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A museum-scale exhibition occupying four floors at Cardi London in Mayfair, Self-portrait / Autoritratto brings together over 30 works including sculptures, drawings and installation that range from the artists notorious 1990s rubber sculptures to his most current series Monuments of the Memory: Landscapes and Constellations.
LONDON.- Italian contemporary artist Paolo Canevari is best known for transforming everyday materials and icons into large-scale sculptures that confront his audience with stark, political and philosophical commentary. Throughout his career, Canevari has worked in a variety of media, most notably tyres and inner tubes, painting, drawing, performance, animation and film. The provocative nature of the artists works, and his active role within art world in New York, where he lived and worked for many years, have kept Canevari in the spotlight of both the American and Italian contemporary art scenes. Cardi Gallery is presenting the first major solo show of Canevaris work in the UK, an extensive survey exploring thirty years of the artists practice, the culmination of a decade-long collaboration with the gallery. A museum-scale exhibition occupying four floors at Cardi London in Mayfair, Self-portrait / Autoritratto ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America," 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni
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| Auction house suspends sale of 19th-century Jewish burial records | | Lorraine O'Grady, still cutting into the culture | | Important Irish private collection amassed over 30 years to be offered at auction |
A bound memorial register of Jewish burials in the city between 1836 and 1899 was one of 17 documents offered for, and then withdrawn from sale, at Kestenbaum & Co., a Brooklyn auction house that specializes in Judaica.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Under Nazi rule in 1944, some 18,000 Jews were deported in six trains from the city of Cluj-Napoca in modern-day Romania to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They nearly all perished. Jewish homes, offices, archives and synagogues in Cluj were ransacked and possessions were looted, including books and historical records, leaving behind scant trace of a once-vibrant, mainly Hungarian-speaking community. Today, decades after many of the few Holocaust survivors emigrated, the Jewish community there numbers just 350 and possesses little evidence of its history. But this month a rare relic of Clujs Jewish past surfaced at a New York auction house. A bound memorial register of Jewish burials ... More | |
The artist Lorraine OGrady in New York, Feb. 6, 2021. At 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isnt done yet. Shes getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum. Lelanie Foster/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine OGrady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion. Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-o-nine-tails and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention. OGrady, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants in Boston, had a picaresque itinerary already. An economics graduate, she had worked for the Labor and State departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the period leading up to the Cuban missile crisis; attempted a novel in Europe; dropped out of the Iowa Writers ... More | |
Gladys McCabe, At the Market. © Dreweatts.
LONDON.- As well as St. Patricks Day in March, Dreweatts has another reason to celebrate, when an outstanding collection of artworks passionately collected and curated over the last 30 years goes up for auction. This extensive collection showcases some of Irelands most sought-after artists, which will be presented in a sale of Modern & Contemporary Art on March 18, 2021 (lots 1-24). The collection offers an in-depth insight into Irish art throughout the 20th century and touches on reoccurring themes, including nostalgia, escapism and a search for a sense of identity. Highlights include three works by the celebrated artist Gerard Dillon, which illustrate his struggles with self-identity and the damning effects of the loss of his three brothers in the 1960s. Two pieces by Markey Robinson celebrate his Irish heritage and a vibrant piece by Colin Middleton captures sundown in 1960, at Carnalridge. Continuing the survey of Irish art through the ages, we are ... More |
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| Brill Gallery exhibits vintage and later silver prints of Magnum photographer Leonard Freed | | Tanya Bonakdar opens Sandra Cinto's first exhibition at the gallery in Los Angeles | | Kay WalkingStick joins Hales |
Muscle Boy, Harlem, NY 1963. © Leonard Freed / Magnum.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- Brill Gallery is presenting the Signed Vintage and Later Silver Prints of Magnum Photographer Leonard Freed that appear in his book: Black in White America. In celebration of Black History Month.
Original Edition 1967/68, Published by Britton. Republished by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2010, 208 pages. From the Foreword by Brett Abbott, Department of Photographs: While working in Germany in 1962, photographer Leonard Freed (American, 1923-2006) noticed a black American soldier guarding the divide between East and West as the Berlin wall was being erected. It was not the partition between the forces of communism and capitalism that captured Freeds imagination, however. Instead what haunted him was the idea of a man standing in defense of a country in which his own rights were in question. The experience ignited the young photographers interest in the American civil rights movement ... More | |
Sandra Cinto, Book I, 2021. Acrylic and permanent pen on wood, 8 1/2 x 4 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches; 21.5 x 12.5 x 3.5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Cosmic Garden II, Sandra Cintos first exhibition at the gallery in Los Angeles, on view February 6 through April 3, 2021. This is the artists eighth exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar. Comprising fifteen new canvases, an immersive wall-to-wall installation and a participatory postcard project, the exhibition continues the artists Cosmic Garden series, which was originally conceived for her solo presentation at Fondation Hermès in Tokyo in 2020. Since the early 1990s, Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes and narratives that hover between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, the artist renders intricate and mesmerizing seascapes, rainstorms, and celestial skies that frequently engage with the surrounding architecture to create seemingly ... More | |
Kay WalkingStick in her studio in Easton, PA. Photo by Rich Schultz.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales is proud to announce representation of American artist Kay WalkingStick. WalkingSticks works are currently included in Site, a three-person exhibition at Hales New York. The gallery will host a solo show of her work in New York City in 2022. Primarily a painter, Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY) has for over six decades explored the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick has Cherokee/Anglo heritage, and she draws on the Native American experience as well as formal modernist painterly traditions to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual. Attempting to unify the present with history, her complex works hold tension between representational and abstract imagery. Her paintings represent a knowledge of the earth and its sacred quality. WalkingSticks practice is both a visual record of her exper ... More |
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| First solo exhibition of Dennis Osadebe with GR Gallery opens in New York | | Asheville Art Museum presents 'Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive' | | The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao installs an impressive work by Lucio Fontana in the Atrium |
Dennis Osadebe, LADIES ROOM, 2020. Archival pigment prints and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 41 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- GR Gallery is presenting Safe Space, the first solo exhibition of Dennis Osadebe with the gallery, after two years of collaboration. The show reveals the latest series conceived by the artist appositely for this occasion. These works are focused on the concept of a safe space as their point of departure, defined by Osadebe as a place to experiment, be yourself, reflect, enjoy, and dream, the works consider the spaces potential dimensions, the narratives that contain it and the theatre or spectacle that unfolds around it. On March 4th, to celebrate the release of a new limited edition print, Dennis Osadebe will be at the gallery to sign the prints in person. Safe Space explores the duality between the physical and psychological roles that forge the foundations for locations of refuge and comfort, rather than solely focusing on a specific place. With the idea in mind that the creation of a safe space could b ... More | |
Lore Kadden Lindenfeld, Color Study: Transparency #2, 19451948 (detail), construction paper on construction paper, 17 ½ à 13 ½ inches. Asheville Art Museum. © Estate of Lore Kadden Lindenfeld.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive features archival objects from the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection presented alongside artworks from the Asheville Art Museums Black Mountain College (BMC) Collection to explore the connections between artworks and ephemera. The exhibition is on view in the Asheville Art Museums Van Winkle Law Firm Gallery through May 17, 2021. Archives are collections of records, such as letters, newspapers, and photographs, also known as primary source materials. Museums often look to primary source materials for a variety of reasons: to add context to research about artworks, artists, and the historical framework within which something was made. Displayed in this exhibition are archival objects ... More | |
Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial was created by Lucio Fontana in 1951.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao unveiled the installation of a spectacular work by Lucio Fontana in its Atrium, which Museum visitors will be able to enjoy over the next three years. Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial (Struttura al neon per la IX Triennale di Milano), created by the great Italian-Argentine artist in 1951, is a piece that can simultaneously be considered a drawing, a sculpture, a light design object, and an expressive gesture frozen midair. The privilege of exhibiting it stems from the exceptional partnership between the Fondazione Lucio Fontana in Milan and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. On the Threshold, engages with an exceptional interlocutor: the building designed by Frank Gehry, whose sketches scrawled on paper are reminiscent of Fontanas spatial arabesques. Because of its luminosity and sheer size, the impressive neon plays with perspective and distance, intensifying ... More |
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| VHS fans take the opportunity to rewind | | Alonsa Guevara's latest bodies of work on view at Anna Zorina Gallery | | Collezione Maramotti opens ruby onyinyechi amanze's first solo exhibition in Italy |
A collection of original VHS boxes at the new Nitehawk Cinema in New York, Dec. 12, 2018. Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists, both virtually and in real life, for this ephemera. On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film Kangaroo Jack, a comedy involving a beauty salon owner played by Jerry OConnell and a kangaroo. Asking price, $190. (OConnell commented on the post from his personal account, writing, Hold steady. Price seems fair. It is a Classic.) If $190 feels outrageous for ... More | |
Alonsa Guevara, Nectar Crown, 2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery opened Apparitions, Alonsa Guevaras third solo exhibition with the Gallery. In her latest bodies of work, Guevara continues her celebration of the natural world, this time exploring the mysterious connection of human existence to the cosmic energy of the universe. In these works, the artist represents her investigations into states of higher consciousness through depicting the patterns, shapes, and images that have appeared in the artists dreams and meditations. These altered states are presented in otherworldly paintings, composed of flora and fauna that form larger kaleidoscopic patterns. Through her paintings, Guevara endeavors to elevate the everyday fruit, flower, or fauna into the realm of the divine. The three main pieces in the show are called "Crowns" and depict large deified beings adorned in abundant headpieces ... More | |
ruby onyinyechi amanze. Photo: Sahar Coston-Hardy.
REGGIO EMILIA .- Collezione Maramotti presents How To Be Enough, a project by ruby onyinyechi amanze. For her first solo exhibition in Italy, the artist has conceived a new multidimensional drawing for the Collections Pattern Room, working on a monumental scale she has never previously explored. The work is made up of 15 sheets of paper that extend over the entire height and width of the rooms long central wall, creating a vast contemporary fresco on paper. For years now amanze has focused on drawing, employing techniques that range between graphite, acrylic, coloured pencil, ink and paint. The thick rag paper is not merely a support, not merely a two-dimensional surface, but rather becomes a sculptural, structural medium fragile, yet strong for the artist to manipulate, physically and visually creating different levels of depth and of viewer engagement. Her wonderland of images comprises a number of ... More |
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Jean Dunand 'Les Palmiers' | London | May 2021
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Rupert Neve, the father of modern studio recording, dies at 94
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, Nevermind, at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve. The Neve 8028 console had by then become a studio staple, hailed by many as the most superior console of its kind in its manipulating and combining instrumental and vocal signals and as responsible in great part for the audio quality of albums by groups like Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd. For Dave Grohl, Nirvanas drummer and later the leader of Foo Fighters, the console was like the coolest toy in the world, he told NPR in 2013 when his documentary film about the California studio, Sound City, was released. ... More
Head back to the past with old-time radio
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the image and video cacophony of our world, theres an old-fashioned medium that rouses and works with our own powers of imagination, one that suits these cooped-up inner-world days of ours. Its radio drama, especially from its golden age, in the 1930s through the 50s, when radio was king of home entertainment. Thanks to the internet, the archival wealth of such shows constructed from dialogue and sound effects, with a touch of narration and music is freely available. Here are six to enjoy whenever and wherever, indoors or out. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch? Make way for John Gielgud as the most engaging high master of deduction, in episodes that aired on both the BBC and NBC radio networks in 1954 and 1955. Ralph Richardson ... More
For Cicely Tyson, Harlem was home
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In her autobiography, Just as I Am, Cicely Tyson recalled arriving in the place she would consider home for the rest of her life. It was the spring of 1927, and Tyson was a toddler when her family moved to East Harlem. My earliest memory is a street address, she wrote. The memory is of arriving home and seeing the address on the building. During Tysons seven-decade acting career, she taught the world about the dignity and beauty of Black women. She defied both Hollywood and the blaxploitation filmmakers by refusing to take roles that demeaned Black women. She confronted beauty standards that omitted those that did not resemble white women by embracing her natural hair onscreen. She supported the advancement of Black people in the arts without fanfare. And even with all of her accomplishments, ... More
Greek ex-national theatre chief accused of rape
ATHENS (AFP).- The former artistic director of Greece's national theatre was arrested on Saturday over allegations of rape against minors, amid a belated #MeToo awakening. Dimitris Lignadis, a renowned actor and director, faces accusations of serial rape and indecent assault, according to an arrest warrant. Lignadis, 56, resigned on February 6 citing a "toxic climate of rumours, innuendo and leaks". He is at the centre of numerous allegations of sexual abuse of minors, according to Greek media. He was detained a day after Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said she had asked the supreme court prosecutor to look into rumours circulating about him and publicly described him as "a dangerous person". We strongly pressured Lignadis to say if he was the one named in the rumours... there was a steady denial that the rumours were about ... More
Arena rock? Palm Beach says try arena opera
PALM BEACH (AFP).- With the pandemic forcing most stages to go virtual, the Palm Beach Opera is embracing its tropical weather and holding an outdoor festival. The company is expecting to host some 1,000 people per show at their series kicking off this weekend starting with the classic "La Boheme" -- the largest-scale opera with an audience in the United States since the pandemic essentially shut down live performance nearly a year ago. Organizers say the capacity for the festival running from February 19-27 is possible due to the size of their outdoor amphitheater, which has 6,000 fixed seats. Masks, temperature checks and social distancing will be required to attend. While much pandemic-era opera has gotten more intimate, via screens or with small audiences, the Palm Beach festival is aiming to expand. "Ozzy Osbourne stood ... More
Adams and Ollman announces two solo exhibitions of works by Vince Skelly and Mariel Capanna
PORTLAND, OR.- Adams and Ollman is presenting two solo exhibitions: New Works by Vince Skelly and Overlook by Mariel Capanna, both on view through March 13. Vince Skelly (b. 1987, Claremont, California; lives and works in Portland, OR) creates carved wooden sculptures, both formal and functional. Using wood from a variety of trees native to the Pacific Northwest in addition to American chestnut and eucalyptus, Skelly works reductively to shape each stool, chair, or abstract form from a single block. Following grain, patterns, knots, and other irregularities inherent to the material, Skelly highlights simple and essential abstract shapes informed by intrinsic characteristics of the material. The sculptures are inspired by various traditions of wood carvingwhich is one of the oldest artformsas well as by a history of objects that extends ... More
Pasadena Photography Arts announces 'California Love - A Visual Mixtape' by Michael Rababy
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Art of any medium holds the capacity to connect the dots of an idea, or translate and re-translate perceptions, opening visual doors for a wider audience. This stunning collection of 110 California-based photographers reveals a shared appreciation and alignment for all that makes the west coast state the storytelling, dream-holding place that it is. Their images are as varied stylistically as the state is geographically, and reflect the people, places, and personality that help define California. On Wednesday, February 24 at 8:30pm ET, 5:30pm PT, curator/photographer Michael Rababy will present his newly released book "California Love - A Visual Mixtape" live on zoom as part of the PPA's Forum series. He will share images from "California Love" and discuss how this ambitious project evolved from an exhibition ... More
Important new volume is an invitation to reassess the impact and influence of Aristotle
LEWES.- Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotles works comprise a veritable encyclopaedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. Aristotles astonishing range and depth made him indisputably the most important intellectual figure in the Western tradition before the modern age. Although he has been studied continuously for more than two-thousand years, his individual works were dispersed, lost, recovered, and very gradually reunited. The physical transmission of the Aristotelian corpus was a long, complicated, uncoordinated process -- not one chain of transmission but many. From the Roman Empire, through the mediation of Arab and Jewish scholars, to the western Middle Ages and scholasticism ... More
As Bollywood evolves, women find deeper roles
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Women are born to make sacrifices for men. This dialogue comes from the 1995 Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, where the main character, Simran, has fallen in love but her family has already arranged for her to marry someone else. Her mother asks her to sacrifice that love in deference to her fathers wishes. For Bollywood, the worlds largest film industry, the road to an authentic portrayal of women has been bumpy. In Indias Hindi film realm, onscreen mothers have long been depicted as passive housewives who bow to patriarchal pressures. But this portrayal is being challenged. A number of movies in recent years have shown mothers, and women overall, as full and complex human beings not melodramatic side characters, but outspoken, independent leads who are in charge ... More
Peter G. Davis, music critic of wide knowledge and wit, dies at 84
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Peter G. Davis, who for over 30 years held sway as one of Americas leading classical music critics with crisp, witty prose and an encyclopedic memory of countless performances and performers, died on Feb. 13. He was 84. His death was confirmed by his husband, Scott Parris. First as a critic at The New York Times and later at New York magazine, Davis wrote precise, sharply opinionated reviews of all forms of classical music, though his great love was opera and the voice, an attachment he developed in his early teens. He presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and 70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap, and when the ups and downs of a performers career provided fodder for cocktail parties and after-concert dinners, not to mention the notebooks ... More
Attend the tale of 'Anyone Can Whistle,' then and now
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A new recording of Anyone Can Whistle, the 1964 musical by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, has for decades been on the wish lists of Broadway cultists and completists. Now that their wish has been granted a complete studio version from the English label Jay Records was released in December I think theyll find that new isnt always enough. Which is not to say it isnt vastly welcome. The original cast album from Columbia Records, though better than you might expect from a one-week flop, is less than ideal. Sondheims endlessly inventive score was heavily truncated, and the singers, who recorded it on the Sunday morning after the closing on a Saturday night, sound exhausted. Bungles abound. Despite lovely moments, that disc (now available on Masterworks Broadway) comes off less as a living ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and curator Rembrandt Peale was born February 22, 1778. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 - October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. In this image: Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856. Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 29 in.
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