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Activities in the Studio are designed to facilitate learning, inspiration, and innovation through shadow play, exhibition design, discovery boxes, community reflection prompts, and more. Alongside objects from the permanent collection, San Antonio artists will present artwork responding to a thematic prompt.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums mission to engage a diverse community in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts takes shape this summer in the form of a new interactive studio that opened Friday, July 1, in the Museums AT&T Lobby. Visitors are invited to reflect, co-create, and share experiences through engaging activities centered around artwork in the Museums permanent collection in collaboration with an inaugural studio artist. We wanted everyone to see and feel our community-driven mission the moment they walked through the door, said Richard Aste, McNay Director and CEO. As San Antonios place of beauty and belonging, weve made tremendous progress outdoors in removing all visual barriers to the McNay experience; the Studio brings that momentum indoors and deepens our commitment to the South Texas community we proudly serve. Building on the Museums recent improvements to i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones sale on Jul 05, 2022 11:00 AM CDT. Join them for a very special auction featuring fabulous fossils, rare and unique depictions of fauna and flora, and everything in between! From petrified wood, and marble to Victorian era jewelry and Fine Art, this is one you won't want to miss! Rare Dinosaur Nursery w/ 5 Juvenile Psittocosaurs. Estimate $27,000 - $40,500.
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| New exhibition invites you to listen to photographs | | Exhibition at Pace Gallery East Hampton features a robust selection of works across different mediums and styles | | Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art presents some 30 newly acquired prints by Renaissance artists |
Sound, 1936, Will Connell. Gelatin silver print, 13 7/16 à 10 1/2 in. Getty Museum 2019.153.1. © Will Connell.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Photographs may be silent, but photographers have long conjured sound in their images. Whether depicting crowded urban spaces, musicians performing, or people engaged in conversation, the pictures in this exhibition prove photographys power to communicate beyond the visual. Drawn from Gettys permanent collection, In Focus: Sound, on view June 28 through September 2, 2022, unites two sensory perceptionssight and soundin photographs that record the visual while also imitating the audible. Photography and sound have more in common than one might expect, says Karen Hellman, curator of the exhibition. Photographs can evoke a sensory perception that they cannot actually depict. Looking at photographs while thinking about sound could provide a new way of viewing and appreciating photography. The 19th century saw a keen scientific and philosophical interest in reproducing ephemeral phenomena. Thi ... More | |
José Adário dos Santos, Ferramenta de Exu arranca toco, n.d., ferro, solda e verniz [Iron, welding and varnish], 17-3/8" (44.1 cm), height.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Calor Universal brings together a cross-generational group of artists from within and outside Paces program, including modernist masters and contemporary figures building new styles and visual vocabularies. The exhibition, curated by Germano Dushá in collaboration with Mendes Woods and FDP, features a robust selection of works across different mediums and styles. Works in Calor Universal examine themes of transcendence and transmutation through artistic expression. Including both figurative and abstract works, the exhibition explores the concept of calor, understood as sublimation, as a vehicle for transforming material states. Together, the artworks speak to natures complex dynamics. Figuring in the exhibition is Tarsila do Amarals Bicho Antropofágico I (1929), one of the artists earliest explorations of the Anthropophagic movement, which imagined a specifically Brazilian ... More | |
Albrecht Dürer, Georg Mack the Elder, Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1508 and 1580s, engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders, Purchased as an Anonymous Gift, 2013.108.1.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Printmaking flourished in Northern Europe during the late 15th and 16th centuries as artists harnessed the power of the multiplied image. Relatively inexpensive, portable, and widely disseminated, prints aided religious devotion, advanced the fame of local and national figures, or offered moralizing lessons to enlighten and entertain an expanding international audience. On view in the National Gallerys West Building from July 3 through November 27, 2022, The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives presents some 30 newly acquired prints by Renaissance artists working in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Drawn entirely from the National Gallerys collection, the exhibition features rare prints by iconic artists such as Albrecht ... More |
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| Nicolas Party exhibits 13 new pastel landscapes and portraits at Hauser & Wirth | | Kettle's Yard opens Howardena Pindell's first solo institutional exhibition in the UK | | Neglected Titanic Memorial: 'Like their graves have not been tended' |
Nicolas Party, Portrait with Meteorite, 2022. Soft pastel on linen, 150 x 127 x 3.2 cm / 59 x 50 x 1 1/4 in. © Nicolas Party. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
HONG KONG.- Best known for his unique approach to landscapes, portraits and still lifes created in pastel, critically admired New York-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party directs his idiosyncratic choice of medium toward otherworldly depictions of objects, both natural and manmade. Hauser & Wirth debuts Red Forest, Nicolas Partys first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, in which Party looks to the five elements of the material world as his starting point: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Comprised of 13 new pastel landscapes and portraits created specifically for this show, Red Forest illuminates natures complex and often inextricable ties with humanity. Partys childhood in Switzerland imparted an early fascination with landscape and the natural world, and the influence of this country places Party firmly within the trajectory ... More | |
Howardena Pindell, Untitled (Stencil), 1970. Mixed media, 109.2 x 171.5cm. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Kettles Yard opened a major solo exhibition of Howardena Pindell (b. 1943, Philadelphia) spanning the artists six-decade career and including paintings, works on paper and video. A New Language' traces the development of Pindells experiments in artistic form, and examine her work as exemplary in articulating empowerment and responding to racism from the 1970s to the present day. A New Language is Pindells first solo institutional exhibition in the UK, organised by the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettles Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol. The exhibition takes its title from a text by the artist; writing in A Documentation, 1980-1988, Pindell declared, I am an artist. I am not part of a so-called minority, new or emerging or a new audience. These are all terms used to demean, limit, ... More | |
Adrian Saker, president of Friends of Titanic Lighthouse Restoration, at rear, with four family members of Titanic passengers or crew members holding photographs of their kin, in New York, June 1, 2022. Stefano Ukmar/The New York Times.
by John Freeman Gill
NEW YORK, NY.- On a landlocked street corner at the entrance to the South Street Seaport stands a shabby, rust-streaked old lighthouse, its lantern dark, dwarfed by modern towers to its south and west. Passed with scarcely a glance by most people heading to the shops and bars on Fulton Street, this is the 109-year-old Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, which once presided over the East River waterfront from a far prouder height, shining its fixed green beacon miles out to Sandy Hook, at the southern entrance of Lower New York Bay. A fledgling preservation group, which includes descendants of Titanic passengers, has been urging the restoration of the ... More |
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| Maltings celebrates the pioneering British art collector Helen Sutherland in a new exhibition | | Artcurial stars in Monte Carlo this summer with Artcurial Monaco Auction Week | | Museum Brandhorst brings to life the reciprocal interpenetration of body and technology |
The Chapel in the Park, 1932. David Jones. Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940. © The Trustees of the David Jones Estate / Bridgeman Images. Photo: Tate.
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED.- A new exhibition celebrating the remarkable, if little researched, life of the British art patron and collector, Helen Sutherland (18811965) opened at The Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed to herald the summer in Northumberland. Truth and Beauty: The 20th Century British Art of Pioneering Collector Helen Sutherland explores the importance of her early patronage of artists - such as Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), and David Jones (1895-1974) - within the context of the development of modern British art in the early 1930s. On her mothers death in 1920, Helen Sutherland became an heiress, receiving a £12,000 legacy and the benefit of a Trust fund. Two years later, when she was 41, her father Sir Thomas Sutherland (Chairman of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation ... More | |
Hermès, 2018. Sac KELLY Sellier 28 Calf Epsom Safran. Estimate : 9 000 - 11 000
MONTE CARLO.- Artcurial is heading to the Rock of Monaco once again, to take up residence at the Hotel Hermitage in Monte Carlo between 15 and 21 July 2022. Over a week, the auction house will present seven prestigious sales including Jewellery, Fine Watches, Le Temps est Féminin and Hermès & Luxury Bags, with an exceptional quality of lots consigned for auction. Jewellery returns to Monaco for the traditional summer event for collectors and enthusiasts of jewellery and precious stones, with an exhibition and three prestigious sales. Buoyed by the success of the January 2022 sale that realised over 4M including premium, the department has brought together a new and stunning selection of old and contemporary pieces of jewellery that includes all the iconic names. « 2022 will definitely be sparkling on Le Rocher this summer! Only ew weeks before our jewellery catalogue was to close, our sale already had many treasures: Cartier, Van Cleef, Bu ... More | |
Alexandra Bircken, New Model Army 5, 2016.
MUNICH.- The exhibition Future Bodies from a Recent PastSculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s at Museum Brandhorst brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art, and more particularly in sculpture: the reciprocal interpenetration of body and technology. With more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by around 60 artistsprimarily from Europe, the United States, and Japanthe exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body. Contemporary art is characterized by an examination of the relationship between the body and technology. Many artworks from recent years reflect how we experience ourselves and our environments in the highly technological and networked present. Yet this relationship can be traced far back into the 20th century. The post-war period was marked by rapid technological change, which has become the pinnacle of ideological instrumentalization. ... More |
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| Dinosaurs of Patagonia premieres at the WA Museum Boola Bardip | | Blue Star Contemporary unveils three new summer exhibitions on July 1 | | Haus der Kunst presents a new site-specific exhibition by the radical Japanese collective Dumb Type |
Carnotaurus sastrei.
PERTH.- Dinosaurs from the remote region of Patagonia make their world premiere at the WA Museum Boola Bardip on Saturday 2 July. Dinosaurs of Patagonia is a remarkable exhibition that showcases why Patagonia, located at the southern tip of South America, has provided the best fossil record of dinosaurs in the Southern Hemisphere. Developed by the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio in Argentina, the exhibition spans most of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods from 230 to 70 million years ago. The exhibition showcases 16 dinosaur skeletons including: Patagotitan mayorum, a colossal sauropod and one of the largest land animals ever to have walked the earth (approximately 70 tonnes and 37 metres in length); Tyrannotitan chubutensis, one of the most ferocious predators of the Cretaceous period (approximately 6 tonnes and 12 metres in length); and Manidens condorensis, by contrast, one of the smallest herbivore dinosaurs known ... More | |
Translating Erasure By Aki Pao-Chen Chiu, 7:42.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonios first and longest- running contemporary art nonprofit, unveiled three new summer exhibitions. Andreas Till: De Ami, focuses on the influence of the presence of American troops in artist, Andreas Tills, hometown Heidelberg, Germany. The Other Side, is a small selection of films by Faezeh Nikoozad, Aki Pao-Chen Chiu, Breech Asher Harani, and Fumiko Kikuchi . Fake Plastic Forest features photographic and lens-based work by France Dubois, Annette Isham, Işık Kaya, and Leigh Merrill. The exhibitions will be on view through October 9, 2022. ANDREAS TILL: DE AMI focuses on the influence of the presence of American troops in artist, Andreas Tills, hometown Heidelberg, Germany and the relationship between Germans and Americans between 1945 and 2013 born out of this presence. His research is based on found material from various archives such as the Rose Library in Atl ... More | |
Dumb Type Playback. Installation view Haus der Kunst, 2022. Photo: Maximilian Geuter.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst, Munich is presenting a new site-specific exhibition by the radical Japanese collective Dumb Type. Founded in 1984, Dumb Types multifaceted installations and performances critique a highly informatised consumer society that is rendered passive or mute by the unceasing deluge of data and technological development: individuals who are overwhelmed with information yet unaware of anything (Teiji Furuhashi). Through this approach to communication often working across multiple languages, speaking in gibberish or attempting to communicate indirectly via technology Dumb Type have always pushed back against attempts of stereotyping; either with respect to the groups practitioners, or to their work across hitherto immutable categories as those of nationality, gender or ableism. The presentation at Haus der Kunst is centred around three specially conceived ... More |
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A chameleon flies from 'The Blacklist' to 'The Kite Runner'
NEW YORK, NY.- An early scene in the new Broadway play The Kite Runner is mostly spoken in Dari, the Afghan dialect of Farsi, although the action depicts a distinctly American art form. This town aint big enough for the two of us!, 12-year-old Amir exclaims to his best friend, Hassan. The boys, pretending to be cowboys, love American Westerns, especially Rio Bravo with John Wayne. After a standoff, Hassan charges at Amir, but Amir trips him and Hassan stumbles and falls. They wrestle, tumbling and giggling blissfully unaware of the dark forces that will soon tear them apart. The place is Kabul, the year is 1973 and the actors playing the boys are actually adults. One of them, Amir Arison, 44, a veteran stage actor who recently left NBCs hit series The Blacklist after nine seasons, portrays Amir as a young boy and an adult. The show ... More
Collective opens solo exhibitions of works by Annette Krauss and Camara Taylor
EDINBURGH.- This summer, Collective presents two new, distinct artist commissions across the City Observatory site and online. Using the City Observatory site as a springboard, Collectives programme considers the hidden histories and untold stories relating to our site and wider cultural history. Bringing together new work by Annette Krauss and Camara Taylor, the summer programme of solo exhibitions and events reframes and questions complex figures, movements and systems whose legacies are woven into our collective cultural memory. All projects have been developed with the artists, in some cases over a number of years, to explore how the legacies of the past can be reconsidered and re-presented to help us re-imagine the present and future. Artist, educator and writer, Annette Krauss has been working with Collective over several years on A ... More
Exhibition at Vienna's Secession is a kind of walk-on game board
VIENNA.- You have to play to fully experience the exhibition! Please buy your required game ticket* at the ticket desk or in the shop to support the project of this exhibitions creators by playing. Its about being part of something and having funplus you can win art! Screen Talk, Cheat Island, Console of Quiz, Press Key Port, Hand of Vengeance, Tax Haven Roulette, and Souvenir Shop: these are the various stations of Pandemic Pandemonium. In fact, the whole exhibition is a kind of walk-on game board: the visitors move from zone to zone, gathering information and clues for the quiz questions and small challenges to be solved at the gaming machines where they can try their luck andwith a little dexterity and steady nerveseven win genuine works of art. No need to be scared! The game is humorous and parodic, with the answers hidden in the sixteen ... More
'Robyn Horn: Material Illusions' opens this summer at the Museum of Craft and Design
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design presents Robyn Horn: Material Illusions. This exhibition is the West Coast debut of American artist Robyn Horns newest large-scale sculptures and paintings. Horns work mirrors aspects of natural environments while exploring the correlations between materiality and ideas that nature embodies. Showcasing a large array of Horns latest work, much of which was created during the 2020 quarantine period, Material Illusions explores Horns interest in time, and more specifically how the passage of time relates to material, decay, and entropy. Horns practice has always examined the effect of time on materials; utilizing wood necessitates a strong embrace of time, as a trees age can change how effectively it can be carved and manipulated. For an artist who has been honing their craft with ... More
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome opens an exhibition of works by Egisto Macchi
ROME.- Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) was a versatile composer, immersed in all forms of music: applied (soundtracks for short films, documentaries and feature length films), pure, experimental and electronic, as well improvisation, musical theatre, library music, opera directing, orchestral and choral conducting, and the organization of musical events, with the perspective of a continuous research conducted in his own personal system of communicating vessels. Thirty years after his death, Espressionismo sociale is the first institutional exhibition on Egisto Macchi, presented by MACRO in CHAMBER MUSIC, the museums listening room dedicated to recorded experimental music. The exhibitions title, which comes from the album Pittura Moderna, aims to emphasise his multidisciplinary approach and the musical activism charged with sociological ... More
The first edition of CAN, Contemporary Art Now, which will be held in Ibiza, is just around the corner
IBIZA.- CAN, Contemporary Art Now, is a new art fair that aims to become an innovative platform to discover the latest in the current creative scene, emphasizing the new languages that have emerged or are in the process of, but making room for the proposals of established artists who have excelled in recent decades. The fair will take place from July 13th to 17th in Ibiza. During 5 days, the island will become a meeting point for artists, art collectors, enthusiasts and personalities of the local and international cultural world. CAN will be the major art event during the summer. CAN, Contemporary Art Now, is an initiative by Sergio Sancho, a cultural promoter who already surprised the scene six years ago with UVNT Art Fair (Urvanity), another fair that has become a must-attend event in February during Madrids Art Week. CAN means house of in Ibizan. ... More
A wealth of car shows around the country
NEW YORK, NY.- The warm-weather season of car shows has been underway for months, with major displays, including in Amelia Island, Florida, and Greenwich, Connecticut, already completed. Still, a schedule extending deep into fall awaits enthusiasts and collectors, offering a chance for admirers of automotive artistry to bask in the glamour of yards-long hoods, gleaming chrome and glistening paint. Appreciating classic cars at these events can be inexpensive. A day spent with vehicles covering a century or more of transportation history costs about the same as entry to a major sports event, and many of the biggest and best shows local cars and coffee gatherings or Detroits Woodward Dream Cruise come to mind are free. The most formal type of event, a concours delegance, typically assigns vehicles into a variety of classes judged ... More
A man of many visions, many paths
DECATUR, GA.- Blitz Bazawule did not look like someone with the weight of a multimillion-dollar movie on his shoulders. On a Saturday afternoon last month, Bazawule artist, musician and filmmaker was at his home here, on a break from directing a new movie musical adaptation of The Color Purple. In a few hours he would be heading into an editing session on that film. But for now, as a scented candle burned on a table in a side room where he was sitting, he cautioned that the tranquil atmosphere and his placid demeanor did not tell the whole story about him. I have a great poker face, he said. Over the past two decades, the Ghanaian-born Bazawule, 40, has been on a relentless creative tear. He has recorded and performed worldwide under his hip-hop stage name, Blitz the Ambassador; he has directed music videos and a well- ... More
A Detroit designer works from home
DETROIT, MICH.- When Tracy Reese introduced her sustainable-fashion brand, Hope for Flowers, in 2019, she knew she had to do things differently. Previously, for her now-shuttered namesake line, she would release no fewer than 10 collections in an average year not including Plenty, her capsule collection, and other project developments. That meant about 30 collections to produce each year. These days, Hope for Flowers releases about five collections, 15 to 25 pieces each, that include her colorful dresses, tops, skirts and pants. It had to be just a completely different business model than the one we were functioning in before, she said during an interview at her office in Detroit. And its not that the old one was so bad, but we were overdesigning, we were overdeveloping, we were overproducing. Reeses workspace is housed ... More
MIMA stages the largest solo exhibition of Lubna Chowdhary's work to date
MIDDLESBROUGH.- This summer, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, stages the largest solo exhibition of Lubna Chowdharys work to date at a key moment in her practice. Chowdharys work demonstrates a skilled approach to making that references multiple cultures and times. Having worked as an artist for 35 years, Chowdhary has received significant public art commissions and this is her first large-scale museum exhibition. For MIMA, Chowdhary brings the ambition of her public art works and approaches to making into a gallery setting. Showcasing recent developments in her practice, Erratics includes intricate wooden sculptures, colourful works created in ceramic and rope and an enormous new installation made from industrial building materials. Chowdharys sculptural objects and installations combine industrial ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, photographer Erwin Blumenfeld died July 04, 1969. Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 - 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation. In this image: Self Portrait c. 1930. © 2020 Yvette Blumenfeld Georges Deeton.
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