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Also highlighting the exhibition are four paintings by Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862), including Saint George slaying the Dragon, circa 1820, which was commissioned from the artist by Princess Marianne of Prussia.
WESTLAKE, TEXAS .- Gallery 19C is presenting an exhibition The Nazarenes: Germanys 19th Century Avant-Garde Artists on view from November 30, 2023, until January 31, 2024. The objective of Gallery 19C since it was founded in 2016 by Eric Weider and Polly Sartori has been to present a more comprehensive understanding of 19th century European art, and to create a narrative that told the stories of artists - important artists - who have been long overlooked and often forgotten. Paris was the center of the cultural and creative landscape at this time, and the French artists and movements that changed the trajectory of art history will always be celebrated, but so much more was happening, and not just in France but all over Europe. Therefore, in recognition of other artistic innovations, Gallery 19C is delighted to now focus on the most significant movement to come out of Germany in the 19th century - the Nazarenes. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sullivan+Strumpf shared that a major new exhibition from Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Idols of Mud and Water, was opened on Friday evening, November 24, 2023, at Scotlands leading and largest international contemporary art space, Tramway, Glasgow, continuing until April 21, 2024. In this image: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at Tramway, Glasgow Nov 2023. Photo Brian Hartley.
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| Antony Gormley opens his first major exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey | | Exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi now open at i8 Gallery | | Mel Bochner presents new work, imagined specifically for Casa Corbellini Wassermann at MASSIMODECARLO |
Antony Gormley, TEST: BRACE, 2021. Cast iron, 175.6 x 48.2 x 75.7 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co. © the artist.
LONDON.- Across five discrete bodies of work, Antony Gormleys Body Politic investigates our species relationship with its industrially made habitat. For Gormley, this comes at an urgent moment in time when our need for refuge is in dynamic tension with our need to roam: our fundamental migratory nature. Forming the shows spine, eight concrete sculptures chart a linear course from the courtyard through the gallerys corridor. Conceived by Gormley as intimate bunkers for one, each iteration of Retreat (202223) is cast to the scale of the artists body in 55 mm thick reinforced concrete. Collectively, the sculptures consolidate, structure and embody a spectrum of body postures variously balanced, compressed and tensioned. Small square orifices at the position of the mouth offer visual access to a body-sized void within. As Gormley has said, The only place where we can find ... More | |
Yui Yaegashi, tools. Oil on canvas, 2023. 22.9 x 15.8 cm (9 x 6 in).
REYKJAVIK.- i8 Gallery is hosting an exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi, which will be on view until 23 December. This is the artists second exhibition at i8 Gallery and opened with a public reception for the artist on 16 November. Yui Yaegashis oil paintings are rooted in precision, with her distinct style of patterning resulting in reductive, layered works. Yaegashis compositions are carefully composed, with a focus on graphic lines, veiled strokes of paint, surface textures, and explorations of both symmetry and asymmetry. The artist has a systematic approach to painting, working in her signature small format and often limiting colour palettes. While precise, the paintings intentionally include elements of imperfection, which interrupt the restraint inherent to the artists method and highlight the nuances of her compositions. Yaegashi does not conceive of exhibitions as a single body of work; instead, she maintain ... More | |
Mel Bochner, HA HA HA, 2023. Oil on velvet in five parts, 254 Ã 152.4 cm / 100 Ã 60 inches.
MILAN.- MASSIMODECARLO recently began a solo exhibition dedicated to the oeuvre of American artist, Mel Bochner. As an eminent figure in the movements of Conceptual and Post- Minimal Art, Bochner's illustrious career spans over six decades. His work, which rigorously interrogates the intersections of language, mathematics, and diverse representational systems, takes centre stage in this exhibition. The show presents Bochner's latest body of work from 2023, inviting viewers to delve into the latest chapter of his artistic journey. Since the 1960s, Bochner has been at the forefront of exploring the intricate relationship between imagery and language. In 1962, he obtained his degree in art from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before briefly venturing into the field of philosophy at ... More |
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| 'No Ordinary Love' explores themes of desire, family, and tradition at Rose Art Museum | | V&A unveils 2023 Christmas Tree installation inspired by festive skies, designed by Isabel + Helen | | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, 'Idols of Mud and Water' opens at Tramway |
Salman Toor, Boys in Bed, 2021. Oil on panel. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Gift of Adam and Rachel Green, 2023.9. © Salman Toor; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
WALTHAM, MA.- Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love, on view at the Rose Art Museum brings together more than 45 recent paintings and works on paper by the Pakistan-born, New York-based artist. The exhibition will also display two of Toors sketchbooks, illuminating his creative process. Exploring his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, Toor weaves motifs found in historical paintings with contemporary moments to create imaginative new worlds for the 21st century. Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love explores themes of desire, family, and tradition while capturing Toors unique ability to engage with and reimagine art historical traditions. Toors distinct hybrid compositions center Queer figures of color and reconsider outdated concepts of power and sexuality. We are honored to present this riveting exhibition and to provide our audiences with an opportunity to experience ... More | |
V&A Christmas Tree Installation 2023 by Isabel Helen 2. Photography by Sam Lort Studios.
LONDON.- Today the V&A unveiled an enchanting and unique Christmas tree installation designed by creative duo Isabel Gibson and Helen Chesner (Isabel + Helen). Titled Power Plant, this years commission reflects the V&As historic championing of innovative and dynamic design, with an installation that marries the industrial and the festive. Standing at over 4 metres in V&A South Kensingtons grand Cromwell Road Entrance, this captivating reimagining of the traditional Christmas tree celebrates the festive season through light and movement. Inspired by the night sky and the orbital paths of planets, satellites, and stars, the installation presents an intricate system of rotating wind-powered turbines that collectively power numerous lights that sit within the structure. The installation consists of fans, propellers, and lights of different shapes and sizes, supported by an industrial skeleton. Through the delicate interplay of the ... More | |
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Idols of Mud and Water, 2023, Installation view, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, Scotland. Photo, Keith Hunter.
GLASGOW.- Sullivan+Strumpf shared that a major new exhibition from Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Idols of Mud and Water, was opened on Friday evening, November 24, 2023, at Scotlands leading and largest international contemporary art space, Tramway, Glasgow, continuing until April 21, 2024. Ramesh Mario Nithiyendrans most significant international commission to date, and his first institutional solo exhibition in the UK and Europe, Idols of Mud and Water re-imagines Tramways pre-eminent 1,200 sqm T2 gallery into an immersive theatrical environment populated with hundreds of his unique multi-limbed fertility, guardian, protector, joker, and warrior figures. Representative of Hindu gods, whose avatars manifest in colourful, hybrid, human-animal forms, the artists anti-monuments vary dramatically in scale and materiality, from a terracotta army of 97 smaller sculptures nestled within ... More |
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| Leon Läwentraut receives Ernst Barlach Prize 2023 | | TISH by Paul Sng released by Modern Films in UK and Irish cinemas | | First UK exhibition by Australian artist duo and farmers, Anastasia and Julia Vanderbyl opens today |
Leon Löwentraut, photo by Sebastian Drüen. Photo: Leon Löwentraut.
WEDEL.- The artist Leon Löwentraut (born 1998) will be awarded the Ernst Barlach Prize 2023 for Fine Arts on Friday, December 01, 2023. The prize has been awarded by the Ernst Barlach Society Hamburg since 1995 in order to draw attention to particularly innovative artistic positions. The jury chaired by Dr. Jürgen Doppelstein, Museum Director and Chairman of the Ernst Barlach Society, voted unanimously in favor of the 25-year-old Leon Löwentraut. At the same time as the award, the Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft Hamburg is honoring the artist with a retrospective exhibition that will provide an insight into Leon Löwentraut's pictorial worlds until 28 January 2024. The museum is showing a cross-section of his work on three floors - a total of more than 70 works - paintings, graphic editions, sculptures and charcoal drawings - are on display. Dr. Jürgen Doppelstein explains: "Leon Löwentraut's works ... More | |
A moving tribute to the life and talent of British social documentary and activist photographer Tish Murtha, Sngs latest docu-biopic TISH paints a vivid and evocative portrait of Murthas life-long commitment to documenting the lives of working-class communities in the North East of England.
LONDON.- Following its World Premiere at Sheffield DocFest 2023, Modern Films is presenting TISH, a feature documentary from filmmaker Paul Sng (Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché), on view in cinemas across the UK and Ireland since 17 November 2023. A moving tribute to the life and talent of British social documentary and activist photographer Tish Murtha, Sngs latest docu-biopic TISH paints a vivid and evocative portrait of Murthas life-long commitment to documenting the lives of working-class communities in the North East of England. Tish was supported by BFI Doc Society Fund and Screen Scotland, each awarding funding from the National Lottery. The third of ten children, Murtha ... More | |
Julia Vanderbyl, Deep Stream Passes (I Heal Gently), 2023. Acrylic on Canvas, 96 x 140 cm.
LONDON.- Sisters Anastasia and Julia Vanderbyl are the artists and farmers behind Fitzrovia Gallery, an environmental platform that has amassed a devoted fan base of over 2 million followers. Julia Vanderbyl is an incredible painter who lives and works in Australia. Her figurative and abstracted work presents itself in the glorious space between our binary ideologies that are present in our physical world. The figures in the works escape from their landscapes, the natural world. Dichotomous and Harmonious at the same time. -Mollie Barnes She Curates. Anastasia and Julia Vanderbyl are now presenting their upcoming duo exhibition Mother the Mountain showcasing a brand-new body of work of paintings and print editions. Transcending the typical art exhibition, Mother the Mountain is a reverent tribute to the natural world, resilience, and an immersive journey ... More |
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| Disney rejected her a few times. The 'Wish' director just kept trying. | | David Hockney print exhibition 'Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation' on view | | HOTA Gallery unveils Australian premiere of 'Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street' |
After she was finally hired by the studio, Veerasunthorn worked her way up the ranks, and has applied that lesson of perseverance to her new film. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
by Ashley Spencer
NEW YORK, NY.- At the turn of the century, a young medical student in Thailand mailed a handwritten letter to a Disney animator in Florida. The student, Fawn Veerasunthorn, had attended a guest lecture by this visual effects animator, Paitoon Ratanasirintrawoot, years earlier at her Bangkok high school (his alma mater). Shed since graduated and was miserable in her first year of med school. But, she wondered, might he have advice on how she could switch careers, move to the United States and follow in his footsteps at Disney? He wrote back with his email address and they struck up a correspondence, as he answered her questions, which ranged from What is a portfolio? and Where did you go to college? to Do girls really work in animation? and Is this safe? At the time, the ... More | |
David Hockney, "Montcalm Interior," 2010. iPad drawing printed on paper. Edition of 25. 37 x 28" © David Hockney.
HONOLULU, HI.- The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has debuted the largest-ever retrospective of David Hockneys groundbreaking prints this fall in David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The exhibition, on view since Nov. 17, 2023 features more than 140 works that span six decades of the artists career. The iconic British artists hyper-vibrant portrayalsprints, collages and photographic and iPad drawingshave made him one of the foremost avant-garde realists of his time. The exhibition documents his range of production methods, from his earliest etchings in the mid-1950s and 60s to his recent experiments with iPad and photographic drawings. Seeing how one of the most influential artists of our time developed his technique over the span of 60 years is one of the incredible rewards of this exhibition, ... More | |
Installation view, Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at HOTA Gallery. Credit Milk and Honey Creative.
SURFERS PARADISE.- Contemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast has unveiled the Australian premiere of Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street. First unveiled by The Design Museum, London, the blockbuster exhibition explores one of the most universal design objects, bought and worn by millions of people worldwide every day. Charting the design and cultural journey of sneakers, a phenomenon that has challenged performance design, inspired new youth cultures and shaken the world of fashion, Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street presents over 400 objects, including over 200 shoes, process material, photography, posters, videos and artworks. An Australian exclusive, the exhibition at HOTA Gallery also featuress iconic and unique Australian collaborations alongside a program of events, exploring the sneaker phenomenon through an Australian lens. Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street Curator Ligaya Sa ... More |
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An oratorio about Shanghai's Jews opens in China at a difficult time
NEW YORK, NY.- Émigré, a new oratorio about Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai in the late 1930s, begins with a song by two brothers, Josef and Otto, as their steamship approaches a Chinese harbor. Shanghai, beacon of light on a silent shore, they sing. Shanghai, answer these desperate cries. The emigration of thousands of Central European and Eastern European Jews to China in the late 1930s and early 1940s and their survival of the Holocaust is one of World War IIs most dramatic but little-known chapters. In Émigré, a 90-minute oratorio that premiered this month in Shanghai and will come to the New York Philharmonic in February, the stories of these refugees and their attempts to build new lives in war-torn China are front and center. The piece, composed by Aaron Zigman, with lyrics by Mark Campbell ... More
Antonia Bennett used to sing with Tony. Now she's carrying on solo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Antonia Bennetts childhood had some unique charms. There were the parties, where the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Tormé would gather around the piano and sing. There were the times Bennetts father, Tony, took her to work, beginning when she was about 5, and gave her an early taste of the spotlight. My dad would just bring me up onstage, and we would sing together, Bennett recalled in a recent interview. I guess it started with The Hokey Pokey and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, and then I graduated to Puttin on the Ritz, and we just kept going from there, you know? Bennett, 49, is the younger of the crooners two daughters by the second of his three wives, actress Sandra Grant Bennett. Over the years, she too has sung professionally, releasing a 2014 album, Embrace Me, and an ... More
Winston Branch "The Sweet Scent of Magnolia" solo exhibition opens in London
LONDON.- Varvara Roza Galleries, exclusive representative of Winston Branch, in collaboration with The Blender Gallery, opened a major solo exhibition by Winston Branch titled The sweet scent of Magnolia. The Sweet Scent of Magnolia runs from 21st November to 19th December at Varvara Roza Galleries, 8 Duke Street, St. Jamess, London In his exhibition The sweet scent of magnolia, Winston Branch presents his new body of work, consisting of large-scale canvases painted in his London studio during a prolific period in 2023. Also, Sothebys are presenting Winston Branch 'Journey Into Light, at Sotheby's New Bond Street, London between 17 November15 December 2023. Winston Branch's preoccupation as an artist has been the re-examination of finding a more palatable means of expression. The excitement with which his paintings have developed over the years, has always ... More
New audio-visual installation by Jarman-Award winning artist, David Panos, opens in Northampton
NORTHAMPTON.- NN Contemporary Art is presenting Gothic Revival, a new audio-visual commission by Jarman Award-winning artist, David Panos. Part film, part musical score, Gothic Revival is a poetic exploration of place; a cinematic tapestry that interweaves digitally manipulated footage with film, sound recordings and fragments of video collected in Northampton. The artists process began through exploring the connections between Northamptons Gothic Revival architecture and the legacy of its post-punk music scene, which birthed the band Bauhaus, credited with initiating the gothic rock music genre. Seeking to explore the descendants of such an alternative scene, the film documents local band Raven Rust, whose rehearsal of Bauhaus most famous track, Bela Lugosi's Dead, recurs across the piece, almost as a modern act of establishing tradition through repetition. Panos engages with the towns oft ... More
Richard Hunt, the first African American sculptor to have a retrospective at MoMA, joins White Cube
NEW YORK, NY.- White Cube announced the global representation of Richard Hunt (b.1935, Chicago, Illinois), one of the leading American sculptors of the 20th century. The artists first solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in spring 2024 at White Cube New York. Over a seven-decade-long career, Hunt has staged over 150 solo shows, with more than 160 large-scale public sculpture commissions worldwide. In 1971, at the age of 35, he achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first African American sculptor to have a retrospective at MoMA, New York. With a profound fascination for biological science and the natural world, working predominantly in metal, Hunts hybrid sculptures are characterised by dualities, that of the natural and the industrial, the surreal and the abstract, the geometric and the organic. Hunt has paid tribute to some ... More
Aarons' fourth solo exhibition at Staley–Wise to open tomorrow
NEW YORK, NY.- The photographs of Slim Aarons are so closely associated with the good life that Aarons name is now shorthand itself for luxury, privilege, and style. In the introduction to his 2003 book Once Upon a Time, Aarons said I believe in fairy tales. For six decades I have concentrated on photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. Ironically, the beginning of Aarons life was anything but a fairy tale, and his sunny and escapist images were a rejection of the terrors of war and familial heartbreak that he was all too familiar with. As a precursor to social medias promotion of the perennial perfect moment, Aarons photographs are aspirational yet nostalgic. This is Aarons fourth solo exhibition at Staley-Wise after his first-ever exhibition at the gallery in 2003, only 3 years before his death. Several of the photographs in this exhibition were recently discovered in his archive and have never bee ... More
Alexandria Smith's debut solo exhibition 'Stirrings of a Polymorphous Bloom' now on view in Asia
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is now showing Stirrings of a Polymorphous Bloom, American artist Alexandria Smiths debut solo exhibition in Asia. Opened since November 16 in Hong Kong, the exhibition features new assemblage paintings and collage drawings that explore the protean nature of selfhood and identity. The works in Stirrings of a Polymorphous Bloom envision cosmic environments inhabited by figures in flux. Smiths practice is grounded in her exploratory drawings, represented in Hong Kong by works on paper housed in custom frames. From these, she develops boldly colored assemblage paintings that incorporate shapes made from painted wood and 3D-printed elements that rise from their surfaces and extend beyond their frames. Smiths new works focus on symbols of genesis, light, and growth, inspired by her interests ... More
'Afra Al Dhaheri: Give Your Weight To The Ground' has opened at Green Art Gallery
AL QUOZ .- The earth pulls us down to ground us. Grounding: slowing down and observing; becoming conscious of our surroundings; and absorbing and processing. A yearning that lingers in the shadows of scattered minds. The metamorphosis of hair has been a ritual within my practice. My mother once told me, Take your fallen hair and bury it in the soil of your house plant. They will nourish it. The poetry of the gesture stayed with me and made me think of the ways in which our bodies return to the earth to nurture it. Could grounding ourselves be another manifestation of that return, a way to access nurturing? I ground myself in the process of making work, constantly deconstructing and reconstructing elements of the material and concept. I often develop a visual vocabulary to engage the audience only to unlearn it to find a new l ... More
Jeanne Bucher Jaeger presents an exhibition of works by Antoine Grumbach
PARIS.- Véronique Jaeger is presenting the second part of ENCHAN-TEMPS cycle, the exhibition Les Yeux du Ciel devoted to Antoine Grumbach. Antoine Grumbach (1942) is an artist-architect and urban designer who graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris in 1967 and received the Grand Prix National dUrbanisme et dArt Urbain in 1992. His international achievements are countless, as are his major architectural and urban planning projects, which include the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence, the new inhabited bridge over the Thames in London, as well as the restructuration of Shanghais historic district, Greater Moscow, the Paris tramway and the Greater Paris Seine Métropole project... For over 40 years, he taught at the Ecoles nationales darchitecture de Paris-La Villette et Belleville, the Ecoles des ponts et chaussées ... More
Brigitte Bardot captivates as lead entry in Chiswick' 19th/20th Century Photographs Auction
LONDON.- A famous image of French film star Brigitte Bardot taken by Terry O'Neill in 1971 leads the 19th and 20th Century Photographs Auction slated for November 30 at Chiswick Auctions. The silver gelatin print of Bardot on the set of Les Petroleuses, number 20 from an edition of 50, is expected to bring £10,000-£15,000 ($12,605-$18,905). Later in life, O'Neill (British, 1938-2019) reflected on what his called the best shot of his career. He related that he only had one shot left on his roll of film when he captured the image that would define his career as a master of the candid celebrity portrait. "The wind was blowing, and she had a cigar as part of a scene. I was surrounded by hundreds of people, and was praying they didn't move or jostle me, as I had this perfect composition. I just wanted the wind to blow once more and it did. Then everyone started pushing and shoving and I lost the place but I k ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French graphic artist Tomi Ungerer was born November 28, 1931. Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (28 November 1931 - 9 February 2019) was an Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He was known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms. Ungerer is also famous as a cartoonist and designer of political posters and film posters. Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.
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