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Nam June Paik, Sistine Chapel, 1993/2019 (installation view, SFMOMA); courtesy the Estate of Nam June Paik; © Estate of Nam June Paik; photo: Andria Lo.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nam June Paik has continued to electrify the art world ever since his 1963 debut of television experiments in Exposition of Music Electronic Television, his first solo exhibition. Paik challenged visitors to participate by activating modified TV sets and playing radically transformed instrumentsblurring the distinction between performer and audience. Playful and interactive, Paiks immersive environment expanded the boundaries of art, music and technology, and laid the groundwork for his career as the founder of video art. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presenting the exclusive U.S. exhibition of Nam June Paik, a major retrospective of Paiks radical and experimental art, on view from May 8 through October 3, 2021. One of the first truly global artists, Paik (19322006) foresaw the importance of mass media and new technologies, coining the phrase 'electronic superhighway' in 1974 to predict the futu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view of "Stop Painting" Fondazione Prada, Venezia. Photo: Marco Cappelletti Courtesy: Fondazione Prada.
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| Richard Nonas, who explored art and the space it inhabits, dies at 85 | | Photo essays, photo reports, and portraits by Herbert List on view at Galerie Karsten Greve | | Rediscovered Dosso Dossi painting acquired by National Gallery of Art |
Richard Nonas in his studio in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in 2012. Jan Meissner via The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Richard Nonas, a post-minimalist sculptor influenced by his fieldwork in anthropology to conceive works from found materials that explored how art and the space it occupies affect each other, died May 11 at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was arteriosclerosis, said his partner, Jan Meissner, a photographer. He harnessed space; he lassoed it, said Alanna Heiss, founder of the cutting-edge P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS 1) in Long Island City, Queens. To make art, he used space as one of his materials. He grasped space in a way most of his colleagues did not. A part of the early-1970s art scene in the New York City neighborhoods SoHo and Tribeca, Nonas developed a terse, undecorated style, using steel, wood and stone to create sculptures that both resonated with and interrupted their surroundings. ... More | |
Herbert List, Girls Playing in a Passageway, Naples, Italy, 1959. Vintage gelatin silver print, 28.9 x 21.6 cm / 11 1/3 x 8 1/2 in. © Herbert List Estate, Hamburg, Germany. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln Paris St. Moritz.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting an exhibition dedicated to one of the major photographers of the 20th century: Herbert List Italia. This is a debut for Herbert List at Karsten Greve's Cologne gallery space. Photo essays, photo reports, and portraits from the artist's estate are on show, including around 80 vintage gelatin silver prints, based on photographs taken during Herbert List's stays in Italy between 1934 and 1961. As much a bon vivant and educational traveler as an artist, professional photographer, and a collector of 16th to 18th-century Italian Old Master drawings, Herbert List felt closely connected to Italy. Born in Hamburg in 1903, the son of Felix List of coffee importers List & Heineken, Herbert List started an apprenticeship with a Heidelberg coffee wholesaler in 1921 while studying art history and literature at Heidelberg University, attending lectures, for instance, ... More | |
Dosso Dossi, The Trojans Building the Temple to Venus at Eryx and Making Offerings at Anchises's Grave, c. 1520 (detail). Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 85.6 cm (23 3/8 x 33 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Purchased as the Gift of Anonymous.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dosso Dossis newly rediscovered painting The Trojans Building the Temple to Venus at Eryx and Making Offerings at Anchisess Grave (c. 1520) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Art. This painting completes the story depicted in the right half of Dossis Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast (c. 1520) acquired in 1939 as part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection. These paintings resemble each other stylistically and feature shared motifs that show the continuation of the myth from one painting to the other. Both works feature Dossis highly imaginative style, with freely brushed figures in a myriad of colors set in lush green landscapes dotted with pseudoclassic buildings. This painting was originally part of the decoration of Duke Alfonso dEstes camerino, or study, in his castle at Ferrara, which featured one of the most important mythological cycles of the Italian Renaissance. The decoration of th ... More |
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| Afghan war displaced settle in the ruins of a lost city | | Inside the long-lost brickyards that built NYC | | Brazilian architect da Rocha, who won the Pritzker, dies aged 92 |
In this photo taken on March 29, 2021, Philippe Marquis, director of the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA), speaks during an interview with AFP in Kabul. WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP.
by Elise Blanchard and Rashid Durrani
LASHKAR GAH (AFP).- Once the winter residence of sultans from illustrious Islamic dynasties, the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city in southern Afghanistan have become home to hundreds of people who have fled Taliban clashes. The astonishing ochre clay complex juts from the cliffs along the Helmand River, threatened by decay and encroaching urban sprawl as well as the makeshift constructions that have grown within it. Thousands of people have been displaced across Helmand since October following a surge in Taliban attacks, and while many have resettled in the capital Lashkar Gah -- one of the few areas in the province still under government control -- some have joined other refugees in the ruins. Qala- ... More | |
Workers using the Richard A. Ver Valen automatic brick-making machine near Haverstraw, N.Y., circa 1900. Via Haverstraw Brick Museum via The New York Times.
by Devorah Lev-Tov
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hudson Valley bricks are an inescapable presence in New York City, George V. Hutton, a retired architect, wrote in his book about the once-booming industry. Hutton, despite his clear bias he was from a prominent brickmaking family in Kingston, New York was not wrong. Its fairly safe to assume that any brick building constructed between 1800 and 1950 includes some form of sediment from the banks of the Hudson River. The Empire State Building, the Museum of Natural History, the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge, Delmonicos and countless residential buildings including the Parkchester development in the Bronx and Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan were all built from ... More | |
Museu dos Coches, Lisbon (2015). Photo: D s p m / wikipedia.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was widely considered Brazil's greatest living architect and who won some of architecture's most prestigious awards, died Sunday in Sao Paulo, his family announced. He was 92. No cause of death was given. Da Rocha was "one of the biggest names in Brazilian and worldwide architecture," though most of his work was done in Sao Paulo, said the ArchDaily website. Brazil's Council of Architecture and Urbanism said he would be remembered as an "audacious iconoclast." A leader of Brazil's brutalist and modernist Paulista school, which emphasized geometric lines, bulky masses and rough finishes, da Rocha won the 2006 Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's closest equivalent to the Nobel Prize. He was only the second Brazilian to win the Pritzker, after legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer, the man behind the futuristic design of Brasilia. Niemeyer won in 1988. ... More |
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| 'Charlie Bit My Finger' video fetches $760,000 at NFT auction | | "Stop Painting" is now open at Fondazione Prada Venice | | A 1960 Corvette that vanished for 40 years after Le Mans is auctioned off |
The home video "Charlie Bit My Finger" sold for almost $761,000 on Sunday, the 14th anniversary of its debut.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- Another classic piece of internet culture has been auctioned off for a six-figure sum, the latest viral sensation from the 2000s to be eagerly snapped up by digital collectors of "non fungible tokens" or NFTs. The home video "Charlie Bit My Finger" sold for almost $761,000 on Sunday, the 14th anniversary of its debut. In the 55-second YouTube clip from 2007, a British toddler named Harry holds his baby brother Charlie. But the adorable domestic scene takes a sudden turn when Harry puts his pointer finger into his brother's mouth, and to his surprise, Charlie clamps down, spawning the much-memed lines: "ouch, Charlie" and "Charlie, that really hurt". With more than 883 million views, it's one of YouTube's most popular videos, though it will soon be removed from the platform. The Davies-Carr family ... More | |
Peter Fischli. Photo: Tom Haller.
VENICE.- Stop Painting is an exhibition conceived by artist Peter Fischli on view at the historic palazzo of Ca Corner della Regina, Fondazione Pradas Venetian venue, from 22 May to 21 November 2021. Described by Peter Fischli as a kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures, the project explores a series of specific ruptures within the history of painting in the last 150 years, intertwined with the emergence of new social factors and cultural values. The exhibition also projects itself into the dimensions of the present and the future. It intends to understand if a further development is taking place today and if the current digital revolution can also cause a new crisis of painting or, on the contrary, contribute to its renewal. Was the recurring ghost telling the story of the end of painting a phantom problem? And if yes, can phantoms be real?. These were Fischlis doubts ... More | |
The 1960 Le Mans Corvette that had vanished for 40 Years, until a chance rediscovery in 2011. RM Sotheby's via The New York Times.
by Jerry Garrett
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The strange, serendipitous, 60-year saga of a historically significant but long-missing 1960 Chevrolet Corvette finally reached a measure of closure Saturday with its sale for a somewhat disappointing $685,000 hammer price at a court-ordered auction in Amelia Island, Florida. A sales commission of about 10% made the final drive-off price $785,500. The auctioneers, RM Sothebys, had a pre-auction estimate of $900,000 to $1.3 million for the no-reserve sale. The identity of the winning bidder, as is customary, was not officially announced. Corvette racing aficionados hold this car in special regard since it had vanished for nearly 40 years after its star-crossed ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of Santa Fe-based artist James Marshall opens at Gerald Peters Contemporary | | Architectural design studio S-AR creates 3 pavilions for MOMENTUM 11 | | Magnum Gallery announces expansion |
James Marshall, Untitled #604.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting Emergent, a solo exhibition of Santa Fe-based artist James Marshall. Featuring nearly a dozen new ceramic sculptures, Emergent continues the artists interest and exploration of the plurality of form. Fueled by minimalist aesthetics and the potential for an ordinary object to shift dimensions and space, Marshalls compelling forms display a multiplicity of shapes. Emergent evolved out of a collection of stones shelved in the artists studio. Initially drawn to the aesthetics of the smooth, simple forms, Marshall was further compelled by the fine rock strata. The long parallel lines mark the movement of elements shifting, moving and settling. These transitional markers echo Marshalls decades-long interest in liminality. In the artists words, There is a deep beauty that resides inside of the indeterminate, the saturated chroma, the light that ... More | |
Stairs pavilion.
MOSS.- The MOMENTUM biennale announced the list of practitioners taking part in the exhibition of its eleventh edition, which is titled House of Commons. The title refers to 'commons,' 'commonality,' and 'commoning,' notions and processes that were elaborated and discussed by thinkers such as Elinor Ostrom. House of Commons is curated by Théo-Mario Coppola and is set to take place from 12 June to 10 October 2021. The practitioners and practitioner collectives will present projects at various venues and sites on the island of Jeløya, in the city of Moss and in the Oslo Fjord, Norway. Emancipation, resilience, reparation, and the formation and transmission of alternative narratives all inform the practitioners work. Their projects a significant part of which will be newly-conceived or site-specific will explore the intricate relations between aesthetic and social issues. They will also reverberate ... More | |
Magnum Gallery, Paris. Copyrights Design Johnson Naylor / CGI - Anotherartist.
LONDON.- Magnum Photos announced a new chapter in its history with plans to expand its gallery activities. Today, CEO Caitlin Hughes announced Magnums new location in Paris which will feature a ground floor gallery, its expansion through an onlinecurated-programme of exhibitions and new fine prints selections on its website,the reopening of its London gallery for the newly-launched London Gallery Weekend with a Herbert List exhibition, future new visual identity components and e-activations. Magnums new Paris gallery and working office space will open in autumn 2021 at 68 Rue Léon Frot, 75011, following a significant renovation by London-based Interior Architecture practiceJohnson Naylor. The new location will feature exhibition spaces, a private viewing room and library on the ground floor. Modular architecture will allow for innovative and accessible presentations ... More |
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Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles to premiere David Hammons performance film of restaged 'Global Fax Festival'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Starting 25 May, Hauser & Wirths digital art magazine Ursula will present Global Fax Festival a new performance film by David Hammons dedicated to composer/conductor Lawrence D. Butch Morris and created in collaboration with Los Angeles venerated Monday Evening Concerts and virtuoso pianist Myra Melford. The film documents Hammons first-ever restaging of his noted 2000 project Global Fax Festival here conducted in the gallerys outdoor courtyard in early May 2021. After more than a year of isolation during the pandemic, Hammons conceived this event as a gesture toward the reawakening of Los Angeles, set within the space that two years ago hosted the largest survey of his work ever organized. On view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles from 18 May through 11 August 2019, the exhibition David Hammons ... More
Phillips announces additional highlights from dual-location sales in collaboration with Poly Auction
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced the full offering of its Hong Kong-Beijing dual-location 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Sales in collaboration with Poly Auction, following the earlier announcement of leading highlights including Yoshitomo Naras Missing in Action executed in the artists watershed year of 2000, Gerhard Richters Abstraktes Bild (940-7) offered for the first time at auction, and Banksys Laugh Now Panel A to be sold with the option for the buyer to pay with cryptocurrency. The Evening Sale on 8 June presents a stellar line-up of works by the most prominent international names, including George Condo, Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Zhang Xiaogang and Matthew Wong. The Day Sale on 7 June offers an exceptional selection of art, design, editions and sculptural pieces of unparalleled diversity. In addition, a group of emerging female ... More
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum welcomes new leadership
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum announced the arrival of eight new members to its Board of Trustees and two new members to its Leadership Team. We are very excited to have new members on our Board of Trustees and Leadership Team, says Cody Hartley, Director of The Georgia OKeeffe Museum. As we look towards the future, they bring invaluable expertise and knowledge to the organization. I look forward to working with this dynamic group. Ric E. Abel joins the Board of Trustees after a career as Managing Director and Dedicated Principal at Prudential Capital Energy Partners. Abel is currently a member of the Energy, Development, and Global Environment Advisory Board of Duke Universitys Fuqua School. Abel was a professional ballet dancer for 15 years with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, Irish Ballet, Eglevsky ... More
Vito Schnabel Gallery opens an exhibition of flower paintings by Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel
NEW YORK, NY.- Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings, featuring recent works by the Spanish and American artists who last exhibited together in Madrid in 2011. This is Galindos first presentation of works in the U.S. in over five years, and his second collaboration with Vito Schnabel Gallery; Galindos work was included in Incubator, Vito Schnabels first exhibition as a gallerist in 2003. Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel: Flower Paintings is on view through July 9 at the gallerys 455 West 19th Street location. Jorge Galindo and Julian Schnabel first met in Madrid. Their lifelong friendship developed while Schnabel was teaching a workshop at the CÃrculo de Bellas Artes in 1991. Over the last three decades, through their related visual languages of emotive and gestural painted surfaces, and through ... More
Tilton Gallery opens a solo exhibition of photographs by Texas Isaiah
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of photographs by Texas Isaiah. Texas Isaiah is a visual narrator whose photographs, primarily of Black people, especially those of queer, trans, non-binary and gender expansive experiences, create arresting and poignant portraits that are significant both for the subject matter and for their remarkable visual beauty, rich color and soft natural light. Working in black and white and, more often since his move to Los Angeles a few years ago, in color photography, Texas Isaiah captures the essential humanness of his sitters. Texas Isaiah has stated that he "acts as a conduit, as a vessel for [Black trans and gender-expansive people] to tell their own stories." In doing so, he feels it is important to create "joyous images...images that are sensual or calm or that express moments of freedom ... More
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris reopens with "An uncertain spring"
PARIS.- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has invited creators, artists, designers, artisans, and graphic designers who during these long, suspended months, never stopped creating, writing, drawing, or collecting. Mixing disciplines and generations, An uncertain spring reveals these intimate moments. It was a chance to pick up a pen in hand, reactivate dormant projects, create useful objects for the public, or everyday items for the home. It was a time for questioning creation, shifting viewpoints, and exploring. The pieces on display are laden with personal history. They bear witness to a singular moment, warily passed, that allowed some creators to take a step onto forgotten or unknown paths. The exhibition is a dialogue between works that reflect the life of the museum during the spring of 2020 and the museums mission and role in society. From drawings ... More
National Gallery of Art announces gifts from the Tony Podesta Collection
WASHINGTON, DC.- Over the past two decades, gifts from the collection of Tony Podesta have made significant contributions to the contemporary holdings of the National Gallery of Art. Podesta has recently donated several outstanding works in a variety of media by artists from eight different countries. Israeli artist Oren Eliav (b. 1975) is inspired by old master paintings, exploring their techniques and perspective while highlighting themes with contemporary relevance, such as sexual violence, political corruption, false testimony, and refugee experience. Rest on the Flight into Egypt (2015) incorporates controlled effects like layering, transparency, and blotting to create a suggestive, surreal landscape with a mysterious figural narrative. This is the first work by Eliav to enter the National Gallerys collection. The Kenyan German artist ... More
Review: Bill Robinson's rags-to-riches tap tale
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Every year, National Tap Dance Day is celebrated on or around May 25 the birthday of Bill Robinson, the most prominent Black tap dancer of the first half of the 20th century. Seldom, though, do Tap Day events honor Robinson himself. Since 2018, three of the contemporary scenes most prominent tap dancers Derick K. Grant, Jason Samuels Smith and Dormeshia have been celebrating Tap Day in Harlem with a festival they call Tap Family Reunion, a few days of classes and a show they collectively choreograph and direct. This year, its all virtual, and the show, presented for the first time by the Joyce Theater, is streaming on demand on the theaters website through June 3. This one is about Robinson. Its called The Mayor of Harlem, after the honorary title that Robinson earned as an informal ... More
National Gallery of Art announces appointment of new Chief Curatorial and Conservation Officer
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today that E. Carmen Ramos will join its senior leadership team as chief curatorial and conservation officer. The first female and the first person of color in this role, Ramos will support the National Gallery's mission, vision, and strategic priorities. She will also represent the institution's values in ways that both build from its history and reflect the nation as she oversees all aspects of the curatorial and conservation departments at the National Gallery of Art. Ramos will begin her tenure in August 2021. "E. Carmen Ramos brings two decades of experience as a museum curator and leader, a record of significant award-winning projects, and a deep commitment to scholarship," said Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art. "She is widely admired in the field as a ... More
Gaza bookshop owner's dreams buried under the rubble
GAZA CITY (AFP).- For decades, it was the place to go for books in the blockaded Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European literary classics. But last Tuesday, owner Samir al-Mansour watched in disbelief as the bookshop and publishing house he had poured his life into went up in smoke. "Forty years of my life were obliterated in less than a second," said the man in his 50s, a cigarette between his fingers, staring at a mound of concrete, paper and squashed plastic chairs. "There are 100,000 books under this rubble," he said. At around 5:00 am on Tuesday, Mansour was at home watching television when the channel reported the Israeli air force was about to hit the building housing his bookshop. Mansour rushed over, but came to a dead stop some 200 metres (220 yards) away from the building, just in time to see ... More
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition spotlights 19th-century romantic bronze sculpture
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is featuring the bronze sculptures of 19th-century French artist Antoine-Louis Barye. On view until August 22, 2021, Romantic Bronzes showcases more than 30 extraordinary works of art. The exhibition illustrates the distinctive features and methods of bronze casting, exploring the historical period and stylistic approach that make the sculptors works a singular part of VMFAs European collection. Over the past 20 years, Patti St.Clair [Mrs. Nelson L. St.Clair, Jr.] has donated an outstanding collection of Baryes casts to VMFA, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. We are very fortunate to now have one of the premier collections of the artists finest work, thanks to both the generosity of Mrs. St.Clair and the connoisseurship she has demonstrated in carefully choosing each of these ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Lyubov Popova died May 25, 1924. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. In this image: Air+Man+Space, 1912, Oil on canvas, 125 x 107 cm, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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