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| | | Francia Escobar Field, renowned patroness of the arts in Colombia, opens her doors to the work Colombia By Mateo Blanco | |
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Francia Escobar exhibits the work by Mateo Blanco at her home in Bogotá where she keeps a large part of her private collection
MIAMI, FLA.- Francia Escobar Field from Cartagena and the Colombian-American artist, Mateo Blanco, two prominent cultural figures who have received international recognition, have been in the news recently. Mateo Blanco, is an outstanding conceptual artist known for creating vivid portraits with unusual materials that have captured peoples imagination. His portrait of Jennifer Lawrence, for example, was made with 10,000 peanuts, and he has created a flag of the United States using pieces of cloth. Much of his work is inspired by typography and explores word art. His work can be found in private collections and museums worldoverfrom Capetown to Paris and beyond. And now, his work, "Colombia By Mateo Blanco", is part of a renowned private collection in Bogota. Francia Escobar has now selected some of his pieces for her private collection. Francias artistic acumen and eye for spotting new talent, developed ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lawrence Lek, Geomancer, 2017, installation view, Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2022, single-channel video, HD, colour, sound, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Anna Kučera.
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| Using fiction to summon the glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood | | Solo exhibition bringing together 40 works created by Irving Penn | | De Buck Gallery opens an exhibition of recent works by London-based artist Philip Colbert |
The author Anthony Marra, at Kings Theatre in New York on July 7, 2022. Bryan Derballa/The New York Times.
by Sarah Lyall
NEW YORK, NY.- After a funeral on Long Island not too long ago, author Anthony Marra and his family gathered somberly at the gravesite for the burial. But there was a moment of unexpected slapstick when an older relative began to fret about the graveyards confusing layout. Suddenly she yelled in a thick New York accent: How the hell do I get out of here? It was a small example of one of Marras favorite preoccupations in fiction: the thin line between the tragic and the comic, how they dance with and undercut each other. The author of two much-loved, much-praised books set in the former Soviet Union a novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), and a set of interconnected short stories, The Tsar of Love and Techno (2015) ... More | |
Irving Penn, Vogue Cover - Rose, New York, 1948, gelatin silver print mounted to board, 9-1/8" à 7-1/8" (23.2 cm à 18.1 cm), image and paper, 11-1/8" à 9-5/8" (28.3 cm à 24.4 cm) © Condé Nast.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace is presenting Irving Penn: Burning Off the Page, a solo exhibition bringing together 40 works created by the artistwhose work transcended the pages of magazines to the walls of museums and galleriesbetween the late 1930s and early 2000s. Photographing for Vogue for nearly 70 years, Penn left an indelible mark on the history of the medium. His inventive fashion photographs, which transformed American image-making in the postwar era, continued to appear in the magazine up until his death in 2009. The artist was also highly accomplished and experimental in the darkroom, having engineered, among other innovations, a complex technique for making platinum-palladium prints. Four works of this kind figure in Paces upcoming exhibition, ... More | |
Philip Colbert, Lobster Flower, 2022.
SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE.- De Buck Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent works by London-based artist Philip Colbert. Held at the gallerys location in Saint-Paul de Vence, this is Colberts first presentation at the gallery. The exhibition, which showcases new paintings and sculpture, runs from July 30, 2022 through August 27, 2022. This exhibition is a mini-survey of themes which the artist has worked with across his career. It features eleven new paintings, including a selection of character paintings; Colberts iconic lobster persona paintings; and what the artist calls dialogue paintings, which feature a subject and a background with layered shapes, text, and costumed personas. The show also includes a new series of Colberts Flower Study paintings, as well as two large-scale sculptural works. One of which, Lobster Flower, is a colorful homage to Yayoi Kusamas polka-dotted flower sculptures, with Colber ... More |
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| kamel mennour opens an exhibition of works by Lee Ufan | | Shocking! the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris explores The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli | | Bruce Silverstein Gallery opens an online exhibition of photographs by Michael Wolf |
Installation view.
PARIS.- Habiter le temps, Marking Infinity, Au-delà des souvenirs, Pressentiment, Dissonance, Résonance, Requiem: the titles Lee Ufan chooses for his solo exhibitions emphasise the seriousness and spiritual depth of his artistic process. It would be greatly inadequate to see this as one engaged in mere abstraction, with everything this term carries in Western aesthetics. It would be just as much of a mistake to see his sculptures as nothing other than derivations from Far Eastern tradition, even though Lee Ufan has necessarily been marked by his cultural origins and his training. His art is universal, it reaches far beyond our contemporary time. It is characterised by a stylistic autonomy that while imbued with modernity, eschews the imperious gesture and the dictatorship of the ego that have often accompanied this. This art of slowness and silence aims to situate itself in our relationship to the world, in dia ... More | |
Elsa Schiaparelli, Evening coat Winter 1938-1939 Wool, silk and china Musée des Arts décoratifs © Les Arts Décoratifs / Christophe Dellière.
PARIS.- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris celebrates the bold and exciting creations of Italian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli (b. September 10th, 1890, Rome d. November 13th, 1973, Paris), who drew much of her inspiration from her close ties to the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Nearly 20 years since the last retrospective devoted to Schiaparelli at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the time has come to revisit this extraordinary designers work, her innovative sense of feminine style, her sophisticated, often eccentric designs, and the thrill that she brought to the world of fashion. Shocking! The surreal world of Elsa Schiaparelli brings together 520 works including 272 silhouettes and accessories by Schiaparelli herself, displayed alongside iconic paintings, sculptures, jewelry, perfumes, ... More | |
Michael Wolf, Night #22, 2006. Digital C-print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein is pleased to present Michael Wolf: Facade, a special online exhibition featuring the abstracted images of one of the artists most recognizable subjects - skyscrapers. Wolfs highly detailed large-scale photographs, shot from windows, rooftops, and terraces, depict the architecture of steel and glass and offer a dystopian view of the exteriors of the urban habitat while leaving traces of the lives within. Michael Wolf investigated new perspectives on urban life and its structure in the digital age. He addressed the realities of 21st-century metropolitan existence, defined by constant access, vanishing privacy, and unlimited exposure. The artist explored the density of city life in a diverse array of mediums, from large format cameras capturing architectural landscapes to appropriating Googles Street View imagery to isolate anonymous city dwellers. Wolfs eye for detail ... More |
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| Homosphere: Kunsthalle Mainz presents a group exhibition | | Major exhibition Ultra Unreal opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | | Ford, Mellon and MacArthur Foundations transfer sole ownership of historic Ebony and Jet Photo Archive |
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MAINZ.- Human beings operate within the homosphere, which is literally our airspace. This is the section of the earths atmosphere closest to the earth, where the composition of the air is quite constant. It encompasses the entire globe and extends up to the point where space begins. Airspace has no contours. It forms a zone marked by boundaries that do exist, although they are latent, and it consists of invisible gases and elements that cannot be discerned by the naked eye. Only when objects such as aeroplanes or drones cross it or it is polluted by substances that we can see or smell do we truly understand that airspace affects us humans as much as it does the ground on which we walk. It is what directly connects us all as human beings. We inhale whatever we encounter in our immediate surroundings, actively absorbing it into our body: fresh, clean air, which is much more often than not polluted with a mixture of gases. Everything that traverses it ... More | |
Saeborg, Saechicken, 2019, latex, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: ZIGEN.
SYDNEY.- Ultra Unreal features the works of six artists and collectives whose worldbuilding practices are connected to nightlife ecosystems across the globe; Club Ate (Sydney), Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic (Bangkok & New York), Lawrence Lek (London), Lu Yang (Shanghai), and Saeborg (Tokyo). Curated by MCA Curator Anna Davis, the exhibition includes immersive installations, digital environments, costumes, sets and inflatables, alongside performances, film screenings and artist-led events. Ultra Unreal reflects on the relevance of mythmaking today and its role in navigating complex realities and creating new worlds. Drawing inspiration from Ning Kens theory of the ultra-unreal, the exhibition examines how mythologies can be used to reveal hidden histories and reorientate visions of the future. In this multi-sensory exhibition, influences from religion, neuroscience, ecology, artificial intelligence, myth, ... More | |
Singer James Brown is captured off stage around Memphis, Tenn. (Ted Williams/Johnson Publishing Company Archive) Courtesy Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A consortium comprising the Ford Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, announced today the official transfer of ownership of the acclaimed Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archive to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and to the Getty Research Institute, a program of the Getty Trust. The Getty Trust has committed $30 million in support for the processing and digitization of the archive an essential step in the critical work of making this preeminent collection available and searchable to scholars, researchers, journalists, and the general public. With work already ... More |
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| FotoFest Biennial 2022 exhibitions and artists announced | | Rizzoli publishes 'The Queen's Pictures: Masterpieces from the Royal Collection' | | Tiwani Contemporary now representing Emma Prempeh |
Delilah Montoya, Casta 2, from the series Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra
Calidad, 2018. Dye sublimation on metal, wooden curio box, laser-etching, sand, QR
code. Courtesy of the artist.
HOUSTON, TX.- FotoFest announces the participating artists in its upcoming FotoFest Biennial 2022 central exhibition, If I Had a Hammer, on view September 24 to November 6, 2022. Co-curated by Amy Sadao, Steven Evans, and Max Fields, the exhibition features twenty-three international artists, photographers, and activists whose work reveals the social and political impacts of image production and circulation. The artists and collectives featured in the FotoFest Biennial 2022 central exhibition include: Laura Aguilar Mónica Alcázar-Duarte Chow and Lin Forensic Architecture Elaine W. Ho Ho Rui An Jibade-Khalil Huffman David Kelley Yazan Khalili Ryan Patrick ... More | |
The Queen's Pictures: Masterpieces from the Royal Collection © The Queens Pictures by Anna Poznanskaya, Rizzoli Electa, 2022.
LONDON.- The Queen's Pictures presents nearly 250 masterpiece paintings and drawings from Britains Royal Collection, one of the worlds largest art collections and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact. Consisting of more than a million paintings, drawings, and historic photographs, as well as pieces of furniture, jewelry, and ceramics, the Royal Collection is a unique record of the aesthetic preferences and personal histories of British monarchs over the past five centuries and contains works by many of Europes leading artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Vermeer, and Anthony van Dyck. Richly illustrated with over 425 illustrations, including many details of the artworks themselves, this monumental volume presents the artworks ... More | |
Portrait of Emma Prempeh. Courtesy of the artist and ALSO Journal. Photo by Ellyse Anderson.
LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary announced its representation of artist Emma Prempeh who is also our inaugural Tiwani Contemporary artist in residence at G.A.S. Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria during August 2022. The gallery will present her most recent works at their Lagos venue on Victoria Island, 8 September - 28 October 2022. The starting point to Prempehs paintings is the matter of blackness the tonal properties of the colour establishes the ground to her paintings and a cinematic basis to invoke and project memories of events, people, and places to emphasise an appreciation of ancestral time and relationships, selfhood and transformation. Schlag metal, a brass alloy of copper and zinc imitative of gold leaf, is a material that Prempeh applies to selected areas of her often large-scale paintings. Over time this oxidises creating slow, ... More |
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Salzburger Kunstverein opens 'Camille Henrot: Mother Tongue"
SALZBURG.- The works in Camille Henrots exhibition Mother Tongue are inspired by the human developmental need for attachment and separation, the mouth as a site of both expression and consumption, and related connections to the preverbal. This exhibition is the second iteration of a presentation first conceived at Kestner Gesellschaft in 2021, with scenography by Charlap Hyman & Herrero. Camille Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2013 for her film Grosse Fatigue, as well as the Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2017, resulting in her monumental exhibition Days are Dogs. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication co-produced with the Kestner Gesellschaft. Camille Henrot (*1978, Paris, France) lives and works in New York, USA. Henrot is recognized as one of the most influential voices ... More
Focused exhibition at The Met explores significance of water to indigenous peoples and nations in the U.S.
NEW YORK, NY.- On view in the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 23, 2022, the exhibition Water Memories explores the significance of water to Indigenous peoples and Nations in the United States through 41 historical, modern, and contemporary artworks drawn from The Met collection, as well as promised gifts and loans. Organized in four thematic sectionsAncestral Connections, Water and Sky, Forests and Streams, and Oceanic Imaginationsthese diverse aquatic expressions feature both representational and abstract approaches. Works by contemporary Native American artists Tom Jones, Courtney M. Leonard, Truman Lowe, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Cara Romero, and Fritz Scholder are placed in dialogue with historical works from The Met collection. Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The ... More
Dawoud Bey's 'Night Coming Tenderly, Black' photography series on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine River Museum of Art recntly opened Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black. The exhibition features a selection of 10 photographs from Beys critically acclaimed series from 2017 that imagines the flight of enslaved African American fugitives in the mid-nineteenth century traveling along the last part of an Underground Railroad network. On view in the Brandywines Strawbridge Family Gallery through August 31, 2022, the exhibition will have particular resonance for the Brandywine region, given the many local sites that were active stations of the Underground Railroad network. Regarded as one of the most important photographers working today, Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) ... More
Galerie Karsten Greve opens a comprehensive solo exhibition in Cologne dedicated to the work of Norbert Prangenber
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve opened a comprehensive solo exhibition in Cologne dedicated to the work of Norbert Prangenberg (1949-2012), commemorating the tenth anniversary of the artist's death on June 29. The gallery owner and the artist were connected by thirty years of friendly cooperation, which began in 1981 with a first solo show in Cologne, and was followed by numerous solo and group exhibitions at all gallery locations until 2017. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the sculptor and painter, Galerie Karsten Greve presents a tribute to Norbert Prangenberg, featuring more than thirty works from the 1980s to 2009, ncluding sculptural works, drawings, large-scale paintings in watercolor ... More
Didier Fiúza Faustino introduces naked beast in Normandy countryside
SAINT-LANGIS-LÃS-MORTAGNE.- a build manifest that manages at once to reference the typology of a stealth building and to be completely unmissable arrives in Saint-Langis-lès-Mortagne: Didier Fiúza Faustinos 365 m² atelier designed for French conceptual artist Jean-Luc Moulène is now complete continuing the French-Portuguese experimentalists investigation in centering the body within all concerns of an architect today. The studio is composed of a series of volumes distributed in constant offset and covered with black rubber membrane: intentionally in dialogue with the bodies inhabiting its space first and foremost; second with the Normandy nature that surrounds it. Whether in the shape of an installation, film, sculpture, editorial project, temporary architecture, or built-work, Fiúza Faustino has consistently ... More
Child's play for artist Tessa Lynch in her new exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers
EDINBURGH.- Houses Fit for People is a new installation made by Tessa Lynch for Edinburgh Printmakers which promotes alternative building techniques inspired by play and the natural world. Considering her installation an expanded print, the artist responds to the history of the Castle Mills building and the regeneration taking place across Fountainbridge in the present. Much of the imagery and sound for the exhibition has been developed following a childrens workshop that Lynch ran in April with Glasgow Sculpture Studios, where she holds a studio and is a regular contributor to the education programme. Lynch worked with a group of children from the Queens Cross Housing Association to imagine and build their ideal homes with building materials donated by GSS studio members. The exhibition consists of a collaged mural that wraps around ... More
Mary Alice, Tony winner for her role in 'Fences,' dies at 85
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Alice, an Emmy and Tony award-winning actress who brought a delicate grace and a quiet dignity to her roles in Hollywood blockbusters (The Matrix Revolutions), television sitcoms (A Different World) and Broadway plays (Fences), died Wednesday in her home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 85, according to the New York City Police Department. The death was confirmed by Detective Anthony Passaro, a police spokesperson, who said officers responded to a 911 call and found Alice unresponsive. A former Chicago schoolteacher, Alice appeared in nearly 60 television shows and films. In 2000, she was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. She first gained widespread attention in the Broadway production of August Wilsons Fences in 1987. She earned a Tony for best featured actress for playing ... More
Marco Voena and Cy Schnabel present a selection from Julian Schnabel's Capri Paintings series
CAPRI.- Marco Voena and Cy Schnabel are presenting Ogni Angelo Ha Il Suo Lato Spaventoso at La Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri, which will run until 30 September 2022. The installation comprises of a selection from Julian Schnabels Capri Paintings series. This is the first time these works are being shown on the island of Capri, which served as their initial inspiration. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the image of rocks jetting out of the water as a metaphor of eternity. Indeed, it perfectly describes that strange feeling, a mixture of belonging and estrangement, that northern travelers between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries felt in front of the dazzling cliffs of Capri. They are rugged, majestic peaks that rise from sometimes emerald waters, but more often waters that are dark and impenetrable depths akin to metal or liquid obsidian. Eternity ... More
Castellani Art Museum features contemporary Ukrainian artist
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY.- War is destructive to people and their cultural heritage. Living Through War: Works from Kharkiv by Bella Logachova is a reaction against the war in Ukraine. Each work gives unique insight into the perspective of an artist living through the violence and destruction of her homeland. With this exhibition, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University strives to bring empathy and awareness to the war in Ukraine while supporting an artist and her country embroiled in conflict. Living Through War is generously sponsored by KeyBank in partnership with First Niagara Foundation. Living Through War: Works from Kharkiv by Bella Logachova offers the incredibly rare opportunity to see through the eyes of a person in an active combat zone. The CAM exhibits nineteen of Bella Logachovas artworks from the ARtNUO (New ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet was born July 31, 1901. Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this image: A young lady looks at "Paysage charbonneux" by French artist Jean Dubuffet dated 1946, and valued at 3.5 million Marks (1.5 million Dollars) at the 34th International fair for modern art "Art Cologne" in Cologne, Germany, Friday, November 3, 2000.
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