| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Monday, January 30, 2023 |
| | | The Met explores notions of identity and place in nearly 100 works of 19th-century Danish art | |
|
|
Installation view of Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in NineteenthCentury Danish Art, on view January 26April 16, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen, courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art examines the period formerly known as the Danish Golden Age, a name that belies the economic and political hardships Denmark experienced in the 19th century. Yet this turmoil is what gave rise to a vibrant cultural and philosophical environment with a close-knit community of Danish artists inspired to explore notions of place, identity, and belonging in their work. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on January 26, Beyond the Light places the drawings, oil sketches, and paintings created by these artists firmly in this period, one that witnessed the transformation of a once-powerful Danish kingdom into a small, somewhat marginalized country at the edge of Europe. The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, in collaboration with SMK The National Gallery of Denmark. Beyond the Light tells a powerful ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day GIANT presents Studio Visit, an exhibition of work by âLiving Sculptureâ Daniel Lismore. Daniel Lismore Studio Visit runs at GIANT Gallery 13 January - 12 March 2023.
|
|
|
|
|
| Zentrum Paul Klee opens an extensive exhibition to the little-known late work of the Catalan artist Joan Miró | | Exquisite ceiling designs explored at National Gallery of Art | | 'Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life' on view at Tate St Ives |
Joan Miró, Figure, birds, 1976. Oil on sandpaper, wood and nails, 172 x 125 cm. Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca. Photographic Archive © Successió Miró / 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich.
BERN.- Between 28 January and 7 May 2023 the Zentrum Paul Klee is devoting an extensive exhibition to the little-known late work of the Catalan artist Joan Miró. The expressive large-format works show a surprisingly raw side of his works, even for lovers of Mirós, and are distinguished by a constant search for new expressive forms. Joan Miró is known for his colourful surrealist dream worlds created in the 1920s and 1930s. He began to question traditional painting early on. Particu- larly after his long-awaited move into his own large studio in Palma in 1956, the Catalan artist extended his concept of painting in a hitherto unfamiliar direction. He revised the whole of his previous uvre, reworked early pieces or returned to works that had been left incomplete. This moment of self- criticism and a new beginning forms the starting point ... More | |
Felice Giani, A Coffered Dome with Apollo and Phaeton, c. 1787. Pen and brown ink with gray, blue, and pink washes over black chalk on wove paper, overall: 34.9 x 27 cm (13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In the Western European tradition, painted ceilings featured some of the most ambitious, compelling, and meaningful compositions for nearly four centuries. Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 15501800 presents some 30 examples of these drawings that illustrate the evolution of ceiling decoration. Many of the drawings have rarely been exhibited. Some are vibrant preliminary studies while others are large-scale models that convey the experience of the intended final painted ceiling. Celebrating the complexity and beauty of this tradition, the exhibition is on view from January 29 through July 9, 2023, in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art. In modern architecture and contemporary interior design, ceilings have lost most of their artistic design ... More | |
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life installation view at Tate St Ives 2022. Photo © Tate Photography (Sam Day).
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives presents a landmark retrospective on the iconic British artist Barbara Hepworth (19031975). Encompassing almost 50 sculptures, as well as rarely seen drawings, paintings and archival materials, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life celebrates one of the most influential sculptors of the twentieth century and the special significance of St Ives on her work. Originally staged at The Hepworth Wakefield near the artists birthplace, Tate St Ives has collaborated with the gallery to reimagine the exhibition for the Cornish context in which Hepworth lived and worked. It emphasises how the areas rugged landscape and close-knit artistic community became important sources of inspiration. These local connections are evident in the titles of many key works, such as Curved Form (Trevalgan) 1956 and Sea Form (Porthmeor) 1958, while her engagement with the wider world of international events is explored through works ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Property from the collection of Helena de Kay and Richard Watson Gilder comes to Heritage in February | | Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset celebrates Rodney Graham's multifaceted artistic vision | | Tom Verlaine, influential guitarist and songwriter, dies at 73 |
Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942), Portrait of Richard Watson Gilder. Oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches (81.3 x 61.0 cm) Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Histories are not created equally. We especially romanticize and obsess over the ones that tell us something about our current state. The American Gilded Age still haunts, scandalizes, and inspires us. The decades that flank the turn of the last century were packed with head-spinning innovations, massive personalities, fortunes won and lost, and the terrifying frictions and dizzying connections that arise when the old meets the new. Countless movies, TV series and books continue to mine the era for signposts about how we've ended up where we are about why we value certain ideas and what we've learned. As with any history, there are the players and then there are the players. Students of history understand that often the most significant figures that shaped our past went about their work quietly, transgressively and even playfully. World-shifting invention is not always loud. We generally think that the Gilded Age was centered around families like the Vanderbilts and the Astors, ... More | |
Rodney Graham, Rotating Stand (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange), 2015. Steel, aluminum, wood, acrylic paint on canvas, 335.3 x 304.8 x 310 cm / 132 x 120 x 122 in. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich. © Rodney Graham. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Over the course of five decades, Canadian artist Rodney Graham (1949 2022) expanded his diverse practice to encompass photography, painting, sculpture, film, video and music. A true polymath, Graham seamlessly inhabited different personae, genres and art forms throughout his unparalleled career. It may be a burden to reinvent oneself every time, Graham said, but it makes things more interesting. Shifting across mediums, Graham examined the complexities of Western culture with wit and authenticity, revealing a myriad of insights into social and historical structures. In celebration of Grahams multifaceted artistic vision, Hauser & Wirth Somerset is presenting Rodney Graham. Getting it Together in the Country. The artist was developing the exhibition prior to his passing in October 2022, with the title taking its name from Grahams 2000 LP featuring improvised ... More | |
Tom Verlaine and Television perform at Rough Trade NYC, in New York, Nov. 29, 2013. (Brian Harkin/The New York Times)
by Peter Keepnews
NEW YORK, NY.- Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorizable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. His death was announced by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Verlaines fellow musician Patti Smith. She did not specify a cause, saying that he died after a brief illness. Although Television achieved only minor commercial success and broke up after recording two albums, Verlaine who went on to record several solo albums and reunited with the band periodically had a lasting influence, especially on his fellow guitarists. Tom Verlaine is the guitarist to mention these days if youre a young rocker with some pretense to intelligence and originality, Robert Palmer ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a solo exhibition by German artist Stephan Balkenhol | | Mia Hansen-love and the hazy line where real life ends and art begins | | Raven Row reopens with 'People Make Television' |
Stephan Balkenhol, 'Woman with pink hat', 2023. Painted wawa wood, 170.5 x 35.5 x 35.5cm (67 1/8 x 14 x 14in). Copyright Stephan Balkenhol. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography.
LONDON.- Balkenhol is recognised not only for the technical prowess with which he hand-carves wooden sculptures, but for his devotion to exploring the role of figuration within contemporary art. Using a singular block of wood, Balkenhol creates his timeless works without the use of machinery. They retain the grooves, cracks, chips and fissures that reveal the sculpting process, demonstrating the artists raw and spontaneous treatment of the material. His process advances the longstanding tradition of woodcarving in Germany, inviting comparisons to sculptors such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Ernst Barlach. Balkenhols anonymous figures are painted in simple colour combinations, appearing both living and inanimate, and devoid of emotion. The artist explains: I don't want talkative, expressive figures, which is why I seek an open expression from out of which all states ... More | |
Mia Hansen-Love at home in Paris, Jan. 9, 2023. (Samantha Hellmann/The New York Times)
by Natalia Winkelman
NEW YORK, NY.- When the French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love was about 15, her boyfriend moved to South America. Brokenhearted, she made an impulsive decision: She cut off all her hair. I needed to do something radical, to be a radically different person, she said. I had Jean Seberg in mind. Soon after, a school theater teacher recommended that she audition for an ensemble film being cast locally. The project was Late August, Early September, directed by Olivier Assayas. Hansen-Love, sporting her sleek new hairstyle, was chosen for a role. She went on to act in another Assayas film and begin a relationship with him. The haircut is a crucial moment, like a turning point, she recalled on a recent video call from her home in Montreuil, outside Paris. Maybe its just a story that I tell myself, but for me, there will always be this idea that I needed to be left alone by my boyfriend, and I needed to be sad to become who I am. Hansen-Love ... More | |
Liberation Films: Starting to Happen, Open Door, BBC2, 1974. BBC copyright content reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.
LONDON.- Raven Row re-opens after a five year hiatus with an exhibition of DIY television from the 1970s. Remarkably, much of this emerged from a fringe department of the BBC the Community Programme Unit (CPU). Set up in 1972, the CPU provided a camera crew and studio, and handed over complete editorial control, to groups and individuals with voices, attitudes and opinions hitherto unheard or seriously neglected, so they could make their own programmes. Several hundred campaigning and community groups, and individuals, representing amongst myriad others anarchists, farm workers, Black teachers, women priests, office cleaners, radical housing associations, trans women, ex-cons, situationists, film co-ops, neurodiverse people, freethinkers and channelers of the extra-terrestrial, produced autonomous material that was broadcast on BBC2 between 1973 and 1983 in a series called Open Door ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Mercer Union presents Lydia Ourahmane's first institutional solo show in Canada | | Michael Rosenfeld Gallery exhibits sculptures and works on paper by Harold Cousins | | Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York opens 'The Horses Stood Like Men' |
Lydia Ourahmane, Tassili, 2022, video still. 4K video, 16mm transferred to video, digital animation, sound. 47:41 minutes. Courtesy the artist.
TORONTO.- Mercer Union presents Tassili, the first institutional solo show in Canada by Algerian-born artist Lydia Ourahmane, from Jan. 28April 1, 2023. The exhibition is titled after the moving image work commissioned and produced by the gallery in partnership with SculptureCenter, New York; rhizome, Algiers; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis; and Nottingham Contemporary. This is the fourth work in Mercer Unions Artist First commissioning platform, following Lawrence Abu Hamdans 45th Parallel earlier this year. Tassili was filmed in the desert landscape of southeastern Algeria, which Ourahmane and a group of collaborators travelled to on foot. Tassili n'Ajjer is home to one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world, with more than 15,000 drawings and engravings illustrating changes to the Sahara from 6,000 B.C. to the first centuries of the present era. Ourahmane ... More | |
Harold Cousins, Untitled (Suspendu Plaiton), c. 1968. Steel, 35 x 78 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches / 88.9 x 200 x 57.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting c: Forms of Empty Space, the first solo exhibition of the artists work in the United States in fifteen years. Comprising thirty metal sculptures executed between 1951 and 1975 as well as a group of related works on paper, the presentation is the gallerys first exhibition dedicated to Harold Cousins (19161992) since taking on representation of the artists estate in 2020. Beginning with his first mature metal sculptures, Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space charts the formation and evolution of Cousins major sculpture series, including his forests, drawings in space, Gothic cathedrals, and plaiton works. The inciting event for Cousins turn to metalworking occurred a few years after he moved from New York to Paris in 1949, where he joined a vibrant scene of fellow expatriate artists that included Ed Clarke, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Loïs Mailou ... More | |
JJ Pinckney, My soul in 3,000 years, 2021. Acrylic, oil, soft pastel, woodless color pencil, charcoal, and crayon on wood panel, 72 x 52 in (182.9 x 132.1 cm). Copyright The Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York is presenting The Horses Stood Like Men, a group exhibition curated by Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa. The exhibition features artists Franz Caba, Laurena Finéus, Michael Grant, Madjeen Isaac, Esteban Ramón Pérez, JJ Pinckney, and Mark Anthony Wilson Jr. The Horses Stood Like Men takes its title from Toni Morrisons novel, Home, where the late author uses animals as metaphors for the brutality and beauty of men. In the novels opening scene, two Black children sneak into a field in Lotus, Georgia, where they are alarmed to find two horses biting each other like dogs, their raised hooves crashing and striking. The children hurry back through the tall grass, crawling their way out of the field, when they spot, in the distance, a man being tossed alive into a dug-out hole, his quivering leg extending out of the dirt cavity. Yet, the novels protagonist insi ... More |
|
Walkthrough: Hadassah Emmerich & Marcos Kueh
|
|
|
| More News |
Alison Bradley Projects opens Motoyuki Shitamichi's first exhibition in the U.S.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects is presenting Floating Monuments, the first solo exhibition of Motoyuki Shitamichi (b. Okayama, 1978) in the United States, curated by Eimi Tagore-Erwin. Motoyuki Shitamichi has been incorporating intensive historical research and fieldwork into his art practice since graduating from Musashino University in 2001. The artist has traveled extensively throughout the Asia Pacific, investigating fragmented and forgotten aspects of Japanese history and nationhood. Working across a wide range of mediums, Shitamichis artistic approach can be described as a form of archeological assemblage, in which he avidly collects, photographs, and films material traces of the past that embody new resonances in the present. Floating Monuments presents work from three of Shitamichis ongoing series ... More
Heritage breaks new ground with CGC-rated games and original artwork in $1.9 million Video Game Auction
DALLAS, TX.- On Friday, Jan. 20, Heritage Auctions broke new ground in the video-game category with the sale of both the first CGC-rated games and original promotional artwork for home video games. It was the world-debut for both at public auction. The event, Heritage's January 20 - 21 Video Games Signature ® Auction, brought in more than $1.8 million with 100% of the lots sold. Original marketing artworks by Robert Florczak, Frank Cirocco, Jim Lee and more were among the top performers in this event, and the first CGC-rated games Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart 64, and Sonic the Hedgehog performed with expected gusto. "It's always easier to speak to the lots that render incredible auction performances, like the finished covers for Prince of Persia and Bionic Commando, as well as concept art by famous comic book artis Jim Lee for Gotham Knights," ... More
Canterbury Museum opens a street art exhibition
CHRISTCHURCH.- Six international artists created work for SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover, Canterbury Museums blockbuster farewell exhibition which opened on 28 January. Aches (Dublin, Ireland), SHOK-1 (London, United Kingdom) and ROA (Ghent, Belgium) flew in this weekend to join top talent from around Aotearoa New Zealand in the artist line-up. Kiwi-born creatives Captain Kris (London, UK), Askew One (Oregon, USA) and Ling (Melbourne, Australia) round out SHIFTS international contingent. More than 60 urban artists are at work in 35 spaces across five floors of the almost-empty Museum building including rooms never seen before by the public. Canterbury locals will recognise ROAs work from the iconic moa mural he painted on the side of the Museum in December 2013 for the exhibition RISE: Street Art. ROA is one of a number of RISE artists returning for SHIFT. ... More
'Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement' opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an expansive video installation by the British artist Sir Isaac Julien, one of the worlds leading figures in the use of film and video today. Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi A Marvellous Entanglement, produced in 2019, pays poetic homage to the architectural visionsat once modernist, community-focused and radically inclusiveof Lina Bo Bardi, one of the leading artists of postwar Brazilian Modernism, whose influence after her death in 1992 has grown far beyond Brazil where the Italian-born Bo Bardi had established herself in the 1940s. Julien presents the viewer with a complex layering of sounds and images, including footage of Bo Bardis buildings in São Paulo and other cities, staged performances of music, voice, and movement; and readings by acclaimed Brazilian actresses Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres ... More
Exhibition presents inventive installations which explore the rich and complex history of the Middle East region
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present the exclusive exhibition Landscape of Memory: Seven Installations from the Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), which comprises works created between 1998 and 2011 by renowned artists Adel Abidin, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Marwa Arsanios, Mona Hatoum, Lamia Joreige, Maha Maamoun, and Basim Magdy. The exhibition will be on display in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries from January 30 to June 4, 2023. The exhibition is the first to present this assemblage of inventive installations, which explore the rich and complex history of the Middle East region. Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates ... More
The Montclair State University Galleries opens two new exhibitions this spring
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair State University Galleries will open two new exhibitions on January 31: Caroline Garcias Dancing on Axes and Spears in the Segal Gallery and Case Studies 2: Justin Cloud The Garden in the Kasser Theater lobby, on view through April 21, 2023, and July 31, 2023, respectively. The exhibitions are curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, Curator and Exhibition Coordinator. The second edition of Case Studies, an exhibition series in the Kasser Theater lobby, features new and recent sculptures by Justin Cloud of machine-like flora and fauna that reflect changes taking place across American industries including biotechnology, agriculture, and large-scale manufacturing. The plants and animals depicted throughout the exhibition reference orchids, mammals, and birds, many of which loosely resemble those endemic to the Americas ... More
'Jessica Drenk: Reclaimed Topographies' opens at Heather Gaudio Fine Art
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Jessica Drenk: Reclaimed Topographies, the artists second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features newly created works and will run January 28th-March 11th, 2023. Drenk is known for creating eye-catching transformations with commonplace manufactured objects, such as pencils, books, PVC pipe, and even Q-tips. The artists wall and floor sculptures and installations explore the effects of accumulation and aggregation through a labor-intensive process that recontextualizes the material to evoke natural phenomena. Drenks artworks impress in scale and detail, and close examination reveals the wonders of the nuanced materials and structures that create the whole. While she questions our relationship with consumerism and mass-production, Drenks proposal to alternative notions on humankinds footprint ... More
Brookgreen Gardens display works by iconic French sculptor Auguste Rodin
MURRELLS INLET, SC.- Brookgreen Gardens is displaying Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections from Jan. 29 April 23, 2023, in Brookgreens Rosen Galleries. Featuring 45 works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, celebrated as the greatest sculptor of the 19th century, this exhibition brings world-renowned sculptures to Americas first sculpture garden. We are thrilled to display works from such a celebrated and talented sculptor, says Page Kiniry, president of Brookgreen Gardens. Bringing the works of one of art historys most influential great masters to South Carolina's coast furthers our mission to display the finest sculptures and will offer visitors an exclusive chance to experience Rodins bronzes in an esteemed sculpture garden. Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections ... More
The Manetti Shrem Museum presents 'Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985'
DAVIS, CA.- A new exhibition featuring pioneering artist Mike Hendersons rarely seen contributions to the history of contemporary painting and filmmaking, radical Black politics and to the story of California art opens January 30 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. This ambitious exhibition, Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985, marks Hendersons first solo U.S. museum exhibition in 20 years. He is a UC Davis professor emeritus of art. Henderson started exploring the role and responsibility of an artist early in his practice. His protest paintingswhich he began while studying at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1965confront the anti-Black violence of the civil rights era. One of these figurative works, Non-Violence, 1967included in Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985was shown at the Whitney Museum of American ... More
The unlikely bookstore of my dreams
NEW YORK, NY.- I remember when Barnes & Noble first opened in my hometown. Before that, we had a cramped Crown Books and some lovely, but limited, libraries. Barnes & Noble was a revelation. There was something wondrous about a room with that many books, each of them a doorway to unknown worlds, ideas and lives. Thats still the feeling, for me, of walking into a great bookstore: limitlessness. I was, as you might suspect, a bookish and awkward child. My father, bless him, began taking me to Barnes & Noble three, often four, nights a week. Id camp out in the fantasy section, paging through spinoffs in the extended Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons worlds, wishing there were more entries in the Dragonriders of Pern series, crestfallen when the announcement rang out that the store would soon close ... More
For the first time ever, I'm optimistic about women in the movie world
NEW YORK, NY.- In a good movie year and whatever you may have heard, 2022 was such a year I find it an agony to compile a Top 10 list. There are just too many good and great films, too many titles that I want to celebrate. Being overwhelmed by a bounty of excellence is a pleasure, one that I often experience at film festivals. And lately, whether Im at home or at a festival, I have been struck by how much of this abundance is from women on-screen and behind the camera. We are experiencing a sea change with women and movies, a shift in numbers but also in consciousness. Female-driven movies, from female filmmakers and not, open weekly and are greeted as a matter of course rather than as aberrations; some dominate the box office, and a handful are enlivening the awards season. Despite continuing biases and barriers ... More
|
|
PhotoGalleries
Leo Villareal
Lucio Fontana
René Daniëls
Will Boone
Flashback On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron was born January 30, 1920. Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Throughout his career, Heron worked in a variety of media, from the silk scarves he designed for his fatherâs company Cresta from the age of 14, to a stained-glass window for Tate St Ives, but he was foremost a painter working in oils and gouache. In this image: Susanna Heron poses with Patrick Heronâs Nude in Wicker Chair, 1951.
|
|
|
|
