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Passports and other items that belonged to Russian soldiers in the Crucified Ukraine show, at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 21, 2022. The unusual effort to chronicle the war even as battles continue to rage in Ukraines east and south is one of several ways that the government is highlighting the devastation its people have endured. Nicole Tung/The New York Times.
by Valerie Hopkins
KYIV.- Just days after Russian troops retreated from the suburbs surrounding Kyiv, Yuriy Savchuk, director of a World War II museum in the city, joined the police and prosecutors who were investigating the full extent of the suffering inflicted there by enemy soldiers. Over the next month, Savchuk and his colleagues meticulously documented what they saw, taking more than 3,000 photographs. And they came away with some of the abandoned traces of the Russian invasion: the diary of a commander; a book that Russian troops had carried, called No One Judges the Winners; a parachute soldiers map showing targets on Kyivs left bank; and the ATM cards and passports of dead Russian fighters. Those discoveries and many others have become items in an exhibition called Crucified Ukraine that opened May 8 at Savchuks museum, an unusual effort to chronicle the war even as battles continue to rage in Ukraines east and south. A new museum dedicated solely to the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Katy Moran, 300 sun days, Modern Art Helmet Row, exhibition view, 13 May - 18 June 2022. Photo: Robert Glowacki. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
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| The Rijksmuseum presents Barbara Hepworth's first solo exhibition in Amsterdam | | Survey is Doris Salcedo's first solo presentation in the Washington, D.C. area | | Christie's announces 'Jewels Online: The London Edit' |
Squares with Two Circles. Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), 1963 Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer the sculptures of the major British artist Barbara Hepworth (19031975) grace the open gardens of the Rijksmuseum. It is her first solo exhibition in Amsterdam. The nine works show the artist at the peak of her powers. Most of the sculptures come from English public gardens and parks, and are rarely moved from their permanent location. Hepworths geometric Construction (Crucifixion) from the cloister garden of Salisbury Cathedral references the visual idiom of Hepworths friend Piet Mondrian, and thereby also her special relationship with the Netherlands. Barbara Hepworth in the Rijksmuseum Gardens presents an overview of the artists monumental later works from the 1960s and early 1970s. These include Monolith (Empyrean), the exhibitions earliest work which Hepworth made in 1953-1954 and usually stands in the gardens of Kenwood House (Hampstead Heath) and the figures from t ... More | |
Doris Salcedo, Disremembered X (detail), 2020/2021. Sewing needles and silk thread © Doris Salcedo. Photo: Oscar Monsalve.
POTOMAC, MD.- On May 26, Glenstone Museum opened a survey exhibition of works by Doris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá, Colombia), featuring sculptures dating from 1989 to the present. Located in Room 2 of the Pavilions, the exhibition is designed in close collaboration with Salcedo and features selections from the artists personal collection alongside works from the museums holdings. This is Salcedos first solo exhibition in the Washington, D.C. area and her first presentation at Glenstone. Salcedo grounds her practice in research and firsthand interviews with survivors of political and domestic violence in her native Colombia and around the world. Through a process that is time-intensive, laborious, and compassionate, she uses objectsincluding armoires, tables, clothing, and bedframesto create poetic sculptural translations of the experiences of those who have suffered harm. Emily Wei Rales, director and co-founder of Gl ... More | |
Featuring signed jewels by Garrard, Cartier, Bulgari, Hemmerle and Van Cleef & Arpels
Graff diamond 'Waterfall' earrings donated by J.K. Rowling to benefit her charity Lumos. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christie's presents Jewels Online: The London Edit, open for bidding from 6 to 16 June. The auction features a beautiful array of jewellery ranging from the early 19th century to present day, including a spectacular antique natural pearl and diamond brooch, alongside signed jewels from notable houses such as Garrard, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Harry Winston, Hemmerle and Bulgari. A pair of Graff diamond earrings, donated by J.K. Rowling, will be offered to benefit her childrens charity Lumos. The jewels will be on view at Christies King Street from the 7 to 15 June. The auction opens with a pair of impressive Graff diamond Waterfall earrings (estimate: £30,000 - 50,000), offered on behalf of J.K. Rowling to benefit her childrens charity Lumos. The earrings will be presented with a signed edition of J.K. Rowlings 2021 bestseller The Christmas Pig, ... More |
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| Kavi Gupta opens a solo exhibition and catalogue of new work by Michi Meko | | kamel mennour opens "A Dutch Collection" | | Eric Firestone Gallery opens 'Hanging / Leaning: Women Artists on Long Island, 1960s-80s' |
Michi Meko, The Ants Can Have My Body: Too Far out to turn back, 2022. Acrylic, Aerosol, Oil Pastel, Gold Leaf, Aerosol Hologram Glitter, White Colored. Pencil. India ink, Gouache on Canvas, 82 1/2 x 66 in.
CHICAGO, IL.- Kavi Gupta presents Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, a solo exhibition and catalogue of new work by Michi Meko, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grantee and Artadia Award winner. Featuring works created entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition reflects on Mekos ideas and experiences during isolation. Solitude is a strange currencyenriching to those who can mobilize its potential; a liability to those who cannot. For many of us, the forced isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing feelings of loneliness. When Meko saw the world going into quarantine back in 2020, he decided to embrace the inevitable. Packing a go bag and heading by himself deep into the north Georgia woods, he instigated an isolation within an isolation, and found ... More | |
Carl Andre, Belgica Blue Tau , 1988. Pierre calcaire / Limestone 15 x 15 x 45 cm (5,91 x 5,91 x 17,72 in.).
PARIS.- Beware of cultural particularities. Rigid associations. Categories and cliques likely to lock a body of work assembled by one and the same person into a national straitjacket. So what would a Dutch collection actually look like? What would be its specific character? In the historical context of contemporary art and its official channels, the Netherlands are known to have loomed large in the dissemination and reception of Minimalism, Conceptualism and Land Art in the late 1960s. One has only to think of the pioneering work not just in Europe but internationally of the museums in The Hague (Gemeentemuseum), Eindhoven (Van Abbemuseum) and Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum). Of the exhibition Minimal Art at the Gemeentemuseum in 1968, curated by Enno Develing. Of Wim Beeren's Op Losse Schroeven, the counterpart of When Attitudes Become Form, at the Stedelijk ... More | |
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EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Eric Firestone Gallery is presenting Hanging / Leaning: Women Artists on Long Island, 1960s80s. This sweeping exhibition celebrates the formal ingenuity of postwar women artists with connections to the region. Featured artists include: Lynda Benglis, Nanette Carter, Seena Donneson, Mary Grigoriadis, Sheila Isham, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Li-lan, Pat Lipsky, Adrienne Mim, Patsy Norvell, Beverly Pepper, Howardena Pindell, Dorothea Rockburne, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Semmel, Carolee Schneeman, Arlene Slavin, Michelle Stuart, Kay WalkingStick, Nina Yankowitz, Barbara Zucker In the 1960s through 80s, these artists established studios, spent time, or exhibited on Long Island. There, they sought to expand the abstract mode with new techniques, materials, and perspectives. The East Endwith its social circles, coastal surroundings, and exhibition opportunitiesframed or even influenced their ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together sculptures and paintings created over the course of two decades by Tony Smith | | Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of new work by Katy Moran at its Helmet Row gallery | | Exhibition presents paintings and works on paper that date from 1962 to 1985 by Kiki Kogelnik |
Tony Smith, For J.C., 1969. Welded bronze, black patina 6' 8" à 6' 8" à 4' 9" (203.2 cm à 203.2 cm à 144.8 cm). ©Tony Smith/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace is presenting an exhibition of work by American sculptor Tony Smith, who imbued minimalist structures with spiritual import, at its new West Coast flagship in Los Angeles. Marking the gallerys second presentation at its recently opened space, the show runs from June 4 to July 16. Bringing together sculptures and paintings created over the course of two decades, the exhibition focuses on the organic forms that constitute much of Smiths work. Though he would become widely known for his sculptures, Smith began his career as an architect, working with Frank Lloyd Wright on Usonian homes and other projects in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The artist worked as an independent architectural designer before developing his prolific sculptural practice in the mid and late 1950s. Smith often drew inspiration for his dynamic geometric abstractions from phenomena in the natural world. Through his artworks, ... More | |
Katy Moran, Vortex 2, 2022. Acrylic on found painting, 74 x 58 cm. 29 1/8 x 22 7/8 in. Photo: Robert Glowacki. © Katy Moran. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Katy Moran at its Helmet Row gallery. This is Morans sixth solo show with Modern Art. Katy Morans abstract paintings conjure atmospheres at times suggestive of landscape, still life, or figuration through her exploration of form, gesture, colour and surface. While the legacy of Expressionism is evident in her painterly language, Morans work is firmly grounded in the materiality of painting as object. Her work has methodically concentrated on what kinds of alchemy can be offered up in the pre existing surface of the readymade - found paintings, frames, or collage - as it combines with her own mark-making. Each painting in Morans new body of work for Modern Art is created on a found surface, an approach characteristic of her recent practice and found in different ways throughout her oeuvre. More often than not, these ... More | |
Kiki Kogelnik, Blue Glasses, 1977 Oil and acrylic on canvas 36 x 30 1/8 in. (91.4 x 76.5 cm) © 1977 Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting its second solo presentation of the work of Kiki Kogelnik. Women includes 10 paintings and 21 works on paper that date from 1962 to 1985. The exhibition is on view from June 1 through July 8, 2022. Kiki Kogelniks relationship to, and depiction of, women is founded in personal narrative. At the age of 21, she was engaged to the artist Arnulf Rainer, only to find in the house they were going to share his formal studio occupied a floor, while she was only given the attic to paint in. This established the conflicting pattern of dependency and self-determination that would shape her life. Marilyn Monroe appeared to Kogelnik an exemplar of a woman who had achieved this balance and she painted three paintings with the title Marilyn as homages to her idol. One of these three works, Marilyn (1962) in the present exhibition features the actress abstracted torso and legs. The figures volu ... More |
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| Bill Walker, Nashville force as conductor and arranger, dies at 95 | | Ahlers & Ogletree's Fine Estates & Collections auction will be on June 9-11 | | Christie's announces Southampton summer 2022 exhibitions |
He scored chart-topping records for country stars and later served as the musical director of The Johnny Cash Show.
by Bill Friskics-Warren
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Bill Walker, a conductor and arranger who became a musical force in Nashville, scoring popular recordings for country stars like Marty Robbins and Connie Smith and serving as musical director for Johnny Cashs prime-time television variety show, died May 26 at a rehabilitation facility near Nashville. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his daughter-in-law Terri Walker, who said he had developed pneumonia after recent knee replacement surgery. A classically trained pianist, Bill Walker orchestrated blockbuster hits like Eddy Arnolds Make the World Go Away (1965) and Sammi Smiths Help Me Make It Through the Night (1970). Both records reached No. 1 on the country chart and crossed over to the pop Top 10. He also served as arranger and conductor for, among many other recordings, Donna ... More | |
Oil on canvas by George Esten Cooke (Md., 1793-1849), titled Three Children, shown playing with a model sailboat against a sunset forest background (est. $5,000-$10,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- Ahlers & Ogletrees three-session Fine Estates & Collections auction, June 9-11, will be a feast for the eyes and a veritable trip around the world for bidders looking to add quality items to their homes or collections. Start times all three days are 10 am Eastern time, including on Ahlers & Ogletrees new online bidding platform, bid.AandOAuctions.com. The three-day auction, with more than 1,200 lots total, will feature categories that include Folk and Outsider Art, Modernism, Asian, French, Italian, Continental, English, American, silver, jewelry and more. In addition to bid.AandOAuctions,com, online bidding will be available on LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be taken. Session 1, on Thursday, June 9th, will feature the collection of Ruth West, plus additional modern art lots including modernism, folk ... More | |
Emily Mason (1932-2019), Renewable, signed 'Emily Mason' (lower right) oil on canvas 58 x 52 in. (147.3 x 132 cm.).
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Christies announced summer 2022 season in the Hamptons, a series of selling exhibitions taking place in its gallery at 1 Pond Lane, in the heart of Southampton Village. This completely refurbished, 5,600-square-foot space, enclosed by floor-to-ceiling windows, occupies a beautiful Art Deco building that was once an auto repair shop. The gallery is fully open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 11am 6pm, and the works on view during the selling exhibitions will be available for immediate purchase. The season opens 27 May with NATURE ABSTRACTED: Vivian Springford, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason. Upcoming exhibitions will include, The Great Indoors, a survey of interior views that will run 1 July to 31 July. NATURE ABSTRACTED focuses on three American painters who embraced the power of color to express captivating patterns found in nature. Vivian Springford (1913-2003), was ... More |
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HRH Princess Eugenie visits V&A display and meets winner of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Competition
LONDON.- HRH Princess Eugenie visited the V&A to meet with the winner of The Queens Platinum Jubilee Emblem Competition, Edward Roberts. Princess Eugenie met Edward in front of The Queens Platinum Jubilee Emblem Display, which opened ahead of the Platinum Jubilee Weekend and showcases the winning design alongside 9 other shortlisted works. The competition, run by the V&A, in conjunction with Buckingham Palace last year, was open to young people between 13 and 25 from all over the United Kingdom and asked entrants to design an emblem to signify Her Majestys historic, seventy-year reign, and capture the spirit of the national festivities. The winning design features throughout the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, including televised national events, street parties and community gatherings, ... More
Christie's The Art of Literature exhibition will feature fashion by Molly Goddard
LONDON.- Christies announced The Art of Literature Exhibition will feature fashion by Molly Goddard, a designer whose creative inspiration comes from a range of influences including the work of author Thomas Hardy. Part of London Now, The Art of Literature Exhibition: Auction Highlights (on view at Christies King Street in St Jamess from 6 to 15 June) will be showcasing a selection of artistic masterpieces inspired by literature through the ages, presented alongside looks from Goddards Autumn/Winter 2019 Ready-to-Wear Collection, which was inspired by Tess of the dUrbervilles. Molly Goddard has been a fixture on the British runway since the brands inception in 2014, with the designer known internationally for her ethereal tulle dresses loved by many, and worn on the red carpet and on screen including ... More
Annet Gelink Gallery exhibits Carla Klein's latest body of work
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Carla Klein's seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. In her latest body of work, Klein created a new series of paintings that depict desolate urban sights during the Corona lockdown. Whereas her former work usually departed from a photograph, these paintings were made based on numerous and easily reproducible prints. Klein paints the world in the way these prints present it to her - her work is not painted from, but as print. What fascinates Klein is the way in which, in the present culture, prints and pictures shape our image of the reality. The paintings in the exhibition that have the exact same size refer to the identically sized and therefore easily reproducible paper of prints. Klein not only transposes the image onto the canvas, but also the materiality of the print itself, such as the thin ... More
Asked to adapt a classic play, this writer rethought her life
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2018, as part of a masters program in playwriting at Hunter College in Manhattan, Mara Vélez Meléndez was given a life-changing assignment: Adapt a classic play. She chose John Gabriel Borkman, a rarely revived late Ibsen play about an ambitious banker, and in her reworking, the characters became members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, created in 2016 by the U.S. federal government to resolve the islands debt crisis. The resulting work, Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, recently opened at Soho Rep in Manhattan. But when Vélez Meléndez, now 29, embarked on the project, she knew little about the board, or la junta as its known colloquially in her native Puerto Rico, other than that a large percentage ... More
Making a link with every role he takes
NEW YORK, NY.- One Tuesday afternoon last month, Mark Rylance was sitting in his London home, his face and body bearing the accoutrements of Johnny Rooster Byron, the rowdy onetime daredevil he has been playing in a revival of Jez Butterworths Jerusalem. His mustache was long and feral; his bare arms stuck out of a sleeveless T-shirt, flaunting temporary tattoos. Despite the intimidating display, Rylance offered his assurance in a video interview that he was still very much his usual subdued self. Im not in character at the moment, he said in his gentle speaking voice. Im still Mark at this time of day. Hes in there somewhere. In a little while, Rylance would travel to the Apollo Theater in New York City, do some vocal warm-ups, play some volleyball in the empty seats with his co-stars, and spend another night ... More
Broadway's beloved basement club, Feinstein's/54 Below, turns 10
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 5, 2012, shortly after noon, a bevy of cabaret and theater artists and insiders gathered in a space beneath what had been the storied West 54th Street nightclub Studio 54. The occasion was a dress rehearsal for a show that evening that would open a new venue called, reasonably enough, 54 Below. Patti LuPone was the featured act, with other Broadway and nightlife luminaries, including Ben Vereen and Justin Vivian Bond, slated to appear soon afterward. Joe Iconis, a young composer, lyricist and performer who was part of that initial lineup, recalled the event as a coming out for the room itself. The bar was separated from the stage and dining tables by a curtain, which was later opened, so there was this dramatic reveal of the room to the people who would soon be playing it. It was a fittingly ... More
She created SZA's floral bikini. Could she help me with a centerpiece?
NEW YORK, NY.- When I was handed a stem of white orchids at a recent flower-arranging workshop at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, my first impulse was to carefully carry it home, where I could put it in a vase all by itself and appreciate its blossoms for as long as they lasted. Instead, it seemed, we were to drag these precious beauties through paint. Fourteen of us had shown up for the two-hour class, including a floral designer who had flown in from Nashville, Tennessee, and a florist who had driven five hours from New Hampshire. A local art director went to different lengths to secure a spot: After being told the class was sold out, she burst into tears, then anxiously emailed with a member of the museum staff until she was admitted. There were also folks who were just looking for something fun to do on a spring ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Becky Suss opens at Jack Shainman
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Greenwood Place, a solo exhibition of new work by Becky Suss. Large paintings depict Susss childhood bedroom as recalled from different times in her life, alongside intimate, smaller paintings of books and mirrors. Together, they explore the mutability of memory and the ways it is held in physical spaces using the artists characteristically detailed and hyper flattened style. They also delve into the worlds children create for themselves that become the foundations for their adult selves. These can be bedrooms, lockers, or forts in the woods, but they all encapsulate the human impulse to create a space of ones own. During the early pandemic, Suss moved her studio to her childhood homestill occupied by her parentsfor support with her own toddler. Creating work in this ... More
Copy of Marvel Mystery Comics #9 brings $40,000 at Bruneau & Co. auction
CRANSTON, RI.- A copy of Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics #9 from July 1940 sold for $40,000, and three other vintage comic books topped the $10,000 mark at a Spring Comic, Toy & Sports Auction held May 21st by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and live in the Cranston gallery. A 1970s/80s Wayland Flowers Madame puppet also cracked the top ten. The copy of Timely Comics Marvel Mystery Comics #9 was the auctions expected top lot, as it was #33 on Overstreets Top 100 Golden Age Comics list. The book featured the second Sub-Mariner cover, with an iconic Human Torch vs. Sub-Mariner battle, plus great artwork by Bill Everett and Alex Schomburg. It had a mid-level grade of CGC 4.0. A copy of Marvel Comics Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961), graded CGC 2.0, featuring the origin and first appearance of the Fantastic ... More
Peachtree Battle Antiques & Interiors in Atlanta announces new location
ATLANTA, GA.- Peachtree Battle Antiques & Interiors a venerable landmark that has been helping Atlantans appoint their homes with fine antiques, vintage items and Mid-Century Modern classics for over ten years has moved into a new location with larger space. The new address is 1391 Chattahoochee Avenue, located in the citys upscale Westside Design District. We had to move from The Historic Book Bindery when the building was demolished to make way for a 17-story high-rise condo development, said Robert Ahlers, owner of Peachtree Battle Antiques & Interiors and head of The Ahlers Group, which includes other businesses. Before, we had 14,000 square feet of space. Now, in the new location, weve got 15,500 square feet. The quality of dealers and merchandise has continued to improve over the years, Mr. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Conrad Marca-Relli was born June 05, 1913. Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 Boston - August 29, 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic. In this image: Conrad Marca-Relli, "San Miguel" S-P-13-78, 1978. Collage and mixed media on canvas, 28 x 34 1/4 inches, 71.3 x 87 cm.
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