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Before the painting was brought to Getty for conservation, Birkmaier traveled to Beirut to assess the damage.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- As soft afternoon light filtered into Gettys painting conservation studio, Ulrich Birkmaier flipped through the pages of a photography book. He found the image he was looking for and stopped, shaking his head. The photo was of an ornate, cavernous room with a chandelier, curved ceilings, and walls lined with framed paintings. Broken furniture and shattered glass were strewn across the floor. The windows were blown out. The artworks on the walls were pock-marked and torn. Birkmaier looked up at the large canvas propped on an easel in front of him, then pointed out where it hung in the photo. Right now, all you can see is the horrific da ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its "End-of-Year Clearance Ancient / Ethnographic" sale on Dec 29, 2022 9:00 AM CST. Time to clear out the warehouse! Featuring discounted pricing on authentic antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. Translated Roman Mosaic Household Dedication Greek Text. Estimate $10,000 - $20,000.
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| Hannah Traore Gallery presents 'Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Old Indian Tricks' | | Pandemic woes lead Met Opera to tap endowment and embrace new work | | Juan Francisco Elso's indelible art of América |
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, We Dont Want Indians Just Their Names Cities Cars Mascots Objects, 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery is presenting Old Indian Tricks, a solo exhibition of artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, on view through January 14, 2022. As a Tribal Indigenous Entity, creating space for authentic representation in the United States is a battle fought from the margins. Native reality was born from and lives at the center of a natural world respectful of Earth bound ways, and clever maneuvers are necessary to challenge an encroaching American Empire. From Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds perspective, Native agencies must be generous yet savvy and offer a critical lens that both enlightens and protects their community. Operating as a maneuver to strike the viewer, Old Indian Tricks activates personal, subliminal and political observations. The exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery presents a thirty-foot installation of 48 monotype prints. Each work on display is produced using viscosity ... More | |
The Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 12, 2020. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Hit hard by a cash shortfall and lackluster ticket sales as it tries to lure audiences back amid the pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera said Monday that it would withdraw up to $30 million from its endowment, give fewer performances next season and accelerate its embrace of contemporary works, which, in a shift, have been outselling the classics. The dramatic financial and artistic moves show the extent to which the pandemic and its aftermath continue to roil the Met, the premier opera company in the United States, and come as many other performing arts institutions face similar pressures. The challenges are greater than ever, said Peter Gelb, the Mets general manager. The only path forward is reinvention. Nonprofit organizations try to dip into their endowments only as a last resort, since the funds are meant to grow over time while producing a steady ... More | |
Juan Francisco Elso, Por América (José MartÃ), 1986, at El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan on Dec. 19, 2022. Combining attributes of a Christian saint, African spirit-figure, political monument, and artists self-portrait, Elsos image of Marti was of a ghost on the march, writes our critic. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Over decades of seasons spent trawling through museums and galleries Ive seen, up close or in passing, countless works of contemporary art. A few have entered my bloodstream instantly and indelibly. One was a sculpture called Por América (José Marti) by the short-lived Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. That was in 1993 when, in the wake of the Columbus Quincentenary year, a group exhibition of new Latin American art called Ante America (translated in its catalog as Regarding America) traveled from Bogotá, Colombia, to the Queens Museum in New York. With new work emphasizing African, Indigenous and diasporic sources, the show was designed as a definition-stretching, stereotype-shattering response to the Museum of Modern Arts big, modernist-minded ... More |
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| Letha Wilson, Folds and Faults, on view at Higher Pictures Generation | | Galerie Karsten Greve presents a new exhibition devoted to the work of John Chamberlain | | Marco Castillo's first solo presentation in San Francisco on view at Haines Gallery |
Letha Wilson, Light Green Palms Steel, 2022, UV print on steel, Dyneema, paint, 22 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches, unique.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Higher Pictures Generation is now presenting new work by Letha Wilson in her third solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view through February 18th, 2022. The Landscape Objects on view continue Wilsons exploration of the interlocking relationships between sculpture, photography, and our natural environment. The sculptures are made from a carefully limited set of materials: a metal plate hinged with industrial fabric provides the substrate for foliage, stone, earth, and sky photographed in color. Wilsons photographs, printed onto cut sheets of copper, steel, or brass, are made to fold and bend in countless ways. The objects can stand up, stretch out, lie flat, and hang on the wall; there is no right answer here, no single definitive form. Each piece is an invitation for the viewer to collaborate with the artist ... More | |
John Chamberlain, Papagayo, 1967. Galvanized steel, 183 x 111,5 x 117 cm / 72 x 44 x 46 in. Photo: Saa Fuis, Cologne. Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Paris, St. Moritz.
PARIS.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting Sculpture, a new exhibition devoted to the work of the American artist John Chamberlain. The selected works span 40 years of his artistic creation, from 1967 to 2007. The exhibition thus perpetuates the long artistic collaboration between John Chamberlain and Karsten Greve, which dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. John Chamberlain was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, a master of metal‑folding and ‑transformation and an exceptional colourist. The post‑war zeitgeist (spirit of the time) propelled artists to experiment and seek new freedoms, liberating themselves from past dogmas. The abstract expressionist movement emerged in New York in the interwar period and blossomed fully ... More | |
Marco Castillo, Familia Castillo Valdes, 2022.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery is presenting Parlor Games, an exhibition by the acclaimed Cuban artist Marco Castillo. Marking his first solo presentation in San Francisco, Parlor Games features sculptures and works on paper that explore Cubas interlinking design and political histories. Marco Castillo (b. 1971, Cuba; lives and works in Mérida, Mexico) has created some of the most important work to emerge from Latin America in the past two decades, both as a founding member of the Los Carpinteros collective, and as a solo artist since 2018. His multi-disciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video, and works on paper. Referencing the visual languages of modern Cuban art and design that developed immediately following the 1959 revolution, Castillo addresses complex political, cultural, and social changes in the island state, both then and now. Everything I am working with, explains the artist ... More |
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| It's turtles all the way down in the fossil record | | The world in miniature: A model train (and plane) lover's paradise in Hamburg | | Three major institutions collaborate to present first major exhibition devoted to Matisse in the 1930s |
Undated photos provided by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science show, from left to right, top and side views of a barely impacted, medium impacted and highly impacted turtle shells. The left specimen belongs to the genus Eubaena, and the middle and right to the genus Baenidae. (Rick Wicker/Denver Museum of Nature and Science)
by Asher Elbein
NEW YORK, NY.- You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle shells. Researchers subjected the skeletal remains of pond sliders, diamondback terrapins, painted turtles and box turtles to incremental increases in mechanical forces and measured where and how the shells began to buckle. This may sound a little sadistic, but no living turtles were hurt in the study. Other scientists understand the appeal of looking at the material properties of the interlocking plates and ribs that make up turtle shells. Its actually fun to just play around with them and see how they bend under a point or certain loading regimes, said Holger Petermann, a paleontologist with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science ... More | |
Copacabana beach at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany on Dec. 13, 2022. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)
by Cindy Hirschfeld
HAMBURG.- We had an all-encompassing view of Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings: Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue, Copacabana Beach. Architectural novelties like the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and the Metropolitan Cathedral stood out among the sea of buildings, as trains and streetcars passed by, and thousands of dancers swayed and strutted during the citys Carnival celebration. Yet Rio was more than 6,000 miles away, while my husband, son and I stood in a building in the Speicherstadt, the historic warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany. The scene we admired is one of more than a dozen sprawling exhibits at Miniatur Wunderland, home to the worlds largest model railway and largest miniature airport. The meticulous replica of Rio came on line as Wunderlands newest exhibit in December 2021, constructed over four years in partnership with a family-owned model-making company out of Argentina ... More | |
Henri Matisse "Window at Tahiti II" 1935. 7 feet 9 11/16 inches à 6 feet 1/16 inches. Gouache on canvas Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France © 2022 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de lOrangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, is presenting the first major exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri Matisse (18691954), one of the giants of twentieth-century art. Opening first in Philadelphia, the only United States venue, Matisse in the 1930s contains about 140 works from public and private collections in the United States and Europe, ranging from both renowned and rarely seen paintings and sculptures, to drawings and prints, to illustrated books. It also features documentary photographs and films. The exhibition will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated scholarly catalogue. Matthew Affron, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cécile Debray, President of the Musée National Picasso-Paris; and Claudine Grammont, Director of the Musée Matisse ... More |
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| Lyrical Gestures. Schneider & Takis now on view at Knokke Zeedijk | | Rizzoli and Gagosian publish Adriana Varejão's first English language monograph | | Richard Ayodeji Ikhide now on view in an online presentation at Victoria Miro Projects |
Gérard Schneider, Opus 69C, 1956, oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm | 39 x 31 in © Archives Gérard Schneider, 2022 | © ADAGP, Paris, 2022. All images are copyright of their respective foundations and ADAGP, Paris, 2022.
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier has announced that Lyrical Gestures: Schneider & Takis is now taking place at their Knokke Zeedijk. Musicality unites two important 20th century artists: Gérard Schneider, a key figure of Lyrical Abstraction, and kinetic art pioneer Takis. Exhibited together for the first time, their works are rife with movementwhether conveyed through gestural brushstrokes or magnetic forcepresenting a pervasiveness of rhythm. Schneiders canvases capture a mood in permanence. In the footsteps of Kandinsky, his works are inherently musical. A synthesis of sound and vision, Schneiders expressive paintings were executed with impulsive bodily movements, creating lines that take unexpected twists and turns. Works following his post-war period as seen here opened a path toward ... More | |
Adriana Varejão. Edited by Louise Neri © Adriana Varejão by Louise Neri, Rizzoli New York, 2022. Hardcover / 9.75 x 11.5 / 288 pages / 250 color photographs, $75.00 U.S. / ISBN: 978-0-8478-6770-7
NEW YORK, NY.- Adriana Varejãov is one of the most prominent artists living and working in Latin America today, whose rich and diverse artistic oeuvre is fueled by the mythic pluralism of Brazilian identity and its histories. Drawing upon the aesthetic traditions and visual legacy of colonialism and transcultural exchange, she has reconceived and extended the concept and practice of painting by fusing mediums, surfaces, and artistic lineages in totally unprecedented ways. In so doing, she disrupts entrenched narratives by bringing forth obscured stories and uncomfortable truths from the margins. In recent times, Varejão has shifted her gaze from her native Brazil and its diverse roots in Europe, Africa and Asia to Mexico, expanding the cross-fertilization of distinct threads of Latin American ... More | |
Richard Ayodeji Ikhide: Olórin okunrin (Musician), 2022. Watercolour on 300GSM Waterford, 152.0 x 123.0 x 0.5 cm / in.
VENICE.- Victoria Miro Projects has launched an online presentation by Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, featuring a new series of paintings by the London based Nigerian artist. This is the second project in an ongoing series of occasional presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. In my drawings Im imagining certain histories that werent given the chance to be told. Richard Ayodeji Ikhide Ideas of creation and personal mythology entwine with influences ranging from William Blake, Japanese illustration and ancestral Yoruba mark-making in Ikhides elaborate watercolour paintings, which look at cultural histories and possibilities for the future. Drawing as a continual act of recording is fundamental to Ikhides practice. Complex and enigmatic, his paintings weave figures with artefacts from the ancient past and observations from daily life, to form newly ... More |
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ZKM │ Center for Art and Media receives donation for the digitization of Herbert W. Franke's manuscripts
KARLSRUHE.- The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is receiving 20,000 euros from the »art meets science Herbert W. Franke Foundation« to digitize over 1,800 manuscripts by Herbert W. Franke, whose archive has been at the ZKM since 2017. The donation will enable the ZKM to make articles and unpublished lecture notes as well as concepts and idea sketches accessible online, thus providing the public and scholars with new insights into the world of thought of the physicist, artist, art theorist, science fiction author, and speleologist. Herbert W. Franke, who died in July 2022 at the age of 95, as an art theorist and artist not only significantly influenced the early development of the computer art era, but also inspired the youngest generation of generative art. 80 artists accepted the invitation of the »art meets science Herbert W. Franke Foundation ... More
When cultural heritage becomes a battlefront
NEW YORK, NY.- When he first saw the ruined cathedral in 1918, Georges Bataille hardly knew what he was looking at. The young writer had come home to Reims, whose cathedral had been the site of French coronations for a thousand years. As a boy he had stood in awe of the High Gothic cathedral, its massive rose window, its imposing gallery of kings. Now Bataille was 21, discharged from a brief stint in the French army, and trying to recognize a cathedral whose roof was gone and whose nave was choked with debris. Reims Cathedral stood hard by the Western Front, and amid the fathomless violence of World War I, beyond the trenches and away from the gas, the repeated shelling of the cathedral became one of the elemental symbols of its barbarity. French newspapers invoked Reims as proof of German inhumanity. German propaganda blamed France ... More
The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld 1962-2002' released in conjunction with exhibition at The Museum of Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld 1962-2002 showcases Hirschfelds greatest theater work from five decades, including some of the most important productions from the last sixty years such as Hello Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, Funny Girl, Cabaret, Annie, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, Fences, Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Rent, Angels in America, and Hairspray. This collection takes you backstage with portraits including Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Tom Stoppard, and Hal Prince. With something for every type of theatergoer, this is the book theater lovers have been waiting for. Now for the first time, nearly 300 Hirschfeld drawings ... More
Terry Hall, a face of Britain's ska revival, is dead at 63
NEW YORK, NY.- Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials, the British ska band that blended pub-fight energy with socially conscious lyrics that explored the political and racial tensions of Britain in the late 1970s and early 80s, died on Dec. 18. He was 63. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his former bandmate Horace Panter announced on Facebook. The announcement did not say where he died. After enduring a traumatic childhood, Hall went on to enjoy a chart-topping music career. He forged his most lasting legacy as a face of the revival of ska the pop genre that emerged in Jamaica in the 1960s, blending Caribbean styles such as calypso with rhythm and blues that shook the British music scene during the early, convulsive Margaret Thatcher years. The Specials were key figures in the movement, along with Madness, the Selecter, Bad Manners and the Beat ... More
Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2023: Jenny Holzer to be honoured on 19 January 2023
Whitechapel Gallery is pleased to announce that Jenny Holzer is the tenth artist to receive its prestigious annual Art Icon award. On 19 January 2023, the award will be presented at a gala celebration hosted by Whitechapel Gallery Director Gilane Tawadros, who said: We are delighted that Jenny Holzer will be Whitechapel Gallerys Art Icon in 2023 in recognition of her ground-breaking practice as an artist who has consistently addressed social justice issues with elegance and humour throughout her decades-long career. An online auction of artworks donated by leading contemporary artists will also take place, hosted by Phillips Auction House. All funds raised will help support Whitechapel Gallerys programme, in particular its work with thousands of children and young people each year. The event committee includes Dorota Audemars, Erin Bell, Emilie De Pauw, Yan Du ... More
High Line Art Commission presents Paola Pivi's first artwork cast in bronze
NEW YORK, NY.- You know who I am by Paola Pivi is a High Line Art Commission and her first artwork cast in bronze. Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and its artisans guided Pivi throughout the fabrication process. The sculpture wears masks that change every two months, representing six different people over the course of the exhibition. Mahnaz Akbari was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1985, to an Afghan refugee family, and lived in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2011 to 2021. Mahnaz was among the limited number of Afghan women who were evacuated in August 2021 after the withdrawal of the United States military from Afghanistan. Mahnaz, along with her two nieces she managed to evacuate with, are currently in the process of applying for asylum in the United States. The work is a large scale bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty wearing various cartoonish masks ... More
Three new trustees appointed to Art Fund board
LONDON.- Art Fund, the national charity for art, announced the appointment of Clare Gough, Abadesi Osunsade, and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, to its board of trustees. The appointments are for an initial period of 4 years from October 2022. The trustees' primary role is to oversee the effective working of Art Fund; they also have oversight of the charitable programme which provides millions of pounds in grants every year to help museums to acquire and share works of art across the UK, further the professional development of their curators, and inspire more people to visit and enjoy their public programmes. The board has a diverse range of skills, and consists of art and museum experts, and recognised specialists in other fields such as marketing, finance and fundraising. On the appointment of the three new trustees, Chairman Lord Smith of Finsbury said ... More
Casey Kaplan opens Igshaan Adams' second solo exhibition with the gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Casey Kaplan is presenting Igshaan Adams' second solo exhibition Vastrapplek, literally translating from Afrikaans to "hold fast and stomp in place." To secure a foothold is to root one's body to the earth, to bury one's foot so strongly in place that it is grounded and simultaneously ready to propel forward. This is the movement of the Vastrappers, the adolescent dancers of the Rieldans, a version of the indigenous South African dance Igshaan Adams witnessed as a child in the Northern Cape region. Centered around the concept of migration (of individuals and communities), Adams here adopts the language of dance as a connector of tribes, blood lines, and histories. His own narrative is embedded in this landscape the earth holds the memories of his grandparent's courtship dance, a symbolic precursor to the racial and religious complexities of his youth ... More
Artists Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg collaborate for the first time on an exhibition at the New Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Artists Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg, based respectively in Rio de Janeiro and New York, collaborate for the first time on an exhibition designed for the New Museums Lobby Gallery. The Shadow of Spring investigates the phenomenon of vibration and its ability to trigger collective transformative experiences. Featuring newly commissioned sculptures, installations, embroidery pieces, and sound works developed separately and in collaboration, this exhibition will form an encompassing environment created to provoke alternative ways to experience the sonic dimension. Greenberg, known for his emotive durational performances, will present two newly commissioned sculptures. Each piece was developed from 3D scans of his own body taken during Fountain I, a seven hour-long performance from 2022 ... More
Diego Gualandris, Escape from Regina Coeli on view at ADA through February 18th, 2023
ROME.- It is one in the morning. It is pouring and the rain sounds like a torrent on the pavement of a small street, in the south of Trastevere. The sewer cover slowly slides on the floor, heavily resonating between narrow walls. Two silhouettes emerge, and stand there a few seconds, before slowly walking away. One is short with a hat, the other is tall and bald. Everything remains silent around the sewer hole. Over the roofs, the searchlight on a tower goes on spinning, unbothered, like a lighthouse. The two men light a cigarette and go up via di San Michele. They stop under a gigantic cactus-tree to protect themselves from the rain. There, they whisper something to each other and stick their heads on the pavement, like if they were trying to listen to the life underground. They suddenly rise and walk away. The streets are empty. It is a Tuesday ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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