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A piece on display in the crochet exhibition âAustrian Satellite Reef,â by Margaret and Christine Wertheim, at the Schlossmuseum Linz in Linz, Austria, Oct. 5, 2023. The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers. (David Payr/The New York Times)
by Siobhan Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Every year after the full moons in late October and November, Australiaâs Great Barrier Reef begins its annual spawning â first the coral species inshore, where waters are warmer, then the offshore corals, the main event. Last year, this natural spectacle coincided with the woolly propagation of two new colonies of the Crochet Coral Reef, a long-running craft-science collaborative artwork now inhabiting the Schlossmuseum in Linz, Austria, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. To date, nearly 25,000 crocheters (âreefersâ) have created a worldwide archipelago of more than 50 reefs â both a paean to and a plea for these ecosystems, rainforests of the sea, which are threatened by climate change. The project also explores mathematical themes, since many living reef organisms biologically approximate the quirky curvature of hyperbolic geometry. Within the realm of two dimension ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Michael Simpson, New Paintings, Modern Art Helmet Row, exhibition view, 13 January-17 February 2024. Photo: Robert Glowacki. Courtesy: the artist and Modern Art, London.
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| Marian Goodman opens an exhibition of early works by Robert Smithson | | Franco-Iranian artist Golnaz Payani opens exhibition at Praz-Delavallade Projects | | Paints progress - An exhibition series opens at Messums London and Messums West |
Robert Smithson, Mars-Venus, 1961-63. Pencil, gouache, photo collage, watercolor on paper 45.7 à 61 cm. © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery and Holt/Smithson Foundation opened the exhibition, Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus Early Works, from 13 January through 24 February 2024. Developed with Professor Adrian Rifkin, this exhibition focuses on Smithsons works on paper made in the early 1960s, presenting drawings and collages that set the ground for his studies of entropy and the fall of modernism. Many of these drawings have never previously been seen. Leather-clad bikers, crumbling cities, movie stills, occult books, and erotic entanglements buzz against references to the dogmas of art history, religion, and totalitarianism. Alongside Mundus Subterraneus, a presentation of rare exhibition posters and print material is on view at the gallerys 66 rue du Temple space. The selection is related to Smithsons exhibitions and projects spanning several decades from the late 1950s to the 1980s at venues ... More | |
Golnaz Payani, The Portrait 01, 2023. Wool and silk fabric, painted wooden frame, 23 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. 60 x 34 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade Projects Los Angeles announced the opening of On the Other Side of the Wall, with Franco-Iranian artist Golnaz Payani. This marks Payanis first exhibition in Los Angeles. On the Other Side of the Wall, opened at Praz-Delavallade Projects Los Angeles on Saturday 13 January and will run through 15 February 2024. Through a series of works which are the result of a meticulous weaving process, she skillfully reinvents a historical narrative embedded within her found antique frames. For Payani, arranging these portraits is akin to a ritual. It transforms the blank canvas of walls into relics, preserving elusive traces of our beloved figures encapsulating the very essence and memories held within their faces. Rooted in her childhood experiences during the Iran-Iraq war in Tehran, Payani explores themes of disappearance and trace, profoundly influenced by the persistent phenomenon of missing individual ... More | |
Conveying a richness, depth and vitality, this recent body of paintings reflect Robinsons confidence of approach and the intensity of his relationship with the medium of paint.
LONDON.- The start of 2024 is dedicated to the primacy of paint within abstract art. Three sequential exhibitions introduce work not seen before in this country and compare these alongside the work of a younger generation of UK based artist whose mark making has been informed by literature, classicism and poetry. Leading into the programme, Messums confirm representation of the estate of pre-eminent abstract painter, John Golding and a solo exhibition for his work in Mexico City in May 2024. Works will be on view in London February 2024 ahead of this to consider his impact of his time in Mexico in the context of his European legacy. Goldings personal journey as a painter progressed through figuration into a combination of lyrical, informal and hard-edged abstraction culminating in large-scale, emotively-charged canvases imbued with colour, energy, and a renewed sense of painterly freedom. Together with this, his global recognition as a ... More |
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| John Rivas's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles opens at François Ghebaly | | Intertwined, tangled memories, experiences and fantasies comprise work of Belgian sculptor Eric Croes | | 'Mike Henderson & William T. Wiley: Not Too Near, Not Too Far' now on view at MASSIMODECARLO |
John Rivas, El Rey de La Ciudad, 2023. Acrylic, oil pastel, markers, graphite, crayons, stucco medium on canvas, 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm.)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Francois Ghebaly is presenting John Rivass first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Que Haces Vos? Yo Pinto. The exhibition remains on view at the gallerys Downtown Los Angeles location through February 17. John Rivas creates images deeply woven with his cultural identity as a first generation Salvadoran American. Navigating the hybrid cultural context of his rootedness in El Salvador and his place within contemporary American painting, Rivass canvases use multiple painting languages, symbolically loaded materials, and a raw, genuine approach to figuration. Rivas makes visible the process of creation, layering materials as diverse as stucco, heirlooms, embroidery, gold leaf, beans, and glass. El Rey de La Ciudad (2023) is emblematicthe portrait of Rivass father, a construction worker, shows ... More | |
Eric Croes, Studio View.
PARIS.- Since January 11 and through to February 24, 2024, Belgian sculptor Eric Croes is presenting his latest creations in the Almine Rech Turenne gallery space at Almine Rech Paris. A deep-dive into the intimate world and peculiar work of a most inspired artist. Eric Croes never returns from his travels empty-handed. The artist has developed a habit of collecting and keeping everything he has spotted, seen and loved while on the road. Not in the digital depths of his cell phone, but in passport-sized notebooks that never leave his pockets. He covers the pages with all sorts of notes, sketches, reproductions. His notebooks serve as his memory, traces and evidence of all his discoveries and experiences. Once back in his Brussels studio, he recomposes it all with his hands: he returns to clay everything he has collected along the way. In that sense, Croes work is always composite, hybrid. When he crafts his powerful shapes, deep vas ... More | |
Mike Henderson, Chicken Fingers, 1980.
LONDON.- MASSIMODECARLO is beginning 2024 with Not Too Near, Not Too Far, an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering artists Mike Henderson and William T. Wiley. Following an initial encounter at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970 the two artists shared interwoven artistic trajectories across a fifty-year friendship. Though both were sceptical of strict ideologies, preferring to forge individual artistic paths, the exhibition charts their encounters and involvement with revolutionary artistic and political movements in San Francisco, including Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, the Funk Movement, Bay Area Figuration and the Civil Rights Movement. Embracing the experimental approach to art making they endorsed while teaching at the revered UC Davis art programme, Henderson and Wiley freely used different materials and approaches to suit their needs. Not Too Near, Not Too Far brings their shared experiences to life ... More |
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| The Drawing Room's first exhibition of 2024 centers on Hector Leonardi's recent work 'Orchestrating Color' | | Relationship between materials and structures studied in 'In the Space between Something and Nothing' | | '1924 – 2024' is part of a series of exhibitions organized to mark centenary of Roger–Edgar Gillet |
Nascent, 2023. Acrylic on canvas with collage elements 10 x 8 inches.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- The Drawing Room in East Hampton is recently began a solo exhibition of recent canvases by Hector Leonardi, a longtime resident of Bridgehampton. Concurrently, selected works by Mats Gustafson, Alice Hope, Kathryn Lynch, Racelle Strick and John Torreano will also be on view in the adjacent gallery. Hector Leonardis show centers on a new body of work generated through his unique approach to combining intuitive composition with layers of bountiful color. For each painting, the artist sets in motion tonal harmonies with the sophistication of a musical score that culminate in a singular aesthetic expression. In both large and small canvases, color resonates across the surface, the subtleties articulated by brushwork and texture he frequently ... More | |
Impossible Architecture, 2023 by Frederic Geurts.
OSTEND .- What can architecture do for visual art? Many aspects that play an obvious role in architecture can also count on the interest of a good many artists. Some examples. The relationship between materials and structures. The tension between literal and figurative: the building as a concrete construction and as an appearance. The relationship between, on the one hand, the everyday experience and functional use of a space and, on the other hand, buildings or rooms as metaphors of a past, as bearers of stories and histories, or as scars, testifying to destruction, loss, trauma. The city or the house as a mould into which life is poured. How transitions between inside and outside or between below and above are shaped. The creation of a place or a view. The shelter and security of a home, the necessity of a roof. And above all: the shaping, creation, release of space - that ... More | |
Roger-Edgar Gillet. La maison des fous, 1997. Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 194.9 cm - 45 x 76 3/4 inches.
BRUSSELS.- 1924 2024 is part of a series of exhibitions organized to mark the centenary of the birth of Edgar Gillet. The gallery Petzel New York will celebrate the occasion with a solo show at TEFAF New York in May 2024, while Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris will present a new personal exhibition at the Paris space later in June. These presentations precede the major retrospective devoted to Roger-Edgar Gillet at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, due to open in 2025. The present opus brings together a group of important paintings from the 1950s to the 1990s, with a particular focus on the large-scale scenes and landscapes of the 1980s. This selection reflects the diversity of Gillets work and career, from his Ãcole de Paris abstraction period to the figurative years and his references to Daumier, Ensor, and Piranese. Edgar Gillet: 1924 ... More |
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| Delhi-based artist Rohini Devasher's first U.S. solo exhibition opens today | | Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation presenting inaugural project 'We Gotta Get Back to the Crib' | | Joyce Randolph, last of the 'Honeymooners,' dies at 99 |
Rohini Devasher, Latent Fields, installation rendering, 2024.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris, in collaboration with Minnesota Street Project Foundation, has announced One Hundred Thousand Suns, Delhi-based artist Rohini Devashers first U.S. solo exhibition. Her captivating and research-driven body of work chronicles a decade as an eclipse chaser and astronomer. The focal point of the exhibition, the four-channel, 20-minute One Hundred Thousand Suns film will debut simultaneously in three continents: at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, India in collaboration with Project 88; at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, Netherlands; and at MSP Foundation in San Francisco, California. The San Francisco debut of One Hundred Thousand Suns will be accompanied by the immersive, site-specific installation Latent Fields. As a counterpoint to this cinematic presentation, Gallery Wendi Norris will concurrently host ... More | |
We Gotta Get Back to the Crib at the 6 Flat. Photo by Kevin Serna.
CHICAGO, IL.- Rebuild Foundation, the platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation founded by artist Theaster Gates, today announced the opening of the 6 Flat, a three-story formerly vacant building located in Chicagos Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood that has been transformed into a space dedicated to artist residencies for local, national, and international artists. Featuring both studio and living spaces, the building welcomeed its first residents this year. In addition to providing opportunities to artists, the redemption of the 6 Flat speaks to the foundations mission to demonstrate the cultural, historical, and social value of spaces and facilitate collaboration between local artists and thinkers and creatives from other communities. On January 12, the 6 Flat opened with We Gotta Get Back to the Crib, a creative project featuring a collection ... More | |
Joyce Randolph at Sardis restaurant in New York on Jan 19. 2007. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK, NY.- Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbors get-rich-quick schemes and other hazards of life on the classic 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners, died Saturday at her home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 99. Her son, Randy Charles, confirmed her death. She was the last survivor of a cast of four that dominated the Saturday-night viewing habits of millions in the golden age of live television, and for decades afterward on rerun broadcasts and home video. Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) died in 1987; Audrey Meadows (Ralphs wife, Alice) in 1996; and Art Carney (Ed Norton) in 2003. In an age when status symbols in a gritty Brooklyn tenement were telephones, ... More |
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Writing is doomed to fail. That's why Hisham Matar loves it.
NEW YORK, NY.- Talk to friends of writer Hisham Matar, and he has many, and soon theyll bring up one of his more notorious pastimes: Have you ever seen how he looks at art? Matar has a habit born from his early years living in London, a period of immense grief, of choosing a painting and spending hours with it each week. He would take lunch breaks at the National Gallery with Diego Velázquez, Duccio or the Lorenzetti brothers, sticking with the same piece of art for months until he felt it was time to move on. And even though most of his friends admit they cant match Matars sustained attention in a gallery one confessed his patience tops out at 15 minutes they agree this capacity for looking is essential to his character, central to everything from the way he walks through a city to the books that he writes. Looking at an artwork with him ... More
As development alters Greek Islands' nature and culture, locals push back
ATHENS.- With a deluge of foreign visitors fueling seemingly nonstop development on once pristine Greek islands, local residents and officials are beginning to fight back, moving to curb a wave of construction that has started to cause water shortages and is altering the islands unique cultural identity. Tourism is crucial in Greece, accounting for one-fifth of the countrys economic output, and communities on many islands depend on it. But critics say the development has spiraled out of control in some areas, particularly on islands like Mykonos and Paros, where large-scale hotel complexes have mushroomed in recent years. Teachers and other professionals in those and other Cycladic islands, a popular cluster in the Aegean Sea, have struggled to find affordable housing amid an influx of visitors and homebuyers, fueling growing protests by locals ... More
Besieged influencer Chiara Ferragni is the talk of Milan Fashion Week
MILAN.- What becomes of a famous influencer when followers suddenly drop her by the hundreds of thousands, sponsors start running for the exits and the reputation underpinning all that influence is suddenly derailed? That question was on a lot of minds during mens fashion week in Milan, where even excited chatter about a surprise front-row appearance by Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sánchez, at the Dolce & Gabbana show was quickly overtaken by whispered updates on the weird case of Chiara Ferragni. As many are aware, Ferragni is a digital entrepreneur with her own production agency, her own Prime Video series, 29 million Instagram followers and more problems at the moment than the best glow-up can conceal. By far Italys most glamorous and celebrated influencer, Ferragni, 36, pioneered the business of self-branding ... More
Review: A dance duo's committed high jinks interruptus
NEW YORK, NY.- A woman in a sparkly red dress makes a grand gesture. Then she notices that shes being watched and suddenly looks like a squirrel that has realized it isnt alone. She tries to make another grand gesture only to be stymied when the Bubble Wrap under her feet pops. Soon she is joined by a woman in a sparkly black dress who seems trapped in the same situation, reaching for elegance only to have that ideal pop, again and again. The second woman hunches over and hyperventilates. This is how we meet Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein in their experimental dance-theater work Deepe Darknesse. At Collapsable Hole, the scruffy West Village space where this absurdist exercise was performed this weekend as part of the New York Live Arts Live Artery festival, they are close to audience members, continually making eye contact with ... More
For this performance, it's rise and shine
NEW YORK, NY.- These people are not drunk, a choir in quirkily customized blue robes sang Saturday, because its nine in the morning. Watching these smiling performers in the light-flooded Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, I was surprised to discover that this startlingly contemporary sentence was a translation of a biblical verse, Acts 2:15. And it was an appropriate sentiment at, yes, about 9 a.m. In Terce, presented as part of this years Prototype festival of new opera and music theater, about three dozen choir members were praying, as Christians have done at that hour from the era of the early church. The work adapts and takes its name from the traditional liturgy for 9 oclock, the time when the Holy Spirit is believed to have appeared to the apostles on Pentecost. In Brooklyn, theres a twist, if not a wholly unfamiliar one: The divinity being ... More
Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté to feature nine new textile works at Lévy Gorvy
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy Dayan is thrilled to announce its first New York exhibition with Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté, opening January 16, 2024, at the gallerys landmark Beaux-Arts-style townhouse. Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue presents richly chromatic, monumental works that unite investigations of form and color with symbolic references drawn from a wealth of sources in West Africa and beyond. Introducing nine new works alongside the titular composition Lune bleue, the exhibition marks the artists first presentation in New York since 2019. Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue continues the artists longstanding exploration of the textile medium. Based in Bamako, Mali, Konaté works with locally produced cotton. He selects fabrics that are then cut, sown, and assembledeach strip acting as a single brushstrokeinto large- ... More
Second solo exhibition of the American artist Pae White on view in Madrid
MADRID.- GalerÃa Elvira González is now presenting the second solo exhibition of the American artist Pae White on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Pae White (Pasadena, California, 1963) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates large-scale installations in a variety of media: textiles, ceramic, glass, light Her practice combines art, design, craft and architecture. In this exhibition we delve into an unexpected use of space, where a 60 feet tapestry blends and integrates with the architecture of the gallery and combines with resplendent ceramic works. Pae White opens ways of dialogue between traditional crafts and technical production. Several works in paper clay become canvases for painting and embroidery, while her signature Open Frames suspended from the ceiling reveal transparent textiles that overlap to generate multiple hues and sometimes ... More
Lightning speed of contemporary life with the slowness of the eighteenth century in 'Slowness'
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is now showing a series of new paintings by Antonio SantÃn in his sixth one-person exhibition with the gallery. In Slowness, Milan Kundera contrasts the lightning speed of contemporary life with the slowness of the eighteenth century. Different novels lend themselves to being read at different speeds, as does the viewing time for works of art. The parallel between Kunderas Slowness and SantÃns Echo Chamber, Poligamia, and Supernova, among other paintings in the exhibition, are compelling in that collectively, in pattern and motifs, tell their own story, whether on ethnicity through shared culture, geography, or botanical reference. Slowness is impactful; a small thoughtful volume, a surprisingly slow read. SantÃns paintings are labor-intensive and can take up to nine months to produce. With actual rugs and imagery, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Andrew Wyeth died January 16, 2009. Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In this image: Andrew Wyeth, LejanÃa, 1952 (Faraway). Pincel seco sobre papel. 34,92 x 54,61. The Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection.
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