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Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian. Installation View at Tate Modern 2023. Photo Tate (Jai Monaghan)
by Emily LaBarge
NEW YORK, NY.- In the middle of the exhibition Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, currently showing at Tate Modern, in London, sits a pair of maquettes that encapsulate the artists differences. When the Dutchman Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, fleeing first the Nazi occupation of Paris and then the London Blitz, his reputation as one of Europes most celebrated artists preceded him. At Tate Modern, a diorama of his studio on East 59th Street from that period shows the stark white two-room apartment covered in configurations of primary-colored cardboard rectangles, like test studies for his geometric paintings. A neighboring model offers a different kind of architecture for the cohabitation of art and life: The Temple, envisioned by Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint. An impenetrable 10-sided monolith, the never-realized structure was to be made of alabaster, with an astronomical tower and a spiraling internal staircase. Its interior, which ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Capturing the Moment Installation View at Tate Modern 2023 © Tate (Jai Monaghan).
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| Exhibition at Fondation de l'Hermitage revisits the work of Nabi master Ãdouard Vuillard | | Zwirner pivots on plans for new Chelsea gallery | | A self-portrait of the Roma, without the stereotypes |
Ãdouard Vuillard, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, vue du Relais vers lentrée du parc, 1897-1899. Huile sur carton, 40,8 x 29,5 cm. Collection particulière, Suisse © photo Peter Schälchli, Zurich.
LAUSANNE.- In the summer of 2023, the Fondation de lHermitage is revisiting the work of Nabi master Ãdouard Vuillard (1868-1940), seen through the lens of Japonism that took Paris by storm at the turn of the 20th century. Centred on the delicate landscape held at lHermitage, La Maison de Roussel à La Montagne (1900), the exhibition shows the crucial influence of Japanese art on Vuillards work. The artist was a great collector of ukiyo-e prints, in which he found formats of a kind hitherto unknown in the Europe, radical compositions and framing, and unusual motifs, all of which greatly enriched his aesthetic language. Around a hundred paintings and engravings of scenes of everyday life and nature, created by Vuillard between the 1890s and the First World War, are shown here in dialogue with some fifty Japanese masterpieces. It was almost certainly the great exhibition of Japanese art of 1890 at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Selldorf Architects shows, David Zwirners new offices on 20th Street in Manhattan, designed by Annabelle Selldorf. (via Selldorf Architects; Photo by Nicholas Venezia via The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Citing a developers financial headwinds during COVID, art dealer David Zwirner said he has decided not to proceed with a 50,000-square foot, five-story, $50 million gallery designed by Renzo Piano on a corner lot at 540 W. 21st St. Instead, the prestigious gallery plans to build a new 18,000-square-foot, two-story gallery and offices at 533 W. 19th St. designed by Annabelle Selldorf, for the same cost, with construction scheduled to start later this year. This is a classic case of making lemonade out of lemons, Zwirner said in a telephone interview. This will solidify our commitment to Chelsea, arguably the worlds premiere art district. That was the same commitment he said he was making when he announced the original project in 2018. Zwirner had planned to close his West 19th Street location, a rented space, ... More | |
The exhibit is billed as the first of its kind, bringing together contributions from multiple Romani artists and curators who share their culture on their own terms. (Julie Cohen/Mucem via The New York Times)
by Constant Méheut
MARSEILLE.- When Gabi Jimenez, a French Spanish Romani painter, first heard several years ago that a major museum in France was planning an exhibition on Romani culture and history, he said he thought it would be a mess. The story of the Roma, Jimenez said, has long been told by outsiders who depict them at best as itinerant slackers and at worst as unhygienic thieves. Past shows about Romani people have typically featured pictures of bedraggled children and women breastfeeding near caravans. I told myself: Were going to get all the stereotypes again, he said. Except this time, Romani people were shaping the narrative. The exhibition which runs through Sept. 4 at the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, in Marseille, France, and features some 200 artworks and objects is billed as the first of its kind, bringing together contributions from multiple ... More |
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| Director Benno Tempel to leave Kunstmuseum Den Haag | | MCA Australia announces a new line-up of young Australian artists for this year's Primavera 2023 | | Tadao Ando selects MPavilion 10 chair commission winners |
Benno Tempel. Photo: Robin de Puy.
OTTERLO.- Benno Tempel (b. 1972) is to leave Kunstmuseum Den Haag. On 1 November 2023 he will take up his new role as managing director of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. Tempel has been director of Kunstmuseum Den Haag, which includes The Hague Museum of Photography, KM21 and Escher in The Palace, for almost fifteen years. Under his leadership, the museum has evolved into the most visited Dutch art museum outside Amsterdam. He organised a host of exhibitions and enriched the museums collection and also the Dutch national collection with some sensational acquisitions of work by artists like Louise Bourgeois, Max Beckmann, Paula Rego, Nalini Malani and many others. During his tenure Kunstmuseum Den Haag and its constituent institutions have continually staged a varied range of exhibitions, combining modern and contemporary art, photography, fashion, decorative arts and design. Tempel was also behind the museums ... More | |
Christopher Bassi, Small Monument to the Arafura Sea, 2023. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy the artist and Yavuz Gallery © the artist. Photograph: Christopher Bassi.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announced the six artists to exhibit in Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists Tiyan Baker (NSW), Christopher Bassi (QLD), Moorina Bonini (VIC), Nikki Lam (VIC), Sarah Poulgrain (QLD), and Truc Truong (SA). Opening on 9 September 2023 until 4 February 2024, Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists curated by Talia Smith, considers the idea of the collective body and the ways in which communities and growing movements attempt to question, challenge and manoeuvre through failing societal structures. The six participating artists investigate themes of protest, perseverance, and reimagining through their works of various media, including installation, video, painting, sculpture, and text. Primavera is the MCA Australias annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. Now ... More | |
Circle|Square for MPavilion 10 Chair, Davidov Architects. Image courtesy of Davidov Architects.
MELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced Melbourne-based Davidov Architects, with a team comprised of Wendy Chen, Robert Davidov and Ben Schmideg, as the MPavilion 10 Chair Commission winner. Pritzker Prize Laureate and MPavilion 10 architect Tadao Ando selected their Circle|Square concept from nearly 100 submissions the most in MPavilion history. A highlight of every MPavilion edition, the Chair Commission this year anchors 10 creative commissions across visual and performing arts, fashion and design in celebration of MPavilions milestone year. Integral to the free five-month design festival, the Chair Commission will be onsite for all to use when MPavilion opens in the Queen Victoria Gardens on November 15, 2023. "It was an honor and great fun to select the winner of the MPavilion 10 Chair Commission competition," said Tadao Ando. "Davidovs concept shares my fascination ... More |
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| Pitting brilliance against naivete: Christopher Nolan and the contradictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer | | Michaan's August auction offers big names and beautiful pieces | | Edible ice cream art by João Loureiro at the Dutch LAM museum |
Christopher Nolan, director of "Oppenheimer," in New York, July 8, 2023. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
by Dennis Overbye
LOS ANGELES, CA.- With the biopic Oppenheimer, writer-director Christopher Nolan, known for brain-twisting films like Interstellar and Inception, addresses an old childhood dread one based not on science fiction but on real science, namely the threat of thermonuclear war and human annihilation. The film follows the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the cerebral, charismatic and tortured physicist (played by Cillian Murphy, the star of Peaky Blinders) who was tapped to lead the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to build the atomic bomb during World War II. The subsequent bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war against Japan in 1945 (Germany had already surrendered) and Oppenheimer was hailed as a hero. But only a few years later, in 1954, his ... More | |
Chinese Monumental Cloisonné Jar.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans August Gallery Auction features many great names like Georg Jensen, Olga Fisch, Swarovski, Don Kingman, and Ansel Adams just to name a few. The jewelry sparkles with diamonds, pink sapphires, and emeralds. The Asian Art section is looking sharp featuring Cloisonne, Samurai Wakizashi swords, buddhas, and famille rose porcelains. The Furniture and Decoratives section of the sale leads off with a four-piece Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Tea and Coffee Set (estimate $1,200/1,800). Next is a Lucien Lelong Sleeveless Dance Dress (estimate $400/600). This amazing piece was deaccessioned from the Monterey History & Art Association. They have deaccessioned over 1000 lots to Michaans and all proceeds benefit the guarding force in preserving Montereys history since 1931. We are also featuring a Camel Hair Runner (estimate $1,200/1,800) and an Olga Fisch Modern Wool Pile Folklore Rug (estimate $700/1,000). The Fine A ... More | |
Ice cream artwork Escala de Cinzas (Grayscale) by João Loureiro at the LAM museum. Image by Corine Zijerveld.
SASSENHEIM.- An ice cream cart offering six different flavours in six shades of grey, ranging from light grey to almost black. No flavour labelling and served in a charcoal-grey ice cream cone. But does a colourless ice cream still give you that familiar sense of summer? And without the recognisable colour, how and what do you actually taste? This summer, Brazilian artist João Loureiro and the Dutch LAM museum will treat visitors to a strange taste sensation: grey ice cream. The LAM museum, located on the Keukenhof Estate in Lisse, is honoured to have artwork Escala de Cinzas (Grayscale) on loan from Brazils leading art museum: Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
The LAM museums long-cherished dream to have the Escala de Cinzas artwork on loan and exhibited at the museum has finally been fulfilled. Sietske van Zanten, the museums director says: Ive admired this artwork for many years and ... More |
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| Bernard and Barbro Osher Collection of American Art to enter the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's Collection | | First Stop Last Stop: Photographs by Rita Nannini | | Opening weekend of 'Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia' now underway at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki |
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916), Bric-a-Brac Shop, 1883. Image by Randy Dodson; courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has announced the promised gift of the Bernard and Barbro Osher Collection of American Art, one of the most transformative donations in the Fine Arts Museums distinguished history. The 61 artworks are historically broad and aesthetically significant, and include works by many of the United States foremost artists such as Georgia OKeeffe, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Charles Sheeler, and Alexander Calder. The gift also introduces works by American Impressionist Edward Henry Potthast, multidisciplinary artist Robert Frederick Blum, influential teacher Frank Vincent DuMond, leading Boston School painter William McGregor Paxton, and Giverny Luminists Frederick Carl Frieseke and Richard Edward Miller into the collection. ... More | |
Brooklyn Bridge. All photographs are copyright Rita Nannini. First Stop Last Stop by Rita Nannini is published by Workshop Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ten years. 8,000 photographs. 665 miles of New York City subway track. These statistics represent the passion and dedication of Brooklyn-based photographer Rita Nannini for her monumental achievement to photograph the first stop and last stop of every single subway line in all five boroughs of New York City. The idea for First Stop Last Stop was conceived when Nannini heard about End of the Line, a game played by teenagers who randomly board any train and stay on it to its end point. Compelled by curiosity and imagining the myriad visual possibilities, in 2013 Nannini began riding and photographing the terminal stops of all of New York Citys subway lines. Nanninis colorful, panoramic images gathered together in First Stop Last Stop, her first monograph, reveal how the subway bonds communities to each other and the edges of the city. In ... More | |
Daniel Boyd, Kudjla/Gangalu/Kuku Yalanji/Jagara/Wangerriburra/Bandjalung peoples, Treasure Island, 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2006.
AUCKLAND.- With over 150 works from 1890 to today, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia at the Auckland Art Gallery is the largest overview of art by First Peoples of Australia to be presented in Aotearoa. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Ever Present highlights the diverse peoples and artistic practices across Australia. It is a celebration of First Peoples of Australia art exploring the interlinking themes of Ancestors, Community, Culture, Colonisation, and Identity. Knowledge systems are passed down through oral histories, dancing, stories and songlines or songspirals that traverse diverse lands, coming together to evoke Ancestral creation stories known by some Communities as the Dreaming or Tjukurrpa. Art is also used as a tool of ... More |
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Baseball, presidential material to lead The Benefit Shop foundation Auction August 16th
MOUNT KISCO, NY.- The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. in Mount Kisco will soon be presenting the late estate of a New York City executive who spent decades passionately collecting Presidential signatures and signed documents as well as baseball memorabilia, particularly from his hometown team, the New York Yankees.these items will be going up for sale in the Benefit Shop Foundation's Red Carpet auction August 16th. A New York City advertising industry CEO had twin passions for collecting Presidential signatures and baseball memorabilia, particularly for his home team, the New York Yankees and collected hundreds of items over several decades. He was so serious about his collection he had an architect-designed room constructed in his Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan designed to block ultraviolet light. The room contained custom furniture ... More
'Crocus Valley' by Ameena Rojee to be published August 2023 by RRB Photobooks
LONDON.- RRB Photobooks is pleased to present Crocus Valley by Ameena Rojee as our second Platform title. Platform is a new publishing project supporting emerging voices in British Documentary Photography. The project draws on the photographic legacy of RRB's existing catalogue to take part in writing the documentary tradition of the future. Crocus Valley is photographer Ameena Rojees love letter to her hometown of Croydon. The name Croydon is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon for Crocus Valley and yet the wilder and more romantic side of the boroughlying just 15 km south of Londons Charing Cross is rarely depicted. Rojees photographs show large pink skies, rolling hills, and the cattle who co-exist alongside the urban infrastructure of the borough. The book coincides with an exhibition of the work at Park Hill Park, Croydon from 10 A ... More
"Kirsten Coelho: Hauslieder" is open at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
SYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney is currently presenting the latest body of work from one of Australias most respected ceramic artists, Adelaide-based Kirsten Coelho. Long fascinated by the significance of objects as interlocutors of social history and material culture, this new body of work continues Coelhos exploration of the intersection of domestic use and historical context how objects can embody both the practicality of everyday life and the rich narratives of the past. For her exhibition title Coelho has merged the German words haus and leider, which translate into English, as house songs. Leider were written for performance in domestic spaces with solo voice and piano; Coelho finding their reductive format imbued with the power to speak to emotive experiences within the intimate spaces of the home. This notion of the reductive is something ... More
François Ghebaly opens a group show in the rhinoceros gallery
ROME.- An increasingly international art district: the artistic proposal of rhinoceros gallery
in palazzo rhinoceros in Rome overcomes the distances between continents and brings Italy and the United States closer together, the outpost between ancient and hypercontemporary conceived by Alda Fendi and designed by Jean Nouvel, with the artistic line of Raffaele Curi. The new invention of the Fondazione Alda Fendi Esperimenti is a fascinating combination of our dear old Europe and the New World. The experiment, visionary like all the experiments of the foundation, is entitled Lady Alda Presents and from June 9th to November 19th 2023 stratifies different forms, experiences and languages in the various exhibition floors of rhinoceros, the cultural center overlooking the Arch of Janus. As always, admission is free, in ... More
'Isaac Aden: The Numinous Sublime' in two consecutive parts at David Richard Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Isaac Aden: The Numinous Sublime, a two-part solo exhibition of his most recent monumental paintings. The exhibition features nineteen oil paintings, measuring 12 x 27 ft., 12 x 9 ft., 14 x 6 ft. and 5 x 4 ft. These seminal paintings are part of Adens series of Tonal Paintings a body of work developed over the past eight years. The exhibition will be presented in two parts to show the ineffable breadth of Adens painting practice with the first section presenting paintings that are glowing and decidedly warmer in chroma. Adens paintings trace their genealogy from Claude, European Romantic Painting, and Corfield, to the Contemporary Art of today. The second part, opening September 12 contends with the somber realties frequently faced by the human condition and specifically recalls Rothkos ... More
Ronen Zien, recipient of Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for young Israeli Photographer 2023
TEL AVIV .- Ronen Zien is the winner of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Young Israeli Photographer Award for 2023 - an annual award of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which includes a cash grant of $5,000 and a solo exhibition at the Museum. His exhibition will open at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in December 2024. Ronen Zien (b. 1990 Shfaram), is a graduate of the BFA Department of Photography, and holds a master's degree in fine art, MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in galleries throughout the country. Engaged in photography, video and installation, his artistic practice includes analog and digital photography. He challenges the medium of photography as a concept and as a technique. Questioning attitudes regarding the local landscape and Druze ... More
Affordable apartments are coming to the top of New York's skyline
NEW YORK, NY.- The latest luxury tower to rise in New York could distinguish itself not for its sky-high views but for its residents: survivors of 9/11, and some of the lowest-income renters in the city. On Thursday, a state oversight board cleared the way for a 900-foot mixed-use tower to be built at 130 Liberty St., also known as 5 World Trade, the only site on the World Trade Center campus that is expected to be residential. It took two decades of political wrangling. But the real feat, spurred by a group of local agitators, could be the inclusion of an unexpected share of permanently below-market-rate apartments. Four hundred of the 1,200 units will be reserved for low- and middle-income renters, spread across the soaring tower. A portion of those units, 80 apartments, will be offered to people who lived or worked in lower Manhattan between Sept. 11, 2001, and ... More
Jean Fagan Yellin, who uncovered a slavery tale's true author, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Jean Fagan Yellin, a historian whose six years of sleuthing revealed that what had been presumed to be a 19th-century white authors fictional account of a young womans life as a slave in the American South was, in fact, a rare autobiography written by a formerly enslaved woman, died July 19 at her home in Sarasota, Florida. She was 92. Her death was confirmed by her son, Michael Yellin. The authors name was Harriet Jacobs. There are only a couple of names that are commonly known of 19th-century women held in slavery Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, Yellin said during a lecture at Harvard University in 2004, when she published a book about her findings, Harriet Jacobs: A Life. Both could not write because enslaved people were subject to anti-literacy laws, Yellin added. Their stories ... More
A trumpeter stretches past the bounds of jazz
NEW YORK, NY.- Growing up in New Orleans, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah was raised at the corner of two traditions. He learned to play the trumpet at the elbow of his uncle and mentor, saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., whose career took off after a stint in Art Blakeys band. Harrison was a true-blue jazz musician, and Adjuah who was born, and first introduced to the listening public as, Christian Scott seemed destined to become one, too. But their family was also prominent in New Orleans tradition of Black masking Indians, rooted in the citys history of Black and Indigenous resistance in the 18th and 19th centuries, when Africans fleeing slavery often joined with Native Americans in maroon communities. While professional musicians laid down the roots of American jazz in the late 1800s mixing African styles with European repertoire ... More
O'Connor was a lonely voice for change - until Ireland changed with her
DUBLIN.- When Sinead OConnor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992, her protest caused an even bigger uproar in her native Ireland than in the United States. Thirteen years earlier, more than 1 million people roughly a third of Irelands population had gathered in Dublin to hear that same pope celebrate Mass. Yet by the time of her death this week at 56 years old, OConnors brash acts and forthright statements no longer rattled many of her fellow citizens. Her fiery arc as a performer and public figure coincided with Irelands social and cultural transformation, leaving OConnor more in sync with the more diverse, tolerant and secular society her country has become. Whether it was campaigning for abused women and children; gay, lesbian and transgender people; AIDS patients, racial minorities, refugees, or Palestinians, ... More
Four Corners Books announces 'Tam Joseph: I Know What I See'
NEW YORK, NY.- Bringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, Tam Joseph: I Know What I See is the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of Dominica-born British artist Tam Joseph (b. 1947). Joseph's wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach. But while his art takes him in many different directions it is grounded in a sensibility which revels in the connections between things, as well as the creative possibilities of human perception. Some paintings reflect on his own history and the history of injustices faced by African Caribbean people in Britain. Other works draw inspiration from diverse sources including cinema, music, and sport, as well as the natural world, and the history of painting itself. Whether his subject is landscape, portrait or history, Joseph employs his ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Henry Moore was born July 30, 1898. July 30, 1898.- Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. In this image: English Sculptor Henry Moore stands beside his sculpture "Seated Nude" on display as part of the "Art 70" show in Basel, Switzerland, June 9, 1970. Moore represented Britain in the show.
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