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Ali Altamirano, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in Lima, Peru, and a member of the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute, works in a research room at the museum on Aug. 11, 2023. The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the worlds heaviest animal, is being overtaken by human settlement. (Marco Garro/The New York Times)
by Mitra Taj
OCUCAJE.- Millions of years ago, this desert in Peru was a gathering place for fantastical sea creatures: whales that walked, dolphins with walrus faces, sharks with teeth as large as a human face, red-feathered penguins, aquatic sloths. They reproduced in the gentler waters of a shallow lagoon buffered by hills that still wrap across the landscape today. Eventually, tectonic shifts lifted the land from the sea. More than 10,000 years ago, people arrived. With them came art, religion and monumental architecture. Researchers have pieced together these snapshots of the distant past from the bones and tombs found scattered in the Pisco Basin, a thick layer of fossil-rich sediment that stretches across 200 square miles of badlands and riparian corridors between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific coast of southern Peru. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Craig Starr Gallery is presenting AFTERGLOW, a selection of works by American glass, textile, and installation artist Rob Wynne (b. 1948), upon the publication of Obstacle Illusion. This major new monograph collects five decades of Wynneâs explorations of language, material, and history and is forthcoming in October 2023 from Gregory R. Miller & Co. The solo exhibition is a collaboration between Craig Starr Gallery and GAVLAK.
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| A kinetic cloud of humanity for Moynihan Train Hall | | Bonhams achieves over $6 million across September Asia Week New York sales | | Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles inaugurates season with solo exhibition dedicated to Steve MᶜQueen |
Joshua Frankel at Moynihan Train Hall in New York on .Sept. 14, 2023. His animation, Within the crowd there is a quality, will be projected on 4 LED screens at Moynihan Train Hall through Nov. 14, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Laura van Straaten
NEW YORK, NY.- A bouncy strut, a dart-and-weave, a dawdle with a dog. A stroller, a grocery cart, a wheelchair. A burqa, a beanie, a bowler. The diversity of those animated images in a new, silent four-channel video playing now on the huge, elevated screens at Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan mirrors the mix of commuters below. The video is a site-specific commission by artist, animator and director Joshua Frankel that will run in 30-second loops every 15 minutes, across a 160-foot-wide LED display as part of the Art at Amtrak program, which in New York has recently diversified from murals into video art. (Frankels work is surrounded by permanent stationary installations by Kehinde ... More | |
A large Yuan/Ming Dynasty polychrome fresco fragment of celestial musicians sold for $121,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams presented a successful series of sales for the September iteration of Asia Week New York which saw robust in-person bidding and achieved $6.2 million overall. Most notably, a number of works shattered pre-sale expectations including a fine famille-rose Chicken and Boy cup soaring more than 10 times above its estimate when it sold for $216,000 and Picking Cotton, a 1955 hanging scroll by Shi Lu (1919-1982), which earned 18 times its estimate at $547,000. Bonhams kicked off the week with a strong offering from Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art featuring Private Collections of Snuff Bottles on September 18. The sale was led by an extremely rare blue-speckled-glazed garlic-head vase, Yongzheng seal mark and of the period, which achieved more than four times its estimate when it sold for $280,000. Overall, the sale achieved US$2 million. ... More | |
On view from September 23 through November 4, 2023, the solo exhibition of Steve McQueen features the U.S. premiere of the immersive video installation Sunshine State (2022) by McQueen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery inaugurated its Los Angeles gallery this September with a solo exhibition dedicated to artist and filmmaker Steve MᶜQueen. On view from September 23 through November 4, 2023, the exhibition features the U.S. premiere of the immersive video installation Sunshine State (2022) by McQueen. A solo presentation of work by Cristina Iglesias, marking the artists first major exhibition in LA, will open subsequently at the Gallery in November, followed by exhibitions of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tony Cragg planned for later this winter. The opening of Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles builds on the Gallerys longstanding history of supporting the citys artists, collectors, and institutions. At the same time, the launch of the Gallerys permanent home on the West Coast marks ... More |
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| To Kelly Wearstler, design is about love | | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presenting John Waters: Pope of Trash | | Fotomuseum Maastricht presents Dutch photographer Humberto Tan |
The designer Kelly Wearstler at her home in Beverly Hills on Aug. 10, 2023. After almost 30 years in business, Wearstler has remained a celebrity in an often faceless field. (Jennelle Fong/The New York Times)
by Jessica Testa
LOS ANGELES, CA.- If you had suddenly been blindfolded and transported to Dahlia, a cocktail lounge that opened in May at the Downtown Proper hotel here, you might have asked: Where in the world am I? The high walls are painted dusty rose, and the booth cushions are upholstered in velvety brown, like the desert floor after rain. Artworks in a terra-cotta palette cover the walls, including a bulbous wicker sculpture that looked somewhat suggestive, like one of Georgia OKeeffes abstract flowers. There was a sweating glass bottle of Mexican mineral water on a table, along with a small plate of lime wedges so fat and juicy that they seemed otherworldly. Had you been dropped into a ... More | |
Portrait of John Waters. Photo by Greg Gorman, © Academy Museum Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened John Waters: Pope of Trash, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the eponymous artists contributions to cinema, on September 17, 2023. Exploring his process, themes, and unmatched moviemaking approach, the exhibition traces the grotesque, daring, deliberately tacky, hilarious, and salacious elements that recur throughout Waterss sixty-year career of filmmaking and reveals how his movies have redefined independent cinema. A robust film program complementing the exhibition began with an ultra-rare silent screening of Eat Your Makeup (1968) on September 17 and continued on with an extensive retrospective. An adjacent installation, Outside the Mainstream, highlights other radically independent filmmakers who also champion unconventional modes of film production and distribution. ... More | |
Humberto Tan, Willy Max Leonard Dissels.
MAASTRICHT.- Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is now hosting an exhibition by Dutch photographer and media personality Humberto Tan, 'Tomorrow will be better', the museum shows an impressive selection of close-up portraits of 100-year-olds and photos of their hands and interior. The nostalgic black and white photography is accompanied by inspiring, explanatory interviews. For over three years, Humberto Tan traveled across the country to photograph more than a hundred people aged 100 and older. During the subsequent conversations, the passionate photographer asked them four of the same questions of life about their happiness, fears, life lessons, and dreams for the future. He also asked for a health tip. The result is a beautiful collection of photographs and interviews, which are sometimes piercing, emotional, cheerful or sad. And mostly they are all of those at the same time. It shows an intriguing time ... More |
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| 'Lunch Poems' by Ugo Rondinone with Martha Diamond & Jorge Pardo now open | | David Kordansky Gallery is now representing Martha Diamond | | Bay Area-based painter, sculptor, muralist, filmmaker, and lecturer Zio Ziegler has first exhibition with Almine Rech |
Installation view of 'Lunch Poems' by Ugo Rondinone with Martha Diamond & Jorge Pardo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Martos Gallery is now presenting in New York the exhibition by Ugo Rondinone with Martha Diamond & Jorge Pardo titled 'Lunch Poems'. New York City is the gay capitol of the world. New York City is home to the world's largest LGBTQ populations. LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, "The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs. In 2022, comedian Jerrod Carmichael joked, "That's actually why I live here...if you say you're gay in New York, you can ride the bus for free and they just give you free pizza. If you say you're gay in New York, you get to host Saturday Night Live..This is the gayest thing you can possibly do. We're basically in an Andy Warhol fever dream right now." In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a billboard campaign to woo Floridians to a significantly more supportive environment for LGBTQ+ ... More | |
Portrait of Martha Diamond: Olivia Funk.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery has announced its representation of Martha Diamond. Diamond is included in their upcoming group presentation at Paris+ par Art Basel in October. The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery will be presented in Los Angeles in March 2024. For more than fifty years, Diamond has created paintings and works on paper that capture the essence of the metropolis. Beginning in the late 1960s, Diamond immersed herself in the downtown Manhattan art and poetry communities of the New York School, finding direct inspiration from her lived experiences and from such earlier painters as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock. While the city has become her signature motif, her work exhibits a keen sense of exploration, placing her on a trajectory that has taken her far beyond the Manhattan skyline and into the realm of abstraction. Her deft command of her materials produces rich greens and blue ... More | |
Zio Ziegler, The Shifting Illusion, 2023. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 203.2 x 127 cm. 80 x 50 in - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Zio Ziegler.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech Gallery opened the first New York solo exhibition of Bay Area artist Zio Ziegler (American, b. 1988 in Mill Valley, CA). Titled The Essential Figures, the exhibition features 12 paintings recently completed in his Marin County studio. Ziegler was trained at RISD and Brown and works out of a well-worn ranch house in the woods where he is in a state of incessant creation, coaxing life out of numerous canvases at any given time. The compositions cohere around totemic figures that harken back to the early 1940s work of Jackson Pollock, caught up in dynamic whorls of gesture and color. Pollock is an apt touchstone, painting before the atom bomb changed our outlook on the future and our relationship to the planet. Other historical figures making art on the cusp of global calamity such as Umberto Boccioni, Jacob Epstein, and Francis Bacon ... More |
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| Evelyn Hofer exhibition opens at Nelson-Atkins | | Nxt Museum will host British-based art collective Random International: Life in a Different Resolution | | The National Gallery of Art acquires two major works by Miguel Luciano |
Evelyn Hofer (American, born Germany, 19222009), Bicycle Girl, in the Coombe, Dublin, 1966, dye transfer print The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2016.75.106. © Estate of Evelyn Hofer.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The first major museum exhibition in the United States in over 50 years dedicated to Evelyn Hofer opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Sept. 16. Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City focuses on photographs from Hofers series of widely distributed photobooks devoted to European and American cities, published throughout the 1960s, and features more than 100 vintage prints in both black and white and color from those publications. The works are drawn exclusively from the artists estate and the collections of the Nelson-Atkins and the High Museum, who co-organized and debuted the exhibition earlier this year. We are delighted for the opportunity to present these photographs together for the first time at our institutions and to highlight Hofers important artistic contributions, including as an early adopter of color photography ... More | |
Living Room by Random International. Photo: Esteban Schunemann.
AMSTERDAM.- From this Wednesday 27th, Amsterdams Nxt Museum will host British-based art collective Random International: Life in a Different Resolution - a retrospective looking back on two decades of their remarkable creations. Including the first-ever European presentation of Random Internationals monumental Living Room in addition to other newly completed works, this will be Nxt Museums first ever solo exhibition and is curated by Bogomir Doringer. A public programme will feature performances by renowned dancer and choreographer Sedrig Verwoert and commissioned musical compositions created by Mamiko Motto as a means to explore the projects through the interactive mental and physical experiences that each work provokes. The title Life in A Different Resolution stems from a series of informal dinners hosted by Random International in 2011. With guests coming from a range of fields from navigation, animation to psychology, the ... More | |
Miguel Luciano, Cooño, 2000. Acrylic on canvas, over panel. Overall: 182.88 x 182.88 cm (72 x 72 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from the Ford Foundation and Lawrence Levinson 2023.37.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired two major works by Miguel Luciano (b. 1972) that explore pivotal episodes in contemporary Puerto Rican history. Luciano is celebrated for his multidisciplinary work in painting, sculpture, and public art projects that explore history and social justice through the lens of popular culture. Cooño (2000) is part of a series of paintings inspired by early advertising and commercial references to Puerto Ricans published in the United States. The second work, Shields/Escudos (2020), was created in the aftermath of several economic, natural, and political crises that befell Puerto Rico over the past two decades. Cooño builds on a history of works by artists of color such as Robert Colescott, Joe Overstreet, and Betye Saar, who embraced pop aesthetics and unmasked the long-standing relationship between US advertising and ... More |
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A Tiananmen Square musical worries about China's glare
NEW YORK, NY.- When it was announced that Zachary Noah Piser would be playing the lead role in Tiananmen: A New Musical, he happened to be on a concert tour of five Chinese cities with a group of Broadway actors. One day later, Piser, who played the title role in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway last year, posted a short statement on Instagram, where most of his posts are bright and colorful. This one featured just seven words set against a blank white backdrop: I have withdrawn from the musical Tiananmen. It was very odd to me because it was one statement, and its not usually how things like this happen in our business, said Marc Oka, a cast member who found out about Pisers departure through the Aug. 25 post, which had comments disabled. Those involved with the Tiananmen musical, which premieres at the Phoenix ... More
On-site auction of the contents of The Briars in Natchez, Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis was married
NATCHEZ, MISS.- Stevens Auction Company will hit the road on Saturday, October 7th, for the on-site sale of the contents of The Briars in Natchez the very place where Confederate States President Jefferson Davis was married. The auction will be held at the home itself, located at 130 John R. Junkin Drive, Natchez, with access via the entrance to the parking lot of the Vue Hotel. All Victorian and late Empire furnishings that came with the estate at purchase, as well as the contents of all bed and breakfast equipment and furniture, will be sold to make way for the rebirth of The Briars, said Dwight Stevens, the owner of Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen. This Natchez icon will have period furnishings from its beginning in 1818. Mr. Stevens added, We will also have items from the new owner Chip Newman's late father's estate. ... More
ZKM │ Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe opens a a comprehensive solo exhibition of Heinz Mack''s work
KARLSRUHE.- Heinz Mack is one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1957 he founded the group ZERO with the artist Otto Piene in Düsseldorf. Together with other international artists, they wanted to revolutionize art after World War II. With »Mack at ZKM«, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is now dedicating a comprehensive solo exhibition to him with around 130 works from the period 1955 to 2023, including works that are being reconstructed and exhibited for the first time in a long time. Mirror objects in the glaring desert sun, shimmering color prisms in the Arctic, light-reflecting stelae, sparkling rotors, gold and silver gleaming cubes, virtual volumes generated by electrical impulses: Heinz Mack, artist of light, illuminates the atriums of the ZKM in a variety of ways. As early as the 1950s, Heinz Mack ... More
First major solo exhibition of photographs in the United Kingdom by Patrick Demarchelier at Atlas Gallery
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery is now showing the first major solo exhibition of photographs in the United Kingdom by world-renowned fashion and portrait photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Demarchelier passed away in March 2022 and Atlas Gallery have been fortunate enough to be able to work with his estate and studio to bring this exhibition to London as a tribute to one of the greatest figures in the world of fashion and portrait photography of the last century. After his passing a small number of signed prints still remained, from which the gallery is lucky to be able to offer a small selection of some of his most iconic images for exhibition and sale. It is somehow appropriate that Demarcheliers first job, after receiving a camera as a gift on his 17th birthday, was printing and retouching passport photos in a small town in Northern France. One ... More
Drawing Room, new gallery and artists' studios for London
LONDON.- After 20 nomadic years, Drawing Room, the UKs leading arts organisation dedicated to displaying, making and sharing contemporary drawing, will settle in its new purpose-built home in Bermondsey, southeast London, opening to the public on 22 September 2023. Drawing Room is a division of studio provider Tannery Arts, which was established by artists in a Bermondsey Street warehouse in 1993. The 25-year lease on this new building includes an artists studio complex and marks a radical development in the history of the organisation. Putting down roots in an area traditionally occupied by artists, Drawing Room is the only UK art gallery dedicated solely to the medium of drawing. With over 1,600 sq ft of double-height gallery spaces, it promises to become a key cultural destination for art lovers across the capital ... More
On day 146, screenwriters reach deal with studios to end their strike
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollywoods bitter, monthslong labor dispute has taken a big first step toward a resolution. The Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,000 screenwriters, reached a tentative deal on a new contract with entertainment companies Sunday night, all but ending a 146-day strike that has contributed to a shutdown of television and film production. In the coming days, guild members will vote on whether to accept the deal, which has much of what they had demanded, including increases in compensation for streaming content, concessions from studios on minimum staffing for television shows, and guarantees that artificial intelligence technology will not encroach on writers credits and compensation. We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional with meaningful gains ... More
At Paris Opera Ballet's Gala: Champagne, Chanel, contemporary dance
PARIS.- The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs created to be bedecked with flowers, its sumptuous gilded framework and ornate statues a perfect backdrop for posing in couture. On Thursday night, the Paris Opera Ballet opened its season with the traditional accouterments of its annual gala: rivers of Champagne, exquisite outfits, teetering heels, Botoxed foreheads. It has been only nine years since the Paris Opera Ballet held its first benefit gala, a strange American-style novelty, perhaps perceived as slightly vulgar for a largely state-subsidized organization. But that gala in 2015, planned by Benjamin Millepied at the start of his short tenure as company director, tapped into the glamour of the Paris Opera in the collective imagination, the possibility for maximum visibility ... More
'Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama' by Fumi Nagasaka to be published in November
LONDON.- During the 2016 US Presidential elections Japanese photographer, Fumi Nagasaka, became intrigued by the rural and southern USA. She had lived in New York City for a decade but despite travelling the world, had yet to visit the rest of the US. All this changed when a friend, Tanya Rouse, invited Nagasaka to her hometown of Dora, Alabama. Nagasaka continued to visit Dora over several years, gradually building a photographic archive of her visits. A selection of these photographs are included in her new book Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama. Located northwest of city of Birmingham, Dora is a town of about 2,300 people. Church, college football, and Jacks the regional fast food chain are popular with the towns residents and Nagasaka was introduced to each on her visits. Although an outsider, Nagasaka ... More
Extremely rare Harold II penny sells for hammer price of £20,000
LONDON.- An extremely rare Harold II penny, dating from 1066, that was struck in Hastings sold for a hammer price of £20,000 more than double its pre-sale estimate of £6,000-8,000 in a sale of British Coins and Tokens at Noonans Mayfair on Tuesday & Wednesday, September 19 & 20, 2023. Tim Wilkes, Head of the Coin Department at Noonans explained: There were four reasons why this coin sold so well including its rarity - although coins of Harold II are reasonably common, Hastings is a very rare mint for his reign and obviously there is the historical association of Harold II with Hastings. The condition and the quality of the Kings portrait as well as the provenance, which goes back as far as 1885 and that it was once in the famous Montagu Collection all resulted in the coin fetching more than double its pre-sale estimate. He finished: This ... More
V&A launches new interactive website for 10-14-year-olds
LONDON.- The V&A has launched mused, a new interactive website for Generation Alpha, with a particular focus on 1014-year-olds, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Digital Accelerator for Arts and Culture. The content-rich website invites young people to explore the V&As world of art, design, performance and creativity, through over 100 quizzes, challenges and articles within core categories of art & design, fashion, music, film & TV, gaming, and the audience inspired random category. Fun, constantly changing and socially relevant content brings together contemporary culture with 5,000 years of human creativity across the V&A collection. As the V&A transforms into a family of museums, for audiences of all ages and backgrounds, online and in person, mused offers a stimulating, safe and welcoming place ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault was born September 26, 1791. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in the tradition of English sporting art by Carle Vernet and classical figure composition by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive temperament while recognizing his talent. In this image: Géricault. Images of Life and Death. Exhibition view© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2013 Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
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