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Installation view of Picasso in Fontainebleau, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023âFebruary 17, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Picasso in Fontainebleau, a focused exhibition examining three months in a legendary artist's career, when he created an astonishingly varied body of work between July and September 1921 in the town of Fontainebleau, France. On view from October 8, 2023, through February 17, 2024, this exhibition reunites four monumental works on canvas, both versions of Picassoâs Three Musicians and Three Women at the Spring, with the other paintings, drawings, etchings, and pastels he made in Fontainebleau. Encompassing both cubist and classicizing styles, these works are presented together for the first time since their creation in Picassoâs makeshift garage studio and complemented by never-before-seen photographs and archival documents. Picasso in Fontainebleau is organized by Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Alexandra Morrison, Curatorial Assistant, and F ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dixon Gallery and Gardens opened the second iteration of its three-part series "Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial" on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023.
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| World record price for Helnwein: Successful modern and contemporary art auctions at Dorotheum | | Helen Frankenthaler, works from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation | | Galerie Lelong New York represents the Estate of Sarah Grilo |
Gottfried Helnwein (born in Vienna in 1948), Burgundy Mouse 2, on the reverse signed and dated G Helnwein 2014 and titled Burgundy Mouse 2, oil and acrylic on canvas, 172 x 260 cm, price realised 182,000, world record price.
VIENNA.- Contemporary art at Dorotheum: the highest auction price to date for a painting by Gottfried Helnwein was achieved on 29 November 2023. A typical seismographic work by the internationally renowned artist Martha Jungwirth was sold for 202.800 euros. The untitled work by the recipient of the 2021 Austrian State Prize comes from the Froh(n)berg private collection. A Mickey Mouse titled Burgundy Mouse 2 from 2014, suggesting - in typical Helnwein manner - subtle violence beyond the ideal comic (childrens) world, achieved 182,000 euros, setting a world record price. Dorotheum set another world record price for a work by Piero Gilardi, which found a new owner for 136,500 euros. The co-founder of Arte Povera created Sassi (Stones) in 1967, making use of synthetic resin, ... More | |
Freefall, 1992-93. Hand-dyed paper and woodcut. Edition 6/30. Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. Image: Aaron Wessling Photography, Courtesy of Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.
PORTLAND, OR.- A towering figure in American painting of the 20th century, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) stands as one of the preeminent artists of the post-war period. Her unique practice of pouring and staining paint into the raw canvas fused a fluid paint process that united color and movement into an emotional whole. These lyrical abstractions of sensuous color, light, and space from the 1950s changed the course of post-war painting, and set the foundation for the Color Field painting movement. When Frankenthaler turned to printmaking in 1961, she brought the same independence of spirit and challenging of convention to the process-bound world of the print atelierjust as her radical stain and poured technique had been to paintingin order to create new ... More | |
Sarah Grilo. Photo: Lisl Steiner. Courtesy the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, now represents the Estate of Sarah Grilo (1917-2007). Represented by the Paris location of the gallery since 2018, the Estate of Sarah Grilos relationship with the gallery will now extend to Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. An exceptional example of the artists work will be on view at the gallerys booth at Art Basel: Miami Beach. In a career spanning three continents and six decades, Sarah Grilo created paintings and works on paper in a distinctive style fusing abstraction with language. The artists first exhibition with the gallery: Sarah Grilo: The New York Years 1962-70 will open in February 2024 through early March, with works by the artist concurrently presented at Frieze Los Angeles. Curated by the art historian Karen Grimson, the exhibition will focus on the artists pivotal years in New York at a time of cultural and visual experimentation and political ... More |
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| NGV Triennial 2023: nearly 100 projects by 120+ artists, designers and collectives | | Springfield Art Museum exhibits Kent Bicentennial Portfolio | | Exhibition showcasing 1,750 years of African nation's artistic, cultural, and religious history debuts |
Portrait of Sheila Hicks in Coal Drops Yard.
MELBOURNE.- NGV Triennial 2023 is a powerful and moving snapshot of the world today as captured through the work of over 120 artists, designers and collectives working at the forefront of global contemporary practice. Uniquely bringing contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue with one another and traversing all four levels of NGV International, the NGV Triennial features nearly 100 projects led by creatives including Yoko Ono (Japan), Sheila Hicks (USA), Tracey Emin (UK), Betty Muffler (Australia), David Shrigley (UK), Maison Schiaparelli (France), Maurizio Cattelan (Italy), Shakuntala Kulkarni (India), Lin Fanglu (China), Ivan Navarro (Chile), Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo), Ihor Okuniev (Ukraine), Ezz Monem (Egypt), Thomas J Price (UK), Iris van Herpen (Netherlands), Jean Jullien (France), Fernando Laposse (Mexico), Azuma Makoto (Japan), Flora Yukhnovich (UK), Yee I-Lann (Malaysia), Farrokh Mahdavi (Iran), Hugh Hayden (USA), Elmgreen ... More | |
Colleen Browning, Union Mixer, ca. 1975, Lithograph on paper. Gift of Lorillard Tobacco Co., in commemoration of the Bicentennial. Collection of the Springfield Art Museum.
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum yesterday debuted Spirit of Independence: Kent Bicentennial Portfolio. This special exhibition re-engages with the central question posed to 12 American artists by the Kent Bicentennial Program in 1976, What does independence mean to you? The portfolio was sponsored by the Lorillard Tobacco Company as a celebration of our countrys bicentennial year and then gifted to 100 museums across the country, including the Springfield Art Museum. Each artist was given the freedom to respond with their own interpretation of the central question. The resulting portfolio presents twelve very different views of independence from the historical to the highly personal, and from the theoretical to the symbolic. This portfolio invites us to re-engage with this central ... More | |
Processional Cross Ethiopian, 15th century Bronze. Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1996.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Today the Walters Art Museum debuts Ethiopia at the Crossroads, an extraordinary display of Ethiopian art exploring over1,750 years of Ethiopian culture and history through over 220 objects. Co-organized by the Walters Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Toledo Museum of Art, Ethiopia at the Crossroads is the first major art exhibition in America to examine an array of Ethiopian cultural and artistic traditions from their origins to the present day and to chart the ways in which engaging with surrounding cultures manifested in Ethiopian artistic practices. A selection of works by contemporary Ethiopian artists will be displayed in conversation with the larger group of historic works that form the core of the exhibition. Tsedaye Makonnen, guest curator of contemporary art for the exhibition and an Ethiopian American ... More |
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| Glacial exhibit emerges in the Garment District | | In Dublin's pubs, raising a farewell pint to Shane MacGowan | | 36 hours in Oaxaca, Mexico |
Cracked Ice invites viewers to reflect on climate change.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts recently held a special ceremony in the heart of Midtown Manhattan in the Garment District to unveil Cracked Ice by renowned artist Del Geist a series of three towering structures made of stone and stainless steel titled Laurentide, Muir and Champlain that represent erratic boulders being held by immense ice-age glaciers. Located on the Broadway plazas in the Garment District between 39th and 40th Streets, the free installation invites viewers to reflect on the dynamic forces of nature and profound impact of climate change and will be available to the public through March 2024. We are so pleased to partner with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts to unveil Cracked Ice to the Garment District community, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Del Geists compelling works invite viewers to confro ... More | |
An emotional Leah Barry recounts some of her favorite Pogues songs over a pre-dinner drink at Grogans pub on Castle Street in Dublin, on Nov. 30, 2023, the evening of Shane MacGowans death. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
by Ed OLoughlin
DUBLIN.- Christmas came early this year in Dublin, but too late for a beloved adopted son. On the last evening in November, a wet Thursday, cars at the rush hour stoplights blared Fairytale of New York on a thousand radios. From the sidewalk, you could hear drivers and passengers singing along: The boys from the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay, and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day. The songs renowned lyricist and co-writer, Shane MacGowan, the British-born frontman of the punk-folk band the Pogues, had died that day. Ireland his greatest muse, and ancestral home was coming to terms with a death that had, thanks to MacGowans well-known addictions to alcohol and drugs, long ... More | |
A sculpture of a priest in a mask of the God of Fertility, at The Museo de Arte Prehispánico de México Rufino Tamayo, which has some 1,000 pre-Hispanic artifacts from across the country, in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nov. 6, 2023. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times)
by Elisabeth Malkin
NEW YORK, NY.- As Oaxacas attractions multiply and tourists pack its new hotels and upscale restaurants, the southern Mexican city has preserved its character. Its common to hear the brass band and drums of a calenda, a street procession that is accompanied by dancers, giant puppets and enormous spinning balloons, to celebrate a wedding or baptism. The city hosts festivals year-round, but its especially joyous in December, when residents honor Mexicos patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the citys patron saint, Our Lady of Solitude. During the whimsical Night of the Radishes, held annually on Dec. 23, artisans transform giant radishes into elaborate sculptures. Meanwhile, Oaxacans are constantly innovating, reworking ... More |
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| Now open at Michel Rein, Paris, Sébastien Bonin, Julien Meert, 'mountaincutters' | | LKFF Art Projects opens 'Confused Clarity' by Atelier les 2 Garçons | | Valery Gergiev, a Putin ally, chosen to lead Bolshoi Theater |
Sébastien Bonin, Isola, 2023. Watercolor and oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm.
PARIS.- Isolation, from the Latin isola, island. In the track Bora Vocal by Rone - one of the leading artists on the electronic scene - you can hear Alain Damasio's call to isolate himself. The great voice of French sci-fi intends to create his own island in order to write his novel La Horde du Contrevent¦ «Alain, 'La Horde du Contrevent' will only be a success - only if what - if you isolate yourself. If you isolate yourself damn it. Do you understand what 'isolated' means? Isola, the island damn. You create your island, and you avoid it as much as possible, you know. People have to be extremely far away from you, but far away, because your universe will be vast, what, it'll be immense, it'll be huge, it'll be an enormous universe, what. Enorme puissance d'univers, quoi» - extract from the track Bora vocal. While artists need to be in the world, they also need to be able to extract themselves from it in order to restore this world, their world. The artists featured in the Isola exhibition - S ... More | |
"La beauté indomptable", 2023. Bronze, taxidermy, mixed media, H90 x 20 x 25 cm.
BEERSEL.- LKFF Art Projects is now showing the very latest creations of Atelier les Deux Garçons, the Dutch artist duo recognised for their thought-provoking taxidermy and mixed media creations. Mostly known for their signature assemblages combining taxidermy with old porcelain figures or with toys the exhibition showcases a new body of artwork that amalgamates the natural world with classic bronze sculptures. The exhibition is a reflection and extension on their recent public art commission comprising three monumental figures, standing +/- 4 meters tall, set to be installed mid December in front of the Kunst Academie in Maastricht for its 200 year anniversary. Titled « Les Bourgeois de Maastricht », this art installation pays homage to Auguste Rodins masterpiece « Les Bourgeois de Calais ». The figures have puzzled elements from the classical era with the contemporary world, blurring the lines between the two. Atelier les Deux ... More | |
Valery Gergiev conducts the Munich Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in New York, April 3, 2017. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández and Ivan Nechepurenko
NEW YORK, NY.- Valery Gergiev, a star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir Putin, was tapped Friday to lead the storied Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Russian government announced. The move, effective immediately, will expand Gergievs dominance at the pinnacle of Russia culture. He already serves as the artistic and general director of the nations other premier performing arts institution, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. In Moscow, he replaces Vladimir Urin, the Bolshois general director since 2013, who signed a petition last year expressing opposition to the war in Ukraine. Gergiev will serve a five-year term, according to an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In a post on Telegram, Russias government said that Urin had been relieved of this position ... More |
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Shoot the Lobster opens an exhibition of works by Brunette Coleman
NEW YORK, NY.- Shoot the Lobster is presenting THE SAME ROOM. Before her death in 2016, Julie Beckers life's work reflected the dilapidated rooms she lived in across Los Angeles. Through sculptural maquettes that resemble her numerous apartments, or as photographs of doll-houses, her series The Same Room which lends its title to this group show depicts identically composed intersections of interiors. Varying in their decoration from one to the next, each room appears staged, their means of production unclear. Writer Kirsty Bell wrote that the interior in pragmatic terms is the vessel of experience. The grouping of works in the exhibition all depict interiors and facades; glimpses into what we leave behind. In Julie Becker's and Sylvie Hayes-Wallaces, the interiors are empty vessels seemingly devoid of human ... More
No snoozing here: This 'Sleeping Beauty' is gearing up for a wild ride
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the first time the cast members of Sleeping Beauty were rehearsing in their costumes, and they were amped up. The energy is palpable! director Julie Atlas Muz said late last month as the actors gathered onstage at the Abrons Arts Center. They would need that energy, too. We run like a steam train when it goes well, said writer Mat Fraser, who is also Muzs husband. And thats how it has to be. This Sleeping Beauty, after all, is a pantomime, a British theatrical holiday tradition that, at its best, is fast and furious and hilarious. Muzs first time at a panto, as they are called, was a revelation. I was like, What is this? she said. I thought it was like a punk-rock concert for kids. Fraser, who is British, introduced Muz, a Detroit native, to the daffy world of pantos broadly comic versions of classic fairy tales that incorporate such staples as cheeky topical ... More
Review: Climate protests upstage a Met Opera debut
NEW YORK, NY.- Wolfram, wake up! came a shout from the highest box seats of the Metropolitan Opera. The spring is polluted! At first it seemed like an odd thing to throw at the character of Wolfram in Richard Wagners Tannhäuser, which returned to the Met on Thursday night, with that role sung by the great baritone Christian Gerhaher in his company debut. (Indeed, his arrival was what made the night notable to begin with.) But that cry was the start of an unbroken stream of climate grievances, designed to coincide with Wolframs description, during the singing contest midway through Act II, of love as a miraculous spring. The spring is tainted! the protester up in the Family Circle continued, then dropped a banner that said, No Opera on a Dead Planet. Several more protesting voices emerged from the group Extinction Rebellion. Onstage, performers froze in place until the Met ... More
Madonna lived to tell
NEW YORK, NY.- Shining out from the Instagram slag heap, amid the endless artificial intelligence selfies and reaction reels, is an account so quiet in presence and noble in intention that it is sometimes hard to believe it exists. The account, The AIDS Memorial, is an evolving testament, told in photographs, videos and user stories, to lives lost to a devastating and, it can occasionally seem, forgotten epidemic. The stories and photos are of lovers, parents, children, relatives, acquaintances and friends taken by the disease, and they are edited and more generally guided into existence by one man, Stuart Armstrong, from his home outside Edinburgh, Scotland. To date, Armstrong has posted more than 11,000 of these tales, and if you are aware of them at all, that may owe to one woman: Madonna. The 65-year-old singer was ... More
When a princess runs the ball and rescues a timid boy
GLASGOW.- At a recent rehearsal of the Scottish Ballet, Marge Hendrick did something unusual for a ballerina. Running through a scene from Cinders!, a gender-bending new version of Cinderella, she grazed her partner Evan Loudons chin reassuringly as he looked down, unsure of himself. Then, Hendrick extended a hand to Loudon and paraded him around her, welcoming him to her world. It was an exact reversal of the gender dynamic that has long dominated ballets repertoire. Typically men are cast as confident, chivalrous princes, there to provide support to their female partners. You lead the woman, you present the woman, Loudon said in an interview after the rehearsal. Its the job in traditional ballets. In this production, with choreography by Christopher Hampson, the artistic director of the Scottish Ballet, Loudon ... More
'David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive' spans six decades of his career showing life in South Africa
CHICATO, IL.- The The Art Institute of Chicago commenced David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, on view since yesterday through March 25, 2024. Spanning six decades of Goldblatts career, this exhibition demonstrates his commitment to showing the realities of daily life in South Africa without pretense. Known for his nuanced portrayals of life during and after apartheid, Goldblatt devoted himself to documenting his country and its people. His impetus for photographing South African social relations in everyday encounters was deeply informed by reflection on his relative position of privilege in a racially segregated society. This presentation shows early black-and-white work alongside color photographs made after the end of apartheid, highlighting how Goldblatts perspective shifted over time in response to South Africas political ... More
Academy Art Museum hosting 'A Fire That No Water Could Put Out' and 'Sebastian Martorana: Public/Private'
EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum is currently conducting the winter exhibitions: A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement from the Collection of The High Museum and a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist Sebastian Martorana entitled Public/Private. An artist talk for Martorana was held on Friday, November 17. 'A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement from the Collection of The High Museum': Taking its title from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s final speech before his assassination in 1968, A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement from the Collection of The High Museum reflects ... More
Ben Woolfitt 'Blue Passage' solo exhibition shows new paintings and drawings in NY
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is showing Blue Passage, a solo exhibition and debut of new paintings and drawings by artist Ben Woolfitt in his first presentation with the gallery. Always exploring non-objective abstraction and inspired by Color Field painting, Woolfitts process-driven paintings begin and end with surface and color. These newest works start with waves and swaths of gesso that provide the first step in his process. Applying pigment in layers with each mark and gesture in response to the prior additions, the colors and imagery organically evolve filling the canvas and running off the edges in every direction. The variety of media, including acrylic paint, dry pigment, metallic leaf, and graphite and the canvas filling, all over painting approach makes the work dynamic, full of intrigue with the color and imagery extending ... More
The Huntington's presentation of 'Art for the People' is 3rd and last stop for the traveling exhibition
SAN MARINO, CA.- Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection, includes 19 striking works on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Drawn from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, Art for the People and its accompanying catalog explore representational paintings created in the United States between the 1929 stock market crash and World War II. Organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California; the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California; and The Huntington Library, the exhibition focuses on federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) artists of the 1930s and early 1940s who were employed by the government to help stimulate the post-Depression economy. More than 10,000 artists participated, creating works that represented the nation and its people ... More
Review: A shady documentary becomes a weapon of war in 'Spain'
NEW YORK, NY.- Financing is complicated when it comes to the arts, says a low-budget filmmaker in Jen Silvermans Spain. Thats hardly news, but the clever if murky play, which had its world premiere Thursday at Second Stage Theater, offers a solution: Let the Soviets foot the bill. In Silvermans telling, the filmmaker, Joris Ivens, a Dutchman working in the United States, is already an undercover infiltrator for Soviet interests when the Spanish Civil War breaks out in 1936. Over bloody steak in a dim restaurant, his handler offers him the chance to make a big-budget pro-Republican documentary whose theme would be the noble peasant crushed by the rich fascist. The goal: to end American neutrality, overthrow Francisco Franco and change the world. The part about communizing the emergent republic by any means necessary ... More
Judge weighs in on bitter dispute between Daryl Hall and John Oates
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The nature of the dispute between Daryl Hall and John Oates, which had been obscured in sealed court documents, became clearer Thursday as one of pop musics most recognizable and long-running duos put their fight in front of a judge in Nashville. Details of the collapse of the 50-year artistic collaboration and business partnership between the two had been trickling out for days in court papers submitted before Thursdays hearing in Chancery Court, where Hall and Oates were represented by lawyers but did not appear. Hall, the lead singer and songwriter for many of the bands hits, is arguing that Oates violated their contract by moving to sell his portion of one of their business partnerships without Halls approval. Halls lawyers went to court to block any sale while their business disagreement goes through ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Gilbert Stuart was born December 03, 1755. Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island. In this image: Former President George W. Bush (L) and Mrs. Laura Bush (C) receive a tour of the Gilbert Stuart exhibition from Rusty Powell, director of the National Gallery of Art, during a visit Monday, July 25, 2005 in Washington D.C.
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