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A photo provided by Roland Halbe shows the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which was designed by Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron. Herzog and de Meuron, the architects behind museums in Miami, Minneapolis and San Francisco, and the Powerhouse Arts Complex, in Brooklyn, are the subjects of a major exhibition, in London. (Roland Halbe via The New York Times)
by Christopher Hawthorne
VENICE.- In its early years, the architecture firm that Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron founded in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland, was known for buildings that expressed personality through their exterior skins. Each design became a kind of essay on the architectural possibilities of a single material. There were the fiber-cement panels of the 1987 Ricola storage facility in Laufen, Switzerland, and the gabion walls, filled with stones, of the Dominus winery in Californias Napa Valley, completed a decade later. By the time the pair collaborated with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics, known as the birds nest for its intricate facade of steel beams, they had become a preeminent example of the new breed of globe-hopping celebrity architects, alongside Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. Today, their office has more than 600 employees and has completed a number of high-profile U.S. projects, including museum buildings in San ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Etel Adnan's exhibition at K20 presents works from all of her creative periods from the 1960s to 2021, paying tribute to the diversity of her work, which spans more than six decades: paintings, drawings, tap- estries, leporellos, texts, and a large ceramic wall piece.
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| "Carlos Luna: Beyond the Surface' opens at the Reading Public Museum | | Now open: Slavs and Tatars 'Hang Don't Cut' at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles | | Comprehensive Etel Adnan exhibition on view at K20 |
Carlos Luna (American, born in Cuba, 1969), MUA, 2018, oil on canvas, 47 x 59 in., Loan, courtesy of the artist.
READING, PA.- One of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Latin American art today, Carlos Luna is featured in a monographic exhibition, Carlos Luna: Beyond the Surface, which will be on view through September 10, 2023 at the Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. Luna creates impactful and memorable works that enlist engaging narratives, graphics, texts, and a visual vocabulary that is uniquely his own. The exhibition, which is on view in The Museums first floor galleries, features nearly 30 paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and tapestries that range from the late 1990s through his most recent works. Born in Pinar del RÃo in rural western Cuba in 1969, Luna was raised in San Luis, a town known for its high quality cigars and tobacco plantations. He studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and, seeking individual freedom, immigrated to Mexico in 1991, where ... More | |
Founded in 2006, Slavs and Tatars mine the complexities and unexpected affinities across cultures through publications, lecture performances, and installations.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Hang Dont Cut, Slavs and Tatars' second solo exhibition with the gallery and the first in Los Angeles. Founded in 2006, Slavs and Tatars mine the complexities and unexpected affinities across cultures through publications, lecture performances, and installations. The collective explores a literary and political geography known as Eurasia, defined by themselves as east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China. The artists work across cycles, where extended periods of research give life to an eco-system of installations, sculptures, lectures, and printed matter that question our understanding of language, ritual, and identity. Imbued with humor and a generosity of spirit, their work commonly blends pop visuals with esoteric traditions, oral rituals with scholarly analysis in a way that ... More | |
Etel Adnan in her studio in Paris, 2014. © Galerie Lelong & Co.
DUSSELDORF.- Born in Beirut, Etel Adnan (19252021) was a Lebanese American poet, painter, and philosopher. Her artistic and literary work is characterized by a great and lived ex- change between the Arab and Western worlds. The exhibition at K20 presents works from all of her creative periods from the 1960s to 2021, paying tribute to the diversity of Etel Adnan's work, which spans more than six decades: paintings, drawings, tap- estries, leporellos, texts, and a large ceramic wall piece. The work of Adnan, who spent her life between Lebanon, France, and California, combines very different art forms, media, languages, and cultures. After the Algerian War of Inde- pendence (19541962), she refused to continue working in French and showed solidarity with Algeria: I didnt need to write in French anymore, I was going to paint in Arabic. Her political clarity, as well as the close connection between writing and pa ... More |
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| Ticket to frustration? Visitors to Pantheon get a lesson in Roman confusion | | John Divola, Javier Riera, Georges Rousse, Barry Underwood all on view in 'Intersections' at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery | | 'Rico Gatson: Visible Time' at USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa |
Visitors waiting to enter the Pantheon in Rome, on May 5, 2022. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- The lines to get into the Pantheon, one of Romes most famous ancient sites, were high-season typical, snaking past the obelisk-topped fountain in the middle of the square to the cafes at the back. But they were especially slow-moving on Monday, the first day that the Italian Culture Ministry introduced an entrance ticket, priced at 5 euros, to enter the 2,000-year-old monument. Hotly debated for years, the ticketing plan was announced in March by the culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, who said that charging a small fee to help maintain the most popular cultural site in Italy with about 9 million visitors a year was an objective based on common sense. The equivalent of about $5.50 might be a small price to pay to see one of the worlds most iconic monuments where painter Raphael is buried but the new fee has been accompanied by stumbling blocks. Until now ... More | |
Javier Riera, EP PTG, 2008. Archival Pigment Print, 33.4 x 33.4 in. Edition 1 of 3.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is hosting intersections a group exhibition showcasing the work of acclaimed photographers and installation artists as John Divola1) Javier Riera, Georges Rousse and Barry Underwood. "Intersections explores how installations challenge the landscape as a medium as well as a subject matter. With a strong poetic and narrative evocation, these installations propose another image of the real revealing another aspect of the site: strange beauty offering a new spatial experience to the audience. Providing a new interpretation of the landscape, the photographs shown in this exhibition are situated at the intersection of land art, staged photography, and minimalist sculpture; emphasizing the relationship between human and nature along with human and non-human. JOHN DIVOLA: As a young artist in the 1970s, Divola adopted vacant houses as a ready-made studio, both observing the changes to the ... More | |
Rico Gatson, Sidney, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.
TAMPA, FLA.- The USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art in the USF College of The Arts, presents Rico Gatson: Visible Time. For more than two decades, Brooklyn-based artist Rico Gatson has been celebrated for his vibrant, colorful, and layered artworks. Inspired by significant moments in African American history, identity politics and spirituality, his oeuvre includes images of protests and longstanding injusticestouching on subjects like the murder of Emmett Till, the Watts Riots, and the formation of the Black Panthersas well as dynamic abstract geometries that celebrate Pan-Africanist aesthetics and Black cultural and political figures. In late May, Gatson transformed the walls of the USF Contemporary Art Museum with a kaleidoscopic, life-size image of Zora Neale Hurstonauthor, anthropologist, filmmaker, and Florida residentalong with a large-scale abstract composition. USF students were inv ... More |
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| New collection presentation at the Colby College Museum of Art centers Indigenous perspectives on the American Southwest | | Katonah Museum of Art opens first museum solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung | | Crescent City Auction Gallery offering online and live event at the Crescent City gallery, New Orleans |
Ernest Blumenschein (American, 18741960), Girl in Rose, 1926. Oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 25 in. The Lunder Collection, 2013.019P.
WATERVILLE, MAINE.- More than three years in the making, and with the support of a wide community of collaborators, Colby College Museum of Art is presenting Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village (May 19, 2023July 28, 2024), a collection installation centering Pueblo perspectives on the context that informed the social and cultural landscape of Taos from 1915 to 1927, when the Taos Society of Artists (TSA), a group of Anglo-American painters, was active. It also sheds light on issues that affect Native people today, in the Southwest and beyond. The exhibition features paintings by TSA artists from the Lunder Collectionwhich is widely recognized as one of the most important collections of American art ever assembled by private handsin dialogue with works by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Native American artists, including new acquisitions, to illuminate the varied, complex, and rich art histories of the United States Southwest, ... More | |
Wu Chi-Tsung,Cyano-Collage 125, 2022.Cyanotype photography, Xuan paper, acrylic gel, acrylic, mounted on wooden board, diameter: 70 7/8 in. (180 cm) (WCT-50). Private Collection, Pacific Palisades, California Photograph: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano. © Wu Chi-Tsung Studio/Courtesy: the Wu Chi-Tsung Studio and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
KATONAH, NY.- The Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) presents Wu Chi-Tsung: Synchronicity, the first museum solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung. The exhibition showcases the artists multi-disciplinary practice and highlights the artists most recent Cyano-Collage series. This ambitious body of work seamlessly incorporates Eastern aesthetics with collage and photographic processes to create sublime reinterpretations of traditional Chinese Shan Shui (mountain-water) landscape paintings. The KMA is delighted for this unique opportunity to champion the innovative techniques and practices of one of the most exciting contemporary artists of our time. Wu Chi-Tsung (b. 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan; Berlin, Germany; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ... More | |
Pablo Picasso: Painted and partially glazed ceramic tile by Pablo Picasso (Spanish/French, 1881-1973), is titled Visage au Nez Vert (1968) and presented in a giltwood shadowbox (est. $2,500-$3,500).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A painted and partially glazed ceramic tile by Pablo Picasso, fine items pulled from the Little Oaks plantation in Bay St. Louis, Miss., bronzes deaccessioned from the private collection of Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. in New Orleans and wonderful original paintings by noted, listed artists will come up for bid Friday and Saturday, July 14th and 15th, by Crescent City Auction Gallery, online and live in the New Orleans gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. The Important July Estates auction, starting at 10 am Central time both days, is loaded with nearly 1,000 lots a wide range of French, English and American furniture; original paintings and watercolors; well-known prints and etchings; lovely Oriental carpets; and decorative art items. In-gallery previews will run through Wednesday, July 12th, from 10 am-5 pm. A separate auction, featuring jewelry, couture and purses, will be held Friday, July 13th. The pai ... More |
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| Carreau du Temple to once again celebrate the contemporary scenes from Africa and its diasporas | | Design intervention: Observations 2023 online seminar series explores moments in design history | | The end of the magic world's 50-year grudge |
Prisca Munkeni Furie-EXETER, chapitre I, SOLD AT AU REGARD DE JOCONDE-2022, 120.x.80 cm. Inkjet baryta paper, photo montage, mixed media-© Prisca Munkeni-Courtesy KUB'ART GALLERY.
PARIS.- AKAA has announced the participation of 38 international galleries with the return of exhibitors, such as the Anne de Villepoix gallery (France), This is Not a White Cube (Angola/Portugal), Backslash (France), Kalashnikovv Gallery (South Africa), or Nomad Gallery (Belgium). We are very happy to announce the first participation of many galleries: Primo Marella (Italy), Afronova (South Africa), Band of Vices (USA), Yosr Ben Ammar (Tunisia), MCC Gallery (Morocco), Oda Art Gallery (Nigeria), to name just a few. This new Parisian edition will showcase an unprecedented selection of African-American artists, from Brazil to the United States, without forgetting the Caribbean, and in particular through our artist invitations for the traditional Monumental Installation at the heart of the fair, the Carte Blanche and the presentation of several artists in the AKAA art book. To complement ever richer and more innovative exhibition projects, AKAA has created "Les Rencontres", a full-fledged cultura ... More | |
De Greiksche A Pottery (Adriaen Kocx), The Greek A Pottery, delft (manufacturer).
Pyramidal flower vase c.1690. Earthenware (tin-glazed) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, NGV Womens Association, 2014.
MELBOURNE.- Observations, the NGV-curated online seminar series, returns in 2023 with an in-depth examination of the influence and impact of design throughout history. From seventeenth century decorative arts to Mid-Century Modernism, Observations: Moments in Design History offers audiences the chance to discover the movements, materials and manufacturers that shaped global design across the centuries. Through examples from the NGV's leading collection of historical decorative arts and design, historians, writers and curators from around the world delve into a variety of topics including Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus, Japanese and Korean craft and design, as well as the place of design in Indian life and culture. The seminars stream monthly from August to October. Observations: Moments in Design History begins with the seminar Design in the Early Modern Period, which focuses on decorative arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering audie ... More | |
Uri Geller in his 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood, covered with a few thousand bent spoons, at the Uri Geller Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 4, 2023. Geller is a self-professed hoarder, and the Uri Geller Museum is essentially the contents of his attic, or a few storage bins, tastefully laid out as a permanent exhibition. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
TEL AVIV.- In 1973, a young man named Uri Geller appeared on one of the BBCs most popular television shows, The Dimbleby Talk-In, and announced that the laws of Newtonian physics did not apply to him. Or that, at least, was the implication. A handsome 26-year-old Israeli, dressed casually and flanked by a pair of academics, Geller performed a series of bewildering feats using nothing more, he said, than his mind. He restarted a stopped watch. He duplicated a drawing that had been sealed in an envelope. Then he appeared to bend a fork simply by staring at it. Its cracking, Geller said quietly, speaking over a tight shot of his right hand, which was gently rubbing the fork between his fingers. Its becoming like plastic. A few seconds later, the top of the fork fell off and hit the ground. By the time the applause of the studio audience died down, Gellermania had begun. Geller became not just ... More |
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Bodrum Loft unveils sculpture exhibition by Perrotin, curated by Artsa Consultancy Founder, Selcan Atilgan
GOLTURKBUKU.- Bodrum Loft has invited Perrotin to be part of the resorts art course this Summer. French Delights, a nod to the famous Turkish Delights, opened on 1 July, and will be on view until 10 September 2023. Curated by Selcan Atilgan, the exhibition features 17 sculptures that are free to be discovered by the hotels guests and the public alike by Perrotins artists including Iván Argote, Jean-Marie Appriou, Daniel Arsham, Wim Delvoye, Elmgreen & Dragset, Laurent Grasso, Gregor Hildebrandt, Klara Kristalova, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi and Xavier Veilhan. The selection presented highlights the richness and complexity of contemporary sculpture, not only in the diversity of its subjects (whether false archaeology, folklore and fairy tales, the human and animal ... More
30 years Kunsthalle Osnabrück: Opening of three anniversary exhibitions
OSNABRÃCK.- On July 8, 2023, Kunsthalle Osnabrück celebrated its 30th anniversary with a newly produced exhibition by Aram Bartholl, an impressive building cover by Ibrahim Mahama, and an event-based group exhibition of local guests, artists, and initiatives. Following the council's decision in 1991 to officially establish an art gallery in Osnabrück, the first exhibition of the newly founded Kunsthalle Osnabrück opened in 1993 with Arnulf Rainer. Since then, the exhibition rooms of the former Dominican monastery with its attached 13th century church have hosted artists such as Werner Büttner, Dan Graham, Jörg Immendorff, Cornelia Schleime, Damien Hirst, Daniel Spoerri, Andy Warhol, Daniel Richter, Jorinde Voigt, Amelie von Wulffen, Leiko Ikemura, Via Lewandowsky, Wolfgang Mattheuer, David Schn ... More
Praz-Delavallade presenting relationships between our unconscious and 'phantasmal' in 'SUMMER SPIRITS'
PARIS.- Praz-Delavallade extended an invitation to Soufiane Ababri, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Micky Clément, Julia Haumont, Thomas Fougeirol, Jim Shaw, Nathan Mabry and Marnie Weber for the exhibition Summer Spirits. Together, these artists immerse visitors in an ethereal world where the boundaries between the physical and the spiritual are blurred. Their bold and eclectic creations span various mediums, including film, sculpture, and painting, and explore themes of absence, traces, and the fluidity of bodies under the influence of heat. Tangible only under certain circumstances, they reveal our inner worlds, disrupting our lives through diffuse apparitions, recurring thoughts, and repetitive dreams. Their presence is far from trivial; they question our beliefs, values, and anxieties, revealing our ... More
AstaGuru's 'Masterpieces and Editions' auction to showcase medley of masterpieces by iconic Western artists
MUMBAI.- Titled Masterpieces and Editions, AstaGurus upcoming auction is set to unveil a medley of works by global masters from varied periods of modern art. This finely curated selection will traverse the rich tapestry of artistic evolution, from the early 20th-century movements to the groundbreaking artistic expressions in the contemporary era with creations by artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, René Magritte, and Joan Miró. The finely curated selection also showcases creations by Surrealist master Salvador Dalà as well as works in three different mediums by famous pop art icon Andy Warhol. Also ... More
Netta Lieber Sheffer is the winner of the 2023 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art
TEL AVIV.- The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art Committee has awarded this years prize to Netta Lieber Sheffer. The prize carries a US$ 10,000 grant and a solo exhibition with a catalog at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA). One-hundred and twenty-one artists submitted applications for the prize this year; the Prize Committee included TAMAs Director Tania Coen-Uzzielli and Chief Curator Mira Lapidot, curator Emanuela Calò, TAMA Board of Directors member Doron Sebbag, Professor Ariel Hirschfeld and Dr. David Graves. The Committee noted that Netta Lieber Sheffer (born 1972) presents an oeuvre that is outstanding in size, wealth of detail and the ambition of the frame story or idea at its core. This is especially astounding when considering that the medium she uses is pencil, charcoal or wat ... More
Peter Nero, pianist who straddled genres, is dead at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Nero, the concert pianist who soared to popularity in the 1960s with a swinging hybrid of classics and jazz and kept the beat for nearly six decades with albums, club and television dates, and segues into conducting pops orchestras, died Thursday in Eustis, Florida. He was 89. His daughter, Beverly Nero, said he died at the At Home Care Assisted Living Facility, where he had lived in recent months. It was not quite accurate to say, as a New York newspaper, The World-Telegram and Sun, did in 1962, that Peter Nero played classical music with his left hand and pop-jazz with his right. But that was only a paraphrase of his own primer for audiences. We shall play Tea for Two, he would say. Since our arrangement is complex, wed like to explain what well be doing. My right hand will b ... More
Shortlist announced for £50,000 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant 2023
LONDON.- The shortlist is announced for the 2023 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant which gives £50,000 to an artist to help alleviate some of their financial pressures and give them freedom to concentrate on their practice. The recipient of the grant will be announced at 7pm on 12 September 2023 at Annely Juda Fine Art in London. For the first time, an exhibition of work by all of the shortlisted artists will be held at Annely Juda, from 13 until 22 September 2023. Each year a curator is appointed to put forward artists for consideration for the grant, and this year the curator is artist Alison Wilding. The 2023 shortlisted artists are: Lea Andrews (b.1958, Oxfordshire), Roderick Coyne (b.1945, Buckinghamshire), Kate Davis & David Moore (b.1960, Buckinghamshire & b.1963, Edinburgh), Jessie Flood-P ... More
Claudia Comte, inspired by the wonders of nature, unveils Five Marble Leaves in Boston
BOSTON, MASS.- Inspired by 24 pin and red oak trees inside Bostons Central Wharf Park, the acclaimed and award-winning international artist Claudia Comte has developed a new body of sculptural work, Five Marble Leaves, is on view now. Drawing attention to the marvel of nature and the importance of rising to the challenge of the current environmental crisis, the large-scale work was commissioned by Now + There, Bostons public art nonprofit that brings temporary, site-specific installations to all of the citys neighborhoods and was curated by Bostons Pedro Alonzo. Comtes artwork has captivated art critics and the public in solo and group shows all over the world including Berlin, Geneva, Copenhagen, Madrid, London, Vienna, and New York City. A native of Switzerland, she has long been inspired b ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In this image: Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre-Français et lâavenue de lâOpéra, effet de pluie, 1898. Huile sur toile, 73, 6 x 91, 4 cm. Minneapolis, Institute of Art, fonds William Hood Dunwoody © Photo : Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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