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Members of the Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture collective at their exhibition space inside Documenta Halle, the exhibitions main space, in Kassel, Germany, June 2, 2022. The group is presenting a skateboard ramp and a shadow-puppet theater. Felix Schmitt/The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
KASSEL.- Every five years, the international art world descends on this orderly, prosperous city for Documenta, considered the worlds most important contemporary art exhibition. The 2022 edition, which opens on June 18, is curated by the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa; it is the first time Documentas artistic direction has been given to the members of an artists collective. More artists, and more from the global south, are taking part than ever before. Yet the road to this years Documenta, the 15th, has not been smooth: Fraught weeks before the opening gave a taste of the organizational challenges and political risks of bringing together a vast array of artists of disparate origins and diverse perspectives. Ruangrupa its name is spelled with a lowercase r and loosely translates as a space for art invited 14 other collectives to participate in the 100-day show, which is viewed as a barometer for the direction of art and a mirror ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Museum presents An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018, a comprehensive survey of the artistâs six-decade practice in printmaking, highlighting his experiments with familiar, abstract, and personal imagery that play with memory and visual perception in endlessly original ways. An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints 1960-2018. Installation View. Photo: Gary Mamay.
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| Poly Auction Hong Kong announces the 10th anniversary auctions: Modern and Contemporary art | | June auctions at Bonhams Skinner feature impressive lots from Old Masters to Pop Art | | At 82, Ukrainian artist with memories of World War II tries to capture current disaster on canvas |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Logo. Executed in 1984, acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen on canvas, 152 Ã 122 cm. Estimate: HKD 11,000,000 - 22,000,000.
HONG KONG.- On 12 and 13 July, Poly Auction Hong Kong will present its first ever Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale and Day Sale to celebrate its first 10th Anniversary. The sales will offer an extraordinary selection of Western and Asian works, comprising of over 150 art masterpieces with unprecedented diversity. The two sales will have a combined total estimate of over HKD 300 million, establishing the highest Modern and Contemporary Art pre-sale estimate record in the auction houses history. The sales will offer works of 20th Century Modern Art, and Eastern and Western Contemporary Art with a variety of museum-quality masterpieces, covering breath-taking works by iconic artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wayne Thiebaud, Adrian Ghenie, Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara, to name a few, offering collectors an exceptional opportunity to collect. To continue on the successful highlig ... More | |
Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008), Van Vleck Series III, Titled, signed, and dated ".../RAUSCHENBERG 78" on the reverse., Solvent transfer imagery, fabric, and acrylic on plywood, 42 x 36 in. (106.7 x 91.4 cm), framed. $60,000 - $80,000.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner will host a live auction of Modern & Contemporary Art on June 29, 2022, starting at 10 a.m. in the Marlborough gallery. The sale will include paintings, sculpture and works of art on paper from the 20th and 21st centuries. Highlights include incredible works from Yayoi Kusama, Robert Rauschenburg, Tom Wesselmann and more. Coinciding with the Modern and Contemporary Auction will be a timed online auction of European Fine Art running from June 20-30, 2022, featuring around 50 paintings and drawings from the Old Masters to the 20th century. Leading the Modern & Contemporary highlights is a collection of Tom Wesselman (American, 1931-2004) works, including his 1963 TV Dinner, estimated at $200,000-300,000. This work was exhibited in The Green Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, it was presented as a wedding gift to artist ... More | |
The painter Volodymyr Titulenko at his home in Rusaniv, Ukraine, on June 7, 2022. Nicole Tung/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Volodymyr Titulenko has long been haunted by his early childhood memories of World War II. Now, at 82 years old, the artist is expressing his pain about the current war through his painting. Titulenkos home in the village of Rusaniv, an hour east of Kyiv, was on the front line between the Ukrainian military and the forces invading from Russia. With his wife and granddaughter in Kyiv making sure his work in a gallery there was safe, he spent two weeks sheltering in his village home alone. Titulenko, who can see well out of only one eye, has been glued to television reports about the war, and that is reflected in his art. After he returned to his studio in his flower-filled backyard, one of his first paintings was Spring in Rusaniv, which shows blossoming wildflowers in the foreground and flaming Russian tanks in the background. On the road near the tanks, the bodies of two Russian soldiers are splayed. During a visit Tuesday, Titulenko was painting fine brushstrokes on ... More |
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| Not just a fence: The story of a stainless steel status symbol | | Galerie Gmurzynska exhibits a single plaster cast of Pablo Picasso's left palm | | Comprehensive survey explores Jasper Johns's six-decade practice in printmaking, featuring some 70 works |
The artist Anne Wu, who makes sculptures inspired by steel fences in Brooklyn, May 2022. Clark Hodgin/The New York Times.
by Anna P. Kambhampaty
NEW YORK, NY.- On the residential streets of Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in New York City, steel fences line almost every other house. They are silver, sometimes embellished with gold, and they are in striking contrast to the modest brick and vinyl-clad houses that they encircle, like a diamond necklace worn atop an old white T-shirt. If you have money to spare, you should always get the better option, said Dilip Banerjee, gesturing toward his neighbors wrought iron fences and basking in the shine of his own steel fence, handrails, door and awning that cost him about $2,800 to add to his unassuming two-story house in Flushing. Like the white picket fence, long a symbol of the so-called American dream, the stainless steel fence embodies a similar ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Main de l'artiste, 1937. Plaster, 19.5 x 4.5 cm. Unique. Image courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska.
ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting in its Zurich Paradeplatz space from June 10th 2022 a rare and singular treasure sculpture by Pablo Picasso, figuring the left hand of the iconic artist. The show is based on an academic essay by Dr Jérôme Neutres entitled Gods Left Hand: Analysis of the plaster sculpture of Pablo Picassos palm. Produced in 1937, the same year as Guernica, the plaster sculpture of Pablo Picassos left hand is the only known modelling exemplar in Picassos oeuvre of his left-hand palm the only possible life model for the right-handed sculptor whereas the artists hand is a recurring motif in his paintings and sculptures. To Picasso, the hand bespeaks of the academic subject that reveals the artists talent; it becomes the symbol of the creative force while representing the bodily part that exemplifies the fate and character of being; lastly, and ... More | |
An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints 19602018. Installation View. Photo: Gary Mamay.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018, a comprehensive survey of the artists six-decade practice in printmaking, highlighting his experiments with familiar, abstract, and personal imagery that play with memory and visual perception in endlessly original ways. On view April 24July 10, 2022, the exhibition includes some 70 works in intaglio, lithography, woodcut, linoleum cut, screen printing, and lead reliefall drawn from the Walker Art Centers comprehensive collection of the artists prints. An Art of Changes continues the recognition of Johnss 90th birthday, as well as his stature today as one the 20th centurys greatest American artists. We are thrilled to present this exhibition at the Parrish, said Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education. Johnss innovations in printmaking& ... More |
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| Sean Kelly opens Sam Moyer and Eddie Martinez's joint exhibition Sculpture in the Garden | | Peter Freeman, Inc. opens an exhibition of works by David Adamo | | Mexico City-based GalerÃa RGR, attending Basel for the first time |
Installation view of Sculpture in the Garden 2022: Sam Moyer and Eddie Martinez, June 4 - October 29, 2022 at Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, NY. Photo: Randee Daddona.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announced Sam Moyer and Eddie Martinezs joint exhibition Sculpture in the Garden at The Landcraft Garden Foundation. Curated by artist Ugo Rondinone, the exhibition will be on view through October 29, 2022. Sam Moyer and Eddie Martinezs sculptures focus on interactions between the animate and inanimate, between the marriage of sculpture and soil and the ephemeral quality of light, that let us see things, says Rondinone. The 2022 edition of The Landcraft Gardens annual Sculpture in the Garden exhibition showcases 20 sculptures by the married couple. Moyers work has been installed at the center of round arbors or rondels crafted from locust wood harvested from the property. Ranging from four to six feet in height, Moyers Dependents series feature sculptures composed of joined panels held together by tension ... More | |
Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc. Photo by Nicholas Knight.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Freeman, Inc. is presenting David Adamos fifth exhibition with the gallery. Adamo (born 1979, Rochester, New York, lives in Berlin, Germany) works with sculpture, drawing, and performance. Describing his early and current influences, and some of the individual works in the show, he writes: One of my formative childhood memories is picking up a twig in the forest and gently peeling away the layer of bark with the blade of my pocket knife, revealing an entirely new form underneath and fundamentally transforming the twig through this simple act of removing material. I arrived at the canes several years ago, circa 2006, in a moment of creative urgency where I was whittling just about anything wooden I could find in New York City. The cane was in the corner and I began to peel away the layers. Immediately, it connected me to that moment in the forest, to my childhood. In many ways I've worked on the same piece ... More | |
Oswaldo Vigas, Proyecto para Mural en Naranja, 1953 (detail), Oil on paper fixed on masonite, Unique. Image courtesy of the artist and GalerÃa RGR.
MEXICO CITY.- Marking the gallerys inaugural participation in Art Basel, GalerÃa RGR presents a selected group of paintings by Venezuelan painter and muralist Oswaldo Vigas (19232014) from the 1950s. The works on view offer highlights of his lifes artistic practice. Commemorating his participation in the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) murals, the booth will include two of Vigas preparatory paintings for the famed Synthesis of the Arts public art commission, now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The solo presentation joins the Feature sector at Art Basel, showcasing art-works by 20th and 21st-century artists, ranging from solo exhibitions to stimulating juxtapositions. The 1953 painting Personaje Naciente demonstrates the artists view of his practice: speaking to a journalist for Caracass newspaper El Nacional in 1968, Vigas commented, I have never been ... More |
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| Jane Austen exhibition making North American debut | | Postmasters opens a solo show of sculptures by Gracelee Lawrence | | Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Heather Gwen Martin |
Wedding Military Outfit, Sense and Sensibility, 1995, Ang Lee, director. Worn by Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon. Jenny Beavan and John Bright, costume designers.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Art welcomes Jane Austen: Fashion & Sensibility, a special exhibition displaying costumes from eight acclaimed film adaptations of Jane Austens classic novels. The collection is traveling from London, England for its North American debut at the Taft, on view June 11September 4, 2022. Fashion & Sensibility opens in tandem with the completion of the museums $12.7 million Bicentennial Infrastructure Project that is preserving and protecting the 200-year-old Taft historic house, a National Historic Landmark. Extending from the museums Fifth Third Gallery into the rehabilitated house and among a newly reinterpreted permanent collection, Jane Austen: Fashion & Sensibility features approximately fifty costumes and accessories worn in popular film and television ... More | |
Gracelee Lawrence, The Cool Waters of Dissolution, 2022 3D Printed PLA Plastic 51 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 19 in. 130.8 x 59.7 x 48.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters is presenting a solo show of large-scale, 3D-printed sculptures and other sculptural work by Gracelee Lawrence. Titled Heat Sync, this is her first exhibition with Postmasters. What is a self, anyway? How is it constructed or accumulated? To what extent can we edit, augment, replicate, extend, or even vacate it, and what might happen if we did? * These questions posed by Cassie Packard discussing the works of Lynn Hershman Leeson may as well be a manifesto for a branch of younger new media artists following on her path. Lawrence, like Hershman and the others, creates a transfigurative space between emotional, physical, and technological reality. Lawrences works - through their peculiar combination of traditional sculpture and new technologies - are reflective of our current ... More | |
Heather Gwen Martin, Chords, 2021, Oil on linen blend, 67 x 56 inches, 170.2 x 142.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by Heather Gwen Martin. The artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, Verse, opened on 9 June at 515 West 22nd Street and remains on view through 23 July 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Kara L. Rooney. In conjunction with her gallery show, Martins work will also be the subject of a two-person museum exhibition, The Lyrical Moment: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction by Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, at the University of South Floridas Contemporary Art Museum, on view June 17July 30, 2022. Martins suite of fourteen recent paintings exist in the vein of poetry, music, and movement. Line, form, and color enliven a dimension where energies and forces traverse the terrain of the canvas as a means ... More |
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Figures in Red: Red-figure technique in ancient vase painting
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Praz-Delavallade opens departed for the curve, a solo exhibition by Cole Sternberg
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade is presenting departed for the curve, a solo exhibition by Cole Sternberg and his first-ever at the Gallery. Featuring a selection of the artists new and never-before scene painterly works on linen, the exhibition considers the place of humankind against the environments scale and eminence, hinting at the ill fated and selfinflicted demise of our species as the earth takes itself backas seas rise and paradigms shift. In alluding to oncoming change, the exhibitions title also suggests a rather unexpected willingness to embrace the unknown. Ruminating on its signification, Sternberg asks What is a curve? Is it a turn on a mountain pass that faces vast splendor and yet touches mortality? Is it the subtle curvature of the earth seen on a distant horizon? Is it east of Eden or maybe west? Is it individual ... More
Rumbling through modern Jordan, a railway from the past
AMMAN.- Astride century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure. That sound spurred families bearing bags of food, pots of coffee, coolers of soda, grills, hookahs and lots of children into action, scrambling up iron ladders to settle into the trains wooden cars. But the party had already begun in car No. 9, where a group of women and dozens of children were clapping along to an Arabic pop song blasting from a battery-powered speaker with flashing disco lights. The train blew its horn again and lurched to life, jolting the partyers, who laughed as they righted themselves and burst into applause at the sight of the world outside their windows slipping by. So began a recent trip from Amman, Jordans capital, on the last functioning strip of the original Hejaz ... More
Klaus Mäkelä, 26, takes podium at storied Concertgebouw Orchestra
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus Mäkelä, a 26-year-old Finnish maestro on a rapid rise, will be the next chief conductor of the storied Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the ensemble announced Friday, after a several-year search following the dismissal of Daniele Gatti over sexual assault allegations in 2018. It means very much, Mäkelä, who leads the Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic, said during a news conference. Its wonderful to have found this family of musicians. We really share the same ambition and passion. Because of Mäkeläs existing posts, he is on an initial 10-year Concertgebouw contract that begins this fall with the title of artistic partner, with a commitment of five weeks a season; he will not fully assume the podium as chief conductor until 2027, at which point he will appear with the group ... More
The everyday avant-gardist: Paul Taylor's first principles
NEW YORK, NY.- Budding choreographer Paul Taylor, who would one day become a giant of American modern dance, put on a full evening of original works in October 1957. He was 27, and a dancer in Martha Grahams company. The evening, Seven New Dances, was a series of seven short movement experiments. Whether they could really be described as dances was not immediately clear. In one, Taylor and another dancer remained completely still, in silence, for four minutes and 33 seconds. The inspiration was John Cages musical composition, of the same duration, in which a musician (David Tudor) sat at the piano without playing a note. As Taylors work progressed, people streamed out of the hall. Afterward, Graham wagged her finger at Taylor and called him a naughty boy. One reviewer limited his assessment to a 4-inch ... More
A young horn player could become 'a real legend'
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Cleveland Orchestra brought Gustav Mahlers Fifth Symphony to Carnegie Hall in 2019, its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, lowered his baton and paused before the scherzo. An unassuming young man walked from the horn section to the front of the stage, where he stood as if he were a concerto soloist. He lifted his instrument, and let out a call: a buoyant, warm herald of a bright new day. When the movement ended, he simply took his seat again. It was an unexpected interlude. Few orchestras follow the practice dating back to Mahlers lifetime of placing the horn so prominently, near the conductors podium, in the symphonys scherzo. More surprising, though, was the sound that came from that player, whom barely anyone in the audience had heard before. His solo turn, delivered ... More
C1760 Gallery presents 'Influences of Time'
NEW YORK, NY.- C1760, a transformational gallery spanning Modern and Contemporary, Ancient and Old Masterlaunched by Colnaghi Gallery Ltd. New York announces the exhibition Influences of Time at 38 E 70th Street New York. The exhibition presents a unique survey of works investigating the interplay of geometry and time. The collection juxtaposes various works in different media spanning over 150 years. Beginning with the design innovations of Toulouse-Lautrec, moving into the Constructivists, following through to Philip Guston and renowned minimalists like Sol LeWitt and Yves Klein, the timeline concludes with Maria Kreyn, the youngest living artist in the exhibition, who was asked by the gallery to create a special work for Influences of Time. The artists represented in Influences of Time can be linked ... More
Dries Van Noten presents immersive exhibition with MARIEVIC at the Little House
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Dries Van Noten and Brackett Creek Exhibitions are presenting MARIEVICs newest exhibition, TOURISM, at The Little House, 451 N. La Cienega Blvd., in Los Angeles. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, July 16th. MARIEVICs TOURISM is an immersive presentation in the form of a video loop, shot in Cuba during the artists visits to the country in 2014. The work is conceived like a selfie, in which the camera focuses on the road where the artist is cruising, moving along on roller skates. She follows her track, turning her back to the landscape and crossing paths with locals, cars, trucks, buses and carriages. The smooth skating movement is constantly disrupted by the montage, condensing time and space. The result is an endless visual impromptu that explores the intensity of being in a space ... More
Luma Westbau displays Deborah-Joyce Holman's 'Moment 2'
ZURICH.- In the evening of the 3rd December to the 4th December 1966, director Shirley Clarke hosts Jason Holliday (born Aaron Payne) in her room at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. From 9pm to 9am twelve hours straight , Jason has a camera pointed at him. He goes on to tell his life and muse about his childhood, the different jobs he had, as well as some important encounters, prompted by questions we can sometimes hear from the director herself in the 105 minutes film Portrait of Jason (1967). A major work of cinéma vérité praised by Ingmar Bergman and a rare testimony of black queer experience in mid-century US, the power dynamics at play in the film have been debated. Tavia Nyongo, in the chapter Crushed Blacks: On Archival Opacity of his Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Lifes (2018) notes: ... More
Ben Turnbull unveils his latest body of work at The Mount Without in Bristol
BRISTOL.- Celebrated British artist Ben Turnbull unveiled his latest body of work, twelve pieces exploring acts of violence resulting from religious influence, at The Mount Without (formerly St Michaels on the Mount Without), Bristol, in a collaboration with Bristol creative collective ART808. I Dont Like Sundays, by the London-based artist, follows last years hugely well received show at the Saatchi Gallery. A cradle Catholic, and now an atheist, his pieces draw on his strict early upbringing at a Catholic school run by nuns, My feeling towards religion is not, I admit, ambivalent. All but one of my friends from that time are dead, and the one that isnt is a priest, and he was only ordained after battling drink and drug issues. The twelve works match the number of Jesus apostles. Turnbull says, They [the disciples] took the word of God ... More
Dreweatts to offer collection of works by one of the most important British silversmiths
LONDON.- Dreweatts is excited to present a collection of works by the great Gerald Benney CBE (1930-2008), the most important designer in the revival of British silversmithing in post-World War II Britain. Born in Hull, East Yorkshire in 1930, Benneys career lasted more than half-a-century and in 1995 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to art, due to his unique style and the exceptional quality and finish of his pieces. Among his many commissions was the altar plate in Coventry Cathedral and his popularity amongst the Royal family meant that he became the first ever craftsman to hold four Royal Warrants at the same time in the 1970s and 1980s. These included being Goldsmith and Silversmith to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, HM The Queen, HM the Queen ... More
A conductor's tumultuous, invaluable tenure ends in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Osmo Vänskä has said goodbye to the Minnesota Orchestra once before. But this time, its for real. In October 2013, at the nadir of one of the darkest periods any major American orchestra has faced, Vänskä resigned in protest over a lockout that was diminishing and would come close to destroying this ensemble, which he had spent a decade drilling to perfection as its music director. A few days later, blazing a trail for conductors to side openly with their players during labor strife, he led three concerts with the orchestras musicians, whose management had exiled them from their own hall. Vänskä asked the adoring audience members to withhold their ovations after his encore of Sibelius Valse Triste, a dance with death that he led in fury. He left in silence, and to tears. Eight seasons later, any ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born June 13, 1935. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. In this image: Workers build 'The Mastaba', an outdoor work made up of over 7000 stacked barrels by Bulgarian artist Christo on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 11, 2018.
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