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A close-up of Beverly Buchananâs âUnity Stones,â in concrete and black granite at the Booker T. Washington Community Center in Macon, Ga. on June 28, 2023. An essential American outdoor sculpture has been sinking in the saltwater marsh for four decades â just as the artist, Beverly Buchanan, intended. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
by Siddhartha Mitter
BRUNSWICK, GA.- This patch of coastal wetland between highway and marsh, just behind downtown Brunswick, Georgia, is a kind of pilgrimage site though no sign points to it. Look for a small park along U.S. 17, with a pavilion and a pier from which people fish and trap crabs. Across the channel, the Marshes of Glynn stretch flat to the horizon. But the object of interest to some art historians and aficionados sits just outside the park, where the spartina cordgrass takes over. Three rocklike forms nestle in the vegetation. They are weathered and easy to miss. Here is a major work of American outdoor sculpture, hiding in plain sight. What look from afar like a random trio of rocks are in fact constructions of concrete topped with tabby, a historic material in this region formed from oyster shells, sand and water. The Marsh Ruins, as they are called, are arguably the masterwork of painter and sculptor Beverly Buchanan. She built them in 1981, her own intervention in a char ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Weight of Words at the Henry Moore Institute features an international and intergenerational selection of contemporary artists and writers who explore the overlap between sculpture and poetry. Discover work ranging in tone from the humorous to the haunting, expressing everything from direct quotations to the unsayable. Photo: Rob Harris.
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| An exceptional loan from the Frick Collection, New York, to the Chateau de Chantilly | | "Tim Silver: Among the Leaves" including sculpture, photography and installation on view at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney | | Alix Vernet's 'Street Casts' debuts a new video installation, photography, and large-scale ceramic casts |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban, 1780 Paris, 1867), Autoportrait dIngres à vingt-quatre ans, 1804 (Paris Salon of 1806). Canvas ; H. 0,77 ; W. 0,61 m. Chantilly, Musée Condé, PE 430. ©RMN-Grand Palais Domaine de Chantilly-Harry Bréjat.
CHANTILLY.- To mark the arrival of the exhibition Ingres. The Artist and His Princes, the Musée Condé is displaying a largely unseen selection of works from its collections on the theme of travels in Italy in the 19th century. During the age of the industrial revolution in transport, the flow of artists, poets and writers crossing the Alps to visit Italy reinvented what had been known as the Grand Tour in the previous century. The emergence of travel guides and publications on history and art history democratised knowledge and educated travellers, who were interested as much by the political situation in risorgimento-era Italy as they were by its glorious past. Attracted by the coexistence of ancient, Renaissance and contemporary elements of Italian culture everywhere from the ... More | |
Installation view of "Tim Silver: Among the Leaves" at ullivan+Strumpf Sydney.
SYDNEY.- For his new solo exhibition at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney Tim Silver has introduced 'Among the Leaves', a realm that exists between reality and memory, punctuated by tender encounters that collectively grapple with the impermanence of time. Working across sculpture, photography and installation, Silvers practice negotiates the interspace between life and death, the past and present, the real and unreal. By life casting figures, the artist presents intimate yet haunting corporeal portraits of connection. Working with diverse materials to create his sculptures, Silver emphasises the tension between permanence and impermanence. He swiftly navigates mediums that shift between the natural, elemental and industrial, including bees wax, bronze and copper infused Forton MG. "Perhaps no medium is more physical than sculpture: an inherently weighted form, which is constantly fighting against the constraints of gravity ... More | |
Alix Vernet, Time Warner Fragment, Broadway, 2023. All Photos by Sebastian Bach.
NEW YORK, NY.- Helena Anrather is currently presenting STREET CASTS, the gallerys second exhibition with Alix Vernet. Through ceramic sculpture casts from local buildings, photographs, a found object, and video documentation of a performance, Vernet has developed a process of isolating, replicating and rearranging material fragments from the built environment to reveal the continually shifting terrain of New York City's urban fabric. Across the interior of the street-facing window of the gallery Vernet has draped a crumpled building wrap, a tarp from a local development that was intended to shield the projects construction from view. What was intended to upkeep a world of pure visualitya city designed in real estates imagehas instead become an elongated sigh of a heap. The city is forever molting, its history as easily disposed of behind a synthetic mesh facade as the winds of capital or the cost of a demoli ... More |
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| Sargent's Daughters presenting the exhibition 'Laurence Pilon: Benthic Ravers' in New York | | Solo exhibition by Freddie Mercado revolves around a maximalist performance of gender fluidity and translocal belonging | | Sadaf Jafari, LEED AP BD + C, CPHC, has joined SGA's Boston office as the Direcor of Sustainable Design |
Laurence Pilon , Your disk is almost full, 2023. Oil on canvas over panel, 60 x 48 in. Photo courtesy of the artist and Sargents Daughters.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is currently presenting Benthic Ravers, the New York City debut exhibition of Montreal-based artist Laurence Pilon. Referring to the bottom of the ocean (or any other body of water), the term Benthic conjures images of shifting sediments and vast abyssal plains. This environment, where only faint rays of sunlight filter down to the depths, is populated by highly-specialized species of invertebrates, crustaceans, and fish. Pilon takes this alien landscape as their point of inspiration for a sweeping new body of abstract oil-on-canvas works, immersing viewers in the murky waters. Pilons works are produced through an extended process of building up many layers of oil paint to create eroded, topographical compositions. The resulting abstractions dissolve any legible boundary between figure and ground, as amorphous forms blurr into one another. ... More | |
Work in progress at Freddie Mercados home/studio, photo: Roos Gortzak. Copyright © 2023 Vleeshal, All rights reserved.
ZEELAND.- Vleeshal opened the solo exhibition 'Freddie', with a one-off performance by Freddie Mercado at their Center for Contemporary Art. This solo exhibition at Vleeshal, aptly titled Freddie, will present a series of paintings together with five iterations of the artists self, temporarily solidified. We invite you to come and get to know him, and perhaps even find somewhere between alienation and recognition another version of yourself, too. Before you catch sight of Freddie Mercado, you hear him. The tinkling of jewelry gets louder and louder as the artist approaches. It's a sound familiar to those moving in the art scene of Puerto Rico's capital San Juan. But no matter how many times youve seen the artist in the flesh, the experience of his bodily presence literally and figuratively grand will always cause a sensation of ... More | |
Sadaf Jafari, LEED AP BD + C, CPHC, Director of Sustainable Design at SGA
Sadaf Jafari Joins SGA: Leading Sustainability Practice Across Boston and NYC Offices.
BOSTON, MASS.- The grass will certainly be greener at SGA as Sadaf Jafari, LEED AP BD + C, CPHC begins her tenure as Director of Sustainable Design with the Architecture and Interior Design firm. Bringing experience from both Architecture and Engineering fields, Sadafs ability to build cross-functional teams primed for collaborative execution will further solidify SGAs pursuit of environmentally-minded design innovation. The firms leadership plans for this strategic hire to provide clients with a more holistic approach to design across geographic markets and industry verticals. I am excited to join this passionate team of diverse professionals who are already so committed to an environmental focus in their design work, shares Sadaf Jafari. We are looking forward to enhancing processes and technologies already in play to create increasingly ... More |
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| Winner of the competition solo exhibition at All About Photo is Lisa McCord with 'Rotan Switch' | | Five years of Christopher Myers inter-disciplinary work now on view at Blaffer Art Museum | | Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced their representation of Yooyun Yang |
Lisa McCord, Rochelle With Daughter and Grandson, 2019. Silver Gelatin Print, 11 x 14 inches. Copyright © 2023 All About Photo, All rights reserved.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.- Introducing 'Rotan Switch' by Lisa McCord winner of the competition solo exhibition to begin tomorrow at All About Photo. I began documenting life on my grandparents cotton farm in 1978, when I was twenty-one years old. I developed close relationships with the people who worked on the farm. They welcomed me into their homes; Id hang out with them at the juke joints where they relaxed at the end of a hard week of work. Wed share fried chicken and black-eyed peas. Wed sing Sweet Jesus, Carry Me Home at St. John Missionary Baptist Church. I have lived in many places, but my idea of home remains firmly rooted in the Arkansas land and people. After forty years, I have come to realize that all the photographs I made at Rotan are explorations of home. Ive also come to realize that the place I call home is not perfect. Rotan Switch takes its name from the communitys ... More | |
Installation View of Christopher Myers: of all creatures that can feel and think.
HOUSTON, TX.- American artist and writer Christopher Myers mines the fruitful, yet enigmatic space between archive, myth, and emanation as he translates obscured histories from around the world into vivid contemporary forms. Across disaporas and diaries, It has been said that Myers works with materials that hold histories within them, of movement, migration, and exchange. His diverse, rigorously researched practice spans textiles, actions, shadow puppets, film, and sculptural objects, which are often produced in collaboration with artisans from around the globe. This exhibition will look back at the past five years of Myers inter-disciplinary work bringing together epic appliqué tapestries with stained glass lightboxes and a new installation that highlights Myers ongoing work in performance. The artist will also visit UH to elaborate upon his recent television and theatre work, gathering a multitude of voices and techniques ... More | |
Yooyun Yang. Courtesy Yooyun Yang and Stephen Friedman Gallery.
LONDON.- Yooyun Yangs atmospheric paintings are set at nighttime, following her interest in night as a liminal space that offers respite from the repetition of a daily routine. Objects are fundamental to Yangs work, with motifs of blinds, curtains and railings frequently appearing. By repositioning them through her otherworldly gaze, Yang emphasises how the familiarity of our environment can become uncanny, with objects becoming increasingly unfamiliar the more we pay them attention. A hazy, cinematic quality pervades the work, suggestive of the paintings photographic origins. Cloaked in darkness, the paintings explore the emotional states of Yangs subjects, conveying feelings of existential anxiety and solitude through the nocturnal ambience of the works. Frequently concealing her subjects faces, Yang uses shadow and composition to create distance between the viewer and the subject, articulating the ... More |
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| Baber, Staprans, and Nakashima highlight Moran's August Art + Design sale | | Swann Galleries to feature Vintage Posters auction featuring a collection of Italian Liberty Style Posters | | The life and death of a 'punk rock Warhol' |
Lê Phổ (1907-2001). "Les Tulipes Rouges et Blanches". Oil on canvas, 40" H x 26" W est $60,000-80,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As the days keep getting hotter, so do the offerings at Morans! On Tuesday, August 29th at noon PDT, John Moran Auctioneers will present their Summer Art & Design sale. The auction, having more than 300 lots, will feature an array of styles and aesthetics from luminaries including Raimond Staprans, Keith Haring, Alice Baber, James Siena, Richard Serra, Henrietta Berk, Max Klinger, Frederick Hammersely, Tarmo Pasto, and Invader. The decorative offerings boast works by Harrison McIntosh, Salvador Dali, David Cressey, Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, James Nowak, and a favorite of the Los Angeles MidMod crowd, Malcolm Leland. Fabulous furniture designs by George Nakashima, Sam Maloof, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Paul Evans, Eames, Charles Hollis Jones, and multiple one-of-a-kind pieces by John Nyquist will round out the sale and give collectors a place to land when the auctions heavy ... More | |
Lily Brand Bordeaux Mixture and Stain & Oil Remover. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
NEW YORK, NY.- The summer Vintage Poster auction at Swann Galleries on Thursday, August 3, will feature one of the largest and most impressive collections of Italian Liberty-style posters to come to market in decades. Additional highlights include Art Nouveau and Art Deco images from across the globe, summer travel posters to inspire you, and a selection of propaganda posters from both World Wars. The auction opens with over fifty posters from the collection of Italian Liberty-style posters. The offering features the work of many of Italys most renowned graphic designers: Oswaldo Balerio, Luigi Bompard, Mario Borgoni, Marcello Dudovich, Giovanni Mataloni, Aldo Mazza, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Aleardo Terzi, and many others. Among the highlights are exceptional images that have not appeared on the international auction scene in over two decades, including Dudovichs Società Torinese Automobili Elettrici / Torino, ... More | |
Frank Kozik, then a creative director at the toymaker Kidrobot, at the North American International Toy Fair in New York, Feb. 19, 2017. Kozik made his name with his playfully gruesome concert posters for Nirvana, Soundgarden and Butthole Surfers he added to his underground fame with his boundary-pushing art toys. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Last month at the Columbarium funeral home in San Francisco, mourners gathered for artist Frank Kozik, who died recently at 61. The copper-domed rotunda on Loraine Court was filled with bikers and musicians from the Bay Area, along with artists who took part in the Lowbrow movement, a California pop surrealism scene from which Kozik emerged in his 30s. Some guests wore flannel shirts and leather jackets. One man with silver hair wore a Hells Angels vest. In the 1990s, Kozik attained underground fame with his Day-Glo silk-screen concert posters for Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails and other bands, shaping the visual language for the grunge and alternative rock movements. In the early 2000s, alongside ... More |
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A climate warning from the cradle of civilization
ALBU JUMAA.- Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization. Today, much of that land is turning to dust. The word itself, Mesopotamia, means the land between rivers. It is where the wheel was invented, irrigation flourished and the earliest known system of writing emerged. The rivers here, some scholars say, fed the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden. Now, so little water remains in some villages near the Euphrates River that families are dismantling their homes, brick by brick, piling them into pickup trucks window frames, doors and all and driving away. You would not believe it if I say it now, but this was a watery place, said Sheikh Adnan al Sahlani, a science teacher here in southern Iraq ... More
Association for Public Art in Philadelphia appoints Charlotte Cohen as its new Executive Director
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Board of Trustees of Association for Public Art in Philadelphia announced the selection of Charlotte Cohen, a nationally recognized leader in the arts, as its new Executive Director. An accomplished organization leader and coalition builder, Cohen takes the helm of the nations first organization devoted to public art at a time of sweeping change in the field. She is the second professional executive director in aPAs 150-year history, succeeding the former directors forty year tenure. Prior to that, aPA was led by its civic minded board who helped to build the collection of public art enjoyed by Philadelphians to this day. The aPA is unique as a private, nonprofit organization that not only commissions new art, both permanent and temporary, but also preserves historic works and interprets a vast permanent collection. Barbara ... More
New 360-degree virtual tour of groundbreaking special exhibit now available
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- With a newly launched virtual tour, people from across the globe can now experience a 360-degree walkthrough of the Museum of the American Revolutions groundbreaking current special exhibition, Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia. The virtual tour can be found here. It is free and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The virtual tour explores the Black Founders special exhibit, on view at the Museum through Nov. 26, 2023, which brings to the life and legacy of James Forten, a free Black Philadelphian who came of age during the Revolution and used his wartime experience to forge himself into a successful businessowner, philanthropist, and changemaker. Using objects, documents, and immersive environments, the exhibit explores how Forten and his family became leaders in the efforts ... More
CLAMP announces the death of Amos Badertscher
NEW YORK, NY.- It is with great sadness that CLAMP announces the death of Amos Badertscher at the age of 86. Born in 1936, Badertscher was a lifelong resident of Baltimore and was known for his poignant portraits of people he met on the streets and in the nightclubs of his beloved city. Developing and printing his work at home, Badertscher took extensive oral histories from his photographic subjects, and using his literary skills wrote their histories on the margins of the gelatin silver prints he created. Queer art historian and curator Jonathan David Katz said: With the death of Amos Badertscher, America has lost one of its greatest photographers. Walking into Amoss Baltimore home was as close as I can imagine to seeing King Tuts tomb for the first time. There were thousands of amazing photographs, each unforgettable and unprecedented. The first ... More
Bruneau & Co. to hold Summer Pop Culture auction
CRANSTON, RI.- A copy of Marvel Comics X-Men #1 from September 1963, two Pokémon booster boxes from 1999, Goudey baseball cards for star players from the 1930s, and original cover art for Drift Marlo #1 from 1962 will all come up for bid in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Summer Pop Culture auction slated for Tuesday, August 8th, beginning at 4 pm Eastern time. Also titled a Comic, Sports, TCG (Trading Card Games) & Toy auction, the 478-lot sale will offer an eclectic mix of comics, sports, toys, and associated collectibles from collections across New England, online and live in the Bruneau & Co. gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. A preview will be held in the gallery on auction day when doors open at 8 am. I am so excited to offer an electric sale of comics, toys and sports, which is one of the largest catalogs we have produced for pop ... More
Congolese artist makes debut in the South Main Arts District
MEMPHIS, TENN.- Urevbu Contemporary presents Elikia: Echoes of Ebony Hope, a captivating solo exhibition showcasing thirteen medium and large-scale paintings by acclaimed Congolese artist, Doudou Mbemba. Inspired by the Lingala word for hope, (elikia) this exhibition explores the fusion of optimism, promise, and the rich tapestry of Congolese culture. Visitors to ELIKIA: Echoes of Ebony Hope will have the unique opportunity to meet the artist in person. The opening exhibition party is free and open to the public and will be held on Saturday, August 5 from 5:30pm - 8:00pm. The gallery is located at 410 S Main Street in the South Main Arts District in downtown Memphis, TN. The exhibition will be on view through September 30, 2023. Traveling from Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Doudou Mbemba will be present ... More
Oppenheim Architecture wins competition for Albanian restoration and museum
TIRANA.- Following a two-phase competition with over 40 entries, leading international firm Oppenheim Architecture has been awarded the contract for Besa Museum, Albanias newest cultural institution. Oppenheims European office, based in Basel, Switzerland, has been working on a diverse set of projects in Albania, ranging from commercial and multifamily to hospitality, for over two years. Besa Museum represents one of its most prestigious yet, honoring the nations rich cultural heritage and welcoming spirit. With this latest institutional work, Oppenheim Architecture cements its place as the go-to firm redefining Albanias architectural landscape. We are honored to represent Albania through the Besa Museum, states Director of Oppenheim Architecture Europe Beat Huesler. Since beginning our work in Albania a few years ago, we have been inspired ... More
SunRay Kelley, master builder of the counterculture, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- SunRay Kelley, a barefoot maverick builder of fantastical handmade castles, yurts, temples, spirit lodges, treehouses, pavilions and structures so fanciful that they defied conventional building typologies, died July 16 in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. He was 71. Bonnie Howard, Kelleys longtime partner, said that he had been suffering from cancer but that the cause of his death, in a hospital, was a blood clot from a recent operation. Kelley was a hero in the world of unarchitected, alternative and vernacular building a building movement distinguished by its handmade ethos, sustainable features and natural materials, which flourished in the counterculture years of the late 1960s and early 70s but flagged a bit during the Reagan era. For the past few decades, however, it has enjoyed a steady, if slightly fringe, resurgence ... More
A trombonist on a mission to break barriers in classical music
NEW YORK, NY.- As a child growing up in rural Canada, trombonist Hillary Simms did not realize that women were scarce among players of brass instruments the tuba, the French horn, the trumpet and the trombone. Her music teachers were largely women, and so were many of her peers. But as she embarked on a global career, she soon noticed that she was working in a male-dominated field, one in which women faced routine discrimination and harassment. During auditions, for example, she was told to breathe more deeply to produce a more masculine sound. Now Simms, 28, is making history: This month, she became the first woman to join the prestigious American Brass Quintet, founded in 1960. This fall, she will become the first female trombonist to join the faculty at the Juilliard School, where the quintet is in residence. When her appointment was announced, S ... More
Class is in session. The teacher? Mark Morris.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City has often been called the worlds dance capital. One good reason is that a number of the worlds foremost choreographers not only lived and worked in New York, but also taught class here. Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and many others helped to lure dancers to the city. Fewer and fewer of todays top dance-makers carry on that tradition. The foremost exception is Mark Morris, whose company will present a two-week season, beginning Tuesday, at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan. His teaching is the least-known aspect of his work yet it may be the most important. Although there have been seasons when his choreographic inspiration has dipped, his performers have almost invariably looked wonderful. This is a tribute to how he and his teaching colleagues prepare them each day. The dancers ... More
Bundanon's new exhibition season starts off with 'The Polyphonic Sea' which includes 12 multidisciplinary artists
NEW SOUTH WALES.- Bundanon has unveiled its major new exhibition season, The Polyphonic Sea, in the award winning Art Museum, open to the public until 8 October 2023. The exhibition explores the wealth of languages around us, from speech and writing, gesture, and music, to the flow of the natural environment. Curated by Sophie OBrien, it showcases recent and new works by twelve leading artists from Aotearoa New Zealand: Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Andrew Beck, Ruth Buchanan, The Estate of L. Budd, Sione Faletau, Samuel Holloway et al., Sarah Hudson, Sonya Lacey, Nova Paul, Sriwhana Spong, and Shannon Te Ao. Arising from Ancient Greek, the word polyphony refers to many voices; specifically, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet was born July 31, 1901. Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this image: A young lady looks at "Paysage charbonneux" by French artist Jean Dubuffet dated 1946, and valued at 3.5 million Marks (1.5 million Dollars) at the 34th International fair for modern art "Art Cologne" in Cologne, Germany, Friday, November 3, 2000.
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