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Julia Pope, exhibition carpenter at Meow Wolf, in Santa Fe, N.M., Dec. 3, 2020. Four new centers are planned, but the Sante Fe interactive space is currently closed. Ramsay de Give/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Even as the pandemic takes its toll on tourism, immersive museums and experiential art centers are expanding to new cities and wooing investors willing to gamble on the future of the emerging industry. Fotografiska wanted to introduce New Yorkers to a different type of museum when it opened in December 2019 in Manhattan, welcoming visitors to view photography exhibitions in a boozy clubhouse atmosphere complete with midnight DJ sets and a restaurant run by a Michelin-rated chef. The coronavirus pandemic has brought an end to the party but not to the Swedish companys dreams of dotting the world with its for-profit museums. The franchise has announced plans for a fourth location, in Berlin. Similar ambitions have fueled Meow Wolf, which over the last decade became a tourism juggernaut in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The immersive-art company welcomed a half-million visitors in 2019 into its psychedelic House of Eternal Return, with a giant marimba that resembles a mastodon ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition Artifices instables, Stories of ceramics at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco presents a journey through inventions and experiments highlighting the diversity of shapes and decorations of ceramics, as well as its production processes. These different stages of production - the selection and preparation of clay, the shaping, the finishing, the decoration, the cooking and the enamelling - reveal, also, the « recipes » and the almost alchemic preparations which vary from one creator/inventor to the other.
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| Hindman Auctions to present first dedicated photography sale | | Exhibition at De Buck Gallery offers an exclusive look at Turi Simeti's luminous recent works | | 'Picasso to Rothko: European and American Masters in Dialogue' opens at Sotheby's Palm Beach |
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958), Nacht 9 11, 1992-94 (detail). C-print, edition 3/6, 7 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On January 21, Hindman will present its first dedicated photography sale. The January Photography auction features a curated selection of rare and noteworthy photographs, including classic images by Ruth Bernhard, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston, and Brett Weston, as well as contemporary works by Alex Prager, Paolo Ventura, Thomas Ruff, Shirin Neshat, and Richard Misrach. Also presented in the sale, from a Private Collection in Winnetka, Illinois, are unique works by Olafur Eliasson and Adam Fuss. We are thrilled to host our first ever photography sale this January, said Hindmans Senior Specialist Monica Brown. The firm is looking forward to developing this category and we are eager to see how buyers respond to these thought-provoking works. Highlights of the sale include Alex Pragers Untitled (Parts 3), an archival pigment print from 201 ... More | |
Turi Simeti, 12 ovali gialli, 2018 (detail). Acrylic on shaped canvas, 39.37 x 39.37 inches, 100 x 100 cm. Signed and dated on the reverse, on the stretcher.
NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery is presenting Turi Simeti: 2008-2020, a private solo exhibition of the works of Italian artist Turi Simeti. The exhibition is available in De Buck's Online Viewing Room through February 27, 2021 as part of the gallery's new Private Exhibition Series. Inquire with the gallery to gain access to the show. Turi Simeti: 2008-2020 is an exclusive look at the Italian artists luminous recent works, presented in honor of the closure of Simetis Milan studio and the artists recent retirement. The works in this exhibition highlight Simetis rhythmic use of oval intrusions, with quiet masterpieces such as 9 ovali bianchi (2015) that stand in conversation with the pounding red ellipses of one of Simetis most vibrant recent works, 18 ovali rossi (2016). Simeti is a master of space, color, and surface. Each canvas pulsates with a monochromatic palette of red, ... More | |
Jean Dubuffet, Personnage (Buste). Signed with the artist's initials and dated 62; dated 13 mars 62 on the reverse, gouache on paper, 10¼ by 8 in. 26 by 20.3 cm. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Spanning decades and continents, this exhibition highlights the nuanced historical and stylistic dialogues between some of the most influential artists of the 20th Century: Pablo Picasso (1881-1975), Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Joan Miró (1893-1983), Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). A constellation of pivotal artistic and historic moments, this exhibition illuminates the influences that connect these icons of post-war art across the Atlantic. Miró, Dubuffet, and Picasso had a formative impact on many mid-century vanguard American painters. In his early work, Rothko was inspired by the primordial imagery and mystical landscapes of Miró, who in turn saw and admired the New York school following a visit ... More |
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| The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces online symposium | | albertz benda opens a two person show with works by Thomas Fougeirol and Tony Marsh | | Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a 12-month programme of exhibitions dedicated to the writings of Hannah Arendt |
Ryan Standfest, Black Marquee No. 1: Movie Houses. Charcoal, tape, wood, cardboard, 34 3/4 x 23 1/2 x 1 inches, 2020.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the scholarly arm of Norman Rockwell Museum, announced a slate of speakers and topics for its annual symposium, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration. For the second year in a row this event will happen virtually on Zoom over two days Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16. This timely symposium will explore historical and contemporary notions of freedom as well as the role of illustration as a force in shaping public perception. How has published imagery affected decision-making, public policy, and cultural understanding? Prominent authors, illustrators, and scholars will offer perspectives. The symposium is organized by The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, and co-presented with the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library. The Rockwell Centers scholarly symposium is the capstone event of the Museums international ... More | |
Tony Marsh [American, b. 1954], Spill and Catch, 2020. Multiple fired clay, glaze, 21 x 14 x 13 inches, 53.5 x 35.5 x 33 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting a two person show with works by Thomas Fougeirol and Tony Marsh, on view from January 7th to February 13th, 2021. Showing together for the first time, Thomas Fougeirol and Tony Marsh both embrace the flux inherent in their respective practices, arriving at unforeseen outcomes through a combination of protocol and alchemy. With this exhibition, albertz benda is thrilled to announce the representation of sculptor and ceramicist Tony Marsh. Sculpting in ceramic, Tony Marsh uses the vessel form as starting point for experiments with texture, color, and movement. The geomorphic surfaces of the work are the result of physical interactions between layers of slips, glazes, and fragments built up over months and fired as many as five times. There is no note taking in this process, making each work an irreplicable product of chance rooted in Marshs intensive, decades-long ... More | |
Peter Kennard, Pallet, 1990. Oil, dust, charcoal on wood, 90 x 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Richard Saltoun Gallery.
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery announced a 12-month programme of exhibitions dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). Since the gallerys inception in 2012, Richard Saltoun has sought to shed light on difficult questions concerning inequality and identity. Its unwavering dedication to Feminist and Conceptual artists particularly from the 1970s onwards has inevitably imbued its programme with a strong political focus, and the gallerys curatorial approach has been guided by a vision to serve a wider societal purpose. Following 100% Women, a year-long programme to support female artists and address gender imbalance in the art world, On Hannah Arendt: Eight Proposals for Exhibition looks to one of the most important thinkers of the post-war generation to confront some of the most pressing socio-political ... More |
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| Nara Roesler opens new location in New York's Chelsea neighborhood | | EXPO CHICAGO to reschedule April exposition, secures series of dates starting July 2021 | | Schönfeld Gallery opens a group show with 5 Israeli artists |
Milton Machado, Stack, 2009. Stacked steel chest of drawers. Unique, 340 x 40 x 228 cm. 133.9 x 15.7 x 89.8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler is presenting Cross-cuts, an exhibition curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas unfolding in five different installations to inaugurate the gallerys new location in New Yorks Chelsea neighborhood, on view from January 12 through February 13, 2021. The show was envisioned as a means to focus on the richness and variety of the Roesler portfolio by highlighting nine significant artists: Antonio Dias, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Berna Reale, Cristina Canale, Karin Lambrecht, Maria Klabin, Milton Machado, Artur Lescher, and Tomie Ohtake. 'Cross-cuts proposes chapters focusing on a specific body of work by an individual artist or a conversation between two or three artists. We believe in an open-minded observation of art capable of discovering, through meaningful juxtapositions, in a comparative and analogical way, new meanings that could amplify their aesthetic and political resonance,' states ... More | |
EXPO CHICAGO 2019 Vernissage. Image by Cory Dewald. Courtesy of EXPO CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, IL.- EXPO CHICAGO today announced that it is rescheduling its 2021 in-person exposition and has secured a series of dates at Navy Pier from July 2021 onincluding its historic dates September 23 26in order to ensure the safety of participating exhibitors and patrons of the ninth edition. EXPO CHICAGO will organize a virtual exposition during its previously scheduled in-person dates of April 8 11, 2021. Details on the virtual expositions programmatic themes and participants will be announced in the coming weeks. We are grateful for our strong partnership with Navy Pier, our local institutions, and our deeply committed exhibitors in collaborating with us on finding the right time to mount the fair," said Tony Karman, President | Director. With the advice and council of our Selection Committee, civic leaders, and dealers worldwide, we have decided to produce a digital experience this coming Ap ... More | |
Daniel Oksenberg (°1992) is a young artist with a unique, picturesque style, moving between figurative work, decoration and abstraction.
BRUSSELS.- Schönfeld Gallery Brussels presents the group exhibition Reconstructed deconstruction. For this exhibition, the Israeli-Belgian art collector and founder of the gallery, Elie Schönfeld, selected five artists who all live and work in Tel Aviv. Born in Antwerp and living in Tel Aviv, Elie Schönfeld has been collecting contemporary art for over 20 years. In 2015 he opened the Artelli gallery in Antwerp, a mix of a cabinet of curiosities from his personal collection and exhibitions dedicated to the artists he represents. In 2018 the gallery moved to Brussels (in the Rivoli building) and was given the name of its founder: Schönfeld Gallery. Schönfeld feels that the time is now ripe to dedicate an exhibition to contemporary art talent from Israel. Artists all over the world are struggling. Exhibitions are cancelled, projects are postponed and travelling is almost impossible. Even more than elsewhere, Israeli artists today are is ... More |
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| Rattle to quit London Symphony for Munich from 2023 | | C24 Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Cheryl Molnar | | Compton Verney reveals positive 2020 figures, despite disruptions caused by Covid-19 |
This file photo taken on September 14, 2017 shows the London Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Simon Rattle arriving to conduct the LSO playing at The Barbican in London. Tolga AKMEN / AFP.
MUNICH (AFP).- Simon Rattle will leave the London Symphony Orchestra to become chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich from 2023, in what has been described as a blow to Britain's classical music world. Rattle, one of the world's most renowned conductors and a vocal opponent of Brexit, has signed a five-year contract with the German orchestra. "The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is very pleased that Sir Simon will come to Munich as our new chief conductor," said Ulrich Wilhelm, general director of the public broadcaster, Bavarian Radio. "With his passion, his artistic versatility and his engaging charisma, he will be a most worthy successor to Mariss Jansons," he added. Jansons died of a cardiac arrest aged 76 in December 2019. Rattle, who turns 66 next week, is a prominent figure in Germany, where ... More | |
Cheryl Molnar, Desert Spring, 2020, archival digital print & gouache, painted paper on wood panel, 72 x 48 in. (183 x 122 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced the opening of their exhibition, Sites Unseen, new works by Cheryl Molnar, on view at the Gallery from Saturday, January 9th through Friday, March 12th. Cheryl Molnars multilayered collage-paintings invite us into a universe of imagined worlds on draft in the intoxicating brew of memory and observation informing her practice. A native Long Island, New Yorker, Molnar came of age in the wake of the prototype for American suburbia known as Levittown. This Orwellian invention, featuring row upon row of identical houses, laid out in reproducible grid patterns, is but one primary element explored in the vista vortex of many of her landscapes. In her creations, Molnar also includes features remembered from a childhood visiting family on the west coast, transforming her work into an idiosyncratic record of American 20th century ... More | |
Visitor figures for 2020 stay the same as 2019 despite 20 weeks of closures.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Warwickshires Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park was a beacon of light amongst the gloom of 2020, according to visitor figures. Despite Covid-19, two major lockdowns and the introduction of tier regulations, the cultural attraction was able to welcome almost exactly the same number of visitors in 2020 as it had seen the previous year. The reasons for this success are, says Compton Verney Director-CEO Julie Finch, a combination of a tenacious spirit amongst her team of staff and volunteers and being able to adapt their offer to respond to the pandemic. In early 2020, with major exhibitions - including the critically-acclaimed Cranach: Artist & Innovator and Fabric: Touch & Identity - encouraging art lovers to the award-winning gallery - along with the prospect of exploring its 120-acre Lancelot Capability Brown landscaped park, Compton Verney had looked set for another successful year. ... More |
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Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. to offer Janine Metz estate over two days
MOUNT KISCO, NY.- Provenance, connection with royalty and a wide range of antiques sourced from around the world are the hallmarks of a specialty two-day auction that The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc., will host January 20-21, starting at 10 am each day. The auction features the estate of the late Janine (nee Spaner) Metz, who was Social Secretary to the Duchess of Windsor from 1962 to 1972 and lived with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in their Manhattan penthouse. This is the first multi-day single-estate auction to be hosted here and necessitated because of the size of her estate. Born to a French couturier, she lived and worked for a time in the 1950s before returning to Paris, where on a lark she answered a newspaper ad placed by a diplomatic couple seeking a secretary. That ad changed her life and even after marrying in 1964, she continued ... More
Guild Hall announces new Chief Creative Officer Amy Kirwin
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Guild Hall announced the appointment of Amy Kirwin as the institutions inaugural Chief Creative Officer. This key leadership role was created to support Guild Halls 90th Anniversary in 2021, and to oversee brand marketing, communications, and multi-platform promotional content. Kirwin, who is presently Artistic Director at Southampton Arts Center, will assume her new role on February 1, 2021. I had the good fortune to work with Amy Kirwin on public engagement at the Parrish Art Museum, and as founding members of Hamptons Arts Network. Amys creativity and stamina are par excellence, and her blended background in theater and visual arts lends itself perfectly to Guild Halls interdisciplinary framework. She will be a vital member of our 90th celebration, foregrounding joy and community participationhallmarks ... More
JoAnne Artman Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Swan Scalabre and Jenna Krypell
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- JoAnne Artman Gallery is presenting, Women on the Verge, an exhibition introducing Swan Scalabre and Jenna Krypell. Addressing the thematic concept of being pushed to the brink, Women on the Verge explores both the conceptual and physical suggestions of the title. Highlighting their ability to create works that uniquely define the world around them, Scalabre and Kyrpell interpret the verge as a point of departure for their respective practices, allowing for the confrontation of any and all limitations in their complementary forms of expression. For French artist Swan Scalabre, the verge is defined through the charged vulnerability of her subjects and the psychology behind the series. Poetic and nostalgic, the work communicates a constant desire to escape reality and temporality, while illustrating the common plights of women ... More
Ved Mehta, celebrated writer for The New Yorker, dies at 86
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate lens of his own autobiography, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease, his wife, Linn Cary Mehta, said. Associated with the magazine for more than three decades much of his magnum opus began as articles in its pages Mehta was widely considered the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India. Besides his multivolume memoir, published in book form between 1972 and 2004, his more than two dozen books included volumes of reportage on India, among them Walking the Indian Streets (1960), Portrait ... More
Brandywine Conservancy & OAF acquire 577-acre property for use as a public nature preserve
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, in partnership with the Oxford Area Foundation (OAF), has acquired 577 acres of the Glenroy Farm situated along the Octoraro Creek in Chester County, PA. This land will be owned and managed by the Oxford Area Foundation for use as a publicly accessible nature preserve. This is an outstanding achievement for the Brandywine Conservancy, working in partnership with the Oxford Area Foundation, and state and local government, said Ellen Ferretti, director of the Brandywine Conservancy. The acreage and diversity of resources made this property a high priority of permanent protection in southeastern Pennsylvania. The transition of the Glenroy Farm property from the Thouron family to a public preserve will create a unique, contiguous area of public open space that ... More
Pat Loud, reality show matriarch of 'An American Family,' dies at 94
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, before the Kardashians, before the idea of living large and unscripted on camera became a TV staple, there was a startling program on public television called An American Family with a startling female character named Pat Loud. Loud was a California mother of five. She drank; she plotted her divorce; she adored, and accepted, her openly gay son. She did it all in Santa Barbara, California, and all on camera in 1973. Loving, boisterous, witty, resilient and sometimes angry and hurt, she did not act like most women on television at the time. But she was, ostensibly, not acting at all. She was the first reality television star on the first reality show and she paid a price for breaking new ground. Critics called her materialistic and self-absorbed. An affluent ... More
Delaware Museum of Natural History and Winterthur create new partnership
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Visitors to Winterthur will likely run into some special guests this year: members and other visitors from the Delaware Museum of Natural History. Winterthur will host many of DMNHs perennially popular events and programs while the museum is closed for renovation until early 2022, when it will reopen as the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. DMNH members will enjoy discounted or free admission to Winterthur in 2021, including discounts in its store and cafe, and Winterthur members will enjoy free or discounted admission to many DMNH events, with some exclusions. DMNH events at Winterthur include Murder Mystery Night, Saturday, February 13; School Day Off Camp, Monday, February 15; All-Scout Evening (with optional overnight), Friday, March 19; Breakfast with the Birds, featuring Animal ... More
"What Was That?" New paintings by Eva Goetz at Moss Galleries
FALMOUTH, ME.- When the world stopped due to the pandemic in the spring of 2020, Portland-based painter Eva Goetz put paint to canvas and began documenting our collective COVID-19 experience. "What Was That?" New Paintings by Eva Goetz features 19 works that visually report, reflect, and transcend the hurt and confusion that played out within us all during 2020. The exhibition is on view at Moss Galleries from January 8 through February 6, 2021. Ten percent of sales will benefit Spurwink, a Maine nonprofit that provides behavioral health and education services to adults and children. None of us could have predicted how the world would change during the pandemic, but artist Eva Goetz found inspiration from this historic moment in time. From reports of daily infection rates to the Black Lives Matter movement and the presidential ... More
Forced online, an opera festival searches for intimacy
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The annual Prototype festival of new opera and music theater thrives on intimacy. Its chamber-scale offerings often politically charged, emotionally brutal and just plain loud vibrate the viscera. Prototype has become known for screaming, moaning works like Angels Bone and Prism, which both went on to win Pulitzer Prizes and were clench-your-jaw immersions in suffering, put on in tiny theaters that magnified their effect. Watching a performance alone in bed on a laptop should, in theory, feel even more intimate. And yet, as I have discovered time and again over the past year, the screen tends to add immeasurable distance: the distance of my distractibility, of subpar picture quality, of the experience seeming like a pale reproduction of the thing rather than the thing itself. In other words, very ... More
The New School receives $5.5 million from Mellon Foundation
NEW YORK, NY.- The New School has received two grants totaling $5.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance demographic and intellectual diversity and politically engaged art, scholarship and public engagement at the university. Together, these grants represent the largest Mellon Foundation gift to The New School and will significantly impact initiatives that will further its long-held values of equity, social justice and the political agency of art. Dwight A. McBride, President of The New School, expressed gratitude for the Mellon Foundations support and recognition: The Mellon Foundation has an unparalleled role in funding pioneering programs in the arts and humanities. These awards are a wonderful affirmation of the role of equitable and open scholarship and of The New Schools distinctive heritage of progressive education ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera was born January 12, 1591. Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. In this image: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint James the Lesser, ca. 1632.
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