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Ãdouard Baldus (French, 18131889), Hôtel de Ville, Paris, about 1860, albumen print. Gift of Dr. Daveed D. Frazier, 2018.131
DAYTON, OH.- Have you ever wondered what art can be found in the homes of Dayton area collectors? The Dayton Art Institutes centennial special exhibition, Our Century: Dayton Area Collects, helps answer that question, with a look at local art collections. Our Century: Dayton Area Collects, on view from June 29 through September 22, brings together works from private art collections in the Dayton Area, as well as recent significant and promised gifts to the DAI, as part of the museums ongoing centennial celebrations in 2019. The exhibition is organized by the DAI and curated by the museums Chief Curator, Dr. Jerry N. Smith. The DAI is the sole venue for this fascinating look at area art collections. It has been a real treat to visit so many collectors and see such wonderful works people surround themselves with, Smith said. The ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view: Here We Are Today. A View of the World in Photography & Video Art pn view at Bucerius Kunst Forum. Photo: Ulrich Perrey
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 | | Opera's Domingo faces sexual harassment probe, shows canceled | | Videoland: Exhibition celebrates ten years of Kunsthal KAdE | | Woodstock, pinnacle of the hippie dream, turns 50 | 
In this file photo taken on July 7, 2017 Spanish tenor Placido Domingo speaks during a press conference. GERARD JULIEN / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Opera legend Placido Domingo faced a growing #MeToo storm Tuesday as the Los Angeles Opera opened an investigation into multiple allegations of sexual harassment against him and two other major venues canceled his upcoming performances. Domingo defended himself after several women, one of whom was identified, accused him of using his position as one of opera's most celebrated singers to pressure them into sexual relationships. Eight singers and a dancer told the Associated Press that they were sexually harassed in incidents going back to the 1980s. One said Domingo had put his hand down her skirt while three said he had forcibly kissed them. Some said they felt their careers had been damaged by rejecting his advances. "The allegations from these unnamed individuals dating back as many as 30 years are deeply troubling, and as presented, ... More | | 
assume vivid astro focus immerses the viewer in a colourful, psychedelic world. Photo: Mike Bink.
AMERSFOORT.- This summer, Kunsthal KAdE celebrates its tenth anniversary. It is a time to pause and reflect, before continuing to pursue Kunsthal KAdEs mission: to make exhibitions in the (usually contemporary) visual arts field. As the Netherlands supreme poet, Joost van den Vondel, famously wrote in 1632, in this troubled world Eternity goes before the moment. The philosophy summed up in the line touches on a major aspect of art: the setting of a specific motif within an idea of universal relevance. The motto demands a medium with an unparalleled ability to isolate an individual moment in the vast continuum of time: that medium is video art. For this years summer exhibition, Videoland, Kunsthal KAdE has selected 11 films that in some way balance the experience of a specific moment with a sense of eternity. The exhibition is based partly on a selection from the EKARD collection. Participating artists: ass ... More | | 
Danny Goldberg, President of Gold Village Entertainment speaks during an interview with AFP. Angela Weiss / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A freewheeling weekend of indulgence. A New York farm transformed by idealistic youths into a mid-size city. A celebration of rock music and utopian ideals. Woodstock was many things but one thing is clear -- it is revered by many as the cultural touchstone of a generation. The 1969 festival of peace, love and music marks its 50th anniversary this weekend, triggering a wave of nostalgia for an era when rock was for the young, tie-dye was cool, long hair was a statement, and kids said "groovy" without a trace of irony. It's estimated that anywhere from 400,000 to half a million people descended on Max Yasgur's alfalfa fields in upstate New York that August 15-18, embarking on a trip of a party that saw icons like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Santana jam as increasingly filthy festival-goers danced, stripped and dropped acid in torrential rain. At the outset, ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Museum Ludwig celebrates the eightieth birthday of Benjamin Katz | | Exhibition at Château Malromé exhibits twenty works by Prune Nourry | | Exhibition brings together three seminal works by John Akomfrah | 
Benjamin Katz, Berlin Havelhöhe, 1960/1961. Silbergelatineabzug, 46 x 46,5 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019. Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.
COLOGNE.- Benjamin Katz became known in the 1980s as a fixture of the art scene in West Germany. He took portraits of artists such as Georg Baselitz, James Lee Byars, A.R. Penck, Cindy Sherman, and Rosemarie Trockel, photographed the bustling art scene at openings, and documented the creation of major exhibitions such as Westkunst in Cologne in 1981, documenta 7 in Kassel in 1982, and von hier aus in Düsseldorf in 1984. On the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Benjamin Katz (born on June 14, 1939, in Antwerp, Belgium), the Museum Ludwig presents his series of photographs Berlin Havelhöhe (1960/1961), which has never before been shown in its entirety. The series was recently acquired directly from the artists archive. Even before Katz devoted himself professionally to photography, he captured his surroundings in 1960 and 1961 ... More | | 
Installation view. © Pierre-Yves Queignec.
SAINT-ANDRÃ-DU-BOIS.- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had a rare genetic disease called pycnodysostosis, which affects the bones. If he had been conceived today, he would most likely never have been born, because we have been using new technologies for several decades now to diagnose such diseases in uteroa slippery slope that can kindle eugenic temptations. In this scenario, none of his beautiful paintings, drawings or engravings would have ever existed. The work of Prune Nourry (born in Paris in 1985) raises awareness about the dangers of gender selection at birth, particularly in India and China, where there is an underlying preference for male children. Much of her work alludes to these missing girls, who have disappearedsometimes even before birthas a result of traditional attitudes and population policies. The projects designed by the artist in these regionsthe Holy Daughters, Holy River, and Terracotta Daughters seriesaim to raise awareness, while also exploring in ... More | | 
John Akomfrah, Peripeteia, 2012. Single channel HD colour video, 5.1 sound 17 minutes 28 seconds © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC is presenting John Akomfrah: Ballasts of Memory, bringing together three seminal works by the London-based artist, whose moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora, both in the UK and around the world. Exploring the development of his practice over the past decade, the exhibition features the European premiere of Akomfrahs film Precarity (2017), alongside The Unfinished Conversation (2012) and Psyche (2012). Akomfrah began his practice in the early 1980s as a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today. They were pioneering in their injection of narratives of black British history and culture into popular media through documentaries made for British television. ... More |
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| | Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair launches September 2019 | | The Cultural Landscape Foundation establishes new international landscape architecture prize | | Kunsthalle Mainz presents an exhibition of works by Latifa Echakhch | 
Elaine de Kooning.
JACKSON HOLE, WY.- Jackson Hole Fine Art Fair announced its first edition on September 12-15, 2019 at the Snow King Sports and Events Center (100 E Snow King Ave). JHFAF brings more than 45 national exhibitors to the region, representing some of the nations most sought-after artistic talent. JHFAF is excited to contribute to Jackson Holes already vibrant arts community, bringing along new audiences, collectors, artists and exhibitors. JHFAF is hosted concurrently with the 35th year of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, an event that has helped turn the town into a premiere art destination in the West. Inspired by Jackson Holes dynamic and collaborative cultural community, JHFAF is working with local charities, museums and companies to create special events and programming. Notably, JHFAF is honored to partner with the award-winning National Museum of Wildlife Art on several initiatives including the Harvest Moon Ar ... More | | 
Portland Open Space Sequence, Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain, Portland, OR, 2016. Designed by Lawrence Halprin with Angela Danadjieva, 1970. Photo © Jeremy Bittermann, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy organization, announced that it will establish an international landscape architecture prize to be conferred biennially. This is the first and only international landscape architecture prize that includes a US$100,000 monetary award. In addition, the Prize features two years of related public engagement activities to honor a living practitioner, collaborative or team for their creative, courageous, and visionary work in the field of landscape architecture. The inaugural Prize will be awarded in 2021. TCLF board co-chair Joan Shafran and her husband Rob Haimes have generously provided a lead gift of US$1 million to underwrite the ... More | | 
Latifa Echakhch: Black mud cover the legs, until the knees, steps become more and more heavier. Turning slowly to the left, wishing it wont be dry too fast., 2019, black Chinese ink and sepia ink on canvas, 200 x 150 cm, © Latifa Echakhch, Photo. archives kamel mennour, Courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour, Paris, London.
MAINZ.- The artist Latifa Echakhch is well known for her site-specific installations and interventions. Her works invariably relate to wherever they are being exhibited, specifically to the architecture and local roots. Referring to the formal idioms of Minimal art and Concrete art, she links these to materials such as ink or yarn, and to objects such as books, photographs or mussels, weaving them into her narratives along the way. Latifa Echakhchs unique feeling for materials is bound up with social-political content and issues concerning cultural roots, the consequences of migration and the significance of revolutions. The artist was born in Morocco and spent her early childhood there. She then emigrated ... More |
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| | Solo exhibition from multidisciplinary artist Taus Makhacheva on view at YARAT Contemporary Art Space | | New exhibition features original manuscripts, images of suffrage movement | | Galerie Emanuel Layr presents an exhibition of works by Nick Oberthaler | 
Taus Makhacheva, On the benefits of pyramids in cultural education, strengthening of national consciousness and the formation of moral and ethical guideposts, 2015. Photo documentation of performance at 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Photo by Maksim Belousov, courtesy the Artist.
BAKU.- YARAT Contemporary Art Space announces a solo exhibition from multidisciplinary artist Taus Makhacheva, running 12 July 6 October 2019. Living and working in her hometown of Moscow, Makhachevas varied practice includes installation, performance and film. At YARAT, the artist presents an interactive multimedia installation exploring Azerbaijani contemporaneity, through newly-commissioned works detailing the USSR Circus tradition and wider concepts of history making. Reference points include the story of the Berberov family, who once lived in Baku with their pet lion, King I. Achieving fame across the Soviet Union following a movie role, the lion was then mistakenly shot dead by a policeman. ... More | | 
Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washington, ca. 1917-1918. National Womans Party Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Handwritten letters, speeches, photographs and scrapbooks, created by American suffragists who persisted for more than 70 years to win voting rights for women, are being featured in a new exhibition at the Library of Congress. Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote, tells the story of the largest reform movement in American history with documents and artifacts from the women who changed political history 100 years ago. Drawing from the personal collections of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Mary Church Terrell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Harriet Stanton Blatch and others, along with the records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and National Womans Party all donated to the national library years ago the exhibition explores womens long ... More | | 
Installation view.
VIENNA.- Mobile is the name of an important book written in 1962 by Michel Butor, a major writer of the Nouveau Roman, which breaks the rules of the romantic novel. Mobile maps the United States of America though a car journey. Collecting elements of American culture: flyers from hotels, diners, and bird names, Butor assigns each state by the brandnames of its gas stations: Mobile, Exxon, Shell
and through this constant movement across invisible borders, fake lines on an invented map, Butor reinvents a story of migration. In constant movement, like a concrete poem using natural facts as events, Mobile creates a new geography of mundane life. It also deals with old stories, the Salem witch trials, sundown towns, the reverse of the ideal postcard. What could a contemporary landscape look like? What form does the postcard take today? Instant visions through iPhones, Macbooks, iPads, the new birdsongs are Tweets, Google colors supply ... More |
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 Frank Holliday's first solo show in an Italian museum on view at Museo Carlo BilottiROME.- Museo Carlo Bilotti recently opened the Frank Holliday in Rome exhibition, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi. Another exhibition on a similar theme, Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983, closed at MoMA in New York in April 2018. Held in collaboration with the Keith Haring Foundation, this exhibition is the largest ever show devoted entirely to the historic East Village club, who helped give legendary status to the New York counterculture in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The show took great care to outline the art scene of the period by including works by Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Adolfo Sanchez and Frank Holliday. A little over a year later, Frank Holliday makes his first appearance in an Italian museum with his solo show held at Museo Carlo Bilotti, which displays 36 works, all created in 2016 during what the artist ... More  Moniker Art Fair partners with Urban Nation Museum in a celebration of British urban artists LONDON.- Marking a decade of their London fairs, Moniker continues to push the narrative of urban art, and its role on the London art scene, with its relocation to Chelsea this October. In an exciting celebration of British urban art, Moniker will partner with Urban Nation Museum, the urban contemporary art museum in Berlin, to curate its Installation Hall with British artists presenting work dealing with England now, Brexit and the future for todays youth. Urban Nation is a wide-reaching, international institution which, under the vision of Executive Director Yasha Young, focusses on cultural innovation. In a similar vein as to how Moniker challenges the traditional art fair model, Urban Nation seeks to rethink the classical museum concept and help re-shape structures. While traditional urban art changes, Moniker continues to be unafraid. Yasha Young comments, ... More  Badischer Kunstverein presents an exhibition of works by Heidi Herzig and Ben ÖztatKARLSRUHE.- They entered the shop. The products on offer did nothing for them. They were interested instead in the spatial construction, which suspended all of the objects in the air. Before long, they became aware of the tilted floor on which they stood. Tilted just enough, just enough inclination, so that it seems almost slanted. In pale blue. As the time passed gradually, or at least we must assume that it did so, there was a slight yet nonetheless noticeable change in the slope of the ground on which they found themselves, along with the relationship between their bodies and gravitation. The result was a sudden leap, without the intervening space having been traversed, or the foam-like, fleeting, yet real experience of an unexpected change of direction. As though the vertical wanted to tell them something. From this point onward, they stroll with this serum, ... More  Peabody Essex Museum presents the first retrospective of celebrated American photographer Olivia ParkerSALEM, MASS.- For more than 40 years, Olivia Parker (b. 1941) has used photography to explore the relationships between vision, knowledge, and the natural world. From deceptively simple still lifes that transform the commonplace to her most recent work exploring memory loss, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker features more than 100 intricately composed photographs that reflect the artists wide creative range and unflagging curiosity. On view at the Peabody Essex Museum from July 13 through November 11, 2019, this is the first exhibition to present a comprehensive retrospective of Parkers extensive career. A highly-celebrated and acclaimed photographer, Olivia Parkers work is represented in major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ... More  Exhibition shows how today's designers are bringing about a sea change in our consumptionGENT.- Sustainability was a hot topic at the 2019 Milan Design Week. A new generation of designers is reflecting on the impact of their designs on our planet. They have to make crucial decisions about the origin of materials, reusability, energy consumption and waste flows. Belgiums three leading design institutions joined forces to showcase the work of these environmentally-aware Belgians. Flanders DC, MAD Brussels and Wallonie-Bruxelles Design Mode (WBDM) did this in Milan under the Belgium is Design label. Design Museum Gent is hosting this exhibition through September 29. The exhibition Belgian Design: Generous Nature shows how todays designers are bringing about a sea change in our production and consumption, by opting for sustainable systems that focus on more than just the product. Besides smart choices in terms of materials and production ... More  Nonprofit 4Heads to open annual art fair on Governors Island Labor Day WeekendNEW YORK, NY.- On August 31, the nonprofit 4heads will open its annual art fair, Portal: Governors Island (formerly Governors Island Art Fair). The selling fair will feature 89 emerging and mid-career artists, whose work spans the spectrum of artistic genre and media, from painting and drawing to sculptural installations to video and digital works. This years edition of the fair will be presented across seven of the historic homes on Colonels Row as well as on the adjacent outdoor lawns. As with prior iterations of the fair, each artist is provided with an individual room, connective space, or exterior plot, allowing artists to leverage the environments to create micro-exhibitions as well as immersive, large-scale installations. Now in its 12th year, the fair heralds the start of the fall visual arts season in New York, offering a spirited atmosphere that invites active engagement ... More  Commodification, value, and belief systems examined in new exhibition at Grounds for SculptureHAMILTON, NJ.- On view through January 5, 2020, Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton NJ presents the work of multinational conceptual artist, TALLUR L.N., in his first survey exhibition in the United States. Filling two multi-level galleries, Interference Fringe | Tallur L.N. brings together a survey of over 25 sculptures created during the past 13 years in a range of media including found objects, appropriated industrial machines, carved stone and wood, cast bronze, and works embedded in concrete and studded with coins. With pointed humor and incisive visual commentary, Tallur confronts our belief systems, questioning the value we assign to money, icons, and artifacts. Building on the rich sculptural traditions of India, he references ancient iconography, religious and patriotic symbology, and mythology. There are several interactive works in the exhibition ... More  Otherworldly, monumental map takes over Intuit's museum wallsCHICAGO, IL.- A lone doodle from 1963 has grown into the project of a lifetime for Michigan-based artist Jerry Gretzinger. The first piece of Jerry's Map was made while he was bored, working at a ball bearing factory. This map-an ongoing project-now spans the length and width of a full-sized basketball court. On view at Intuit beginning August 15, Jerry's Map features selections from the map of his imaginary world. The vast project now consists of about 3,600 individual 8 x 10" panels conjoined to make a single, large-scale map filled with cities, countryside, rivers, airports, railroads and other features representing everyday life in this imagined realm. The panels are executed in acrylic, marker, colored pencil, ink, collage and inkjet print on heavy paper. The oldest panels are at the center of the map, with new panels generated from the core outward ... More  Heide Museum of Modern Art presents major Robin Boyd exhibition on centenary of his birthMELBOURNE.- As part of the Robin Boyd centenary celebrations, Heide Museum of Modern Art is presenting Robin Boyd: Design Legend, a new exhibition celebrating the work of one of Australias most respected and well-known architects, and one of the nations first public intellectuals and media celebrities. Presented in the iconic modernist building Heide II from 3 August to 27 October 2019, the exhibition is a major event in the centenary celebrations of Boyds birth and explores some of his key design themes and principles through ten of his distinctive houses. Heide Museum of Modern Art Artistic Director Lesley Harding says, Heides rich history in design and architecture makes it the perfect place to reflect on Robin Boyds remarkable career and enduring legacy. We are delighted to offer unparalleled access to some of his iconic ... More  Schwartz City Books announces a monumental seven-volume Brett Whiteley catalogue raisonnéMELBOURNE.- Schwartz City Books has announced a monumental seven-volume catalogue raisonné chronicling a lifetime of work by Brett Whiteley will be released on 9 December 2019. Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 19551992 has been compiled by art historian Kathie Sutherland over seven years and comprises a seven-volume collection that covers the artists lifetime of work in exhaustive detail. Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 19551992 is an unprecedented publishing event that confirms Whiteleys enduring significance as a visionary force of Australian art. Weighing 21 kilograms and totalling 2400 pages, the set of seven cloth-bound books presented in a deluxe, elegantly finished slipcase features more than 4600 artworks, including hundreds of never-before-published works. Volumes I, III and IV hold paintings and drawings from the 1950s ... More  art berlin 2019: Participating galleries and program announcedBERLIN.- art berlin announced the third edition with the participation of more than 110 international galleries. For the second time, art berlin takes place in the spectacular hangars of the historic Tempelhof Airport. The program focuses on young and established contemporary art as well as modern art. In order to respond to the shifting developments of the art market, art berlin is continually developing new formats for the curated and focused mediation of art alongside its Gallery presentations: In the Special Projects section, galleries highlight individual positions or concentrate on curated exhibitions, this time with the work of artists such as Georges Adéagbo, Jörg Buttgereit, Leda Bourgogne, David Horwitz, Nadira Husain, Banele Khoza, Sarah Loibl, Stefan Marx, Shawn Maximo, Lia Perjovschi, Agnieszka Polska, Camilla Steinum, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The Salon ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Willy Ronis was born August 14, 1910. Willy Ronis (August 14, 1910 - September 12, 2009) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence. Ronis' nudes and fashion work (for Vogue and Le Jardin des modes) show his appreciation for natural beauty; meanwhile, he remained a principled news photographer, resigning from Rapho for a 25-year period when he objected to the hostile captioning by The New York Times to his photograph of a strike. In this image: Willy Ronis, Ãle Saint-Denis, nord de Paris, 1956. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / Médiathèque de lâarchitecture et du patrimoine / Dist RMN-GP © Donation Willy Ronis.
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