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The Ricco/Maresca Gallery and Christian Berst Art Brut (left) and i8 Gallery (back right) at the Independent art fair in New York. This years fair is in overdrive, with exhibitors taking big swings in dozens of directions. (Alexa Hoyer/Independent via The New York Times) NEW YORK, NY.- The Independent is a stylish affair. Carefully curated and relatively small, it can always be counted on to look good, but this year its style is in overdrive. Occasionally its pinch-hitting for substance, mere showiness with nothing behind it. Sometimes, as in Ruby Neris bravura ceramic sculptures in the fairs special 15th-anniversary 15x15: Independent 2010-2024 exhibition, at Spring ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kunsthal Mechelen in Belgium is organising a group exhibition exploring the fountain as an artistic object. Featuring work by 11 artists, including David Bernstein, Aline Bouvy, Kasia Fudakowski, Virginia Overton, Jay Tan and Zoe Williams, this exhibition refers to the long lineage of fountains that have been depicted or designed by artists and asks what the fountain stands for today.
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Massive fossil donation helps Brazil's National Museum rise from the ashes | | UBS donates major American landscape photographs to National Gallery of Art | | Surrealism reigns at Tefaf Art Fair | An unidentified insect fossil, one of many in an enormous donation made by the Swiss-German collector Burkhard Pohl to the Brazil National Museum. (Handerson Oliveira/Museu Nacional/UFRJ via The New York Times) NEW YORK, NY.- On the night of Sept. 2, 2018, a fire swept through the National Museum of Brazil, devastating the countrys oldest scientific institution and one of South Americas biggest and most important museums. On Tuesday, the museum announced that it received a major donation ... More | | Arthur Rothstein, Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Gelatin silver print, image: 8 9/16 x 8 7/16 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of the UBS Art Collection. WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has received 166 19th- and 20th-century photographs from the UBS Art Collectionthe largest gift from UBS to a museum to date. The group of photographs was assembled in the 1990s by John Szarkowski, a photographer, curator, and former director ... More | | Lynn Chadwicks Beast (Old Leather Head), 1958. (via Osborne Samuel Gallery via The New York Times) NEW YORK, NY.- This is the 100th anniversary of the surrealist manifesto, a document written in France for a radical art movement whose resonance endures in our chaotic moment at the 10th edition of the Tefaf New York art fair. Throughout the Park Avenue Armory, among the fairs 89 exhibitors from 15 countries, objects made during the heyday of surrealism, from the 1930s ... More |
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Cass Elliot's death spawned a horrible myth. She deserves better. | | Group exhibition at Kunsthal Mechelen explores the fountain as an artistic object | | 'Size matters: Scale in Photography' on view at Kunstpalast Dusseldorf | The most difficult passages of My Mama, Cass are those in which Elliot-Kugell reckons with her mothers persistent loneliness. NEW YORK, NY.- Onstage with her group the Mamas & the Papas at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, Cass Elliot, the grand doyenne of the Laurel Canyon scene, bantered with the timing of a vaudeville comedian. Somebody asked ... More | | Fountain No.3 Photo by Ivan Murzin.
MECHELEN.- Fountains are structures that control the movement and cycle of water, an element essential to our survival and considered sacred in many religions. We are surrounded by mundane structures that move water, often hidden from sight: pumps, pipes and sewage systems. A fountain, by ... More | | Installation view of 'Size matters: Scale in Photography'. Photo: Anne Orthen. DUSSELDORF.- Photography can change its dimensions more easily than any other medium; pictures can be effortlessly blown up into large images on museum walls and billboards, or shrunk down to a thumbnail on a mobile phone screen. While photography traditionally reproduces the world ... More |
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Homeowners who planned to demolish Marilyn Monroe house sue Los Angeles | | Salon 94 presents 'Ione Saldanha: The Time and The Color' | | He sang 'What a Fool Believes.' but Michael McDonald is in on the joke. | In this file photo a 1964 Andy Warhol silkscreen, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, is auctioned at Christies on Monday in New York on Monday, May 9, 2022. (Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Jeenah Moon/The New York Times) NEW YORK, NY.- The owners of the house where Marilyn Monroe last lived and died are suing the city of Los Angeles over what they call backroom machinations as part of efforts to landmark the house and save it from a planned demolition. In a lawsuit ... More | | Ione Saldanha, Sem tÃtulo (Untitled), 1980. Acrylic on bamboo, 65.75 x 5.31 inches (167 x 13.5 cm). NEW YORK, NY.- Pioneering Brazilian modernist Ione Saldanha was born in 1919 in Alegrete, Brazil, near the Uruguayan border. She lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro for seven decades until her passing in 2001. The Time and the Color, the first solo exhibition of her work in the United States, includes paintings from the 1950s to the 1980s, from early cityscapes to experiments ... More | | Michael McDonald, who recounts his life in music in the new memoir What a Fool Believes at home in Santa Barbara, Calif., on May 9, 2024. (Ariel Fisher/The New York Times) SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The voice of Michael McDonald has been compared to velvet, silk and sandpaper, melted chocolate and last year, by a besotted 11-year-old girl, an angel. He has harmonized with the best in the business. But his latest duet might cause even the most Botoxed foreheads ... More |
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Buxton Contemporary unveils major exhibition 'The same crowd never gathers twice' | | Exhibition features five works of Niki de Saint Phalle's late-career Tableaux Ãclatés series | | Yorke Antique Textiles publishes "Ceremonial Textiles of Japan: 18th to 20th Centuries" | Installation view of The same crowd never gathers twice, Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne, 2024. Featuring Taryn Simon, Assembled Audience 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York. Photo: Christian Capurro. MELBOURNE.- The University of Melbourne has unveiled a major group exhibition, The same crowd never gathers twice, presented at Buxton Contemporary until 13 October 2024. The exhibition features 6 leading international and Australian artists, including new work by Cate Consandine, Riana Head-Toussaint, Yona Lee and the Melbourne ... More | | Niki de Saint Phalle, I See You Vase, 2000. Painted polyester, 13 x 8 3/5 x 8 inches (33 x 21.8 x 20.3 cm). NEW YORK, NY.- Salon 94 is presenting their second solo exhibition of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, featuring five works of her late-career Tableaux Ãclatés, the series first exhibited in her retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris in 1993. The dynamic Tableaux Ãclatés (Burst Paintings) are vibrant, mechanized pictures depicting landscapes upon which animals and still lifes, as well as her trademark Nanas, dance ... More | | The use of textiles in Japanese ceremonies can be traced back to ancient times. TRURO, NS.- Japanese textiles have been an integral part of the nation's cultural landscape for centuries, their history mirroring the evolution of Japan itself. The origins of Japanese textiles are intertwined with those of its Asian neighbors, China and Korea, where the knowledge of sericulture and weaving techniques was introduced. However, the Japanese, with their innate creative spirit, soon transformed these influences into distinct textile ... More |
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From Agnes Pelton to Rembrandt Peale: The 2024 American Art Signature Auction.
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More News | Collection of Baroness Gabriele Langer von Langendorff tops one million at Roland Auctions NY GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY presented the collection of legendary New York socialite Baroness Gabriele Langer von Langendorff, on May 4th, 2024. The hugely successful auction offered The Baroness own personal collection, coming mostly from her two residences at The Pierre Hotel, with the sale topping one million dollars. The Baroness, who the New York Daily News once dubbed the Jet Sets Most Controversial Woman, passed away last summer, after leading a very storied life; having married four time while being a New York high-society mainstay for many decades. She purchased art treasures and jewels, including the fabled 77 carat Lesotho diamond from her long-times friend Harry Winston. The diamond was cut from a much larger stone, with the other portion going to Elizabeth Taylor. Her clothes and jewels were always ... More Impressed, but not transported, by 'Spirited Away' NEW YORK, NY.- Thereâs big, and then thereâs âSpirited Away,â a show on a scale that few theater productions attempt. Adapted from the venerated Studio Ghibli film by Hayao Miyazaki, British director John Cairdâs stage iteration was first seen in Miyazakiâs native Japan in 2022 and has now traveled to the London Coliseum â the West Endâs largest theater â where it runs through Aug. 24. Performed in Japanese, with many of the original cast members along for its British premiere, the production has size, sweep and opulence to spare. Length, too: At just over three hours, the stage version runs nearly an hour longer than the film. I canât remember a foreign-language production given such a long run on a London stage â which itself speaks to the international cachet of this title. ... More Artist debuts "Reverie Unbound" in solo exhibit in Santa Fe SANTA FE, NM.- Abstract artist, Joan Maureen Collins, announced that paintings from her newest series, Reverie Unbound, are the subject of a solo exhibit at Globe Fine Art Gallery, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibit runs from May 10 to June 7, 2024. Throughout her twenty-eight year art career, Joans observations of the natural world and the inspiration she receives from spending time in nature, have been a driving force behind her creativity. In this new series, Reverie Unbound, Joan steps away from the landscape to create paintings that are deeply personal and inspired by her daydreams. The resulting canvases are deeply layered and yet exhibit a translucent quality. To initiate this new series, the artist sat in quiet meditation to consider the art she had created to date. In doing so she allowed herself to dream. The paintings in Reverie ... More Roberts Projects opens a survey of paintings from 1998 to 2015 by Eberhard Havekost LOS ANGELES, CA.- Roberts Projects is presenting a survey of paintings from 1998 to 2015 by the German artist Eberhard Havekost, whose work explored the parallels between systemic ideas of perfection and the modes of ideal image construction. Working from his own collection of photos and video footage, Havekost used a computer to alter the original images: hues became subtly distorted, while forms were imperceptibly stretched and skewed. These modifications became further translated through Havekosts manual process of painting. The final image wasnt one of photographic precision, but instead a series of transient moments that capture an abstracted perception. The intentional errors make the image appear more natural and visually pleasing, while the attenuated distortion transforms an instance of banality ... More Interdisciplinary artist presents newly commissioned sculptures at Detroit Institute of Arts DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts is presenting Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois, featuring new and recent works by interdisciplinary Detroit-based artist Tiff Massey. The artists creations reimagine arts role in the community and offer a vibrant, inclusive view of Detroit, while exploring the relationships between identity, public space, and urban transformation. Massey creates installations, jewelry, public art, and wearable sculptures inspired by adornment that shape a sense of identity and belonging. Trained as a metalsmith, Massey scales up her jewelry to the size of architecture, forming sculptures that can take up entire galleries, celebrating Detroits evolving neighborhoods and the history of West African and Black American culture and style. The shows title 7 Mile + Livernois refers to the crossroads at the heart of Detroits ... More Bernard Pivot, host of influential French TV show on books, dies at 89 NEW YORK, NY.- Bernard Pivot, a French television host who made and unmade writers with a weekly book-chat program that drew millions of viewers, died Monday in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. He was 89. His death, in a hospital after being diagnosed with cancer, was confirmed by his daughter Cécile Pivot. From 1975 to 1990, France watched Bernard Pivot on Friday evenings to decide what to read next. The country watched him cajole, needle and flatter novelists, memoirists, politicians and actors, and the next day went out to bookstores for tables marked Apostrophes, the name of Pivots show. In a French universe in which serious writers and intellectuals jostle ferociously for the publics attention to become superstars, Pivot never competed with his guests. He achieved a kind of el ... More A waterfront house with the message 'all or nothing at all' NEW YORK, NY.- Consider the 21 gilded mirrors lining the music room, each more extravagant than the last. Or the Italian monastery table that seats 24, never mind the tapestries, peacock feathers, brass candlesticks and Persian rugs seemingly everywhere. And did we mention entire suites dedicated to Frank Sinatra and Noël Coward? Let others embrace minimalism. Good things come in multiples in the waterfront home that Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon have created for themselves on 2 1/4 acres on the North Shore of Long Island. Even the house itself, which began life as a single-story Mediterranean-style abode from the 1960s, appears to have adopted the more-is-more mantra, swelling to 10,000 square feet of Spanish Colonial splendor encompassing six bedrooms, five fireplaces, a conservatory, a library and an expansive ... More Lawns draw scorn, but some see room for compromise NEW YORK, NY.- The lawn is dead. Long live the lawn. Lately this entrenched symbol of American domestic life verdant, weed-free and crisply mowed has come under wider scrutiny as a profligate relic, out of sync with an ecologically conscious era. For many years, environmentalists have deplored conventional turf grass lawns as biodiversity dead zones that require billions of gallons of water every week in the United States, with outdoor irrigation accounting for a third of household water consumption on average nationwide, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. To say nothing of the polluting fertilizers and toxic pesticides and all the mowers belching greenhouse gases to keep those lawns lush and manicured. Lawns seem to draw as much irrational hate as they do love these days, said Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute ... More In Mexico, a house that returns to the well NEW YORK, NY.- Years of abnormally low rainfall, higher-than-normal temperatures and aging infrastructure have led to a dangerously low water supply for Mexico City. The issue isnt a new one for the Mexican capital in 2014, it was ranked as the third most water-stressed of more than 150 of the planets largest cities. Now, the metropolis faces a water crisis so severe that local authorities recently began imposing rations. For Javier Sánchez, a low-slung earthen house just west of Mexico City, designed by his architectural firm JSa, reflects an obvious way out of the predicament. This house is a laboratory because it allows people to visualize the possibility of going back to certain solutions that were implemented many years before us, he said on a recent video call. There was an ancient technology around water, but it was ... More What does 'post-emerging' look like in today's dance landscape? NEW YORK, NY.- Bill T. Jones still remembers warming up backstage for one of his first New York City performances, in 1977: a solo at Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, as part of a series for up-and-coming experimentalists. Jones was 25 and visiting from upstate New York, where he belonged to a small countercultural dance collective. He would be sharing that evenings program with five other choreographers, including Baroque dancer Catherine Turocy, Merce Cunningham acolyte Kenneth King and postmodern-ballet iconoclast Donald Byrd. To be suddenly surrounded by so many different aesthetics, he said in an interview, was exhilarating and terrifying. Quaintly, that was the big time, he said. A very important rite of passage. We felt that we had arrived. In the nearly 50 years since, a lot has changed at the institution formerly known ... More London Gallery Weekend announces events highlights, artist commissions and curator bursaries LONDON.- London Gallery Weekend, the biggest gallery weekend event in the world, returns for its fourth edition from Friday 31 May to Sunday 2 June 2024 uniting the citys network of world-class galleries for a three-day programme of exhibitions and events. With more than 130 participating galleries ranging from established galleries to emerging spaces and featuring 16 new participants London Gallery Weekend demonstrates the vibrancy and variety of the London gallery scene. Bringing new public art and performances to the citys streets, and with more than 70 free events across the duration of the weekend, London Gallery Weekend offers visitors, curators and collectors from around the UK and abroad, an exceptional opportunity to engage with art and artists in a variety of ways. Each of London Gallery Weekends three days focuses ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme was born May 11, 1824. May 11, 2018. Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 - January 10, 1904) was a French artist born in Vesoul, France. The leading Orientalist painter of his time, he was also highly regarded for his polychromed sculptures, evocations of life in ancient Rome, and depictions of events from French history. In this image: a museum technician at Hearst Castle admires âNapoleon before the Sphinxâ (or âOedipusâ), 60.3 x 101 cm, about 1886. Inv. no. 529-9-5092. Photo: Courtesy ?Hearst Castle®/California State Parks, photo by Vickie Garagliano. All rights reserved.
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