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Edward Sotos Graft, (2022), a sculptural garden wall that highlights Puerto Ricos vernacular architecture, and includes a surprise when examined closely, at the Whitney Museum in New York, Nov. 22, 2022. The exhibition No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria is a carefully textured and moving show that is also among the first major surveys of contemporary Puerto Rican art in a leading U.S. museum in nearly 50 years. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- For many North Americans, the lasting news image of Hurricane Maria, the monster storm that laid waste to Puerto Rico in 2017, wasnt of the storm itself, but of a political photo-op that followed, when former President Donald Trump visited more than two weeks after the disaster had left the island desperately short on power, fresh water and food. Trump was escorted to an emergency distribution center where, in a kind of cartoon version of imperial largesse, he began lobbing rolls of paper towels into a crowd. The gesture read to some as a rebuke: Clean up your mess. (Trump had earlier confided to Twitter that Puerto Ricans want everything to be done for them.) Turning his back on the mild scramble that ensued, he purred to reporters, Theres a lot of love in this room, a lot of love. There actually is a lot of love in the exhibition titled No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at the Whi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its CYBER MONDAY Timed Clearance sale on Nov 28, 2022 10:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers, collectors, or that special person on your holiday shopping list. Items up to 70% off original reserves! Please note, this is a timed auction - live phone bidding is not available. Fossilized Mosasaur Prognathodon Jaw w/ Teeth. Estimate $1,900 - $2,850
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| How do you tell a vandal from a visitor? Art museums are struggling. | | Show of works by major artists opens al Almine Rech Paris | | Kimbell Art Museum acquires rare still life by 17th-century French artist Louise Moillon |
Two activists attacked the famous painting at the National Gallery, in London. Filmed by Rich Felgate @Finitedoc.
LONDON.- For Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of Viennas Leopold Museum, the past few weeks have been challenging. As climate protesters across Europe stepped up their attacks against art, Wipplinger took measures to protect his storied collection, which includes famous paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Bags were banned; coats, too. The museum hired extra guards to patrol its five floors. It didnt work. Last week, members of a group called Last Generation walked into the museum and threw black liquid at one of Klimts major works, Death and Life. A protester had sneaked the liquid into the museum in a hot water bottle strapped to his chest, Wipplinger said. The Klimt, protected by glass, was unharmed. But Wipplinger said his security team could only have stopped the attack by subjecting visitors to invasive body searches, like at the airport. He didnt want to even consider that prospect, he ... More | |
The Estate of Karel Appel, Head, 1975. Acrylic on polyurethane foam, on wooden base, 58 x 29 x 21.5 cm.
PARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting Dialogues, a group exhibition of works by Karel Appel, Don Brown, AgustÃn Cárdenas, César, Günther Förg, Sylvie Fleury, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Annie Morris, and Mimmo Rotella. Some of the works in this show of major artists express a pure harmony. This is true of Don Browns bronze Eriko (2021), presented for the first time at Almine Rech, which represents a girl huddled on the floor, perched on a base of the same deep black. At first glance, she could seem to be a continuation of ancient sculpture or the Roman neoclassicism of Canovas Cupid and Psyche. However, her clothing a leotard clearly anchors her in the current era. Her fragility and delicacy, emphasized by the oversized height of the base, make her a perfect allegory. In his quest for grace and the sublime, Don Brown is driven by a sense of detail and extreme refinement, where any idealization has disappeared. ... More | |
Louise Moillon, French (1609/101696), Still Life with a Bowl of Strawberries, Basket of Cherries, and Branch of Gooseberries, 1631, oil on panel, 14 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (36.2 x 50 cm). Signed and dated (Louyse Moillon / 1631). AP 2022.04.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of Still Life with a Bowl of Strawberries, Basket of Cherries, and Branch of Gooseberries, signed and dated 1631 by French artist Louise Moillon (1609/101696). The rare painting one of only a few by the artist in American museum collections will be on view at the Kimbell beginning November 18, 2022, accessible to the public for the first time in its history. The Kimbell Art Museum is delighted to add to its renowned collection what is unquestionably a masterpiece by Louise Moillon, said Eric Lee, director of the Kimbell. The painting is an exceptionally well- preserved composition, a mysterious image of simple fruits painted in jewel tones on a wooden panel. It came to light for the first time just this year and is a prime example of Moillons keen ... More |
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| Gemma Sudlow appointed Managing Director, New York region | | The Menil Collection opens a comprehensive survey of Robert Motherwell's drawings | | SFMOMA holding first retrospective of Bay Area artist Joan Brown in more than 20 years |
Gemma Sudlow
NEW YORK.- Hindman announces Gemma Sudlow has joined the firm as Managing Director, New York region, in a new role focused on launching the firms first full-service Manhattan saleroom. A star auctioneer with 17 years of business development and specialist expertise, Ms. Sudlow leads a growing team of Hindman specialists in New York, including a Business Development Director as well as seasoned experts in the key categories of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Photographs, Jewelry & Watches, Books & Manuscripts and Furniture & Decorative Arts. The launch of Hindman New York demonstrates the firms commitment to fulfilling growing demand within the tri-state region for a complete offering of trusted services, including appraisals, auctions and private sales. With the recent addition of new offices in Boston and Miami, plus a new full-service auction room and exhibition space planned for Manhattan, Hindman is now present in 16 cities ... More | |
Robert Motherwell, Rimbaud Series No. 3, 1967. Tusche ink on parchment, 14 x 11 in, 35.6 x 27.9 cm. Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. © 2022 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection opened the most comprehensive survey ever mounted of the drawings of Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). The show will be on view exclusively at the Menil Drawing Institute through March 12, 2023. With more than 100 works spanning the artists career from the 1940s through the 1980s, Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself is organized by the Menil with the support of the Dedalus Foundation, established by the artist in 1981. The exhibition celebrates the publication of Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonné, a two-volume publication devoted to Motherwells drawings. The youngest and most scholarly of the artists who came to be identified as Abstract Expressionists, Motherwell explored a personal, ... More | |
Joan Brown, The Night Before the Alcatraz Swim, 1975; G.U.C. Collection; © Estate of Joan Brown; photo: Michael Tropea.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Born in San Francisco in 1938, artist Joan Brown created colorful, expansive paintings and inventive sculptures inspired by her experiences in the citywhere she lived and worked for much of her lifeas well as her influential international travels. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announces Joan Brown, the most in-depth examination of the artists work in over two decades. We are thrilled to present Joan Brown, a reassessment of the unabashedly personal, defiantly independent and enduringly relevant career of one of San Francisco's most important local heroes, said Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA. On view at SFMOMA from November 19, 2022 through March 12, 2023 and bringing together approximately 80 works in a variety of media, Joan ... More |
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| 'Lia Drei: Forme e geometrie di luce' (Shapes and geometries of light) opens at Cagliari's Galleria Comunale d'Arte | | A posthumous solo album reveals a jazz star's melancholy | | David Zwirner exhibits a selection of photographs by William Eggleston |
The exhibition displays the artistic evolution of Lia Drei and her constant investigation of the shape-color perception.
CAGLIARI.- The incessant abstract, geometric and chromatic research of one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, one hundred years after her birth: at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte of Cagliari, from 26 November, it is possible to visit Lia Drei - Forme e geometrie della luce, an exhibition that, through 24 works from all phases of her artistic development, displays the artistic evolution of Lia Drei and her constant investigation of the shape-color perception. The exhibition, organized by the Department of Culture and Entertainment of the Municipality of Cagliari and by the Musei Civici, is curated by Teodolinda Coltellaro and was presented this morning to the press and opened by the mayor of Cagliari Paolo Truzzu, the councilor for Culture and Entertainment Maria Dolores Picciau and by its curator. Paolo Truzzu said, in his greetings, that Cagliari is a city that narrates Italian art following ... More | |
Esbjörn Svensson found fame in Europe with his group E.S.T. But a newly released solo album, discovered by his wife, unveils more intimate piano work.
by Hugh Morris
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the death of Esbjörn Svensson, a pianist and one of Europes most influential jazz musicians, in a scuba diving accident in 2008, his wife, Eva, spent some time in the family basement, backing up all of his tapes. Among them, she and sound engineer à ke Linton found a corrupted Logic file and a scratched CD, both named Solo. Svensson recorded 11 studio albums with his trio E.S.T. over a 15-year recording period, but never solo work. Its a different experience to hear her husbands music outside the trio, Eva Svensson said in a recent video interview. Its a new landscape to explore. And of course, a new landscape inside too, she said, pointing to her heart. Both the intriguingly named CD and file were initially unusable, but in 2017, following ... More | |
William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1970-1973 © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting The Outlands, a selection of photographs by William Eggleston, the majority of which have never before been seen publicly, on view at the gallerys 525 and 533 West 19th Street locations. This is Egglestons fifth solo exhibition with David Zwirner since joining the gallery in 2016 and coincides with the release of William Eggleston: The Outlands, Selected Works, a new publication by David Zwirner Books focusing on this series, with a foreword by William Eggleston III and new texts by the art historian Robert Slifkin and the author Rachel Kushner. The exhibition opens in advance of a major survey of Egglestons work, featuring several of the photographs from The Outlands, that will debut in January 2023 at C/O Berlin before traveling to Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, and Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. Taken between 1970 and 1973, ... More |
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| Lisa Brice joins Thaddaeus Ropac | | The Baltimore Museum of Art opens first U.S. museum exhibition of work by acclaimed Senegalese artist Omar Ba | | Socrates Sculpture Park welcomes Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas as new Curator and Director of Exhibitions |
Lisa Brice. © Adam Davies.
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared the news that Lisa Brice has joined the gallery. The gallery will represent her in Europe and her first solo exhibition will open on 16 October 2023 in the Paris Marais space. Lisa Brice is such a fascinating artist. Her approach to painting and drawing women occupying a space of their own choosing is both arresting and intriguing. Her work is profoundly of our time while recontextualising art historical depictions of women with an authority that is inspiring.  Thaddaeus Ropac South-African-born and London-based, Lisa Brice paints individual and group portraits of women in her signature cobalt blue. Her figures are liberated from the roles of model and muse to take their place as artists engaged in empowered assertions of self-representation. I like to think that my paintings are the antithesis of misrepresentation - the reclamation of the canvas by all the models, painters, wives, mistresses and performe ... More | |
Omar Ba. Océan Atlantique 3 (Atlantic Ocean 3). 2021. Private Collection, Switzerland Geneva. Courtesy of Wilde Gallery, Switzerland. Photo: Philipp Hänger. © Omar Ba.
BALTIMORE, MD.- On November 20, the Baltimore Museum of Art opened the first U.S. museum exhibition of works by acclaimed Senegalese contemporary artist Omar Ba. Born outside of Dakar and living between Dakar, Brussels, and Geneva, Ba creates expressive figurative paintings that often intertwine African and European cultures and histories to examine the corrupting nature of wealth and power and their impacts on global communities. While Bas work has been shown extensively abroad, it has not yet been given the study and attention it so richly deserves in the U.S. With Omar Ba: Political Animals, the BMA introduces audiences to the incredible conceptual, social, and political relevance of Bas oeuvre as well as to his distinct formal approach, which combines the fine detail associated with drawing and the scale and grandeur ... More | |
She joins the park from the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she was Acting Curator of Visual Arts. Photo: Kenzie Meeker.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park announced Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas as the next Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. She joins the park from the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she was Acting Curator of Visual Arts. Kaitlin has organized exhibitions, outdoor installations, and residencies with artists like Tavares Strachan, Matthew Barney, Diana Al-Hadid, Yvette Mayorga, and Andrea Carlson. I am thrilled to welcome Kaitlin to New York as Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates where she will be a wonderful addition to the team, said Tamsin Dillon, Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park. Kaitlin has developed a clear and exciting vision as a curator with artists and audiences central to her work in museums, galleries and in outdoor public settings. I am looking ... More |
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Divya Mehra wins the 2022 Sobey Art Award, prestigious 100K prize for visual artists in Canada
OTTAWA.- The winner of the 2022 Sobey Art Award, one of the worlds most valuable prizes for Canadian visual artists, has been announced at a ceremony at the National Gallery of Canada. Divya Mehra has won the $100,000 Canadian prize, with each of the four shortlisted artists Krystle Silverfox, Azza El Siddique, Stanley Février and Tyshan Wright receiving $25,000. The award is generously supported by the Sobey Art Foundation. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Sobey Art Foundation, I would like to congratulate Divya Mehra, this years winner along with all 25 long-listed artists who took part in the 2022 Sobey Art Award, said Bernard Doucet, Executive Director, Sobey Art Foundation. We are honoured to celebrate the work, careers and creativity of such a dynamic group of visual artists and hope this award helps connect creative ... More
"Sara Jimenez: Fevered Tropics" now on view at Morgan Lehman Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman is now presenting Fevered Tropics, an exhibition of recent mixed-media works by Sara Jimenez. This marks the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery that started on November 17th and will end on December 23rd. Jimenez investigates the nature of transcultural relationships and memory through installation, collage, sculpture, and performance. As a Filipinx-Canadian artist, Jimenez is especially interested in ideas of origins and home, loss and absence, from which she creates visual metaphors that allude to mythical environments and reimagined artifacts. The artworks on display use as their source material imagery from early 20th Century American colonial text books written about the Philippines. The main piece in the exhibition, Tainted Siege (2017), is part of a series of hanging paper sculptures ... More
Ini Archibong solo exhibition now on view at Friedman Benda Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Friedman Benda is now presenting Ini Archibongs second solo exhibition with the gallery and the first time a comprehensive body of work will be on public view in his hometown of Los Angeles. The event began on November 18th and will continue through to December 16th. Referring to his continued interest in exploring themes of spirituality and world religions through his practice and in dialogue with his Nigerian ancestry, Archibong titled his exhibition Narthex. Through Narthex, which is defined as the enclosed entrance typical of a church or basilica, Archibong references the origins of the porch, as an architectural feature reappropriated from Africa by the West. In contemporary society, the idea of being on the porch denotes existing in a space of contemplation in between the safety of the home you know and taking the risk ... More
2020 Rakow Commissioin: Anjali Srinivasan named recipient of the 35th Rakow Commission
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) has named Boston-based artist Anjali Srinivasan (b. 1978, Chennai, India) the recipient of the 35th Rakow Commission. The prestigious award supports the creation of a new work in glass by an artist whose work pushes the boundaries of the material and who is not yet represented in CMoGs permanent collection. Srinivasans work, titled साँस {Saans} eyes of the skin سانس ({Saans}) is a large wall of broken glass mirror that senses the presence of its viewers, acknowledging them by moving in a way that subtly mimics their breathing. Six feet tall and four feet wide, {Saans} has a skin of mirrored glass that looks as if it has been battered. Radial impact cracks spread through the surface, breaking the glass into thousands of tiny shards. ... More
Mhairi Killi's 'On Sonorous Seas' opens at The Glasgow School of Art
GLASGOW.- On Sonorous Seas, the haunting exhibition by the Glasgow School of Art Graduate Mhairi Killin has opened in the Reid Gallery at The Glasgow School of Art (Scotland) today, 25 November and runs to 17 December 2022. Initially exhibited at An Tobar on the Isle of Mull, this will be its first showing on the mainland. The exhibition will be open Mon-Sat 10am 4.30pm. Entry free. By transforming how we tell the narrative of the 2018 mass stranding of 118 beaked whales - a narrative embedded in the overlay of two cryptic environments, the habitats of the military and the habitats of the whales through a partnership of science, music and art, we transform how we observe this story, and perhaps in doing so we can tell reality differently and bring an audience towards the complexity of this issue. --Mhairi Killin The story behind this show ... More
Jake Grewal, 'Now I Know You I Am Older' at Thomas Dane Gallery in London
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery presents Now I Know You I Am Older, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Jake Grewal, curated by Andrew Bonacina. In Jake Grewals paintings and drawings nude figures, nearly always male and often based on the artists own image, inhabit verdant forests and woodland landscapes. Unmoored from any specific time or place, Grewals dream-like scenes are spaces of desire and projection, where the artists exploration of self opens out into narratives surrounding the fractious relationship between human and nature, and the search for an idealised place of queer communion. Grewals figures appear at once in harmonious cohabitation with their natural surroundings and seemingly on the verge of being consumed by them, an ambiguity that suffuses his works with an atmosphere of quiet uncertainty and longing. ... More
Major survey exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of the iconic Australian Carla Zampatti
SYDNEY.- Powerhouse today unveiled Zampatti Powerhouse, the major survey exhibition which celebrates the life and legacy of the iconic Australian Carla Zampatti. The first internationally exclusive retrospective of Carla Zampatti AC, OMRI (19382021) presents the life and work of the inimitable Italian-born designer, beloved as an Australian fashion icon. The breadth of her extraordinary private, professional and public life is rendered in exquisite detail, anchored by Zampattis signature designs and brought to life with first person reflections by the designer's clients, family, staff and friends. Zampatti Powerhouse encompasses 100 designs from over 50 lenders and over five decades of material, surveying a trailblazing career from the establishment of her business in 1965 to her most recent work. Iconic pieces worn by high-profile Australian women in ... More
Vienna's Secesion opens an exhibition of works by Jean-Frédéric Schnyder
VIENNA.- In his exhibition at the Secession, the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder shows a cross-section of his painting from almost forty years (19832021). In his typical manner, the 102 paintings of various formats (all: oil on canvas) are hung evenly spaced and, increasing in size from front to back and then decreasing again, form a horizontal line. The ever-changing live image of the outdoor space, which the glass door on the front wall reveals, is part of the concept. Since the late 1960s, Schnyder has created a vast oeuvre of paintings, photographs, sculptures, objects, and installations. In his art practice he remains radically open, one result of which is a fully diverse body of work. However, looking at Schnyders painterly work since the beginning of the 1970s, one discovers a surprising consistency and breaks in equal measure. In each ... More
Pamela and David Richardson support the new Vancouver Art Gallery with $5 million gift
VANCOUVER, BC.- Pamela and David Richardson announced today a $5,000,000 commitment in support of the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Opens campaign. This gift includes support for the capital campaign as well as ongoing program support for the Gallery between 2022 and 2028. Pamela and Dave have been long-term supporters of the Gallery, said Anthony Kiendl, CEO of the Vancouver Art Gallery. We are eternally grateful for their generosity and commitment toward the creation of our future Gallery. We are overjoyed to accept this gift and to have the Richardsons as benefactors of the new Gallery. The donation will be used to fund both the new building and Gallery programs including the publishing of catalogues and other educational materials. This gift includes support for art education programs focused on mental health and ... More
Solo exhibition of new paintings by Michael Berryhill on view at Derek Eller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting El Paso, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Michael Berryhill. Michael Berryhill was born in El Paso, TX in 1972. His dad taught biology and coached football, his mom was an art teacher. He was a wide receiver at Andress High School, and they almost made it to State. After spending a year at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, TX, he went to UT Austin and studied art. Peter Saul was there. After college, Berryhill spent a year in Pagosa Springs, CO driving a logging truck and washing dishes at his aunt and uncle's Mexican restaurant. He met an artist there who had once lived in New York. She abruptly left one night, and then so did Berryhill. The works in El Paso explore Berryhills childhood influences: the art of Luis Jimenez, riding bareback in Chaparral, Catholic school, Friday night lights, crossing ... More
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The seduction of beauty
Mehmet Sinan Kuran
Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino died November 27, 1570. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately. In this image: Maestro del san giovannino, san giovannino nel deserto, 1505-1507.
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