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Rodolfo Morales, Plaza in Four Parts. Estimate $20,000-30,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, August 24, 2022, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will hold a Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art sale with over 350 lots by influential figures from the mid-20th century to the present. Items on offer include paintings, prints, sculptures, furniture, lighting, metalwork, pottery, glassware, and more. Along with examples by artists and designers from Chicago and the Midwest, the sale features works by a range of American and global innovators. Preview details and bidding instructions follow the auction highlights below. One of the standout works on August 24 is an oil on canvas by celebrated Mexican painter Rodolfo Morales, Plaza in Four Parts (estimate $20,000-30,000), which combines elements of magic realism and surrealism to portray a traditional village scene. Robert Lostutter also draws on fantasy and the sale includes three of his watercolor and pencil drawings and an etching with unusual creatures (highest $3,00 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ryan Mrozowski. Installation view, Eyes Like Ponds at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Photo by Christopher Lund.
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| Dmitri Vrubel, who planted a kiss on the Berlin Wall, dies at 62 | | Rauschenberg screenprint exhibition opens at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art | | Odesa is defiant. It's also Putin's ultimate target. | 
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker and with it a tourist attraction.
by Christopher F. Schuetze
BERLIN.- Dmitry Vrubel, a Russian artist-provocateur best known for a startling mural on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev laying a fat kiss on the mouth of East German leader Erich Honecker, died Saturday in Berlin. He was 62. His wife and longtime artistic partner, Victoria Timofeeva, said the cause was heart failure related to a COVID-19 infection. In 1990, the year Germany reunified, Vrubel was one of 117 artists from 21 countries to descend on a surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, which had fallen the previous year. With paint and a ladder, he recreated a larger-than-life version of a 1979 photo of a kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker. Below it he wrote a caption in Russian and German: My Lord, give me the strength to survive this deadly love. By that time communism was falling around the globe, and the Soviet Union was not long for this world. Honecker was out ... More | | 
Robert Rauschenberg (U.S., 1925-2008), #56 Features from Currents, 1970. Silkscreen; 40x40". Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Newman, 1980.
NORMAN, OKLA.- An exhibition featuring work by prominent 20th century artist Robert Rauschenberg opened this week at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Robert Rauschenberg: Pressing News includes work from the artists news clipping series, Currents. In late 1969 after suffering a variety of setbacks in his personal life and increasing apprehension regarding the state of the world, Robert Rauschenberg retreated from New York City to Malibu, California. The famed printmaker intended to calm his creative mind with a large watercolor, but instead created Currents. Rauschenberg collaged together headlines, photographs, advertisements, and articles from more than eight national newspapers in January and February 1970. The collages served as studies for three series of screenprints that collectively formed Rauschenberg' s protest. He was very troubled by the state of the world at the time, explained Eugene B. Adkins senior curator Had ... More | | 
At the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, from which more than 12,000 works were removed for safekeeping, a sculpture, Venus, by Maria Kulikovska, made of ballistic soap and too fragile to easily remove, in Odesa, Ukraine, June 25, 2022. Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times.
by Roger Cohen
ODESA.- The Odesa Fine Arts Museum, a colonnaded early-19th-century palace, stands almost empty. Early in Russias war on Ukraine, its staff removed more than 12,000 works for safe keeping. One large portrait remained, depicting Catherine the Great, the Russian empress and founder of Odesa, as a just and victorious goddess. Seen from below in Dmitry Levitzkys painting, the empress is a towering figure in a pale gown with a golden train. The ships behind her symbolize Russias victory over the Ottoman Turks in 1792. Shes textbook Russian imperial propaganda, said Gera Grudev, a curator. The paintings too large to move, and besides, leaving it shows the Russian occupiers we dont care. The decision to let Catherines portrait hang in isolation in the first room of the ... More |
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| NILS STÆRK opens an exhibition of works by Gardar Eide Einarsson | | Shawanda Corbett unveils exhibition created especially for Tate Britain | | Solo exhibition of new works by Ryan Mrozowski opens at i8 Gallery | 
Gardar Eide Einarsson Mining Rig (RAL 3002 Carmine Red), 2022 Powder coated steel 24 x 72 x 27 cm (9,45 x 28,35 x 10,63 in).
COPENHAGEN.- NILS STÃRK presents Gardar Eide Einarsson's 7th solo exhibition at at the gallery. Gardar, as you know, Ive really pushed for you to embrace an identity as an artist plus. What I mean is that you could be making art as well as doing something else professionally. Doing something else in addition. Artist plus entrepreneur. Artist plus investor. Artist plus amateur martial artist. Of course, youre a dad, husband, son, house flipper, globalist etc. Not to take anything away from those personae, but I am speaking strictly about your professional identity. I would love to see you do more than art making, and I dont mean this to be diminishing in any way towards your art practice. Theres always been a feeling of cognitive surplus with you, Gardar. You have spare capacity. I think you have mastered the art practice, youve cashed it out and, when we think of whats possible now ... More | | 
Shawanda Corbett, Tell Me a Story (From: "Late Night Rehearsal"), 2022 Glazed stoneware, 50 x 18 cm, 19.7 x 7.1 inches, SCo22-02 Courtesy the Artist and Corvi-Mora, London. Photo: Marcus Leith.
LONDON.- Tate Britain unveiled Let the sunshine in, a new exhibition by artist Shawanda Corbett. Corbetts multifaceted practice embraces ceramics, film, dance, and photography, to explore the notion of a complete body. Created especially for Tate Britain, Let the sunshine in features the artists first short film accompanied by a jazz score and presented alongside a set of new ceramic vessels. Woven together, these elements highlight how people interact with one another and the spaces they inhabit, offering a soulful reflection on the human experience. This is the latest in Tate Britains ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting the latest developments in contemporary British art. Informed by our shared experience of the pandemic when restrictions on live events were ... More | | 
Ryan Mrozowski. Installation view, Eyes Like Ponds at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Courtesy of the artist and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Photo by Christopher Lund.
REYKJAVÃK.- i8 Gallery announced Eyes Like Ponds, a solo exhibition of new works by Ryan Mrozowski. The show, the artists first with i8, will be on view until 8 October 2022. Featuring paintings and sculptural wall works, Eyes Like Ponds highlights Mrozowskis signature systematic approach to painting. The artists immersive language, which is rooted in visual and linguistic puzzles, frequently uses botanical subjects to explore elements of presence, absence, and perception. Foliage, fruit, and letters become abstracted in Mrozowskis compositions, as the artist crops and repeats his motifs. The resulting lyrical patterning disrupts the traditional still-life and often reimagines nature with methodical order. The repetition within the compositions is also reflected in the doubling of canvases, as seen in Mrozowskis pendants. By masking fauna with saturated areas of color, Mrozowski ... More |
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| "Some Really Great Things" group exhibition on view at Nancy Toomey Fine Art | | Exhibition at Nara Roesler presents the latest developments from Daniel Senise's Museums and Galleries series | | Three new exhibitions at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art explore figure, abstraction, and erasure | 
Brian Dettmer, Two Cities, 2020. Paperback book, acrylic varnish, 7.25 x 7 x 3 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nancy Toomey Fine Art announced a group exhibition titled Some Really Great Things, on view from July 8 to August 27, 2022, with works by Miya Ando, Jud Bergeron, Casper Brindle, Claire Burbridge, Brian Dettmer, Chris Natrop, Matthew Picton, Gregg Renfrow, Carole Silverstein, and Ray Turner. The gallery is located inside San Franciscos Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. Traditionally, the season of summer suggests a relaxed and joyful response to long slow days that serve as templates of calm. As global events and at-home shenanigans unfold, that quiet tranquility has been upended. This exhibition allows our gallery artists to demonstrate and translate the enormity of our world to a scale that is more relatable, exploring the role of perception and innovative use of material to create its own meaningful experience. All the works and artists featured here express the concept ... More | | 
Untitled (Galeria dellAccademia), 2022. Mixed media on aluminum 350 x 300 cm. 137.8 x 118.1 in.
SAO PAULO.- In Verônica, Daniel Senise assembles three different bodies of images: large formats made from surface monotypestransfers of faded walls, scattered with traces of passing timein which the emblematic interiors of great museums are shown, often with their works erased; a set of works made with a similar technique, where several images of shrouds are also reproduced as mural ruins; and finally, photographic enlargement of masterpieces, derelict reproductions, eroded by time and elements, extracted from slides that accompanied old art history books. It is, therefore, an ambitious reflection on the place of the imageand also on the place of paintingwhich is consistent with the work that Senise has produced in recent years. Images have (or have had) many places. Today, for example, one may believe that its place is virtual, digital, within the jungle of applications, the world wide web, and its social media and, therefore, one can also think that the place of the imag ... More | | 
Installation photograph, Bernard Meyers: Urban Abstracts, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Aug 12Oct 15, 2022, photo by Zachary Norman, © umoca.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art opened three new exhibitions Friday, August 12, 2022. In keeping with its mission to exhibit the work of local and national artists, umoca is presenting the work of two Utah-based artistsJohn Sproul and 202122 umoca Artist-in-Residence Bernard Meyersand Denver-based artist Tobias Fike. Sprouls exhibition Here Between There in The Museums Projects Gallery features large-scale paintings that use the figure to explore opposites protection versus exposure, public versus private, acknowledgment versus disregard, and conscious versus subconscious to understand the fallacy of power and the strength found in vulnerability. Photographer Bernard Meyers exhibition Urban Abstracts in the air Space uses images collected on walks through urban environments to explore the intersections of photographic realism and abstract expressionism. These ... More |
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| British Library and Leeds City Museum co-curate new exhibition 'Living with Machines' | | Yane Calovski joins Zilberman | | Miller ICA opens a survey of Dara Birnbaum's influential practice | 
Girl at Preston Loom © The Whitaker Museum Art Gallery.
LEEDS.- Living with Machines is the first large-scale exhibition developed in partnership between the British Library and Leeds Museums & Galleries. The exhibition is inspired by the Living with Machines research project, a collaboration between the British Library, The Alan Turing Institute and five partner universities, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via UK Research and Innovations (UKRI) Strategic Priorities Fund. The project is developing new computational and historical methods for working with library collections at scale. Find out more on the Living with Machines project website. From a potato peeler to an enormous textile loom, early examples of Leeds machinery sit alongside a diverse array of material including newspapers, paintings, workers protest ballads, propaganda and football ephemera. Items such as an early example of fast fashion - still ... More | | 
Yane Calovski. Photo: Damir Zizic.
BERLIN.- Zilberman announced the representation of Yane Calovski. Yane Calovskis artistic practice is research-based and interdisciplinary. He examines the processes of interconnecting existing, inconclusive modernist narratives and how these, as evocations, can stimulate a new critical imagination. The nonlinearity of collective memory informs his practice. Visually, he articulates his work both abstractly and figuratively. His methodology includes writing, drawing, building, and video-documenting, leading to installations that concern a site's spatial and contextual specificity, the material, and the conceptual elasticity of the form. Ultimately, his works reassemble archives, questioning how history is practiced, produced, presented, and consumed. Yane Calovski graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1996) and Bennington College (1997). He participated in the studio programs in CCA Kitakyushu, Japan (1999& ... More | | 
Dara Birnbaum, Still from Journey: In the Shadow of the American Dream (working title), 2022 (detail). A new commission for the Miller ICA.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Dara Birnbaum: Journey, is a survey of Dara Birnbaums influential practice. This exhibition reviews the trajectory of Birnbaums penetrative interrogations of mass media during a period of time when technological transformations enabled seismic shifts in the mass consumption of information and entertainment. Over the Âpast 45 years, Birnbaums work has consistently reclaimed power within and against dominant media paradigms that control access to information and transmit encoded ideologies. This exhibition comes at a time when the medias role in shaping American culture and politics is more potent than ever. In 1977, Birnbaum took note that the Nielsen ratings reported the average American family watched television up to seven hours and twenty minutes per day and thus, she realized thats what [she] had to go ... More |
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 Graham Budd Auctions to sell very scarce "khaki" football programme from the 1915 F.A. Cup FinalLONDON.- A very scare 'Khaki 'Cup Final programme for the match between Chelsea v Sheffield United that was played at Manchester United's Old Trafford ground on April 24, 1915 will be included in Graham Budd Auctions sale of Sports Memorabilia on Tuesday & Wednesday, September 6 & 7, 2022. It is estimated to fetch £10,000-15,000. As Adam Gascoigne, CEO of Graham Budd Auctions, explained: Known as the Khaki Cup due to the large amount of uniformed soldiers at the match, the attendance was in the region of 50,000 which was lower than previous years as so many young men were involved in the First World War. This was the last F.A. Cup final to take place before competitive football was suspended in Britain because of the war and, to avoid too much disruption, it was moved from its pre-war location of Crystal Palace (South London) ... More  The first large-format monograph on Leon Löwentraut's artistic work to date is now availableDUSSELDORF.- The illustrated book from teNeues Verlag, designed with great attention to detail, comprises 320 pages with 220 high-resolution color photographs and texts by Albrecht Behmel also on the genesis of several works. It addresses questions such as: What drives Leon Löwentraut? Who influenced him? What is behind his art? In addition to these subjects, the book is also devoted to contemporary art themes. How does it feel to be an artist in our digital age, and what place does classically created art have in a global world dominated by the Internet and social media? After all, today a work of art is easier than ever to reproduce, and an artist can relate to his fans and buyers in a very different way than he did ten years ago. He is, in a sense, public. The book impresses not only thematically and with its selection of photographs, but also with its velvet ... More  San Francisco's historic Presidio Chapel jumpstarts drive for expansion, upgradesSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Presidio Chapel, built in 1931 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, has long been a beacon of hope and a place of reflection for people of all faiths. It has served the community for just over 90 years and is now embarking on an effort to raise funds to stabilize, make accessible, and expand the historic structure, according to Page & Turnbull, the architecture firm supporting the initiative. To kick off this ambitious campaign, the Interfaith Center at the Presidio is mounting the exhibition Remembered Light, featuring works from the McDonald Peace Windows collection at San Franciscos War Memorial Veterans Building. The show runs from August 27 through November 20, 2022. The show includes two dozen works, each created from shards of stained glass collected by Frederic A. McDonald (1908-2002), who ... More  Les Ateliers Courbet present South African ceramicist Katherine GlendayNEW YORK, NY.- Les Ateliers Courbet announced a new exhibition by South African ceramicist Katherine Glenday. Known for evoking a feeling of stillness through her work, Glendays ceramic vessels are widely collected and appreciated for their expressiveness and translucent qualities. Her new exhibition, which opened on August 9th at Les Ateliers Courbets Chelsea gallery and is on view through September 2nd, features 30 new pieces, many of which demonstrate Glendays recent exploration of color. Since the beginning of her career, Glenday has explored the conversation between lightness and darkness in her work, understanding that we need the dark to reveal the light. For many years, the artist has pondered how she would work with color, and this new exhibition reflects her foray into an expanded palette . This new body ... More  Rewriting women back into film historyNEW YORK, NY.- Much has been made of cinemas recent vanguard of female superheroes, the crusading women who give as good as they take. But long before Wonder Woman and her Amazonian sisters charged the big screen, long before feminist scholars began calling out the film industrys inequities and long before talking movies became the norm, women ran wild in movies. And I mean, really wild. They riotously schemed, fought and defied convention, racing and laughing their way to liberation or something like it. This weekend, you can get a peek at just how free women in cinema were in a program of shorts called Queens of Destruction: A Selection of Films From Cinemas First Nasty Women. Screening Saturday and Sunday at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, this program of 11 titles is a tasty sampler of Cinemas ... More  In two London plays, being Black means looking from the outside inLONDON.- It was my second time here, and I kept trying to remember if I had felt as conspicuous during my first visit. I could count the number of other Black women I spotted during my five days here: the hotel receptionist with the French braid, whom I spoke with when I stopped in to ask to use the bathroom; the long-haired woman at my own hotels front desk; the woman talking rapidly into her cellphone outside a Starbucks; the two women (clearly tourists) with matching backpacks near the British Museum; and the young woman with the short, relaxed hair, who was clutching a shopping bag as she walked briskly down the street. That list isnt comprehensive. But its not far off. So when the eyes of a white person linger on me, as they did numerous times during this trip, my imagination tricks me into thinking every glance is a rebuke whether because of my obvious Americanness or because i ... More  Multi-faceted project features art and sound installations and an outdoor adventure walk PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Watershed Moment at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is a multi-faceted project featuring art and sound installations and an outdoor adventure walk revealing the critical importance of watersheds in our lives. The Academy engaged the Philadelphia-based New Paradise Laboratories to shape the creative approach. Presenting four experiences created by two collaborating artist teams responding tonatural science and the physical properties of water as it moves through Philadelphias urban landscape, Watershed Moment enables a deeper understanding of the Lower Schuylkill River Watershed and an appreciation of watersheds in general. The project the first public art commission presented by the Academy is the signature event of the institutions yearlong Water Year 2022 celebration designed to connect ... More  National Portrait Gallery celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and DÃa de Los Muertos with festivals and installationWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 with virtual programs and an in-person festival highlighting Hispanic history, culture, traditions and stories. Following Hispanic Heritage Month, Nov. 2, the museum will commemorate el DÃa de los Muertos with an indoor festival and an outdoor video and music installation by artists MasPaz and Guache. Admission for both festivals is free. On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Portrait Gallery is cohosting the Fotos y Recuerdos Festival with childrens book publisher Lil Libros. This bilingual celebration for all ages will take place in the museums Kogod Courtyard and surrounding galleries from 11:30 a.m.3 ... More  The true legacy of Michael K. WilliamsNEW YORK, NY.- Three months before he died, actor Michael K. Williams spent all day at a block party in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. In some ways it had the vibe of any block party a DJ making people move, kids riding bikes in the street, smoke billowing out of an oil-drum grill. But this wasnt just another summer day in Brownsville. Williams and a group of community activists had persuaded seven of the politicians hoping to be New Yorks next mayor to show up, granting them a forum to explain why they deserved the support of a Black community that was used to being ignored. One by one, the candidates took turns sitting at a folding table in the middle of the block and fielded tough questions from a panel of young people who lived there. Some of those young people belonged to a gang. Many had lost friends and family ... More  Norah Vincent, who chronicled passing as a man, is dead at 53NEW YORK, NY.- In the winter of 2003, Norah Vincent, a 35-year-old journalist, began to practice passing as a man. With the help of a makeup artist, she learned to simulate stubble by snipping bits of wool and painting them on her chin. She wore her hair, already short, cut in a flattop and bought rectangular framed glasses, to accentuate the angles of her face. She weight-trained to build up the muscles in her chest and back, bound her breasts with a too-small sports bra and wore a jock strap stuffed with a soft prosthetic penis. She trained for months at the Julliard School in New York with a vocal coach, who taught her to deepen her voice and slow it down, to lean back as she spoke rather than leaning in, and to use her breath more efficiently. Then she ventured out to live as a man for 18 months, calling herself Ned, and to chronicle the experience. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American designer and architect Charles Eames died August 21, 1978. Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907-1978) was an American designer, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. He also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film. In this image: "Lobby Chair" models by U.S. designers Charles Eames (1907-1978) and his wife Ray (1912-1988) are on display during the exhibition "The furniture of Charles and Ray Eames - Products, Processes, Prototyps", in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Thursday, March 22, 2007.
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