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Hannah Wilke, Self Portrait (BC Series), 1990. Watercolor on Arches paper, 41.5 x 29.25 inches © Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
BOSTON, MASS.- For the first time in more than 20 years, LaiSun Keane brings a public exhibition of an exclusive group of works by Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) to Boston titled Hannah Wilke: Friendship. The exhibition which illuminates the friendship between Wilke and Deena Axelrod, is being held at the gallery from February 18 to April 10, 2021. The last time Boston hosted an exhibition of Wilke s work was in 1996 at the Rose Art Museum. An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2021 from 4 - 6 pm for an in-person celebration. Hannah Wilke and Deena Axelrods youths were informed by 60s feminism, which was foregrounded by huge social and cultural shifts. Their lives converged in many ways which impacted their family, friends and most importantly, Wilkes art making. The works in this exhibition show how Wilkes art and their personal lives were intertwined. Wilkes art WAS very much her life and it seeps ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A worker employed by a pilot project run by the UN cultural agency UNESCO, restores a mosaic floor at an ancient church complex, in the small town of Rihab, some 70 kilometres north of the Jordanian capital Amman, on February 9, 2021. In the ruins of the ancient Byzantine church in Jordan, local townspeople and Syrian refugees work side by side on a project that unites preserving cultural heritage and fighting poverty. Khalil MAZRAAWI / afp
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| Ancient Jordan site restoration brings locals, refugees jobs | | Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg presents new and recent works by William Kentridge | | To express the sound of a country's soul, he invented new instruments |
A worker employed by a pilot project run by the UN cultural agency UNESCO, restores a mosaic floor at an ancient church complex, in the small town of Rihab, some 70 kilometres north of the Jordanian capital Amman. Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP.
by by Mussa Hattar
RIHAB (AFP).- In the ruins of an ancient Byzantine church in northern Jordan, local townspeople and Syrian refugees work side-by-side on a project that preserves cultural heritage and fights poverty. Meticulously operating by hand with tweezers and brushes, workers restore a mosaic floor piece by piece at the St John the Baptist church, built in 619 AD. It is one of three church mosaic floors under restoration, or recently restored, in the small town of Rihab, adding to an impressive array of such national treasures. Jordan's most renowned mosaic is one of the oldest maps of the Holy Land, consisting of over two million mosaic stones originally built into the floor of a sixth century Byzantine church in Madaba. "I don't think there is another ... More | |
William Kentridge, Drawing for Sibyl (Manifestation, Remind), 2019. Courtesy the artist.
LUXEMBOURG.- Mudam Luxembourg Musée dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is presenting William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg), one of the most acclaimed artists of our time. Over the past four decades William Kentridge has created a major oeuvre across various artistic disciplines including performance, theatre and opera. This exhibition conceived for Mudam as part of Luxembourgs red bridge project presents new and recent works including drawings, works on paper, sculptures, new films, and sound and video installations. Known for his animated films that employ charcoal drawings and a distinctive process of erasure and recovery, Kentridges expansive oeuvre is resolutely narrative in its treatment of themes intimately connected to history and the phenomena of memory and forgetfulness. Kentridge addresses these subjects through the lens of his native South Africa and his own persona as an artist engaged in the process of ... More | |
Sebastian Zubieta, music director at the Americas Society, plays the sinosoido pequeno, an instrument designed by Joaquin Orellana, at The Spine of Music, an exhibit celebrating the inventor in New York. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a short story, Guatemalan composer, inventor and writer JoaquÃn Orellana imagines a musician who, dissatisfied with the instruments of Western civilization, sets out to create the sound of hunger. Possessed with a desire to express his peoples suffering, he progressively starves himself, then records his altered, raving voice. In his delirium, he sees sheet music staves come alive with anguished and violent cries the sound of hunger. Orellana, 90, is one of his countrys most respected composers and the subject of a captivating exhibition at the Americas Society, The Spine of Music, which showcases instruments sculptural, surrealist and darkly sensuous he has invented. Like the protagonist ... More |
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| Mind-bending exhibition at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art features Op and Kinetic art | | Bruce Blackburn, designer of ubiquitous NASA logo, dies at 82 | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Haim Steinbach |
Omar Rayo (Colombian, 19282010) Thurayya II, 1971. Acrylic on linen. © Omar Rayo, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, photo by Michael Tropea.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- A new exhibition opening Feb. 20, Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies, features movement both real and perceived. Moving Vision, organized by OKCMOA, highlights one of the great strengths of the Museums permanent collection extensive, highly regarded holdings in Op (optical) and Kinetic (movement) art. The Museum will produce an original, illustrated catalogue for the exhibition, contributing significantly to the scholarship surrounding these deeply innovative artistic movements. Beginning around the middle of the 20th century, two separate, yet complementary, art movements brought something innovative, delightful and fun to artistic practices in two- and three-dimensional forms. In the case of Op art, artists created the perception of movement and illusion of depth making use of two-dimensional surfaces; while with Kinetic art, ... More | |
The NASA logo that is known as the "worm" designed by Bruce Blackburn.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos became ingrained in the nations consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA that is known as the worm, and the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial star, died Feb. 1 at a nursing home in Arvada, Colorado, near Denver. He was 82. The death was confirmed by his daughter, Stephanie McFadden. Blackburns illustrious career in design over 40 years involved developing imagery for clients like IBM, Mobil and the Museum of Modern Art. But he is best known for the NASA worm, which has become synonymous with space exploration and the technological concept of the future itself. In 1974, his small New York-based design firm, Danne & Blackburn, was barely a year old and eager for a big project when he and his partner, Richard Danne, were approached by the Federal Graphics Improvement Program to rebrand NASAs classic logo, which depicted a patriotic red chevron soaring ... More | |
Haim Steinbach, Untitled (box with handkerchief-Adi), 1993. Wood, plastic laminate, cloth. 36 x 30 x 14 inches; 91.4 x 76.2 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Haim Steinbach: 1991 1993, on view January 14 February 27, 2021. This is the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. For more than four decades, Haim Steinbach has explored the psychological, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of collecting and arranging found objects. In selecting items that range from the obscure to the ordinary, the private to the ethnographic, Steinbach emphasizes notions of circulation and human connection. The exhibition highlights a concentrated three-year period in the artists career and draws upon memory, offering a recontextualization of his own historic practice and an occasion for reflection. Comprising a seminal large-scale display and objects from the same time period, the exhibition is populated by individuals who are both named and unnamed, touching upon family gatherings and traditions, intimacy, and the pe ... More |
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| Anne Hardy opens a new online exhibition in Maureen Paley's new project space Studio M | | Cassina Projects brings together a selection of figurative works by contemporary artists | | Alex Trebek's wardrobe is donated to formerly incarcerated men |
Anne Hardy, Future Trace (The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light), 2020. Framed unique photogram on c-type paper, 62.2 x 52 x 4 cm © Anne Hardy, courtesy Maureen Paley, London.
LONDON.- This is the fifth solo exhibition at Maureen Paley by Anne Hardy and her first in the gallerys new project space Studio M, located in the Rochelle School on Arnold Circus in Shoreditch. The exhibition is scheduled to open to the public once the lockdown restrictions are eased and has launched online and accompanied by a new video with Anne Hardy. Presented in Studio M is a selection of unique photograms that were produced in 2020 and form a new series titled The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light. The materials used in the production of these works were gathered from the River Thames foreshore while the artist was researching her 2019/2020 commission for Tate Britain, which took inspiration from the rhythms of the earth and the tides of the river in order to transform the façade of the building. Working in an analogue ... More | |
Rebecca Brodskis, Head stand, 2020, Oil on linen, 162 x 130 cm.
MILAN.- The myth of Iώ - first priestess of Hera, the wife of Zeus - is quintessentially a story of torment, metamorphosis and, above all, lust. Desire, regarded as a gravitational force transcending aesthetics and form, governs immortal gods and humans alike. Beautiful nymph and mortal lover, Iώ was seduced by Zeus, king of the gods, and transformed into a heifer to be concealed from his jealous wife, Hera. Hera, still somewhat suspicious, demanded the heifer as a gift forcing Zeus to reluctantly hand Io over to her care. Argos, who had hundred eyes, was sent to guard Iώ and prevent Zeus from visiting her. Yet Zeus, succumbing to the most uncontrollable impulse of desire, in turn, sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argos. When Iώ was freed, still in the form of a heifer, Hera directed a gadfly to sting her continuously, driving her to wander around unknown territories without rest. Once in Egypt, Iώ was finally rescued and restored to human form by Zeus himse ... More | |
In an undated image provided by The Doe Fund, clothes from Alex Trebeks wardrobe arrive at the Doe Fund in New York City. The Doe Fund via The New York Times.
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When he died in November, Alex Trebek left behind legions of fans who knew and adored him as the quick-witted host of Jeopardy! for 37 years. He also left behind 14 suits, 58 dress shirts, 300 neckties and other clothes that he wore on the show, which taped five episodes a day, twice a week. His son, Matthew Trebek, along with the producer of Jeopardy!, wondered what to do with the large wardrobe. Together, they decided to donate the clothes to formerly homeless and incarcerated men looking for a fresh start. So it was that Trebeks Jeopardy! wardrobe which also included 25 polo shirts, 14 sweaters, nine sport coats, nine pairs of dress shoes, 15 belts, two parkas and three pairs of dress slacks arrived about two weeks ago at the Doe Fund, ... More |
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| British Library acquires archive of Theatre Royal Stratford East and Theatre Workshop | | Are magazines dead? Not at this exhibition | | 19th & 20th century art to be offered at Swann March 4 |
Doll made by Una Collins and used by Fanny Carby in Oh, What A Lovely War! (c) British Library Board.
LONDON.- The British Library has acquired the archive of the award-winning Theatre Royal Stratford East, which includes the archive of the renowned British theatre company, Theatre Workshop. Donated on behalf of the Theatre by the actor and Theatre Workshop alumnus Murray Melvin, the archive comprises 140 boxes containing a diverse array of material including scripts, performance recordings, letters, photographs, rehearsal notes, press cuttings and props. It sheds light on the work of Theatre Workshops visionary founder and director, Joan Littlewood, both before and during her tenure at the Theatre between 1953 and 1979. The archive contains material related to critically acclaimed Theatre Workshop productions of Oh, What a Lovely War!, Shelagh Delaneys A Taste of Honey, Brendan Behans The Hostage, and many successful reinterpretations of the classical drama repertoire. The later portion of the archive covers the Artistic Directo ... More | |
A 1923 issue of Science and Invention dedicated to scientific fiction (and believed to include one of the earliest uses of the term). Via Grolier Club via The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The newsstands of New York may not be what they used to be. But on the ground-floor gallery of the Grolier Club, a book lovers haven on East 60th Street in Manhattan, the print-besotted can console themselves with a Platonic vision of the Great American Newsstand as it never was, at least not all at the same time. Magazines and the American Experience, a kaleidoscopic survey on view through April 24, covers almost 300 years of periodical history, from Ben Franklins General Magazine and Andrew Bradfords American Magazine, two rivals from 1741 for the title of Americas first magazine, to a 2016 New Yorker cover by Christoph Niemann that used augmented reality technology. There are plenty of valuable rarities. And then there are the just ... More | |
Diego Rivera, Mujeres dando limosna fuera de una Iglesia, watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 1934. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- 19th & 20th Century Art is at auction on Thursday, March 4 at Swann Galleries. The sale will feature exceptional prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture from Modernists, New York artists, and Latin American stalwarts. Standout original works by European Modernist masters are on offer, including Pablo Picasso who leads the sale with an original double-sided pencil drawing Nu debout Nature morte et Ãtude dHomme, 1914, at $60,000 to $90,000. Also available by Picasso is a 1905 black crayon drawing Arlequin de profil à la collarette, at $20,000 to $30,000. Maurice de Vlamincks 1945 oil-on-canvas Rue de Village is expected at $20,000 to $30,000; and, watercolors by Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger and Jean Arp include Picabias San titre (Le Rêve), 193032, Légers Portrait de Rimbaud, 1949, both offered at $20,000 to $30,000; and Arps 1964 abstract image, at $8,000 to ... More |
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French summer rock festivals in doubt over 5,000 limit
PARIS (AFP).- There was doubt Friday under what circumstances major summer rock festivals in France could go ahead after the government and a union agreed to limit participants to 5,000, all of whom must be seated. The Union of Contemporary Music (SMA), which represents festivals, concert venues and producers, said late Thursday that the figure had been agreed at a meeting with Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot. "We know a little more about the general framework, but there are still areas of uncertainty," Aurelie Hannedouche of the SMA told AFP. "What is certain is that the 2021 festival season will not be like the others," she said. The top French festivals, which in normal times can attract hundreds of thousands of people, were divided between those saying it was now pointless to go ahead and others welcoming the clear horizon. The ... More
Meet the newest member of the fluorescent mammal club
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Platypuses do it. Opossums do it. Even three species of North American flying squirrel do it. Tasmanian devils, echidnas and wombats may also do it, although the evidence is not quite so robust. And, breaking news: Two species of rabbit-size rodents called springhares do it. That is, they glow under black light, that perplexing quirk of certain mammals that is baffling biologists and delighting animal lovers all over the world. Springhares, which hop around the savannas of southern and eastern Africa, werent on anyones fluorescence bingo card. Like the other glowing mammals, they are nocturnal. But unlike the other creatures, they are Old World placental mammals, an evolutionary group not previously represented. Their glow, a unique pinkish-orange the authors call funky and vivid, forms surprisingly variable ... More
Galerie Michael Janssen announces an online solo exhibition by artist Jana Cordenier
BERLIN.- For the second installment of its online exhibition series, Galerie Michael Janssen presents a solo exhibition by artist Jana Cordenier titled Watercolours. This exhibition is the artists second showing with the gallery, who debuted last year with her solo exhibition Paradise. Eponymously, Watercolours presents a selection of four watercolors on paper, which are on view for the first time. The works were painted over the course of a year from 2019 to 2020. Cordeniers large scale watercolors contain interpretations of the artists surroundings: landscapes and nature of the South of France and Belgium, whose colors and impressions the artist records en plein air. The paintings bear traces of the artists investigations, collections of leaves, flowers, branches, and stones gleaned from ambulatory promenades. The artist creates these drawings in-situ by spreading blan ... More
OSL contemporary opens a solo exhibition comprising a group of fifty watercolours by Callum Innes
OSLO.- OSL contemporary and i8 Gallery are presenting 'a pure land', a solo exhibition by Callum Innes. The show comprises a group of fifty watercolours constituting a single, major work by the artist. a pure land is collaboratively presented by OSL and i8; this marks the artists third show with each gallery. The exhibition opened on February 19 at OSL contemporary and will be on view until March 20 in Oslo; it subsequently travels to i8 Gallery where it will be on view from April 8 to May 22 in ReykjavÃk. Watercolour has been an integral part of Inness practice for several decades, and the artist cites its luminosity as the reason he continually returns to the medium. Innes eschews the looseness and quickness often inherent to watercolour, instead relying on his methodic style of painting to explore the possibilities of color and form. As is common ... More
Major exhibition by pioneering artist Dusti Bongé opens at The Mississippi Museum of Art
JACKSON, MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art will open Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, an expansive survey revealing the full range of the pioneering artists oeuvre. Considered Mississippis first artist to work consistently in a Modernist style, Dusti Bongé (190393) was active in New Yorks dynamic art scene and creative communities which flourished along the Gulf Coast in the 1930s through the early 1990s. During her lifetime, she created a multifaceted body of work that transitioned from figurative and Cubist depictions of scenes of her hometown Biloxi in the late 1930s, through a period of Surrealism and into Abstract Expressionism that defines her mature work. On view February 20 through May 23, 2021, the exhibition comprises 65 paintings, 29 works on paper, and three sculptures drawn from private loans and public ... More
A hitchhiker's guide to an ancient geomagnetic disruption
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- About 42,000 years ago, Earth was beset with oddness. Its magnetic field collapsed. Ice sheets surged across North America, Australasia and the Andes. Wind belts shifted across the Pacific and Antarctic oceans. Prolonged drought hit Australia; that continents biggest mammals went extinct. Humans took to caves to make ochre-color art. Neanderthals died off for good. Through it all, one giant kauri tree stood tall until, after nearly two millenniums, it died and fell in a swamp, where the chemical records embedded in its flesh were immaculately preserved. That tree, unearthed a few years ago near Ngawha Springs in northern New Zealand, finally allowed researchers to fit a tight timeline to what before had seemed like an intriguing but only vaguely correlated series of events. What if, the ... More
Black History Month is a good excuse for delving into our art
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Black History Month feels more urgent this year. Its roots go back to 1926, when historian Carter G. Woodson developed Negro History Week, near the February birthdays of both President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in the belief that new stories of Black life could counter old racist stereotypes. Now in this age of racial reckoning and social distancing, our need to connect with each other has never been greater. As a professor of African American studies, I am increasingly animated by the work of teachers who have updated Woodsons goal for the 21st century. Just this week, my 8-year-old daughter showed me a letter written by her entire third-grade art class to Faith Ringgold, the 90-year-old African American artist. And my son told me about a recent pre-K lesson on Ruby ... More
Prince Markie Dee, founding member of rap trio Fat Boys, dies at 52
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Prince Markie Dee, who as a member of the trio Fat Boys released some of hip-hops most commercially successful albums of the 1980s and helped speed the genres absorption into pop culture, died Thursday in Miami. He was 52. His death was confirmed by Rock the Bells, a SiriusXM station where he had been a host. No cause was given. In the mid-1980s, Fat Boys were among hip-hop's best known groups; their 1987 album Crushin went platinum and featured a collaboration with the Beach Boys, Wipeout, that was their biggest hit, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. That year, the group starred in a full-length comedy, Disorderlies. Hip-hop was just beginning to become accepted into the mainstream of American pop culture, and the groups lighthearted rhymes, accessible dance ... More
John F. Kennedy's Harvard sweater sold for more than $85,000 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- John F. Kennedy's Harvard sweater sold for $85,266, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The crimson red wool cardigan sweater with shawl collar, featuring a large black block-letter "H" for his alma mater, Harvard, knitted into the left breast. A label sewn into the collar is embroidered in red thread with his surname, "Kennedy." The handsome, classically-styled collegiate sweater features eight brilliant white mother-of-pearl buttons, with two sewn-in pockets on the front. The sweater was acquired by Herman Lang, a cameraman who was shooting a network television interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in May 1964. Lang was believed to have been offered the sweater while shooting outdoors because of the cold weather. When he attempted to return it, he was told to keep it as a reminder of the late John F. Kennedy. ... More
Milford Graves, singular drummer and polymath, dies at 79
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- By the time Milford Graves took up the jazz drum kit, in his early 20s, he had spent years playing timbales in Afro-Latin groups. But on the kit he was confronted with the new challenge of using foot pedals as well as his hands. Rather than learn the standard jazz technique, he drew from what he already knew. In the Latin ensembles, wed be doing dance movements while we were playing, he remembered in a 2018 profile in The New York Times. So I said: Thats all Ill do. Im going to start dancing down below. I started dancing on the high-hat. The resulting style became unlike anything heard before in jazz. Graves mixed polyrhythms constantly, sometimes carrying a different cadence in each limb; the rhythms would diverge, then vaporize. He removed the bottom skins from his drums, deepening and dilating ... More
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY
Madelynn Green
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Jan de Baen was born February 20, 1633. Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 - 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exile, and from 1660 until his death he lived and worked in The Hague. His portraits were popular in his day, and he painted the most distinguished people of his time. In this image: Members of the magistrate of The Hague, 1682.
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