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Florin Frigura's hands after producing a piece of pottery, in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. A style of pottery made for hundreds of years in this small Romanian town has recently become a hot commodity. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
by Chantel Tattoli
HOREZU.- Sorin Giubegas grandfather was a potter. So was his father. And at 8 years old, Giubega said, he started to play on a pottery wheel, too. Giubega, now 63, and his wife, Marieta Giubega, 48, are potters in Horezu, Romania, a town in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains about three hours by car from Bucharest. Horezu is home to a community of about 50 artisans who make a traditional style of ceramics with methods that have been practiced for more than 300 years. In 2012, Horezu pottery was recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Most potters in Horezu, including the Giubegas, live on Olari Street (olari means potters in Romanian), where they work in home studios. The artisans advertise their craft by hanging ceramic plates outside their houses, some of which have yards where they keep roosters and pigs. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Among the artworks displayed at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, headquarter of the National Galleries of Ancient Art, in the exhibition The sovereign image. Urban VIII and the Barberini, curated by Maurizia Cicconi, Flaminia Gennari Santori, Sebastian Schütze, there are also eight outstanding loans from the United States.
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| Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Irish born, American painter Sean Scully | | The National Gallery of Art acquires work by Ellsworth Kelly | | Pace Gallery presents Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat in a two person show in London |
Sean Scully, Tappan Weave Green, 2023. Oil on aluminium. 215,9 x 190,5 cm (85 x 75 in).
PARIS.- The Irish born, American painter Sean Scullys first exhibition in Thaddaeus Ropacs Pantin space features new works from his Landline and Wall of Light series, as well as new typologies of work titled Weave and Net, which look back to some of the artists earliest work. They are accompanied by a group of paintings whose distinctive palette is inspired by the town of Aix en Provence, where they were made. Sean Scully fuses the colouristic tradition of European painting with the scale and expressiveness of American abstraction. Structured through arrangements of vertical and horizontal lines or blocks, his paintings eschew the cold rigour of Minimalism, in favour of an impassioned application of colour that infuses his work with an intrinsic vitality. His paintings are always rooted in the real world, referencing elements of the manual labour he was involved in since leaving school at the age of 15 typesetting, st ... More | |
Ellsworth Kelly, Fourteen Projects, 1955. Transparent and opaque watercolor, ink, and graphite with cut-and-pasted colored paper on wove paper, framed: 50.48 x 44.13 x 3.81 cm (19 7/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.) sheet: 29.21 x 21.59 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington © 2023 Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Associated with Color Field painting and minimalism, Ellsworth Kelly (19232015) had a lifelong interest in the interplay between painting, sculpture, and architecture. The National Gallery of Art has acquired three working drawings and one collage offered through the Ellsworth Kelly estate and specifically chosen by Jack Shear (Kellys partner of 32 years) to complement other works by the artist in the collection. Representing a special gift in honor of the Ellsworth Kelly centennial in 2023, these works provide unique insights into the artists practice. With rich holdings of over 300 works on paper, multiples, paintings, and sculptures by Kelly, the National Gallery welcomes its first (and only) working drawings by the artist ... More | |
Lee Ufan, Relatum (formerly Phenomenon and Perception B), 1968/2022, Stone and glass, approx. 60 x 220 x 250 cm © Lee Ufan / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat: Encounter, a two-person exhibition organised by the preeminent French curator, Alfred Pacquement. Spanning more than five decades, this exhibition surveys both artists enduring commitment to abstraction as a means of engaging philosophical ideas of time, space, and matter. At the centre of this dialogue, is an exploration of materiality from both a formal and metaphysical perspective. An illustrated exhibition catalogue featuring new texts by the artists and curator will be released by Pace Publishing later in the year. Both born in 1936, Lee and Viallat have dedicated nearly seven decades to their respective practices and founded major artistic movements: Mono-ha in Japan and Supports/Surfaces in France, respectively. Despite differing geographies and contexts, Lee and Viallat ... More |
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| Eskenazi shows Japanese bamboo, alongside the first UK exhibition dedicated to the works of Fang Lijun | | Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Chloë Bass | | Polish pavilion 'The Poetics of Necessity' wins 2023 London Design Biennale Medal |
Eskenazi Ltd is widely recognised as one of the worlds leading galleries for Chinese and East Asian works of art and its exhibitions are always eagerly awaited for the rarity and beauty of the objects offered.
LONDON.- From 1 to 30 June 2023, Eskenazi holds two summer exhibitions: one presenting ceramic artworks by the celebrated contemporary Chinese artist Fang Lijun (b.1963), the artists first solo exhibition to be held in the UK; and the other dedicated to classical and contemporary bamboo works by Japanese masters. This is the second in a series of summer exhibitions at Eskenazi which was launched last year and which aims to engage new audiences and to present diverse and often lesser-known subjects related to East Asian art and the aesthetic of the Chinese literati. Between perfection and destruction: Fang Lijun porcelain works Eskenazi is presenting the first UK exhibition dedicated to works by the celebrated contemporary Chinese artist Fang Lijun (b.1963), ... More | |
Chloë Bass, 2023. Photo: Ross Collab.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Chloë Bass (b. 1984). Her research-based approach to artmaking utilizes a variety of complimentary forms, including performance, installation, video, photography, sculpture, text, and audio. Bass has long structured her practice around the exploration of intimacy. Examining different social structuresfamilies, communities, political and governmental bodies, cultural entities, etc.the artists work forwards an ever-expanding understanding of this concept that is simultaneously personal, yet universal. Characterizing this approach as an invitation to come closer, Bass engages and implicates viewers in her modes of inquiry to encourage them to look more closely. Upon receiving her Master of Fine Arts in performance and interactive media at Brooklyn College, Bass began The Bureau of Self-Recognition (201113), a wide-ranging project ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Taran Wilkhu.
VENICE.- Adam Mickiewicz Institute are delighted to announce that the Polish Pavilion The Poetics of Necessity, curated by Zofia Jaworowska, Michał Sikorki, and Petro Vladimirov, has won the 2023 London Design Biennale Medal, awarded to the most outstanding overall contribution. Responding to the biennale theme of The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations, The Poetics of Necessity, initiated and organised by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, explores how unexpected objects such as reclaimed windows emerge from the world of reuse, and crisis collaboration. Curators Zofia Jaworowska, Michał Sikorki, and Petro Vladimirov say: We are thrilled we could share a project which is very close to our hearts with a wide, international public. Material reuse is definitely the future of architecture and has immense social potential. Polish-Ukrainian solidarity is proof of that. Barbara Schabowska, Director of Adam Mickiewicz ... More |
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| The Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin | | AstaGuru concludes its 'Jewellery, Silver, And Timepieces' auction | | Beverly Barkat's Earth Poetica at 3 World Trade Center re-imagines planet Earth using waste from around the world |
The sculptor, Stephen Tomlin, painted by his lover John Banting. John Banting, Stephen Tomlin, 1925. The Radev Collection.
LONDON.- He is, arguably, the Bloomsbury groups least well-known member. Yet Stephen Tomlin (1901-1937), with his glossy mop of hair, disarming charisma and undeniable talent, deserves to be just as renowned as his contemporaries Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf. Now the first major exhibition of his work at Philip Mould & Company (5 June 11 August 2023) is aiming to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs. During his all too brief life and career, Tomlin established himself as the Bloomsbury groups primary sculptor, immortalising the faces of his friends and fellow artists through a series of compelling busts, realised in a variety of materials and notable for their realism and stylised simplicity. The exhibition will include a captivating bust of Bloomsburys doyen, Lytton Strachey: The general impression is so superb, that I am beginning to be ... More | |
Lot no. 100, a Patek Philippe Aquanaut Wristwatch REF NO. 5167, was acquired for INR 58,85,199.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru recently held its Jewellery, Silver, and Timepieces Auction, which showcased an exquisite collection of coveted jewellery, vintage silver, and extraordinary timepieces. The meticulously curated catalogue brings together a broad range of sophisticated artisanal pieces that are a hallmark of the exceptional design and craftsmanship heritage from different parts of the world. The auction was held on the AstaGuru website on May 28-29, 2023. Some of the top performing lots of the sale. Lot no. 100, a Patek Philippe Aquanaut Wristwatch REF NO. 5167, was acquired for INR 58,85,199. The automatic movement timepiece comes in a steel case with a black embossed dial. When launched in 1997, the Aquanaut created a sensation. It was young, modern and unexpected. Its case was a rounded octagon inspired by that of the Nautilus. And it sported a tropical strap made of a ... More | |
Artist Beverly Barkat with Earth Poetica installed at The Gottesman Family Israel Aquarium in Jerusalem, March 2022. Photograph by Michael Amar.
NEW YORK, NY.- Coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations World Environment Day is the public opening of Israeli artist Beverly Barkats Earth Poetica, a site-specific public art installation depicting planet Earth and composed of plastic waste. Earth Poetica is freely accessible to visitors beginning Monday, June 5, 2023 at 3 World Trade Center (3 WTC) in Lower Manhattan. The 180 colorful panels resplendent with filtered light portray regions of the Earth whose continents and oceans are suffocating under growing masses of plastic waste. The stunningly vibrant work re-imagines the planet as a giant biosphere made of steel, bamboo and tons of plastic collected from oceans, waterways, and forests, etc. Through Barkats artistry, the up-cycled plastic bags, bottles and cups assume the brilliance of the most exquisite stained glass, and in their beauty, offer a vision for ... More |
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| Hannah Traore Gallery Presents Misha Japanwala's Beghairati Ki Nishaani: Traces of Shamelessness | | Nye & Company Auctioneers to offer a Two-Day Chick and Antiques Estate Treasures sale | | Dr. Raphael Gygax selected as first guest curator of digital art for Art on The Mart |
Misha Japanwalas moldings on the coast of Karachi, Pakistan. (Photos: Aleena Naqvi).
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery is presenting Beghairati Ki Nishaani: Traces of Shamelessness, a solo exhibition of work by Misha Japanwala. This new collection comprises a historical record of artists, activists, and beghairats in Japanwalas native Karachi, Pakistan. Beghariat, meaning shameless in Urdu, is a judgemental term that the artist strives to redefine as a tool for liberation. Documenting her community through moldings of the body, Japanwala preserves the stories of femme, queer, and trans lives in Pakistan, compiling a visual archive of their resistance and resilience. The core collection of breastplates began with Japanwalas consideration of how artists can shape history through the work they make. Who controls the narrative of past lives? What images will be discovered by future generations? How can artifacts from marginalized communities be protected in the face of patriarchy? In a time when the g ... More | |
Keith Haring: Modern and contemporary works include two Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) chalk subway graffiti art drawings Mother and Child and See no Evil circa 1983-1985.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers will hold a two-day sales extravaganza on Wednesday and Thursday, June 14th and 15th, featuring an extensive selection of silver and jewelry, as well as a broad selection of fine art and prints, starting at 10 am Eastern Time both days. The Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction features around 800 lots and is online-only. The sale is a curated mix of fine and decorative arts, spanning from the 16th century to present day. It features a variety of collectible categories that will be sure to delight even the most seasoned and scrupulous collector, dealer and institution alike. Real time Internet bidding will be provided across several platforms, as well as the Nye & Co. website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Of particular importance is a superb selection of 19th century period copies of recognizable Abraham Lincoln albumen ... More | |
Dr. Raphael Gygax will commence the 24-month position in summer 2023, with tenure culminating in a new projection set to premiere in 2024.
CHICAGO, IL.- ART on THE MART has announced the appointment of Dr. Raphael Gygax as its first guest digital art curator. Now in its fifth year, ART on THE MART is the worlds largest digital art platform that transforms THE MART, an iconic architectural landmark in Chicago, into a permanent, larger-than-life canvas. At the start of 2023, ART on THE MART announced a new award for a guest curator to bring fresh perspectives to the platform and continue its mission to present cutting-edge digital art. This new initiative will help to further advance ART on THE MARTs contributions in the field and provide more opportunities to curators. In this new role, Gygax will contribute to programming through commissioning a new projection set to premiere in 2024 and advise on the long-term curatorial strategy for ART on THE MART. Gygax will build upon previous years of the platforms curatorial programming that featured ... More |
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Langson IMCA announces summer exhibition Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California's Natural Resources
IRVING, CA.- UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) are opening Indefinitely Wild: Preserving Californias Natural Resources, an exhibition exploring how the early history of environmental preservation and conservation of the states natural resources can be considered relative to the work of artists of the same period. On view June 3 through September 9, 2023, in Langson IMCAs interim museum space at 18881 Von Karman Avenue, the exhibition comprises 25 paintings and six watercolors drawn from Langson IMCAs collection. This is the first time that these six works on paper will be on public view. In the exhibition, guest curator Cassandra Coblentz juxtaposes turn-of-the-century landscape paintings of the states natural resources with historical materials and photographs of human activities ... More
Music's fuzzy boundaries of identity
NEW YORK, NY.- Spring this year has been a particular joy for touring singers like me. The cloud of COVID-19 seems to have evaporated: Restrictions have been lifted, audiences have (nervously) returned and the prospect of being stranded in foreign parts with a positive test is gone, not to mention the diminishing threat of serious or voice-impacting illness. Things will never be the same they never are but some semblance of normalcy has returned. When the endless travels of classical music were interrupted, though, and when I was forced into a kind of silence, I had time and the inclination to question what I was doing, to ask what exactly Im up to when I stand up and sing a song. This interacted with two projects that were conceived before the pandemic but were largely undertaken during it: Song and Self, lectures and a resulting book, and a ... More
'It's about connections': Alicia Graf Mack remakes Juilliard Dance
NEW YORK, NY.- When Alicia Graf Mack taught the final ballet class for students graduating this spring from the dance division of Juilliard, it was a gentle, valedictory session: a lot of laughter, inside jokes and memories, a few tears. Shes a warm, gracious teacher who sometimes calls herself Mama Mack, and she got a little teary herself. Ive had this feeling in my chest all week, she said. These were the first students who Mack admitted after taking over as dean and director of the division five years ago. She and the students had been through a lot together, including the pandemic and the many changes she has brought to one of the most prestigious and influential dance programs in the country. Mack, 44, represents change. She is the first Black person to hold the position, and the youngest. Speaking in her office a few weeks before ... More
Out now: 'Juergen Teller: Notes about My Work'
NEW YORK, NY.- I never really think of anyone as models, even the models, Juergen Teller has said, and Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful. It was with these liberating beliefs in mind that Teller approached his photographs for the 2021 Best Performances issue of W magazine. Notes About My Work is Tellers tongue-in-cheek response to the feedback he received on this controversial portfolio. Best Performances is an annual issue of W, showcasing cinemas stars of the moment as chosen by the magazines larger-than-life editor-at-large Lynn Hirschberg. In Los Angeles Teller photographed 28 actors in total, the established and the emerging, from Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney to Steven Yeun and Otmara Marrero, all posing with (and sometimes even on top of) carsa quintessential feature of the city he wanted to celebrate. ... More
Aubrey Levinthal's presentation of 'INSTALMENTS' now on view at Ingleby
EDINBURGH.- INSTALMENTS is a series of focused presentations that take place in the 'Feast Room', on the first floor of the Glasite Meeting House, the building which houses our gallery, Ingleby, in Edinburgh. The seventh artist in this series is Aubrey Levinthal. Aubrey Levinthal is a painter living and working in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. The city is important to her, she was born there in 1986, gained her BA from the University of Pennsylvania State University in 2008 and completed her MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2011. Now in her thirties she has continued to make the city her home, and something of its light and colour has seeped into the scumbled greys that distinguish the muted, often melancholy tones of her palette. ... More
The Visual Language of Modernity: The Early Photographs of André Kertész
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery will be presenting until August 5, 2023 The Visual Language of Modernity: The Early Photographs of André Kertész. This exhibition showcases over fifty original prints of exceptional quality, each taken between 1914 and 1936; featuring iconic and never-before-seen works, explores the intersection between two significant periods of the artists output: works created in Hungary between 1914 and 1925 and later in Paris between 1926 and 1936, firmly establishing André Kertész at the forefront of Modernist photography. André Kertész (1894 1985), widely considered one the most influential photographers of the 20th century, is known for using innovative camera angles, unexpected lighting, and up-close cropping that often abstracted his subjects. His images teeter between the real and the surreal ... More
New site-specific outdoor installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Pinacoteca Agnelli
TORINO.- Pinacoteca Agnelli opened a new site-specific outdoor installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, the new installation entitled PISTARAMA is situated on the Pista 500, the iconic FIAT car test track on the roof of the Lingotto. The new work joins the artistic programme on the Pista 500, which includes installations by Nina Beier, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Nan Goldin, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Cally Spooner and SUPERFLEX. In dialogue with the new garden on the track and with the unique architecture of the building, the installations consist of environmental interventions, light or sound works and expanded cinema projects. For Pinacoteca Agnelli, French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. Strasbourg, 1965) is presenting ... More
Peter Blum Gallery has now opened the exhibition 'Fabric' featuring the work of 10 artists
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery has now opened Fabric, a group exhibition featuring Alighiero e Boetti, Louise Bourgeois, Sonya Clark, Josh Faught, Rochelle Feinstein, Nicholas Galanin, Esther Kläs, Kimsooja, Turiya Magadlela, Jordan Nassar, and Shinique Smith. It began with an opening reception May 31, and will run through July 21, 2023. Fabric brings together 11 artists that make use of textiles in their practice, exploring the complex associations that the medium holds, encompassing public and private, local and global, how we decorate our own bodies, and how we assess the adorned bodies of others. Each of these artists uniquely explores the friction inherent in the status of textiles in fine art, elevating and further validating the medium. Alighiero e Boetti (1940‐1994, Turin, Italy) was a pioneer in utilizing textiles as a medium ... More
Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography appoints new photography curator
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) and the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography (CCP) announce Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, as the newly appointed Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. Mickevicius will divide her time between the two institutions, working with CCPs world-renowned collections to curate exhibitions that will be presented in Phoenix Art Museums Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography. She comes to PhxArt and CCP from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she has served as curatorial assistant in the photography department since 2019. Mickevicius begins her role on June 5, 2023. We are thrilled to welcome Emilia Mickevicius to Phoenix Art Museum, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix ... More
The Artist's Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats to be released in September
LONDON.- Follow in the footsteps of some of the worlds most famous painters in this fascinating work from the Journeys of Note series: The Artists Journey (White Lion Publishing | The Artist's Journey September 26, 2023). Some truly remarkable works of art have been inspired by artists spending time away from their typical surroundings. From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories to cultural tours and sojourns in the finest hotels, this book explores 30 influential journeys taken by artistic greats and reveals the repercussions of those travels on the painters personal lives and the broader cultural landscape. Award-winning author Travis Elborough brings each of these trips to life with fascinating insights into the stories behind the creation of some of the worlds most famous paintings, including Henri Matisses vivid paintings of Morocco, Katsushika Hokusai ... More
Todd Norsten presents all new paintings for his third solo exhibition with Adams and Ollman
PORTLAND, OR.- Adams and Ollman is presenting An Imprecise Recollection of an Inaccurate Memory, a solo exhibition with new paintings by Todd Norsten (b. 1967, Minneapolis, MN where he continues to live and work). The exhibition, the artists third with the gallery, opened on May 20 and is on view through June 17, 2023. Norsten transforms images and observations from his daily life and travels into painted meditations on the universal impulse to make a mark. Riffing on a throughline the artist has identified from ancient petroglyphs, to lovers initials carved into trees, to bathroom graffiti, Norsten absorbs visual culture all around usroadside billboards, peeling paint on the side of a barn, hand-painted Keep Out signs, lottery advertisementsthen translates and transforms these snippets and non sequiturs into sometimes earnest, often satirical works that give ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Conrad Marca-Relli was born June 05, 1913. Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 Boston - August 29, 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic. In this image: Conrad Marca-Relli, "San Miguel" S-P-13-78, 1978. Collage and mixed media on canvas, 28 x 34 1/4 inches, 71.3 x 87 cm.
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