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A side view of the summer house, that the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer built, in Wellfleet, Mass., on Aug, 19, 2023, with the cantilevered porch where family and friends would spend most of their time. (Steven Smith/The New York Times)
by Helen Stoilas
WELLFLEET, MASS.- Deep in the woods of Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, down winding and rutted dirt roads, a summer home built in 1949 by modernist architect Marcel Breuer sits perched on stilts. Its cantilevered porch, where friends and family would spend much of their time, once had a clear view across three connected kettle ponds, but saplings that dotted the hillside today tower above the house, blocking sightlines. The four-bedroom structure, now owned by the architects son, Tamas Breuer, is considered the most significant modernist house on the Cape and was one of the first completed examples of Breuers Long House design, a simple construction that could be assembled using local materials. It has been left unchanged for decades, a time capsule of architectural history hidden in the wilderness. But the damp New England weather has taken its toll on the cabinlike building, especially on the north side, where moss and lichen have rotted some of the white cedar cladding and porch rails ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts presents a solo show by South Korean artist Kyungwoo Chun titled Songs without Lyrics, presenting in-situ, photographic, video and performance works.
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| Pace announces representation of Lawrence Weiner estate in Asia + Frieze Seoul programming | | National Gallery of Denmark now presenting 'Jessie Kleemann: Running Time', her first solo there | | Hauser & Wirth Institute announces 2023 grantees |
Lawrence Weiner, photo by Matthew Tamaro.
SEOUL.- Pace announced its representation of the Lawrence Weiner estate in Asia, with a focus on Korea; its booth highlights for the 2023 edition of Frieze Seoul, where the gallery will debut its first presentation of work by the late artist; and concurrent exhibitions in the Korean capital. Concurrent with Frieze Seoul, a major survey dedicated to Weiner will be on view at the citys Amorepacific Museum of Art. In May 2024, Pace will mount its first exhibition of Weiners work at its Seoul gallery. Known for his flexible, generous praxis that centers on communication and defies definition or categorization by conventional means or method, Lawrence Weiner was a major figure in the international Conceptual art movement. He proposed a radical new mode of creating that centered on questions of objecthood as it relates to both the maker ... More | |
Jessie Kleemann, ORSOQ, 2012, SMK, Foto: Frida Gregersen.
COPENHAGEN.- National Gallery of Denmark presents Jessie Kleemanns first-ever solo show at a Danish museum. The exhibition, which includes several completely new works, sees Kleemann explore how Greenlandic identity, culture and nature change over time. An elegant dog sledge with frames of precious wood, a sparkling undercarriage and powerful ATV tires: Jessie Kleemanns (b. 1959 in Upernavik, Greenland) 2023 version of a dog sledge is created for a changed landscape where the ice is melting and the preconditions of traditional trapper life are changing. As a subtle monument to humanitys constant drive towards industrialisation and growth, the sledge is adapted to a new source of sustenance tourism becoming a kind of stretch limousine or oversized tourist bus. ... More | |
Robert Blackburn, courtesy EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Hauser & Wirth Institute announced the recipients of their 2023 Grants, the third annual funding initiative aimed at supporting artist communities and organizations in self-documenting, preserving, and activating their own archives. The grantees are EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (New York City); iniva (London); Letterform Archive (San Francisco); and Visual AIDS (New York City). A nonprofit operating free from commercial interests and independently from their primary funder (Hauser & Wirth Gallery), the Institutes annual grants build on their mission to make the field of artists archives more equitable and accessible by enabling the preservation of self-determined and under-documented histories. The fundamental purpose ... More |
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| New exhibition at OMM: 'Under Two Suns' | | The National Gallery of Art acquires a watercolor by William Trost Richards | | Solo booth by Oslo-based Scottish artist Callum Innes presented by OSLO contemporary at Enter Art Fair 2023 |
Mübin Orhon, İsimsiz_Untitled, 1960, Tuval üzerine yağlıboya_Oil on canvas, 49 x 36 cm, Erol Tabanca Koleksiyonu.
ODUNPAZARı/ESKIşEHIR.- OMM - Odunpazarı Modern Museum kicks off the new art season with a selection of works from the Erol Tabanca Collection. As an exploration of mythological and speculative horizons opened up by the prospect of two suns in the sky, Under Two Suns offers a journey through refractions of light and shadows. Curated by Aslı Seven, the selection shares a sensibility towards optical, thermal, metamorphic, and affective phenomena surrounding sunlight and its atmospheric refractions, exploring the profoundly solar, relational, and mutating nature of our being in the world. Showcasing works produced in a range of media including painting, photography, sculpture, video, and installation, the exhibition can be seen from August 24, 2023. Conceived as a pluralistic sensory device to allow multiple suns to shine through cosmic time, the ... More | |
William Trost Richards, South-West Point, Conanicut, 1878/1879. Watercolor and gouache on fibrous blue-gray wove paper, overall: 83.82 x 149.86 cm (33 x 59 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Riggs Parker, honoring their children 2023.32.1.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired William Trost Richardss (18331905) South-West Point, Conanicut (1878), a watercolor generously given by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Riggs Parker. In the late 1870s Richards experimented with the materials and techniques of his medium to spectacular effect, as exemplified in South-West Point, Conanicut. It is a significant addition to the National Gallerys holdings of late 19th-century American watercolors and shows how his exquisite handling of opaque watercolor is complemented by his use of a fibrous, blue-gray paper supportits distinctive color and texture readily lend themselves to his rendering of crashing waves and granite cliffs. In the United States, the founding ... More | |
Callum Innes. OSL contemporary at Enter Art Fair 2023 in Copenhagen, August 24 - 27, 2023.
COPENHAGEN.- OSL contemporary is presenting a solo booth by Oslo-based Scottish artist Callum Innes, showcasing a series of new watercolours and oil paintings at Enter Art Fair 2023 in Copenhagen. Callum Innes (b.1962) is among the most significant abstract painters of his generation. His paintings are highly disciplined but also uncertain spaces, combining the controlled authority of monochrome geometric forms with ever-present traces of fluidity and an always-apparent tendency towards formal dissolution. Central to his distinctive artistic process is a dual activ- ity of painting and unpainting. Innes begins by applying densely mixed dark pigment onto a prepared canvas before then brushing the wet surface with turpentine: strategically stripping away sections of the painted space before it has entirely settled and solidified. In ongoing series such as his Exposed Paintings, solid square blocks of deep, complex bl ... More |
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| The Beaverbrook Art Gallery launches its online digital collection of nearly 5000 works of art | | Sounds and surfaces: Keith Winter to present "Heavy Metal" in Mexico | | 'Songs without Lyrics' exhibition by South Korean artist Kyungwoo Chun opens at Sunaparanta, Goa |
Visitors to the Beaverbrook website are encouraged to browse the entire gallery collection and view their favourite works in our collection or explore and admire pieces by artists that they may not have seen before.
FREDERICTON, NB.- The entire Beaverbrook Art Gallery permanent collection of works is now viewable online on the gallerys website for members of the public to study and enjoy, and this is joined with new animated videos and activities for children. Beginning as a COVID-19 project, the curatorial team at the Beaverbrook undertook the major project of reviewing, documenting, and photographing the entire collection housed at the gallery. Ranging from paintings, to sketches, prints, photographs and sculpture, the entire art collection has been re-catalogued and photographed with a state-of-the-art digital process. The photographs, along with artwork and artist information, have now been uploaded to a browsable database that is available to the public. John Leroux, the Manager of Collections and ... More | |
Keith Winter.
MEXICO CITY.- Dr Keith Winter, Head of Visual Arts at the University of East London, will perform his Heavy Metal artwork/performance piece at a gallery in Mexico City from August 24 to September the first. Winter will use a special sculptural apparatus as a percussion instrument, while his collaborator, Gabriel Santamarina provides a spoken-word accompaniment. Both will be wearing custom-made outfits designed by Winter. A total of four performances will take place, with Winter describing the project as combining sculpture with sound, Heavy Metal is a solo exhibition of my work between sculpture and percussion, object and sound which I call the apparatus of noise. This work started as a project during Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, when Keith Winter and Gabriel Santamarina curated an online book club that focussed on texts concerned with a wide variety of subjects including spirituality, fourth way enlightenment, eco-psychology, Jung, heroes, ... More | |
Resonance, 2023.
PANAJI.- Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts presents a solo show by South Korean artist Kyungwoo Chun titled Songs without Lyrics, presenting in-situ, photographic, video and performance works. Chun is known for his experimental portraits that are based on temporally set processes. Relationships form the core of his practice and much of his work is based on situations and encounters that revolve around concepts of empathy, care, compassion. In this process, people become an important asset in the work. Chun is concerned with how we interact in the world, how we relate to ourselves and each other. Creating un-familiar situations that can provoke modes of interdependence, he provides a space for individuals to enter, shed exterior excesses and traverse an interior scape. Ordinary conversations, requests, tasks initiate the possibility for exchange. Forging a series of meeting points that require the physical presence and engagement with strang ... More |
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| What spatial audio can and cannot do for classical music | | New photography exhibition at Whitney Museum highlights vulnerability, connectivity and the power of images | | Nils Stærk Gallery now hosting 'SNOOZE: 90 Seconds to Midnight' by artist Lea Porsager |
Audience members at the Sonic Sphere, a 66-foot-diameter spherical music hall suspended in air, at the Shed in Manhattan, June 15, 2023. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
by Seth Colter Walls
NEW YORK, NY.- Recent developments in spatial audio albums old and new being mixed for immersive formats have made news in the world of pop. Given the right production process (in the studio) and tech setup (at home), headphone sounds no longer need feel so statically pressed to each ear; instead, they can seem to whiz around your head or beckon from the nape of your neck. Or simply breathe anew. Whether youre focusing on a stray slide-guitar accent in the Dolby Atmos mix of Taylor Swifts Mine (Taylors Version) or appreciating the serrated details of brass-arrangement filigree in Frank Zappas vintage Big Swifty, the idea is to bring the souped-up, 3D feel of large-speaker arrays into your ears. But classical music was there decades ago. Deutsche Grammophon and the Philips label both experimented ... More | |
D'Angelo Lovell Williams, Nah, 2018. Inkjet print: sheet (sight): 44 1/2 à 29 1/2 in. (113 à 74.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2020.130. © D'Angelo Lovell Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Trust Me, which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on August 19, 2023, brings together captivating photographs by artists Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, Alvin Baltrop, Jenny Calivas, Moyra Davey, Lola Flash, Barbara Hammer, Muriel Hasbun, Dakota Mace, Mary Manning, and DAngelo Lovell Williams. These eleven artists embrace intuition and indeterminacy through varied techniques and experimentation with photography, suggesting parallels between material and emotional contingency. Drawing from the Whitneys rich permanent collection, viewers are invited to engage with intimate parts of the artists everyday lives and experiences and explore connections to their own. These artists take a chance reaching out to a viewer they may or may not know, trusting the power of the images emotional resonance, and offer a space for ... More | |
Installation view. Lea Porsager: SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight), NILS STÃRK, 2023. Photo: Malle Madsen
COPENHAGEN.- SNOOZE (90 Seconds to Midnight) marks Lea Porsagers third solo exhibition with Nils Stærk. Lea Porsager is an artist whose works play out in the triangular tension between quantum physics, tantric practices, and feminist theory. Her practice interweaves speculation, fabulation and materialization within a variety of mediums, including film, sculpture, text, and earth works. Since her last solo presentation in 2016, the artists list of institutional solo exhibitions includes Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2020-21; FuturDome, Milan, 2020; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2019; Brandts, Odense, 2016. During this period, Porsager also worked on several public commissions such as Gravitational Ripples, an earthwork and memorial in Stockholm inaugurated in 2018; KLIT, a shore biotope in Odense in 2021; Palm_Reading_Touch_Swipe at Prästängsskolan in Stångby in 2022; Repulsive Enchant ... More |
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Edra Soto's first Boston artwork to be unveiled in Central Wharf Park this September
BOSTON, MASS.- Central Wharf Park in Boston is set to welcome an extraordinary public art experience this September: Edra Soto's Graft. Graft is guest-curated by Pedro Alonzo with Now + There, a Boston-based public art non-profit delivering engaging installations throughout the city. Hailing from Puerto Rico, Edra Soto has delved deep into her cultural memory to create Graft, a collection of four sculptures that serve as benches and celebrate architectural fusion. The installation beautifully incorporates Puerto Rican palm leaves into a geometric pattern, casting playful shadows and evoking a comforting sense of the island right in the heart of Boston. The motifs found in Graft draw inspiration from Puerto Rican rejas (wrought-iron grates) and their West African Yoruba origins, encouraging visitors to explore the complex circulations ... More
2023 citywide exhibition Social Forms: Art As Global Citizenship to show 'Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue'
PORTLAND, ORE.- Yishai Jusidmans Prussian Blue is a series of paintings rendered almost exclusively in Prussian Blue. One of the earliest artificially developed pigments used by European painters, its historical implications overpower its formal and optical potential. Discovered in 1704 in Berlin, it soon became the emblematic tint of the Prussian army and one of the earliest artificial pigments used by European painters. The color is also linked, through the grimmest of histories, to the extermination of European Jewry in the Second World War. The pesticide employed in the Nazi gas chambers, Zyklon B, left colored traces on their walls when its lethal compound chemically mutated into Prussian blue residues, some of which are visible to this day. Tensions between color and history, perception and materiality, picture and painting, refinement ... More
Yale School of Architecture now opening multiscreen installation by the British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale Center for British Art and the Yale School of Architecture partner to present an immersive multiscreen installation by the British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) offers a poetic reflection on the life, work, and legacy of the visionary modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. A leading figure of postwar Latin American modernism, Bo Bardi designed some of Brazils most iconic art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, the São Paulo Museum of Art, the SESC Pompéia, and the Teatro Oficina. By combining excerpts from her writings with footage of these landmarks, Juliens moving tribute to the architect intertwines Bo Bardis ... More
Exuberant Dialogue: Italian and American artists presented by Spazio Soncino
SONCINO.- Starting today, Spazio Soncino will host FILANDA: ART AM 4 (Artisti Americani e Non), the fourth iteration of an annual exhibition of path-breaking contemporary art organized by artist Luigi Cazzaniga and poet and critic Ilka Scobie. On view in the Filanda cultural complex, which is housed in a converted historic silk factory in the heart of this Lombardy town, FILANDA: ART AM 4 explores the ever-evolving dialogue between Italian and American artists. Highlighting stylistic diversity, this expansive group exhibition nevertheless reveals shared sources of inspiration and universal aesthetic and philosophical concerns. Open to the public through September 20, 2023, FILANDA: ART AM 4 will comprise works by more than three dozen artists: Hanny Ahern, Rita Barros, Alighiero Boetti, Travis Brown, Tasmin Burgess, Bruno Buttarelli, Maria ... More
Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Requiem at Booth A25 for Frieze Seoul 2023
SEOUL.- François Ghebaly will be presenting a solo booth of new works by Incheon-born, New York-based artist Cindy Ji Hye Kim at Frieze Seoul 2023. Titled Requiem, the booth includes six new paintings on translucent silk and five wooden sculptures representing a new direction in Kims practice. Requiem reflects upon the process of mourning. The works draw upon ancient Korean funerary objects and tomb murals, scenes of mythical creatures and Gods, and ritual objects like Kokdu figures to pay homage not only to the dead but also to the process of guiding the deceased into the next realm. Committed in washes of watercolor, charcoal, and pastel on silk, the paintings carry a nocturnal, dreamlike quality with powerful and ambiguous symbols: a sleeping donkey, a porcupine on a staircase, a whirling reversed clock. ... More
In Germany's rust belt, industrial ruins become stages
NEW YORK, NY.- For six weeks each year, the Ruhrtriennale festival transforms the economically depressed Ruhr region of northwest Germany into ground zero for cutting edge art and performance. Since 2002, this lavishly funded event, which puts on roughly 30 productions each summer, has lured artists and audiences to Germanys rust belt with its robust and unexpected programming. And whereas many of Europes summer arts festivals can feel interchangeable, the Ruhrtriennale is devoted to works that cant be experienced the same way anywhere else. Many have been created specifically for the postindustrial sites that dot the region. This month, Ruhrtrienniale artistic director Barbara Frey inaugurated her third and final festival program with her own staging of A Midsummer Nights Dream, presented in the Kraftzentrale, ... More
Two 2003 LPs changed Ben Gibbard's life. He's taking both on tour.
NEW YORK, NY.- Being an indie-rock musician was largely its own reward from the 1980s to the turn of the 21st century. But as Ben Gibbard learned firsthand, in the early 2000s, things started to shift. Since the late 1990s, he had served as a lead singer and guitarist in Death Cab for Cutie, an indie-rock band known for its chiming guitar lines and wistful lyrics. A chance meeting with the electronic musician and producer Jimmy Tamborello led to a creative spark, and the two formed a group called the Postal Service, named after the nature of their analog partnership: Tamborello, who was living in Los Angeles, sent his airy instrumentals north to Seattle through the U.S. mail system, so Gibbard could add his vocals. The group expanded to include the singer Jenny Lewis, and when its only album, Give Up, was released in February 2003, its romantic ... More
"Not I, not I, but the wind": Video contributions, children's tour, voice performance, award ceremony and finissage
NOTHFELDEN AND PHILIPPINENBURG.- How beautiful summer can be. At all times of the day and evening, visitors stroll and wander through the exhibition grounds of the 11th wind art festival "bewegter wind" in Nothfelden and Philippinenburg near Wolfhagen and show their enthusiasm. The special mix of art, landscape and wind has a magic that puts people in a good mood and opens their minds to the art messages, which also deal critically and very seriously with contemporary issues. The last weekend of the exhibition is approaching and the organisers are looking forward to curious, wandering visitors - ideally with a picnic. An extra role at the Wind Art Festival is played by the video contributions, ... More
Transgender artist Cassils joins curators Adelaide Bannerman and Giovanna Esposito Yussif on the Live Art Prize jury
KUOPIO.- ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival announced Cassils, Adelaide Bannerman and Giovanna Esposito Yussif as the jury for the Live Art Prize 2023, which will take place in Kuopio, Finland, from 12 17 September. In honour of the 10th anniversary of the Prize, Cassils, the first-ever artist to win the award, will chair of the jury. Cassils (Canada/United States) is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Their art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle, survival, empowerment and systems of care. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture. Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces ... More
AstaGuru's 'Modern Treasures' auction celebrates Indian art with rare works by iconic luminaries
MUMBAI.- In its upcoming Modern Treasures Auction, AstaGuru will showcase a captivating tapestry of Modern Indian Art with an exquisite array of rare and exemplary works by iconic Indian modernists. The finely curated catalogue offers an eclectic selection of works by Jamini Roy, M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, F. N. Souza, Sadanand Bakre, Akbar Padamsee, Krishen Khanna, Avinash Chandra, Ram Kumar, K. G. Subramanyan, H. A Gade, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, G.R. Santosh, J Swaminathan, K. Laxma Goud, Thota Vaikuntam, K. K. Hebbar, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Bhupen Khakhar, Satish Gujaral, B. Prabha, Sakti Burman, Manu Parekh, Paramjit Singh, among others. The auction is scheduled on September 1-2, 2023. Sunny Chandiramani, Senior Vice President, Client Relations, AstaGuru Auction House states that, We ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died August 24, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 â August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. In this image: Harold Gray, chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., points to a print as he discusses the photo with photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt at Manhattanâs International Center for Photography in New York in Jan. 22, 1981. The display of photographs titled âEisenstaedt Germanyâ was organized by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and made possible by United Technologies.
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