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In an image provided by the Greene Naftali gallery, brechen, brach, gebrochen, du brichst, bricht, brich! (to break, broke, broken, you break, breaks, break!) and einsperren (to lock someone up)," a work by Paul Chan created after the insurrection at the Capitol. On January 6, many artists shared the belief that they should respond to a national trauma. But how? Courtesy Greene Naftali, New York via The New York Times.
by Travis Diehl
NEW YORK, NY.- Late in the evening on Jan. 5, dozens of art-world insiders received a fundraising message from Nancy Pelosi. Im in disbelief, the text began. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the violent, deadly insurrection on our nations capitol, and several reports show Republicans surging in the run-up to the midterms. We need to send a strong message that our democracy is sacred. The message was typical enough of the calls to arms blasted by progressive campaigns and organizers such as ActBlue and MoveOn. But then, the kicker: Thats why I need you to show up at the opening of artist Paul Chans new exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery, tomorrow Pelosi then recited the news release for Chans new show. It turns out the text was a joke. But the subtext was not. The storming of the Capitol was too dire to ignore, with a half-dozen lives lost, traumatized police and hundreds of rioters facing criminal charges. Chan, an a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures at Sean Kelly, New York January 14 - February 26, 2022. Photography: Cooper Dodds. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
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| Exhibition presents recent unique prints made at the visionary print studio Two Palms | | Exhibition brings together significant works from 1978 to 2018 by Ettore Spalletti | | Exclusive Palmer Museum of Art exhibition explores evolution of abstraction in the 1940s |
Dana Schutz, Baggage, 2021 © Dana Schutz. Courtesy the artist and Two Palms, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, an exhibition of recent unique prints made at the visionary print studio Two Palms, at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. This selection includes works by Marina Adams, Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Dana Schutz, Stanley Whitney, and Terry Winters. Two Palms has been at the vanguard of experimental printmaking processes since it was established in 1994 by David Lasry in downtown New York. With an array of specialized tools and equipment, such as its rare hydraulic press, the studio has championed the creation of monoprints and monotypeswhich Lasry sees as perhaps the most diverse and dynamic of all the print mediums.1 The exhibition is a fitting collaboration with Lasry, a longtime friend of the gallery, who has worked with numerous David Zwirner artists and ot ... More | |
Ettore Spalletti, Così com'è, fonte, 2006. Color impasto on resin, water basin. Height: 51 3/8 in. (130.5 cm) Upper diameter: 14 7/8 in. (37.7 cm) Lower diameter: 10 in. (25.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting a solo presentation by Ettore Spalletti (1940 2019), which brings together significant works from 1978 to 2018. The exhibition, the first presentation of his work in the New York gallery, is on view from Tuesday, January 11 through Saturday, 5 March. Since 1974, Spalletti has been interested in the system of color effects that provoke a series of questions about the rigid order of forms and volumes, shifting attention from the surface of painted images to the painting of surfaces of objects. Germano Celant The exhibition features paintings, sculpture and works on paper that trace a path through the themes and preoccupations that drove the artists intimate and poetic practice. Moving between mediums, Spalletti explores the threshold between interior and exterior, painting and sculpture, works that open outwards ... More | |
Lee Krasner (American, 19081984), Composition, 1949, oil on canvas, 38 1/16 x 27 13/16 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the Aaron E. Norman Fund, Inc., 1959, 1959-31-1 © 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- A captivating new exhibition premiering at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State this month considers how some of the most provocative midcentury artists made the leap from figuration to abstraction. A Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s features major works by Suzy Frelinghuysen, Arshile Gorky, Paul Keene, Lee Krasner, Alice Trumbull Mason, Henry McCarter, George L. K. Morris, Irene Rice Pereira, Judith Rothschild, Charles Green Shaw, Esphyr Slobodkina, Hedda Sterne and John von Wicht. Many of these artists including a significant number of women, whose contributions have too often been overlooked were pivotal founders and early members of the American Abstract Artists group. The exhibition is organized by the Palmer ... More |
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| Vintage work mixes with new images in new exhibition at Janet Borden Inc. | | Exhibition brings together images Alec Soth completed between 2018 and 2021 | | Sherrill Roland's first exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery on view in New York |
Neil Winokur, Cosmo.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden Inc. is presenting a new exhibition, Places, Faces, Traces. A wonderful range of talent is showcased in this exhibition, vintage work mixing with new images, creating a conversation among artists whose work addresses some of the most compelling aspects of photography. Included in the exhibition are gallery artists and a few ringers. The great quality of a group exhibition is that it presents an artists work in dialog with others. Seeing these works side by side permits a whole new understanding for their subtleties and visual language. It is a curatorial privilege and challenge to present work in a new context. The exhibition commences with David Brandon Geetings Shadow Ice,a visual meditation on water, from his series Neighborhood Stroll. Geeting has abstracted a mundane view of a windowsill into literal cliffhanger. This piece is paired with John Pfahls 1977 ... More | |
Installation view of Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures at Sean Kelly, New York, January 14 February 26, 2022. Photography: Cooper Dodds. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly opened A Pound of Pictures, Alec Soths fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. This new body of work brings together images Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth began A Pound of Pictures by taking a series of road trips, in this case on a quest to further explore a deeper connection between the ephemerality and physicality of photography as a medium. Depicting a vast array of subjects from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and a bust of Abraham Lincoln this series reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this kaleidoscopic sequence of images runs the iconography of daily life: souvenirs, ... More | |
Sherrill Roland, 168.807, 2021. Steel, enamel, Kool-Aid, acrylic medium, epoxy resin, 41 x 49 x 9 inches; 104.1 x 124.5 x 22.9 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Hindsight Bias, Sherrill Rolands first exhibition with the gallery, on view in New York from January 8 through February 5, 2022. Sherrill Rolands interdisciplinary practice deals with concepts of innocence, identity, and community, often filtered through minimalist gestures, specific materials, and various layers of abstraction. For more than three years, Roland's right to self-determination was lost to wrongful incarceration. He spent ten months in prison before being exonerated and returning to an artistic practice that developed into a vehicle for expression, reflection, and emotional release. The title Hindsight Bias references how we process memories using acquired wisdom and knowledge. In his work, Roland examines how his own ... More |
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| 20 years later, the story behind the Guantánamo photo that won't go away | | Bonhams' inaugural anime sale offers rare original works from beloved classics | | One indelible scene: When a woman takes the wheel in 'Licorice Pizza' |
A Jan. 11, 2002, photo taken by Shane T. McCoy and released by the U.S. Navy shows the first 20 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba soon after their arrival. Petty Officer 1st Class Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy via The New York Times.
by Carol Rosenberg
GUANTÃNAMO BAY.- Four months to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a photographer hoisted a camera above shiny new razor wire and took a picture of 20 prisoners on their knees in orange uniforms, manacled, masked and heads bowed. The image ignited a debate over what the United States was doing at its offshore prison, which continues operating to this day. It also became one of the most enduring, damning photos of U.S. detention policy in the 21st century. But lost in time and collective memory to many is that the picture was not some leaked image of torture that the public was not meant to see. It was taken by a U.S. Navy photographer, intentionally released by the Defense Department. ... More | |
Kiki's Delivery Service, Kiki and Jiji, Anime Production Cel. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Spanning Anime classics with the likes of Astro Boy, Sailor Moon, and Pokémon, Bonhams first World of Anime online sale is set to go live January 24th - February 2nd and will include more than 150 rare Anime production cels and drawings. Relics of the pre-digital animation era, the production of Anime originally was done one frame at a time by hand-painting sheets of celluloid (production cels) and then layering them to create the effect of continuous motion. These production cels allow fans to own a tangible part of the most recognizable Anime in the world. Leading the inaugural sale is a production cel featuring the titular character of Kikis Delivery Service with her companion Jiji, estimated at $15,000 25,000. This standout gouache on celluloid work is from the studio of Hayao Miyazaki, a pioneering animation filmmaker. Created and originally released by Studio Ghibli in 1989, Kikis Delivery Service was t ... More | |
After letting Alana Haim and her character drift and idle, Paul Thomas Anderson gives you a reason to cheer: Hardcore, hardcore Alana! Josefina Santos/The New York Times.
by Manohla Dargis
NEW YORK, NY.- In the final stretch of Paul Thomas Andersons Licorice Pizza, rocker-turned-film-goddess Alana Haim climbs into the drivers seat of a truck and takes off with the movie. Her character a rootless adult also named Alana has been meandering through the story, which takes place in 1973. For reasons known only to Anderson, Alana has been hanging out with Gary (Cooper Hoffman), an operator, recently turned 16, whose latest hustle is selling water beds. They need to deliver a bed to a customer, but since Gary isnt yet driving, Alana is the one behind the wheel. Specifically, Alana is operating a Ford truck, a hulking six-wheeler with the front painted an incongruously sporty orange and blue. Its a featured player in my ... More |
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| James Cohan opens 'A Través', a group exhibition | | Camden Art Centre opens Julien Creuzet's first institutional exhibition in the UK | | Sotheby's Masters Week spans millennia of art history with $40 million Botticelli masterpiece |
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Drop Scene Study (0X5A1121), 2018. Archival pigment print, 75 x 50" [HxW] (190.5 x 127 cm) print size; 76 x 51 x 2" [HxWxD] (193.04 x 129.54 x 5.08 cm) framed. Edition 1 of 5, 2 AP.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting A Través, a group exhibition on view from January 14 through February 19, 2022, at 52 Walker Street. Collectively and individually, we pass through thresholds, periods of transitions, and states of indeterminacy in life. In the middle stage between birth and death, there is a cloud of unknowing, the Romantic idea of a psychic space with no boundaries; at once freeing and equally anxiety-provoking. If ever there was a time when ambiguity and disorientation are shared sensations, it is now. This exhibition is a meditation on this transitory state. Through performance, sculpture, painting, photography and film, the artists presented offer glimpses into these subconscious states as they play out in figuration. Teresa Margolles ... More | |
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LONDON.- As the second recipient of Camden Art Centres Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze, French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet (b. 1986 France) presents a new installation commissioned especially for Gallery 3. This is his first institutional exhibition in the UK. Born in a Parisian banlieue, Creuzet grew up in Martinique and now lives and works in Paris. He places his own lived experience at the heart of his practice whilst allowing the work to shine a light on collective social realities of the Caribbean diaspora, focusing on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and the events of European modernity. Creuzet describes his ancestral home, Martinique, as the heart of my imagination and the visual and aural languages that collide in his installations migrate and transform through a process of creolisation, entering into a dialogue with the question of emancipation, a spirit of black affirmation and the fe ... More | |
Egyptian Limestone Figure of a Man from circa 2440-2355 B.C, est. $3/5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This January, Sothebys will offer a rich selection of Old Master paintings, drawings and sculpture by some of the most celebrated names in European art history during its marquee Masters Week sale series, starting on 26 January. Gathered from some of the greatest private collections in the world, the sales will be headlined by Renaissance master Sandro Botticellis arresting Man of Sorrows, a seminal masterpiece of the Florentine artists late career, estimated in excess of $40 million. A touching portrayal of Christ, recent technical analysis in preparation for the sale has revealed an earlier composition of a Madonna and Child hidden beneath the painting, unseen to the naked eye till now. Alongside masterpieces and newly discovered works from the 14th to 19th centuries, this seasons sale series will also include, for the first ... More |
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Exhibition looks at the importance of light and how its treatment has evolved in Faroese art
PARIS.- From 14 January to 13 March 2022, the Maison du Danemarks arts space Le Bicolore, on the Champs-Ãlysées, in Paris, is hosting a major exhibition. As the sun bursts through looks at the importance of light and how its treatment has evolved in Faroese art of the 20th and 21st centuries via figurative and abstract artworks by Ingálvur av Reyni (1920-2005), Zacharias Heinesen (born in 1936), Hansina Iversen (born in 1966) and Rannvá Kunoy (born in 1975). In tandem with the exhibition, there will be a packed programme of accompanying events encompassing music, literature, cinema, design, gastronomy and folk art. Probably because, for centuries, their position on the fringe of the north Atlantic kept them relatively isolated, in the Faroe Islands, age-old customs have remained living traditions. Faroese society blends traditional and ... More
South African artist Kendell Geers opens an exhibition at Carpenters Worksop Gallery
PARIS.- From the Flash to the Flesh, something is dismantled in Kendell Geers. The spirit no longer describes a common inspiration; it calls towards phenomena that are difficult to explain, like a poltergeist a spirit that strikes. Once the spirit becomes flesh, the false merges with the true, the unity of reference breaks down. A space opens up to explore, to play with strangeness, false recognition and false perceptions disorders of identity. What is African art? Does it consist of tangible plastic similarities? Or even, to put it like Leopold Senghor, the first president of Senegal, does it express the unity of a spirituality, of a philosophy? On a support-mirror, an immense bronze sculpture: a woman without hands, whose forms echo the fabulous idea of an ancient African statuary that remains undefined. She is surrounded by eight bronze masks, placed ... More
Leading bookseller's private collection goes up for sale
NEW YORK, NY.- William Reese, a leading rare-book dealer who died in 2018, left his stamp on private and institutional collections across the country, representing major libraries at auctions and shaping the tastes of a generation of collectors who visited his appointment-only shop in New Haven, Connecticut. But there was another Reese trove that far fewer people got to see: his private library. Christies will be selling that personal collection in a series of auctions starting in May, in what it is calling the most significant sale of printed Americana in more than half a century and one of the most valuable single-owner book auctions ever. The collection, which is being sold in about 700 lots, carries a total estimate of $12 million to $18 million, which Christina Geiger, the auction houses head of books and manuscripts, described as conservative. Highlights ... More
Annet Gelink Gallery opens the group show 'Blindenzimmer'
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the group show Blindenzimmer, with work by Yael Bartana, David Claerbout, Roger Hiorns, Meiro Koizumi, Rezi van Lankveld, Erik van Lieshout, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Wilfredo Prieto, Johannes Schwartz, Dick Verdult and Marijke van Warmerdam. Blindenzimmer explores the metaphorical circus of our current societal and political state, whose reality highlights both the sublime and the absurd of the human condition. Titled after Johannes Schwartz series of the same name, which documents the interiors of blind peoples homes, the show delves into the inwardness of this surreal moment. Looking at visitors under a mask of bright makeup, Dick Verdults Very Very Said welcomes them in the gallery space. With subtle irony, Verdult investigates the state of current events through the figure of the clown. Aware ... More
Towers rise over London's Brick Lane, clouding its future
LONDON.- Ornate English and Bengali typography adorns the signs of Taj Stores, one of the oldest Bangladeshi-run supermarkets in the Brick Lane neighborhood of East London. The signs evoke a part of the areas past, when it became known as Banglatown, and eventually home to the largest Bangladeshi community in Britain. But Brick Lanes future is looking very uncertain, said Jamal Khalique, standing inside a supermarket opened in 1936 by his great-uncle and now run by Khalique and his two brothers. Modern office buildings of glass and steel and a cluster of apartments and cranes tower above the skyline. New coffee shops, restaurants, food markets and hotels appear in the neighborhood each year. According to one study, the borough of Tower Hamlets, which contains Brick Lane, had the most gentrification in London from 2010 ... More
Kenechukwu Victor's first in-person solo exhibition with Thierry Goldberg opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Let there be Light, Let there be White, Kenechukwu Victors first in-person solo exhibition with the gallery, following his online solo exhibition this summer, Eziokwu (UndilutedTruths). The exhibition runs from January 15th through February 19th, 2022. Let There Be Light, Let There Be White continues Kenechukwu Victors passion for storytelling through portraiture. Utilizing a pallet of vibrant hues, Victor exposes personal perspectives on the realities of Nigerian life. His figures transcend from their surrounding environments, their lips and hair painted Victors signature white, alluding to the Nzu tradition symbolizing truth, purity, and peace. Each portrait functions as its own narrative, resulting in an exhibition that resounds in a cacophony of stories, memories, and experiences. Drawing influence ... More
signs and symbols opens its first solo exhibition of works by Adam Broomberg
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Glitter in My Wounds. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Adam Broomberg invites CAConrad and Gersande Spelsberg as his collaborators. The exhibition presents a selection of hand printed, photographic portraits of the trans activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg taken by Broomberg, accompanied by a sound piece featuring Spelsbergs voice and CAConrads poetics. Spelsbergs story of transitioning reflects on and questions the many toxic pre-existing conditions that shape contemporary gender roles, further informed by CAConrads poetry on confronting identities that had previously felt fixed and immutable. Adam Broomberg has long been fascinated by the binary positions of two photographers from the 20th Century the famous Weimar Republic photographer, August Sander, and ... More
Nara Roesler New York opens a retrospective of Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik
NEW YORK, NY.- Abraham Palatnik (19282020) is a monumental figure in Latin American art. Arguably the author of the earliest mechanical experiments with movement and color, giving him a pioneering position among practitioners of Op Art in the Americas, Palatnik is a complex creator who bridged technology and art, energy and color, function and ornament, nature and movement within his work. Born in Brazil to parents who emigrated from Ukraine at the beginning of twentieth century, Palatnik moved in his early childhood to Palestine, remaining there until 1948. Trained as an artist and engineer there, he began to work influenced by both the School of Paris and Modern Bauhaus-like ideas. But it was his experience at the National Center of Psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro, led by Nise da Silveira alongside peers such as Amir Mavignier ... More
New light installation near Old Street roundabout opens bright window to a dark future
LONDON.- At first glance, it looks like any ordinary high street shop but the signs in the window at 103 Murray Grove arent offering manicures or replacement phone screens. From interplanetary money transfer services to fast food made from insect protein, these garishly colourful signs flash and blink a hi-tech vision of the future rendered in low-tech LEDs. London-based visual artist and designer Simon the Last has taken over the entire front window of a retail unit near Londons Silicon Roundabout with his new work WE WILL STILL BE HERE / WILL WE STILL BE HERE. The eye-catching installation features 10 illuminated LED shop window signs arranged in a single shopfront and imagines which products and services might be available while-u-wait 50 years from now. It presents todays cutting edge technology as cheap, pedestrian ... More
Janet Rady Fine Art opens new online exhibition Carnivals of Clouds
LONDON.- Janet Rady Fine Art is presenting Carnivals of Clouds, a group exhibition of international artists, featuring Alice Macdonald, Beatrice Hassell-McCosh, Blessing Ngobeni, Iain Andrews, Jade van der Mark, Kerry Louise Bennett, Koshiro Akiyama, Lindsey Jean McClean, Orla Murray and Yann Leto. As the name of the exhibition suggests, Carnival of Clouds is inspired in part by Emily Dickinsons poem, Heaven has different signs to me, which comments on our boundless capacity for awe and wonder found in in human relationships, the natural world, and quotidian happenings in our surrounding environment. At once playful, imaginative and evocative, the works reflect the necessity of expression and the lived experience that resonates through us all, while also embodying a psychological tone. Bringing together ten artists from across ... More
Exhibition presents highlights from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
MALIBU, CA.- Pepperdine Universitys Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art presents the exhibition The Cultivators: Highlights from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection, featuring masterful works of art, photographs, rare books, letters, and manuscripts that chronicle the achievements and contributions of African Americans over the last five centuries. Curated by Khalil Kinsey and Larry Earl, The Cultivators includes some of the collections signature objects, which have traveled the globe to more than 30 venues over the last 15 years, along with works that have never before been shown publicly. Marking the first hometown presentation of the Kinsey Collection since 2007, The Cultivators is on view at the Weisman Museum of Art from January 15 to March 27, 2022, and will be accompanied by a full slate of public programs, including ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Antonio del Pollaiuolo was born January 17, 1429. Antonio del Pollaiuolo (17 January 1429/1433 - 4 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo (also spelled Pollaiolo), was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. In this image: Assunzione di Santa Maria Maddalena.
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