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Ronald Lauder right, posing with his brother, Leonard at a gala in New York on Nov. 18, 2019. The cosmetics heir has pumped at least $11 million into efforts to elect Representative Lee Zeldin, a Republican, as governor of New York. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
by Nicholas Fandos and Dana Rubinstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronald S. Lauder, a 78-year-old cosmetics heir, philanthropist and art collector who is among the richest men in New York, has become the most prolific state political donor in memory this fall, fueling a Republicans surging candidacy for governor in one of the countrys most liberal states. Lauder has long been a gale-force disrupter, throwing millions of dollars behind conservative causes and candidates, including creating term limits in New York City and even his own failed mayoral campaign. Now at the twilight of his public life, he is marshaling his multibillion-dollar fortune behind an extraordinary intervention into next weeks midterm elections. As a lead donor to two super PACs, he has spent more than $11 million to date trying to put Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Trump-aligned Republican, in the governors mansion. Millions of dollars more, some of it not previously reported, have gone to successful legal and public relations campaigns to stop Democrats from gerryma ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Modern Art is presenting the first exhibition with the gallery of Terry Winters titled Signs, Games, Messages at the gallery's Bury Street location. Terry Wintersâs Signs, Games, Messages will end on Saturday 17 December 2022.
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| Freddy RodrÃguez, 76, artist who explored his Dominican roots, dies | | Bonhams to hold sale dedicated to William Kentridge | | Judd Foundation exhibits two large, polychromatic paintings by David Novros |
Dance in Paradise, 1987, Oil on Canvas, 56 x 42 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Freddy RodrÃguez, an artist who explored colonization, immigration and other aspects of his Dominican heritage, finding success in the United States at a time when artists of Latin American background struggled for mainstream attention, died Oct. 10 in Queens, New York. He was 76. His wife, Mary McKenna RodrÃguez, said the cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often referred to as Lou Gehrigs disease. RodrÃguez, who was born in the Dominican Republic and first came to New York as a teenager, had a wide-ranging artistic career. His earliest works, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 70s, were geometric abstractions, inspired in part, he said, by New Yorks skyline. I had a job downtown, he once explained, and during my lunch hour I would sketch the buildings around me and later turn them into paintings. He then moved to a more expressionistic style and began delving more explicitly ... More | |
William Kentridge, (born 1955), Untitled (Nude walking with towel), 1991, A FOCUS ON WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, 15 November 2022, 14:00 GMT. London, New Bond Street.
LONDON.- Bonhams is to hold its first sale dedicated to works by the radical South African artist William Kentridge (b1955). A Focus on William Kentridge will take place on Tuesday 15 November at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The sale is led by Colonial Landscape - Waterfall estimated at £300,000-500,000. The drawing is one of several created by Kentridge between 1995-1996 for his Colonial Landscape series. This had its origins in the award-winning play Faustus in Africa which he co-wrote with the Handspring Puppet Company and directed in South Africa in 1995. The drama told of how Faust pillaged Africa in return for the sale of his soul to the devil. Kentridge built on this idea by looking at and reworking depictions of Southern African landscapes in the era of colonisation specially the 1891 ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Judd Foundation is presenting David Novros Paintings on the ground floor of 101 Spring Street. The two works in the exhibition, Boathouse (2016) and Untitled (Graham Studio Mural II) (2006), are large, polychromatic paintings, described by the artist as portable murals. These works relate to imagery that Novros first explored in a fresco he made for the second floor of 101 Spring Street in 1970 and are examples of his ongoing commitment to what he calls painting-in-place. Untitled (Graham Studio Mural II) was one of five works Novros made for the sculptor Robert Grahams home and studio in Venice, California, and is one of two that are extant. Boathouse, a multipartite painting in oil and murano, was made after a related mural cycle conceived for a boathouse in Middleburgh, New York was destroyed. These works demonstrate Novross ongoing interest in structural wholeness, the interplay of color, and p ... More |
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| "Lisa Williamson: A Landscape and a Hum" on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | | What makes a room unforgettable? | | Now showing: 'Gavin Turk: Kerze' at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London |
Lisa Williamson, "Reflection Pool", 2022, Flashe, acrylic, and water-based urethane on primed aluminum and steel, 80 x 30 x 3 1/2 inches; 203.2 x 76.2 x 8.9 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present A Landscape and a Hum, a solo exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Lisa Williamson, on view from October 27 through December 17, 2022. This is the artists first major solo exhibition in New York, following her debut exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles last year. Approaching the gallery as a container for individual and collective abstraction, Lisa Williamson leans into the formal considerations of sculpture to create works that are visually precise, physically resonant, and highly attuned to the spaces in which they are exhibited. In a series of suspended sculptures, wall reliefs, and works on paper, Williamson describes a landscape that is not ... More | |
Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer, founders of Roman and Williams at their home in Montauk, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2022. (Landon Speers/The New York Times).
by Hilary Reid
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Ace Hotel New York. The Chicago Athletic Association. The NoMad hotel in London. Goops store in Los Angeles. The Reykjavik Edition hotel, in Iceland. The Boom Boom Room. These are all some of the places where people can step into the world of interiors created by Roman and Williams, an architectural and interior design firm started 20 years ago this month. As that world has grown to include locations in seven countries and three continents, Robin Standefer, 58, and Stephen Alesch, 57, the companys married founders, have often returned to Montauk, New York, where they have lived part time since 2006. I think this room has been the center of our lives and our creativity for ... More | |
Gavin Turk, Kerze II, 2021.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is proud to present Kerze, their fourth solo exhibition of British artist Gavin Turk at the London gallery (4 November 14 January). The exhibition unveils a new series of paintings, meticulously rendered still lifes of candles based on Gerhard Richters renowned photorealist paintings, though in typical Turk fashion the recognizable imagery is subverted by presenting the candles as recently extinguished, their curls of smoke trailing up the canvas. Over the last three decades, Turk has relentlessly challenged notions of value, authorship, and identity in his work, often by boldly referencing the work of modern masters and infusing it with his own identity and hand as an artist. His work is at once provocative, disruptive, humorous, mischievous, and erudite, earning him the distinction as one of the most interesting and notorious contemporary British artists ... More |
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| "Dying Notes" solo exhibitioin by Caitlin MacBride currently on view at Deanna Evens Projects | | Rudolf Stingel presents five new oil paintings at Paula Cooper Gallery | | Exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery surveys the seminal paintings of Lynne Drexler |
Caitlin MacBride, "Mudsill Transom", 2022, oil on wood panel, 20 x 16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Deanna Evans Projects is currently presenting Dyeing Notes, a solo exhibition of paintings by Caitlin MacBride. The project continues MacBrides process of investigating American identity via production, labor, and design in her work, and diverges from her earlier focus on Shaker objects and the utopian resistance to industrial manufacturing. In contrast, this new series takes on objects that defined a crucial moment in the growth of American capital and the cruel structures that built it. The paintings are based on record books from the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, which contain sample swatches and notes for dyeing textiles at the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The textile samples in these books are from delaines, lightweight fabrics that were woven from a combination of wool and cotton. Wool accepted the dyes better, but cotton was the material of the U.S.s growing emp ... More | |
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, 2022. Oil on canvas, 95 x 72 1/2 x 2 in. (241.3 x 184.2.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his tenth one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, Rudolf Stingel presents five new oil paintings at the gallerys original Chelsea location at 534 W 21st Street. Over the past few years, Stingel has taken photographs of his abstract paintings hanging on the walls of his studio, and then painted those images to scale. Rudolf Stingel, over the course of his four-decade career, has continued to experiment with painting as both medium and subject, consciously positioning it as a metaphor through which to probe the perceptions of image and the conventional boundaries of what constitutes art. Throughout, photorealism has endured as an integral part of his painting oeuvre, combining his inherently process based and conceptually rigorous approach. Stingel employs a scrupulous and exacting method to meticulously recreate an image, generating a self-reflexive image ... More | |
Lynne Drexler, Vitality, 1966, oil on canvas, 48 x 35 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery announces Lynne Drexler: The First Decadea landmark exhibition presented in collaboration with Mnuchin Gallery, which surveys the seminal paintings Lynne Drexler (1928-1999) created between 1959-1969. A second-generation Abstract Expressionist and student of both Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell, Drexler established a distinctive stylistic idiom through vibrantly contrasting hues, applied in swatch-like patches with a Pointillist dynamism. Mnuchin Gallery features works produced between 1959-1964, while Berry Campbell features those between 1965-1969. This chronological presentation aims to highlight Drexlers significant contributions to post-war American abstraction in demonstrating the innovative and signature style she honed over this pivotal decade in her career spent primarily in New York. On view from October 27 - ... More |
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| Exhibition of 19 works created by Irving Penn between 1939 and 1996 opens at Pace | | The collection of Lord and Lady Weinstock to be offered at Christie's | | The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design announces "Being and Believing in the Natural World" |
Irving Penn, Poppy: Barr's White, New York, 1968, pigment print mounted to board, 19-1/2" à 17-1/2" (49.5 cm à 44.5 cm), image, paper and mount.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Kicking off Paces third season in Palm Beach is an exhibition of 19 works created by Irving Penn between 1939 and 1996. Running from November 3 to 27, this show traces Penns indelible mark on the history of photography, highlighting his 70-year tenure as a fashion photographer for Vogue. Featuring photographs in black-and-white and color, the presentation sheds light on the evolution of Penns image-making practice, bringing together a selection of the artists iconic fashion photographs as well as his surreal, dreamlike color images of flowers, fruit, and other subjects. Among the highlights in the presentation is the 1949 work Girl Behind Bottle, which Penn made by way of his complex technique for platinum-palladium prints, one of his many innovations in the darkroom. This photograph shows a silhouette partially distorted as it is reflected through a glass bottle, exemplifying Penns ... More | |
Amongst the outstanding jewels collected by Lady Weinstock is an Important Diamond Rivière Necklace, included in Magnificent Jewels, Geneva on 8 November.
LONDON.- Christie's is delighted to present The Collection of Lord & Lady Weinstock, comprising Old Master Paintings, English and European furniture and works of art, silver, gold boxes and porcelain, as well as important pieces from Lady Weinstock's extraordinary jewellery collection. This landmark collection will be offered for sale in three live auctions this autumn: The Collection of Lord & Lady Weinstock will take place at Christies London on 22 November; an Important Diamond Rivière Necklace will be included in Magnificent Jewels, Geneva on 8 November; and Jean-Francois de Troys The Reading Party will be a highlight in the Old Masters Evening Sale in London on 8 December, part of Classic Week. Arnold Weinstock was one of the great figures in British business and political life in the second half of the 20th Century. He was a leading industrialist in post-war Britain, ... More | |
Installation view of Being and Believing in the Natural World: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America on view 10/22/2022 through 5/7/2023 at the RISD Museum.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum announces the opening of Being and Believing in the Natural World: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America on view in the Metcalf Galleries through May 7, 2023. The show is curated by Gina Borromeo, curator of ancient art; SháńdÃÃn Brown, Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art; and Wai Yee Chiong, associate curator of Asian art. Highlighting different perspectives across cultures and time, the artworks in this exhibition consider complex and evolving relationships with and beliefs about nature. In more than 100 objects drawn from the RISD Museums collections, makers from 2000 BCE to the present day explore human relationships with the natural world. Their responses span a wide range of media and processes to express awe and reverence for natures abundance, beauty, and powers of destruction; to intercede with the divine; and to document the willf ... More |
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens Andres Serranos fifth solo exhibition with the gallery
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting The Robots, Andres Serranos fifth solo exhibition after Infamous (2019), Sacramentum, Sacred Shadow (2012) and Cuba (2014) in Brussels, and Torture (2016) in Paris. For over thirty years, Andres Serrano has produced an oeuvre in line with his times sensitivity or the Spirit of the Times, which can be literally translated as Zeitgeist a term borrowed from German philosophy, designating the intellectual and cultural climate, the judgments and ways of thinking that characterize a specific point in time. Born in 1950 in New York, the artist grew up in an America that was trying to turn over a new leaf, after being deeply weakened by a society marked by excesses and abuse, where cruelty had reached a climax. However, those same limits persist today: Andres Serrano probes them by lifting ... More
For 'KPOP,' a Broadway transfer is more like a reinvention
NEW YORK, NY.- Back in 2017, the musical KPOP had the kind of off-Broadway premiere that showbiz dreams are made of. The buzz around the production which had the rare distinction of being about a specifically Asian pop-music style and having a largely Asian creative team was so intense that desperate New Yorkers were pleading for tickets to its sold-out run at the small A.R.T./New York Theaters in Midtown Manhattan. Talk of a Broadway transfer started quickly thereafter, but, for a variety of reasons including the pandemic, it took five years for KPOP to finally make the jump. Now, at long last, the show is in previews, with an opening night set for Nov. 20. The musical Broadway audiences will see, however, is a very different beast from the one that opened in 2017: This is not so much a transfer as a reinvention. The ... More
50 years ago, Stevie Wonder heard the future
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1972 half a century ago Stevie Wonder reinvented the sound of pop by embracing all he could accomplish on his own. He released two albums that year: Music of My Mind in March and then, less than eight months later, on Oct. 27, the even more confident and far-reaching Talking Book. Talking Book was a breakthrough on multiple fronts. It demonstrated, with the international smash Superstition, that Wonder didnt need Motowns hit factory methods songwriters and producers providing material that singers would dutifully execute to have a No. 1 pop blockbuster. Wonder had given signs on earlier albums that he would not just be writing love songs. Talking Book reaffirmed that, and also extended his sonic and technological ambitions, as he used state-of-the-art synthesizers and an arsenal ... More
Greene Naftali opens an exhibition featuring work by Jacqueline Humphries
NEW YORK, NY.- Jacqueline Humphries integrates gestural expression with the effects of new technologies, exploring how painting can capture and complicate the sensory experience of a screen-based world. Her imposing, large-scale canvases have long equated painting with other media interfaces, subjecting its analog format to an evolving set of signs and symbols from our online vernacular. These latest workspresented singly or linked in multi-panel configurationsfeature stenciled motifs of emoticons and emojis, logos, and digitally-enlarged patterns that fill the surface, derived from images of white noise or splattered ink from a faulty printer. The prevailing mood skews toward the ruminative here, and the style of rendering toward deformation; Humphries uses the trappings of our networked existence to weigh how it actually ... More
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts opens major exhibition of Lubaina Himid's work
LAUSANNE.- A major exhibition of the luminous and powerful work of Lubaina Himid offers an overview of the British artists output for the first time. An influential figure in contemporary art, from the central role she played in the British Black Art movement in the 1980s to her receipt of the Turner Prize in 2017, LUBAINA HIMID (b. 1954, Zanzibar) has constantly explored the possibilities that painting offers while questioning the narratives it conveys. In doing so, she has drawn attention both to aspects of history that have been made invisible and to the extraordinary moments of daily life. Comprising brightly colored paintings, monumental installations, and sound environments, Lubaina Himid: So Many Dreams offers a unique opportunity to discover the scope and depth of the artists work. The exhibition unfolds along several narratives ... More
kaufmann repetto opens gallery's second exhibition with Marcia Schvartz
NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Husks, the gallery's second exhibition with Marcia Schvartz. While the artist's first presentation with kaufmann repetto in 2021 took a retrospective approach to her nearly five-decade career, this exhibition debuts a series of ceramics a medium she has been working with for over twenty years paired with paintings. Recognized for her recurrent focus on the female figure, which she represents in a radically anti-patriarchal and decolonial manner, Schvartz recognizes (and depicts) that which is feminine in more than just the human form. Feminal energy is bound within and throughout 'Pacha Mama,' or Mother Earth, represented both in forms of ripe fertility such as in flowers and fruiting bodies but also in the remnants of fecund forms, as seen in vacated shells and discarded husks. The ceramic ... More
Gruin Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Belynda Henry
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Belynda Henrys distinct signature - steeped in classical form - is resonant with authenticity of place, and rich in contemporary language. In the wild, lush valley where she has lived her entire life, Henry absorbs natural abstractions from her surroundings to create compositions that bring regional landscape forth in universal ways. She utilizes raw pigment from the earth to touch upon a deep stratum, and employs sensuous layering to develop her own enveloping, ethereal imagery of the natural world. From her studio, set in a fold of the valley that she inhabits, Henry is immersed in her landscape. Over the decades she has observed its essence from dawn to dusk, walked its primordial forest, and known this place through en plein air practice. It has to be real, based on the experience of whats out there, she says. Henrys recent show ... More
Li Qing's second solo show at Almine Rech opens in Shanghai
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Li Qings second solo show at the gallery on view from November 4 to December 3, 2022. The view-finding function of the window frame is affirmed not only by occidental painting theories, but also by oriental architecture. The view from a window has been a typical model of the Western gaze ever since Alberti introduced linear perspective[1] to the world in the 15th century. Moving along in art history, painting scenery reproduced and restricted by the window shows its contrast with the fluid landscape in Shan Shui (Chinese landscape painting). Li Qing's painting on windows certainly refers to this part of history, but it also embodies ideas within garden and landscape design. Instead of comparing paintings to windows, classical garden designers used windows as viewfinders ... More
'Andrew Grassie: Looking for something that doesn't exist' opens at Maureen Paley: Studio M
LONDON.- Maureen Paley is presenting the fourth exhibition at the gallery by Andrew Grassie and his first at Studio M. Grassies meticulously detailed egg tempera paintings shape the observers experience of looking and interpreting images. His latest group of paintings are informed by repeated visits to the Scottish Highlands over the last two years, specifically to the fabled area around Loch Ness and nocturnal walks within the area. His observations capture the placid waters, outbuildings and forests around the loch and are imbued with the intricacies of solitude found in city architecture as experienced under pools of artificial light. Working in a deceptively monochromatic palette, Grassie overlays thinly applied veils of complementary colours to achieve a close tonal range that floats between the sensation of day and night, inside and outside - illuminating ... More
Review: 'You Will Get Sick' tells the untellable, for a price
NEW YORK, NY.- Disease, dying and death are usually depicted as wretched or bloody onstage. Were meant to cry or recoil. As you might guess from its title, though, You Will Get Sick, which opened Sunday at the Laura Pels Theatre, is more matter-of-fact. It seems to promise a bald memento mori in the form of a fortune cookie. Yet the play, written by Noah Diaz, directed by Sam Pinkleton and starring the evergreen Linda Lavin, is far more than that. Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable. For one thing, Lavin, who is 85, does not play the character whos ill. Turning the template upside down, she instead plays the caregiver, Callan if you can call someone a caregiver whose every act of care ... More
Dancing at Paul Taylor, a new generation finds its footing
NEW YORK, NY.- At this moment, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is both transformed and not. Its founder and choreographer, Taylor, died in 2018, but what remains, despite a new generation of dancers, is fundamental: the supple strength of the Taylor dancing body. There are the curving arms and the stretched spine, the powerful thighs and the deeply contracted torso that releases and spirals through a sinewy back. No two Taylor dancers are alike, but they all have something in common. Dancers, good ones, know how to make the most of their short shining times, Taylor wrote in Private Domain, his autobiography. When they are onstage, there is no waste, no moment of halfheartedness. In the first three programs of Taylor: A New Era, the companys current season at Lincoln Center featuring live music by Orchestra ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán was baptized November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598; died August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: A visitor looks at Pablo Picasso's 1911-1912 oil on canvas "Homme a la guitare", left, next to Francisco de Zurbaran's 1630-1634 oil on canvas "Saint-Francois d'Assise dans sa tombe" exhibited at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
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