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Jesse Darling, No Medals No Ribbons, installation view.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Barbara Walker, a British artist who draws huge portraits of Black people onto gallery walls, and Jesse Darling, a sculptor whose works evoke fragile bodies, are among the artists nominated for this years Turner Prize, the prestigious British visual arts award. The four-strong shortlist was announced Thursday at a news conference at the Tate Britain art museum in London. Walker, 58, is perhaps the highest-profile artist to be nominated, with works in the collections of Tate, the British Museum and the Yale Center for British Art. She is nominated for Burden of Proof, which is on view at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates until June 11, and included charcoal portraits of people affected by Britains Windrush scandal, in which some long-term British residents, originally from the Caribbean, were misidentified as illegal immigrants and threatened with deportation. Walker drew these portraits directly onto the gallery walls, as well as onto ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Old dioramas at the newly renovated Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, April 24, 2023. The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction. (Peter Fisher/The New York Times).
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, 'modernized' by MoMA | | Richard Avedon's Portraits of the American West Ride Again | | Germans protect 4,000 memorials to Soviet troops who defeated Nazis | 
Georgia OKeeffe. It Was Yellow and Pink III, 1960. Oil on canvas, 40 à 30″ (101.6 à 76.2 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia OKeeffe. © 2023 Georgia OKeeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- In the spring of 1946 the Museum of Modern Art mounted its first solo exhibition of a female artist: a retrospective devoted to the work of American painter Georgia OKeeffe. By then, OKeeffe (1887-1986) had been showing regularly in New York for three decades, the only female (and most salable) member of the coterie of talent around prominent art dealer and photographer Alfred Stieglitz who was also her lover and then her husband. OKeeffes success owed much to Stieglitzs promotion, especially his eroticized reading of her paintings of landscapes and semiabstract flowers as expressions of female sexuality. He established that sexuality as OKeeffes by exhibiting some of the many intimate photographs he took of her nude or partially nude at the Anderson Galleries in 1921. By 1929, OKeeffe was quite well-off, thanks to Stieglitzs efforts. Yet for nearly 80 years after OKeeffes MoMA retrospective, ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Amon Carter Museum of Art shows two of the portraits from the photographer Richard Avedons exhibition In the American West, which premiered in 1985 at the museum in Fort Worth, Texas. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art via The New York Times)
by Chris Colin
NEW YORK, NY.- It started as a lark, the large format reinvention of the American West. The director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art was chatting with an adviser one day in 1978, a jokingly aspirational idea was lobbed: What if the biggest photographer in the world did a show with our little Fort Worth, Texas, museum? But the lark had legs, a meeting was arranged and soon Richard Avedon was leaving his rarefied Upper East Side of Manhattan universe for gypsum plants and oil fields. At the time, a sentimental and well-worn vision defined the West: rugged cowboys, sweeping pastoral beauty, the triumphalist, freedom-loving heart of America itself. The idea presented to Avedon: Find something new. Commissioning the 55-year-old photographer for the project was a stroke of genius and/or insanity. Avedon had achieved cover-of-Newsweek renown for his chronicling of fame, culture, power ... More | | 
Andreas Stahl, a historian, with Teresa Schneidewind, director of the Lützen Museum, Lützen, Germany, April 17, 2023. (Ksenia Ivanova/The New York Times)
by Anatoly Kurmanaev, Christopher F. Schuetze and Ekaterina Bodyagina
LÃTZEN.- Just days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Moscows forces massing on the border, officials in the medieval town of Lützen, Germany, afforded landmark status to a Soviet-era World War II memorial standing outside a kindergarten in the town center. Glory to the great Russian people the nation of victors, reads an inscription that was repainted by local officials in June on one side of the 10-foot, pyramidal monument. Inscribed on another side in bright red is a quote from Josef Stalin commemorating 12 Soviet prisoners of war who died at German hands while working at the local sugar factory. A bright red star with gold-colored hammer and sickle adorns the pyramids peak. Lützen is not an outlier. Scattered across Germany, but primarily in what was once the Soviet-dominated German Democratic Republic in the east, are more than 4,000 protected monuments commemorating the sacrifices of Soviet soldiers in the struggle against Nazism. Soviet tanks stan ... More |
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| Wonder and awe in Natural History's new wing. Butterflies, too. | | The changing role of the artist-in-residence | | Ed Sheeran defends himself in court, with his guitar | 
Skylights and balconies in the atrium at the newly renovated Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, April 24, 2023. (Peter Fisher/The New York Times).
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK, NY.- When plans for it first surfaced, I wondered if the new Gilder Center at the Natural History Museum might end up looking overcooked. From the outside its a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museums wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century. Past the front doors, that cliff face morphs into an atrium in the guise of a towering canyon a city block deep. For its architects, Jeanne Gang and her team, Gilder was clearly a gamble and leap of faith, bucking todays innocuous norms, almost begging for charges of starchitectural self-indulgence. Now that its built, I love it. I wouldnt go so far as to equate it with the curvaceous genius of Antoni Gaudi or with Eero Saarinens groovy TWA Terminal at JFK, but its in the family. Like them, Gilder is spectacular: a poetic, joyful, theat ... More | | 
Aliza Nisenbaum, an artist in residence at the Queens Museum, whose new show grew out of her decade-long involvement with the Corona neighborhood of Queens, in New York, April 15, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by John Hanc
NEW YORK, NY.- At the Queens Museum, theyre getting ready for a show. Its a Monday afternoon in early spring, and canvases of various sizes are lined up along the 14-foot-high wall of Gallery 6, one of six exhibition spaces in the museum, in the New York City Building that was constructed for the 1939 Worlds Fair. A gaggle of curatorial staffers gathers around an iPad on a worktable. Theyre examining the layout for the 1,144-square-foot space and an adjoining gallery of similar size, discussing how to best display the works of Aliza Nisenbaum who happens to be standing nearby, smiling as she watches the exhibition coming together. Its my first solo museum show in New York, she said. Im so excited. Although Nisenbaum is an accomplished artist her works have been exhibited at the Tate Liverpool and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, ... More | | 
Ed Sheeran departs federal court on Thursday evening in Manhattan, April 27, 2023. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- Ed Sheeran testified with a guitar Thursday at a closely watched copyright trial, defending his hit ballad Thinking Out Loud against an accusation that he had copied it from Marvin Gayes Lets Get It On. Cradling his acoustic instrument in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, Sheeran demonstrated the four-chord sequence at the heart of his song, which he said was written in a few hours in early 2014 with his friend and longtime collaborator Amy Wadge. He recounted just stepping out of the shower of his home when he heard Wadge strumming the chords, and he remembered thinking: We need to do something with that. The song went to No. 1 in Britain and No. 2 in the United States, and in 2016 won a Grammy Award for song of the year. But in 2017, the family of Ed Townsend, Gayes co-writer, sued for copyright infringement, saying that the chord progression, with its syncopated ... More |
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| Taking Keith Haring seriously | | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersberg announces new acquisition at Expo Chicago | | Sous Les Etoiles Gallery opens an exhibition of works by German photographer Karl Martin Holzhäuser | 
Statue of Liberty by Keith Haring in collaboration with Angel Ortiz, known by the tag LA II, which will be part of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody, at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. (Keith Haring Foundation, via Rubell Museum via The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Certain images have become so embedded in our culture that we forget that they were initially groundbreaking. Keith Harings work falls into that category. The ubiquity of the graffiti artists colorful, cartoonish, kinetic figures which continue to adorn T-shirts, posters and coffee mugs can obscure Harings history as a serious artist whose activism around AIDS, LGBTQ rights and environmentalism was well ahead of its time. Now the Broad museum in Los Angeles is shining a light on Harings contributions with an ambitious show from May 27 through Oct. 8. The Broad is billed as the first ever museum in Los Angeles to present Harings expansive body of work. Everything that ... More | | 
Claudia Peña Salinas, Ahua Can, 2023, Brass, dyed ceramic, wood and shell found objects and thread, postcard, 72 x 50 x 25 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Embajada.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, announced the acquisition of Ahua Can by Claudia Peña Salinas at EXPO CHICAGO, the international exposition of contemporary and modern art that took place this mongh. The MFA was one of three institutions awarded the annual Northern Trust Purchase Prize at the tenth edition of the fair. Northern Trust, Presenting Sponsor of EXPO CHICAGO, awarded the Purchase Prize to the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Saint Louis Art Museum. As recipients of the Northern Trust Purchase Prize, curators and directors from each museum selected pieces from the fairs EXPOSURE Section, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society. The EXPOSURE Section features an international ... More | | 
Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Photomontage #42, 2008. Archival Pigment Print, 47 x 47 in. Ed. of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery announces, Luminous Impulse German photographer Karl Martin Holzhäuser first solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 29th from 6 - 8 pm. Karl Martin Holzhäuser, b. 1944 in Germany, is one of the earliest champions of Concrete Photography. Holzhäuser along the course of his career has creating a new genre in the field of cameraless photography that combines the stringency of premeditated instructions with elements of calculated chance. Holzhäuser photographs are the result of aesthetic considerations and calculation that precedes the physical process that found the essence of his works: the plan, the structure, the concept, the quasi-musical score underlying the visible object. Holzhäuser works completely in the dark, following a predevised score of the movement of light from memory, and allowing for extemporaneo ... More |
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| At this museum, sixth graders learn lessons in democracy | | Friedman Benda opens 'Staged for the first time' | | Rare John Wilkes Booth reward poster for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln auctioned for $166,375 | 
Miranda Nunez Polanco of Middle School 244 in the Bronx in a re-creation of the Oval Office during the Tang Academy for American Democracy program offered by the New-York Historical Society, March 28, 2023. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Feelings were running high as everyone lobbied their representatives. The constituents had only a few minutes to make their arguments, and it seemed no one was listening. At one point, someone tried to unseat a delegate. This was politics at work at the New-York Historical Societys democracy program, with 21 sixth graders from Middle School 244 in the Bronx. The setting was the museums Skylight Gallery. The question at hand, relayed by Emily Bumgardner, a museum educator, was this: Given the choice between weekly tests and no homework or daily homework and no tests, what would the students opt for? The voters were quickly separated into groups of four. Valerie Decena and Lixander Delacruz, both 12, argued heatedly; Valerie preferred ... More | | 
Swatching Space Time, 2023.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Brooklyn-based Misha Kahn presents his solo exhibition Staged for the first time at Friedman Benda's Los Angeles gallery opening with a reception April 29th, and will continue to be on view until June 2nd, 2023. Creatively, I have a kind of manic shopping energy: I like to try on new materials and processes. But rather than feeling inspired and sated by a new technique, I want more. Each option opens up new combinations. The results go from expansive to endless. These past few years have been about accepting the way I work, learning to love my chaos rather than trying to escape it, ignoring friends thoughtful tips to limit a show to one or two more tailored series and instead welcoming you into my vortex. Some pieces in the show are such an invitation; however, by limiting the result to a particular material, such as in the genius handwoven mohair of Stephens Tapestry, the resulting piece Swatching Space Time creates a comple ... More | | 
Bidding began at $100,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of the scarcest and most important documents in the history of the United States: the very first printing of the reward poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and two other conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions for $166,375. The poster was issued by the War Department in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 1865, five days after President Lincoln passed and six days before Booth was killed. This broadside reward poster is the very first printing and also the rarest of the three iterations printed by the War Department, with some estimates of fewer than five existing today. It is much scarcer than the second printing, which has three woodcut frames at top for photographs of the conspirators. That second printing poster has recently sold several times in excess of $200,000. The poster originates from the Philadelphia area, passed ... More |
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Tim Marlow's Must-See Museum Shows: May 2023
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 Indian East London artist unveils giant artwork for the CoronationLONDON.- 45 Park Lane, part of Dorchester Collection, unveiled two commissioned artworks by Hormazd Narielwalla to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Named King and Crown, the exhibition launched on April 28, 2023, and will run until June 22, 2023. Born in India and trained as an artist in London, Narielwalla has created two distinctive pieces for the celebration that will be added to the hotels established art collection. These commissioned artworks consist of The Pattern King and The Crown which exemplify and depict kingship in the contemporary age, which have been combined into one collage and reproduced into 70 large-scale flags placed around the exterior of the hotel. On his inspiration and creative process, Hormazd says; "the two collages made for 45 Park Lane accompanied with a suite of works for the ... More  She's more than the creator of Peter RabbitNEW YORK, NY.- Beatrix Potters tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century. Now, a new traveling exhibition explores how the English artist and authors passion and curiosity for the natural world and scientific study inspired her books and her life. She creates these little enchanting watercolor worlds and fills them with characters in gardens and ponds, said Trinita Kennedy, a senior curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, where Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature is on view through Sept. 17. She is certainly one of the most important childrens book illustrators. But the exhibition tells a more complex story. It shows her as a multifaceted person who had to blaze her own trail, unusual for a Victorian ... More  Dundee Contemporary Arts presents 'Zineb Sedira: Can't You See the Sea Changing?'DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts is delighted to announce a major exhibition by Zineb Sedira, Cant You See the Sea Changing?. Developed in collaboration with De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, the show is Sediras first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery for over 12 years and follows her acclaimed exhibition, Dreams Have No Titles for the French Pavilion at last years Venice Biennale, which received the Special Mention of the Jury. Cant You See the Sea Changing? focuses on Sediras ongoing investigation into the conditions of transnational trade, identity and migrant consciousness in a post-colonial context, within which the sea is a recurring motif. Working across photography, installation and film, Sedira draws upon her personal history and close connection to Algeria, France and the UK to explore ideas of identity, gender, ... More  'By Any Means Necessary' curated by Lonnie Holley on view at Blum and PoeLOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe opens on April 29th By Any Means Necessary, an exhibition curated by Atlanta-based artist Lonnie Holley and featuring work by Holley, Louisiana Bendolph, Hawkins Bolden, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Rita Mae Pettway, and Mary T. Smith. This presentation, which will end on June 10th, accompanies Handwriting on the Wall, the first major exhibition in Los Angeles focusing on the work of Holleys close friend and colleague, Thornton Dial, and honors their shared histories and passions. This show is presented in conjunction with Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew at MOCA North Miami, Holleys first major exhibition in the South and featuring work from this same cohort of artists he champions including Thornton Dial, Mary T. Smith, and Hawkins Bolden. As an artist, its an honor to curate my first ... More  E-WERK opens to coincide with Berlin Gallery WeekendBERLIN.- E-WERK Luckenwalde announced details of the 2023 artistic programme - The Material Revolution. E-WERK will bring UK based artist Kira Freije to Luckenwalde for her first German institutional exhibition, screen a series of films in collaboration with CIRCA by legendary land artist Agnes Denes, pioneer of the ecological art movement, alongside a special performance and sound installation by the German musician FM Einheit (Founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten) in collaboration with Vinzenz Schwab. The Material Revolution is a devotion to the political agency and silent power of materials to ignite systemic change. The programme will pay tribute to artists who refuse ingrained materialistic laws in order to reclaim meaning - from the subversive potential of metal in feminist discourse to the physical and radical reclamation ... More  Works by Marisa Merz now on view at Gladstone GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone opens an exhibition of works by Marisa Merz (1926 2019) April 29th. The show brings together significant works by Merz whose artistic debut was distinctly different from the rest of the Arte Povera cohort, and will continue through June 17th, 2023. Strong or delicate, finished or unfinished, ancient or contemporary, the art of Marisa Merz is intensely dialogical. Viewing her works entails entering into a conversation with them. Meanings, and our understandings, deepen through a process of engagement with the seemingly opposed forces, states, or materials she harnesses in each work. We explore the edges of a gestural drawing to discover traces of a compositional scaffolding, we interrogate a block of wax to understand if it is liquid or solid, and we seek a figure emerging from a lump of unfired clay. The ... More  From a theater kid in Kansas to BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- Justin Cooley was just moving into a dormitory for his freshman year at Texas Christian University when he got the call: Did he want to forgo the whole college thing and instead take a role in an off-Broadway musical with a strange title and an even stranger subject? Cooley was an 18-year-old Kansan who had never been to New York, let alone seen a Broadway show, and he had never even worked on a stage production alongside grown-ups. But opportunity, to quote Stephen Sondheim, is not a lengthy visitor. Cooley grabbed the role, moved to New York and hit the aspiring-actor jackpot: Kimberly Akimbo transferred to Broadway, where hes featured as an anagram-obsessed, Elvish-speaking, sweetly weird high school student who befriends a teenage girl braving a life-shortening genetic condition while living with a comically ... More  Interdisciplinary artist Basil Kincaid now on view at the Rockefeller Center campusNEW YORK, NY.- Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund are now presenting work by interdisciplinary artist BASIL KINCAID throughout the Rockefeller Center campus, since April 24, 2023. Basil Kincaids artistic practice is actualized through various creative techniques such as quilting, collage, installation, and performance to construct new narratives of possibility. Kincaids work incorporates found or donated materials, often sourced through social media, weaving together lived experiences while also reducing waste. The Art In Focus presentation underscores how each of the artists mediumsfiber, collage, drawing, performanceinforms the other and become nourishing environments: visions for a full, thoughtful existence. The installation features woven quilts, a 125-foot mural, and a monumental sculptural quilt. ... More  At Trisha Brown, a new voice creates a 'symphony of layers'NEW YORK, NY.- The floor is not a floor, choreographer Judith Sánchez RuÃz said during a recent rehearsal with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Its a place where you bounce up and you continue feeling up. Physicality meets sensation in a vivid way for Sánchez RuÃz, the first choreographer in this companys 53-year history, other than Brown herself, to create a new work for it. In a scene from Lets Talk About Bleeding, which premieres Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, six dancers are caught in a swirl of momentum, in which agitation gives way to slipperiness and weight finds a sense of air. At that rehearsal, the floor of the studio suddenly seemed to feel softer, warmer, more pliant. Sánchez RuÃz, a youthful 51, bounced a bit as she spoke, befitting her charged presence. Movements just fly out of her, said Carolyn Lucas, the companys ... More  Jerry Springer, host of unapologetically brash talk show, dies at 79NEW YORK, NY.- Jerry Springer, who went from a somewhat outlandish political career to an almost indescribably outlandish broadcasting career with The Jerry Springer Show, which by the mid-1990s was setting a new standard for tawdriness on American television, turning the talk-show format into an arena for shocking confessions, adultery-fueled screaming matches and not infrequent fistfights, died Thursday in suburban Chicago. He was 79. His death, after a brief illness, was confirmed in a statement by Jene Galvin, a family friend and executive producer of Springers podcast. Springer earned a law degree from Northwestern University in 1968 and started on a political career, winning election to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971. But he was soon embroiled in the type of personal scandal that would later fuel ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born April 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.
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