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Nazgol Ansarinia | Mercedes Azpilicueta | Invernomuto | Diamond Stingily Exhibition view Raum Nazgol Ansarinia. Photo: Sandra Maier © Nazgol Ansarinia / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
VADUZ.- C4 or C(to the power of)4 celebrates the energy that contemporary artists bring into the museum. In her first show at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Director Letizia Ragaglia unites four solo presentations by Nazgol Ansarinia (Tehran), Mercedes Azpilicueta (La Plata, Argentina), Invernomuto (Milan/Vernasca) and Diamond Stingily (Chicago), which also engage with the museums collection. The three artists and the artist duo were invited to choose a work from the collection and integrate it into their display. The resulting dialogue also sets the pace for the future orientation of the Kunstmuseum: The aim is to research and invigorate our collection on an ongoing basis; it needs dialogues, challenges and the courage to open up new perspectives. This is C4: the collection is augmented, but also contaminated, by four younger protagonists. The C prompts associations with Contamination, Crossover a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In celebration of its 10th Anniversary and continued commitment to STEM workforce development, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science presents âBecoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall,â running May 21-Sept. 5, 2022. World-renowned conservationist and ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall - who has famously studied chimpanzees in the wild for more than 60 years - is celebrated in this special exhibition, produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society and the Jane Goodall Institute.
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| Lorraine Hansberry statue to be unveiled in Times Square | | British Museum opens first exhibition on female spiritual beings through the ages | | Pace opens an exhibition of new and recent work by sculptor Arlene Shechet |
The statue of the pioneering Black playwright Lorraine Hansberry holding a flame, in Los Angeles, May 16, 2022. Nolwen Cifuentes/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- When Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar was commissioned a little over four years ago to sculpt a statue of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, she had just one thought: Am I the right person for the job? I dont really work with likenesses, said Saar, 66, whose artwork focuses on the African diaspora and Black female identity. But they said, No, no, we want it to be more of a portrait of her passion and who she was beyond a playwright. The request had come from Lynn Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright, as part of an initiative she was developing with Julia Jordan, executive director of the Lilly Awards, which recognize the work of women in theater. The Lorraine Hansberry Initiative was designed to honor Hansberry, the first Black woman to have a show produced on Broadway. ... More | |
Kali Murti, Kaushik Ghosh, India, 2022. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum opened the first major exhibition to explore female spiritual beings in world belief and mythological traditions around the globe. This exhibition brings together ancient sculpture, sacred artifacts and contemporary art from six continents to explore the diversity of ways in which femininity has been perceived across the globe, from the ancient world to today. It explores the embodiment of feminine power in deities, goddesses, demons, saints and other spiritual beings, associated with diverse areas of human experience, from wisdom, passion and nature, to war, mercy and justice. For the first time, the British Museum has invited special guest contributors to respond to the themes in the exhibition, sharing their personal and professional viewpoints. The video and audio thought-pieces addressing each section encourage discussion around the universal themes of the show. The contributions conclude the exhibition ... More | |
Arlene Shechet, Together Forever, 2021 © Arlene Shechet.
HONG KONG.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of new and recent work by sculptor Arlene Shechet, marking the artist's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The presentation features nine sculptures, including both large- and small-scale works. The show coincides with Art Basel Hong Kong, where Pace will present two new works by Shechet. The exhibitions title, Moon in the Morning, reflects Shechets longstanding interest in unions of seemingly disparate, incongruous materials and forms. Beautiful and disorienting, a moon in the morning can be understood in the context of the visual paradoxes and contradictions Shechet explores in her sculptures. Shechets methodology for creating idiosyncratic, biomorphic, boldly colored sculptures is both highly technical and entirely intuitiveshe does not employ drawings or armatures as part of her process. Guided by a general impulse, the artist engages in a spirited back ... More |
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| An Old Woman, 'The Ugly Duchess' reinterpreted and conserved for exhibition on Renaissance Satire | | The Broad announces two spring special exhibitions | | Kurt Cobain's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video guitar sold for nearly $5 million |
An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess') about 1513. Quinten Massys (1465/6 1530). Oil on oak, 62.4 x 45.5 cm. The National Gallery, London
LONDON.- The National Gallery today announced the upcoming exhibition The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance, opening spring 2023. It will cast an unexpected light on one of the most famous, but perhaps also most misunderstood, paintings in the Gallerys Collection, An Old Woman (about 1513) by Quinten Massys (1465/6 1530). One of the most unforgettable faces in the National Gallerys Collection, An Old Woman is better known as The Ugly Duchess because she inspired John Tenniels hugely popular illustrations for Alice in Wonderland. As a result, she has long been associated with the world of fairy tale. For the first time, an exhibition will move away from the paintings afterlife to focus instead on its original context, in particular its key role in the development of secular and satirical art during the Renaissance two areas which Massys pioneered. At the core of the ... More | |
Takashi Murakami, In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow (detail), 2014 (detail). Acrylic on canvas. The Broad Art Foundation. © 2014 Takashi Murakami／Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Broad opened two new exhibitions, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow and This Is Not Americas Flag, both running from May 21 to September 25, 2022. Murakamis first monograph exhibition at the museum features 18 works, as well as immersive environments developed in tandem with the artist and his studio, Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., and includes the entirety of The Broads collection of the artists works. Featuring over twenty artists, This Is Not Americas Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the flag of the United States of America, underscoring its vast, divergent, and complex meanings. Additionally, Murakamis exhibition coincides with the release of a catalogue that considers the artists practice through the Broad collection and key loans. Published by DelMonico Books, The Broad, and Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., the catalogue features ... More | |
Julien's Auctions auctioneer Daniel Kruse at Hard Rock Cafe NY Music Icons May 22, 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Julien's Auctions' blockbuster three-day music auction event MUSIC ICONS held on Friday, May 20th, Saturday, May 21st, and Sunday, May 22nd 2022 culminated today in the highly anticipated sale of the mythic electric guitar that changed music and the world: Kurt Cobain's 1969 Fender Mustang electric guitar played in Nirvana's breakthrough hit and landmark 1991 music video, "Smells Like Teen Spirit." One of the most important and iconic guitars owned and played by Kurt Cobain ever to come to auction sold for $4.5 million, far surpassing its original estimate of $600,000. The guitar was acquired by The Jim Irsay Collection in Indianapolis in a bidding war among collectors and bidders all across the globe who participated live at the Hard Rock Cafe® New York, online at juliensauctions.com and on the phone. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Cobain family is donating a portion of the proceeds of the legendary guitar an ... More |
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| Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts opens a major retrospective of Rosa Bonheur's work | | An unprecedented offering of museum-quality masterpieces by celebrated post-war Japanese artists | | Avant Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Greek street artist STMTS |
Rosa Bonheur, Etude de cheval bai, Musée dOrsay, déposé au Musée national du château de Fontainebleau.
BORDEAUX.- To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) in Bordeaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in her native city and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, are organising a major retrospective of her work. The Château Musée Rosa Bonheur in Thomery (Seine-et-Marne), where the artist lived for almost half a century, is a guest partner in the exhibition, as well as Musée départemental des peintres de Barbizon. This anniversary has been included in the 2022 calendar of France Mémoire. This major national and international event honours an extraordinary, innovative and inspiring artist. A true icon of women's liberation, Rosa Bonheur placed the living world at the heart of her work and her existence. She was committed to the recognition of animals in their uniqueness. With her great technical mastery, she was able to render both the anatomy and the psychology of animals. This ... More | |
Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Arc · Ellipse IV Oil on canvas with a bamboo bow, 194 x 130.50 cm. (76 3/8 x 51 3/8 in.) Executed in 1980. Estimate: HK$1,500,000 2,500,000/ US$200,000 320,000.
HONG KONG.- Christies will present a rare selection of museum-quality masterpieces by revered post-war Japanese artists, including Kazuo Shiraga, Takeo Yamaguchi, Jiro Takamatsu, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Yoshihara, Shozo Shimamoto and Takesada Matsutani, in the 20th / 21st Century Art Evening Sale and 20th Century Art Day Sale to be held on 26 and 27 May, respectively. The phenomenal group consists of the finest paintings created at the zenith of these celebrated artists careers, and encapsulates the most representative avant-garde art movements and styles from the late-1950s to 2000s from Gutai to Mono-ha, across different themes and mediums. Evelyn Lin, Deputy Chairman and Co-Head of the 20th and 21st Century Art Department, Christies Asia Pacific, commented, In the 1950s, Japan underwent radical social, ... More | |
STMTS, Beyond the Debris, 2021. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 34x47 in © STMTS.
NEW YORK, NY.- Avant Gallery is presenting an exhibition by renown Greek street artist, STMTS. On view May 19 June 26, STMTS: Power of Innocence features the artists first public exhibition in over two years. STMTS uses acrylic and spray paint to create powerful imagery comprised of playful scenes that portray children and city life in a post-apocalyptic yet optimistically juxtaposing landscape. The artist displays themes of childhood symbolically as a way to represent humanity at large while also calling to mind a global understanding of our current human condition. The work interrogates eternal questions of where weve been and where were going, as seen through the eyes of a younger generation facing the challenges of a past they cannot change, a present out of control, and a complex future made all more palpable with the artists sense of irony and mise-en-scene in his imagery. In works like Beyond the Debris (2021 ... More |
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| Work by first female portrait painter in Britain to be offered at auction | | "Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall" exhibition opens at Perot Museum of Nature and Science | | albertz benda opens the first New York solo show of the Brooklyn-based artist Chloe Chiasson |
'Portrait of Anne, Philadelphia and Thomas Wharton, later 5th Lord Warton' by Joan Carlile (circa 1606-1679). Estimate £30,000-£50,000. Courtesy of Dreweatts
LONDON.- Dreweatts will offer an artwork attributed to the first ever female portrait painter in Britain. The oil painting, titled 'Portrait of Anne, Philadelphia and Thomas Wharton, later 5th Lord Warton', is by Joan Carlile (circa 1606-1679), who from her studio in the centre of creativity at the time - Covent Garden in London, led the way for other female artists in the 17th century and beyond. Portraits by Joan Carlile are rare and of her oeuvre there are approximately only ten that have been identified with certainty. Of these, three are in public collections (Tate Britain, Ham House, Surrey, and The National Portrait Gallery, London), while others are held in historic house collections, such as Lamport Hall, Burghley House and Berkeley Castle. Carlile is known to have specialised in small-scale portraits of usually female figures, set in large landscape or garden ... More | |
Portrait of young Jane Goodall. Photo by Brian Herne, Jane Goodall Institute.
DALLAS, TX.- In celebration of its 10th Anniversary and continued commitment to STEM workforce development, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science presents Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall, running May 21-Sept. 5, 2022. World-renowned conservationist and ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall who has famously studied chimpanzees in the wild for more than 60 years is celebrated in this special exhibition, produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society and the Jane Goodall Institute. As we continue to commemorate our 10th Anniversary, we are committed to bringing world-class exhibitions, such as Becoming Jane, to the Museum because experiential learning is essential to building the most talented and diverse STEM workforce, said Dr. Linda Silver, Eugene McDermott Chief Executive Officer of the Perot Museum. This exhibition and its exploration of Dr. Goodalls legac ... More | |
Blind Spots, 2022 Oil, acrylic, plexiglass, resin, foam, wire, cigarette butts, canvas on shaped panel, 67 x 122 x 6 inches | 170 x 310 x 15 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting the first New York solo show of the Brooklyn-based artist Chloe Chiasson, on view from May 19 June 25, 2022. Chiasson presents the largest body of her mixed media paintings to date, featuring monumental groupings of queer figures in domestic and social settings. Chiassons work highlights queer life and visibility. Drawing upon a repressive history, the works in Fast Hearts and Slow Towns authentically represent queer narratives still unfolding around us today. Her large-scale worlds provide an intimate view into a radical history, a personal lifetime, and even just a single evening. These private spaces come into view in a monumental fashion with the biggest secrets occupying the most space: life-sized snapshots of missed moments in a photo booth, a pair of massive hands, fingernails bitten down, reaching out towards one another. Permeated ... More |
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Alchemy Gallery presents a new series of work by figurative painter Karim B Hamid
NEW YORK, NY.- Alchemy Gallery opened its Lower East Side doors on Wednesday, May 18th for its inaugural exhibition - a new series of work by figurative painter Karim B Hamid. Entitled The End of Play and Infancy, the show features Hamids thought provoking artistic style; a layered approach that results in paintings that capture a kind of psychic element of the person or thing being observed, with a depth of detail not ordinarily interpreted by the conditioned eye. The End of Play and Infancy is on view from May 18th through June 16th. Hamids work regularly pulls from the combined traditions of pin-up modeling, vintage soft pornography and western art history to turn the concept of objectification on its head - his paintings focus on what the male gaze means, rather than being about an illicit depiction of the female form. Hamid uses ... More
New sound art exhibition opens at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces the new installation in its long-running sound art series: Elevator Music 43: Yvette Janine JacksonDestination Freedom opened Saturday, May 21, and runs through October 2, 2022. Destination Freedom is an immersive electroacoustic composition that takes listeners on a journey in search of freedom: from the hull of a 19th-century slave ship, across time, to a place in the imaginative future. Using history as a mirror for contemporary social issues, Yvette Janine Jackson anchors the work in research focused on how humans were stored in the cargo ships that carried them through the Middle Passage. By blending and manipulating sounds from myriad sources including field recordings, electronic ... More
Vito Schnabel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jordan Kerwick at the Old Santa Monica Post Office
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting Jordan Kerwick: Pink sunsets, cigarettes, 3 regrets and hope to haunt the future at the Old Santa Monica Post Office, in collaboration with Alexander Dellal. The twenty-five new monumentally-scaled paintings on view comprise the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the critically admired Australian-born Kerwick, who lives and works in the South of France. On view through June 26, Jordan Kerwick: Pink sunsets, cigarettes, 3 regrets and hope to haunt the future will be the artists largest U.S. presentation to date. Replete with outlandish, commanding figures drawn from his imagination, Kerwicks paintings will find a counterpoint in the classic lines of the Old Post Offices Streamline Moderne architecture. The paintings on view have been selected to introduce Los Angeles ... More
In Iran, a new wave of repression hits acclaimed filmmakers
NEW YORK, NY.- In the shadow of a crackdown in Iran this month on demonstrations by ordinary citizens against rising food prices, authorities there also have gone after a widely celebrated sector of Iranian society: the filmmakers. On May 10, as the food protests spread across the country, security forces went to the homes of Firouzeh Khosrovani and Mina Keshavarz, two internationally renowned documentary filmmakers, and arrested them, friends and rights activists said. Around the same time, the homes of at least 10 other documentary filmmakers and producers were raided, with their mobile phones, laptops and hard drives confiscated, Irans three main guilds representing the cinema sector said in a statement. Experts called it the largest crackdown on Irans cinema industry in recent years.
We demand that this constant environment of fear and insecurity be lifted from the lives and work of our documentary filmmakers, the guilds statement said. Another well-known figure i ... More
Wall hanging donated to Suffolk fund-raising event sells for record sum
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Sworders Design sale on May 18 included a Peter Collingwood wall hanging sold for £26,000 (including BP) - an auction record for a Collingwood wall hanging. All proceeds of the sale will be donated to the Disasters Emergency Committees Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Underbid by the UK trade the buyer was a private buyer also based in the UK. The trademark microgauze hanging of woven linen and steel was recently given to a fund-raising event in Suffolk but was consigned to auction after specialist advice. Sworders has sold several similar pieces in recent years for significant sums. Based in Colchester for much of his career, Collingwood (1922-2008) was at the forefront of weaving for 50 years. His wall hangings, many of them sold at the time through Libertys and Heals, use the traditional ... More
Artpace opens two new exhibitions this summer
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced two new exhibitions opening this summer: Michael Guerra Foerster: Every Time We Say Goodbye and Carbonate of Copper, curated by Artpace Curatorial Resident alumna Jennifer Teets. Both exhibitions opened to the public with a reception on Thursday, May 19, 2022. In the Main Space gallery, local artist, and City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture 2022 Individual Artist Grant Recipient Michael Guerra Foerster, showcases his exhibition Every Time We Say Goodbye. In this exhibition, Foerster explores ideas of intimacy, separation, grief, and memory through ceramic sculptures he calls Floops. This work takes root in the artists subconscious and touches upon the fundamental transformation of interpersonal relationships through time, the coping mechanisms ... More
Huis Marseille opens the first-ever museum exhibition of South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa
AMSTERDAM.- In Umkhondo. Tracing Memory Lindokuhle Sobekwa (Johannesburg, 1995) combines existing and new work in order to trace the thematic lines that run through his photographs. His family, his ancestors, and the landscape in which they live on are recurring themes in his oeuvre and form part of Sobekwas search for explanations for past events. His moving and intimate work directs the gaze towards his immediate surroundings, to his own identity and to the related larger issues at play in South African society. In Xhosa, the photographers mother tongue, the word Umkhondo can have many different meanings. It can be tracing or tracking something, but it can also refer to evidence, a symptom ... More
Artist examines communication between animals and humans
OLD LYME, CONN.- Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness, on view at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, May 21 through September 18, 2022, is the first museum presentation surveying the work of multimedia artist Dana Sherwood (b. 1977). The New York-based artists pioneering approach to understanding humans relationship to wild nature comes through experiments with cross-species communication. The resulting films, sculpture installations, and paintings created over the past decade offer unique opportunities for audiences to engage with discussions about the environment, global food chains, feminism, animal studies, and spirituality. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artist and the Museums Associate Curator, Jennifer Stettler Parsons, ... More
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents a new commission by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
ZURICH.- Migros Museum für Gegegenwartskunst is presenting Where the soil has been disturbed (2022), a new commission by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (living and working in New York and Ramallah) and May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth: Only sounds that tremble through us (202022). This is the artists first solo exhibition in Switzerland. In their work, Abbas and Abou-Rahme deal with different forms of resistance and poetic manifestation through dance, music, and language. Their exhibition at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst features a multi-channel video and sound piece composed of footage that documents new performances developed with musicians Makimakkuk, Haykal, ... More
Sculptures by Inge King AM and Norma Redpath OBE featured alongside works from 11 contemporary sculptors
MELBOURNE.- Important sculptures by the late Inge King AM and Norma Redpath OBE are being featured alongside works from 11 contemporary sculptors in a major autumn exhibition at McClelland, highlighting the impact of modernism on current artistic practice. âA thousand different anglesâ, 21 February â 5 June 2022, includes works by Fiona Abicare, Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Marion Borgelt, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Inge King, Sanné Mestrom, Noriko Nakamura, Nabilah Nordin, Louise Paramor, Kerrie Poliness, Norma Redpath, and Meredith Turnbull. The exhibition has been set across both McClellandâs indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture park and includes works of diverse scale from small maquettes to monumental public sculpture in a bushland environment. Powerful female voices in the then male-dominated sphere of modern industrial sculpture, King and Redpath were integral to the Melbourne-based Centre Five group of artis ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish Baroque painter Bertholet Flemalle was born May 23, 1614. Bertholet Flemalle, Flemal, or Flamael (1614-1675) was a Liège Baroque painter. The son of a glass painter, he was instructed in his art by Henri Trippet and Gerard Douffet successively. He visited Rome in 1638, and was invited by the Duke of Tuscany to Florence and employed in decorating one of his galleries.
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