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In an undated image provided by Stefan Altenburger, Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then, an exhibition designed byTadao Ando, in Venice, Italy. Scuola Grande della Misericordia, the site of the installation commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was originally home to one of Venices confraternities. (Stefan Altenburger via The New York Times)
OSAKA.- An American institution sponsors an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect at a centuries-old Venetian building. This is the kind of far-flung constellation that can only come together during the Venice Biennale, when the historic Italian lagoon city turns into contemporary arts grandest stage. Although the Biennale itself is famed for its national pavilions, scores ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bhen Alan, Installation view of Banigs 1-11, 2022-23. Photo by Leo Ng.
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| Rose B. Simpson's new larger-than-life sculptures in NYC parks | | HOUSE Berlin revives a historic 19th century Wilhelmine building exhibition | | White Cube Bermondsey opens ' Georg Baselitz: A Confession of My Sins' |
Rose B.Simpson, Seed (2024) in Madison Square Park. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein. Courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the grounds of Madison Square Park and Inwood Hill Park, artist Rose B. Simpson (b. 1983, Santa Clara Pueblo) convenes gatherings of large-scale bronze and steel figures for a major new commission that evokes our connections to the land and to one another across time. Commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy ... More | |
Untitled Sun World 11, 127 x 175 cm, Silver Gelatin Print, 2018, Edition of 1.
BERLIN.- Following a critically acclaimed inaugural exhibition Very friendly in 2023, Berlin-based art space HOUSE presents its second exhibition with the American artist Jeff Cowen following the theme of a séance. The show will be on view from April 12 through June 2024, set in HOUSEs historic venue, an unrenovated Wilhelmine building complex from the 19th century, with a former 40-meter- ... More | |
Portrait of Georg Baselitz © Georg Baselitz 2024. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- Georg Baselitz marks his return to White Cube Bermondsey for the first time in eight years with the solo exhibition A Confession of My Sins. Comprising a large body of new work produced during an intensive year in the studio, the exhibition features large-scale paintings and a selection of works on paper in which the artist, now 86, surveys the past six and a half decades ... More |
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| New installation by Yvette Brackman: Salon des Refusés | | Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Ruby Sky Stiler | | 'Fugue' by Lydia Goldblatt to be published in June 2024 |
Ville Jais Nielsen, Figure Composition, 1949.
COPENHAGEN.- This April, SMK presents a new installation featuring works from the museums collection. Created by the acclaimed artist Yvette Brackman, the installation arises out of her multi-year research project, which interweaves historical female artists and Jewish cultural history while engaging the museum's art historians in an ongoing dialogue. Since 2000, American-born Yvette Brackman (b. 1967, New York City) has worked as ... More | |
Ruby Sky Stiler, 2022. Photo: Andres Altamirano.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Ruby Sky Stiler (b. 1979). Stiler grew up between Maine and New Mexico and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her multi-dimensional practice draws from diverse time periods, artistic movements, and genres, imbuing familial and political structures with her own feminist values and insights. Nodding to art historical archetypes, Stilers work reimagines and recasts the history ... More | |
The photographs depict a rhythm of domestic life, the passing of days and seasons.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fugue by Lydia Goldblatt is a body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing. Centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years, it tells a story that is neither apologetic nor idealised. When Goldblatt became a mother she found herself unable to make pictures. However, ... More |
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| The Carter names MarÃa Beatriz H. Carrión as Assistant Curator of Photographs | | Woody Auction to offer art glass, lamps aand muche more on April 20th | | $10M gift supports ICA Pittsburgh and public art at Carnegie Mellon University |
Carrión specializes in the history of photography in the United States and brings to her role an intricate knowledge of the power of image-making in conversations surrounding race, gender, and ecology. Image: courtesy of Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announced the appointment of MarÃa Beatriz H. Carrión as the Museums Assistant Curator of Photographs. Carrión is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and ... More | |
1880s Victorian automatic parlor fountain consisting of cranberry art glass globes on a rotating brass fixture with a ruffled cranberry bowl, marked J. Betrics & Sons (London) (est. $1,000-$2,500).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- A wide selection of quality antiques will come up for bid at an at Art Glass, Lamps and Much More auction planned for Saturday, April 20th, by Woody Auction, online (thru LiveAuctioneers.com) and live in the auction house located at 130 Third Street in Douglass. In total, 333 lots will cross the auction block, all with no reserves, ... More | |
View of recent public art installation by Jessica Stockholder. Image courtesy Jessica Stockholder and Carnegie Mellon University.
PITTSBURGH.- Carnegie Mellon University announced today that longtime supporters, art patrons, and CMU alumni Tod and Cindy Johnson have committed $10 million to advance art on campus and the universitys new Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh (ICA). Half of the gift is dedicated to create the Tod and Cindy Johnson Endowment for Public Art, which will support the acquisition ... More |
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| Cadogan Gallery presents 'Andreas Diaz-Andersson Vattendroppar' | | The Design Museum is awarded Independent Research Organisation status | | On view through May 18th: "Sometimes My Accent Slips Out" by Bhen Alan |
A series of canvases inspired by the movements of water reflecting on the contrast between naturalness and rigour, accompanied by an unprecedented sound installation. Courtesy: Cadogan Gallery. Photo: Gerardo Maldonado.
MILAN.- From April 10 to May 11 2024, with the solo exhibition Vattendroppar, Swedish-Mexican artist Andreas Diaz Andersson presents his first solo show in the Milanese venue of Cadogan Gallery. Vattendroppar in Swedish means drops of water, and indeed the exhibition is a journey through ... More | |
Future Observatory Display the Design Museum © Felix Speller for the Design Museum.
LONDON.- The Design Museum today announces that it has been granted Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status, becoming the first independent museum to be awarded the recognition. This acknowledges the museums ability to lead and support groundbreaking research. IRO status is awarded to the Design Museum by the Arts and Humanities Research Council ... More | |
Installation view of Sometimes My Accent Slips Out by Bhen Alan, 2024. Photo by Leo Ng.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation presents Sometimes My Accent Slips Out, a solo exhibition by Bhen Alan, with mentorship from Jade Yumang and curatorial guidance from Jon Santos. The exhibition, now open at CUEs gallery space (137 W. 25th Street), will remain on view until May 18, 2024. Attendance during gallery hours (WedSat, 126 pm) is free; no reservations are required. ... More |
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It's no sunday in the park With 'Lempicka'
NEW YORK, NY.- Having dismissed her work as merely decorative, a fierce Italian gives harsh advice to an ambitious young painter: You need to be a monster, he brays. Or a machine. The painter, Tamara de Lempicka, didnt take the advice in real life because it was never given. But Lempicka, the new Broadway musical about her, which opened Sunday at the Longacre Theater, certainly did, and then some. Its a monster and a machine. A machine because it argues, with streamlined efficiency, that in her groundbreaking portraits of the 1920s and 30s, Lempicka forever changed the representation of women in art, and thus changed women themselves. The volumetric flesh, aerodynamic curves and warhead breasts that so titillated Jazz Age Paris became, the show suggests, todays template for glamazonian feminism. As ... More
'American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy' premieres in Budapest
BUDAPEST.- Last week, the groundbreaking exhibition American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, where it can be seen until August 29, 2024. The exhibition will then travel to the United States, where it will be on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025. Following its run at VMFA, the exhibition will travel to the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, where it will displayed from Sept. 26, 2025, to March 1, 2026. American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy is the most comprehensive exhibition to examine the geographical ... More
At Carnegie Hall, Weimar is irresistible but vaguely defined
NEW YORK, NY.- In the middle of Erich Wolfgang Korngolds suite of incidental music for Much Ado About Nothing, theres a march meant to accompany Dogberry, William Shakespeares comic constable, and his fellow watchmen. Written in the late 1910s, and played by Ensemble Modern at Zankel Hall on Friday as part of the Carnegie Hall festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, the march stepped along crisply, with dryly officious humor. But it also had an edge of sincere sternness. Cast over the bumptious charm was a hint of the ominous, of a real (rather than satirical) military buildup. The same uneasy combination of optimistic energy and dark clouds characterized Germany during the Weimar Republic, an experiment in democracy that began after the countrys defeat in World War I, in 1918, and lasted until the Nazi ... More
MOCA acquires Karon Davis' "Noah and his Ark"
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Wilding Cran Gallery announcd the acquisition of Karon Davis Noah and his Ark, 2018 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Originally exhibited in MUDDY WATER at Wilding Cran Gallery in 2018, the acquisition of Noah and his Ark, 2018 was made possible by the generous donation of Beth Rudin DeWoody. As a reflection on climate disaster, displacement, and the inadequacy of governmental relief programs, the sculptural installation of Noah and his Ark features a man pulling a woman and young girl in a rickety boat filled with personal possessions. Depicted as though emerging from imaginary waters, Davis contemporized figures recall ancient archetypes, reflecting the cyclical nature of recurring environmental disasters. By centering the narratives of communities most deeply impacted by crisis ... More
Major exhibition opens featuring Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Jin-me Yoon and more
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art opened a seminal exhibition that brings together works by eight contemporary Canadian artists of international acclaim. On display from April 12 until June 22, 2024, Prevailing Landscapes features artists Kim Dorland, Stan Douglas, Tim Gardner, Cameron Kerr, Krystle Silverfox, Ian Wallace, Jin-me Yoon, and Karen Zalamea. Spanning painting, drawing, photography, video, and sculpture, among other media, the collection of over 35 works presents a critical look at historically romanticized perspectives of the Great Canadian Wilderness. The landscape has been a dominant theme within Canadian art history, and it remains a consistent area of inquiry, intrigue, and inspiration for contemporary Canadian artists. As a subject matter, the physical vastness of the landscape has provided ... More
Should we change species to save them?
NEW YORK, NY.- For tens of millions of years, Australia has been a playground for evolution, and the land Down Under lays claim to some of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. It is the birthplace of songbirds, the land of egg-laying mammals and the world capital of pouch-bearing marsupials, a group that encompasses far more than just koalas and kangaroos. (Behold the bilby and the bettong!) Nearly half of the continents birds and roughly 90% of its mammals, reptiles and frogs are found nowhere else on the planet. Australia has also become a case study in what happens when people push biodiversity to the brink. Habitat degradation, invasive species, infectious diseases and climate change have put many native animals in jeopardy and given Australia one of the worst rates of species loss in the world. In some cases, scientists ... More
The Brooklyn Museum announces Niles Luther as its first Composer in Residence
BROOKLYN, NY.- Marking a groundbreaking moment in its commitment to transformative artistic encounters, the Brooklyn Museum has welcomed New Yorkbased classical cellist Niles Luther as its first-ever Composer in Residence. During his residency, which is supported by a fellowship from the Ford Foundation, Luther will bring his unique artistic vision to enhance the Museums cultural programming by composing original scores, or Art Music, inspired by the collection and exhibitions. This remarkable collaboration advances the Museums efforts to deepen the visitor experience and amplify artistic excellence across time and genres. With this innovative role, Luther builds upon his long-standing relationship with the Museum, having performed at the opening reception of Kehinde Wileys 2015 retrospective A New Republic and at the Black ... More
Minia Biabiany wins moving image commission
BARCELONA.- The Han Nefkens Foundation - in collaboration with The Museu dArt Contemporary de Barcelona, MACBA; MUAC, UNAM, Mexico City and The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach - Moving Image Commission 2024 aims to be a tool for increasing contemporary artistic production in the moving image field. The partnership includes three editions of the Commission, each one will be biennial (starting in 2024) and will have a specific thematic and investigation concept proposed by all the partners. The Commission involves the production of a screen-based video artwork and excludes any type of documentary. Minia Biabiany will be awarded $100,000 for creating a new work. Biabiany was chosen from a competitive shortlist of three finalists by a distinguished jury comprising the directors and curators of each museum and chaired ... More
"Cats, Owls, and Mountains" have taken over the Tokyo art scene
TOKYO.- Cats, Owls, and Mountains" have taken over the Tokyo art scene with a remarkable exhibition. Artist Zoia Skoropadenko, the creative force behind the showcase, shares insights into the thematic choices that have captured the imaginations of art enthusiasts. The exhibition is curated by artist Zoia Skoropadenko and features masterpieces by Japanese artist Yokoyama Taikan. This type of exhibition emerges when contemporary artworks are mixed with historical masterpieces from private collections, providing art collectors with the opportunity to combine contemporary art with museum-quality masterpieces on their walls. Skoropadenko has been curating these shows since 2021 around the world. It offers a great opportunity not only to discover contemporary rising stars and established artists but also to uncover hidden gems from ... More
MONA releases digital guide and exclusive in person tours
GLENDALE, CA.- The Museum of Neon Art announced the launch of Community Beacons, a digital guide that highlights signage in LA County that has been preserved in place. This project is grant funded through The National Trust for Historic Preservation and will be available on the Bloomberg Connects app. MONA will host several in-person events to celebrate this launch, including exclusive access to historic locations, historical talks, and meet and greets with business owners and neon preservationists. MONAs Community Beacons digital guide features historic photographs, video, and audio to highlight the historical signage that The Museum of Neon Art has helped to preserve or advocate for across LA County. The launch of this guide features 5 sites. It is exciting to use technology to create a guide that expands access to parts of our ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican architect Pedro RamÃrez Vázquez was born April 16, 1919. Pedro RamÃrez Vázquez (April 16, 1919 - April 16, 2013) was a late twentieth century Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City. He was persuaded to study architecture by writer and poet Carlos Pellicer. In this image: National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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