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Installation view of the Making Worlds exhibition in the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring Kimsoojas Archive of Mind, 2017, in Sydney, Australia on Dec. 19, 2022. An extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales brings 21st-century design to a city that has often had a love-hate relationship with future-forward art. (Petrina Tinslay/The New York Times)
by Damien Cave
SYDNEY.- On one of his first official tours through the new Sydney Modern, after roughly a decade developing the project as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Michael Brand highlighted a few signature pieces: a new commission by an Aboriginal artist using found metal; an immersive sculpture, first exhibited in Seoul, South Korea, that visitors create by rolling balls of clay; and a giant video from a New Zealander, imagining Oceania without people of European descent. But at each stop, Sydneys natural surroundings beckoned. State officials following Brand after forking over most of the museums $230 million in construction costs praised the views more than the art. The new free-standing building, designed by Sanaa, Japans Pritzker-prize-winning architects, also seemed unsure of what to show off, with walls of glass opening up to Sydneys big blue sky and shimmering harbor. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities | Ethnographica | Fine Art sale on Jan 12, 2023 9:00 AM CST. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, more! Rare Etruscan Bronze Montefortino Helmet. Estimate $18,000 - $27,000.
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| Dan Flavin: Kornblee Gallery, 1967 opens at David Zwirner Gallery | | Venus Over Manhattan opens its first exhibition with artist David Deutsch | | A festival is 'uncensored' no more after pulling a work about gender |
Installation view, Dan Flavin, Kornblee Gallery, New York, January 7February 2, 1967. © 2023 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- On January 10th, David Zwirner began an exhibition of works by Dan Flavin at the gallerys 34 East 69th Street location in New York that will continue through February 25th, 2023. Presented in adjacent rooms of the Upper East Side townhouse, the works on view re-create two groundbreaking exhibitions that Flavin mounted in 1967 at New Yorks Kornblee Gallery, then located at the nearby and architecturally similar 58 East 79th Street. The exhibition offers viewers a rare opportunity to experience the artists early installations as he would have presented them. From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a walluntil his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or situations,& ... More | |
David Deutsch, Untitled, 2017. Oil on linen, 46 1/2 x 35 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting Hurly-Burly, the gallerys first solo exhibition by the New York-based artist David Deutsch, presented jointly with Eva Presenhuber. The collaborative show features 40 works across the two spaces, locat at 55 Great Jones Street and 39 Great Jones Street, respectively. David Deutsch makes abstract paintings. Or maybe he makes figurative paintings. Which is right? Neither? Both? There are still serious people out there who see abstraction and the image as irreconcilable. They could even be rightthough I doubt itbut even if so, one of the remarkable things about art is its capacity to harbor irreconcilable propensities within a single object. Thats because, despite all appearances, art approaches truth; and we should remember the observation once made by the physicist Niels Bohr, that while the opposite of a trivial truth is false, the opposite of a profound truth is ... More | |
Erez Ziv, who helped found Frigid New York, in New York, Jan. 2, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
by Marc Tracy
NEW YORK, NY.- Since its 2007 founding, the Frigid Fringe Festival in New York has selected the plays it produces randomly, like many other fringe festivals around the world that aim to highlight voices from outside the theatrical establishment. It boasted that it was both unjuried, since it did not rely on gatekeeping panels, and uncensored. But that changed this past fall, when Frigid decided for the first time that it would not stage one of the productions it had chosen. A staffer at the festival had red-flagged the work, Poems on Gender, after its author, David Lee Morgan, submitted a blurb drawn from the show that began: There are two sexes, male and female. Further investigation led organizers to conclude that it featured material we deem to be anti-trans. In canceling its production of Poems on Gender, Frigid announced that it would stop calling itself uncensored, and that it would reserve the right to withdraw ... More |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities announces $28.1 million in grants | | Longtime Film Forum Director to step down after 50 years | | Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon 2023: Online charity auction hosted by Phillips auction house |
People walk through Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on March 24, 2020. (Andrew White/The New York Times)
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- Projects to build a research center at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, to develop digital tours of an exhibition highlighting Jewish founders of the film industry at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and to add touch-screen kiosks to the National Comedy Center in Lucille Balls hometown of Jamestown, New York, are among 204 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Tuesday. The grants, which total $28.1 million and are the first round awarded this year, will support projects at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites in 39 states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Among the projects is the creation of an immersive online resource by the Jane Austen Summer Program in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which will allow people to explore Austens writings, personal artifacts and historical documents within a recreated interior of her home. Another, at Temple University in Philadelphia ... More | |
The Film Forum in Lower Manhattan on July 30, 2018. (Emma Howells/The New York Times)
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK, NY.- When Karen Cooper took over Film Forum in 1972, the theater was a projector and 50 folding chairs in a loft on Manhattans Upper West Side, showing what were then known as underground films. The annual budget was $19,000. Cooper projected the films sometimes herself on a single 16-mm machine no larger than a microwave. Id say to someone, I show independent films, and theyd say, You mean pornography? Cooper, 74, recalled with a laugh in a recent conversation at the nonprofit art house cinemas offices, now located across the street from the theater in Greenwich Village. But now, Cooper, who has become synonymous with Film Forum which has grown into a four-screen space with a $6 million-a-year budget and an influence that reaches far beyond New York City is stepping down from the director role shes filled for half a century, the organization announced Monday. Ive thought about this for ... More | |
Alfie Caine, Pear and Lilies (detail), 2022, Vinyl paint on canvas. 100 x 140 cm (39 x 551/8 in.) (unframed), 144 x 104 x 70 cm (56 x 40 x 27 in.) (framed). Signed and dated on reverse.
LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery announced the donation of 15 exceptional artworks to the Gallery by artists Ari Bayuaji (b.1975, Indonesia), Tim Breuer (b.1990, Germany), Zoë Buckman (b.1985, UK), Alfie Caine (b.1996, UK), Nick Goss (b.1981, UK), Andrew Pierre Hart (UK), Haroun Hayward (b.1983, UK), JR (b.1983, France), Jenny Holzer (b.1950, USA), Harminder Judge (b.1982, UK).Sola Olulode (b.1996, UK), Nengi Omuku (b.1987, Nigeria), Lydia Pettit (b.1991, USA), George Rouy (b.1994, UK) and Jessie Stevenson (b.1993, UK). The online charity auction will be hosted by Phillips auction house on www.phillips.com, with bidding open to participants on 12 January 2023, running through to 2pm GMT on 20 January 2023. Those interested may register for the auction ahead of time on https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/UK090223 All donated artworks will be auctioned in support of Whitechapel Gallerys education and community programmes as p ... More |
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| Saatchi Gallery reveals artist line-up for its monumental graffiti and street art exhibition | | Almine Rech London opens a solo exhibitions of recent works by artist Alejandro Cardenas | | Jan Tichy: Infra Structures opens at Fridman Gallery |
Details from Kenny Scharf. Closet #42 Bestest Ever. Photo by Charles White of JW Pictures. 2022.
LONDON.- From defiant train writers to powerful large-scale muralists, Saatchi Gallery announced over 100 international artists to be featured in BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON, opening this February. The exhibition, supported by adidas Originals, will be the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK, and is set to take over all three floors of Londons iconic Saatchi Gallery. Following successful exhibitions in Los Angeles & New York, BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON will feature new works, large-scale installations, original ephemera and extraordinary fashion that capture the powerful impact of graffiti & street art across the world. Curated by graffiti historian Roger Gastman, BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON will examine the fundamental human need for public self-expression, highlighting artists with roots in graffiti and street art whose work has evolved into highly disciplined studio practices, alongside important c ... More | |
Alejandro Cardenas, In the presence of the Planarian, 2022 - Acrylic on canvas - 127 x 177.8 cm, 50 x 70 in / © Alejandro Cardenas - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
LONDON.- In his new show titled RAVINE 23, the Chilean artist Alejandro Cárdenas takes us on a journey where he critically expands on his signature subject matter: The avoidance of overdetermination on the basis of a single meaning, movement, or style. In his delicate crafting of apparently intimate scenes inhabited by humanoid beings, Cárdenas presents us with a new body of work that is eerily familiar as well as visually provocative. As in previous projects, Cárdenas thinks through possibilities of working with space as a symbol, and, in this specific case, of the ravine as the background of a narrative on resilience and creativity. Both enticing and mysterious, the group of 10 works8 paintings and 2 sculpturesfurther distill the artists fascination for visual synthesis. The free-flowing interplay of references deriving from established movements in the history of art with various expressions of popular culture comes to life in this show. Given the growing trend in the conte ... More | |
Detail of installation no. 13, 2022. Photogravure of 2011 site-specific three channel installation at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 15.4 x 19.3 in / 39 x 49 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Starting today, January 11th, 2023, and ending on February 18th, 2023, Fridman Gallery will be opening the exhibition Infra Structures by Jan Tichy, who was born in the Czech Republic (1974) and lives and works in Chicago. Over the last two decades, Tichy has created over 40 projection installations which have been exhibited around the world. The installations deal with the encounter between the artists formal visual language and the context in which it is created. Tichy uses light to examine the way in which architectural structures, infrastructure and the public space are mandated by social, economic, political or national agents of power, and how they affect the fabric of society. Tichy has coined the concept of social formalism to describe his work. The Installations series continues his investigation and experiments with light as material. The series consists of 40 photo etchings (around half of which ar ... More |
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| Skatepark with Colosseum view gives Rome a modern tourist attraction | | New publication celebrates the lost folk practices and technical processes of dying cloth | | Winners of the 16th International Design Awards announced today |
Skateboarders head to the new skatepark near the Colosseum in Rome, Jan. 2, 2023. (Stephanie Gengotti/The New York Times)
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- They built it, and people came. Teenage boys, mostly, from Roma Nord, Ostia, Prenestina, Monterotondo and other suburbs, trekking to Romes city center, boards in hand, to heelflip and airwalk and boardslide among the obstacles of a new skatepark, which opened to the public just before Christmas. We were desperate; we didnt have anything, said Lorenzo Ficini, 27, a marketing specialist and skateboarder who, as if on cue, approached a reporter to say that he wanted to thank the city for the skatepark. An unprompted public relations triumph. For us, its a dream come true the structure is great. And then, Ficini said, nodding his head southward, where the upper arches of the Colosseum emerged above a row of trees, youve got this. Its marvelous. The skatepark perched on the Oppian Hill, as this area overlooking the first-century amphitheater has be ... More | |
In Pursuit of Color: From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World's Most Famous Dyes By Lauren MacDonald. Edited by Ananda Pellerin. Published by Atelier Ãditions & D.A.P. ISBN: 9781954957008 List Price: $49.95 CDN $66.95 GBP £37.50
NEW YORK, NY.- Atelier Ãditions announces In Pursuit of Color, From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World's Most Famous Dyes, a new publication celebrating the lost folk practices and technical processes of dying cloth. Co-published by Atelier Ãditions and D.A.P., and releasing on March 28th, 2023, this engrossing title looks at the rich and turbulent history of dyes through archive photography, specimens, and present-day events. The book will be available in three different colorways and includes a 32-page supplement detailing practical applications and the chemistry behind dyeing processes. After a 2017 viral video showing a pack of indigo-colored dogs emerging from Mumbais Kasadi river, anthropologist and textile artist Lauren MacDonald began an obsessive search for insights into a practice that is both ancient and wholly modern: coloring cloth. MacDonald traces how folk practices have been lost and technical ... More | |
Graphic Designer of the Year: Limburgs Museum Van ós. For everybody by Total Design.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Congratulations to the 2022 International Design Awards winners who were announced today. The 16th edition of the IDA attracted thousands of outstanding submissions from a record number of designers around the world who vied for the top prizes in this prestigious award. Evaluating submissions from almost 80 countries, members of the IDA jury commented on the incredibly high standard of design entries across the five Award disciplines - Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design. The IDA has always been about seeking out truly visionary designers showcasing creativity and innovation. We had a record number of entries in 2022 and the jury had an enormous task in selecting the winners from some truly outstanding design submissions. commented Jill Grinda, VP Marketing and Business Development for the IDA. In the words of Jury Member, Mark Blackwell, Creativ ... More |
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Utilities by Dia Mrad opens today at Zawyeh Gallery Dubai
DUBAI.- Zawyeh Gallery has announced their opening of Dia Mrads solo exhibition Utilities at Alserkal Avenue from January 11 until February 22, 2023. The show can also be attended virtually. Lebanon is now the site of one of the worlds worst economic crises since the 1850s. Through an ethnographic lens, Utilities seeks to explore Beiruts economic collapse by excavating and documenting the multilayers of the crisiss material manifestations across the citys urban fabric. The work focuses on the infrastructural dimensions that were most affected, namely the electricity grids, water supplies, and the banking sector. Mrad's work reflects how Beiruts infrastructure has changed as a product of the crisis: residents turning to solar power as an alternative to the citys energy grid; private water companies thriving as households and businesses run dry of water; and banks, where depositors sav ... More
Raising money for one of London's oldest charities
LONDON.- Contemporary art from the collection of one of Londons oldest charities forms part of Lyon & Turnbulls Contemporary & Post War Art // Prints & Multiples auction on January 11. Eleven works are being sold to raise funds for The House of St Barnabas. Based at a Grade I-listed townhouse in Soho, The House of St Barnabas has helped Londoners affected by homelessness since 1862. In 2013 the building became a private members club with a difference; combining a not-for-profit creative and cultural space at No. 1 Greek Street with an Employment Academy for people affected by homelessness. Participants learn their craft in front of house, in the kitchen or in the charitys offices: since opening, 254 participants have graduated from the 12-week programme, many of which have secured lasting employment after graduation. Music, cultural events and the generosity of members are key to the success of The House of St Barnab ... More
Rula Halawani, For Your Mother, opens today at Ayyam Gallery
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery begins today the presentation of For You Mother, a solo exhibition featuring Rula Halawanis most recent body of work. The presentation, which ends on February 23rd, 2023, will include chapter I and II of this series. Please join us today January 11th for the vernissage from 6 to 9 pm. When I finished the For My Father series, I showed it to my Mother, told her that it was in honor of my Baba, and asked if she liked it. She replied: Yes, of course, darling, I like it very much! Then she asked, Rula, are you going to make a series for me when I leave this universe? I said: Do not mention death, Mama. I will honor you now while you are still with us. Rula Halawani. The For You Mother series is split into two parts, the first chapter, which was worked on in 2018-2020, and the second, which was completed in 2022 after Rula was chosen as a recipient of the 2021 She ... More
Daylight Books publishes 'EXCAVATION: A Journey Through Loss, Photographs by Jason Paul Reimer
NEW YORK, NY.- Grief, like memories, attaches itself to random moments and fragments of thought. It's nonlinear and omnipresent at the same time, deserving of honor, but also requiring relief from the carrying of its weight. Photographer Jason Paul Reimer's sister died within months of his daughter's birth. The resulting coexistence of grief and joy is explored in this moving collection of color photographs which he has described as "...a metaphorical visualization of my struggle to reconcile the heartache of my sisters loss, [and] the awe and wonder of meeting my daughter " The sequencing and design of the book reflects how the mind and heart interact glimpses and fleeting wonders, images that hold context and reinforce each other in double page spreads and stand-alone photographs presented in a journal-type spiral notebook. The book's content is personal, and this feeling is reinforced with the occasional scrapbook presentation of images in photo corners. The viewer feels as though ... More
In New Orleans, spreading the gospel through song and community
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- On the final day of the 13th annual Praise Fest, the free gospel music festival that started after Hurricane Katrina to bring locals back to New Orleans, the skies above Bayou St. John turned gray. Then, around 2 on an afternoon in October, an eerily familiar sight appeared: torrential rainfall. Pools of water pocked the bayou grass as festivalgoers scrambled to their cars. Attendance for Praise Fest, the first one held in person since the pandemic began, was modest (though organizers said it was about what they expected) the conditions may not have helped. Bishop Ryan Warner, president and CEO of Versatile Entertainment, which runs Praise Fest, clomped around the grounds in his rain boots, directing traffic. The rain would pass, he insisted, and the festival would continue. That was the New Orleans way. Anchored by the sound of organs, pianos, tambourines, drums and melodic voices preaching the word of God, gospel music is a fixture in Black Christian churches across the United ... More
Naomi Replansky, revered poet of hardship and hope, dies at 104
NEW YORK, NY.- Naomi Replansky, a self-taught American poet for decades keenly celebrated yet curiously unheralded whose work portrayed a world of labor, oppression and struggle but was no less hopeful for all that, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 104. Her stepson, Uri Berliner, confirmed the death. Born and reared in New York Citys Bronx borough, and as at home on the factory floor as at a coffeehouse reading, Replansky wrote of subjects long considered no fit fare for poetry: manual labor, poverty, disenfranchisement, racism, exile and the Holocaust. Her work, critics concurred, was not so much standard protest poetry but rather a minute examination of the vicissitudes of social history through the lens of individual lives, including her own. Poetry for me, Replansky told the Jewish feminist journal Bridges in 2002, is a way of mastering the world. ... More
Charles Simic, Pulitzer-winning poet and U.S. Laureate, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Simic, the renowned Serbian-American poet whose work combined a melancholy old-world sensibility with a sensual and witty sense of modern life, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Dover, New Hampshire. He was 84. The cause was complications of dementia, his longtime friend and editor Daniel Halpern said. Simic was a prolific writer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for The World Doesnt End, a book of prose poems. He served as poet laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008. I am especially touched and honored to be selected, he said at the time, because I am an immigrant boy who didnt speak English until I was 15. His poems defied simple classification. Some were minimalist and surreal, others determinedly realistic and violent. Nearly all were replete with ironic humor and startling metaphors. Only a very foolhardy critic would say what any Simic poem is about, D.J.R. Bruckner wrote in a 1990 profile of ... More
BAM Artistic Director David Binder to step down in July
NEW YORK, NY.- David Binder, the artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will step down in July, as the venerable institution faces ongoing turnover and the challenge of pandemic-era rebuilding after decades of stability in its leadership team. BAM, which began presenting work in 1861 and describes itself as the nations oldest performing arts center, long played a key role in New Yorks cultural life, presenting adventurous theater, film, music and dance from artists around the world. But the institution was quieter than some at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and Binders departure will follow the 2021 exit of the institutions president, Katy Clark, and the 2020 death of its board chair, Adam Max. Binder joined BAM as artistic director in 2019, making his tenure significantly shorter than those of his two predecessors, Joseph V. Melillo, who spent 35 years at the institution, and Harvey Lichtenstein, who led BAMs artistic work for 32 years. Similarly, ... More
The Museum of Craft and Design announces Kara Owens as its new Associate Director
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design announced Kara Owens as its new Associate Director. Owens will be vital in helping MCD continue to build a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration, teamwork, and philanthropy. With over twenty years of experience in the arts, culture, and social justice sectors, Owens brings outstanding leadership skills, grantmaking experience, and project management to MCD. She has worked with myriad communities through nonprofit enterprise and public service to support the Citys manifold creative voices. Owens comments, It is an honor to join the Museum of Craft and Design as it continues its upward trajectory as a dedicated space for innovative and provocative contemporary art, craft, and design. I am overjoyed to support JoAnn Edwards and her teams vision to shape new ways art may permeate, inform, and inspire our daily lives. I am thrilled to join a community that does so much to nurture ar ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Parmigianino was born January 11, 1503. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (11 January 1503 - 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. In this image: Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40).
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