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Barry Lopez, Eugene, Oregon, 2020 © Ron Jude.
SANTA FE, NM.- The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment works with contemporary artists to organize exhibitions addressing climate change, biodiversity, habitat loss, and our relationship with the land in a time of environmental crisis. Collaborating with photographers, painters, printmakers, composers, and video and installation artists, the Barry Lopez Foundation organizes two exhibitions annually, which it makes available free of charge to museums, galleries, and other public venues throughout the United States. Barry Lopez, winner of the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, championed a community of artists whose work shared a common goal: to help. Asserting that our relationship with the natural world is of moral and ethical consequence, Lopez believed it was time for artists and writers to take their place in the conversation about the future of our planet and help aler ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artists Onzie Norman and Darin Darby, along with Dayton Art Institute Chief Curator & Director of Education Dr. Jerry Smith, pose with their work Banner of Ihlubuka (2019) in the special exhibition Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms. The juried exhibition, on view at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio through May 22, features works by 44 emerging and established African American artists. The exhibition was organized by the Dayton-based African American Visual Artists Guild, in partnership with the Dayton Art Institute.
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| The multilayered movie of American fashion | | 'At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism' opens at the Whitney | | Looking inward, and back, at a Biennale for the history books |
A film noir-like scene created by director Martin Scorsese with Charles James dresses and gowns from 1940s and 50s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibit, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, in New York, May 1, 2022. Charlie Rubin/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman and Salamishah Tillet
NEW YORK, NY.- When In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute show, opened last September as the world first adjusted to the idea of living with COVID-19, it signaled a fresh start by reframing the dialogue around homegrown design. Now its more sprawling, multilayered successor, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, takes the argument out of the basement and into the museum. Literally. Even as Part 1 continues to be exhibited in the Anna Wintour Costume Center, Part 2, with more than 100 historical garments, takes place in 13 of the Mets American Period rooms, where nine celebrated film directors (four of whom are African American women) created an immersive environment in collaboration with curators of the Costume Institute and American Wing. Together, the two displays form the first serial costume ... More | |
Charles Burchfield, August Evening, 1916. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 19 15/16 Ã 14 in. (50.6 Ã 35.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lesley G. Sheafer 55.43. Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, an exhibition of over sixty works by more than forty-five artists that highlights the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930. The exhibition showcases how American artists responded to the realities of a rapidly modernizing period through an array of abstract styles and media. At the Dawn of a New Age features artworks drawn primarily from the Whitneys collection, including new acquisitions and works that have not been on view at the Museum for decades. The exhibition provides a broader perspective on early twentieth-century American modernism by including well-known artists like Marsden Hartley, Oscar Bluemner, Elie Nadelman, Charles Burchfield, Aaron Douglas, and Georgia OKeeffe, as well as groundbreaking, historically overlooked artists like Henrietta Shore, Charles ... More | |
Vena Cava (2021) by Tau Lewis, on display at the Venice Biennale, in the Arsenale, the former shipyard in Venice, Italy, April 22, 2022. Gus Powell/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
VENICE.- It starts in the eyes: shy or seductive, gaping or sealed shut, aqueous frontiers between the mind and the world. There are the pupils of German surrealist Unica Zürn, cohering out of dense, automatic black squiggles. The giant irises of Ulla Wiggen, each unique as a fingerprint and capable of unlocking a credit card or blocking passage across a border, painted in close-up on circular canvases. All over town, on palazzo-side posters and the hulls of the vaporetti, there are eyes announcing the 59th Venice Biennale: ghostly, milky corneas, drawn by young Mexican artist Felipe Baeza, disembodied, floating in deep space. Its a commonplace (and one you wont catch me using) to call an art exhibition, especially one as large as Venices, a feast for the eyes. The 2022 Biennale, or at least its central exhibition, is a feast of the eyes: a giant, high-spirited banquet of looking and scrutinizing. Eyes emerge as the key metaphor of a show thats all about brid ... More |
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| Exhibition at Kiasma presents the very latest in contemporary art alongside historical works | | Meet the new old book collectors | | Fergus McCaffrey opens an exhibition of works by Richard Nonas |
Sol Calero, El Autobus, 2019. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI.- Art has the power to investigate society and present alternative interpretations of our shared world. Works featured in ARS22 explore the everyday lives and dreams of individuals and communities. They raise questions about our relationship with the world, with nature and history, spirituality and technology. The exhibition offers places for encounters and interaction. It also reminds us that individuality is ultimately always founded on the common conditions of life. The stories told by the artworks are entertaining while creating their own realities. They offer us an opportunity to think and see differently but also point out a way forward. ARS22 is the tenth instalment in the series of major international contemporary art exhibitions originally launched in 1961. Over the decades, the ARS exhibitions have presented the public with the latest trends in contemporary art. ARS22 presents some of the most compelling artists and art of the day. ... More | |
Brynn Whitfield, a tech publicist who started collecting antique chess books five years ago, at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, April 21, 2022. Evelyn Freja/The New York Times.
by Kate Dwyer
NEW YORK, NY.- Late last month, during the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, Rebecca Romney withdrew a copy of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Kaddish, and Other Poems from her booths display case. She did so not to recite from its pages but to show off the writing in the margins. Amy Winehouse had puzzled out lyrics to an unrecorded song alongside Ginsbergs lines. You see her artistic process, Romney said. And its right next to someone elses art that she was consuming while creating something new. The Ginsberg text is the centerpiece of Winehouses 220-book collection, which Romneys company, Type Punch Matrix, near Washington, D.C., is in talks to sell as a unit for $135,000. It shows a life lived through books, ... More | |
This presentation marks the first exhibition of the artists work since his passing in May 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey is presenting Richard Nonas: As Light Through Fog, the first exhibition of the artists work since his death on May 11, 2021. It is Nonas seventh solo presentation with the gallery and features large-scale steel floor sculptures from the last four decades, juxtaposed with the final works he completed during the Covid pandemic. This body of work, comprised of salvaged wood and hot-rolled steel, is brought together with an expansive collection of published and unpublished books, texts, and ephemera. Born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York in 1936, Richard Nonas spent his formative teenage summers in the American southwest and Mexico working as a cowboy. Though always drawn to literature, receiving a Bachelors degree in the subject from Lafayette College ca. 1958, these early experiences in the southwest led him to pursue a PhD in anthropology at Colombia University in 1960, where he ... More |
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| Exhibition of new and recent work by Nicholas Galanin opens at Peter Blum Gallery | | Group exhibition features thirty-six artists who explore the idea of paradise | | "Imagine Ukraine", a three-part project in support of Ukrainian cultural front |
Nicholas Galanin, World Clock, 2022, monotype on paper and accumulating stacks of The New York Times, monotype: 30 x 22 1/2 inches (76.2 x 57.1 cm), The New York Times: 11 1/4 x 12 inches (28.6 x 30.5 cm), each.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new and recent work by Nicholas Galanin entitled, It Flows Through at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition runs through July 22nd, 2022. Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979, Sitka, Alaska) works at the intersection of conceptual and material practice, rooted in his Tlingit and Unangax̂ culture. Applying his creative agency in diverse media, Galanin celebrates cultural continuum, contradicts colonialism, and fights cultural erasure. The exhibition, It Flows Through, aims to elicit reactions to Indigenous persistence and prominence, and the way this is met: whether it is ignored, imagined, used, or punished. Conversations of possibilities ... More | |
Kris Martin, Life After Death, 2012. Recto print, 27 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches, unlimited edition.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bridge Projects announced Here After on view in Los Angeles starting May 7. Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. Simone Weil The group exhibition features thirty-six artists who explore the idea of paradiseboth how it has been pursued on earth across history, and how it is imagined after life. From Pure Land Buddhisms chant Namu Amida Butsu (I take refuge in Amida Buddha) to Christianitys prayer for the Kingdom to be on earth as it is in heaven, the concepts of paradise are as diverse as those who hope for it. For millennia, artists have been depicting the various contours of this hope, and their work continues, informing the contemporary artists featured in Here After. Engaging an ontology of peace, the works in this exhibition dwell upon our shared yearning for all that is good. Some shroud this hope in the mists of a distant future, but these ... More | |
Imagine Ukraine - Art as a Critical Attitude.
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and M HKA in partnership with Bozar, the European Parliament, and the Office of the President of Ukraine present Imagine Ukraine, a three-part project continuing the cultural front against Russias war in Ukraine, the idea launched by the PinchukArtCentre during the 59th Venice Biennale. The project is possible because of the support of the Flemish Community. Imagine Ukraine is an ambitious project that aims to reach out beyond the immediate urgencies, however pressing those continue to be. It wants to open up to the larger reflection and longer-term perspective that are needed for the future. Europe needs an enhanced focus on Ukraine, its concreteness and complexity, its possibilities and flight lines. Our joint understanding needs to grow. The project is launched through three exhibitions, starting from the works of Ukrainian artists in the collection of the Flemis ... More |
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| Cade Tompkins Projects opens an exhibition of paintings by Bob Dilworth | | Solo exhibition of newly commissioned sound works opens at Bemis Center | | Exhibition celebrates Black creativity and opens conversations about the Black body and Black lives as subject matter |
Bob Dilworth Margaret 2015-2019, oil and acrylic paint, spray paint, fabric, paper doily, photo transfer on canvas, 87 x 67 inches.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- Bob Dilworths Another Place can be framed within the constructs of Remembrance, Resilience, Restoration, and Rest. The current body of work illuminates the documentation of close relations and friends within lushly patterned spaces and foliaged landscapes. In Dilworths apt hand, painting is a way of creating the most precious remembrance of humankind. The migration of Black families from a small southern town to larger metropolises is woven into many of the narratives in the work. Self Portrait (above) and Venus look both forward and backward in the manner of a quantum swing, the multiple figures intrinsically tied together one body, one journey over time. The strength and resilience of these figures shows the aging body in all its glory. Bob Dilworth has been collectively painting and creating for over 55 years. Distance plays a distinct role in his work, both physically and mentally. Dilworth traveled, at age 17, to RISD ... More | |
Detail of one of the 17 pianos used in the the Exhibition. Maya Dunietz received the collection of pianos from various donors in Omaha, Nebraska. Photo by Colin Conces.
OMAHA, NEB.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents Root of Two, a major solo exhibition by Tel Aviv-based sound artist Maya Dunietz from May 7 through September 18, 2022. Comprised of 8 sculptures and room-sized installations unfolding across Bemis Centers expansive galleries, Dunietz has composed a four month long performance. As the viewer engages with each work, the works become an ensemble, connecting across the galleries through the viewers encounters. Dunietz creates an unexpected sensory experience with each work, penetrating and exploring different aspects of her oeuvre, which expands over a 25-year career as a composer, musician, and sound artist. However, as sound materializes, the pieces evolve and intertwine, allowing for a transformative experience. In the traditional sense, the works are independent as discrete objects, and yet resonate with ... More | |
New Orleans, 2017. Arielle Bobb‐Willis (American, b. 1994). Image courtesy of Aperture, New York, 2019. © Arielle Bobb-Willis.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Focusing on 15 talents whose works fuse art and fashion photography, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion opens conversations about the representation of the Black body and Black lives as subjects in art. The exhibition features the work of Black photographers, stylists, and models and celebrates Black creativity and the blending of art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image. The New Black Vanguard is on view in the Cleveland Museum of Arts Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery from May 8 to September 11, 2022. The New Black Vanguard focuses on contemporary portrayals of Black figures and reframes established representational patterns, said William M. Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The international photographers and stylists in this stunning exhibition reinforce the significance of the Black creator and model. The show ... More |
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Norman Rockwell Museum opens Lincoln Memorial Centennial exhibition
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the Memorials Centennial in May 2022 and will be on view through September 5, 2022. Created in collaboration with Chesterwood (the historic summer home and studio of the statues famed sculptor Daniel Chester French), the exhibition highlights the work of noted artists who have incorporated the instantly-recognizable icon as a symbolic element. More than 50 historical and contemporary multi-media artworks showcase and contextualize the Memorials cultural significance, including original paintings and illustrations, archival photographs, sculptural elements, artifacts, published ephemera, and a selection of Norman Rockwells original and published art featuring Lincoln, and related memorabilia from his own ... More
Exhibition aims to offer a creative visual response to Le Corbusier's modernist theories
MARSEILLE.- Galerie Philia is presenting Héritages, an exceptional exhibition of art and design at the Unité dHabitation in Marseille, also known as La Cité Radieuse, by the father of modern architecture Le Corbusier. Running from 7 May to 2 July 2022 and coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the 1952 residential housing masterpiece, the exhibition marks a first-time collaboration between Galerie Philia and the nomadic arts magazine Eclipse. Héritages unfolds across two adjacent rooms, in an apartment with large bay windows built upon Le Corbusiers Modulor proportion system and around the concepts of resonances and dissonances. Through the work of several artists and designers, the exhibition aims to offer a creative visual response to Le Corbusiers modernist theories, which have been questioned, endorsed, ... More
Art Museum Riga Bourse opens an exhibition of works by Latvian artist Daiga Grantiņa
RIGA.- From 7 May to 31 July 2022, the Art Museum Riga Bourse in Riga presents Lauka telpa, the largest to date in Latvia solo exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed Latvian artist Daiga Grantiņa. Specifically for this homecoming exhibition, Daiga Grantiņa has assembled elements of her sculptural vocabulary developed in her practice to present newly created and recreated works. Lauka telpa focuses on the symbolic potential of authors oeuvre shifting from a process-based practice to one that is rooted in impressions of the mind which simply occur. Within the space of the exhibition, these visions of the artists imagination are arranged along a diagonal line, occupying the entire perimeter of the vast hall. A series of sculpture-typologies trace the diagonal, sparking rhythm and revealing patterns of gestures that gradually ... More
Mendes Wood DM inaugurate their new Tribeca gallery with 'Paulo Nazareth. Nosotros los otros'
NEW YORK, NY.- Mendes Wood DM announced Nosotros los otros, a solo presentation of Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth to inaugurate the opening of the gallerys new exhibition space at 47 Walker Street in Tribeca. Nosotros los otros, on view May 6-June 10, 2022, brings together bodies of work from 2005 to the present, including Nazareths durational walk performances as well as photo, film, sculpture, and work on paper. Spanning continents and media, this is the most comprehensive overview of the artists practice to take place in the United States. The gallerys new 7,000 square foot space in Tribeca features three exhibition spaces with the opportunity to mount significant exhibitions, installations, and multi-media screenings. Previously located at 60 East 66th Street, the gallerys expansion to 47 Walker Street underlines ... More
Art Brussels 2022 end of fair report
BRUSSELS.- The 38th edition of Art Brussels brought together 157 galleries from 26 countries and featured a record number of SOLO presentations which helped to drive robust sales across the fair. After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, the fairs strong, international line up attracted an enthusiastic crowd. Local and international collectors flocked to Tour & Taxis, along with numerous institutions and high-profile personalities - including fashion designers Walter Van Beirendonck and Raf Simons, and Alexander De Croo, the Belgian Prime Minister - all adding to the fairs undeniable energy and convivial atmosphere. With visitor numbers at near pre-pandemic levels, smiling faces told the story of how good it was to be back and reunite with colleagues from around the world. 24,541 art lovers attended the fair and new and returning collectors ... More
Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold Boilly) by Ewa Juszkiewicz will be offered at Christie's
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, May 10th Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold Boilly) by widely recognized Polish artist Ewa Juszkiewicz will be offered in one of the most prestigious art sales in the United States at Christies New York, sold to benefit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Viewings take place at Christies Rockefeller Center galleries. The artwork has been brought to auction thanks to a generous gift of one of the POLIN Museum donors, American Friends of POLIN Museum, together with the support of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and Weil Gotshal & Manges. The sale launches the beginning of a series of partnered sales of works of art at Christies in order to benefit POLIN Museum. POLIN is the only museum in the world dedicated to commemorating the history of Polish ... More
World Monuments Fund and partners begin restoration at the Yadam Temple in Mongolia
NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund and Arts Council of Mongolia today announced the start of physical conservation on the Yadam Temple, situated within the enclosed Choijin Lama Temple complex in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, funded with support from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). Built in the beginning of the twentieth century, the temple of the Choijin Lama was one of the few remaining examples of iconic religious architecture in the center of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Constructed out of blue brick and with timber roofs supported on wooden posts and decorated with green tiles, this complex contained five temples dedicated to different deities, including the Makhranz, or Maharajasgreat king guardians of the four directions, the Shakyamuni Buddha, and the tantric deities worshipped by ... More
Gasworks opens the first UK institutional solo exhibition by artist Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen
LONDON.- Gasworks presents the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Finland-based artist Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen. Making use of nature as raw material, Laakkonens process-based practice and durational works reflect on the profound impact of human interactions with the environment, while addressing wider existential concerns around time, death and the limits of scientific knowledge. At Gasworks, the artist presents a newly-commissioned performance and large scale sculpture entitled Framed Sea Cow. This work is based on the features of a skeleton, documented by German explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller, of a female sea cow killed in 1742, just one year after the species was discovered. The Stellers sea cow is considered to have gone extinct shortly afterwards in 1768, making it the first historical extinction of a marine ... More
India Art Fair closes with robust sales
NEW DELHI.- The 2022 edition of India Art Fair, the leading platform to discover and celebrate modern and contemporary art from South Asia, closed on 1 May amid reports of robust sales. Presented by BMW India from 28 April to 1 May 2022 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi, the fair presented a strong contingent of 77 exhibitors, including 63 galleries and 14 institutional participants from 16 cities in India and beyond. This edition welcomed new and returning visitors including from leading HNWIs and art patrons, artists and curators, young collectors and students, cementing the fairs position as a platform to engage with, discover and collect South Asian art. Celebrating the return of its physical format in 2022, India Art Fair unfolded a range of public programmes and tightly curated gallery presentations that championed ... More
Mickey Gilley, country music star whose club inspired 'Urban Cowboy,' dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Mickey Gilley, the hit singer and piano player whose Texas nightclub was the inspiration for the movie Urban Cowboy and the glittering country music revival that accompanied it, died Saturday at a hospital in Branson, Missouri. He was 86. His publicist, Zach Farnum, announced the death but did not cite a cause. A honey-toned singer with a warm, unhurried delivery, Gilley had 17 No. 1 country singles from 1974 to 1983, including I Overlooked an Orchid and Dont the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time. He placed 34 records in the country Top 10 during his two decades on the charts. But he was ultimately best known as the proprietor, with Sherwood Cryer, of Gilleys, the honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas, that became one of the most storied nightspots in country music. Established in 1971 as a local ... More
Marjan Neshat on her 'kind of miraculous season' onstage
NEW YORK, NY.- The playwrights Sylvia Khoury and Sanaz Toossi drank a toast recently to the radiant actor they have shared this season across three major off-Broadway productions. At 45, Marjan Neshat is having a breakout moment. We were like, To the year of Marjan! said Khoury, whose Selling Kabul, last fall at Playwrights Horizons, was the first in Neshats remarkable, and critically praised, string of performances. Her character was a seamstress hiding her interpreter brother from the Taliban during a major withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Two comic dramas by Toossi followed. In English, a hit this past winter at Atlantic Theater Company, Neshat played an Iranian teacher losing her hold on English, her second language. The Washington Post critic Peter Marks wrote that Neshat embodies all the touching ... More
'To be or not to be': Is it the question or the point?
NEW YORK, NY.- Hamlet is our cultures supreme emblem of a great artists freedom to create something radically new. Shakespeare found a way to represent the inner life as it had never been represented before: the pressure of compulsive, involuntary memories; the haunting presence of a dead father; a sons angst in the wake of his mothers remarriage; the suicidal thoughts of a young person forced to make impossible choices in a corrupt world. It is here, if anywhere, that Jorge Luis Borges could claim with a straight face that Shakespeare was God. In fact, the creation of Hamlet, which was first written and performed in 1599 or 1600, took place within severe, all-too-human constraints. A part owner of his theater company, Shakespeare was almost certainly urged by his fellow shareholders to write a play ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Victorian painter James Collinson was born May 09, 1825. James Collinson (9 May 1825 - 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. In this image: Mother and Child by a Stile, with Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, in the Distance, 1849-50.
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