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Sabine Schormann, the director general of the renowned contemporary art exhibition Documenta, at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany, June 2, 2022. After a month of crisis that has roiled the art world, Schormann resigned on Saturday, July 16, from her post only 28 days into the exhibitions 100-day run. Felix Schmitt/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- After a month of crisis that has roiled the art world, Sabine Schormann, director general of renowned contemporary art exhibition Documenta, resigned Saturday from her post 28 days into the exhibitions 100-day run. The crisis began after an artwork containing antisemitic imagery was installed, covered up and then removed from the exhibition, which is held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The hanging of the artwork, a huge piece that contained a Jewish caricature, has led to a loss of trust in the event, Documentas board said in a statement announcing Schormanns departure. The board considers it essential that everything is done to regain that trust, the statement added. The board will convene a group of experts on art, antisemitism and post-colonialism to determine what went wrong and decide if there are any further antisemitic images in the show, the statement said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation views of Gordon Cheung, Arrow to Heaven. June 28 - July 30, 2022, Almine Rech Matignon. Photo: Ana Drittanti.
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| University Research Gallery at Harvard presents "Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape" | | Gagosian presents 'Pat Steir: Paintings, Part II' | | Louise Giovanelli's first exhibition with White Cube opens in London |
Two Large Oaks and Two Deer at the Edge of a Wood.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Between the late 16th century and the early 18th century, artists working in the Netherlandsthen known as the Dutch Republicproduced an extraordinary number of landscape drawings. Many of these works depicted sites that were either recognizable as or evocative of the countrys cities, villages, and countryside. This profusion of local imagery coincided with the young countrys quest for global dominion, as well as with war and dramatic ecological change at home. As notions of Dutch territory shifted, artists engaged with the world by drawing outside, from direct observationa practice repeatedly encouraged in the art theory of the period. Once back in the studio, they could produce finished drawings and works in other media, adapting observed motifs or fusing them into altered or imagined views. In so doing, they constructed a selective vision of the Dutch landscape that by turns depicted, ... More | |
Pat Steir, Red Pour, 2021-22. Oil on canvas, 132 x 60 in. © Pat Steir. Photo: Elizabeth Bernstein.
ROME.- Gagosian is presenting Pat Steir: Paintings, Part II, to conclude the summer season in Rome. Focused around a suite of tall and majestic paintings, the gallery has been entirely rehung with the artists collaboration to create new dialogues between works from different recent series. In 1969, while completing his final historic series of paintings, Barnett Newman wrote, Why give in to these purists and formalists who have put a mortgage on red, yellow, and blue, transforming these colors into an idea that destroys them as colors? I had, therefore, the double incentive of using these colors to express what I wanted to doof making these colors expressive rather than didactic and of freeing them from the mortgage. Why should anybody be afraid of red, yellow, and blue? Newmans provocation riffed on the title of Edward Albees controversial play Whos ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli, her first with the gallery. Taken from the Latin word quasi' to mean as if, the title of the exhibition suggests images that carry the potential for further narratives and multiple ways of seeing. Giovanellis figurative paintings occupy a space somewhere between representation and materiality, exploiting the physical properties of paint to create works that are located in the contemporary yet deeply rooted in the history of the medium. For this exhibition, the artist reflects on new modes of devotion in the modern world and the allure of pop stars, movie actors, TV and theatre shows, creating images that attest to the power of these constructs, in an era when so much of society is disengaged from religious and spiritual belief systems. Drawing on an increasingly image-led culture, her works distil moments of social ritual, wh ... More |
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| Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens the first European survey of Alex Da Corte's work | | Olafur Eliasson's Sonnenenergie 22 installed in the light-flooded Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne | | Catherine Wood appointed Tate Modern's Director of Programme |
Alex Da Corte, Rubber Pencil Devil, 2019 Installation: Mixed Media. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Erhvervet med midler fra Augustinus Fonden © Alex Da Corte.
HUMLEBÃK.- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents the first major survey exhibition in Europe of the Venezuelan-American artist Alex Da Corte (b. 1980). The artist occupies space with colour. For Louisianas West Wing, Da Corte has designed an all-encompassing and relentless scenography with custom-made floors, brightly coloured walls, neon lights and distinct scents. Inviting us into a parallel reality, an intensely visual experience. Presenting the first in-depth exhibition of Alex Da Cortes work at a European museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is following up on its strong engagement in the artist. In 2014, Louisiana acquired its first two works by the artist, the installation Delirium I (2014) and the film Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (2010). In 2019, the museums collection was supplemented with the installation Rubber Pencil ... More | |
Olafur Eliasson, Sonnenenergie 22, 2022 © Studio Olafur Eliasson.
MUNICH.- For the first time, an artistic installation presented in the light-flooded Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne focuses on the sun. The earth's rotation around the sun becomes the protagonist of an ephemeral light painting Olafur Eliasson's expansive artwork Sonnenenergie 22 (Solar Energy 22). Light has played a fundamental role in Eliasson's artistic work for decades now, which spans installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and film. For Sonnenenergie 22, Eliasson has installed an immense circular projection surface at an angle within the rotunda. A series of circular, distorting mirrors and special color-effect filters on the north side of the glazed Rotunda ceiling cast sunlight onto the projection surface, and free-hanging rings of reflective glass and color filters add polytonal complexity by reflecting circles and arcs of light onto the screen. The moving, dynamic projections of sunlight make t ... More | |
Catherine Wood, 2022. Photo © Tate.
LONDON.- Tate announced that Catherine Wood has been appointed Director of Programme, Tate Modern. She will take up the position in August 2022, overseeing Tate Moderns ambitious and broad ranging artistic content, including exhibitions, displays, commissions, performances, film screenings and community projects. Working with the gallerys wider curatorial team, she will lead an innovative and engaging programme which reflects the latest developments in art, society, technology and sustainability. Catherine Wood joined Tate Modern in 2002, having previously held curatorial roles at the Barbican Art Gallery and The British Museum. Over the last 20 years, she has been instrumental in making performance and live art a core part of Tate Moderns programme, becoming Senior Curator, International Art (Performance) in 2015. She has worked closely with artists such as Joan Jonas, Tarek Atoui, Fujiko Nakaya, Mark Leckey, Anne Imhof, Ca ... More |
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| Tate Liverpool presents a major exhibition showing a century of landscape art | | The war in Ukraine is the true culture war | | The Ukrainian Museum exhibits the last photographs taken by a slain Ukrainian war correspondent |
Radical Landscapes, installation view at Tate Liverpool. 5 May 4 September 2022. Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood).
LIVERPOOL.- In summer 2022 Tate Liverpool presents Radical Landscapes, a major exhibition showing a century of landscape art revealing a never-before told social and cultural history of Britain through the themes of trespass, land use and the climate emergency. The exhibition includes over 150 works and a special highlight is Ruth Ewans Back to the Fields 2015-22, an immersive installation that brings the gallery to life though a living installation of plants, farming tools and the fruits of the land. This is accompanied by a new commission by Davinia-Ann Robinson, whose practice explores the relationship between Black, Brown and Indigenous soil conservation practices and what she terms as Colonial Nature environments. Expanding on the traditional, picturesque portrayal of the landscape, Radical Landscapes presents art that reflects the diversity of Britains ... More | |
A new icon at the Cathedral of Saint Sophia depicting Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, a 17th-century Cossack military commander, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 6, 2022. Emile Ducke/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
KYIV.- At the thousand-year-old Cathedral of St. Sophia here, standing on an easel in front of a towering Baroque golden altar, is a new, freshly painted icon thats just a foot square. It depicts a 17th-century Cossack military commander with a long gray beard. His eyebrows are arched. His halo is a plain red circle. He looks humble beneath the immense mosaics that have glinted since the 11th century through Kyivs sacking by the Mongols, its absorption into Poland, its domination by the Soviet Union. No gold. No gemstones. This icon has been painted on three planks of knotty wood: the planks, I learn, of an ammunition box recovered from the devastated Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Out of Buchas mass graves, in the wake ... More | |
Maks Levin: In Defense of Truth and Freedom.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum presents its new exhibition, Maks Levin: In Defense of Truth and Freedom, a selection of photographs by the slain Ukrainian journalist Maks Levin. The exhibition comprises 25 prints from among Levin's last pictures documenting the war that Russia continues to wage on Ukrainian soil. The war photographer's body was found outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 1, 2022. Unarmed and wearing a press jacket according to reports, it's believed that Levin was tortured before being fatally shot twice with small-arms fire by Russian soldiers. His murder is regarded a war crime. In Defense of Truth and Freedom is now open to the public and will be on display through September 18, 2022. Maksim (Maks) Yevhenovych Levin, 40, a father of four, had been working as a photojournalist since 2006. In 2014 he began photographing the war in eastern Ukraine. He continued on this mission until his untimely death in the conflict e ... More |
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| Alexander Gray Associates presents "Steve Locke: Homage to the Auction Block" | | Automobilia and collectibles from the Estate of Francis E. Tarzian, Sr., go up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Betty Parsons Catalogue Raisonné launches online |
Homage to the Auction Block #116-gateway, 2021. Acrylic on plywood, 16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm) 17 x 17 x 2 1/4 in framed (43.2 x 43.2 x 5.7 cm framed).
GERMANTOWN NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown announces Steve Lockes first exhibition with the Gallery, Homage to the Auction Block. This focused presentation of the artists ongoing Homage to the Auction Block series revisits Josef A. Alberss pivotal body of the work, Homage to the Square (195076). Imbuing Alberss iconic compositions with an unsettling charge via the abstracted form of a slave auction block, the exhibitions works explore the intertwined histories of race and modernism. By centering his paintings around the slave auction block, Locke draws attention to the foundation of modernismbuilt on the forced economic and cultural contributions of enslaved peoples. If not for the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of people, you dont have America, the artist notes. You dont have the Industrial Revolution, you dont have the cotton gin . . . you don ... More | |
Red Crown Gasoline Sign. Approximately 30 inches in diameter. Rust and "bullet" damage. Estimate $200-$300.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Automobilia & Collectibles from the Estate of Francis E. Tarzian, Sr., on Saturday, July 30, 2022, at 10:30 am PDT. Mr. Tarzian was a passionate collector of antique automobiles and related items, whose restoration and machinist skills garnered numerous awards. With over 200 lots, this auction features a wide and eclectic array of automotive items, virtually all vintage and mostly antique, as well as some other collectibles from the early 20th-century era
Among the many items of automobilia are gasoline, pump and truck service signs; license plate toppers; auto and truck badges; horns; auto lights and lamps; lanterns; collectible spark plugs; radiator caps; gauges; speedometers; a Cadillac steering wheel; and antique car parts such as ignition switches, clocks, radios, and more. The sale includes a wide selection of printed matter ... More | |
Betty Parsons, Portrait 1932. Oil on canvas board, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) The Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation, in collaboration with Alexander Gray Associates, announces the digital launch of the Betty Parsons Catalogue Raisonné. This web-based resource, designed by panOpticon, focuses on Parsonss artistic legacy, making the breadth of Parsonss oeuvre accessible to scholars, curators, collectors, and general audiences alike. Rachel Vorsanger, Collection and Research Manager for the Betty Parsons Foundation, has led this initiative. At present, the Betty Parsons Catalogue Raisonné lists over 700 artworks made by Betty Parsons, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and painted wooden assemblages. Anchoring the Catalogue are works by Parsons from the Foundations holdings; also listed are artworks in public and private collections, including gifts to family members and close friends. In addition, journals, sketchbooks, writing, and ephemera will be ad ... More |
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Fábio Menino's first solo exhibition in the United States opens at Jupiter Contemporary
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Jupiter Contemporary is presenting Low Battery, Fábio Meninos first solo exhibition in the United States, featuring new and never-before-seen paintings that compel a consideration of the relationship between our functional needs and material desires by foregrounding the aesthetic appeal, streamlined design, and seductive advertisements of utilitarian objects. Sourcing product imagery from the internet, and the Google shopping platform in particular, Menino chooses objects to feature in his paintings largely based on their quotidian utility, but also on their design and the way in which advertisements aestheticize, and perhaps even nullify, functionality. Taking formal cues from artists such as Vija Celmins, Wayne Thiebaud, and even Haim Steinbach. Ferro de Passar Roupa (Clothes Irons), 2022, for example, depicts ... More
First solo exhibition in Austria by Rebecca Warren opens at The Belvedere 21
VIENNA.- Having achieved international renown with her sculptures, collages and vitrines, Rebecca Warren has been among contemporary arts most prominent protagonists for more than twenty years. The Belvedere 21 presents the first solo exhibition in Austria by this seminal British sculptor. Stella Rollig, General Director of the Belvedere: At a time of rising interest in figurative representations in the visual arts, Rebecca Warren stands out as a pioneer and role model. The home of Fritz Wotrubas estate offers an appropriate frame of reference for this highly topical perspective in sculpture. Rebecca Warren makes sculptures, assemblages, and constructions in a wide variety of materials. Her distinctive and complex oeuvre, blending tradition with the quotidian, seriousness with frivolity, mastery with mismatch, has embodied her attitudes ... More
Museum of the African Diaspora expanding its Emerging Artists Program with grant from IMLS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco has recently been awarded one of 33 Museum Grants for African American History and Culture from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant will support the expansion of MoADs signature Emerging Artists Program (EAP), a juried competition that selects four local Black artists per year for a solo exhibition at the Museum. Since 2015, EAP has been an incubator for Black Bay Area emerging artists who are at critical junctures in their careers, providing them with financial and professional support to help promote their work, better establish their careers, and expand their visibility. Since EAP was established, MoAD has worked with 20 emerging artists, the majority of whom have gone on to successful careers. The IMLS funding allows MoAD ... More
Galerie Chantal Crousel presents "Mona Hatoum Performance Documents, 1980-1987/2013"
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is hosting Mona Hatoums newest solo exhibition in its second space at 5 rue de Saintonge, with a presentation of the major installation Performance Documents, 1980-1987/2013. This important work comprising photographs, sketches, drawings, notes, descriptions and videos, brings together rare archive material from a strategic and early point in Hatoums career when she created performance in both a gallery setting and outside, on the streets. Hatoum's performances are particularly striking since they are both dramatically visual and emotionally and politically engaged, characteristics which underpin all of her work thereafter. In these works we see themes that the artist returns to many times in her sculptures, installations and works on paper, with particular focus on the body, issues of gender and notions ... More
Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in Shanghai
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition, on view from July 16 to July 23, 2022. The society of the spectacle. The performance is over, or perhaps it is yet to begin. Farah Atassi's dancers are at rest, sometimes even asleep, on a stage with a half-open curtain, not for some ballet but for other art forms. Indeed, in the center of a space lined entirely with an impeccable grid that plays almost hypnotically with the reclining dancer's striped costume, striped paintings emerge from the decor, while on the ground a frame seems to be waiting to become an abstraction. These intersecting lines in Sleeping dancer 3 reveal other crossings, other encounters those of painting, dance, and theater. This singular dialogue occurs again on the stage of Dancer on stage 2: next to some striped paintings strewn on the floor, the dancer, ... More
Remai Modern hosts most comprehensive presentation of works by Tino Sehgal in Canada
SASKATOON.- This summer at Remai Modern, visitors are invited to experience a distinctive exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Tino Sehgal. Through selected works that span the breadth of his practice, the museum plays host to what Sehgal calls constructed situations ephemeral art experiences activated through encounters between the museum visitor and the individuals enacting his work. Sehgal is a leading international figure working in the realm of live arts. His work invites audiences to reconsider the way art is produced, presented, and received. Remai Modern presents three works by the artist, all of which include contributions by people in the community. Two of the projects, Yet untitled and This Situation (solo), will be enacted by local dancers and thinkers. The third project, This Success/This Failure, features children ... More
Dutch pavilion at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition; winner of the Golden Bee Award
MILAN.- The 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition is now open to the public, with the Dutch pavilions Have we met? promoting new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals. The view that the earth exists solely for human exploitation must be radically rethought to confront todays environmental crises. Have we met? therefore examines what attitudes, tools and technologies are necessary to recalibrate the relationship between humans and non-humans. An urban area in Rotterdam, a regenerative farm in the Netherlands rural east, and an abandoned North Sea oil rig: these three ecologically diverse sites help to explore the possibilities for interspecies relationships. While nature studies traditionally rely on quantitative data, human experience is usually assessed by qualitative means; ... More
PHI announces winners of the International Architecture Competition for PHI Contemporary
MONTREAL.- After 11 months of rigorous development, the International Architecture Competition is now complete. The winning architectural firms Kuehn Malvezzi + Pelletier de Fontenay will pursue the mandate to develop their proposal and realize the architectural design of PHI Contemporary, transforming the site into a new cultural hub for Old Montreal. Berlin-based architectural practice Kuehn Malvezzi and Montreal-based firm Pelletier de Fontenay will work as a consortium to realize the design of PHI Contemporary. They collectively share more than 30 years of experience within the cultural and public spheres, bringing together a sophisticated knowledge of the museum domain and a critical understanding of built heritage. PHI begins this new chapter with the architects to transform four heritage buildings and an adjacent lot, located at the ... More
'T' Space opens an exhibition of new works by Arlene Shechet
RHINEBECK, NY.- T Space is presenting Couple of an exhibition of new works by Arlene Shechet. Following Shechets recent solo presentations in Hong Kong and LA, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to experience Shechets works in the Hudson Valley where the artist lives and works. The main installation consists of three sculptures, each executed in a different material: carved wood with steel, cast iron, and glazed ceramic. Together, the works reveal the breadth of Shechets practice and her mastery of diverse mediums. Shechets works typically require heavy-lifting and involve serious materials yet are characterized by creative spontaneity and an effortless combination of disparate elements, often in precarious arrangements. Employing texture, color, materiality, and physical humor, Shechets sculptures synthesize the logic of painting, ... More
Enchantingly Real: Bernardo Bellotto at the Court of Saxony
DRESDEN.- This retrospective celebrates the Venetian artist Bernardo Bellotto (17221780) three hundred years after the artists birth. Bellotto, who, like his uncle and teacher Antonio Canal, went by the name Canaletto, is considered one of the eighteenth centurys most important painters of the town scenes known as vedute. To this day, his paintings offer us a unique insight into the architecture and everyday life of the baroque period. The roughly 140 exhibits on show in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister paint Bellottos life and works in a fresh light, focusing on the milestones of his career as an artist. Following his early days in Venice, Bellotto moved to Dresden in 1747, where he painted large-scale vedute for the Saxon Prince Electors, for Frederick Augustus III King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania and for the latters prime minister ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger was born July 17, 1871. Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. In this image: Hellmut Seemann president of the foundation "Weimarer Klassik", right, talks with William Timken, US ambassador to Germany, left, about drawings of artist Lyonel Feininger after the opening of the "Feininger" exhibition at the Bauhaus museum in Weimar, eastern Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006.
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