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In an undated image provided by Kelly Schenk/Rijksmuseum, The Milkmaid undergoing pigment analysis in 2020 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Sheer numbers are sure to draw many visitors to Vermeer, the blockbuster exhibition devoted to the Dutch Golden Age master at the Rijksmuseum. (Kelly Schenk/Rijksmuseum via The New York Times)
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM.- Sheer numbers are sure to draw many visitors to Vermeer, the blockbuster exhibition devoted to the Dutch Golden Age master that opens at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Friday. The Dutch national museum has managed to gather 28 of Johannes Vermeers paintings, representing about 75% of his known surviving works. Thats seven more than the public could see at the last major Vermeer retrospective nearly 30 years ago. Numbers are important when it comes to Vermeer because he didnt produce many pieces. Depending on how you count, his overall output was somewhere around 40 to 45 paintings, across a career that lasted no more than two decades. (Only about 35 of those 17th-century works are thought to exist today.) His artworks are the most significant clue we have about the mysterious Sphinx of Delft, who was born in 1632, painted mostly in two rooms of his house, rarely traveled, left behind scant surviving documents and died penniless, in 1675. We st ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day René Daniëls, Works on Paper, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 13 January - 25 February 2023. Photo: Ben Westoby. Courtesy: the artist, the René Daniëls Foundation, Eindhoven and Modern Art, London.
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| Exhibition provides a reintroduction to Ming Smith's pictures and distinctive photographic approach | | Paula Cooper Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Terry Adkins, Matias Faldbakken, and Veronica Ryan | | Fotomuseum in Maastricht presents FAMOUS by Terry O'Neill |
Ming Smith, August Blues, from Invisible Man. 1991. Courtesy of the artist. © Ming Smith.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Ming Smith, on view in the Museums street-level galleries from February 4 through May 29, 2023. A photographer who has lived and worked in New York since the 1970s, Ming Smith has served as a precedent for a generation of artists engaging the politics and poetics of the photographic image. Through a deep exploration of the artists archive, the exhibition offers a critical reintroduction to Smiths work through her distinctive approach to movement, light, rhythm, and shadow, highlighting how she transforms the image from a document of photographic capture into a space of emotive expression. Projects: Ming Smith is organized by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, with the assistance of Kaitlin Booher ... More | |
Terry Adkins, Mvet Majestic II, 1989. Wood and acrylic. Overall: 80 x 36 x 2 in. (203.2 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm). Photograph by Virginia Harold © Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- A group exhibition of works by Terry Adkins, Matias Faldbakken, and Veronica Ryan celebrates the artists shared interest in the notion of re-purposing. With a unique sculptural vocabulary, each artist sources and transforms overlooked materials both fabricated and organic. Terry Adkins produced enigmatic sculpture from salvaged materials imbued with social and historical significance by their previous uses. The manufactured forms of the works reference minimalism in their symmetry and remarkable elegance, while the irregular patinas reveal the past lives of distinct parts. In a process the artist and musician described as potential disclosure, Adkins would allow his found objects a period of gestation before realizing their transformed purpose. Adkins was a talented musician ... More | |
Terry O'Neill, Brigitte Bardot, Spain 1971 © Iconic Images & Terry O'Neill.
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective of British celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) from 4 February until 10 September 2023. The exhibition FAMOUS shows more than 125 portraits of international music legends, movie stars and fashion icons, particularly from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to exclusive colourised editions, the focus is on classic black and white portraits. Terry O'Neill is one of the most iconic, influential and collected photographers of the past 60 years, worldwide. For over six decades, he captured the frontline of fame. Members of the British royal family and prominent politicians also posed in front of his camera. With his informal, spontaneous and intimate photos he showed a more natural and human side of celebrities. The legendary photographer maintained a personal relationship with many of them. The list of international ... More |
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| Exhibition of earlier works on paper by René Daniëls on view at Modern Art | | René Magritte's 'Le retour' will be a leading highlight of Christie's sale | | Fred Terna, creator of fiery Holocaust paintings, dies at 99 |
Untitled, 1978 ink on paper, 74 x 59 cm, 29 1/8 x 23 1/4 in. Photo: Ben Westoby. © René Daniëls. Courtesy: the artist, the René Daniëls Foundation, Eindhoven and Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of earlier works on paper by René Daniëls, his second solo presentation with the gallery. Spanning an industrious period between 1976 and 1987, the exhibition traces the development of Daniëls oeuvre from its punk beginnings to its increasingly pointed critique of the commercial art world in the latter half of the 1980s. Shortly after finishing art school in s-Hertogenbosch in the late 70s, René Daniëls began work on a foundational series of large- scale ink drawings. Their forms loosely suggestive of safety pins, film spools, vinyl records, buildings and even anatomical parts, the works cut up and energetically reassemble the world, making patterns of peripheral objects. In them, rhythms and vibrations seem to be generated by items that themselves suggest ideas of representation ... More | |
René Magritte, Le retour (circa 1950, estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- René Magrittes lyrical gouache Le retour (circa 1950, estimate: £4,000,000 - 6,000,000) will highlight the 22nd edition of Christies annual The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, which will take place on 28 February 2023. Le retour presents a dream-like variation on one of René Magrittes most poetic motifs: the oiseau de ciel, or sky-bird, whose form, captured mid-flight, appears to be hewn from the very environment it inhabits. The subject had first emerged in the artists 1940 composition Le retour, now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, and later in Le baiser (1951) (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). The motif had evolved by the time Magritte created Le baiser, depicting similar subject matter to Le retour (circa 1950) but this time, completely inverting the earlier scenario, with night replacing day in the body of the bird, while the surrounding seascape remained bathed in the soft ... More | |
A photo provided by Daniel Terna of the artist Fred Terna in his Brooklyn studio in 2015. (Daniel Terna via The New York Times)
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Fred Terna, an artist who tried to exorcise the psychological trauma of his imprisonment in four Nazi concentration and labor camps with semiabstract paintings that depict fire, ashes and chimneys, died on Dec. 8 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 99. His son, Daniel, confirmed the death, which was not widely reported. Ternas art became his Holocaust testimony. In acrylic works such as In the Likeness of Fire and An Echo of Cinders, he painted in reds, yellows, oranges and blues to illustrate the flames that incinerated Jews in crematories. In some paintings, he used sand pebbles to represent ashes. I know how the fire of a crematorium chimney casts flickering light on a barrack wall, he wrote in 1984 for the Berman Archive at Stanford University, which documents ... More |
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| The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive mounts first retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains | | Chatsworth House Trust announces new Director | | 'Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed' at Compton Verney |
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Queen of the Waters, Mother of the Land of the Dead: Homenaje a Tonatzin/Guadalupe, 1992 (detail); mixed media installation including fabric drape, six jeweled clocks, mirror pedestals with grottos, nicho box, found objects, dried flowers, dried pomegranate, potpourri; 120 x 216 x 72 in.;courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.
BERKELEY, CA.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is organizing the first retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains, the acclaimed multimedia artist who is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of Chicanx art. Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory traces more than three decades of the 79-year-old artists celebrated career, during which she has helped bring Chicanx art to the attention of the contemporary art world through her tireless advocacy and practice. The exhibition encompasses nearly sixty artworks by Mesa-Bains in a range of media, including several of the iconic altar-installations for which she is best knownmany of which are being displayed together ... More | |
Jane has recently started in her new position following a successful six-year tenure as Director of Harewood House Trust. Photo: India Hobson, © Chatsworth House Trust.
CHATSWORTH.- Jane Marriott has been appointed to the new role of Director of Chatsworth House Trust. Jane has recently started in her new position following a successful six-year tenure as Director of Harewood House Trust, during which time she oversaw a significant increase in charitable income and visitor engagement with this historic country house in West Yorkshire, driven by new and innovative programming such as the Harewood Biennial and an ongoing commitment to inclusion and diversity, working closely with contemporary artists and makers. Jane joins Chatsworth at an important time. Her remit as the new Director includes leading the development and delivery of a compelling creative programme to reach and engage new audiences in the UK and globally. She is also tasked with increasing ... More | |
Could a centuries-old enigma that has puzzled art historians be about to be solved by Compton Verneys fascinating new exhibition?
COMPTON VERNEY.- Inspired by the Warwickshire gallerys own striking portrait of Sir Thomas Knyvett (c.1569), this is the worlds first exhibition devoted to an important, talented - but almost completely forgotten - painter at the court of Elizabeth I. Although the artists name has been lost, his recognisable approach to capturing a sitters likeness inspired the renowned art historian, Sir Roy Strong, to coin the moniker the Master of the Countess of Warwick - after the portrait of Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick (c.1569) at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Strong initially identified eight portraits in his seminal book The English Icon (1969) as by the hand of the mysterious portraitist, but that number has subsequently grown to almost fifty, with the portrait in Compton Verneys British Portraits collection now also attributed to the Master of the Countess of Warwick ... More |
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| MOHAI is the first venue for national traveling exhibit that explores the history of Black architects | | Monique Meloche Gallery presents 'Lavar Munroe: Sometime Come to Someplace' | | British sculptor Laurence Edwards announces a major exhibition in Australia |
Norma Sklarek, Gruen Associates Beverly Hills Office, 1966.
SEATTLE, WA.- MOHAI is hosting the national premiere of the traveling exhibit From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers. On display through April 30, 2023, this exhibition was originally created by The Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago. MOHAIs local additions to the traveling exhibit were co-developed with the Black Heritage Society of Washington State (BHS) and curatorial consultant Hasaan Kirkland of Kairos Industry LLC. The exhibit celebrates the enduring innovation and impact of Black architects across the United States. Guests are invited to explore the past, present, and future of architectural talent while learning about Black pioneers working in a field that has historically been predominately white. The traveling exhibit highlights 24 individual architects and designers, from the late 1800s to today. Visitors will recognize iconic landmar ... More | |
Lavar Munroe, If Only We Walk Far Enough, 2022.
CHICAGO, IL.- Monique Meloche Gallery is presenting Lavar Munroe: Sometime Come to Someplace. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Munroe, a Bahamian artist, works with acrylic and mixed media on unstretched canvas, often incorporating sentimental objects and materials such as beads, jewelry, ceramic tiles, glass, textiles, chicken hides, and feathers. His work is described as a hybrid medium between painting and relief sculpture and reflects the environment where he grew up. Munroe was born in the impoverished, stigmatized and often marginalized Grants Town community in Nassau, Bahamas. In 2004, he moved to the United States at the age of 21. Drawing from memory and local folklore, Munroes work uses bold visual language to map a personal journey of trauma and survival. In his new series, Munroe centers on their recent travel to Zimbabwe, exploring the cultural ... More | |
Laurence Edwards in his studio by T Bowden.
ORANGE.- Laurence Edwards announced a large exhibition of bronze sculpture opening at the Orange Regional Gallery in New South Wales, Australia. A Gathering of Uncertainties runs from 4th February to 16th April 2023, and is the biggest exhibition of the leading British sculptors work to date. The show may come as a surprise to those who associate Edwards with his native East Anglia, and marks a turning point in an international career which is picking up speed. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 2012, and represented by Messums Wiltshire who originated this touring exhibition, Edwards works seem to germinate in the reed beds and estuarine mud of coastal Suffolk. Often permeated with crushed sticks, leaves, seeds, grit and rope, or including fragments of the armatures used for casting, in Edwards hands the intensely figurative undergoes a metamorphosis. Edwards is in his element amid Holocene ... More |
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens an exhibition of works by Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri combines painting and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories based on memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. Amiri fled Kabul with her family in 1996 when she was seven years old. Moving through numerous countries over several years, they immigrated to Canada in 2005 when Amiri was a teenager. Amiris choice of materials stems from autobiographical originsher mother taught her to sew and her uncle was a tailor. Her textiles also reference the colors and fabrics she remembers in the bazaars and on the streets in Kabul. She sources her materials from an Afghan-owned shop in New York Citys fashion district ... More
're:mancipation' opens at the Chazen Museum of Art
MADISON, WI.- A partially-clothed freedman kneels before an impeccably dressed Abraham Lincoln, who heroically breaks the chains of slavery with one outstretched hand while clasping the Emancipation Proclamation in the other. The scene is depicted in Thomas Balls 1873 Emancipation Group, a marble sculpture that serves as a study of Emancipation Memorial, Balls bronze monument erected in Washington, D.C.s Lincoln Park. Balls sculpture at the Chazen Museum of Art could easily stand on a tabletop and occupies little physical space in the gallery. However, the political, cultural and emotional significance of the work stretches far beyond its physical size. re:mancipation, a multi-year project led by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of WisconsinMadison, visual artist Sanford Biggers and the MASK Consortium ... More
Exhibition features the work of Darrel Ellis, Leslie Hewitt, and Wardell Milan
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is presenting Please Stay Home, an exhibition featuring the work of Darrel Ellis, Leslie Hewitt, and Wardell Milan. An additional contextual installation includes photographs by the artists father, Thomas Ellis, and close friend, artist Allen Frame. Centered on a less recognized body of Elliss work and featuring new commissions by Hewitt and Milan, Please Stay Home is guest- curated by Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. Through a groundbreaking experimental art practice that fluidly merged painting, printmaking, and photography, Bronx-born artist Darrel Elliss (1958-1992) work engages intergenerational memory, photographic practice, representation, and place. Ellis is known for his unusual technique that involved photographing ... More
'Endgame' review: A laugh at the apocalypse?
NEW YORK, NY.- The dog is a small, stuffed toy, pathetic and adorable all at once. A sewing project in progress, he has a patchwork coat, three legs so far and zero genitals, because those are going to be the finishing touch. Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Becketts Endgame, has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm. Can he stand? Hamm asks. Placed on the floor by Hamms much-abused attendant, Clov, the pup promptly falls over right on his snout at the performance I saw the other afternoon at Irish Repertory Theater. Its the silliest bit of slapstick, and (with a vital assist from Deirdre Brennan, who made the dog) it works just as well as it must have when Beckett dreamed it up in the 1950s. You can almost feel the playwright ... More
Langson IMCA presents new exhibition 'The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making'
IRVINE, CA.- UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art is presenting The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making, a new exhibition organized by guest curator Wendy Van Wyck Good. An author, librarian, archivist, and historian, Good is the leading expert on Margaret, Esther, and Helen Brutonpioneering artists who propelled the advancement of modern art in California. The presentation, which includes related works by several of their contemporaries, reveals the Bruton sisters innovative use of materials, creative approach to design, and fruitful collaborative process. This is the first group exhibition of the Bruton sisters work in more than 50 years. The exhibition is on view February 4 through May 6, 2023 in Langson IMCAs interim museum space at 18881 Von Karman Avenue. It features 18 works from Langson IMCAs permanent collection ... More
'Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer' opens at the Peabody Essex Museum
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer, an exhibition that explores the forces of tradition and innovation through the work of two leading figures in Himalayan art. Nepalese-born Tibetan American artist Tsherin Sherpa creates captivating paintings and sculptures that stretch, bend, reconfigure and repurpose traditional Buddhist iconography in order to address contemporary concerns. The line drawings of Robert Beer lauded as the first Westerner to study Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting and one of the traditions greatest and most respected masters reveal the strict forms, symbols and motifs from which Sherpa draws inspiration. Together, these works create a layered and unexpected dialogue between a Himalayan artist who depicts Buddhist deities transformed by the modern world and a Welshman ... More
Bob Born, who brought Marshmallow Peeps to the masses, dies at 98
NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Born, a confectioner who brought the marshmallow candies known as Peeps to Easter baskets nationwide and incidentally launched a pop culture phenomenon in which people consume, dismember, microwave and even dress them up by the millions every spring died Jan. 29 at his home in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. He was 98. His son, Ross, who succeeded him at the helm of Just Born Quality Confections, confirmed the death. Borns company, which his father founded and which he led for more than 30 years, produces a variety of candies its bestseller is Mike and Ike, the bullet-shaped fruit chews but Peeps are by far its most recognized, and its best loved. Thanks to mass-production equipment that Born designed, the company makes more than 5.5 million Peeps a day, or close to 2 billion a year ... More
A song and dance collaboration, straight outta Swamplandia
NEW YORK, NY.- The Night Falls is a tourist trap in Florida, a beautiful grotto turned into a roadside attraction where three sisters sing in kitschy bird outfits. And then they drown and become actual birds, monstrous ones, whose seductive song, like that of the sirens in Greek myth, draws people to their doom. Mingling comedy and horror while leaning into the seedy sublime of Florida, this scenario sounds like a story by Karen Russell, the author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. And it is a story by Russell, created for a new dance-driven musical theater production, The Night Falls, which has its premiere Feb. 9 at Peak Performances in Montclair, New Jersey. Choreographers dont often work with writers of fiction. But Troy Schumacher, who is also a soloist with New York City Ballet, founded the artists group BalletCollective in 2010 ... More
Jewelry designer to rap gods makes collection for mortals
NEW YORK, NY.- Nine floors above the storefronts of New Yorks diamond district, in a corner suite of the World Diamond Tower, a lariat necklace with diamonds the size of molars sat inside a silver briefcase. The necklace was fresh from a cleaning an ultrasonic water bath, followed by a steam and visiting the office of jewelry designer Alex Moss in late January en route to its owner: the rapper-singer Drake. Jewelry is like a car, it needs to be maintained, Moss, 30, said. The piece, created by Moss, took 14 months to make. A video shared on Instagram by the designer said that its 42 diamonds represented the number of times that Drake had considered proposing marriage. When asked how much the necklace cost, Moss declined to answer, citing the security of its owner. Personal orders like Drakes necklace have been Moss bread and butter since ... More
Tuwaiq Sculpture 2023 opens its accompanying exhibition showcasing large-scale sculptures by 30 artists
RIYADH.- Saudi Arabia: Tuwaiq Sculpture is an annual symposium and exhibition in Durrat Al Riyadh, which is unique in that it allows the public to witness live sculpting of large-scale artworks, this year by 30 international and local artists. Its accompanying exhibition welcomes visitors from February 5 10, 2023, to see the completed artworks for the first time after 26 days of live sculpting. 30 artists travelled to Riyadh from 20 countries around the world to participate in Tuwaiq Sculpture, from as far as Austria, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland, alongside strong representation from Saudi Arabia. Artists have exhibited works internationally, with a number working as academics within the field of sculpture. The cultural exchange is uniting international and local minds through sculpture and furthering Riyadh as a cultural hub in Saudi Arabia ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916-1917).
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