters regular lineup of blockbusters had disappeared, replaced by a series of grainy images of a close-up of a bloody back, fireworks being blasted off on a Manhattan street, and a shirtless young man with a dazed expression all taken from Play Dead, filmmaker William Strobecks third full-length skate video for Supreme. Inside the auditorium, those who didnt arrive early enough to grab seats stood in the aisles ... More | |
Yvonne Rainer. New 4K Rrestorations by MoMA open theatrically at Metrograph in New York on February 17th, 2023. Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber, two of the leading distribution companies for art-house and international films in the U.S., have acquired world rights to the seven feature films directed by Yvonne Rainer, newly restored in 4K by The Museum of Modern Art and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. The seven restored films will be featured in a theatrical retrospective beginning February 17 at Metrograph in New York, with an in person appearance by Yvonne Rainer on opening night. A pioneering figure of the avant garde movement, Yvonne Rainers artistic career spans over five decades across both dance and film. Making use of archives, reenactments, photographs, and unconventional audiovisual techniques, her films draw on critical theory and erudite analysis while exploring deeply personal, political, and social themes. Her genre-defining work ... More | |
Robert Smithson, Untitled, 1962. Matita e pastello e collage su carta /Pencil and crayon with collage on paper. 61.3 x 45.7 cm. Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery. ©Holt/Smithson Foundation / Concesso in licenza da / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York.
ROME.- The exhibition "Rome is still falling" at the Museum of Contemporary Art - MACRO - brings together twenty-two early works by Robert Smithson made between 1960 and 1964, the majority presented to the public for the first time. The selection of works showcases a development from religious and spiritual concerns Smithson had prior to his trip to Rome in July 1961 to an experimentation with popular culture imagery and mixed media. Robert Smithson (1938-1973) was a self-taught artist whose interests in science fiction, philosophy, travel, geology, architectural ruins and popular culture informed his entire body of work. His oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, photographs, writings and earthworks. In 1961, at twenty-three ... More |
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'Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin's Enduring Landscape' explores nature's beauty and an environment in crisis
MADISON, WIS.- The exhibition 'Resource & Ruin: Wisconsins Enduring Landscape' on view at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of WisconsinMadison that began on December 19th, and ends on March 26, 2023, captures the many ways American artists have engaged with nature for centuries. Works on view, such as Thomas Morans Yellowstone Lake (1874), celebrate the beauty of the outdoors while others, such as William H. Booses Clearing Petenwell Lake (1950), symbolize human power over nature. Additional works address climate change and the consequences of the nations expansion and attempts to control nature, capturing early settlers influence on local ecosystems through farming, mining and technological innovations. While many artists commemorated the settlement of America, others lamented the ecological changes ... More
Mauritshuis open call: Everybody can be The Girl with a Pearl Earring
HAGUE.- Mauritshuis open call: Anyone (and anything) can be the Girl with a Pearl Earring!
The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring will be on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for eight weeks from early February next year. The Mauritshuis, under the title My Girl with a Pearl, is therefore appealing to everyone worldwide to be inspired by Vermeer's masterpiece. Submit your Girl for a chance to have your photo hung in the familiar place of the Girl, in 'her' gallery. The presentation My Girl with a Pearl shows that the Girl is recognisable in everything and everyone. In a son or daughter, in buttons, an onion or a sardine can. All (art) forms are allowed: a photo, a drawing, a painting, sculpted, embroidered or knitted, as long as the photo of your creation is sent digitally to the museum. On Instagram, the Mauritshuis has started the account @mygirlwithapearl ... More
Major new art prize, established by the Beckett Foundation with Copenhagen Contemporary, goes to Cathrine Raben Davidsen
COPENHAGEN.- The Beckett Foundation, in partnership with Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), has established an art prize to be awarded annually to a Danish artist who has made an original contribution in the field of art. The first winner of the Beckett Prize is Cathrine Raben Davidsen, whose captivating, dreamlike paintings make up a singular personal universe exploring life, death, transformation and time. The Beckett Prize is given annually to an artist working in Denmark who has made an original contribution in the field of art. The award recognizes that the artist, over a significant number of years, has developed a personal artistic language embodying qualities such as humanism, conceptual precision ... More
Arcade gaming platform Polycade teams up with Atari to launch Polycade Limiteds
PORTLAND, ORE.- Polycade, the connected arcade platform invented by Tyler Bushnell, which updates arcade gaming for the 21st century, has teamed up with Atari to launch Polycade Limiteds, a cultural crossover collaboration between video games and art, orchestrated by Web3. The collaboration had prominent contemporary artists reskin original Atari games, which were released as limited editions of Digital Cartridges, available for purchase on the blockchain. The official launch was celebrated at ComplexCon (November 19-20) with a tournament style competition. Polycade Limiteds features 12 artist collaborations, where each artist redesigns a classic Atari game, such as Asteroids®, PONG®, Centipede®, Missile Command® and Breakout®. Each reskinned game is fully playable and reimagined with the artists vision - redesigning all graphics and backgrounds ... More
America needs its own comic opera company
NEW YORK, NY.- Whenever Im trying to sell a friend on a night at the opera, my memory calls up a scene from Twin Peaks. The local doctor, Will Hayward, sits down to dinner, clearly haggard, thanks to his work mopping up local catastrophes. Then someone asks him how its going. I feel like Ive sat through back-to-back operas, he says with a sigh. Everyone at the table smirks. In this view, even one opera might prove a test of endurance. Its a somewhat surprising joke at the music worlds expense, given that Twin Peaks often found pleasure in an eclectic array of sound worlds (spurred on by the inventive, varied work of the shows composer, Angelo Badalamenti, who died this month at 85). But the gag also makes perfect sense. While Twin Peaks had art house trappings, it straddled the line between rarefied and popular: a feat that American opera hasnt bothered ... More
Statues Also Breath: Obafemi-Awolowo University and Prune Nourry
LAGOS, NIGERIA.- On November 19th an exhibition opened in Lagos, Nigeria, unveiling a major project by the sculptor Prune Nourry and the Department of Fine & Applied Arts of the Obafemi-Awolowo University in Ile-Ife undertaken in collaboration with the families of the Chibok girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria in 2014. Inspired by the ancient Ife terracotta heads and titled Statues Also Breathe, this collaboration aims to raise awareness about the plight of the girls who are still missing while highlighting the global struggle for girls education. The project was unveiled on November 19 at Art Twenty One in Lagos, Nigeria, before traveling to Africa, Europe and America. After meeting the Chibok families to conceive the project, Nourry was entrusted with portraits of their missing daughters, which she used as inspiration for 8 heads ... More
Rubenstein Commons opens at the Institute for Advanced Study
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey is a new commons building on the historic campus. Tasked with creating a new building with long-term architectural significance, the design integrates with the surrounding landscape and the rest of the campus, including the Institutes flagship 1939 building Fuld Hall where Albert Einstein spent his last thinking years. The design for Rubenstein Commons is driven by the concept of intertwining. Exterior circulation weaves into and through the building. The building is conceived as a social condenser with a variety of flexible meeting spaces supporting community and academic life on the IAS campus. The new 17,175-sf building follows the existing topography primarily in a single-level program with gradual slopes and offers views of the courtyards ... More
Salon 94 Design opens Thomas Barger's second solo show at the gallery's Freeman Alley location
NEW YORK, NY.- Salon 94 Design is presenting Thomas Bargers second solo show at the gallerys Freeman Alley location, Wholesome. Included in the show are Bargers Shaker-inspired pulpit chairs, a few cloudy coffee tables and petite side chairs, animalesque objects, vintage chair assemblages, and new largescale wall works, such as Innie or outie Interruption and Scattered Interruption. The artist and master colorist continues his curious amble down the Paper Pulp Built Road. Wholesome takes its name from a recurring triangulation of hole motifs functional lightening holes, peepholes, and wicker basketsdispersed throughout this work. Trained as an architect and landscape designer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Barger has a keen awareness for interlacement and intention. The absence of matter in the design of an objectfrom a hole ... More
Ekin Kee Charles wins the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022
BARCELONA.- Ekin Kee Charles is the winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022, in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, MoCA TAIPEI; ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, Center d'Art Contemporain, Genève; Art Hub Copenhagen and Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing. Han Nefkens - "I was touched by the sensitivity of Ekin's work. It's clear that what she shows us is close to her heart. I am therefore delighted that, together with the six art institutions that participate in this grant, we will work with this young and promising artist from the periphery who is firmly on her way to develop her unique voice." Established in 2018, the Han Nefkens Foundation LOOP Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022 in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró has established itself as a tool for increasing contemporary artistic production in the video art field. ... More
A humble sanctuary reborn in grandeur
NEW YORK, NY.- Olga Pavlakos grew up going to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Manhattan. She was baptized there. Her parents were married there. She has memories of her father, who worked in restaurants, volunteering there on Sundays, and of celebrating Epiphany every January, when parishioners would walk to the Hudson River, toss a gold cross into the frigid water and watch divers plunge in to retrieve it. St. Nicholas has been part of my family my whole life, Pavlakos, a lawyer, said. Her connection to St. Nicholas can be traced to her grandparents, who left Greece in the early 1900s and settled in lower Manhattan, then a bustling immigrant community. Residents there scraped together money and bought a tavern on Cedar Street that they converted to a place of worship, eventually adding a bell at the top. These original parishioners, who had arrived by boat ... More
How Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim came to be in 'Glass Onion'
NEW YORK, NY.- When Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery isnt setting up its actors to look like the possible perpetrators of a devious crime, the comic caper is reveling in its star-studded ensemble. There are of course the A-listers who populate the principal cast, including Daniel Craig, Janelle Monaé and Edward Norton. And there are the fleeting, unheralded appearances from famous faces like Ethan Hawke, Serena Williams and Yo-Yo Ma that function as rapid-fire visual gags. But a couple of these cameos now carry an unexpected poignancy. In the prologue of the film, which was released Friday on Netflix, sleuth Benoit Blanc (Craig) is in a funk and looking for ways to keep his brain engaged at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. We see Blanc relaxing in his bathtub, playing the multiplayer video game Among Us with a squad of online celebrities that includes Natasha Lyonne ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice Utrillo was born December 26, 1883. Maurice Utrillo (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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