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King Charles III greets crowds gathered on the Mall in London, England on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Jasmine Allen, the director of the Stained Glass Museum in Ely, England, was preparing to send a letter to Prince Charles this month, asking if he wanted to extend his relationship with the esoteric museum. Then, the queen died. Charles has been the museums patron since 1997. It is an honorary role, yet having his name attached helped with fundraising and bolstered the museums profile in the news media, Allen said. The prince even stopped by occasionally. Were a small organization, so to have such a significant royal patron is a big deal, Allen said. We were punching above our weight. The latest agreed term that Charles would serve as patron ended this summer, and Allen had hoped Charles would renew it. But now that Charles is king, Allen said that her letter would remain unsent. In a televised speech last week, Cha ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For Twice in Dublin, Nathalie Du Pasquier responds to and transforms the minimalist architecture of Kerlin Galleryâs John Pawson-designed space. A site-specific installation houses a suite of new paintings and assemblages---configuring blocks of colour, line and shape into unexpected relationships.
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| Pace opens an exhibition of sculptures and photographs by Nina Katchadourian | | Gallery reinstallations of Currier Museum of Art's collection | | Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen announces publication of provenance chains in the online collection |
Nina Katchadourian, Plant #40, 2021 © Nina Katchadourian.
EAST HAMPTON NY.- Pace is presenting Nursery, an exhibition of sculptures and photographs by Nina Katchadourian. This presentation marks the final show of the gallerys third summer season in East Hampton. The exhibition focuses on Katchadourians long-standing investigations of human relationships to the so-called natural world, which have sometimes involved interventions that she terms uninvited collaborations with nature. Nursery features recent sculptures from the artists Fake Plants project, which she began at the onset of the pandemic. In these works, Katchadourian transforms cast-off materials from her home, studio, and a nearby construction site into multifarious plant forms. Using materials such as discarded cardboard boxes, paper packaging from food products, disposable medical masks, cardboard toilet paper tubes, ping pong balls, ... More | |
Installation view.
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum has completed the reinstallation of many of its galleries, including the entire second floor. The new galleries develop themes which cut across European, American, and Asian cultures, and combine historic and contemporary works. New acquisitions provide delightful surprises. We have been building the museums collection to include cross-cultural connections. The galleries feature broad themes, while retaining an overall historical approach, said Alan Chong, Director of the Currier Museum. The 19th-century gallery contains such favorites as works by Claude Monet and American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and Edmund Tarbell. But they are seen together with our new landscape by Black American artist Robert Duncanson, who worked in Virginia before the Civil War, and Chinese portraits made for American traders. Kurt Sundstrom, Senior Curator, states, Our strong ... More | |
In a next step, the provenance chains of objects from the group of works "Classical Modernism" will be successively put online starting in 2023, followed by the project "Acquisitions after 1945". Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
MUNICH.- Since 5 September 2022, the information on the provenance (origin) of objects acquired by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen during the Nazi era and objects that were taken on by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen after World War II from the expropriated assets of NSDAP functionaries and organizations has been online. By putting the so-called provenance chains (sequence of owners) online, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen are meeting the demand for transparency in provenance research in accordance with the "Washington Principles" of 1998 and the subsequent "Joint Declaration" of 1999. Since 2018, the Provenance Research team ... More |
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| New exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne rediscovers the collection | | Oscar Murillo opens exhibition at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia | | A utopian space for Black artists, reimagined at MoMA |
Oskar Schlemmer, Dancer (The Gesture), 1922. Oil and tempera on canvas, 200 x 130 cm. Inv. no. 13421 Acquired in 1964 as a purchase from Tut Schlemmer Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Moderne Kunst in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich.
MUNICH.- On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne a new presentation of some 350 works by more than 150 artists in the Sammlung Moderne Kunst is being displayed in an exhibition space extending over 3600 square metres. For the first time the exhibition programmatically titled MIX & MATCH brings together painting, sculpture, prints, photography and video art from different periods and in different media, displayed in thematically defined spaces. Unconventionally juxtaposed works of art spanning 120 years open up lively perspectives on pivotal contemporary questions. Since the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in 2002, not only the holdings of the collection have grown and expanded. Against a background of social ... More | |
Oscar Murillo portrait by Tim Bowditch courtesy the artist.
VENICE.- Oscar Murillo will stage a large-scale installation in the historic setting of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice, which will include new paintings by the artist alongside an extensive, interactive presentation of Frequencies, his long-term collaborative project with schoolchildren across the world. Oscar Murillo: A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise will be presented at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, from 17 September - 27 November 2022. Frequencies is an ongoing global art project conceived by Oscar Murillo in 2013. The artist and his collaborators visit schools worldwide, fixing raw canvas to classroom desks with the sole requirement that they remain there for a school term, inviting students aged 10-16 to freely mark, draw, scribble or write on them. Over the past nine years, Frequencies has grown to become a vast global project involving more than 400 schools in over ... More | |
Linda Goode Bryant, the founder of Just Above Midtown, at MoMA in New York, Sept. 6, 2022. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- Some of David Hammons most important early shows took place here. So did the first appearance of Lorraine OGradys celebrated performance piece, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. It was where Senga Nengudi debuted her sculptures of stretched-out pantyhose weighted with sand, and where Howardena Pindell first showed her abstract dot paintings, composed of paper chads. Musicians like Greg Tate, Lawrence (Butch) Morris and Vernon Reid jammed here. Stevie Wonder showed up at the opening. And Miles Davis, whose tailor was also in the building, would pop in from time to time. The energy was just oozing out the door, Nengudi recalled of Just Above Midtown Gallery, known as JAM. It was like a magnet would pull people in because there was always ... More |
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| Kerlin Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Nathalie Du Pasquier | | Kate MacGarry opens first solo exhibition with Chou Yu-Cheng | | Christie's presents Le Jeune, A Collecting Legacy |
Nathalie Di Pasquier, Swiss life, 2022.
DUBLIN.- For Twice in Dublin, Nathalie Du Pasquier responds to and transforms the minimalist architecture of Kerlin Gallerys John Pawson-designed space. A site-specific installation houses a suite of new paintings and assemblagesconfiguring blocks of colour, line and shape into unexpected relationships. Influenced by the language of classicism and informed by the history of Italian art, Du Pasquiers paintings splice together simplified still life compositions, architectural plans, industrial drawings, and playful fragments of text with boldly simplified blocks of colour. For Twice in Dublin, Du Pasquier also refers back to her own archive and accumulated experiencein particular, her time spent regularly visiting Ireland in the 2000s. Assembling elements of her work from that era alongside more recent imagery, the artist has produced a new body of work that like everything in life, has roots ... More | |
Chou Yu-Cheng, Origami #8, 2022. Acrylic on paper, paper inlaid on linen, 150 x 135 cm.
LONDON.- Kate MacGarry is presenting Chou Yu-Chengs first solo exhibition at the gallery. Each painting in Chous Origami series begins with a piece of paper. Layered with subtle gradations of colour and cut into shapes the paper evolves, very slowly, into a new form. Soft becomes strong, a flat surface becomes like a sculpture within a painting that appears so flawless it cant truly be handmade can it? With the application of colour, paper shapes become three-dimensional in their appearance. Chous colours are inspired by rivers, not only the shades found in nature but the toxic shades of river pollution. The movement of a river runs through each painting. Mineral and organic (inorganic) pigments are mixed to settle like a rivers sediment into gradients of colour. Sometimes as heavy and dense as the floor of the river bed, in other moments the pigment becomes transparent and fluid ... More | |
Martial Raysse, Bien sûr le petit bateau, 1963. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies will present works from a collection that has evolved across the decades of one familys story and is among the most important of its kind in Benelux. Le Jeune, A Collecting Legacy will be offered across a series of 20th / 21st Century sales, beginning in London on 13 October 2022 as part of the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale. Jacqueline Le Jeune and her husband Mark began buying art in the late 1960s. Jacqueline resolved to support practicing artists, and built what would become a major collection of both Belgian and international works. Jacquelines passion would also have a formative impact on her descendants. Their collection is similarly diverse, ranging from works by Banksy and Gilbert & George to Yoshitomo Nara, and a major pastel by Nicolas Party, as well as a large number of Belgian artists. Pauline ... More |
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| Rachel Uffner Gallery presents 'Sheree Hovsepian: Leaning In And Avery Z. Nelson: Ashes to Ashes in upstairs gallery | | Now visiting from India, an 'Ancestor' for everyone | | Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci presents 'Massimo Bartolini. Hagoromo' |
Avery Z. Nelson, Untitled, 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Uffner Gallery is presenting Ashes to Ashes, an exhibition of new works by artist Avery Z. Nelson. Nelsons paintings explore bodies as they edge, erupt, and expand. Colors and textures, curves and cuts, body parts melt to become landscapes and monuments to become mere individuals. The non-binary artist creates worlds where the singular contemporary person finds its multitude, its many selves. In their persistent practice, Nelson has built a language of tension and release, of bodies moving, swinging, embracing; the dance floor; listening with every orifice of the body, a thread made of the taste of sweat, frequencies weaving the spaces in between, morphing contours and mapping fleeting moments of connection. The fantasy of writing a poem on a napkin in a crowded queer space, feeling the gravity of the alienating world, and then feeling seen, held by this gathering of kindred strangers. ... More | |
In a photo provided by Nicholas Knight/Public Art Fund, Ancestor, an 18-foot-tall statue by the British Indian sculptor Bharti Kher, graces the entrance of Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street in New York on Sept. 3, 2022. Nicholas Knight/Public Art Fund via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Whats 18 feet tall, has 24 heads, and hangs out in front of Central Park? That would be Ancestor, a sculpture by Bharti Kher commissioned by the Public Art Fund, which will grace the parks entrance at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street through August 2023. Steps from the Plaza Hotel and cater-corner from the glass cube of the Apple Store, it adds to the crossroads a reverent, slightly surreal energy. The statue is brand-new and cast in bronze, but looks weathered, with muted colors and surfaces appearing to crack and peel. The handcrafted aspect is intended: The statue is a large-scale version of a clay-based work that Kher, a British Indian sculptor who is one of Indias major contemporary ... More | |
Installation view.
PRATO.- With Hagoromo, the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato dedicates a major exhibition to Massimo Bartolini (Cecina, 1962) running from September 16th 2022 to January 8th 2023. The exhibition is a new chapter of the monographic exhibitions series that the Centro annually host to show audiences artworks by Italian artists. The exhibition, realized in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo, is showcasing a new installation - the largest the artist has ever created - specifically designed for the museum spaces, a sort of new backbone guiding onlookers around the works created at different moments in his career. Avoiding the familiar retrospective layout based around a chronological/thematic display of works, the exhibition is like an unexpected sequence of surprising and revealing encounters. Hagoromo is the title of a well-known Japanese Noh theatre play, which tells the story of a fisherman ... More |
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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's 'El Ojo Interior' opens at Kewenig
PALMA DE MALLORCA.- For the sixth exhibition of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra at the gallery, the artist will present a large installation of ceramic plates behind the altar of the Oratori de Sant Feliu, Palma de Mallorca. El Manto de Obatalá' is an installation consisting of more than 200 ceramic plates, some of which were hand-painted by the artist. Together they create an entirely new altarpiece with a healing intention. This installation represents a story about life in its broadest sense, and the expansion of the human condition. With images referring to struggle and suffering, Vásquez de la Horra invokes a visual scene to balance the oppression of the Estallido Social protest, which started in Santiago de Chile in October 2019 and lasted until March 2020. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (b.1967, Viña del Mar, Chile) presents El ... More
Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens its fourth solo exhibition with Philipp Modersohn
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its fourth solo exhibition with Philipp Modersohn. Entitled The Selfsh Shellfsh, the show features a new flm of the same name and a new sculpture by the Berlin-based artist. Modersohns diverse practice can be seen as a poetic transformation of natural processes of sometimes earth-historical dimension, as an artistic attempt at an experimental dialogue with our non-human environment; equipped with subtle humour paired with self-irony as well as a pronounced sense for the beauty of the fragile. The film, which uses both analogue and digital animation techniques, is the fctional self-portrait of a barnacle. The life of this shellfsh, which has been found on our planet since time immemorial and is widespread all over the world, begins as a larva that swims freely through the sea before it attaches ... More
Davis Museum at Wellesley College names Yuhua Ding Assistant Curator of Collections
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College announced that Dr. Yuhua Ding has been appointed the Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections, effective August 15, 2022. As an integral member of the curatorial team, Ding will serve as a liaison between the Museum and the academic community at Wellesley College. Ding will also develop and maintain an active schedule of collections-based installations and temporary exhibitions, publications, and programs. A specialist in Chinese art who has published extensively in both Chinese and English language publications, Yuhua has taught and curated artworks from across Asiaand indeed the world, said Amanda Gilvin, the Davis Museums Sonja Novak Koerner 51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs. With her simultaneous depth and breadth ... More
Overlooked no more: Sylvia Rexach, Puerto Rican singer and composer
NEW YORK, NY.- A woman positioned close to a microphone announces a title into the silence, as if preparing to read a poem: En Mis Sueños (In My Dreams). A guitarist plays a precise and dramatic introduction to a bolero. At modest volume, the woman, Sylvia Rexach, begins to sing, with a smoky voice and nonvirtuosic authority. She describes a fantasy loop in which an ex-lover briefly visits her in her dreams, leaving behind a wake of love (estela de amor). The dream will return again when she wants it to, which she will. She may not want more than the fantasy. (She may even want less: to be free of repetitive desire.) There is no sense of possession or, really, of loss. There will be no reciprocity in this relationship, and she seems not only to accept the situation but to be an adept within it, a powerful expert. This description could pertain to more or less ... More
Breton tees, boyfriend shirts and blunt bangs
NEW YORK, NY.- if a single garment has inscribed itself on fashions collective memory, it may well be Jean Sebergs jauntily striped Breton sweater, worn for her role as Patricia in the film Breathless. A boyish badge of disaffection, the look was so often reproduced that, as designer Scott Sternberg observed, its become its own cottage industry. But the impact of that sweater, and of that 1960 art house film by Jean-Luc Godard, a pioneer of the French New Wave, who died this week at 91, extends far beyond Sebergs wardrobe. The Godard aesthetic low-key, streetwise and modeled on the romanticized, often unsanitized, world of the Parisian flâneur has, to some minds, eclipsed the films themselves, surviving as an influence on three generations of style-besotted fans. That aesthetic, which was a rebuke to the more formally structured, ... More
The Grolier Club NYC celebrates 'bad boy' artist Aubrey Beardsley with 150th birthday exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club in New York City, Americas oldest and largest society for bibliophiles, is presenting a special exhibition of the daring and influential work of the British artist Aubrey Beardsley, on the anniversary of his 150th birthday. Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, on view from September 8 through November 12, 2022, in the Grolier Clubs second floor gallery, explores the meteoric rise of Beardsley (18721898), a monumental figure in book and magazine illustration, graphic arts and poster design, as well as the history of gender and sexuality. During Beardsleys brief career from 1892 to 1898, cut short by his death from tuberculosis, he was a brilliant innovator in the British Art Nouveau and Decadent movements, creating daring black-and-white images for periodicals such as the Yellow Book and the Savoy, and for books ... More
Juan Sánchez receives Artists' Legacy Foundation 2022 Artist Award
OAKLAND, CA.- The Artists Legacy Foundation today announced that Juan Sánchez (b. 1954)the influential Nuyorican artist who explores ethnic, racial, and national identity in his multimedia workis the recipient of its 2022 Artist Award. The $25,000 award is given to a visual artist whose primary medium is painting or sculpture in recognition of their professional achievements. Each year, ten artists are proposed for the Award by five anonymous nominators. Like the nominators, the jury of three comprises art-world peers who make the final decision. Squeak Carnwath, the Foundations board president, said, "We are delighted to recognize the inimitable Juan Sánchez and his dynamic, politically engaged practice. His expansive body of work resonates today just as emphatically and passionately as when he began in the 1980s. His artistic investigations ... More
Betty White's collection of memorabilia, scripts, furniture, jewelry, personal items and wardrobe at Julien's Auctions
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions presents Property from the Life and Career of Betty White, an exclusive presentation and celebration of the legendary actress and cultural icons extraordinary life and eight decade spanning career taking place live in a three-day auction event Friday, September 23rd, Saturday, September 24th and Sunday, September 25th, 2022 at Juliens Auctions in Beverly Hills and online on juliensauctions.com. On offer is an exclusive collection of over 1,500 lots featuring the Hollywood icons awards, scripts, wardrobe and memorabilia from her iconic television shows and films, as well as furnishings, artwork, fine jewelry, household and personal items from her beloved homes in Brentwood ... More
Alan Cumming uses dance to get at the truth of Robert Burns
GLASGOW.- Rain pours down, thunder growls, lightning flickers. Fragments of melancholy melody emerge from the tumult, and a lone, silhouetted figure appears onstage, moving his upper body in sinuous circles, entwining his arms and gesturing with slow deliberation. Then he walks forward, opens his arms and smiles impishly. Here am I, he announces. Here he is: Scottish poet Robert Burns, embodied by Scottish actor Alan Cumming in the one-man dance-theater show Burn, coming to the Joyce Theater in New York on Sept. 20. Conceived by Cumming and choreographer Steven Hoggett, Burn, which had its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in August, is an unlikely hybrid: a movement-focused show performed by a famous actor with no dance training, about a man whose medium was words. Why dance? Why Burns? ... More
Outshining a premiere, a group announces its arrival
NEW YORK, NY.- Kate Sopers work, like that of so many other artists, was disrupted by the pandemic. But she weathered the moment with the same creative ingenuity she has brought to her music and dramatic projects in the past. When her hotly anticipated opera The Romance of the Rose, originally scheduled for April 2020, was canceled, Soper began to post spare yet smartly filmed excerpts online. And although the world premiere date for Rose still isnt known, she has pressed forward on multiple fronts. Soper released an excellent album The Understanding of All Things while also sharing selections from HARK, a new play, on YouTube. She also contributed a work of short fiction, ClearVoice, to McSweeneys for an audio issue of the literary journal last year. (Thats also available as a series of videos online, ... More
A Gentil Carioca now represents Denilson Baniwa
RIO DE JANEIRO.- A Gentil Carioca announced the representation of Denilson Baniwa. Born in Barcelos, in the interior of Amazonas in 1984, Denilson Baniwa is an indigenous artist; he is indigenous and he is an artist, and his being indigenous leads him to invent other ways of making art, where processes of imagining and making are, by force, interventions in a historical dynamic - the history of the colonization of indigenous territories that we know today as Brazil - and interpellations to those who find him to embrace their responsibilities. "Denilson Baniwa narrates a specific way of occupying the hegemonic place of art, starting from the presupposition of the preservation of something unusual, immeasurable and even incommunicable. To occupy a place as sharing, without canceling differences, but, on the contrary, manifesting them as an invitation ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Indian painter M. F. Husain was born September 17, 1915. Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 - 9 June 2011) commonly known as MF Husain, was an Indian painter. Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. A dashing, highly eccentric figure who dressed in impeccably tailored suits, he went barefoot and brandished an extra-long paintbrush as a slim cane. He never maintained a studio but he spread his canvases out on the floor of whatever hotel room he happened to be staying in and paying for damages when he checked out. In this image: M.F. Husain, India's most famous artist finishes off a canvas he painted together with Shah Rukh Khan, right, one of India's biggest movie stars, during a fund-raising auction in a central London's auction house, Thursday June 7, 2007. The pair, two of India's biggest cultural brands, painted the piece that was to be sold in the auction along with other works by both established Indian masters and a newer generation of artists.
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