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Bridgette Baldo, UTA gallery director, right, and Tony Parker, sales director, at the new UTA Artist Space in Atlanta, April 14, 2023. Artists, dealers and collectors are waiting to see if UTAs new gallery space will lift Southern talents or focus on big names outside the region. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
by Tariro Mzezewa
ATLANTA, GA.- On a recent weekday evening in this citys Midtown neighborhood, hundreds of people, including Stacey Abrams, the former nominee for governor of Georgia, and Andre Dickens, the citys mayor, came together for a celebration. They werent there to campaign, but to commemorate the opening of an artists gallery created by United Talent Agency, the global entertainment company better known for representing musicians and actors. UTAs expansion into visual art isnt new the agency based in Beverly Hills, California, opened a similar space in Los Angeles a few years ago to show and sell artists work but its decision to plant itself in the South is just the latest signal that Atlantas art scene is bustling and should be a destination for art lovers. Arthur Lewis, the creative director of UTA Fine Arts, who has overseen planning on the Atlanta location for the past two years, said the decision to open a UTA Artist Space here was an easy o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Entries from previous yokai contests on a shelf at the Yokai Art Museum on the Japanese island Shodoshima, March 13, 2023. In the pantheon of yokai, spooky beings of Japanese folklore embody anxieties ancient and modern. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times).
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| A Japanese island where the wild things are | | Oolite Arts presents 'Landscape of Realities' starting today with works of 15 artists-in-residence | | 'Taylor Chapin: Rest Assured You Are In Good Hands' on view through May for monthly Barrio Art Crawl |
Chubei Yagyu, a local artist, on the Japanese island Shodoshima, March 14, 2023. I really thought if I kept drawing yokai myself, they would come out to see me, he said. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
SHODOSHIMA.- Most Japanese schoolchildren know the kappa as a trickster who looks like a cross between a frog and a turtle with an indented head. If youre not careful, it could drag you into the river to drown. The tengu, identifiable by its bright red face and long nose, lurks in the woods. Beware of the tanuki, a supernatural variation of a raccoon dog, for it may make a fool of you when it crosses your path. These mischievous, occasionally demonic, spooks of traditional Japanese folklore are known collectively as yokai. They once helped explain mysterious phenomena, such as noises in the night, missing food, or the rains and winds that damaged property. Now, as shared cultural heritage, they are ubiquitous in fairy tales, cartoons, advertising, television and film. Yet what truly distinguishes the yokai of Japan is that they are not frozen ... More | |
Carolina Cueva, Quncha, 2022. Ceramic, wood, and plaster, 46 x 16 x 24 1/2 inches.
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- Oolite Arts new exhibition presents an expansive view of landscapes ranging from literal to the imagined and alternative realities created with artificial intelligence. Through their differing mediums and viewpoints, each of the 15 resident artists featured in Landscape of Realities explores how surroundings leave an imprint on peoples lives. Our geographies shape our identity, said exhibition Curator Jennifer Inacio, who is the associate curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami. In a city where so many people come from somewhere else, this exhibition is a moment to consider how we as a community are influenced by our current and past landscapes, and how we are in turn influencing them. Several of the pieces are realistic in nature, including Matt Forehands painting of a sports field surrounded ... More | |
Taylor Chapin in the studio. Photo: Lile Kvantaliani. Courtesy of Quint Gallery.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Gallery is showing the exhibition 'Taylor Chapin: Rest Assured You Are In Good Hands' through May 11th by artist Taylor Chapin at their gallery and featured her work as part of the monthly Barrio Art Crawl event, a free self guided tour consisting of murals, open studios, galleries, and local businesses throughout the Barrio Arts District. Working in both oil and acrylic, Taylor Chapin's paintings obscure form through multi-layered, illusory facades. She depicts mundane consumer goods wrapped in patterned fabrics, questioning how value is manufactured and challenging perceptions of reality. In her figurative works, Chapin enshrines anonymous bodies with pattern and color as a way of critiquing the perception of value. In both bodies of work, the distinctive features that construct human and commercial individuation are denied. In Rest Assured, You Are in Good Hands, Chapin transforms an unidentifiable body covered completely i ... More |
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| Works from the Estate of Edward Penfield to be auctioned by Rago and Toomey & Co. | | ART FOR CHANGE partners with artists Jesse Krimes and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons to benefit Brooklyn Museum | | Retrospective of the work of acclaimed artist Maro Gorky opens today at Long & Ryle |
Edward Penfield, Harper's April 1894 cover. (est. $5,000-7,000).
CHICAGO, IL.- Rago and Toomey & Co. are pleased to offer over 100 works in an auction dedicated to Edward Penfield: American Illustrator on May 18th with all material sourced directly from the artist's estate. Like Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who helped to define the popular Art Nouveau style of graphic art in Europe at the end of the 19th century, Edward Penfield is largely credited with setting the tone for the Golden Age of American poster art during the same period. The sale on May 18th includes compositions dating to various parts of Penfield's esteemed career from his early days at Harper & Brothers, to his tenure as art director, to his later freelance work for other publishers and his travels in Holland and Spain. Showcasing Penfield's wide array of favorite themes, the mediums available include: gouache, watercolor, and oil paintings; ink, graphite, and charcoal ... More | |
MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons, Testigo, 2023, 18 x 21 inches. Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 25 with 5 AP + 1PP. Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist. Starting at $3,500 framed.
NEW YORK, NY.- ART FOR CHANGE, a leading platform that connects art collectors with in-demand contemporary artists and their work, is pleased to partner with artists Jesse Krimes and MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons to benefit The Brooklyn Museum. To celebrate the Museum's annual Brooklyn Artists Ball on April 25, Krimes and Campos-Pons have created two new limited-edition prints that will launch the day of the gala. In keeping with all of ART FOR CHANGEs releases, both artists will receive 50% of the net proceeds from each print sale. This marks the third consecutive year that ART FOR CHANGE has partnered with artists to benefit The Brooklyn Museum. In keeping with previous years, the platform will donate $500 from each print sold ... More | |
Saskia on a Rocking-Horse by Maro Gorky, 1983, 152 x 127 cm.
LONDON.- Long & Ryle will open today A Life Painting, a first-time retrospective of work from the acclaimed artist Maro Gorky (b. New York,1943) from 19 April 12 May 2023 at 4 John Islip St, London SW1. The exhibition marks a celebration of Gorkys life and work and is held to coincide with her 80th birthday. The exhibition will feature a selection of oils and watercolours and works on paper, painted throughout her lifetime. A Life Painting will feature paintings that reflect her signature bold use of colour depicting the vibrancy of the Tuscan countryside where she has lived with her husband, the sculptor and writer Matthew Spender, for the past fifty years. From the early-romanticised landscapes of undulating Tuscan hills, the paintings move towards an abstracted discourse on colour and pattern, whilst retaining the familiarity and warmth of the rural Italian environment. ... More |
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| Bernice Rose, curator who elevated the art of drawing, dies at 87 | | 'Expanding the Boundaries' now on view at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts includes work by George Grosz | | For the American Prison Writing Archive, a 'shadow canon' sheds light |
Curator Bernice Rose works on the exhibit Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism at Pace Gallery in New York, on March 16, 2007. Bernice Rose, an art historian and curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions put traditional drawing on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, challenging notions of it as their poor cousin, died on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernice Rose, an art historian and curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions put traditional drawing on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, challenging notions of it as their poor cousin, died Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Roberta Alpert, a family friend. As a drawing curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Rose organized exhibitions that showed how drawings were far more than preliminary works executed mainly on paper. In a catalog that accompanied Drawing Now: 1955-1975, her 1976 landmark exhibition at MoMA, she wrote that drawing had become a major and independent medium with distinctive expressive possibilities altogether its own. When the show ... More | |
Still Life With An Oil Lamp, 1927 Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 inches Signed & Dated on Verso.
PASADENA, CA.- Still Life With An Oil Lamp is an excellent example by Grosz's works from the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) period, now on view at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts until April 29th. Also included in the event are works by: Jordi Alcaraz, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Georges Braque, Hans Burkhardt, Marc Chagall, George Condo, Claire Falkenstein, Patrick Graham, George Grosz, Paul Klee, Peter Krasnow, Rene Magritte, Gustavo Montoya, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, George Nama, Pablo Picasso, Ruth Weisberg, Jerome Witkin, Francisco Züniga. As a reaction to German Expressionism, Grosz and Otto Dix are regarded as the founders of the movement which offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism. The movement was characterized by depictions of unmercifully detailed portraits and everyday objects such as shown in this ... More | |
Doran Larson, a Hamilton literature and creative writing professor, at home in Carlsbad, Calif., April 4, 2023. The American Prison Writing Archive evolved out of a writing class taught by Larson at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At an age when his peers were getting drivers licenses and thinking about college, Jose Di Lenola, then 17, was behind bars in one of New Yorks most violent prisons, earning a masters degree in prison survival, as he put it. He learned how to wield a metal can lid as a weapon and fashion a protective vest out of magazine covers taped to his torso. In I Swerve, Pursued, his essay about the 26 years he served for killing a high school classmate during a burglary, Di Lenola describes his indoctrination the first week: While waiting in line to go to dinner, I saw a prisoner stabbed four times, his lung punctured twice. The next day in the yard, while sitting on the concrete bleachers, a guy came and sat near me. At first I didnt notice anything amiss, until he turned ... More |
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| Gallery Night by Art Brussels opens new exhibition by Mekhitar Garabedian today | | Golden Sun Auctions to hold online auction featuring native American pottery, jewelry, art and a Camaro Z28 | | Courting the sirens of the southern sky |
Installation view.
BRUSSELS.- In his new show, 'I copied this page in one country and the other page in another land' opening today at Baronian for the ocassion of Gallery Night by Art Brussels, Mekhitar Garabedian exhibits a series of drawings, calendars, and a poster, which together serve to manifest the fragility and weight of heritage. The exhibition will be on view until May 27th at Rue de la Concorde 33.
In his drawings, he shares his personal, alternative interpretation of the dense, prolific manuscript heritage of Armenia. By re-appropriating this medieval tradition, he also becomes a copyist, leveraging the graphic and artistic possibilities that this practice introduced. His series of sketches have seemingly reactivated the scribes muscle memory, underscoring the singular, contemporary relevance of these text fragments and imagery. Could Garabedians ... More | |
Peyote bird necklace:Vintage Navajo sterling silver necklace with one large Peyote center bird and eight smaller birds, all with turquoise and coral chip inlay, 20 inches long (est. $200-$800).
FULLERTON, CA.- Golden Sun Auctions will hold an online-only native American pottery, jewelry, art and camaro Z28 auction on Sunday, April 30th. In addition to a 1969 Z28 Chevrolet Camaro, the sale will also feature outstanding collections of Native American, prehistoric and modern pottery, jewelry, artwork, kachina dolls, rugs & more. A beautiful blue 1969 Z28 Chevrolet Camaro muscle car, one of only 20,302 Z28s built that year, and outstanding collections of Native American, prehistoric and modern pottery, jewelry, artwork, kachinas and rugs will come up for bid in a live online auction scheduled for Sunday, April 30th, by Golden Sun Auctions, Inc., starting at 12 noon Pacific time. ... More | |
Patricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. These days it takes a generation to build a giant telescope. The next one is taking shape in the Atacama Desert in Chile. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY.- To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars. The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes, is one of the driest and darkest places in the world. During the day one can see to Bolivia, far to the east, where clouds billow into thunderstorms that will never moisten this region. At night, calm, unruffled winds off the Pacific Ocean produce some of the most exquisite stargazing conditions on Earth. One evening in late January the sky was so thick with stars that the bones of the constellations blurred into the background. The Milky Way, our home galaxy, was rolling straight overhead, and the Large and Small ... More |
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Center for Art, Research and Alliances announces inaugural CARA Fellowship and Artist Awardees
NEW YORK, NY.- The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)an arts nonprofit, research center, and publisheris pleased to announce its first fellowship initiative designed to support and sustain mid-to-late career artists and honor artists legacies. The inaugural awardees are Japanese-American artist E´wao Rocky Kagoshima and Puerto Rican filmmaker Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. The CARA Fellowship aims to nurture artists across disciplines, uplifting knowledges and voices from different geographic contexts and making alternate historical perspectives visible. The CARA fellowship provides recipients with unrestricted $75,000 grants in addition to individually tailored support over a two-year term. This approach aims to imagine holistic care for artists and their practices and prioritizes process ... More
Super Bowl Wager painting goes on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO. .- As the Kansas City Chiefs and football teams around the country prepare for the NFL Draft next week, a side-bet made between The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on whose hometown team would win Super Bowl LVII, has resulted in a new addition to the American galleries in Kansas City. Thomas Eakins Sailing is the Nelson-Atkins trophy following #MuseumBowl23. It is with great pride that we put Sailing on view so that our city can once again celebrate the Chiefs exciting Super Bowl win, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. In this classic American painting, Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins celebrates the joy of movement as two friends glide across the Schuylkill River. The p ... More
'Dissident Practices: How Brazilian Women Artists Respond to Social Change' opens today
NEW YORK, NY.- Dissident Practices, on view April 19-June 16, 2023, at Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, explores how Brazilian women artists respond to social change -- from the military dictatorship in the mid-1960s to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of a more diverse younger generation fighting for gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights. Curated by Claudia Calirman, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the exhibition will present more than 30 works, including sculpture, video, and photography by 11 prominent and emerging Brazilian artists. Among the artists featured are LetÃcia Parente (1930 ... More
'Like a Romance': Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht's spring fling onstage
NEW YORK, NY.- Alice and Diana dont like each other very much. Not at first. Diana, a teacher at the University of Ohio, considers Alice an intellectual lightweight and flaky. Alice, a faculty wife, finds Diana condescending. They are unlikely friends, Laura Linney, who plays Diana, said with understatement. And yet forced together for a few sticky Midwestern months by their young daughters, a relationship burgeons over kiddie pools and Popsicles. Their friendship, which will eventually burn with the blue-flame intensity of a love affair, will profoundly alter each womans life. This is the substance of David Auburns memory play Summer, 1976, a febrile two-hander directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Linney and Jessica Hecht (Alice) as women in their 50s recalling a pivotal time in their 20s. The Manhattan Theater C ... More
Hollywood writers approve of strike as shutdown looms
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hollywood is getting ever closer to a shutdown. The unions representing thousands of television and movie writers said Monday that they had overwhelming support for a strike, giving union leaders the right to call for a walkout when the writers contract with the major Hollywood studios expires May 1. The unions, which are affiliated East and West coast branches of the Writers Guild of America, said more than 9,000 writers had approved a strike authorization, with 98% of the vote. WGA leaders have said this is an existential moment for writers, contending that compensation has stagnated over the past decade despite the explosion of television series in the streaming era. In an email last week to writers, the lead negotiators said that the survival of writing as a profession is at stake in ... More
New York City Ballet to honor past and present in 75th year
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City Ballet will celebrate its 75th anniversary next season with a mix of old and new, honoring the legacy of its co-founder, George Balanchine, as well as more recent contributions to the repertoire, the company announced Monday. The season will feature Balanchine classics such as Serenade and Prodigal Son, as well as several world premieres, including by Alexei Ratmansky, the renowned choreographer, who joins the company in August as artist in residence. Wendy Whelan, City Ballets associate artistic director, said the season was meant to showcase the companys real legacy for innovation. Weve enjoyed the idea of a tree, she said in an interview, the idea of the roots building out into a flowering tree. The season, which will feature some 160 performances, will open on Sept ... More
Opening today Esiri Erheriene-Essi at Maruani Mercier
BRUSSELS.- Today Maruani Mercier is opening the second solo exhibition of Esiri Erheriene-Essi at our gallery in Brussels. The paintings in Mother Tongue are a continuation of her ongoing exploration and celebration of the everyday stories and ordinary moments, the untold, often forgotten, and even neglected narratives of people of the African diaspora. Building on her previous series The Future Isn't What It Used to Be (2021) and Rememory (2022), these works make use of Black vernacular photography as source images. Erheriene-Essi primarily uses instamatic photographs from the 1950s through the 1980s as inspiration for her paintings. During this period photography became cheaper and readily available to a broader population, leading to a more diverse representation of histories being docu ... More
National Endowment for the Humanities announces $35.6 million in grants
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Endowment for the Humanities announced Tuesday the 258 beneficiaries of its newest round of grants, the first of three rounds to be awarded this year. Among the projects will be restorations to the USS Intrepid, a historic aircraft carrier that is the centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York; a documentary exploring the legacy of fictional sleuth Nancy Drew, whose books have been in print for nearly 100 years; and a book that traces the development of modern Egypt through the historical importance of the tomato. The grants, which total $35.6 million, will support projects at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites in 44 states, as well as in Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and the United Arab Emirates. Another of the projects is the restoration of a strawbe ... More
Morphy Auctions begins auction tomorrow focusing on penny arcade and amusement parlor items
DENVER, PA.- Morphys will bring on the fun and games April 20-22 with a stellar array of antique coin-operated machines and early advertising. Nearly 2,100 premium lots will be offered in three daily sessions, each packed with rare and desirable items. A special highlight is a substantial collection of country store memorabilia which Morphy Auctions CEO Tom Tolworthy describes as one of the largest of its kind to come fresh to the market in decades. In addition to gallery bidding, Morphys welcomes absentee, phone, and Internet participation via Morphy Live. The undisputed star of the three-day event is a circa 1902-1904 Caille Bros Triple Eclipse upright musical slot machine. Its serial number, 121, designates it as the earliest of very few known legitimate examples of its type. The machines design is quite so ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Paolo Veronese died April 19, 1588. Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the âgreat trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecentoâ and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. In this image: Left: Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter, 1566-67, oil on canvas, 65 1/2 Ã 81 1/2 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia. Right: Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566-67 Oil on canvas, 91 Ã 57 1/4 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia.
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