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Visitors to the Monument of Heroes, a museum in Quezon City, the Philippines, pose for photos on May 28, 2022, in a replica of a prison cell created from the memory of a victim who was raped and tortured during the Marcos dictatorship. Organizers at the museum are racing to preserve documents related to the Marcos regime before the dictators son takes office. Ezra Acayan/The New York Times.
by Sui-Lee Wee
QUEZON CITY.- The television that used to play footage of Ferdinand E. Marcos declaring martial law is no longer working. The biographies of the people who struggled against the Filipino dictator were tucked away after heavy rains caused the ceiling to cave in. Naked wires now hang overhead. The Monument of Heroes is one of the few places in the Philippines dedicated to preserving the bitter memory of the Marcos regime, when tens of thousands of political prisoners were tortured and detained. Its mission when it opened in 2007 was to make sure people did not forget the sacrifices made for democracy. The building is now mostly in disrepair, damaged by Typhoon Ulysses in 2020 and closed for more than two years because of the coronavirus pandemic before reopening in February. But with the recent election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the former dictator, the Monument of Heroes has seen a surge of interest from Filipinos trying to make sense of how the scion of the countrys most ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Judy Chicago, A Tribute to Toronto, June 4, 2022. Smoke Sculptureâ¢. Commissioned by The Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo Credit: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.
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| Jeff Koons' Balloon Monkey (Magenta) presented by Victor and Olena Pinchuk will raise funds for Ukraine | | MFAH opens reimagined European Art Galleries spanning Middle Ages through the 18th century | | Glittering art from the Americas, Spain and the Philippines arrives in Toronto |
Jeff Koons, Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13, estimate: £6,000,000-10,000,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- On 28 June 2022, Jeff Koons seminal sculpture Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13, estimate: £6,000,000-10,000,000) will be presented for sale at Christies by Victor and Olena Pinchuk to raise vital funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine. In particular, the proceeds will be used to assist soldiers and civilians gravely wounded by war who urgently require prosthetics, medical treatment and rehabilitation to recover as much quality of life as possible*. Representing childhood innocence and joy for both children and adults alike, Balloon Monkey (Magenta) stands as a monumental symbol of hope and solidarity with those men, women and children living in war-torn Ukraine who have suffered terrible loss. A significant highlight of Christies 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale, the work demonstrates the power of art to unify and rally support for the defence of freedom and life in urgent times. The sculpture will be exh ... More | |
Flemish, Chasuble with Scenes from the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1510, Silk, velvet, gold- and silver-wrapped thread, linen, overall: 88 1/2 à 28 3/4 in. (224.8 à 73 cm), Museum purchase funded by Meredith J. Long in honor of Gary Tinterow at "One Great Night in November, 2018". Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
HOUSTON, TX.- On Wednesday, June 8, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will open a major new reinstallation of eleven galleries for European art. Spanning the Middle Ages through the 18th century, with art from northern and southern Europe as well as Central and South America, the interdisciplinary presentation features paintings, tapestries, sculpture, liturgical objects and antiquities across 500 years of cultural and artistic production. This new, interdisciplinary presentation furthers a new approach to our collections, commented MFAH director Gary Tinterow. Following on the reinstallation of our American galleries, in 2020, we have similarly rethought the display of our European collections to more fully express the history, culture ... More | |
Fray Alonso López de Herrera. Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, 1640. Oil on copper, 52.7 x 38.7 cm. Courtesy of The Hispanic Society of America, New York, NY.
TORONTO.- This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario presents an eye-opening exhibition of sumptuous paintings, maps, textiles, jewels, rare daguerreotypes and religious objects from Europe, the Americas and the Philippines, from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library of New York. Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire opens at the AGO on June 8, 2022. Curated by the AGOs Assistant Curator of European Art, Adam Harris Levine, the exhibition presents artworks by revered and unknown Latin American, Filipino and Spanish artists and explores the colonial frameworks that shaped their production and reception. A consultation panel of Toronto-based Latinx and Filipinx scholars and artists worked with the curator to help shape an exhibition that both highlights the beauty of these objects and the reality of their creation. Their voices ... More |
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| High Museum announces acquisitions from 2022 collectors evening | | Xavier Hufkens announces the representation of the Estate of Milton Avery | | British tourist gets 15 years in Iraqi jail for taking shards from archaeology site |
Samuel Johnson Woolf (American, 1880-1948), Brown the Wheats, 1913, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds provided by patrons of Collectors Evening 2022.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art welcomed more than 100 guests for Collectors Evening on May 19 to support the acquisition of two new works for the Museums collection. The acquired objects are Atlanta-based artist Lonnie Holleys mixed-media work Shadows of the People (2021) and a 1913 painting, Brown the Wheats, by American artist Samuel Johnson Woolf. After a three-year hiatus, we were delighted to come together with our generous donors to celebrate Collectors Evening, said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High. The event was a resounding success for our curatorial departments and a wonderful chance to bring our patrons into the acquisition process. The attendees voted to bring some incredible works into the collection, which we are very excited to share with Atlanta. Collectors Evening, established in 2010 to help the Museum acquire artworks, invites gue ... More | |
Milton Avery, Sails in Sunset Sea, 1960. Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London. Courtesy Xavier Hufkens, Brussels and Waqas Wajahat, New York.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced the representation of American master Milton Avery (18851965), known for his evocative compositions of landscapes, domestic scenes and still lifes. Celebrated for his distillation of form and harmonious use of colour, Averys singular oeuvre straddles the major art movements of his ageAmerican Impressionism, American Modernism and Abstract Expressionismyet conforms to none. The artist will be included in the gallerys presentation at Art Basel 2022. In spring of 2023, Xavier Hufkens will present a solo exhibition of works by Milton Avery. The Estate will continue to be represented by Victoria Miro in London. Xavier Hufkens: Like timeless poems, Milton Averys paintings have an ability to convey nature, place and domestic scenes. The quiet simplicity of his compositions and sensibility to colour resulted in luminous works. Ahead of his time, he resolutely pursued hi ... More | |
The current Iraqi government has placed a major focus on repatriating looted antiquities from abroad, including artifacts purchased by the U.S.-based Hobby Lobby chain for its Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Tom Brenner/The New York Times.
by Jane Arraf
NEW YORK, NY.- A British tourist who took pottery shards from an archaeological site was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in an Iraqi prison after a Baghdad court convicted him of trying to smuggle the artifacts out of the country. The court found James Fitton, a 66-year-old retired geologist, guilty under a 2002 law that carries a sentence of seven to 15 years in prison for stealing artifacts or antiquities. Looting antiquities with weapons or with other people is a crime punishable by death in Iraq. The site where he took the small pieces and stones was open with no guards so he took some pieces as souvenirs, said Fittons defense lawyer, Thair Soud, adding that his client made no attempt to hide the pieces, wrapping them in Kleenex and putting them in his luggage. The harshness of the punishment has raised ... More |
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| Goodbye, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy: Ukrainians look to 'decolonize' their streets | | Parisian solo debut by Spanish artist Javier Calleja opens at Almine Rech | | Philadelphia Museum of Art names a new director |
Workers prepare new road signs at a factory outside Lviv, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. Across the country, officials are evaluating and rechristening roads, parks and other sites bearing Russian names. Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times.
by Erika Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Far from Ukraines embattled eastern front, a new struggle is being waged not from the trenches, but over leafy side streets and broad avenues. That is where the enemy goes by the name Pavlov. Or Tchaikovsky. Or Catherine the Great. Across Ukraine, officials are starting projects to, as they say, decolonize their cities. Streets and subway stops whose names evoke the history of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union are under scrutiny by a population eager to rid itself of traces of the nation that invaded in late February. We are defending our country, also on the cultural front lines, said Andriy Moskalenko, deputy mayor of Lviv and head of a committee that has reviewed the names of each of the citys more than 1,000 streets. And we dont want to have anything in common ... More | |
Javier Calleja, Tea Time, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 40 cm. 19 x 16 in © Javier Calleja - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Ana Drittanti.
PARIS.- Almine Rech is exhibiting This Is Your Lucky Day, a Parisian solo debut by Spanish artist Javier Calleja (Málaga, 1971). After introducing his renowned work at numerous art fairs, solo, and group exhibitions at Almine Rech venues worldwide, This Is Your Lucky Day introduces a new corner of the Malagan artist's practice at the gallery's Matignon space, in Paris. Javier Calleja introduces his work in the historically residential neighborhood next to the emblematic Champs dElysées and overlooking the famous Arc de Triomphe. Calleja has put together an intimate presentation that will provide a getaway from buzzing city life and complement the urban environment. Showcasing a series of special works on paper on the ground floor and paintings on canvas on the first floor, the installation is meant to convey the ambiance of a calm and quotidian yet playful environment, while giving subtle nods to French cultural traditions. As with ... More | |
Sasha Suda, director and chief executive of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. National Gallery of Canada via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two years after publicly confronting sexual harassment allegations, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has selected its new leader: Sasha Suda, director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. Praising her educational and work experience, Leslie Anne Miller, the museums chair, said Tuesday that Suda was the right person for the institution at this time in its history. We hope that her gender will be seen through our lens, which is emblematic of the institutions ongoing commitment of furthering DEI in everything we do, Miller said, referring to the museums attention to diversity, equity and inclusion. Sasha understands the critical importance of building on our efforts to date to reach out to the community, to engage through the exhibitions. Suda, 41, who starts in September as the 14th director and CEO, will take over a 145-year-old institution still healing from controversy. In 2020, a New York Times report revea ... More |
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| Oolite Arts opens two summer exhibitions, featuring artists-in-residence and an all-female show | | FotoFocus announces over 100 projects debuting at 2022 FotoFocus Biennial | | Gagosian opens Haunted Realism, a group exhibition |
Devora Perez. Chroma in Situ II, 2022. Maple wood, colored acrylic sheet. Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of the artist.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- This summer, Oolite Arts will present two new exhibitions: Lean-To, Oolites annual artist-in-residence exhibition featuring works by 15 Miami-based artists, and At The Edge, highlighting six female artists who are working in hard-edge abstraction. Both exhibitions open Wednesday, June 8 at 924 and 928 Lincoln Road with a public reception starting at 7 p.m. Inspired by the architectural form of a lean-to, a temporary, often improvised shelter, Lean-To reimagines systems of support, ranging from the spiritual to environmental and economical, as well as preservation and care. Using varying media and personal entry points, many works examine how these structures manifest across time and space. Throughout the exhibit, artists reflect on current events and tangible themes, such as migration and justice. Lean-To has a double meaning, said curator Leilani Lynch, who is the curator ... More | |
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage, 2017. Inkjet print on Epson hot press natural, 58 x 78 inches. Part of the 21c collection.
CINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus is pleased to announce its list of participating venues and projects for the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, the sixth edition of the largest photography and lens-based art biennial in America. A record number of 90 venues across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, and Columbus will take part in the month-long celebration of photography this October, with each project centered around the theme of World Record. The biennial will feature more than 600 artists, curators, and participants, and open with an expanded week of programming from September 29October 8, 2022. Over 100 photography and lens-based art projects will be presented at museums, galleries, schools, theaters, nonprofit cultural centers, parks, hotels, and libraries, among other venues, including major new artist commissions and site-specific installations, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, public art projects, performances, and fil ... More | |
Ewa Juszkiewicz, Untitled (after Jan Adam Kruseman), 2020 Oil on canvas, 86 5/8 x 63 in 220 x 160 cm © Ewa Juszkiewicz. Photo: Robert McKeever Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Haunted Realism, a group exhibition featuring the work of more than thirty artists including Meleko Mokgosi, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, and Tatiana Trouvé. Haunted Realism takes its title in part from hauntology, a term coined by Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Specters of Marx to characterize what he considered the tendency of Marxism to haunt Western society from beyond the grave. Derridas concept has been explored in a broader cultural context, denoting a state of historical overlap and disjunctionthe past inside the presentthat resonates through fields ranging from anthropology and philosophy to film, electronic music, and visual art. The idea is notably explored by cultural critic Mark Fisher in his books Capitalist Realism (2009) and The Weird and the Eerie (2016).Haunted Realisms specific focus is a sense that the aspirations of modernity are now los ... More |
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Graham Fink blurs the boundaries between photography and painting in new exhibition
LONDON.- On 8 June, multimedia artist Graham Fink will open an exhibition of new photographic work curated by VirginiaVisualArts at J/M Gallery, London. Graham blurs the boundaries between photography and painting to investigate the human spirit. Merging hyperrealism and photorealism as well as elements in old masters and figure painters of the twentieth century, the play on light in each image creates a special image of reality. Graham seeks to go beyond the photograph to emphasise the psychological state of the image. Unlike the lens of a camera, a humans perception is dramatically filtered by our level of attention and emotions. Photographys speed (involving shutter and exposures) reveals a new world not accessible to typical human perception. As a result, photographic forms can acquire an abstract ... More
'Return Sasyk to the Sea' debuts this weekend in NYC - Event proceeds to benefit Ukraine
NEW YORK, NY.- Director/editor Andrea Odezynska will debut her new feature-length environmental documentary, Return Sasyk to the Sea (2022), which spotlights the destructive legacy Ukraine inherited as a former member of the Soviet Union. Screenings will take place at The Ukrainian Museum 7 p.m. on Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11, 2022. Tickets are $25 at Eventbrite; proceeds to benefit Razom for Ukraine, a 501(c)(3) organization sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The film tells the story of bizarre Soviet irrigation projects in Southern Ukraine that created a slow eco-disaster, which continues today. Construction of the irrigation project began in 1972. The goal was to boost agriculture in Southwestern Ukraine by rerouting Ukraines major rivers and converting all salt-water estuaries into freshwater reservoirs. ... More
New sculpture by Fred Wilson unveiled in Charleston
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art unveiled OMNISCIENCE, a newly commissioned sculpture by internationally renowned artist Fred Wilson inspired by the story of Omar Ibn Said, on May 27, 2022. Said, an Islamic scholar enslaved in the Carolinas from 1807 until his death in 1864, is believed to have written the only known Arabic-language autobiography penned by an enslaved African in the United States. Wilson, known for his interdisciplinary practice that challenges assumptions of history, culture, race and conventions of display, explores Saids story through a monumental metalwork created in the tradition of decorative wrought ironwork emblematic of Charlestons historic gates. The sculpture unveiling coincides with the world premiere of Omar, a new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Ables based on Saids life ... More
Visitors flock to see Suffolk's latest attraction
SNAPE.- The Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend saw the start of the first Aldeburgh Festival since 2019, with the launch of Remains To Be Seen, featuring recent and historical works by Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith. The show takes the stunning and archaeologically rich heritage of Suffolk globally famous for the finds at Sutton Hoo and beyond as the ground from which to explore the artists common interests in the body as narrative and site. Working in a variety of media and disciplines, from oil painting and sculpture, to film, printmaking and textiles, Benney, Edwards and Smith share a reverence for the natural world and the human form as symbol and vestige, exploring connections between myth, religious iconography and ritual. The exhibition marks the beginning of a long journey for Laurence Edwards ... More
Steidl publishes 'LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts'
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the publication of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2022) the book chronicles the ongoing man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of those who live and fight for their right to access free, clean water. Featuring photographs, texts, poems, and interviews made in collaboration with Flint community members, this project serves as an intervention and alternative to mass-media accounts of this political, economic, and racial injustice. In 2014, as a cost-cutting measure, the Flint City Council switched the towns water supply from a Detroit treatment facility to the industrial wastefilled Flint River. Forced to consume and bathe in water contaminated with lead at twenty-seven times the governments maximum threshold, Flints citizenspredominantly Black ... More
Seattle Art Museum appoints José Carlos Diaz as Deputy Director for Art
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announced today that José Carlos Diaz will be the museums Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art, following an extensive international search. Since May 2016, Mr. Diaz has served as the Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum, part of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He will assume his position with SAM in July. He succeeds Chiyo Ishikawa, who retired in 2020 after 30 years at the museum. In his role at SAMcomprising the downtown Seattle Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the downtown waterfrontDiaz will oversee the museums artistic program, leading eight curators and other staff in exhibitions, collections, publications, and libraries to present dynamic and relevant art in support of SAMs mission. ... More
Artpace receives major gift towards residency fund
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced today that it has received a contribution of $250,000 from the Linda Pace Foundation in support of the newly-formed Artist Residency Endowment Fund. The goal of this fund, announced as part of Artpaces 25th anniversary year, is to ensure financial support for the International Artist-in-Residence program in perpetuity. With this gift, Artpace has raised more than $2.5 million in the first 16 months of its multi-year endowment campaign. The Foundation also announced that it will advance the remaining principal in an annuity established by Linda Pace in 2005. This annuity, managed by the Foundation, will provide Artpace with a final sum of $1,196,000 toward the operations of its International Artist-in-Residence program. We are grateful for this public demonstration of support ... More
In Dallas, Buro Happold tapped for Morphosis-designed university cultural district
DALLAS, TX.- With creative innovation top of mind, a team headed by global architecture and design firm Morphosis will design the new Edith and Peter ODonnell Jr. Athenæum, a 12-acre cultural district for the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). The leader in sustainable design, Buro Happold, has been selected for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering and to spearhead LEED/sustainability consulting for this major expansion of the universitys arts programming, which includes three new buildings. Designed by Morphosis, the firm behind such acclaimed works such as the Perot Museum, the Athenæum will bring a second location of the Crow Museum of Asian Art as well as a performance hall and a planned museum for the traditional arts of the Americas. It also adds a new parking structure and a central plaza that serves ... More
Andrew Holleran's work has traced the arc of life. Now, he takes on death.
NEW YORK, NY.- Death has always been on Andrew Hollerans mind. It loomed over the shame and hedonism of Dancer From the Dance, his 1978 debut novel and one of the most famous works of gay literature, and has pervaded his books since: A small body of work traces the arc of life. At 77, and releasing his first novel in more than 15 years, Holleran feels as if he has reached the end of the arc, he said in a recent interview. So its appropriate that in The Kingdom of Sand out Tuesday from Farrar, Straus & Giroux death is the subject. But isnt everyone obsessed with death? Holleran, whose real name is Eric Garber, asked during a video call from his home near Gainesville, Florida. We all think about the transitory nature of life. The Kingdom of Sand follows a natural thematic progression for him. After Dancer ... More
Paintings by Haitian artist Frantz Zéphirin on view at Williams College Museum of Art
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Williams College Museum of Art is presenting Frantz Zéphirin: Selected Works, an exhibition of ten paintings by the renowned Haitian artist, whose work is also featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale. Tomm El-Saieh, a Haitian-born artist and curator who lives and works in Miami, organized the display for WCMA. El-Saiehs work is the subject of Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City, a year-long solo exhibition at the Clark Art Institute. The selection of paintings on view at WCMA offer a window into the deeply mystical and spiritual nature of Haiti (Ayiti), the land of many mountains. Zéphirins paintings document scenes of Haitian spiritual life both materially and metaphysically, a pictorial practice that has a long tradition in Haitian art. Referencing Christian and modern Vodou practices within ... More
In Paris, grand openings and gourmet meals await
PARIS.- The future is looking bright for award-winning chef Thibault Sombardier. Last year, under financial pressure from successive coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on hospitality businesses, the owners of Antoine restaurant on the Right Bank where Sombardier had won a Michelin star for his inventive seafood dishes decided to sell the decade-old establishment, which had regaled everyone from French politicians to tennis star Serena Williams. But on an afternoon in April, Sombardier struck a remarkably positive tone about the current Paris dining scene and his latest project, a chic Left Bank bistro called Les Parisiens. People are keen to discover the latest spots, he said. Things are going well in Paris. The crowds are out. Im optimistic. Were looking at a lovely year, he said. It is a sentiment ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Everett Millais was born June 08, 1829. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 - 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). In this image: Afternoon Tea (or The Gossips). The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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