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My work shows reminiscences of a Surreal Expressionism. The collective energy in my work reflects a struggle, a strong fight against conformism, as well as a deep understanding of one´s self.
MONTERREY.- Located in (Barrio Antiguo) which is the heart of the artistic district of Monterrey, just a few blocks from major modern Museums, Armario 916 itself holds an exquisite taste in its own architecture and interior. Blending the old barrio with industrial architecture. The artwork hanging on their walls reflects Guzman's very personal view of his paintings made between 2017 up to 2022. guz man considered to be a Mexican international artist since he was selected by the Chinese 2019 Modern Art World Exhibition. Representing Mexicos talent as a Modern artist. Below is the first part of a conversation ArtDaily correspondent Liz Marie Gangemi had with the artist. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Variety Auction | Antiquities & Ethnographica on Jun 22, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale includes Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! Moche Pottery Portrait Mask of a Stylized Male. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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| How paintings lost in a small-town art heist were recovered 50 years later | | Ukraine bans some Russian music and books | | Burial finding complements information on ancient burial practices in El Conchalito |
Annatje Eltinge.
by Vimal Patel
NEW YORK, NY.- On a Wednesday evening in February 1972, as police officers and emergency responders in New Paltz, New York, flocked to a fire, somebody snatched a pair of 19th century portraits of a wealthy local couple from a historical society elsewhere in town. The theft also resulted in the loss of dozens of objects, some three centuries old, including a prayer book, a powder horn and antique guns and swords. At the time, the president of the society estimated the items to be worth about $30,000, a figure he said was dwarfed by the sentimental value they offered the historic community, which is about 85 miles north of New York City and was settled in the 17th century by the descendants of French Protestants. Many of the items were recovered at a New York City thrift shop several weeks later, but the paintings from the 1820s sullen portraits of a rosy-cheeked man with a puckered mouth and a woman holding a snuff box were not among them. This month more than 50 years after the ... More | |
The National Gallery in London has renamed Edgar Degas Russian Dancers as Ukrainian dancers, a salvo against the Russification of Ukrainian culture.
by Dan Bilefsky
NEW YORK, NY.- As brutal battles rage in Ukraine, a parallel culture war is underway. Ukraines parliament on Sunday voted to ban the distribution of Russian books and the playing or performance of Russian music by post-Soviet-era artists. The National Gallery in London has renamed Edgar Degas Russian Dancers as Ukrainian dancers, a salvo against the Russification of Ukrainian culture. And in Canada, performances by 20-year-old Russian pianist prodigy Alexander Malofeev, who has publicly condemned the invasion, were canceled in Vancouver and Montreal. To some, the moves to cancel Russia culture, both high and low, are a fitting show of solidarity with Ukraine. But others counter that Russian artists should not be blamed for an invasion beyond their control and that ostracizing them only stokes nationalist sentiment in Russia. It is profoundly ironic that those who react to the war in Ukraine by aggressively or indiscriminately ... More | |
This and three other burials could correspond to groups of Guaycura and/or Pericú affiliation. Photo: Centro INAH BCS.
Translated by Liz Marie Gangemi
ENSENADA DE LA PAZ, BCS.- Discoveries derived from a recent archaeological dig carried out within the protected area of the El Conchalito site, in Baja California Sur, are being added to the studies carried out by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) over the last 50 years, and corroborate that in this area the Guaycuras and Pericúes natives coexisted for three millennia, as evidenced by the material remains of their different funerary practices, fishing and hunting, tool manufacturing, grinding, shellfish harvesting and food consumption activities. The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the INAH, coordinated, between January and May, the registration and recovery of cultural vestiges during the supervision of the excavations for the construction of a residence in the Benito Juárez gated community, in La Paz, a project overseen by archaeologists Ãrsula Méndez MejÃa and ... More |
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| Saving historic songs, and a Jewish culture in Morocco | | Whiteley bequest one of Australia's greatest cultural gifts and largest in Art Gallery of NSW's history | | Bettina Pousttchi realizes a 35-meter-long and 4-meter-high sculptural work at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn |
A prayer songbook in Vanessa Paloma Elbazs office in Casablanca, Morocco, Feb. 22, 2022. Seif Kousmate/The New York Times.
by Aida Alami
TANGIER.- They sang to put their babies to sleep or in the kitchen preparing Purim cakes. They sang in courtyards at night when the men were at synagogue for evening prayer, songs of love, loss, religion and war. Today, most of those women, members of Moroccos dwindling Jewish population, are gone. But they have left behind a rich historical trove of northern Judeo-Moroccan Sephardic culture, passed on from one generation to the next through oral history, that scholars of Judaism are striving to preserve before it disappears. These fragments of history tell powerful stories from times long past, before the Moroccan-Jewish population that once exceeded 250,000 dwindled to the few hundred remaining, after several waves of emigration. The women were for centuries ... More | |
Brett Whiteley, 'The 15 great dog pisses of Paris' 1989. Charcoal, oil, collage, wax, plaster on canvas, 155 x 140 cm. Brett Whiteley Studio Collection © Wendy Whiteley.
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the joint recipient with the Brett Whiteley Foundation of the promised Wendy and Arkie Whiteley Bequest. Comprising nearly 2000 artworks by Brett Whiteley, one of Australias most celebrated artists, the promised bequest, currently valued at over $100 million, will be one of the largest single donations in the Art Gallerys 151-year history and among the most valuable collections of artworks donated to an Australian public art museum. The bequest pays tribute to Wendy and Bretts daughter Arkie, who died in 2001 aged just 37. With the passing of Arkie, Wendy became the sole custodian of the collection and her former husbands legacy. The bequests artworks are drawn from across the breadth of Brett Whiteleys celebrated career and reflect the depth ... More | |
Bettina Pousttchi, The Curve, 2022. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. Photo: Michael Richter.
BONN.- On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Bundeskunsthalle, Bettina Pousttchi is realising the 35-metre-long and four-metre-high sculptural work The Curve on the institution's flat roof. In doing so, she is responding to the architecture of the building by Gustav Peichl and his understanding of the roof as a fifth façade and a further exhibition space. Here, the new work can be visited and experienced free of charge parallel to the opening hours of the house. Placed in the northwest corner, the sculpture nestles dynamically into the surrounding space in the form of an accessible steep curve. Markings, similar to those on a roadway, lead visitors to the object and connect it associatively with the urban context of the street and the urban space. With The Curve, the artist also refers to the legendary test track for cars that the Fiat company built on the roof of its factory in the Lingotto dis ... More |
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| Queer: Exhibition reveals untold stories from the National Gallery of Victoria Collection | | Exhibition shines light on the collection of Egyptian jewelry assembled by Kingsmill Marrs and Laura Norcross Marrs | | Exhibition at the Carle Museum rediscovers American Modernist Nura Woodson Ulreich |
Installation view. Photo: Getty Images.
MELBOURNE.- Queer is a landmark, Australian-first exhibition that explores the NGV Collection through a queer lens and celebrate the rich, diverse and sometimes untold stories that emerge. Spanning five gallery spaces and featuring more than 300 artworks across historical eras and cultures, the exhibition is the most historically expansive thematic presentation of artworks relating to queer stories ever mounted in an Australian art institution. Bringing together a breadth of artworks from antiquity to the present day, the exhibition illuminates the ways in which queer lives and stories have been expressed in art through history. Drawing on contemporary research, interpretation and analysis, the exhibition also explores the narratives that might not have been visible in the past due to suppression, prejudice or discrimination. The exhibition has been curated across more than ten thematic sections that explore a variety ... More | |
Scarab, ancient Egyptian, New Kingdom, about 15391077 BCE, steatite, Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs Collection, Worcester Art Museum, 1926.45.
WORCESTER, MASS.- This summer the Worcester Art Museum presents its new exhibition, Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum, bringing to light the exceptional collection of Egyptian jewelry assembled by Kingsmill Marrs and Laura Norcross Marrs and given to WAM by Mrs. Marrs in 1926. Coinciding with the centennial celebration of Howard Carters momentous discovery of King Tutankhamuns tomb, the exhibition follows the story of the Marrses close and collaborative friendship with Carter. The couples aesthetic acumen combined with Carters expertise in archeology enabled them to assemble one of the most comprehensive collections of Egyptian jewelry in the United States. Nearly a century later, their beneficence is showcased in this expansive exhibition of jewels gifted ... More | |
Nura Woodson Ulreich, At Home, 19291932. Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection.
AMHERST, MASS.- After 70 years out of the limelight, an admired artist is being featured at The Carle in Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection. The exhibition re-establishes the long-forgotten, but highly-esteemed career of Nura and her alluring, highly-individualized interpretation of childhood. Her work slipped into oblivion after her untimely death at age 51, just as the non-representational energy of Abstract Expressionism began to overshadow figurative art. Nuras passing also cut short her career as an author and illustrator of childrens books, wherein she was just beginning to gain recognition. The exhibition opened April 16 and remains on view through November 6, 2022. Nura Woodson Ulreich (1899-1950) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. From childhood, she gravitated to art, dazzled friends with her figurative cut ... More |
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| National Juneteenth Museum takes shape in Fort Worth, Texas | | In the documentaries of the Blackwood brothers, great artists are explored | | Angela Cassie appointed Interim Director & CEO of the National Gallery of Canada |
In an image provided by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & Atchain shows, a rendering of the Juneteenth museum planned for the city of Fort Worth, Texas. BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & Atchain via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
FORT WORTH, TX.- In 2016, at 89, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to help get Juneteenth made a federal holiday, which it finally was in 2021. And for nearly 20 years, she has operated a modest Juneteenth Museum in a property on Rosedale Street, which also served as a filming location for the 2020 movie Miss Juneteenth. But Lee, now 95 and known as the grandmother of Juneteenth or, more affectionately, Ms. Opal wanted a more permanent institution that would commemorate the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. That vision is getting closer to reality as plans move forward for the National Juneteenth Museum, a $70 million project that aims to put a shovel in the ground before the end of the year and to open ... More | |
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 directed by Michael Blackwood.
by Nicolas Rapold
NEW YORK, NY.- The collected documentaries of Michael and Christian Blackwood offer an extended studio visit with some of the 20th centurys leading artists. Here are artists at work and in conversation, with a minimum of frills: painters painting, sculptors sculpting and jazz genius Thelonious Monk blazing away at the piano (and later telling a band member to drop in any note you want). If youve seen one too many art and music documentaries that resemble Wikipedia entries, then these back-to-basics films will be a genuine tonic, grounded in the nitty-gritty of art-making. Born in Berlin before World War II and later safely settled in the United States, the Blackwood brothers started making their films in the 1960s at the height of a revolution in nonfiction storytelling. Over the years, their mid-length films didnt garner the high profile of direct cinema pioneers like Robert Drew ... More | |
Angela joined the Gallery in January 2021 as Vice-President of Strategic Transformation and Inclusion and oversees the implementation of the NGCs strategic plan.
OTTAWA.- The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada announced the appointment of Angela Cassie, Chief Strategy and Inclusion Officer at NGC, as Interim Director & CEO. Angela will assume her new duties on July 10, 2022 and will continue to implement the Gallerys first-ever strategic planTransform Together. Angela earned the Boards confidence through the substantial role she played in developing the Gallerys strategic plan. We are delighted that Angela has accepted to step in as Interim Director & CEO. As one of the key architects of the new vision of the Gallery, she is the ideal candidate to build on her predecessors successes. Angela is a bold and inclusive leader who will continue to strengthen the Gallerys connections with communities across the country, said Françoise Lyon, Chair Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Canada. I am proud of the Gallery and our teams a ... More |
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Ben Hunter opens Mimicries, a group exhibition curated by Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker
LONDON.- Ben Hunter is presenting Mimicries, a group exhibition curated by Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker, featuring works by Hedi El Kholti, Victoria Gitman, Arthur Jafa, Clementine Keith-Roach, Louise Lawler, Lynne Marsh, Nicolas G. Miller, Christopher Page, Jeffrey Stuker, and Jeff Wall. The curators were initially drawn together by their shared fascination with the writings of the dissident-surrealist Roger Caillois, in particular those concerned with mimicry. In 2019, they entered into an intensive conversation on the subject that resulted, first, in a seminar held at The Public School in LAs Chinatown, and second, in their co-editing of the journal Effects Number 3: Mimicries. This exhibition responds to those precedents, both of which were conducted within a more or less academic context, from an aesthetic standpoint. ... More
Exhibition at Gandy gallery introduces JiřÃ Valoch through key segments of his work
BRATISLAVA.- Gandy gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition by JIRI VALOCH, the gallery has known Jiri for many years and it is a real joy to present this exhibition in the gallery's 30th anniversary year. In the Slovak as well as the Czech context, JiřÃ Valoch is mainly discussed concerning his curatorial and publishing activities. Abroad, he is perceived primarily as an author of visual poetry and conceptual works. The exhibition, which is part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gandy gallery, introduces JiřÃ Valoch through key segments of his work. It developed from the mid-1960s onwards not in isolation beyond the borders of totalitarian Czechoslovakia, but instead in the context of following international developments. JiřÃ Valoch maintained extensive postal contacts with artists from all over the world. His work thus ... More
Heritage's June Comics & Comic Art Auction soars past $24 million
DALLAS, TX.- If one needed further proof that funny books have become serious business, look no further than the results from Heritage Auctions July 16-19 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. The headline-making event realized $24,262,303, attracted nearly 4,900 bidders worldwide and was a near-complete sellout. This was among Heritages most successful Comics & Comic Art events in the auction houses 46-year history. The record was Aprils record-setting event that realized more than $27.67 million. The $2.4 million realized for Frank Miller and Lynn Varleys original cover for 1986s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book One garnered international headlines following its sale Thursday. The image is as simple as it is powerful a silhouette of The Dark Knight in front of a bolt of lightning, splitting a cobalt-blue ... More
H&H Classics to offer sleeping beauty 1958 Mercedes Benz 190 SL
LONDON.- With its current family ownership for over thirty years and off the road for 30, this sleeping beauty 1958 Mercedes Benz 190 SL is estimated to sell for £30,000 - £40,000 with H&H Classics next sale at Duxford on June 22. It awaits a Restoration Prince. One of just 2,722 190SLs made during the 1958 production year it was imported into the United Kingdom from Canada and retains some nice original features and is a very worthy candidate for restoration. Paul Cheetham of H&H says: The 190SL was introduced in 1955 the year Mercedes swept all before it on the Mille Miglia with the 300SLR. Indeed, the graceful, new two-door, convertible grand tourer was sold alongside the road-going version of the SLR the 300SL - whose styling it strongly resembled. In fact, the underpinnings of the two cars were ... More
Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition 2022 in London includes print by Jeffery Becton
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts annual Summer Exhibition, which has run continuously for more than 250 years, has chosen Maine digital montage photographer Jeffery Bectons print, The Pilot House (42 x 63, 2014), to be included in this years event. The juried show, which showcases an eclectic mix of both established and emerging artists in all media, opens on Tuesday, June 21st and runs through Sunday, August 21st. This years exhibition was coordinated by Alison Wilding, RA, who worked closely with a select committee of art academicians to review 15,000 submissions, and ultimately selected a total of 1,465 for the show. Wilding was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999, and is herself an artist and sculptor of international renown. Past summer show participants include David Hockney, ... More
'The Ordering of Moses' shines at Riverside Church
NEW YORK, NY.- The Harlem Chamber Players offered a rare, heartfelt performance of R. Nathaniel Detts 1937 oratorio The Ordering of Moses at Riverside Church on Friday, as part of a centennial celebration of the Harlem Renaissance that had been delayed by the pandemic. Timed to coincide with the Juneteenth weekend, the event felt like a broad community gathering, as if a sampling of city dwellers stepped off a subway train and headed to the same place. New Yorkers across ages and races, including a crying baby or two, filled the pews. Some dressed in natty suits, others in picnic shorts. The only thing stuffy about the evening was the weather outside. With the concert running behind schedule, Terrance McKnight, a host for WQXR and artistic adviser for the ensemble, was on hand as the master of ceremonies. Noting ... More
New Yorkers honor a Black village that once thrived in Central Park
NEW YORK, NY.- Before the Civil War, a predominantly Black community flourished in Seneca Village, on the land that is now Central Park. On Sunday, as part of a commemoration of Juneteenth, a federal holiday that recognizes the end of slavery in the United States, Black storytellers, dancers and musicians performed in the park to tell the story of life in that village. It is one of the earliest examples of what life after slavery looked like for some Black people in New York state. Its really important for everyone to know that this land wasnt just Central Park always. It was actually owned by our own people at one point, said Andrew Thomas Williams V, 30, a descendant of Andrew Williams, a shoe shiner who at 25 became one of the first Black people to buy land in what would become Seneca Village. Census records and maps ... More
"Unsettled" by Duende Art Projects, an exhibition mixing classical and contemporary African Art
ANTWERP.- Unsettled is an ode to restlessness. What are humans if not always striving to become a better version of themselves? Restless souls are invariably moving, stretching themselves and thereby others - in an active pursuit for impalpable aspirations. This continuous chase can go hand in hand with a passionate desire to express this unsettled state. Artists are ahead of the pack, more sensible to changing norms and societal issues. They feel whats to come and with their elevated perceptiveness and sensitivity they try to translate these dispositions into works of art. Artists challenge conventions with an open mind, beyond comfort zones, into a disruptive realm. This exhibition wants to put art in the limelight that balances at this cutting edge, in line with Duende Art Projects ambition to give visibility to the previously ... More
Domenico Romeo presents three new large-scale installations at Nadan Gallery
BERLIN.- Domenico Romeos sculptures are living structures that, in dialogue with the space, draw paths, trace trajectories, and invite the viewer to recognize himself in them and undertake one or multiple spatial experiences. The installation opens up a different set of possibilities through the uncertainty given by the presence of a crossroad (a dividing wall) and the consequent difference of experience according to the choice of path taken that may or may not lead to a giant "casket keeper" an impenetrable tower, three meters high, which perhaps holds the mystery of a revealing secret. The form of Romeos work is abstract in the extreme but contains a great deal of linguistic information - industrial development, urbanisation, norms and individuality. A high degree of equilibrium can also be seen in Romeo's work, ... More
New Designers announces further show content and initiatives ahead of opening
LONDON.- ND Educates returns to New Designers (29 June 2 July and 6 9 July 2022) with a whole host of talks and workshops. Curated by Hannah Payne, a New Designer alumna, ND Educates will take place throughout the show including two additional panel discussions hosted online ahead of the event (Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 June). Hannah Payne notes, Having previously exhibited my work at New Designers over 20 years ago, and now running my own business after career spanning the art and design sector, it is an honour to now curate the ND Educates programme in 2022. My ambition is to create an inspiring and stimulating space which enables graduates to openly connect with leading brands and industry experts learning about the ups and downs of their careers and gaining insight and practical ... More
Gavin Turk unveils long awaited sculpture Ariadne Wrapped in Station Square, Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is delighted to announce that highly acclaimed British artist Gavin Turk will present a long awaited, permanent sculpture in the centre of Station Square, Cambridge. Ariadne Wrapped (2014) is a life-size sculpture of a reclining figure in bronze and will be unveiled to the public today, Friday 17 June 2022. Situated in front of the classical façade of the station, the work recalls in the first instance Giorgio di Chiricos Ariadne, 1913 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The anonymous Sleeping Ariadne (Vatican Museums), itself an ancient Roman version of a lost Greek sculpture of the second century B.C.E., was celebrated in antiquity and the Renaissance. Its image was transported to Britain through copies purchased by young travellers on their grand tour. For Di Chirico, the figure of a sleeping Ariadne ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was born June 21, 1903. Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 - January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars In this image: 2000 Academy Award Nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress [Laura Linney in You Can Count on Me, Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream, Ed Harris in Pollock, Geoffrey Rush in Quills, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Joan Allen in The Contender, Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls, Juliette Binoche in Chocolat], 2001. Ink on board. Collection of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
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