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A reproduction of Paulus Potters 1647 painting The Bull, surrounded by about 1,000 questions Rem Koolhaas formulated while conducting research for the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, Countryside, the Future, on Nov. 2, 2020. In the last eight months, events have proved the celebrated architects premise prescient. By focusing on cities, planners have missed propulsive changes in the hinterlands. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This much we knew by Tuesday night: At the electoral level, at least, the divide between American cities and its hinterlands seems deeper than ever, with urban and rural having become almost synonyms for blue and red. The surprise that initially greeted this entrenched polarization reinforces, all too well, the thrust of the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: that the true terra incognita is outside of town. Countryside, the Future, organized by Dutch architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas, argues that architects, intellectuals and politicians have focused on metropolitan life to the point of myopia and have missed convulsive changes demographic ones, political ones, technological ones in sparsely populated regions. Five years in the making, Countryside opened Feb. 20 and closed three weeks later because of the coronavirus pandemic. The show is almost devoid of architecture as such and instead examines the design history of nonurb ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exterior of the Van Gogh Museum on the Museumplein in Amsterdam on November 5, 2020. Public spaces such as libraries, museums and cinemas have closed their doors for two weeks as the Dutch cabinet announced new measures to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP
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 | | In the Netherlands, a cartoon in school leads to online threats and an arrest | | Nationalmuseum announces acquisition of portraits created by Ivar Arosenius | | Sam Gilliam opens inaugural exhibition with Pace Gallery since joining it in July 2019 | 
People visit a makeshift memorial for Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on free speech, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
by Elian Peltier and Claire Moses
ROTTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A month after a teacher in France was beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class, fears are growing in the Netherlands that the ripple effects of the attack are spreading in that country. On Friday, an 18-year-old woman in the Dutch city of Rotterdam was arrested on suspicion of making online threats against a high school teacher who had displayed in his classroom a cartoon supporting Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper that had originally published the Muhammad caricatures. Local media on Thursday reported that another teacher was threatened after he showed a cartoon depicting Muhammad during a class about free speech at a high school in the city ... More | | 
Ivar Arosenius, Axel Törneman (18801925), 1904. Watercolour on paper. NMH 60/2018. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- In recent years Nationalmuseum has acquired several portraits by Ivar Arosenius. The portraits represent a lesser-acknowledged part of Arosenius oeuvre, which has otherwise primarily been renowned for wayward drawings and watercolours characterised by both warmth and black humour, as well as for the childrens book Kattresan, which the artist created for his daughter Lillan. The works in question depict the artists Nils Rosberg, Axel Törneman and Ida (Eva) Adler, and were produced during a particularly eventful period in Arosenius short life. Ivar Arosenius (18781909) portrait of Nils Rosberg (18651957) dates from 1903 and was likely completed shortly before Arosenius travelled abroad, first to Germany and later to Paris. Rosberg was one of Arosenius close friends in Gothenburg during the early 20th century and was studying at the School of the Society of Industrial Design and Valand ... More | | 
Installation view of Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing, 540 West 25th Street. November 6 December 19, 2020. Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing, the artists inaugural exhibition with the gallery since joining it in July 2019. On view at both 540 and 510 West 25th Street in Chelsea, the exhibition debuts new works and artist-led installations that reflect the culmination of Gilliams six-decade-long career with color. The exhibition features three new bodies of work that include large scale paintings, some titled as tributes to influential Black contemporary and historical figures; a series of geometric color-drenched wood objects; and monochromatic paintings on Japanese washi paper. Accompanying Existed Existing is a fully illustrated monograph that includes a new interview between the artist and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as commissioned essays by art historian and curator Courtney Martin and scholar and poet Fred Moten. The new sculptural works take the form of geometric objectspyramids, ... More |
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| | For the arts in Europe, lockdown feels different this time | | Frist Art Museum opens 'Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance' | | Alison Saar on transforming outrage into art | 
Virginia Hogl, a DJ, in Berlin. Many of Europes museums, theaters, concert halls and bookshops have been forced to close again, and now, peoples reactions have changed. Stephen Redel via The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Just as cultural life in Europe was learning to adapt to social distancing, small audiences and the need to wear face masks, along have come new lockdowns. Over the past month, Europes museums, theaters, concert halls and bookshops have found themselves forced to close for the second time this year as coronavirus cases have soared across the continent. Lockdowns are in place in England, France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere. Most are expected for now to be only about a month long, and people are also still allowed to go to work in many countries: Actors can rehearse and dancers practice, even as the only audiences possible are online. There is another difference, too: peoples emotions. For some, a second lockdown is ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer (14711528). Adam and Eve, 1504. Engraving, platemark: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Herbert Greer French, 1943.193.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance, an exhibition featuring one hundred engravings, etchings, and woodcuts by the brilliant and versatile German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (14711528). Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, the exhibition is on view in the Frists Upper-Level Galleries from November 6, 2020, through February 7, 2021. Dürer is celebrated as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance and one of the finest printmakers of all time. This exhibition spans nearly his entire career, from his early works as an independent master through the end of his life. It highlights the major themes of his art, such as the Apocalypse and the Passion, and his interest in nature, linear perspective, and ideal human proportions. Dürer lived in the prosperous city of Nuremberg during the advent of the Protestant Reformation, and the exhibition explores how the re ... More | | 
The artist Alison Saar at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., where one section of her show Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe is ready to open when the states coronavirus guidelines allow, on Oct. 28, 2020. Nolwen Cifuentes/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Alison Saar likes to make sculptures of strong Black women standing their ground: broad shoulders, wide stance, unmovable in their convictions. She made a bronze monument of Harriet Tubman that presides over a traffic island at 122nd Street in Harlem. She created a small army of enslaved girls turned warriors, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowes character Topsy for a major gallery show in Los Angeles. And now Saar, 64, has a new public sculpture on the Pomona College campus, commissioned by the Benton Museum of Art there: Imbue, a 12-foot-tall bronze evoking the Yoruba goddess Yemoja. Imbue accompanies her biggest museum survey yet, Of Aether and Earthe, which will be held in two venues: ... More |
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| | Exhibition of new work by the Chinese artist Liu Ye on view at David Zwirner | | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein showcases 28 selected works from the Hilti Art Foundation | | Christie's announces 'Voyage To Another World: The Victor Martin-Malburet Photograph Collection' | 
Liu Ye, Book Painting No. 24 (Karl Blossfeldt, Wunder in der Natur, H. Schmidt & C. Gruenter, Leipzig, 1942, Page 61), 2019. © Liu Ye. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new work by the Chinese artist Liu Ye, on view at the gallerys 34 East 69th Street location, in New York. The show marks the artists debut solo presentation with the gallery. Liu Ye is known for deeply meditative paintings that investigate ways of seeing in his nuanced approach to the painted image. His carefully balanced, methodical compositions subtly combine figuration and abstraction and reference a diverse range of aesthetic, literary, art historical, and cultural sources, resulting in illustrated canvases that appear to transcend time and place in their evocation of distinct conceptual and emotional registers of meaning. On view is a selection of new works from the artists Flower, Book Painting, and Banned Book series, which together demonstrate the ... More | | 
Lovis Corinth, Apfelblüten und Flieder (Apple Blossoms and Lilac), 1920, Hilti Art Foundation.
VADUZ.- For over five years, the Hilti Art Foundation has attracted art lovers from all over the world to visit their dedicated exhibition building, which adjoins the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The collection clearly highlights European painting from the late 19th century to the present day. Painting is the uncontested principal focus of the current exhibition, which opened on 6 November, showcasing 28 selected works by such artists as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Verena Loewensberg, Imi Knoebel, Sean Scully, Hanns Kunitzberger and Callum Innes. A secondary highlight, in quantity but certainly not in quality, comprises eight sculptures, including pieces by Medardo Rosso, Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore. The encounter between the two genres is far from casual, for they relate to each other in both form and content. "The exhibition Principally Painting draws attention ... More | | 
First US Spacewalk, Ed Whites EVA over Texas, June 3-7, 1965 (detail). James McDivitt [Gemini IV]. Estimate: £1,200-1,800. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- From 6 to 20 November 2020, Christies Voyage To Another World: The Victor Martin-Malburet Photograph Collection will present 700 lots, comprising approximately 2,400 vintage original photographs showcasing the artistic heritage of the golden age of space exploration when NASA, and its astronaut-photographers, captured the first forays into space and onto the surface of another world. The collection is the most comprehensive private collection of NASA photographs ever presented at auction, and spans every visual milestone of the space program, from the early days of Mercury, the technical advances of Gemini and Lunar Orbiter, to the triumphs of Apollo. Alongside the iconic images, Voyage to Another World boasts photographs which were not released by NASA at the time of the missions. With estimates ranging from £800 to £30,000, the sale offers collectors ... More |
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| | National Gallery announces digital partnership with Nikon UK for 2020-2021 | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Luisa Rabbia | | Almine Rech Shanghai opens the group exhibition 'Painting Someone' | 
Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626 1679), Butterflies, Moths and Insects with Sprays of Common Hawthorn and Forget-Me-Not, 1654 (detail). Oil on Wood © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- On the first day of lockdown (Thursday 5 November) as we once again turn to digital ways to look at, use and respond to art, the National Gallery announced a new Digital Content Partnership with Nikon. In the first collaboration of its kind for the National Gallery, the next 12 months will see us work with Nikon on a broad schedule of online content all aimed at letting people take inspiration from one of the greatest art collections in the world, and also to explore the synergies between photography and fine art. The first feature, released today, is the latest edition of the ongoing Picture of the Month series. Picture of the Month dates back to 1942, when each month a single painting was returned to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square (from the disused Welsh slate mine where the collection was kept ... More | | 
Luisa Rabbia, Mitos, 2018. Colored pencil, pastel and acrylic on canvas, 118 x 53 inches (300 x 134.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Luisa Rabbia entitled, From Mitosis to Rainbow at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Luisa Rabbia blends the distinctions made between the human and the natural, expressing solidarity with the cosmos through the organic, bodily landscapes of her expansive paintings. The scale of Rabbias paintings suits the themes she explores, oftentimes depicting overlapping abstracted figures joining and breaking apart, seemingly overcoming their physicality. In the exhibition she alludes to interconnected natural processes such as mitosis, forming a thread between microcosms and macrocosms and interweaving them in a nebulous primordial state. Continually in flux and transforming like a rainbow, her forms created in expressive hues also evoke spiritual transitions. Upon closer viewing ... More | | 
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Isolation, 2020. Oil on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4 cm, 48 x 36 inches.
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting a group exhibition, Painting Someone. The exhibition is on view from November 6 to December 26, 2020. Painting Someone gathers together 16 artists Brian Calvin, Alejandro Cardenas, Genieve Figgis, Michael Hilsman, Jason Fox, Marcus Jahmal, Aaron Johnson, Allen Jones, Haley Josephs, Sam McKinniss, César Piette, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Vaughn Spann, Phyllis Stephens, Genesis Tramaine and Chloe Wise who blur the distinction between figuration and abstraction to come up with portraits fitting for the 21st century. Most of the works were made in 2020, presumably in isolation. Yet, even without models, friends or family to pose in the studio, these artists offer a panopticon of faces lifted above the dread of the current moment by an array of unique responses. This diverse group of artists hold one thing in common: they employ imagination rather than ... More |
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 deTour 2020 announces the Matter of Life themeHONG KONG.- Organized by PMQ and sponsored by Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, deTour announced that its 6th Design Festival will be held at PMQ, in the heart of Hong Kongs SoHo, from 27 November 6 December 2020. As the largest design festival in Hong Kong, deTour 2020 celebrates works and ideas from around 15 designers and designer units both locally and internationally. For the first time, deTour will also launch an online virtual festival, alongside the physical one, for an immersive experience to connect audiences from all corners of the world. Showcasing the innovative and playful nature of design, both the virtual and physical festivals will invite visitors to participate in and connect with the installations and exhibitions. Curated by an emerging design unit, the Hong ... More Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College opens the exhibition 'The Body Electric'MIAMI, FLA.- Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College is presenting The Body Electric, a major exhibition that looks at our fraught relationship to technology, particularly the increasingly inescapable interface between our bodies and screens. The remarkably varied art in the exhibition examines the last 50 years of artists addressing the way technological mediation has come to dominate our interactions with the world, with each other, and with ourselves. The Body Electric is on view from Nov. 5, 2020, through May 30, 2021. In an age dominated by digital technology, The Body Electric explores themes of the real and the virtual, the organic and the artificial, moving from the world into the screen and back again. Looking across the past 50 years, the exhibition presents an intergenerational and international group of 55 artists and collectives ... More Pérez Art Museum Miami receives "Allied with Power" exhibition gift from Jorge M. PérezMIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami presents Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, an exhibition of over 40 works by international African and African Diaspora artists on view from the collection of longtime board member, PAMM supporter and namesake Jorge M. Pérez. Valued at over $2.5 million, the entire exhibition has been generously pledged to PAMMs permanent collection by Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez. The exhibition, which opens on November 7 when PAMM reopens to the public, presents a provocative group of 39 artists hailing from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and the US. Addressing themes of identity, colonialism, spirituality, everyday life, and abstraction, the exhibition highlights artists whose works embody the vast complexities of the contemporary moment. ... More The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibits seven energetic abstract paintings by Marina AdamsFORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents FOCUS: Marina Adams, on view November 6 through January 10. Contemporary artist Marina Adams is showing seven energetic abstract paintings from the past four years that are immersive in scale, as well as several recent small-scale gouache-on-paper works from her New York series. Adams explores the relationship between color and shape in her acrylic-on-linen paintings, where organic forms of solid color abut and interlock. Her work balances organization and improvisation; she sketches out her compositions before she paints, but there is an immediacy made obvious by loose, confident brushstrokes, where drips and bands of color overlap. Though abstract, Adams's paintings are rooted in textile design and architecture. She states, "Pattern is a language that ... More Elsa Raven, 'Back to the Future' character actress, dies at 91NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Elsa Raven, a character actress perhaps best remembered for a small but crucial role in the hit 1985 time-travel comedy Back to the Future, in which she establishes a pivotal plot point by lobbying to preserve the local clock tower, died on Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91. Her agent, David Shaul of the BRS/Gage talent agency, confirmed her death. Raven had dozens of film and television credits and appeared on New York and regional stages. She built a steady career of Everywoman roles. The film and television characters she played sometimes didnt even have names; she was just Maid or Prenatal Nurse or Mom (as in the Season 6 Seinfeld episode The Mom and Pop Store). Perhaps none of those performances made a bigger impression than her role as Clocktower ... More Hidden for decades, Pop-Art revolutionary Mel Ramos' The Daredevil reappears at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- For five decades, pop art pioneer Mel Ramos' 1962 painting The Daredevil has been hidden from the public's view, which is almost unfathomable given the painter's prestige, impact and importance. In the early 1960s, the Sacramento-born Ramos was as well-known in the pop-art world as contemporaries named Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist. In museums across the country, his works as playful as they were thoughtful, dizzying spins on familiar images were displayed alongside theirs. So profound was his impact that when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art brought west in the summer of 1963 the Guggenheim's revolutionary New York-centric exhibition "Six Painters and the Object," Ramos was among the half-dozen California artists added to the show. Ramos died two years ago, at the age of 83, and to ... More Uncanny X-Men No. 268 cover and Spider-Man No. 1 splash page, offered at Heritage Auctions eventDALLAS, TX.- Thirty years later, Jeff Nason cant remember what he and his father paid for illustrator Jim Lee and inker Scott Williams original artwork for the iconic cover to The Uncanny X-Men No. 268, which comes to auction this month for the very first time. Jeff can remember where they bought it: on the floor of the San Diego Comic-Con, where the artists were selling original art and offering private commissions to attendees. And, of course, he can remember why they bought it: Then just 16, Jeff was a big fan of Lees work on Punisher: War Journal. His father, too, was a collector of nice things wine and rare books, mostly and always told his son, If youre going to collect something, get the best." Lee and Williams had brought to Comic-Con a portfolio full of original works among them, their Uncanny X-Men cover featuring (for ... More Partying like it's 1925 as London's theaters go dark (again)LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The theater scene in London has long been celebrated for offering food for thought, but recently its also been likely to offer actual food. Or, at the very least, a cocktail to get the evening off to a spirited start. The evening belongs to either of two well-established pieces of immersive entertainment in the capital. Both The Murdér Express and The Great Gatsby are theatrical confections dating back several years, and they recently reopened as part of the citys gradual return to live performance. Those runs have now been put on hold by a second English lockdown expected to last through Dec. 2, after which both ventures say they will be back: The Murdér Express is then scheduled to play at its out-of-the-way east London location through Jan. 31, while Gatsby has extended its run at its ... More Carlos Acosta's vision: Some 'Nutcracker,' some Led ZeppelinBIRMINGHAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Carlos Acosta had big plans. In early February, he announced the first season he had programmed as artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet. The Cuban-born ballet star, a longtime principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London and the first Black person in Britain to run a major ballet company, had only started the job in January, but was full of ideas to bring in new choreographers, partner with Birmingham institutions and make the company more accessible to its public. The fall season, following an ambitious summer festival, was set to include ballets by Jiri Kylian, Uwe Scholz and Daniela Cardim, with more than 20,000 tickets costing 20 pounds (around $26) or less. But then, when the coronavirus struck, We went from Plan A to Plan B to Plan I Just Dont Know, said Acosta, 47, in a backstage ... More Nara Roesler announces the representation of the Estate of Amelia ToledoSAO PAULO.- Galeria Nara Roesler announced the representation of the Estate of Amelia Toledo (19262017). Toledo is a leading figure of Brazilian art in the twentieth century, with a career spanning over five decades, marked by a beginning of distinctive engagements with constructive sculptural experimentations, and her subsequent development of iconic entwinements between the realm of art and nature. Toledo was first introduced to the field of Visual Arts at the end of the 1930s as she began frequenting Anita Malfattis studio, after which she undertook studies alongside Yoshiya Takaoka and Waldemar da Costa. Throughout her career, the artist made use of various different media and techniques, ranging from painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, to installations and jewelry designs, always maintaining a great ... More 75th anniversary of the Beaux Arts Ball and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art celebrated in new exhibition OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- Opening Nov. 7 at OKCMOA, Beaux Arts at 75 celebrates the interconnected history of the Museums Beaux Arts collection and the Beaux Arts Ball, an annual fundraiser organized by the Beaux Arts Society. In honor of the 75th anniversary of both OKCMOA and the Beaux Arts Ball, the Museum will present its entire Beaux Arts collection in a series of exhibitions and permanent collection installations highlighted by Beaux Arts at 75. I am extremely grateful to the Beaux Arts Society for their continued generosity, added Dr. Michael Anderson, OKCMOA president and CEO. Beginning with a Rembrandt etching from a Sears department store in Sequoyah, Oklahoma in 1965, OKCMOA and our predecessor, the Oklahoma Arts Center acquired many of our collection highlights through funds ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán was baptized November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598; died August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: A visitor looks at Pablo Picasso's 1911-1912 oil on canvas "Homme a la guitare", left, next to Francisco de Zurbaran's 1630-1634 oil on canvas "Saint-Francois d'Assise dans sa tombe" exhibited at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
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