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David Byrne installs one of his tree drawings, Human Content, at Pace Gallery in New York, Jan. 14, 2022. The gallery show How I Learned About Non-Rational Logic features 48 of Byrnes whimsical line drawings. Im trying to imagine connections between things that we dont normally think of as being connected, Byrne said of his long-running project. Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times.
by Frank Rose
NEW YORK, NY.- David Byrne is all about connectedness these days. âEverybodyâs coming to my house / And Iâm never gonna be alone,â he sings on Broadway in âAmerican Utopia,â half joyful, half fretful, still open. His online magazine, Reasons to Be Cheerful â which bills itself as âa tonic for tumultuous timesâ â catalogs all the ways in which people are pulling together to make sure the world does not in fact go to hell in a handbasket. And on Wednesday, he reprises this theme of connectedness at Pace Gallery in Chelsea with a show of 48 whimsical line drawings that span 20 years of art making, from his âtreeâ series of the early â00s to the âdingbatsâ he made in lockdown in 2020-21. Byrneâs drawings are modest affairs, not much bigger than a standard sheet of paper. They compare perhaps with George Cruikshankâs illustrations for âOliver Twist,â or John Tennielâs for âAlice in Wonderland.â But when I dropped by the gallery two weeks ago to see them being hung, I found him about 15 feet in the air, st ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Frist Art Museum presents On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, an exhibition exploring the diverse cultural and political landscapes of Cuba and its diaspora through paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and installations by fifty artists. Drawn from one of the largest public collections of Cuban art in the United States, On the Horizon will be on view from January 28 through May 1, 2022. Photo: John Schweikert.
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| Art Basel shifts Hong Kong show dates from March to May 2022 | | Exhibition offers a look into all facets of French artist Bernar Venet's 60-year career | | 'The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics' opens at the Holburne Museum |
Art Basel Hong Kong 2021 © Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- Art Basel today postponed its Hong Kong show, which was scheduled to take place in March 2022, to May 2022 in response to the ongoing impact of the pandemic situation in Hong Kong. Featuring 137 leading galleries from 28 countries and territories, the 2022 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) from May 27 to May 29, 2022, with preview days on May 25 and May 26, 2022. The decision to move to the planned contingency dates in May was taken in close consultation with Art Basels gallerists, collectors, and partners, in response to the sudden increase in cases in Hong Kong during the last couple of days and to give exhibitors and partners the ability to plan ahead. By taking this decision early, our goal is to ensure that we will be able to welcome the broadest possible community of art supporters and members of the public at HKCEC, in addition to the international audience that ... More | |
Bernar Venet, Six Indeterminate Lines, 2009-2019. Rolled steel. 290 x 300 x 300 cm. Exhibition: Kasmin, New York, 2019. Photo: Chris Stach, Courtesy Kasmin, New York © Bernar Venet.
BERLIN.- Bernar Venet, 19612021. 60 Years of Sculpture, Painting & Performance is the internationally-renowned French artists largest and most comprehensive retrospective in the world to date, spanning the entirety of his complex and widely diverse oeuvre as a sculptor, painter, performance artist and radical conceptual artist. The exhibition will bring together over 150 works, reflecting the artists uncompromising approach and natural obsession for constantly shaping his environment through his art. On view from January 29 May 30, 2022, the show is the first in a series of exhibitions to unfold over the next two years in the Kunsthalle Berlin across the spectacular hangars 2 and 3 of Berlins emblematic Tempelhof Airport. Organized by the Stiftung für Kunst and Kultur, curated by Walter Smerling, Bernar Venet, ... More | |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist, circa 1575 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
BATH.- In the Holburne Museums opening exhibition of 2022, The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, visitors will come face-to-face with the five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - who, to this day, remain some of the most familiar figures in English history; not least because these instantly recognisable portraits have preserved their likenesses for five centuries. This focused exhibition, has been developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and National Museums Liverpool. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to see a large group of works from The Gallerys popular Tudor Collection, while the NPG is currently closed for the Inspiring People redevelopment project. The exhibition includes some of the most iconic images in British painting, including the Darnley and Armada portraits of Elizabeth I. Several of the works have never been shown outsid ... More |
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| Franz Marc's 'The Foxes' to be the centrepiece of Christie's global auction season, Shanghai to London | | Zentrum Paul Klee opens the first comprehensive retrospective in Switzerland devoted to Gabrielle Münter | | Museums celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first Yves Saint Laurent runway show |
Franz Marc, The Foxes (1913), Estimate on Request (in the region of £35,000,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Franz Marcs 1913 masterpiece The Foxes, will be offered for sale at Christies on 1 March 2022 with a pre-sale estimate on request (in the region of £35,000,000). It will be the centrepiece of Christies 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, a key auction within the 20/21 Shanghai to London series, which launches our major international sales of 2022. Filled with a vivid play of vibrant colour and prismatic form, The Foxes is a masterpiece of German Expressionism, which has graced several great collections over the course of its life, most recently the Kunstpalast Museum in Düsseldorf, before its restitution to the heirs of Kurt and Else Grawi. Painted in 1913, at the critical moment when Modernist movements were booming across Europe, it is among the most accomplished of the artists pioneering avant-garde paintings. The Foxes reveals the bold experimentation of Marcs revolutionary artistic idiom in ... More | |
Gabriele Münter, Dame im Sessel, schreibend (Stenografie. Schweizerin in Pyjama), 1929. Ãl auf Leinwand, 61,5 x 46,2 cm. Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, München © 2021, ProLitteris, Zürich.
BERN.- The Zentrum Paul Klee is showing the first comprehensive retrospective in Switzerland devoted to the varied oeuvre of Gabrielle Münter (1877-1962), co-founder of the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) and a major artist in German Expressionism. Apart from paintings, prints and drawings, the exhibition will also include part of her photographic work. As co-founder of the legendary artist group Der Blaue Reiter, Gabriele Münter is one of the most important artists in German Expressionism, and is seen as a pioneer of modern art. In a professional world dominated by men she created an extremely multifaceted body of work over six decades, and developed a powerful pictorial language of her own. Like many of her female contemporaries, Gabriele Münter remained ignored by art history for a long time. Even in the progressive circle ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Nusch Eluard, Automne 1937 © Succession Picasso-Gestion droits dauteur Eluard Nusch (1906-1946).
PARIS.- To celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first Yves Saint Laurent runway show; Yves Saint Laurent aux musées will convene six Parisian museums: the Centre Pompidou, the Musée dArt Moderne de Paris, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée dOrsay, the Musée national Picasso-Paris and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, and delve into the profound inspirational bond the couturier had with art in general. Conceived and made possible by the Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, the exhibition will foster a dialogue between a selection of garments, including some of the couturiers most iconic designs, and the permanent collections of the Parisian museums. Important archive materials from the fashion house, carefully preserved over the years by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, will be presented at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris. Largely unknown, ... More |
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| School board in Tennessee bans teaching of Holocaust novel 'Maus' | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens major survey of Hito Steyerl | | Frist Art Museum opens "On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami" |
The board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel from classrooms because it contained swear words, according to minutes from the meeting.
by Jenny Gross
NEW YORK, NY.- A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously this month to ban Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from being taught in its classrooms because the book contains material that board members said was inappropriate for students. According to minutes of its meeting, the 10-person board, in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted Jan. 10 to remove the book from the eighth-grade curriculum. Members of the board said the book, which portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in recounting the authors parents experience during the Holocaust, contained inappropriate curse words and a depiction of a naked character. There is some rough, objectionable language in this book, said Lee Parkison, director of schools for McMinn County, in eastern Tennessee, according to minutes of the meeting. Art ... More | |
Installation view Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive, 2022, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Hito Steyerl, SocialSim, 2020. Courtesy the artist, Esther Schipper, Berlin and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Photo: Peter Tijhuis. © Hito Steyerl.
AMSTERDAM.- The major solo Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive opens at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on January 29, 2022. An artist, cultural critic, filmmaker, writer and professor, Hito Steyerl (1966) is one of the most significant and influential figures in contemporary art. She operates on the boundary between film and visual art, working in genres ranging from documentary cinema to innovative multimedia installations. Her rigorously researched and visually stunning installations illuminate some of the most pressing issues of our time. Hito Steyerl is a master storyteller, utilizing image, sound, essays, performance and architectural environments to shape her narratives. Her recent works develop an entire, completely immersive installation for each video. Steyerls Factory of the Sun (2015), which debuted when the artist represented Germany at the 2015 Venice Biennale, takes place in a ... More | |
Luis Cruz Azaceta. Caught, 1993. Acrylic on paper, 48 x 42 1/2 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, an exhibition exploring the diverse cultural and political landscapes of Cuba and its diaspora through paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and installations by fifty artists. Drawn from one of the largest public collections of Cuban art in the United States, On the Horizon will be on view from January 28 through May 1, 2022. Featuring approximately seventy works by Cuban artists of multiple generations, the exhibition inspires dialogue regarding the physical, social, and political landscape of the island and its diaspora. Artists include Yoan Capote, Los Carpinteros, Teresita Fernández, Enrique Martinez-Celaya, and Zilia Sánchez. Vanderbilt University art professor MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons, who won the prestigious Pérez Prize from the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2021 in honor of her powerful explorations of history, r ... More |
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| After 600 years, Swiss city at last has a woman on night watch | | Chrysler Museum of Art presents the multimedia work of international artist Hew Locke | | International Center of Photography presents "Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale" |
Cassandre Berdoz, the first woman ever appointed to the role of night watch, sits in a small room between the bells of the cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec. 23, 2021. Clara Tuma/The New York Times.
by Raphael Minder
LAUSANNE.- From the top of Lausannes cathedral late at night, Cassandre Berdoz is shouting out, loudly and on the hour, for womens rights in Switzerland, a country that has been a laggard in gender equality. Berdoz, 28, is the first woman ever appointed to the role of night watch in Lausanne, despite the city having had plenty of time to do so: It has preserved this job for more than 600 years, even if it no longer fulfills the lifesaving function it had in centuries past, when the night watch helped safeguard residents against fire and other nighttime disasters. Announcing the time is no longer needed in a country famous for its watches, but Berdoz still maintains the timekeeping element of her ancient job, too. From the four sides of the bell tower, she cries out each hour, just after the ... More | |
Hew Locke (Guyanese-British b. 1959), The Tourists, 2015. Video still. Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum for HMS Belfast, London. Images courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York © Hew Locke.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art is presenting multimedia work of international acclaim in Hew Locke: The Ghostly Tourists, on view Jan. 28June 26, 2022. The show marks Lockes first solo exhibition in the southeastern region and showcases Ghost (2015), a sculpture the Chrysler acquired in 2020, and The Tourists (2015), a film that invites viewers to join a crew on their final voyage to the Caribbean. Together, the works use satire to confront colonization and the violence of war. Hew Lockes works, though related to Britains naval history, also connect to Norfolks legacy as a major naval port. The exhibition will remind visitors of a time when boats and ships were the main vehicle of exploring the world, said Kimberli Gant, Ph.D., the Chryslers McKinnon curator of modern & contemporary art. Lockes practice delves into the ... More | |
Aspen Mays, Dodging Tools, 2013. © Aspen Mays, Courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures Generation.
NEW YORK, NY.- How big can a photograph be? And how small? Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale, on view at the International Center of Photography from January 28 through May 2, 2022, is a playful yet philosophical exhibition of more than 20 diverse images that share the same dimensions as life itself. Curated by David Campany, ICPs managing director of programs, and conceived especially for ICPs unique double-height gallery and 30-foot spotlight wall, the exhibition is a rethinking of the fundamental qualities of the elastic medium of photography in which images can be reproduced as small as postcards or as large as billboards regardless of their real-life dimensions. Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale explores what happens when a photograph is the very same size as its subject matterwhen a photograph of a bus is the size of a bus, when a photograph of Muhammad Alis fist is its actual size, when a postcard of hail stones ... More |
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New-York Historical Society examines how monuments shape public consciousness and our shared history
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society presents Monuments: Commemoration and Controversyon view January 28 July 3, 2022an exhibition that explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding todays controversies, Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York Citys first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among other objects from the Museums collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have ... More
Ron Goulart, prolific writer who spanned genres, dies at 89
NEW YORK, NY.- Ron Goulart, a remarkably prolific science fiction, fantasy, mystery and romance novelist who cast Groucho Marx as a detective and collaborated with William Shatner on a series of books set in the 22nd century, died Jan. 14 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He was 89. His wife, Frances Sheridan Goulart, said the death, at a nursing home, was caused by respiratory arrest. Goulart wrote at least 180 books and that number may underestimate his output. His goal was to write as many books as Isaac Asimov, who at his death was credited with having written about 500. He might have gotten writers block at some point, but it didnt last long, his wife, who herself has written 16 books, said in a phone interview. He would just switch from one genre to another if he got stuck. Well known to aficionados but without a bestseller to his name, Goulart ... More
The Met Opera never missed a curtain. It hopes audiences rebound.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Saturday evening, if all goes as planned, the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate a milestone: reaching a long-planned midwinter break without having had to cancel a single performance, even as the pandemic created havoc backstage. As the omicron variant spread through the city in December and January, the virus upended the Mets operations, with at least 400 singers, orchestra players, stagehands, costume designers, dancers, actors and other employees testing positive, according to a snapshot of cases provided by the Met on Friday. But there are encouraging signs that at the opera house, as in the city, the recent surge has peaked and cases are falling dramatically again. During the first week of January, as cases were reaching new heights in New York, more than 100 employees at the Met tested positive, including six solo ... More
Sweden's songwriters dominated U.S. pop. Now, they're looking to Korea.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Swedish songwriter Ellen Berg first heard a K-pop track, in 2013, her reaction was typical of many Western listeners: What the hell is this? she recalled thinking. Berg, 31, was studying at Musikmakarna a songwriting academy about 330 miles north of Stockholm and her class had been asked to write a Korean hit. To get the aspiring songwriters in the mood, the students listened to I Got a Boy by Girls Generation, a wildly popular K-pop girl group. Its one of the craziest K-pop songs ever, Berg said recently by phone. The track includes raps, bursts of high-speed dance music and even a verse in the style of a rock ballad. Its really five different songs in one, Berg said. The class was given a week to write something like it. It didnt go very well, Berg said with a laugh. Eight years later, Berg has certainly improved ... More
Rare Kurt Cobain NFT debuts on SuperRare
NEW YORK, NY.- SuperRare, the pioneering marketplace for curated NFT artwork, presents On Stage with Henry Diltz the debut NFT Collection by renowned rock n roll sharpshooter and official Woodstock music festival photographer Henry Diltz. For this dynamic drop, Diltz has meticulously animated and brought to life, each photograph which will be minted only once. The sale opens to bidders worldwide with a one-of-a-Kind Kurt Cobain snap, capturing the incredible energy and stage presence of Nirvana's formidable front man, on January 26, 2022 at 9am PST /12pm EST. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was captured in concert (Los Angeles, 1993), for this authentic, animated, and indelible image, opening with a reserve price of 7 ETH. Reminiscing on his killer capture of Kurt Cobain in concert, Diltz states, I dont know where it came from, but I got that ... More
Dovecot brings the archive of Morris & Co., one of the world's best known interior brands, to Scotland
EDINBURGH.- Dovecot, the world-renowned tapestry studio in Edinburgh, presents a new interpretation of William Morris wallpaper designs. Opening 28 January 2022 this major exhibition highlights why Morris is regarded as one of the most successful pattern designers of all time and why his designs continue to set trends worldwide. William Morris (1834-1896) is one of the worlds most successful pattern designers. A British craftsman and pioneer of modern design, Morris started designing wallpapers in the 1860s. Within a decade, he was creating some of his most enduring designs including 'Larkspur', 'Jasmine' (both 1872), 'Willow' (1874) and 'Marigold' (1875). The exhibition features over 130 works from the Sanderson and Morris & Co. archives spanning from the 1830s to the 1920s. It traces the history from the founding of Morris & Co. Key ... More
The evolution of Black music, and a man's soul, in one show
NEW YORK, NY.- A Black man in New York City, during the Harlem Renaissance, is hoping for a life without bigotry. This is Harlem after all, a Black enclave, the epicenter of culture and creativity. Here, hed have an easier time in getting along. Or so he thought. He soon learns that utopia is an illusion, that racism prevails no matter the location. In the North, he discovers, the racism is subtle: Hes somehow not the right fit for his job, though his supervisor, a white man, says hes doing well. Others think hes too uppity, so he is let go. Distraught, he undergoes a procedure to turn himself white and retreats to Atlanta. There he sees how prejudiced whites speak of Black people when they arent in the room: The n word is tossed around with the hard -er. He soon realizes that his new skin tone cant save him, either. The life he wants means ... More
Ingleby Gallery exhibits James Hugonin's most recent series
EDINBURGH.- This exhibition marks the end of James Hugonins most recent series, collectively titled Fluctuations in Elliptical Form, a sequence of eight paintings begun in 2015 and completed at the end of 2021. Seven of the eight paintings are reunited in this exhibition. For the last four decades, James has pursued a deeply personal way of making pictures in which small marks of wax-thinned oil paint are applied across an underlying grid, with each painting taking, on average, a year to complete. For almost all this time he has lived and worked in his native Northumbria, in a home shared with the artist Sarah Bray, who he met as a fellow student at West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, in 1973. They live on the edge of the Cheviot Hills, on the English side of the border country with Scotland, in a house on a hill looking towards Lindisfarne ... More
Rago/Wright to bring Gene Moore's Tiffany & Co. circus to town
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago/Wright will bring a remarkable selection of circus figures designed by Gene Moore for Tiffany & Co. to auction as part of Jewels XOXO on February 9th. Rarely presented in such quantity, these 60+ original sterling and enamel figures were collected over decades by Hollywood and Broadway producer Robert Boyett, and are sure to enchant generations to come. Renowned the world over as a boundary-pushing window designer for Tiffany & Co., Gene Moore was a master of fantastical world-building. From the mid-1950s to the late 1990s, Moore crafted wildly enchanting scenes for Tiffanys Fifth Avenue flagship, even incorporating the contemporary art of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. In the 1980s, he branched out into designing a new sort of spectacle drawn from historic Americana: a circus in miniature, ... More
Los Angeles is changing. Can a flagship theater keep up?
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For 55 years, the Center Theater Group has showcased theater in a city that has always been known for the movies. Its three stages have championed important new works Angels in America, Zoot Suit and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, to name three of its most acclaimed offerings while importing big-ticket crowd pleasers from Broadway (coming this spring: The Lehman Trilogy). But this Los Angeles cultural institution is at a crossroads as it goes through its first leadership change in 17 years and confronts questions about its mission, programming and appeal in a changing city, all amid a debilitating pandemic. Michael Ritchie, the organizations artistic director, announced last summer that he would retire nearly 18 months before his contract ended in June 2023; he stepped down at the end of the December, citing the need ... More
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'In-Between'
Primary Colors
The Last Judgment
Golden Shells and the Gentle Mastery of Japanese Lacquer
Flashback On a day like today, American painter Barnett Newman was born January 29, 1905. Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency. In this image: Barnett Newman, Thirteenth Station, 1965/1966. Acrylic on canvas, 198.2 x 152.5 cm (78 1/16 x 60 1/16 in.). Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff.
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