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Two summer exhibitions feature John Baldessari and Richard Anuszkiewicz, artists who shaped art genres in America.
SAN ANTONIO.TX.- This summer, the McNay Art Museum presents two exhibitions of works on paper from American artists who helped shape the Conceptual and Op art movements; John Baldessari: California Dreaming and Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay. This selection of works is offered at a timely moment, as two of the prolific artists featured died in 2020, just months apart from one another. These exhibitions also feature a new acquisition and a rarely-seen sculpture. On view through September 5, 2021 in the Charles Butt Paperworks Gallery, Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay investigates the sensation of looking at art. Short for Optical Art, Op art emerged in the 1960s as a distinct style of art that creates the sense of illusion or movement. By the end of the decade, artist Richard Anuszkiewicz (pronounced Ah-nu-skey-vich) was one of the leading Op painters in America. The artists small, jewel-like prints on view at the McNay present colors t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Fauna, Flora, Stones & Bones Auction on Tue, Jul 13, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. Join them for a very special summer auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one you won't want to miss! In this image: Huge Fossilized Dinocrocuta Skull, Bone Crushing Hyena. Estimate $55,000 - $80,000.
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| Patricia Marroquin Norby is bringing a Native perspective to the Met | | Exhibition presents modern silver gelatin prints and chromogenic color prints by Vivian Maier | | Bihl Haus Arts reopens gallery with 'Botanical Sensations' |
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first full-time curator of Native American art at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum, June 6, 2021. Jeremy Dennis/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Big, bold and by many accounts about time, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts 56-word land-acknowledgment plaque, placed on its Fifth Avenue facade in May, honors the Indigenous peoples past and present (principally the Lenape) whose homeland the institution occupies. Visitors to the Met, or the Art Institute of Chicago, or any of the other museums where land acknowledgments greet them, may well wonder how these sentiments, crafted with extreme care and usually in consultation with Indigenous communities, fit with galleries containing some two centuries of art depicting Native Americans as occasionally brave, sometimes demonic and most often doomed. Not to mention their proximity to many art historical celebrations of Manifest Destiny in landscapes by Alfred Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and others. This is difficult terrain ... More | |
Vivian Maier, Self-portrait, New York, NY, 1954. Modern Gelatin silver print. Image size: 12 x 12 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- KP Projects Gallery is presenting a new exhibition of modern silver gelatin prints and chromogenic color prints by Vivian Maier entitled Self & Street. The exhibition begins with 23 thoughtfully poised self portraits which are innovative in technique, the majority of which have never been shown in Los Angeles. Alongside scenes from cities in which Maier lived and visited, each image reveals time and place where the artist worked primarily as a nanny. Taking pictures that eventually amassed into an archive of 150,000 negatives, transparencies, prints and rolls of undeveloped film, Maiers images from decades ago tell us as much about the past as they do the present. Striving to disentangle the political and societal struggles of the time, Vivian Maier recognized class and gender structures put upon the disenfranchised. Capturing people and places commonly overlooked by society, the artist uncovered a profound beaut ... More | |
The drawings in Oliver de Portillos Invasive Species: A Collaboration with Toddlers is a spontaneous and unassuming collaboration with the artists preschool children.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Bihl Haus Arts celebrates the reopening of the gallery to the public with Botanical Sensations. The exhibition, which features the works of mother-daughter artists Carmen Oliver and Daniela Oliver de Portillo, is on view through August 14. It is also a celebration of thriving and surviving through the pandemic and coming through it stronger and better than ever. Were excited to reopen the gallery space again with our first post-COVID exhibition, said Kellen McIntyre, Bihl Haus Arts executive director. And this exhibition is really special. It is the first in a series of five exhibitions over the next year that celebrate our professional teaching artists who have been incredible during the pandemic and learned new skills to keep our virtual arts education program going for our seniors and veterans. Botanical Sensations is truly a family affair featuring the work ... More |
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| France acquires de Sade's 'Sodom' manuscript for over $5 million | | Christie's teams up with global entertainment brand Superplastic for auction of NFTs | | Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz opens 'Map and Territory. Environmental Art from the Panza Collection' |
The manuscript of 'The 120 Days of Sodom' written by the Marquis de Sade while he was imprisoned at the Bastille in 1785. AFP PHOTO/Martin Bureau.
PARIS (AFP).- The French state has acquired the original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" for over $5 million, safeguarding for the country a work declared a national treasure, the culture ministry said Friday. The 18th-century erotic masterpiece has endured a turbulent destiny over the centuries but the future of the original text now appears secure after a private benefactor stepped in with the money. The culture ministry had in December 2017 stepped in to pull the sale of the manuscript from an auction, declaring it a national treasure and banning its export. The ministry said in a statement that it had paid 4.55 million euros ($5.34 million) to acquire the work for France. It hailed the text as a "monument" that has influenced numerous authors. Before the culture ministry's intervention, the manuscript had been due to be sold in an auction of historic documents owned by the French investment firm Aristophil, which was shut down in scandal two years previously, ... More | |
Collaboration marks the worlds first major auction of virtual art created by virtual artists, with additional NFT drops by artists Gucci Ghost, OG Slick, Shantell Martin, Alex Pardee and more at Christie's. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- In their obsessive pursuit of global notoriety, international synthetic artists Janky & Guggimon present Superplastic: The Janky Heist, a groundbreaking NFT drop created in collaboration with cutting-edge art and entertainment brand Superplastic and Christies. The two-part drop began on July 9 with the auction of eight unique artist-edition Cryptojanky NFTs during Christies Trespassing sale, and includes designs created by top NFT artists Gucci Ghost, OG Slick, Shantell Martin, Alex Pardee, Stickymonger, Alexandar Todorovic, in addition to two unique one-off pieces by Janky & Guggimon themselves. The online auction will be live from July 9-22. In addition, on July 13 the pair will drop 9,240 one-of-a-kind NFTs in a Japanese reverse auction hosted at jankyheist.com. The NFT drop features unique blockchain mechanics and is based on Superplastic: The Janky Heist, a short film Janky & Guggimon ... More | |
Roni Horn, Thicket No. 1, 1989. 7075 plate aluminum with mill finish, inlaid and machined epoxy resin, 5 x 151 x 114 cm / 2 x 59 1/2 x 44 7/8 in © Roni Horn. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
ST. MORITZ.- Over the course of five decades, internationally renowned collectors Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza built a remarkable contemporary art collection of works by minimal and conceptual artists. As part of Hauser & Wirths ongoing collaboration, the gallery hosts Map and Territory. Environmental Art from the Panza Collection in St. Moritz, an exhibition focusing on the relationship between the environment and minimal art. A collection of unparalleled depth, the Panzas played a fundamental role in introducing American modern art movements to European museums. In particular, Dr. Giuseppe Panza was a pioneer of land and environmental art, and even sought to create the first environmental art museum, an unrealised project. This exhibition brings together a selection of sculptures, drawings, and photography by esteemed artists from the collection, including Martin Puryear, Roni Horn, Richard Nonas, David Tremlett, ... More |
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| LACMA opens an exhibition of recent work by Cauleen Smith | | High Museum of Art presents new accessible Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza installation | | Art installation by Santiago Calatrava opens at Church of San Gennaro in Naples |
Installation photograph, Cauleen Smith: Stars in My Pocket and the Rent Is Due, Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Charles White Elementary School Gallery, May 29September 25, 2021, © Cauleen Smith, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It, featuring the interdisciplinary artist who creates films, installations, objects, and performances that ruminate on the everyday possibilities of imagination. In this presentation of her recent work, Smith foregrounds Southern California artists and visionaries who engaged in creating and sustaining place and community. As is frequent in Smiths oeuvre, the artistic, musical, and textual references she draws from celebrate the experimental and radical practices of Black expression. The title of the exhibition, Give It or Leave It, challenges the colloquial take it or leave it, and reflects the role of generosity and creation in the spiritual and artistic output of the historical ... More | |
Outside the Lines model photo, courtesy of Bryony Roberts Studio.
ATLANTA, GA.- This summer, the High Museum of Art presents an immersive maze of accessible, sensory environments by award-winning design and research practice Bryony Roberts Studio as its seventh site-specific installation on The Woodruff Arts Centers Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. Titled Outside the Lines, the installation continues the Highs multiyear series of inclusive and inviting commissions to activate the Museums outdoor space and encourage community engagement. On view July 10 through Nov. 28, 2021, Outside the Lines emerged from conversations between Bryony Roberts Studio and self-advocates with disabilities and their allies throughout Atlanta, with the goal of creating a space that is engaging for all. Outside the Lines builds on our tradition of attracting visitors of all ages with participatory art experiences and providing a gathering space for all Atlantans to stimulate th ... More | |
An initiative of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte and designed pro bono by Santiago Calatrava, the newly inaugurated Chapel integrates motifs from nature and objects manufactured by Italian artisans.
NAPLES.- Reopened to the public after 50 years, the Church of San Gennaro in Naples has inaugurated a chapel redecorated with a multi-layered art installation designed pro bono by architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava. An initiative of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Chapel features porcelain objects, stained glass, and textiles from specialized Italian manufacturers and artisans. "Im proud and honored to have made this installation in the Church of San Gennaro and for the City of Naples, said Santiago Calatrava. Thank you to the officials of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte who have trusted me to deliver a new element to this historic church. My key intentions for this installation are twofold: to display the sacred character of nature around us ... More |
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| New exhibition and publication highlight the multidimensional creativity of Alma W. Thomas | | Von Bartha opens a solo exhibition of new work by American artist Marina Adams | | The eclectic lives behind Alice Neel's portraits |
Alma Thomas (American, 18911978), Grassy Melodic Chant, 1976. Acrylic on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, bequest of the artist, 1980.36.5.
NORFOLK, VA.- Renowned artist Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978) artistic journey took her from Columbus, Georgia, to international acclaim. Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful offers a comprehensive overview of her extraordinary career with more than 150 objects, including late-career paintings that have never before been exhibited or published. The exhibition debuts at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, July 9-Oct. 3, 2021. It will also visit The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022 and The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 25-June 5, 2022, before closing at The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, July 1, 2022-Sept. 25, 2022. The exhibition is co-organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and The Columbus Museum. Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful demonstrates how Thomas artistic practices extended to every facet of her ... More | |
Installation View, Marina Adams at von Bartha, S-chanf, 8 July 25 September 2021. Image courtesy von Bartha. Photo: Conradin Frei.
S-CHANF .- Von Bartha is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by American artist Marina Adams in the gallerys S-chanf space, 8 July 25 September 2021. Deep Breathing is Adams first solo exhibition at the S-chanf gallery and features three large paintings created in 2021. The works in Deep Breathing expand on an earlier series of works created in collaboration with the poet Norma Cole. Deep Breathing showcases three new acrylic paintings on linen canvas: Mountain Love, Manhattan and the Moon and Crow Dance. Measuring almost 2 metres in size (173cm x 147cm), the large works centre around the idea of space, color, and depth. Breathwork informs Adams strong belief in the advertent nature of impactful paintingthere is a lively animation to her paintings, similar to the fluidness of motion a yogi demonstrates; moving with an acquired ease that all begins with the initial inhale. For Adams, great paintings h ... More | |
Visitors study Alice Neels Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian, 1978, in the exhibition People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 29, 2021. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times.
by Erica Ackerberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- My introduction to painter Alice Neel was a screen print that hung on the living room wall of my grandparents home in Woodstock, New York a provocative portrait of Neels pouting granddaughter lounging on a striped chair. That portrait then moved within my family, to Minneapolis, San Francisco and, finally, to my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan down the street from where Neel painted and lived where it now hangs on my wall. I discovered last weekend, when I saw Neels stunning retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that the same striped chair has appeared in many of her paintings. The many portraits in the exhibition, Alice Neel: People Come First, were of Neels friends and lovers, or of well-known ... More |
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Cannes Film Festival: The director of 'Showgirls' takes on lesbian nuns
CANNES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Forgive them, Father, for they have sinned. Repeatedly! Creatively! And wait until you hear what they did with that Virgin Mary statuette. The bad girls Im referring to are Benedetta and Bartolomea, two 17th-century lesbian nuns at the center of the new drama Benedetta, which debuted Friday at the Cannes Film Festival. Its a delicious, sacrilegious provocation from Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Elle, and at age 82, Verhoeven proves himself to be as frisky as ever. Based on the Judith C. Brown nonfiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, the film follows Benedetta (Virginie Efira), a young nun so convinced that she is the bride of Christ that she even dreams about a hunky, bare-chested Jesus flirting with her. And why wouldnt he? Benedetta is a blond bombshell ... More
'How do I become happy?' Advice from a professional fool
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Everyone has a Sept. 11 story. The pages of Stanley Allan Shermans, a one-man show called September, sat propped on a music stand in his apartment the other day, amid a room full of leather masks. Something about the text was vexing him. Ive got to find a way to make it funny, he said. Sherman, 70, is an Orthodox Jew, a professional clown and sometime playwright and director. But mainly, he is one of the small army of niche artisans who make New Yorks theater world the anything-is-possible place it is. In a city that has everything, he is one of the few makers of custom leather masks of the sort used in commedia dellarte, a form of theater that uses stock characters denoted by their masks. He also makes them for the occasional pro wrestler or rapper. Its a living. He started writing the Sept. 11 monologue ... More
The schlock-horror drive-in that rose from the grave
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was about 2 a.m. on a Sunday when the gross-out horror-comedy Class of Nuke Em High started playing at the Mahoning Drive-In. This was the last screening at TromaDance, an annual showcase of low-budget horror and sex comedies produced by Troma, a movie studio based in the New York City borough of Queens. Earlier that evening, about 600 cars had piled into the drive-in in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, but by 2 a.m., only the die-hards remained. Kevin Schmidt, an extra in the film, was among them. He had driven to the Mahoning from Summit, New Jersey, and hadnt seen the movie projected on screen since it was first shown in Jersey City in December 1986. This is the only time I can justify driving 100 miles to see a movie, Schmidt said much earlier in the evening. By the time the evening was over, it had ... More
In the Austrian Alps, post-Holocaust escape is re-enacted
KRIMML (AFP).- Sidestepping a roaring waterfall and stumbling over rocks, an Austrian amateur theatre group re-enacts the treacherous Alpine escape of thousands of Jews seeking a new home after the Holocaust. Surrounded by Austria's snow-capped peaks, two dozen spectators hike alongside lay actors who perform scenes based on the real experiences of as many as 8,000 Holocaust survivors who traversed the Alps to reach the Italian harbour of Genoa, where they hoped to board ships to Palestine in 1947. "The special thing about the play is that you experience it and you get an idea of what people went through back then," says actor Celine Nerbl of the Pinzgau region group Teatro Caprile, which has been staging the theatre hike in summer. After the end of World War II, thousands remained stuck in camps for displaced Holocaust survivors ... More
Intuit staff, board and friends mourn loss of founder Susann Craig
CHICAGO, IL.- Susann Eickmeyer Craig, visionary Chicago art collector and a founder of Intuit, passed away peacefully on June 28, 2021, at Providence St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. Born on Dec. 27, 1936, in Youngstown, Ohio, Craig spent her childhood in Madison, Wis., and Greenwich, Conn., where her father, Robert Eickmeyer, was the director of the YMCA and her mother, Viola, was an executive secretary. A family story that serves as a harbinger of her lifelong interest in other people relates that upon hearing laughter outside her room, two-year-old Susann shouted, Im missing something! That desire for participation and connection led her to seek out under-recognized talent and voices in the art world throughout her life. An entrepreneur from a young age, Craig was known as someone who could sell anything from bouquets ... More
Artangel's Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris to step down in 2022
LONDON.- Artangels Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris have announced their decision to step down from the organisation which they have led for 30 years. Since they became Co-Directors in 1991, Artangel has generated some of the most widely discussed art of recent times and is one of the most consistently admired cultural organisations, respected by artists and audiences alike in Britain and beyond. Since 1991, James and Michael have produced over 125 projects including Rachel Whitereads House, Michael Landys Breakdown, Jeremy Dellers The Battle of Orgreave, Gregor Schneiders Die Familie Schneider, Francis Alyss Seven Walks and Roger Hiornss Seizure, and drawn audiences to a wide range of places from the empty Reading Prison to the Palace of Westminster, the west coast of Iceland and the ... More
Light Art Space presents Jakob Kudsk Steensen at Halle am Berghain
BERLIN.- LAS opened an exhibition by Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987) at Halle am Berghain, Berlin, from 10 July 26 September 2021. Berl-Berl is the artists first major solo exhibition in continental Europe and transforms the legendary venue with a vast digital installation of lost and existing natural worlds. Working at the vanguard of art and technology, Kudsk Steensen is known for creating innovative projects which combine extensive field research with the latest in digital technologies. Visitors will experience a journey through a virtual wetland that covers Halle am Berghains 1,435-square-metre space. Berl-Berl revitalizes lost perspectives on wetlands, presenting a combination of Berlins current marshes, extinct species and ancient swamp mythologies. The exhibition also includes an online virtual experience, hosted on the LAS ... More
Thomas Cleary, prolific translator of eastern texts, dies at 72
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Thomas Cleary, who translated scores of Buddhist, Taoist, ancient Chinese and other texts into English, greatly broadening access to these works in the West, died June 20 in Oakland, California. He was 72. His brother J.C. Cleary, who is also a translator, said the cause was complications of heart and lung damage from previous illnesses. Cleary, who lived in Oakland, published more than 80 works, which in turn have been translated into more than 20 other languages, his publisher, Shambhala Publications, said in a post on its website. The breadth of his work, in terms of both linguistics and subject matter, was remarkable. He translated works from Arabic, Sanskrit, Japanese and a half-dozen other languages, and while his interest in ancient texts began with Buddhism, it grew to encompass Taoism, Islam, Greek ... More
Exhibition features a series of new portraits, still lives, and a single landscape by Arcmanoro Niles
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive, the gallerys first exhibition with New York-based painter Arcmanoro Niles. Featuring a series of new portraits, still lives, and a single landscape, this exhibition continues the artists critical investigation into the function and form of historically revered genres in painting. Niles is best known for his vivid, brightly-hued canvases that illustrate the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life―a man about to get into his car, a father and daughter sitting on their stoop with their dog, a woman waiting at a bus stop. His subjects are drawn from photographs of friends and relatives and from memories of his past, offering a highly personal record of contemporary life. The paintings, though autobiographical, engage with universal subjects of desire, ... More
A Black American designer disrupts the French couture
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Villa Lewaro, the Palladian estate built in Irvington, New York, by Madam C.J. Walker, a child of slaves who became a beauty mogul and the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, is pretty far, geographically speaking, from Paris about 3,605 miles. But thats where the couture shows came to a close, with a what to call it? installation, performance piece, happening from Pyer Moss, courtesy of Kerby Jean-Raymond, the first Black American designer to be officially invited to show on the couture schedule. Or to be livestreamed on it, to be accurate. Thats where they concluded two days late, because the originally scheduled Pyer Moss debut had been rained out by the aftereffects of Hurricane Elsa. And where a model was strutting down a raised runway in a satin rust-colored ... More
Shulamit Nazarian opens group exhibition 'Intersecting Selves'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian is presenting Intersecting Selves, a group exhibition featuring Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Amir H. Fallah, Wendell Gladstone, Julie Henson, Ellen Lesperance, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tori Wrånes. Each of the artists in Intersecting Selves considers the body as a barrier between the mind and the outside world. Recognizing our competing desire for privacy and awareness, and the often thin boundary that intersects our public and private selves, these artists dictate what gets revealed, to whom, and on what terms. From the quietly personal to the urgently political, each artist engages with depictions of the body while withholding crucial information and context. In doing so, they maintain a position of power and restraint over the viewer and, simultaneously, beckon for a closer ... More
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Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863â82
British Art Show 9
Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
Dennis Tyfus
Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani was born July 12, 1884. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime but later found acceptance. In this image: Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude (Céline Howard), 1918, Private collection, Geneva.
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