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A preview of KAWS exhibition at Brooklyn Museum in New York, Feb. 23, 2021. The Simpsons, Snoopy and the Smurfs are all here in a survey of the artist Brian Donnellys 25-year career. Kirsten Luce/The New York Times.
by Max Lakin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Marshall McLuhan suggested art is whatever you can get away with. Andy Warhol, who was so expert at appropriation that the quote is often attributed to him, proved McLuhan right. Since then, many artists have accepted the idea as a personal challenge, draining appropriation of its thrill. Entire fashion companies are predicated on it. People like what they know. Brian Donnelly, 46, who has worked as KAWS since the mid-1990s, figured that out early on. He got his start colonizing walls and billboards in his native Jersey City with his kinetic graffiti tag, spray-painting lettering that alternated between jagged and bloated (the word KAWS has no deep meaning; Donnelly chose the letters because he liked the way they looked together). Somewhere along the way, he became a market heavyweight, a favorite of both street art enthusiasts and high-octane collectors. KAWS: WHAT PARTY, a fast and tight survey of Donnellys 25-year career, opening to the public Friday at ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view 'Henry Taylor' Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2021. Photo: Ken Adlard. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Henry Taylor.
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| Pop art legend Ruby Mazur debuts new "Rock-n-Roll Last Supper" at top Hawaii gallery | | Nelson-Atkins begins serial release of French paintings catalogue | | "Guernica" tapestry long on view at UN, no longer is |
Ruby Mazur, Dayglo Mouth and Tongue. Oil on canvas.
MAUI.- Legendary pop artist Ruby Mazur debuted his latest work Rock-n-Roll Last Supper, a massive five by twelve foot oil on canvas, as part of his latest exhibit at Hawaiis Holle Fine Art gallery at 839 Front Street in Lahaina, HI on the island of Maui. The gallery exhibit welcomes in-person guests with social distancing and encouraged mask-wearing, along with online viewing and spotlights Mazurs rock-n-roll rendition of the iconic masterpiece along with a large selection of recent, mostly music and pop-culture influenced works. Over the past 45 years, his innovative & influential artistry has been displayed in galleries around the world. His original paintings, in which he uses both oil and acrylic, are also available as open edition fine art giclée on canvas prints which are hand-embellished and signed by Mazur, most available in three varied sizes; 18 by 24, 24 by 30 and 30 by ... More | |
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890). Olive Trees, June/September 1889 (detail), oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 inches (73 x 92.1 cm), The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 32-2.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A 12-year scholarly project involving curators, conservators, scientists, and independent scholars at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City culminates with the launch of a digital catalogue of the museums French paintings and pastels. Built on the Quire digital platform developed by the Getty Foundation and refined for museum use through close collaboration, this catalogue marks the Nelson-Atkins first foray into the field of digital publishing, offering free and open access to all. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kress Foundation, and the Bloch Family Foundation, it encompasses the most up-to-date scholarship and conservation examination of the museums collection of 106 ... More | |
Headquarters of the UN in New York City. Photo: Neptuul.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A large tapestry depicting Pablo Picasso's fabled "Guernica" that hung outside the UN Security Council chamber for decades to remind diplomats of the risks of war has returned to its owner, Nelson Rockefeller, Jr., officials said Thursday. Commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller and woven by the French workshop Jacqueline de La Baume-Dürrbach, the tapestry had been on loan to the world body since 1984. Presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors and diplomats attending Security Council meetings passed by it on the way to the chamber of the most important UN body responsible for peace in the world. The United Nations did not explain why the Rockefeller family wanted to take the tapestry back. The Rockefeller Foundation had no immediate comment. On Thursday, the wall on which the tapestry hung -- depicting the bombing of the Spanish city ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth Somerset opens an online exhibition of works by Henry Taylor | | Hong Kong university scraps World Press Photo exhibit over 'safety' fears | | Hindman Auctions to present Springborn Collection of Contemporary Craft sale this March |
Henry Taylor, Y'ALL STARTED THIS SHIT ANYWAY, 2021. Mixed media. Unique, 189.3 x 150 x 51 cm / 74 1/2 x 59 x 20 1/8 in. Photo: Ken Adlard. © Henry Taylor. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Henry Taylor culls his cultural landscape at a vigorous pace, creating a language entirely his own from archival and immediate imagery, disparate material and memory. Through a process he describes as hunting and gathering, Taylor transports us into imagined realities that interrogate the breadth of the human condition, social movements and political structures. For his inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, the American artist has taken over all five galleries in Somerset to present a major body of sculptural work and paintings, evolving in unison across the spaces. Throughout his four-decade long career, Taylor has consistently and simultaneously both embraced and rejected the tenets of traditional painting as well as any formal label. He has amassed a staggering body of highly personal work rooted in the people and communities ... More | |
This undated photo shows AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba, who won the World Press Photo of the Year and first prize in the General News-Singles category on April 16, 2020, posing in an unknown location. Shiggy Yoshida / AFP.
HONG KONG (AFP).- A Hong Kong university has scrapped an exhibition of World Press Photo winners just days ahead of its opening, citing "safety and security" fears. The decision by Hong Kong Baptist University comes as Beijing and local authorities oversee a sweeping crackdown on dissent in the city. World Press Photo is an annual competition that awards "the best visual journalism" around the world each year. AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba bagged last year's top prize with an image of a man in Sudan reciting poetry during anti-government protests. The exhibition was also set to include prize-winning images of the huge and often violent pro-democracy protests that swept Hong Kong in 2019. "After giving due consideration to campus safety and security, and the need to maintain pandemic control, Hong Kong Baptist ... More | |
Cowabunga II, 1990. Wendy Maruyama. Estimate: $2,000-4,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions will present the Springborn Collection of Contemporary Craft sale on March 23, 2021. The auction will feature furniture from respected collectors Robert and Carolyn Springborn, with works by renowned designers known for their contributions to the American studio craft movement, including Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, Wendy Maruyama, Sam Maloof, Toots Zynsky, Judy Kensley McKie, and others. Based on the rejection of mass production, the studio craft movement was rooted in one-of-a-kind, expressive design made by hand and built on the ideas of experimentation and creativity. Independent curator and design scholar Glenn Adamson describes the Springborns as lucky enough to be there when the studio furniture field crested to its height. And smart enough to catch the wave. Known as the leader of the studio furniture movement, the Wendell Castle works included in the auction illustrate his outstanding craf ... More |
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| Basilica of St Francis in Assisi opens its doors for a live virtual guided tour | | Rajie Cook, who helped make sense of public spaces, dies at 90 | | History is present in "Future Retrieval: Close Parallel," making its debut at Cincinnati Art Museum |
Siân Walters, founder of Art History in Focus and Cultural Travels from Home, lecturing at The National Gallery.
LONDON.- For the first time in its 800-year history, on 4 March 2021 the internationally renowned Basilica of St Francis in Assisi will open its doors for a live virtual guided tour, which will be accessible from anywhere in the world. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Basilica is one of the most important places for Christian pilgrimage and houses one of Western arts most famous series of paintings: the celebrated cycle of frescoes dedicated to the life of St Francis, traditionally attributed to Giotto. Closed for much of the past year due to Covid-19 regulations and currently only able to open for the local community, this event will allow visitors to travel virtually to the Basilica and is part of a programme of live virtual guided tours to museums, galleries, art studios and heritage sites in cultural cities around the world all of which are either currently closed or severely restricted in welcoming visitors as a result of the pandemic. The programme, entitled Cultural Trave ... More | |
"Nursery" sign designed by Cook and Shanosky for the US Department of Transportation.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rajie Cook often joked that museumgoers were more likely to encounter his artwork in their travels than a portrait by Matisse or a landscape by van Gogh. They saw it whenever they took an elevator to an upper gallery or stopped in the restroom. In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to develop a set of symbols that could be universally understood and that would efficiently convey the kinds of information people in a public place might need which restroom was for which gender, the location of the nearest elevator, whether smoking was permitted and so on. The signage the two came up with, 34 pictographs (with others added later), is still in use today: the generic male and female figures; the cigarette in a circle with the red line through it; the minimalist locomotive and plane to signify train station and airport. But Cooks artistic interests went well beyond utilitarian signs. By the time Cook ... More | |
Mirror, circa 1927, Paul Theodore Frankl (18861958), United States, wood, aluminum leaf and mirrored glass, Cincinnati Art Museum; Gift of the Estate of Mrs. James M. Hutton II, 1969.411.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Artworks from the museums permanent collection are reimagined in the new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition Future Retrieval: Close Parallel on view Feb. 26Aug. 29. A Rhesus monkey in gleaming aluminum, parrots in wool shag, flowers and mushrooms in porcelain and hand cut paper. This exhibition allows the new and unexpected to delight in dialogue with the historic. In Close Parallel, the contemporary work of Future Retrieval commingles with selections from the museums permanent collection. Traditional motifs are reinterpreted. The natural world creeps in, to fascinating effect, and familiar materials are reworked into surprising new forms. Future Retrieval is the name of the studio collaboration of artists Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis, both former University of Cincinnati DAAP faculty members. Their unique practice involves the acquisition and reinventions of historical forms ... More |
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| Jack Shainman Gallery opens an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson | | Lincoln Center will head outside its closed theaters to perform | | PinchukArtCentre opens a solo exhibition by Nikita Kadan "Stone Hits Stone" |
Jackie Nickerson, Wrapped, 2019. Digital c-print, 60 x 48 inches (print) Ed.1,1AP. Images courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Field Test, a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson. With photographic compositions that are almost sculptural in nature, there is a stunning materiality to these anonymous portrait-like photographs, in which faces are shrouded, shielded, perhaps suffocated both literally, by the vibrant, textured plastics that wrap each figure, and metaphorically, by the consumerism of the modern world. At the core of this series is Nickersons engagement with the socio- and psychological stress of technology and the effects its ever-present byproducts have on the human body. From the industrialization of plastic to the rapidly changing, abstract digital realm, these images respond to the readily evident fact that technology is reshaping the world, and those who inhabit it. While Nickersons photographs have historically explored synthetic and natural ... More | |
Lincoln Center in New York, Sept. 5, 2020. A lot of Midtown Manhattan is packed into the beloved stretch between Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Zack DeZon/The New York Times.
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lincoln Center is known for the grandeur of its theaters and concert halls: the stately, majestic Metropolitan Opera House, which seats 3,800; David Geffen Hall, aglow as New York Philharmonic fans file in for an evening performance; the David H. Koch Theater, home to New York City Ballet and designed specifically with dance in mind. But with those spaces closed to public performances for nearly a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Lincoln Center is now looking beyond the walls of its travertine-clad buildings to another part of its 16-acre campus: the outdoor space. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that it plans to create 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces, becoming the latest entrant in the effort ... More | |
Installation view. Photograph provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2021. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.
KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents Stone Hits Stone by Nikita Kadan, made in the context of the PinchukArtCentres Research Platform. His first major solo exhibition in Ukraine presents both new produced and existing works reflecting on Ukrainian history, political violence, national historical heritage, avant-garde and Soviet utopia. This exhibition deals with present day challenges in its inextricable connection with the past, using history to enlighten the present and imagine the future. Björn Geldhof, curator of the exhibition and artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre: Stone Hits Stone is the first major solo exhibition by Nikita Kadan in Ukraine and his largest solo exhibition to date. It is a celebration of an artist who has created over the last 14 years a vibrant international career while influencing and supporting many Ukrainian artists. For the PinchukArtCentre, Nikita Kadan is j ... More |
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ICA/Boston announces 2021 recipients of the James and Audrey Foster Prize
BOSTON, MASS.- Marlon Forrester, Eben Haines, and Dell Marie Hamilton have been named the recipients of the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, the museum announced today. This group of artists works in a diversity of media, including collage, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and installation, with unique artistic practices that share the impulse to create connections with other artists through their work. Developed against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the individual projects reflect each artists approach to community and exchange. The 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, the ICAs Assistant Curator and Publications Manager, and will open to the public on August 25, 2021. We are grateful to Jim and Audrey Foster for their support which allows ... More
Coventry City of Culture Trust puts diversity at the heart of governance with the appointment of new trustees
COVENTRY.- Today, 26 February, Coventry City of Culture Trust announced the appointment of seven new trustees in a major transformation of its governance. The new appointments form part of Coventry City of Culture Trusts long-term commitment to unleashing the cultural and creative potential in the city by ensuring diversity amongst its leaders.[1] The appointments form part of a wider policy to embed diverse leadership and opportunities at every level of the organisation, as well as engender change in partner organisations, both in the lead up to and during the City of Culture year (May 2021- May 2022) and beyond. Each trustee is expected to serve at least one term of three years, giving the new trustees accountability and oversight of Coventry City of Cultures core programme as well as its impact and legacy. Experts from the fields of ... More
Machu Picchu to reopen again, at 40% capacity
LIMA (AFP).- Peru's most popular tourist site Machu Picchu will reopen on Monday at 40 percent capacity having been closed throughout February due to a coronavirus lockdown, a government source said. "Daily, 897 people will be able to visit under strict health protocols," a culture ministry source told AFP on Thursday. The ancient Inca citadel was closed for almost eight months during 2020 due to the pandemic before reopening in November, but a second wave of the virus forced it to close again. Tourism has been the worst affected industry in Peru by Covid-19. "We need to reactivate and look ahead," Jean Paul Benavente, the governor of the Cusco region where Machu Picchu lies, told radio RPP. He said the region had lost $1.4 billion in 2020 due to the lack of tourists. "There are secure corridors for tourists, we have to reactivate ... More
Swiss orchestra's pandemic performances hit right note
GENEVA (AFP).- With Swiss concert halls shut due to the coronavirus crisis, musicians from one orchestra have taken a unique approach to lifting the spirits of the nation's music lovers Instead of playing to their usual packed houses, the musicians have taken to performing solo concerts for a single audience member sat just metres away. The result has been a much closer, more intimate experience -- with surprising results for performers and spectators alike Musicians from the Geneva-based orchestra of French-speaking Switzerland have been performing 10-minute works at venues around the city, including flower shops, boutiques and former industrial buildings. The single spectator is only given the date, time and location, with the performer and the music remaining a mystery until show-time. In a gallery on an island in the Rhone river, ... More
Intuit reopens with a new exhibition on George Widener
CHICAGO, IL.- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art reopened to the public on Friday, February 26, with a new exhibition featuring a breadth of work by George Widener. Intuit announced the opening of a new exhibition: In Focus: George Widener Selections from the Collection of Victor F. Keen. Born in Covington, Ky., in 1962, George Widener displayed mathematical prowess and exceptional memory from an early age. After encountering his first wall calendar in 1968 at his grandmother's house, Widener began a lifelong fascination with dates, calendars and numbers, which he now transforms into complex visual imagery. "George Widener is an exceptional living artist who blurs the boundary between outsider and contemporary art with his works that focus on numbers, dates, cities and codes. Although he has been exhibited ... More
American evangelicals, Israeli settlers and a skeptical filmmaker
TEL AVIV (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The bear hug between former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their governments was a partnership like no other the two countries had seen. For four years, Israel was Washingtons favorite foreign policy arena and Jerusalem its best friend, and the brash new U.S. approach to the Middle East dominated Israels national security discourse and its politics. Far less understood was one of the key underpinnings of that relationship: the intricate symbiosis between evangelical Christians in the United States and religious Jewish settlers in the West Bank. In a new documentary, Til Kingdom Come, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein delves into this unholy alliance, as she calls it, showing how the settlers reap enormous political support and raise money from ... More
Sealed Pokémon Base Set Booster Box marks game's 25th anniversary at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A rare Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (Wizards of the Coast, 1999) could bring $400,000 or more in Heritage Auctions Trading Month-Long Online Auction. Bidding is open now for on HA.com for the event, which closes March 25 and coincides with the 25th anniversary of Pokémon, which is Feb. 27. The auction includes 159 Pokémon lots. The popularity of Pokémon is global," said Jesus Garcia, Heritage Auctions Consignment Director for Trading Cards. "Levis is releasing a line of Pokémon-themed clothing, there is going to be a virtual concert with Post Malone, and Katy Perry has signed on to do a song on a project with the Pokémon Company. Heritage Auctions sold a similar copy in January 2021 for $408,000, which shows that the demand and popularity have never been higher." The First Edition ... More
From Easter Island, a pianist emerges
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From her home halfway up the highest hill on Rapa Nui, Mahani Teave was describing the power of nature there to overwhelm. On one side, I have an almost 180-degree view of the ocean, she said in a recent interview. A big fog is coming in from the hill on the other side. The profusion of stars gives the black of the sky a seemingly papier-mâché texture, she said. When the sounds of crickets cease, profound silence completes a stunning experience for the senses. Teave, 38, learned to appreciate such stirring encounters while growing up on Rapa Nui also known as Easter Island, the name imposed by European interlopers in 1722. From there, one of the remotest inhabited islands on the planet, this pianist went on to earn a place on the international concert stage. But rather than ... More
Tina Turner doc, lockdown films headline virtual Berlin fest
BERLIN (AFP).- The world premiere of a documentary about music legend Tina Turner and an "impressive" pack of pandemic-era movies will take the spotlight at an all-virtual Berlin film festival starting Monday. With theatres shuttered due to the coronavirus outbreak, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year was pushed back by a month, put online and divided into two parts as the movie industry struggles to find its feet. The Berlinale, now in its 71st year, will hold the competition for its Golden Bear top prize March 1-5 virtually for critics, reporters and rights buyers. For the second stage, organisers hope to invite stars and screen the films for the general public in June, mainly at open-air cinemas. Last year's event, one of the last before the pandemic, sold more than 330,000 tickets. The festival has also gone "gender neutral" with its acting ... More
Overlooked no more: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, whose art chronicled Black life
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Each morning at 4, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson would rise from the couch in her living room in Columbus, Ohio, and, with her dogs in tow, commit herself to her many continuing art projects. She would start, perhaps meditatively, with the watercolors in her basement, before moving on to other pieces in other rooms. Almost every part of her house-turned-studio had been given over to the tools of her craft: paint, brushes, journals, sketchbooks, buttons, fabrics, music boxes, found objects and what she called hogmawg, the sculptural material she made with pig grease, mud, homemade dyes and glue that gave her sculptures an almost petrified quality. Her vast library, weathered from research, served as a source of inspiration. A steady diet of coffee and cigarettes kept her awake. She worked ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter JoaquÃn Sorolla was born February 27, 1863. JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 - 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of his native land and sunlit water. In this image: Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (R) and Spain's Queen Letizia (L) attend the opening of the exhibition "Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light" at the National Gallery in central London on March 13, 2019. Jeff Gilbert / AFP / POOL.
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