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An image from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences shows the fossil of a Triceratops skull embedded in rock. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences plans to display Dueling Dinosaurs this spring. (North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences via The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- When fossil hunters unearthed the remains of a dinosaur from the hills of eastern Montana five years ago, they carried several key characteristics of a Tyrannosaurus rex: a pair of giant legs for walking, a much smaller pair of arms for slashing prey, and a long tail stretching behind it. But unlike a full-grown T. rex, which would be about the size of a city bus, this dinosaur was more like the size of a pickup truck. The specimen, which is now listed for sale for $20 million at an art gallery in London, raises a question that has come to obsess paleontologists: Is it simply a young T. rex that died before reaching maturity, or does it represent a different but related species of dinosaur known as a Nanotyrannus? The dispute has produced reams of scientific research and decades of debate, polarizing paleontologists along the way. Now, with din ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day All About Photo is presenting âThe Roma Princessesâ by Manuela Federl. Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the month of January 2024 and includes twenty photographs from the series âThe Roma Princessesâ
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| Pace presenting exhibition of new works by Kohei Nawa at its Seoul gallery | | Chiswick Auctions to offer an Alicante vase by Rene Lalique from 1927 | | These classic characters are losing copyright protection. They may never be the same. |
In our new film, Kohei Nawa discusses the varied materials, structures, forms, and concepts across Cosmic Sensibility, on view at our gallery in Seoul through January 20, 2024, including the new works in his iconic PixCell series and his never-before-seen Spark sculptures.
SEOUL .- On view since November 22, 2023 to January 20, 2024 at Pace Gallery, the presentation, titled Cosmic Sensibility, marks the artists first solo show at Paces gallery in the Korean capital. Bringing together paintings and sculptures from five bodies of workincluding the new Spark seriesthis exhibition will showcase Nawas deep and enduring interest in the perceptual, sensorial, and phenomenological possibilities of art. Nawa often examines scientific and digital subjects through his multidisciplinary practice. Making use of various traditional and unconventional materialsand drawing out their unique propertiesfor his work across painting, sculpture, and installation, the artist explores the nuanced relationships between physical and virtual spaces; synthetic and natural forces; and the individual ... More | |
In the wake of an auction record for a Dunhill aquarium lighter set in December 2022 at Chiswick Auctions, another of the classic 1950s accessories was consigned to the London firm. This example, engraved to the front panel with three grey fish and to the reverse with a pair of black Betta fish, is expected to bring £2,000-£4,000 ($2,545-$5,090). Chiswick Auctions image.
LONDON.- Lalique, a name that symbolizes the epitome of 20th-century glamour, is at the forefront of Chiswick Auctions Design & Modern Contemporary sale slated for January 10. The West London event features one of Rene Laliques most famous designs from 1927: an Alicante vase. The popular form modeled in low relief with parrot heads (Model No. 98 in Félix Marcilhacs Lalique catalogue raisonné) was made in a number of different colorways. The auction example is double-cased with an opalescent glass core and frosted and polished exterior, highlighted with a blue-grey stain. Signed R Lalique France, it is guided at £5,500-£7,500 ($7,000-$9,545). Rennes, a similarly Art Deco vase decorated with stylized rams (Model No. ... More | |
A scene from the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie. This version of the Mickey Mouse character enters the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024. (via The New York Times)
by Sopan Deb
NEW YORK, NY.- If youre the creative type and youre struggling to come up with your next idea, do not fear: some big works, including the original version of Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain Monday in the United States. And if, on the other hand, you prefer your Disney characters to be cute, cuddly and never-changing, well, ... you might want to stop reading. In 2024, thousands of copyrighted works published in 1928 entered the public domain, after their 95-year term expired. This means that those characters and stories can be remade on the page, stage or screen without permission. (Finally, I can make that Peter Pan musical where a middle-aged Peter laments unexplained back pains at the end of Act I.) Its important for the preservation of our cultural record, for meaningful access to older works for inspiring future creativity, sai ... More |
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| P⋅P⋅O⋅W hosts fifth solo exhibition by artist Katharine Kuharic | | Collective exhibition 'Naturaleza abstracta' is on view at Xippas Punta del Este | | M receives works by six Belgian artists |
Katharine Kuharic, Parable, 2023. Oil on linen, 30 x 40 ins., 76.2 x 101.6 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is currently hosting The Foliated Room, Katharine Kuharic's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery since 1994. Pioneering a genre of distinctly queer, feminist image-making, Kuharics paintings conjure open-ended narratives, always insisting that things are different from what they seem. Emphasizing an individual aesthetic counter to the virtual realities of technology, her labor-intensive process necessitates an equivalent time-based immersion and emotional engagement by the viewer. Featuring early works from the 1990s alongside a new body of paintings, The Foliated Room highlights Kuharics decades-long visual examination of mortality, sexuality, and connection to nature through her meticulous technical approach, multilayered symbolism, and highly keyed pallet. Drawing inspiration from the Sala a Fogliami or "Room of Foliage at the ... More | |
Naturaleza abstracta (Abstract Nature), a group show curated by Manuel Neves, will open in the main space of the gallery. A personal exhibition by Uruguayan artist Ricardo Lanzarini Movimiento curvilÃneo (Curvilinear Movement) will be presented in the Salon, the new gallery space.
PUNTA DEL ESTE.- The collective exhibition Naturaleza abstracta (Abstract Nature) on view at Xippas Punta del Este brings together artworks by contemporary European, North American and Latin American artists. Within this diverse selection of works by artists with varied backgrounds, two distinct yet interconnected statements emerge. They function as subtle harmonizers, invoking the tradition of nature as a model in abstract art and art as the nature of abstraction. "Everything in nature is based on the sphere, the cone, the cylinder," Paul Cézanne, 1904. The collective exhibition Naturaleza abstracta (Abstract nature) brings together works by contemporary European, North American and Latin American artists. ... More | |
Laymen, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap bij M Leuven. Photo: de kunstenaar & courtesy Clearing Brussels.
LEUVEN.- The Flemish Community has placed seven artworks by six Belgian artists on long-term loan to M Leuven. Recent works in a range of media by Martin Belou, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François, Meg Stuart and Jan Van Imschoot are now part of the collection. The works were all acquired in 2022. M offers a unique mix of ancient and contemporary art. You will find both historical masterpieces and works by the talent of today in our collections. With these loans, the Flemish Community is not only supporting M as a museum, but also an important sector within the Belgian arts field, says Bert Cornillie, Alderman for Culture and Chairman of Ms Board of Directors. This is an important investment in artists who currently play a significant role in our contemporary cultural landscape, and an appreciation of their practice within the wider ... More |
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| Exhibition addresses contemporary artists' relationships to technologies associated with magic | | The Portland Art Museum presents 'Black Artists of Oregon' | | "Painted Pop" in Palm Beach |
Installation view of Cate OConnell-Richards, Flail Broom, 2022. Brass, red brass, wood, broomcorn, twine, hemp. Courtesy of the artist. As installed in Like Magic at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (on view beginning October 29, 2023)
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- MASS MoCA is presenting the group exhibition Like Magic. Like Magic addresses contemporary artists relationships to technologies associated with magic including devices, talismans, rituals, incantations and invites visitors to explore the points where technology and magic converge. The exhibition features work by Simone Bailey*, Raven Chacon, Grace Clark*, Johanna Hedva, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Cate OConnell-Richards, Rose Salane, Petra Szilagyi*, Tourmaline, Nate Young*. (*full or partial commission). Using healing earth, witches brooms, AI, divination, and more , these ten artists explore how technologies of magic proliferate in times of chaos and uncertainty. Imagining ... More | |
Charles Tatum, The Last Watcher.
PORTLAND, OR.- This fall, the Portland Art Museum presents Black Artists of Oregon. This exhibition highlights and celebrates the work of Black artists in Oregon over more than a century, exploring this history both through the lens of Black artists whose works are represented in the Museums collection as well as the works of influential artists who, historically, have not been exhibited or held in museum collections. Black Artists of Oregon will be on view through March 17, 2024. Considering both the presence and absence of Black artists is critical to understanding the breadth of Black artistic production in Oregoneven in the midst of historic exclusionas well as how the impact of that history affects our understanding of American art history and the history of the Pacific Northwest. This exhibition serves to deepen our awareness of the talented artists who have shaped and inspired artists regionally and nationally, and i ... More | |
Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #21, 1961, casein, enamel, graphite, printed paper, fabric, linoleum, and embroidery on board, 60 x 48 in. Courtesy of Private Collection / © 2023 Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
PALM BEACH, FLA.- Acquavella Galleries announced that Painted Pop, a selling exhibition featuring painted works by key figures of the American Pop movement, will travel to the gallerys location in Palm Beach. The exhibition features important works by artists including Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann. Painted Pop will be on view in the Palm Beach gallery from January 4 February 11, 2024. Defined by its infusion of imagery from mass media and the American zeitgeist, Pop Art rose to prominence in America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The period is documented for its innovative techniques and sensibilities ... More |
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| "Things may not appear as they seem" in 'Riding High' by Heather Gwen Martin at Miles McEnery Gallery | | 'Serpent Tongue' photographs and text by Annie Grossinger to soon be released | | Powerhouse Parramatta launches 'Sounding the Collection' |
Heather Gwen Martin, OClock Cowboy, 2023, Oil and acrylic on linen, 30 x 25 1/2 inches, 76.2 x 64.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Riding High, an exhibition of intimately-scaled paintings by Heather Gwen Martin, light plays a leading role in the lyrical and vividly hued abstractions. With this body of work, Martin was particularly inspired by the Los Angeles cityscape and the subtle tonal shifts in sunlight and shadows that she patiently observes through her studio window. Martin instinctually builds worlds that interweave nuanced color, biomorphic forms, and lissome lines. Structure balanced with a sense of movement and spontaneity creates a characteristic tension in the work, as forms push, pull, and recede within the picture plane. There is a heaviness to these small works, due in part to the density of spatial relationships; all of Martins paintings, regardless of size, retain the same aspect ratio. The closeness of the forms amps up the torrent of activity within her compositions, writes Julie ... More | |
In Serpent Tongue, Grossinger provides a unique and personal narrative about a complex chapter in Guatemalan and United States history.
NEW YORK, NY.- "Very little of what I thought would connect me to my grandfather actually did. Not the house where the family lived nor the offices where he once worked; not even the children of people who had known him. Instead, I found him in the shadows of my workin the tangled web that marks Guatemalan politics, the barbed layers of conversations, and my anger as I dug further into our fraught history." Annie Grossinger. In the years prior to the Guatemalan civil war, Annie Grossinger's maternal grandfather, John Dougherty, (picture above right), worked for the CIA. Around the time of the coup he was sent to Guatemala City and appointed station chief to help facilitate it. He quit shortly thereafter. The 36-year civil war was preempted by the 1954 CIA-facilitated coup that overthrew the country's first democratically elected president. Given that he died prior ... More | |
Still from Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Sound Before Sound II. Auditioning the Archive.
PARRAMATTA .- Powerhouse Parramatta has today announced the release of new musical commissions created in collaboration with industry partner, German music software company Ableton, to mark the launch of Sounding the Collection, a groundbreaking project that brings the vast Powerhouse collection of objects to life. Sounding the Collection is a response to the Powerhouses extensive collection digitisation project that commenced in 2019 and catalogues the unique sounds of over 100 objects. The archive imbues a sonic dimension to objects from the museums 500,000-strong collection, enriching the understanding of their context and function by providing an auditory experience of each artefacts technological and social histories. Unique sounds range from the clicking of an Atari console to the distinct buzz of a handmade massage machine created by Majid Rabet. ... More |
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Almost 25 years of work by Emilio Vedova from 1980s to the mid-2000s on view at Thaddaeus Ropac
SEOUL .- In the first solo exhibition of Emilio Vedovas work ttaking place in Korea, Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents a group of paintings that encapsulate the Italian artists distinctive approach to abstraction. Spanning almost 25 years of his celebrated career from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s the exhibition charts a key evolution in Vedovas practice, which had a seismic impact on an emerging generation of neo-expressionist artists in the 1980s, including fellow artist and friend Georg Baselitz, and continues to resonate in the art world today. The earliest works in the exhibition date to the first years of the 1980s, which mark a pivotal moment in Vedova's artistic practice. At the start of the decade, he undertook a transformative research trip to Mexico. Deeply affected by the immense landscapes, smells and colours he encountered on ... More
Six decades of groundbreaking works by artist Tamiko Kawata now on view at Alison Bradley Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects is now showing the exhibition TAMIKO KAWATA, a solo-presentation of groundbreaking sculpture, works on paper, and site-specific installation defining the artists trajectory over six decades. On view sinceDecember 13th, 2023 through February 24th, 2024 with an artist reception on January 11, 2024. New York-based artist Tamiko Kawata (b. Kobe, 1936) came of age in postwar Japan: a climate in which resistance to predominant gender roles and class hierarchies of the era became core to both her personal and professional mission. She received her BA in Sculpture at the University of Tsukuba / Tokyo University of Education, developing a practice conceptually informed by the avant-garde aesthetic philosophies and movements of the post-war period, including Dada, Bauhaus, and Gutai, ... More
030 by Karl Horst Hödicke on view at König Galerie
BERLIN.- König Galerie has announced the opening of KÃNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT, its second exhibition space in Berlin. Adjacent to Museumsinsel and housed within the premises of Telegraphenamt, the new location presents artists from inside and outside the gallerys roster, alongside group exhibitions. The first exhibition on view is 030 by Karl Horst Hödicke. Hödicke is one of the leading figures of German Neo-Expressionism and New Figuration. As a member and co-founder of the Neue Wilde movement, beginning in 1978, he consciously opposed the abstract, minimalist, and conceptualist strategies currently prevalent in much of West Germany at that time. The broad brushstrokes and bold color palette lend his works the feeling of seeing a place through memory Berlin and its ever-changing urban landscape in particular is a central motif ... More
All About Photo presents 'The Roma Princesses' by Manuela Federl
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the month of January 2024 and includes twenty photographs from the series The Roma Princesses 'Once upon a time there was a princess in the Roma ghetto. Society's racism and discrimination trapped her in the slum. Nevertheless, a brave prince tried to free her from the clutches of poverty and place the world at her feet.'' A dream that many girls in the Roma settlements probably have. The girl from this fairy tale lives in Trebiov, one of the largest Roma ghettos in Slovakia. Around 7,000 people live here under precarious conditions in cobbled-together barracks or run-down tenements. Most apartments have no sewage system, no showers, no toilets and no kitchen. There is one single well for all residents. ... More
MIT List Visual Arts Center presents an exhibition of works by Carlos Reyes
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center announced the opening of Carlos Reyes: 18, the New York- and Puerto Rico-based artists first museum solo exhibition. Sculpture is a primary medium for Carlos Reyes, whose works are concerned with material investigations of infrastructure, architecture, and other designed objects that we encounter in our built environments. His elegant sculptures feature found materials that bear traces of their former use, such as graffiti-etched cedar planks salvaged from a bathhouse and exhausted treadmill belts stretched and scuffed from wear. Other works cannily recast everyday itemsplastic supermarket egg cartons and IKEA lamps, for instanceinto sculptural configurations. While the austere forms of many of Reyess sculptures and installations cite those of Minimalism, they refocus ... More
Review: The Met's new 'Carmen' trades castanets for cutoffs
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera says its new production of Carmen aims at reinvigorating the classic story. To that end, director Carrie Cracknell has updated Georges Bizets tale of a heedless, headstrong woman and her tragic fate from early-19th-century Spain to present-day America. It seems that the action has been placed somewhere along the border with Mexico, where guns are smuggled in long-haul trucks and rodeo riders (rather than the librettos toreadors) are local celebrities. But this change intended to find the relevance to contemporary concerns in the piece, as Cracknell says in an interview in the program ends up being little change at all. The bland, lethargic staging, which opened on New Years Eve, falls into the pattern of so many of the Mets updatings: It is, almost gesture for gesture, the same ... More
Firecrackers and ice: 5 must-see festivals in Asia this winter
NEW YORK, NY.- For many people, the joys of winter center on strapping on skis, snowshoes or skates and getting outdoors. Of course, that is no less true in many parts of Asia. But with climates ranging from the famously snowy Japanese island of Hokkaido to the tropical forests of Malaysia, the continent offers a wide variety of wintertime delights for travelers who are seeking something different from a day on the slopes. Fresh-caught mountain trout sashimi, anyone? Here are five festivals to check out this winter. The chance to pluck a sancheoneo, or mountain trout, from a frozen river draws thousands of visitors every winter to a cold-weather-loving corner of South Korea. The annual ice festival, held in Hwacheon County from Jan. 6 to Jan. 28 this year, doubles as a tribute to a cherished local fish. To join in, first, buy plastic bait ... More
Emily Blunt doesn't care if her 'Oppenheimer' character is likable
NEW YORK, NY.- In Oppenheimer, writer and director Christopher Nolans summer blockbuster biopic three words that generally dont go together the character of Kitty Oppenheimer is effaced twice over. Kitty, played by Emily Blunt, is the woman behind the man: Though a scientist herself, she is the sidelined wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the American physicist who led the development of an atomic weapon during World War II at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oppenheimer is emphatically his movie, so much so that a lot of the script was written in the first person (I OPEN my eyes- JUMP out of bed- SCRAMBLE to dress). And second, though Kitty was Roberts wife (they had two children together), she was not his first love nor, the film suggests, his strongest. Psychiatrist Jean Tatlock (Florence ... More
America Ferrera and the 'Barbie' monologue we all talked about
NEW YORK, NY.- Listing some of the many perils of womanhood in a still patriarchal society, the monologue that actress America Ferrera delivers in Barbie with the intensity of a rallying cry, became one of the most talked-about movie moments of 2023. Ive never been a part of something so eagerly anticipated, Ferrera said during an interview at a Beverly Hills, California, hotel restaurant. Originally from Los Angeles but based in New York, she was back in her hometown for an awards-season screening of the smash hit. Relaxed in a cozy beige sweater, Ferrera, 39, was recalling a prerelease press stop in Mexico City where 20,000 frenzied people welcomed filmmaker Greta Gerwig and the cast of her pink-soaked comedy. It was like a presidential campaign, she added. Ferrera plays Gloria, mother and Mattel employee whose ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-French painter August Macke was born January 03, 1887. August Macke (3 January 1887 - 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. In this image: August Macke, Landschaft mit hellem Baum, 1914. Aquarell uber Bleistift, 22.2 x 30.9 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. Photo: bpk, Jorg P. Anders.
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