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A license plate constructed of pieces by artist Dominique Moody, whose work will be part of the Hammer Museums sixth edition of Made in L.A., at Blue Roof Studios in Los Angeles, Aug. 10, 2023. The museums biennial showcases several artists steeped in the assemblage art form, which is now flourishing in the city. (Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times)
by Jori Finkel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A decade ago, priced out of renting an apartment and studio in Los Angeles, artist Dominique Moody built a steel-clad, wood structure on a 20-foot flatbed trailer. It was an experiment in making a small, mobile abode before the tiny home trend took off. It offered a place to sleep, and dream. It was also in many ways an artwork. Steeped in assemblage, the process of making art from found or scavenged objects, Moody, 66, fashioned her home out of reclaimed materials where others would have gone straight to Home Depot. She made her porch of leftover floorboards from a barn and took an old bicycle apart, hanging her shower curtain from its tire rim. And she turned the doors of industrial washing machines into the windows or portals of her itinerant house, dubbed the Nomad, where she lived from 2015 to 2020. Starting Oct. 1, the Nomad will be parked outside the Hammer Museum as part of the sixth edition of Made in L.A., a biennial spotlighting emerging and underreco ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jochen Sandig, a co-founder of the Tacheles squat who now runs two art spaces, in Berlin, Sept. 7, 2023. The new branch of a Stockholm-based center for photography exhibitions anchors a complex with luxury apartments, high-end office spaces and a shopping plaza where a post-reunification utopian squat for artists and anarchists once thrived. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
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| Lisson Gallery announces representation of Dexter Dalwood | | Bonhams Skinner to present a trio of sales in September from American & European Works of Art and Jewelry | | This museum has 300 tanks and over 100 million YouTube views |
Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announced exclusive, global representation of Dexter Dalwood, an avowed master of contemporary history painting for over three decades. Born in Bristol, UK, in 1960, Dalwood is now based in Mexico City. The gallery will present Dalwood's work for the first time at the 2023 editions of Paris+ par Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, ahead of a solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery London in September 2024. Dexter Dalwood translates real-world events into imagined and composite landscapes, furthering the language and narratives of his chosen medium, while acknowledging the weight of all that has come before. An acute understanding and referencing of past artistic genres has recently given way to a style all his own: one that evades figurative tropes, in favour of uninhabited and uncertain spatial concerns, shifting scales and compressed picture planes. The artists famed, fictional ... More | |
Ramona, frontispiece illustration (Señora Gonzaga Moreno and Ramona) by Newell Convers Wyeth, estimated at $150,000 250,000. Photo: Bonhams.
BOSTON, MA.- Bonhams Skinner will present a trio of sales in September from its American & European Works of Art and Jewelry departments. The month will begin with Fine Jewelry Collections featuring an 18K tri-color gold tubogas necklace by Carlo Weingrill for Ugo Piccini. Prints & Photographs will be highlighted by a print from Alex Katz (b. 1927) titled Gray Day. American Art will close out the month with a newly rediscovered painting, Ramona, by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945). The Jewelry department will present a strong selection of 18K gold necklaces, diamond rings, necklaces, and bracelets as well as watches at its Fine Jewelry Collections from September 10 21. A highlight of the sale is an 18K tri-color gold tubogas necklace by Carlo Weingrill for Ugo Piccini, estimated at $7,000 9,000. Established in Verona in 1879, Carlo Weingrill is credited with being the original manufacturer of some of the most recognizable gold jewel ... More | |
Lighting is adjusted for recording of a video segment for YouTube at the Tank Museum in Bovington, England, Sept. 7, 2023. (Sam Bush/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
BOVINGTON.- The Tank Museum in Bovington, England, doesnt usually rank among the worlds great museums. Located next to a military base in serene countryside, the collection of around 300 armored vehicles attracts only a few hundred thousand visitors a year, mainly families on rained-out beach vacations. Yet there is one place where it not only ranks among the worlds largest museums, but surpasses them: YouTube. The Tank Museums channel has more than 550,000 subscribers surpassing the Museum of Modern Art (519,000), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (380,000) or the Louvre (106,000). In April, it announced it was the first museum to get more then 100 million views on YouTube, with weekly clips including intensely detailed discussions on tank history, chatty videos of the curators favorite war machines and newsier items on how armored ... More |
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| The Portland Art Museum presents Black Artists of Oregon | | Last call for Bobby Knudsen Jr Automobilia & Petroliana Collection, headlining at Morphy Auctions Sept. 29-Oct. 1 | | Putting women at the center of human evolution |
Jeremy Okai Davis (American, born 1979) The Advocate, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 48"x60", Photographer: Mario Gallucci.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum recently welcomed Black Artists of Oregon. This exhibition highlights and celebrates the work of Black artists in Oregon over more than a century, exploring this history both through the lens of Black artists whose works are represented in the Museums collection as well as the works of influential artists who, historically, have not been exhibited or held in museum collections. Black Artists of Oregon opened September 9th, 2023, and will be on view through March 17, 2024, with a temporary closure from November 26 through January 17 to accommodate construction at the Museum. Considering both the presence and absence of Black artists is critical to understanding the breadth of Black artistic production in Oregoneven in the midst of historic exclusionas well as how the impact of that history affects our understanding of American art history and the history of the Pacific Northwest. Thi ... More | |
Rare and outstanding 1930s Beacon Ethyl Gasoline (Caminol Co., Los Angeles) single-sided porcelain service station sign with beautiful image of lighthouse casting beams. Size: 48in x 30in. Bobby Knudsen Jr. Collection. AGS-certified and graded 89 on scale of 1-100. Estimate $50,000-$100,000.
DENVER, PA.- It has been an exciting year-long journey for automobilia and petroliana collectors since Morphy Auctions first announced a series of sales dedicated to the Bobby Knudsen Jr Collection. Known far and wide for its ultra-rare and super-fine gas, oil and soda pop signs, the Knudsen collection rocked the hobby at no-reserve sales held in fall 2022 and spring 2023, both of which attracted aggressive bidding and set dozens of world records. But all good things must come to an end, and that will happen when the third and final installment of the Knudsen collection is offered exclusively and with no reserve on the opening day of Morphys Sept. 29-Oct. 1 Automobilia & Petroliana Auction. Many great signs were intentionally set aside for Part III of the Knudsen series, said ... More | |
The author Cat Bohannon, at home in Seattle on Aug. 10, 2023. (Chona Kasinger/The New York Times)
by Sarah Lyall
NEW YORK, NY.- Author Cat Bohannon was a preteen in Atlanta in the 1980s when she saw the film 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. As she took in its famous opening scene, in which a bunch of apes picks up a bunch of bones and quickly begins using them to hit each other, Bohannon was struck by the sheer maleness of the moment. I thought, Where are the females in this story? Bohannon said recently, imagining what those absent females might have been up to at that particular time. Its like, Oh, sorry, I see youre doing something really important with a rock. Im just going to go over there behind that hill and quietly build the future of the species in my womb. That realization was just one of what Bohannon, 44, calls a constellation of moments that led her to write her new book, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human ... More |
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| Model-making legend Greg Jein's collection beams up to Heritage Oct. 14-15 | | Art Institute of Chicago opens 'Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome' | | Jacolby Satterwhite's first major survey opens at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's SAIC Galleries |
William Shatner "Captain Kirk" (2) Piece Starfleet Ensemble from Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series (Paramount TV, 1966-1969).
DALLAS, TX.- Greg Jein was a giant among the Hollywood illusionists who created small things to fill big screens. The model- and miniature-maker never left his hometown of Los Angeles. Yet he was never earthbound: Jein spent decades introducing us to aliens who brought their motherships to Earth, and he sent us soaring time and again into space, the final frontier. Jein, who died at 76 last year, was nominated for Academy Awards and Emmys, hailed as a magician and beloved as a mentor. Among Hollywood's special effects wizards, Jein was heartbeat and historian, craftsman and custodian. His life's story might have made the perfect film. A fan first, foremost and forever, he made models when he was little. By the time Jein reached his mid-30s, he was a twice-Oscar-nominated maker of motherships, airplanes, city blocks and other models for Close Encounters of the ... More | |
Giovanni Baglione. The Ecstasy of Saint Francis, 1601. Bequest of Suzette Morton Davidson.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago opened Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome, on view from September 8, 2023 through December 31, 2023. This intimate exhibition includes two rarely loaned Caravaggio paintings alongside works from the Art Institutes collection by some of his closest friends and rivals from the 17th century Roman art scene. With only seven Caravaggio paintings in collections in the United States, this is a rare opportunity to view the innovation and influence of Caravaggios work in person. Two of the paintings within this exhibitionThe Cardsharps, on loan from the Kimbell Art Museum, and Martha and Mary Magdalene, on loan from the Detroit Institute of Artsshowcase Caravaggios ability to capture drama through gesture, light, and composition. Born in Milan in 1571, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio entered the art scene in Rome around 1592 and over a short career developed a ... More | |
Jacolby Satterwhite, Room for Cleansing, 2019, in Spirits Roaming on the Earth curated by Elizabeth Chodos at Miller ICA at CMU. Exhibition photo by Tom Little, 2021.
CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, the School of the Art Institute of Chicagos SAIC Galleries exhibit the first major survey of seminal contemporary artist Jacolby Satterwhite. The exhibition, Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth, maps a holistic view of the artists multidisciplinary and visionary practice, bringing together a wide range of works from the past 13 years. It runs from September 11 to December 2. Satterwhite is best known for his fantastical, layered, and exuberant world building realized through video, performance, 3D animation, virtual reality, painting, sculpture, prints, and music. Drawing on a lexicon that is informed by mythology, video gaming, and dance, as well as his own queer, Black perspective, he interweaves art historical motifs with contemporary visual culture to create Afrofuturistic universes that serve as escapist spaces of freedom, desire, power, and inclusivity. SAIC i ... More |
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| In a former Berlin squat, slick photo shows (and martinis) | | Get carried away at Heritage with handbags, trunks and more from Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Chanel | | The Met commissions an opera about abducted Ukrainian children |
Inside Fotografiska, which retains some the Tachele squats look, in Berlin, Sept. 7, 2023. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
by Mary Katharine Tramontana
BERLIN.- On a cold, gray Berlin afternoon in February, 1990, a few months after the wall came down, a group of young artists and anarchists from East Germany climbed through the window of an abandoned department store and began creating their own utopia. The central Berlin building they occupied became the famous Tacheles squat. Open around the clock, with artist studios, a sculpture garden, movie theater, bar and concert venue, the Tacheles was a tourist destination and symbol of post-reunification Berlins heady, underground culture. The Tacheles lasted 22 years, until the artists who worked there were evicted, in 2012, with a promise from the city to keep the site as a cultural space. Now, after a lengthy redevelopment, the building is reopening and will be home to the Berlin branch of Fotografiska, a Stockholm- ... More | |
Hermès 32cm Matte White Himalayan Niloticus Crocodile Retourne Kelly Bag with Palladium Hardware.
DALLAS, TX.- Browsing Heritage Auctions' October 5 Luxury Accessories Signature® Auction feels like shopping the world's most fashionable closet. From the rich brown monogram canvas of Louis Vuitton and the signature silhouettes of Hermès to chic creations by Goyard and Chanel, the auction's 625 lots include some of the rarest and most coveted handbags, jewelry, accessories and travel pieces on the planet. Leading the auction is the ultimate Hermès design: a 32cm Matte White Himalayan Niloticus Crocodile Retourne Kelly. Even rarer than a Himalayan Birkin, this bag is a masterwork of incomparable craftsmanship and artistry, made from one of the scarcest materials on earth, the hide of the Nile crocodile, which has been painstakingly hand-dyed to transform the smoky gray skin into a luminous white ombre reminiscent of the snow-capped Himalayas. "Himas are the most spectacular bag and the rarest ever created, and Kelly Himas are even harder ... More | |
The composer Maxim Kolomiiets, who will partner with the librettist George Brant to write an opera about the war in Ukraine, in Dresden, Germany, Sept. 10, 2023. (Ingmar Nolting/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Opera announced Monday that it had commissioned a new opera about Russias abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children, the latest action by the company to show support for war-torn Ukraine. The work, which will be written by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by American playwright George Brant, tells the story of a mother who makes a long and perilous trip to rescue her daughter, who is being held at a camp inside Crimea. Although the characters in the opera are fictional, the story is based on real-life accounts by Ukrainian mothers who have described making the harrowing 3,000-mile journey from Ukraine into Russian-occupied territory, and back again, to recover their children from the custody ... More |
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How Lauren Groff, one of 'Our Finest Living Writers,' does her work
ORFORD, NH.- Lauren Groff, the three-time National Book Award finalist, was marching through the woods of New Hampshire, her pants stuffed into her socks to keep out the ticks. Two muddy dogs jogged ahead of her and a reporter trotted along behind. The outing was unusual for an author interview and, given the pace of the hike, not an insignificant amount of exercise. Typically, these conversations take place over coffee or lunch, at a publishers office or maybe in a writers living room. But Groff had chosen something different: a 5-mile hike through the woods and a swim in a pond, followed by a lunch of chickpea salad and a beet slaw with pistachio butter, all of which she made herself. A former college athlete who still runs, swims and plays tennis regularly, Groff, 45, has a physicality about her that is central to how she lives and writes. ... More
Ars Fennica 2023 nominees joint exhibition opens at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
HELSINKI.- The nominees for the 2023 Ars Fennica award are Henni Alftan and Tuomas A. Laitinen from Finland, Lap-See Lam from Sweden, Camille Norment from Norway, and Emilija karnulytė from Lithuania. The winner, to be announced on 22 November, will be chosen by Anne Barlow, Director of Tate St Ives. The exhibition will be on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki. The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation ARS FENNICA sr organizes Finlands most important visual arts award every other year. The award of 50,000 euros is given in recognition of an individual artistic oeuvre of outstanding quality. The nominees and the internationally renowned art expert selecting the awardee were chosen by a panel chaired by Leena Niemistö, Vice Chairman of the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation ... More
Saatchi Yates presents Will St. John's debut solo exhibition
LONDON.- Today, Saatchi Yates will be opening the debut solo exhibition of New York artist Will St. John, which will remain on view until Sunday 22 October. Will St. John spent years studying Renaissance painting techniques in Florence and around Europe. He brings these skills to his community of Bohemian New Yorkers. With a rigorous artistic style and approach to image-making, St. John's meticulously crafied paintings exude delicately fierce character. Reminding us of the French Rococo tradition, his works echo the genre's hallmark traits: a whimsical treatment of sensual themes, deployment of rich and intricate brushwork, and an infusion of pastel hues. St. John paints Drag Queens, Trans models, and pairs them alongside antique porcelain figurines, trinkets and phantoms in his eclectic world rooted in classical painting. Some of his portraits he even ... More
Boy's dream comes true with exact copy of Evel Knievel's jump bike for auction with Iconic Auctioneers
ASHORNE.- Lifelong Evel Knievel fan, John Timoney, spared no expense in creating his utterly exact copy of Evels bike that he describes as: a lovingly-created, way-too-much-spent Knievel Jump bike . It comes to sale with Iconic Auctioneers for an estimate of £15,000 to £20,000 at the NEC on November 12th. John says: Im a lifelong Knievel fan and am old enough to have actually been at Wembley on 26th May 1975 to see Evel jump. Evel and the bike made a huge impression on me, and I vowed that one day I would own a bike just like his. Many years ago, I did actually buy a genuine ex-Scott Pearson XR750, but didnt have the heart to chop up a genuine race bike, so ended up selling it on after a decade of it sitting in my office as an expensive ornament. He says that it took a decade to create this masterpiece, the planning, collecting the parts and the building itself took many years of his lif ... More
September Dropshop at Phillips to feature iconic photographs by Renée Cox
NEW YORK, NY.- Dropshop offers more insight into its breadth of featured artists with the announcement of Renée Cox, a trailblazing, feminist, activist icon, for the September Drop. In tandem with Coxs retrospective at Guild Hall, which has been extended through 18 September, Dropshop will release two iconic photographs on 14 September, including The Signing, which speak to freedom over the decades. Renée Cox, said, For the past 30 years, I have used my work as a conduit to change stereotypes of Black people. I use self-portraiture, scale and my authentic self to flip the script, to challenge societal norms, question power dynamics and advocate for the liberation of marginalized groups. Showing images at scale, of a powerful Black woman, as a superhero or God herself, helps reframe the historic rendering of Black narratives. Since ... More
Major exhibition exploring the Bloomsbury Group through fashion now on view at New Charleston space
LEWES.- This autumn, Charleston brings two major exhibitions to central Lewes for the first time, as it takes its first steps towards a permanent cultural centre in the heart of the town that will complement its rural home at Firle. Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion is the first major exhibition to explore the fashion of the Bloomsbury group, and how the 20th century cultural collective still impacts global style over 100 years on. Curated by writer Charlie Porter, the exhibition spotlights the relationship that radical figures such as Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell had with clothing, while celebrating 21st century fashion designers who have found inspiration in Bloomsbury art and life. The Bloomsbury group was a loose collective of artists, writers and thinkers, first formed in London at the beginning of the 20th century. Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury ... More
Tel Aviv Museum of Art to host 'Amos Gitai: Kippur, War Requiem'
TEL AVIV.- Tel Aviv Museum of Art is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War with an exhibition of works by the filmmaker and artist Amos Gitai, who served as a young reservist in a helicopter rescue unit on the Syrian front. On the sixth day of the war, his helicopter was hit by a Syrian missile, killing the co-pilot. Miraculously, the rest of the unit survived. The war changed Gitais path and led him to filmmaking. Over the decades, He became an internationally acclaimed creator with a copious filmography that includes dozens of documentaries, features, and experimental films. The events of the Yom Kippur War return in his cinematic work in telling personal and political moments. In 2000, more than two decades after the war, they were adapted into the feature film Kippur, one of the most striking war films of the 21st century, which ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
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