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Chagall: World in Turmoil, exhibition view, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2022, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- Fantasy seems to be without limits in the oeuvre of Marc Chagall (18871985). He is regarded as one of the most unconventional artists of modernity. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is now dedicating an extensive exhibition to the painter in Germany, the first in fifteen years. From November 4, 2022, to February 19, 2023, Chagall: World in Turmoil sheds light on a facet of his oeuvre that is less well known: Chagalls artwork from the 1930s and 1940s, when his colorful palette became increasingly darker. As a Jewish painter, Chagall was again and again exposed to existential threats, which had formative effects on his life and work. In the early 1930s, he addressed the ever more aggressive anti-Semitism in his art, and finally emigrated to the United States in 1941 due to persecution by the National Socialist regime. His artistic oeuvre of these years touches on central topics like identity, home, and exile. With r ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day What do plants mean to human beings? The exhibition Green Modernism: The New View of Plants on view at Museum Ludwig takes us back to the early twentieth century and examines the depiction of plants in the visual arts and how they were viewed in botany and society in general.
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| Exhibition of photographs by Brancusi on view at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich | | New culture wing showcases role of entertainment in American life | | Hauser & Wirth announce 'William Kentridge: Singer Solo' |
Constantin Brancusi, Mlle Pogany, vue de trois-quarts, 1920. Vintage silver gelatin print. Courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska.
ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska proudly brings to Zürich a luminous group of Brancusis original vintage photography. Among this exhibition of 18 vintage silver gelatin prints count his most iconic sculptures as well as still lifes and a portrait amounting to an essential selection of his less than 200 photographs left in private collections. This is the first commercial exhibition of Brancusis photography in German-speaking Switzerland nearly forty years since the landmark solo museum shows of his photography at Kunsthaus Zürich in 1977 and the Fotostiftung Schweiz in 1987. This exhibition fortuitously coincided with a dedicated room of Brancusi photography that came to the Kunsthaus Zürich in November 2022, an element of the second part of the museums presentation of the collection of the influential former director and scholar ... More | |
Avedon photographs and iconic TV, film, theater, sports and music artifacts on view.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The new Culture Wing at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History showcases how entertainment plays a role in shaping the national conversation through two new exhibition galleries. The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture hosts Entertainment Nation/Nacion del espectaculo in a 7,200-square-foot gallery with the Smithsonians first dedicated exploration of entertainment history. The Marcia and Frank Carlucci Hall of Culture and the Arts provides a changing gallery for a rich rotation of shows that will draw on the museums extensive holdings. The inaugural exhibition is (re)Framing Conversations: Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-1965, with 20 iconic black-and-white portraits in a setting that invites discussion. The power of American culture will be on full view through our unparalleled collections and thoughtful scholarship ... More | |
William Kentridge, Her, 2021. Bronze, 134 x 62.5 x 70 cm / 52 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. ©William Kentridge. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
GSTAAD.- This winter season, Hauser & Wirth brings the work of internationally renowned Johannesburg-based artist William Kentridge to Gstaad with a presentation across two locations titled Singer Solo. Since 17 December, the gallery has collaborated with the Gstaad Palace to present two large-scale sculptures by Kentridge, titled Her (2022) and Cape Silver (2018), which will be in dialogue with one another in the gardens, marking the first time that the artist has shown outdoor sculpture in Switzerland. The exhibition will end on February 5th, 2023. These works are larger versions of sculptures from Kentridges Glyph series, which are on view as part of a presentation at Tarmak22, alongside a new sound installation work, collage and tapestry. Organized closely with Goodman Gallery, this is Kentridges second project with Hauser & Wirth ... More |
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| SFMOMA launched new initiatives to increase art access | | Analysis of giant extinct marine reptile graveyard suggests mysterious site was ancient birthing grounds | | Anne Helmreich named Director of the Archives of American Art |
Gregory Rick, Trap, 2022. Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Gregory Rick; photo: Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced a series of initiatives developed to increase access to its art installations and provide its community with new amenities. Since December 17, 2022 through May 29, 2023, coinciding with the presentation of the 2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition dedicated to Bay Area artists, SFMOMA is offering free admission for all to the museums Floor 2 galleries. This provides audiences with the opportunity to engage with the work of the five 2022 SECA Art Award winnersBinta Ayofemi, Maria Guzmán Capron, Cathy Lu, Marcel Pardo Ariza and Gregory Rickas well as with a wide selection of major works from the museums collection on view throughout Floor 2, including works by acclaimed artists Ruth Asawa, David Huffman, Henri Matisse, Ana Mendieta, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Wayne Thiebaud and Mickalene Thomas ... More | |
Artists life reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, 2022. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Todays marine giantssuch as blue and humpback whalesroutinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in waters where predators are scarce, with many congregating year after year along the same stretches of coastline. Now, new research from a team of scientistsincluding researchers with the Smithsonian Institution, Vanderbilt University, the Natural History Museum of Utah, the University of Utah, University of Nevada, Reno, University of Edinburgh, University of Texas at Austin, Vrije Universiteit Brussels and University of Oxfordsuggests that nearly 200 million years before giant whales evolved, school bus-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs may have been making similar migrations to breed and give birth together in relative safety. The findings, published today in the journal Current Biology, examine a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur ... More | |
As associate director of grants programming at the Getty Foundation, Helmreich supports individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Photo: Loli Kantor.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Anne Helmreich has been named the director of the Smithsonians Archives of American Art, effective Feb. 27, 2023. Helmreich is currently the associate director of grants programming at the Getty Foundation and brings 35 years of experience in higher education and arts administration to this new role. The Archives of American Art fosters advanced research by accumulating and disseminating primary sources that document more than 200 years of the nations artists and art communities. Helmreich will oversee its Washington, D.C., headquarters and research center, New York City research center and Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. She will also oversee its collections development, exhibitions and publications, including the Archives of American Art Journal, the longest-running scholarly journal in the field ... More |
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| New sculptures by artist Andrew Gannon at Fruitmarket question our thinking around prosthetics | | Holabird announces online-only Philatelic & Dealer Auction | | The post pandemic return of the Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair |
Andrew Gannon, Impressions, installation view, Fruitmarket Warehouse, 2022. Courtesy the
artist. Photo: Tom Nolan.
Following the success of his 2021 Edinburgh Art Festival exhibition Eccentric Limbs at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Andrew Gannon has created a series of new works for solo exhibition in the Fruitmarket Warehouse that began on December 10th, and will end on January 8th, 2023. Sculptures are cast from Gannons own arm, mirroring the prosthetic production process and reframing the possibilities and purpose of human prosthetics. While it has multiple connotations, the exhibition's title is drawn from the impression made as part of the initial process of casting a prosthesis. The exhibition asks questions about the visibility of disability, and includes a series of live drawing performances with the artist using an elongated prosthetic inspired by the drawing sticks used by Henri Matisse ... More | |
Official map from Beaverhead County, Montana from 1901, compiled from official records of George R. Metlen, county surveyor, civil and mining engineer in Dillon, Mont. (est. $140-$500).
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will greet the New Year with a special, online-only, two-day Philatelic & Dealer Auction on January 7th and 8th, beginning at 8 am Pacific time both days. The sale will be hosted exclusively on iCollector.com (Holabirds preferred online bidding platform) and will feature old and new items from important collections. Over 1,500 lots will come up for bid across the two days with categories that include Civil War, Indian Territory, Kansas and Missouri covers from the Gary Bracken collection, California and Oregon postcards from the Ken Prag collection, general Americana, stocks, philatelic (stamps), books, mining, sports and more, with most lots having even their high estimates lower than $500 ... More | |
An English Regency bronze and ormolu mantel timepiece, restored white enamel dial, single-train fusee movement in a drum case on a rectangular base, 7 (18cm high), circa 1835, £3,650 from Richard Price.
LONDON.- The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair returns to Londons West End and the five-star London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP from Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 January 2023. Previously held annually until interrupted by the pandemic, this ninth edition is back to starting the year in style once again. The fair boasts a good mix of disciplines courtesy of members of The British Antique Dealers Association and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, who have signed up to exhibit. The fair has a magnificent international following including interior designers, collectors and, with its central location, lures overseas visitors to London, as well as people seeking unique pieces for their interiors ... More |
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| Tributes pour in as Brazil readies for Pelé's funeral | | Works by Japanese artist Izumi Kato on view in London at Stephen Friedman Gallery | | Vivienne Westwood, 81, dies; Brought provocative punk style to high fashion |
Fans gather at a bronze statue depicting Pelés famous air punch goal celebration, laying flowers and taking selfies, in Santos, Brazil on Dec. 30, 2022. (Lalo de Almeida/The New York Times)
by Ana Ionova and Jack Nicas
SANTOS, BRAZIL.- As Brazil prepared for Pelés funeral, condolences and reminiscences for the most famous soccer player in history poured in from around the world. Pelés body will lie at midfield at the Estádio Urbano Caldeira, known popularly as Vila Belmiro, in Santos, Brazil, for 24 hours, starting Monday morning, to allow what is expected to be a throng of mourners to pass by. The stadium, in the state of Sao Paulo, is home to Santos FC, the club where Pelé spent nearly his entire career. The body will then be taken through the streets of Santos to the Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial for a private burial. On Friday morning, fans gathered at soccers main landmarks in Santos, a port city of about 430,000. Across the street from the stadium, Eva de Souza Nunes, 84, hung an oversize black-and-white ... More | |
Izumi Kato, 'Untitled', 2022. Oil on canvas, 114 x 80.5 cm (44 7/8 x 31 3/4in). Framed: 119 x 85.7 cm (46 7/8 x 33 3/4 in) Copyright Izumi Kato. Courtesy the artist; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Perrotin. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition by Japanese artist Izumi Kato. The exhibition, which celebrates the breadth of Katos practice, comprises painting, sculpture and drawing. Kato animates figures that inhabit a liminal space between the physical and spiritual realms. His otherworldly subjects include children with distinctive faces, embryos with fully developed limbs, and figures with bulbous heads and large eyes attached to slender, graceful bodies. Speaking of these, the artist says, They are no one and nowhere; rather the forms are expressions of the energy and very essence of consciousness. In the exhibition, Katos expressive paintings allude to themes of animism and folklore. Describing painting as the root of his practice, with bold clashing colours, the artist intuitively applies pigment to surfaces directly with his hands. Gathering material ... More | |
Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler arrive for the funeral for Yves Saint Laurent at Saint-Roche church in Paris, June 5, 2008. (Jean-Luce Hure/The New York Times)
by Marisa Meltzer
NEW YORK, NY.- Vivienne Westwood, the designer who defined the look of punk, using rock iconography, royalty, art and religion as recurring motifs in collections that brought a rebellious edge to British style and who later went on to a long career in high fashion, died Thursday in the Clapham neighborhood of South London. She was 81. Her death was announced by her company, Vivienne Westwood, which did not specify the cause. Westwood was just 30 when she and her boyfriend, Malcolm McLaren who as a music impresario would go on to manage the Sex Pistols opened a shop called Let It Rock at 430 Kings Road in London. The business, which had a pink vinyl sign out front, was an unconventional one, selling fetish wear and fashions inspired by the Teddy ... More |
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Met Opera takes on 'Fedora,' neglected tale of murder and love
NEW YORK, NY.- Fedora, an 1898 opera by Umberto Giordano, has long struggled to win over modern audiences. The libretto is clumsy; the plot, about a Russian princess who falls in love with the man who murdered her fiance, is distant and tangled; and the music, save for a short aria, has largely faded from the standard repertory. But a new production opening Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera aims to give it fresh appeal by focusing on the characters inner struggles with the help of a ghostlike figure and channeling its murder-mystery sensibility. Im not going to pretend that this is a neglected masterpiece, David McVicar, who directs the production, said between recent rehearsals. But it is an extremely effective piece of music theater that has a validity and a strength and passion all of its own ... More
5 classical music albums you can listen to right now
NEW YORK, NY.- Maybe, like me, you actually enjoy Strauss Alpine Symphony? Maybe you think it could be longer, louder, downright dafter? Let me introduce you to Rued Langgaards Symphony No. 1, Cliffside Pastorals, a mountaineering achievement so brave it makes Strauss little escapade sound like a walk in the park. Langgaard was one of the odder 20th-century composers, and there are traces of his later path in this piece, which he finished at age 17 and persuaded the Berlin Philharmonic to premiere in 1913, two years before the Strauss. Demanding a colossal orchestra, its five movements map a spiritually symbolic climb from a seashore to a towering, craggy peak; its finale, complete with a gloriously Brucknerian ending, is titled Courage. I have adored it, to a most likely unhealthy degree ... More
These young musicians made an album. Now it's nominated for a Grammy.
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Grammy nominations for best orchestral performance were announced last month, several of the usual suspects made the cut. There was the august Berlin Philharmonic, for an album conducted by composer John Williams, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of its maestro, Gustavo Dudamel. But a newcomer also got a nod: the debut album of the New York Youth Symphony, a prestigious musical program for musicians between the ages of 12 and 22. The news that the ensembles album had earned a Grammy nomination astonished some of its young players. I jumped in the air and I screamed, like I have never screamed before, said Isabella Marquez, 18, who played violin on the album and watched a livestream of the Grammy nominations announcement in the kitchen of her Manhattan apartment ... More
Ian Tyson, revered Canadian folk singer, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Canadian musicians like Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen, there was Ian Tyson. Tyson, who began his music career as half of folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia and went on to become a revered figure in his home country, celebrated both for his music and his commitment to the culture of Canadas ranch country, died Thursday at age 89 at his ranch in southern Alberta. His family said in a statement that he died from ongoing health complications, but did not specify further. Tyson, whose song Four Strong Winds in 2005 was voted the most essential Canadian piece of music by the listeners of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation public radio network, lived most of his life as both a rancher and a musician. Performances of his songs like Four Strong Winds by Young, Johnny Cash ... More
Louisiana Art & Science Museum opens Wild Bees in Colonnade Gallery
BATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum (LASM) has opened its newest exhibition, Wild Bees, with photographs by Paula Sharp, writer and photojournalist, and Ross Eatman, veteran nature photographer. Wild Bees will be on display in the Colonnade Gallery through April 2023. Wild Bees is a collection of 26 photographs that were taken during a three-year project documenting wild bees. Sharp and Eatmans stunning photographs include over 120 species in this exhibition. Sponsored by the New York State Environmental Protection Fund, this project focused on the wild bees within a dynamic ecosystem. LASM Interim Curator Tracey Barhorst has been working in collaboration with the LASM Education team to help communicate the importance of this exhibition to museum visitors ... More
A cop called Coco, an actor named Mani, a Quebecer exploring Quebec
MONTREAL.- Just five years ago, Mani Soleymanlou, a Quebec actor of Iranian origin, was playing characters named Ahmed, Hakim and Karim on French-language television shows produced in the province. Today, his roles include Patrick, a banker, in one successful TV series, and a corrupt police officer with the very Québécois name Robert Coco Bédard in another. Coco appears in Cest comme ça que je taime, or Happily Married, a dark, rollicking comedy set in the 1970s in a suburb of the provincial capital, Quebec City a time and place where the chances would have been slim of running into someone like Soleymanlou: an immigrant who was born in Iran and grew up in Paris; Toronto; and Ottawa, Ontario, before landing in Quebec. I think, Soleymanlou said in French, with an accent picked up in Paris ... More
Lyman Allyn exhibition explores the dazzling history of color
NEW LONDON, CONN.- Most people take their colorful surroundings for granteda wide array of hues is available in everything we see, buy and touch. However, this easy availability is a recent development. For most of history, brilliant colors were expensive, rare and hard to find. The Lyman Allyn Art Museums new exhibition, Chromatopia: Stories of Color in Art, which opens to the public Saturday, Nov. 19, explores the surprisingly rich history of pigments and dyes and their impact on art and culture. The story of color, and the search for ever more vibrant pigments, is a fascinating one, tying into biology and human evolution, alchemy, philosophy, chemistry, exploration and colonial exploitation, language and cultural meaning- making and artistic expression. Color inspires us, affects our mood and shapes what we see every day, ... More
William Gropper exhibition extended through February
NEW YORK, NY.- William Gropper: Works from His Estate, the new exhibition from Helicline Fine Art has been extended through February 19, 2023. About three dozen works: paintings, drawings, cartoons and sculptures created by the great American artist between the 1930s1970s are available for acquisition at HeliclineFineArt.com. The exhibition features a range of subject matters created over several decades. Featured are several of the renowned Senator paintings, images of women and men working, industrial scenes, ballet, New York City scenes, social commentary and Groppers political works depicting demonstrations, WWII, and more. Two unique bronzes are included. Groppers last one person gallery exhibition was 34 years ago at the ACA Gallery. There was an exhibition of Groppers drawings at the Queens Museum in 2016 ... More
A near mint-mint 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle from Mr. Mint's legendary find leads off card auction
DALLAS, TX.- Before he was known as Mr. Mint, the self-proclaimed "Indiana Jones of Sports Card Finds," Alan Rosen owned a copy machine and antique business in Hackensack, N.J. He sold whatever he could get his hands on anything, Sports Illustrated noted, "to make a buck." Then, in 1979, Rosen went to his first sports card show and picked up a 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle for $100, which he flipped for a few hundred dollars more. Soon after he was buying old collections in bulk so he could bust them up and sell the colorful cardboard to dealers for dollars on the penny. A friend called him Mr. Mint, which is how Rosen billed himself in ads placed in Sports Collectors Digest. In 1985 a lumber company forklift operator named Ted Lodge from Quincy, Mass., got on the phone with Rosen and told him he'd found a case of mint 1952 Topps cards in his father's ... More
'A Man Called Otto' review: Tom Hanks learns life lessons
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2016, reviewing the film âA Man Called Oveâ for this newspaper, I mused, âSwedenâs official entry for a best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards proves that Swedish pictures can be just as sentimental and conventionally heartwarming as Hollywood ones.â That movie, based on a bestselling Swedish novel, is about a thoroughgoing grump who becomes suicidal after the death of his wife, until interactions with new neighbors soften his heart. One supposes an American remake was inevitable, and here it is, directed by Marc Forster and starring Tom Hanks, with the main character renamed Otto. Usually, U.S. remakes of foreign films tend to homogenize the source material. But âA Man Called Ottoâ is not only more bloated than the Swedish film; itâs more outré, in a way thatâs hard to pin down. Forster handles the flashback of the backstory (in which the starâs son, Truman Hanks, plays a younger Otto) in gauzy-arty fashion. When the older Otto â Hanks reaches back to his excellent work i ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Boldini was born December 31, 1842. Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 - 11 July 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
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