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Installation image of With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, June 26 November 28, 2021. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, NY. Photo: Olympia Shannon.
by Roberta Smith
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- What is art history made of? Everything that happened within a given period, location or style? Or is it just the best of what happened? These questions form an eternal opposition between inclusiveness and quality. They crop up and sometimes openly conflict in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-85, a rich, if flawed survey at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College. In the mid-1970s, the irreverent upstart movement Pattern and Decoration, or P&D, was one of the first cracks in the Minimalism-Conceptualism hegemony. The other was New Image Painting, an abstraction-tinged figuration named for its exhibition at the Whitney in 1978. But New Image never really cohered. In contrast P&D, at least for a while, was something of an onslaught. It favored patterns appropriated from a global array of textiles, ceramics and architecture but also from previously disregarded Americana like quilting, embroidery and cake decoration. A self- ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum on display from 25 June - 3 October 2021 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross.
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| Ancient pharaonic boat taken to Egypt's grand new museum | | Tate announces 2022 exhibition highlights | | Exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne enriched by curators with new juxtapositions | 
Tourists ride in the back of a horse-drawn cart near the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) and the Solar Barque Museum (bottom R) at the Giza Pyramids Necropolis on the western outskirts of the Egyptian capital's twin city of Giza on January 7, 2021. Amir MAKAR / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egypt has transported the Pharaoh Khufu's intact solar boat dating back some 4,600 years to the country's soon to be unveiled grand museum, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. Solar boats were buried in pits next to royal burial chambers in the belief that they would transport the departed into the afterlife. Cairo's Great Pyramid -- also known as the Pyramid of Cheops -- is the largest of the three Giza pyramids and houses Khufu's tomb. "After... crossing the streets of Giza on a smart vehicle, the first boat of King Khufu discovered in 1954 at the southern corner of the Great Pyramid has terminated its long journey to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)," a ministry statement said. The boat was commissioned by Khufu, a Fourth Dynasty monarch who ruled during ... More | | 
Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991. Tate © Cornelia Parker.
LONDON.- Tate today announced highlights of its 2022 exhibitions across the country. They include a ground-breaking survey of surrealism at Tate Modern, a new installation by Hew Locke at Tate Britain, a homecoming exhibition of Barbara Hepworth at Tate St Ives, and the return of the Turner Prize to Tate Liverpool. The programme will offer fresh perspectives on key figures, movements and subjects in art history, as well showcasing some of the worlds most innovative contemporary artists. In February 2022, Tate Modern will open Surrealism Beyond Borders. This landmark exhibition will expand the story of surrealism and reveal how artists around the world from Tokyo to Mexico City, Cairo to Paris, and Martinique to Bucharest were united by the movements subversive ideas and revolutionary spirit. Tate Modern will also launch new family activities in the spring and summer as part of UNIQLO Tate Play as well as ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Couple, 2004. Stoff/Fabric, 44 x 16 x 16 cm. Sammlung Goetz © und Foto/ and photo: The Easton Foundation/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020. Courtesy Sammlung Goetz, München.
MUNICH.- The dialogue between Classical Modernism and contemporary art from the Sammlung Goetz continues to be extremely popular with the public. As a consequence, the exhibition has not only been extended until 16 January 2022 but enriched by the curators with new juxtapositions. Some of the thematically conceived rooms have been completely redesigned. These include Room 3, in which paintings by the Blauer Reiter (Blue Rider) artists have now been combined with large-format works by Michael Buthe from the 1980s in their quest for spirituality in art. The highly expressive painting Agonie (Agony; 1912) by Egon Schiele comes from the collection of the Neue Pinakothek. In Room 4 this work not only comes face to face with Lehmbrucks sculpture Der Gestürzte (The Fallen), a monument to Europes sacrificed youth in World ... More |
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| Muskegon Museum of Art selects Ann Beha Architects for renovation and expansion project | | World's most valuable rare coin at Chicago World's Fair of Money | | Wadsworth Atheneum selected for conservation grant by Bank of America | 
Designing the future of the Muskegon Museum of Art: Ann Beha Architects selected for museum renovation and expansion. Photo: Frederic Reinecke, FAR Photography.
MUSKEGON, MI.- The Muskegon Museum of Art has selected Boston-based Ann Beha Architects (ABA) to lead its first expansion project in 30 years. Founded in 1912, the Muskegon Museum of Art holds a significant collection of American and European artworks, sculpture, and studio glass. The expansion project is driven by a renewed vision for exhibitions programming, collections growth, and community outreach. As museum Executive Director Kirk Hallman notes, with current exhibition space and rotating the permanent collection twice annually, it would take over 40 years to show the entire collection. Selected from a field of 33 candidates, ABA will design new classrooms, visitor service areas, and collections spaces to meet the museums ambition for growth and stewardship. A leader in museum design, ABA has completed award-winning buildings for the Shelburne Museum, the Currier Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art ... More | | 
The Chicago Worlds Fair of Money, August 10-14, 2021, features the public debut of a $100 million exhibit of early American money and the first exhibit of the worlds most valuable rare coin valued at $18.9 million.
ROSEMONT, IL.- The public can view a never-before-exhibited $100 million private collection of historic, early American rare coins at the Chicago Worlds Fair of Money® at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, August 10-14, 2021. The gold, silver and copper coins date back to the first ones struck for circulation by the young United States Mint in the 1790s, and many of these important numismatic treasures are the finest known of their kind. During the first four days of the event, visitors can see the worlds most valuable rare coin, a legendary 1933 Double Eagle ($20 denomination U.S. gold coin). This is its first display since its record-smashing $18.9 million sale at auction earlier this year. The public can also find out what their old coins and currency may be worth during the entire five-day show. Money is history you can hold in your hands. The Worlds Fair of Money is a family-friendly, educat ... More | | 
Maria Martins, (Brazilian, 1900-1973), Ma Chanson, c.1943-44. Bronze. Purchased through a gift from the Southern Foundation. 1944.133.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has been awarded a 2021 Bank of America Art Conservation Project Grant to support the technical analysis and conservation of three twentieth century works of art by women artists. The study and treatment of a painting by American artist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), and sculptures by Brazilian artist Maria Martins (1894-1973) and French artist Germaine Richier (1902-1959) will culminate in a symposium exploring the treatment process. The Wadsworth Atheneums conservation projects are one of a select group of 23 Art Conservation Projects announced this year by Bank of America. Recipients are based in 13 countries and 9 U.S. cities. The project supported by our Bank of America grant is an in-depth collaboration between the Wadsworths curators and conservators. It will benefit the stewardship of our collection as well as contribute to a broader appreciation of three greatly u ... More |
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| GIANT: Major new 15,000sqft gallery opens in Bournemouth | | Artist installs split and sinking monument of the Olympic rings | | Official name announced for the Ottawa Public Library | 
Anthony Rondinone, How many Faces do you see?, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 30x40.
BOURNEMOUTH.- GIANT, a new 15,000 square foot gallery in Bournemouth, opened 7 August 2021. The largest artist-led space in the UK, GIANT is situated within a historic building in the heart of the town centre. The central inaugural exhibition, Big Medicine, is a bold, celebratory show across all three major galleries within GIANT. Featuring works by major international artists such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jim Lambie and Gavin Turk, it takes an optimistic, humorous and entertaining approach in demonstrating the utility art has to re-unite societal ties in public space. Also exhibited are Gary Card, Nicky Carvell, Paola Ciarska, Eva Cremers, Chad Person, Anthony Rodinone and Paul Trefry. Big Medicine sets the agenda for the gallery in future years. Taking its position in a small and largely culturally underserved seaside town of Bournemouth, here GIANT knowingly pokes fun at its high street location, issuing ... More | | 
Masahide Matsuda, Ripples, 2021. Photo: Hidemasa Miyake.
TOKYO.- On July 23, 2021, the opening day of the Tokyo Olympic Games, "Ripples," an outdoor sculpture, was presented by Masahide Matsuda, an artist who conceptually intervenes in the anonymity, celebrity, economy, and landscape after the time of social media, at the Japanese garden "Mihama-En" adjacent to one of the Olympic stadiums, "Makuhari Messe." This work attempts to reverse the relationship between sound and image, referring to Matsuo Basho's haiku: "The ancient pond. A frog leaps in. The sound of the water." Basho's haiku used the sound of water as an opportunity to compose the haiku of the old pond in mind and sublimate it into art. Since the modern age, truth has been externalized by the media, but nowadays, the myth is collapsing; what do viewers think when they see a work of art floating in a pond? It is a sound artwork of silence that depicts the present age where truth is embedded in privacy by listening ... More | | 
Rendering of Ādisōke Interior Atrium. Renderings by Cicada Design courtesy of Diamond Schmitt.
OTTAWA.- At an event yesterday, the official name was announced for the Ottawa Public Library Library and Archives Canada Joint Facility. On behalf of the Anishinābe Algonquin Nation, Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg and the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation gave the name Ādisōke for the facility. On hand to honour the name of the new facility were Mayor Jim Watson, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre, and Councillor Matthew Luloff, Chair of the Ottawa Public Library Board. The site for the joint facility is located on the unceded, traditional territory of the Anishinābe Algonquin Nation, who have lived in the area since time immemorial. Elders and members of the Host Nation have been important partners in influencing the design of the facility and the selection of the name Ādisōke. ... More |
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| Eye of the Collector announces exhibitors and highlights for its inaugural edition in September | | Paul Cotton, mainstay of the country-rock band Poco, dies at 78 | | David Kovats Gallery opens the first solo exhibition of Barnabás Lakatos Gelléri | 
Torso of Bacchus, Roman, Marble, First to second century AD, Dimensions: 81 cm H (Ariadne).
LONDON.- Eye of the Collectors inaugural edition will be held at Two Temple Place, London from 8-11 September 2021. A celebration of connoisseurship spanning 6000 years of art history, the fair presents select works of art and design carefully chosen in collaboration with participating galleries. Welcoming 30 UK and international participants, the fair showcases exceptional works presented as if they were in a collectors home, juxtaposing the contemporary, modern and ancient to create new dialogues that will inspire and engage. A reinvigorated fair model for a new era, Eye of the Collector has no booths or boundaries and its boutique format presents works in a curated dialogue with the striking surroundings of a neo-Gothic mansion steeped in history. A spirit of discovery and rediscovery lies at its heart, and alongside works ... More | | 
Cotton joined Poco, replacing co-founder Jim Messina in 1970, just in time to appear on the groups third studio album, From the Inside (1971).
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Cotton, lead guitarist and frequent lead singer and songwriter for the country-rock band Poco, died July 31 near his summer home in Eugene, Oregon. He was 78. His wife, Caroline Ford Cotton, said he died unexpectedly, but she did not cite a cause. His death came less than four months after that of Rusty Young, Pocos longtime steel guitarist. Cotton joined Poco, replacing co-founder Jim Messina in 1970, just in time to appear on the groups third studio album, From the Inside (1971). Produced by Steve Cropper, guitarist with the Memphis R&B combo Booker T. & the MGs, the project signaled a new artistic direction for the band, maybe nowhere so much as on the three songs written by Cotton. Rooted more in rock and soul than in the country and bluegrass that had hitherto been the groups primary influences, Cottons sinewy, blues-inflected ... More | | 
Barnabás Lakatos Gelléri, Jumping Bulls, 2021 (detail). Mixed media on canvas, 200 X 200 cm. Photo: Norbert Perness / David Kovats Gallery.
LONDON.- David Kovats Gallery announced the opening of its final summer exhibition dedicated to Hungarian queer artist Barnabás Lakatos Gelléri. Committed to promoting emerging Hungarian and Eastern European talent, David Kovats Gallery closes its summer exhibition programme with a unique and colourful presentation by the emerging Hungarian artist and his large-scale, sensual, immersive canvases. Born in 1997, Barnabás is currently a senior student of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. A lover of intense and radiant colours, the young artist Barnabás Lakatos Gelléri has freely adopted the palette of Pop Art or perhaps anachronistically, the Fauves with gestures of Neo-Expressionism. For the artists first London exhibition, the gallerys walls will be taken over by large 2 by 2-meter vivid canvases, filling ... More |
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 Newly re-launched Stall & Dean exhibits rare antique & pop culture memorabilia at Chelsea MarketNEW YORK, NY.- Stall & Dean, one of the first American sports apparel brands, today announced its first art exhibition, The Museum of American Manufacturing, on display at Chelsea Market. Coinciding with the global celebration of the Summer Olympics, the exhibit takes New Yorkers and visitors through an American manufacturing time machine with its unique display of diverse sports memorabilia and artifacts created by Stall & Dean throughout the years. Showcasing baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and even lifestyle and entertainment memorabilia, The Museum of American Manufacturing organized by Stall & Deans Business and Creative Strategist Zaire Baptiste offers guests the ability to get up close and personal with these special pieces as they walk through the iconic market. We are so excited to bring this one-of-a-kind show ... More  Sotheby's to showcase Black jewelry designers with first-ever selling exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- In the first of its kind, Sothebys will stage a selling exhibition dedicated to showcasing the extraordinary skill, imagination and craftsmanship of Black jewelry designers. On view and open to the public in New York from 17 - 26 September, Brilliant and Black: A Jewelry Renaissance, will feature approximately 60 pieces by more than twenty of the worlds leading Black jewelry designers, including custom-made jewels and signature designs spanning a range of periods and styles from the 1950s to the present day. Curated in partnership with celebrated writer, author and stylist, Melanie Grant, the selling exhibition - the most ambitious to date - presents a selection of jewels of exceptional artistry, quality and historical importance, with prices ranging from $1,500 to $1 million. Among the artists represented are pioneers in the history ... More  Famed conductor, citing brain tumor, withdraws from concertsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas announced Friday that he would withdraw from performances for the next several months as he recovers from surgery to treat a brain tumor. Thomas, 76, the former music director of the San Francisco Symphony, said in a statement that he would take a hiatus through October as he undergoes treatment. He said doctors recently discovered the tumor and advised he have surgery immediately. He described the surgery, which took place at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, as successful. I deeply regret missing projects that I was greatly anticipating, Thomas said in the statement. I look forward to seeing everyone again in November. Thomas, an eminent figure in the music industry known by the nickname MTT, stepped ... More  EMERGENCY 2021: A biennial group exhibition of work by emerging artists opens this summer at AspexPORTSMOUTH.- Emergency 2021 is the ninth edition of Emergency, a biennial group exhibition of work by emerging artists selected from an international open call. Artists of any age and anywhere in the world were eligible to apply. The artists in this years exhibition are: Helen Anna Flanagan (Netherlands), Vera Hadzhiyska (UK), Eugene Macki (UK), Adriane Morard (Germany), Rhys Morgan (UK), Rossella Nisio (UK), Jim Roseveare (Netherlands) and Jessica Wetherly (UK). The open call generated over 300 submissions from artists around the world and the final eight were selected by the guest panel of judges, Alessio Antoniolli, Director Gasworks; Helen Cammock, Artist; and Will Lunn, Director Copperfield Gallery with Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex. On view to the public in Aspexs 40th-anniversary year, Emergency 2021 features work in a ... More  Garment District Alliance unveils Magic Hour, 225-foot-long painted road mural by artist Steed TaylorNEW YORK, NY.- New Yorkers and visitors can now check out Broadways new ink, as the Garment District Alliance today unveiled the iconic streets custom road tattoo, Magic Hour, created by artist Steed Taylor. The 225-foot-long painted road mural stretches from 39th to 40th Streets on Broadway in the Garment District and will be available to the public through the end of August. Magic Hour is part of the Garment District Alliances summer programming, which also features Broadway Rhythm, a series of weekly musical performances from 12 2pm on the Garment District pedestrian plazas that will run through August 18th. From Broadways vibrant new road mural to live musical performances on the plazas, we are thrilled to create an urban oasis for locals and visitors in the heart of Midtown Manhattan this summer, said Barbara A. Blair, ... More  Hip-hop dream thrives in India's largest slumMUMBAI (AFP).- After India's largest slum defeated the pandemic, some of its young residents pulled out their phones to write, shoot and release a triumphant rap video. "At first we were afraid, what would happen to us? But we stood with the doctors... now it's your turn", rapped the young men in the video. "We Did It" -- "Kar Dikhaya" in Hindi -- showcased new talent and won acclaim from celebrities, but its creators' abiding goal was to fight the stigma dogging this densely-populated corner of Mumbai. The Dharavi slum is home to around one million people, many of whom live in single-room shanties and share communal toilets. Its labyrinthine alleys have long been associated with filth and disease despite its remarkable success in the battle against Covid-19, and its residents battle constant discrimination. But Ayush Tegar Renuka, one of the star ... More  Tate launches pioneering new apprenticeship programme for the visual artsLONDON.- This month, Tate launches a new apprenticeship programme aimed at making careers in the arts more inclusive and accessible for all. At a time when the lives and university careers of young people in the UK have been affected exponentially by the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, these new work-based learning experiences will create much-needed routes-in to the visual arts sector. Working in collaboration with wider cultural heritage organisations, Tate hopes to pioneer new apprenticeship standards which are sought after across the arts. This includes unique positions within curatorial, conservation and archives & record management departments, providing rare insight and invaluable experience of the inner workings of a major arts institution. Following successful pilot roles initiated in 2018, this new fully funded apprenticeship ... More  Exhibition at UCCA Edge charts the artistic development of pioneering Chinese realist painter Liu XiaodongSHANGHAI.- UCCA Edge presents its first solo exhibition, Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends. A pioneering painter of a new realism in China, Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963, Jincheng, Liaoning province, lives and works in Beijing) emerged in the 1990s, known for his acute and lucid depictions of the minute changes he observed in different slices of Chinas rapidly urbanizing and developing society. Since the early 2000s, he has been known to work on-site in locations of particular poignance, from the construction site of the Three Gorges Dam to the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. This exhibition charts Lius artistic development in the decade since his 2010 exhibition Hometown Boy at UCCA Beijing, bringing together more than 120 new and existing works, including his latest series Your Friends, as well as sketches, diaries, and a new ... More  New Orleans Museum of Art opens an exhibition of photographs by Ishimoto YasuhiroNEW ORLEANS, LA.- In his long career, Ishimoto Yasuhiro (Japanese, born United States, 19212012) photographed a wide variety of subjects, including portraits, still lifes including flowers and plastic-wrapped foods, and abstract studies of color and form. He achieved distinction in Japan for his photography of architecture, which itself ranged from a 16th-century imperial villa to skyscrapers and a monument for the victims of the Nagasaki bombing. In the United States, Ishimoto is perhaps best known for his street photographyin particular his fascination with the people and environs of Chicago. This photograph is typical of Ishimotos street work, in that he most often turned his view perpendicular to whatever street he stood on (as opposed to looking down the thoroughfare towards a horizon) to better to capture the people and buildings ... More  London City Airport reveals Destination London: A new public art commission by Anne HardyLONDON.- London City Airport has unveiled its first ever public art commission Destination London, by the critically acclaimed East London artist, Anne Hardy. This unique work, located in the West Pier arrivals corridor, greets millions of international visitors as passengers return to the airport and London reopens to the world. The commission, which will be in place for two years, transmits a message of optimism and positivity from nature, providing a unique welcome to the Royal Docks and its diverse and vibrant cultural scene as City Airport once again connects travellers from across the globe to the heart of London. Curated by The Line, East Londons public art walk running between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, Destination London aims to communicate a vivid sense of the layered histories of London, expressed through ... More  Friday night footlights: How theater bonds a Colorado townCREEDE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Perched at 8,900 feet in the San Juan Mountains, five hours from the nearest major airport and near the Rio Grande headwaters, Creede is a town of around 350 full-time residents, with one grocery store, one gas station and a fast-rushing flume. A traffic light? Now youre asking for a lot. What it does have, most surprisingly, is an ambitious theater that has been running for 56 years. I had never heard of Creede Repertory Theater until the name came up after Googling most remote theater in the United States one day. My curiosity was piqued. Ask the Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin, a company member in 1971 and 1974, who ended up building a home here in Mineral County. Paradise was defined for me and birthed in me by the theater of Creede, Colorado, he said by phone ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller was born August 08, 1646. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August 1646 - 19 October 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. In this image: Sir Godfrey Kneller - Self portrait.
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