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Henri Matisse. The Red Studio. Issy-les-Moulineaux, fall 1911. Oil on canvas, 71 1/4″ x 7′ 2 1/4″ (181 x 219.1 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- When Henri Matisse painted The Red Studio in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1911, he not only let the viewer into his workspace, with its box of crayons, ceramic plate and grandfather clock. He also captured tiny versions of his own paintings propped against the walls and his sculptures perched on stools. Now, for the first time since they left Matisses studio, those pieces of art will be displayed alongside The Red Studio at the Museum of Modern Art in an exhibition that opens next May. You will see The Red Studio, and you will also see in real life the paintings and sculptures that he miniaturized and reproduced in the painting itself, said Ann Temkin, MoMAs chief curator of painting and sculpture, co-organizer of the exhibition. This is one of the great artists playing with the concept of art within art, presenting his own work within his own paintings. He painted a show of his work, and were realizi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages Auction on Thu, Sep 16, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! In this image: 19th C. Cook Islands Wood No'oanga (for Chief). Estimate $9,500 - $14,250.
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| Seeing double with Jasper Johns | | Red carpet radicals: The Met Gala really wanted to make a statement | | 'Gender alchemy' is transforming art for the 21st century |
Scott Rothkopf, chief curator at the Whitney Museum, who wants to reintroduce Jasper Johns for new audiences, at the museum in New York, Aug. 24, 2021. Erik Tanner/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Saturday morning, I arrived at the stone house in Sharon, Connecticut, and found Jasper Johns outside on the lawn, tending to a massive oak tree. An infestation of gypsy moths was visible on the trunk; gauzy deposits of tiny eggs were imperiling the trees health. Johns, who was dressed neatly in khaki pants, a turquoise linen shirt and a pair of heavy yellow gloves, was using his hands to scrape the eggs off the bark. The moths gray wings fluttered wildly as they tumbled to the ground. In a summer when so much of the world was still reeling from COVID-19, it was heartening to think that at least a towering oak might be saved. I had started writing a biography of the artist a few years earlier, and was aware of his love of trees and plants, which probably bring him more satisfaction than social interactions do. He is something of a solitary creature, a man who is eloquent in his silences and prefers to skip his own openings. Two new ones are ... More | |
Lil Nas X at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, Sept. 13, 2021. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- On the second Monday in September, upper Fifth Avenue lit up with a blitz of flashbulbs not seen in over two years. The Met Gala like Broadway, like New York Fashion Week, like the U.S. Open had returned, and with it the extreme pageantry that it inspires as guests and the designers who dress them vie to see who can create the most viral look according to theme. The dress code this year was American Independence. (It was linked to the Costume Institute exhibition it celebrated, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.) What exactly that means is a question George and Martha Washington probably never had to contemplate (even Dolley Madison, the resident founding fashionista, likely didnt ask), but the gala provided a variety of answers: some obvious, some more pointed, all plumbing the mythology of the country historical, pop cultural, and just plain fantastical. Rep. ... More | |
Jenny Lens, Needle in the Cameras Eye (2021) by Vaginal Davis, from the series Unsung Superheroines in Witch Hunt at ICA LA. The mixed-media piece incorporates nail polish and eye shadow and pays homage to the Los Angeles punk rock photographer Jenny Lens. Vaginal Davis via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Organizing a museum survey of feminist art can be as politically fraught as organizing a womens march, for some of the same reasons. Different women are bound to have different political goals or priorities. There are competing theoretical frameworks, from Marxist feminism, which sees capitalism as the main source of womens oppression, to the intersectional feminism so prominent today, which highlights the impact of factors such as race and class on womens lives. And the very notion of what it means to be a woman is fast evolving, with the growing visibility of gender-fluid, nonbinary and transgender populations. But curators at two California museums have jumped in, organizing independent exhibitions that, taken together, reflect what feminist art today looks like and the most urgent issues it looks ... More |
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| Exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD. showcase Itō Hidehito's contemporary approach to celadon ware | | Nasher Sculpture Center announces Nairy Baghramian as winner of the 2022 Nasher Prize | | Nigerian born New York artist Moyosore Martins opens exhibition at the new Path Galleries |
Itō Hidehito (b. 1971), Ray craquelure celadon-glazed pleated, triangular sculpture, 2020. Glazed porcelain with wooden base, 16 x 12 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo exhibition outside of Japan, Itō Hidehito has created uniquely personal vessels and sculptural forms displaying his exceptional skill in craquelure celadon. Through steadfast experimentation, Itō pushed himself to create his largest ever works exclusively for his New York debut at Joan B Mirviss LTD. Opening during Asia Week New York this September, Classical Dignity, Contemporary Beauty is the culmination of the gallery's two-year long series showcasing the extraordinary range of ceramics produced in the historic Mino region of Japan that is at the heart of both its longstanding clay tradition and its most innovative interpretations. ITŌ Hidehito (b. 1971) has not shied away from tackling the long, storied tradition of celadon, nor from engaging with its daunting array of styles. Earlier in his career, he experimented ... More | |
Nairy Baghramian, Coude à Coude/Elbow to Elbow, 2019. Cast aluminum, wax, 84 11/16 x 57 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (215 x 146 x 8 cm) Photo: shift studio Berlin.
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center announces Nairy Baghramian as the recipient of the 2022 Nasher Prize. Now in its sixth year, the Nasher Prize is an international award for sculpture, established to honor a living artist who elevates the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities. Baghramian will be presented with an award designed by Renzo Piano, architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, at a ceremony in Dallas on April 2, 2022. The 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate Nairy Baghramian takes the creation and presentation of sculpture as her de facto subject yet makes works highlighting the poignant, contradictory, and sometimes humorous circumstances that can suffuse both the artistic process as well as everyday life. Over the past three decades, she has explored elements of sculptural practice ... More | |
Moyosore Martins.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- TrafficNYC will present Nigerian born New York artist Moyosore Martins will debut his solo exhibition, IRANTI, at the new Path Galleries in Westwood from September 18 to November 14, 2021. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria by a Brazilian father and a Nigerian mother from Ekiti state, Moyosore Martins is a self-taught mixed-media contemporary artist who picked up a paintbrush and pencil at a young age to fuel his innately curious and spiritual nature. Moyosore Martins artistic expression is narrative in nature and combines figurative and abstract painting inspired by his unique human experience. His bold oil brushstrokes, drawings, scribbles, layering of materials in appliqué, and use of text are obscured within each painting and symbolize spiritual elements from protection to wishes fulfilled. Martins also works in three-dimensional form with clay sculpture. Moyosore Martins' unique symbolic work brings ... More |
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| Oscar Munoz: Invisibilia exhibition now open at Phoenix Art Museum | | Doyle to auction the Sarah Belk Gambrell Falangcai Vase | | Exhibition of 30 sculptures by Bosco Sodi activates Dallas Museum of Art's Sculpture Garden |
Installation view of Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, 2021, Phoenix Art Museum. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum premiered Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, the first retrospective of work by renowned Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz presented in the United States. Co-organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, the traveling exhibition is curated by Vanessa Davidson, PhD, formerly the Shawn and Joe Lampe Curator of Latin American Art at Phoenix Art Museum who now serves as Curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton. The retrospective features a wide selection of approximately 50 works created by the artist over five decades that explore themes of time, memory, history, and knowledge. Beginning with Muñozs early charcoal drawings from the 1970s, it features hybrid works created over the past five decades that combine photographic processes with drawing, printmaking, installation, video, sculpture, and interactive elements. The exhibition also showcases new work that has never before been exhibited. ... More | |
The Sarah Belk Gambrell Falangcai Vase, Qianlong Period.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers will auction the Sarah Belk Gambrell Falangcai Vase as a highlight of the Asian Works of Art sale on Monday, September 20 at 10am EDT. Created during the reign of Chinese Emperor Qianlong (1735-1796), this rare and important vase was acquired by Belk department store heiress and philanthropist Sarah Belk Gambrell (1918-2020), from whose estate it is being offered. It has a pre-sale estimate of $100,000-300,000. Following the auction on September 20, Doyle will offer Asian Works of Art: Session II on Friday, September 24 at 10am EDT. Collectors around the world are invited to participate digitally in the two live auction events. Interested bidders can view the auction catalogues and place bids online at Doyle.com. The public is invited to both exhibitions on view Friday, September 17 through Sunday, September 19. Doyle is located at 175 East 87th Street in New York City. The Sarah Belk Gambrell ... More | |
Bosco Sodi, Untitled, 2020, Clay, Clay Sphere installed at Casa Wabi Studio. Photo: Sergio Lopez, Courtesy Studio Bosco Sodi.
DALLAS, TX.- 30 terracotta sculptures by Bosco Sodi are being exhibited in the Dallas Museum of Arts Sculpture Garden in Bosco Sodi: La fuerza del destino. Born in Mexico City and currently based in New York City and Oaxaca, Sodi is known for richly textured paintings and sculptures that honor the essential crudeness of their materials. Sodi creates his baked clay works at his studio in Oaxaca, Mexico, where terracotta vessels have been made for thousands of years by the Zapotec and even earlier inhabitants of the region; here the artist adapts the technique to an unusually large scale. The clay is shaped by hand and then left to dry outdoors for long periods of time before being fired in a rustic oven. The resulting works are unique testaments to the power of interaction between raw material and environment, bearing the marks not only of the maker ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth presents new sculpture, painting, and collage by Lorna Simpson | | All the world in a 'slice' of art | | 'French Elvis' Johnny Hallyday honoured with new statue |
Lorna Simpson, Storm, 2021. Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, 75 1/2 x 59 x 1 3/8 in. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lorna Simpsons first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Everrrything fills both North galleries and the open-air courtyard of the gallerys Downtown Arts District complex with new sculpture, painting, and collage. Expanding her critically admired Ice series, Simpsons new paintings allure viewers with layers of paradoxes, threading dichotomies of figuration and abstraction, past and present, destruction and creation. Collages on view continue the artists ongoing exploration of the medium through her appropriation and reimagining of imagery from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet magazines, which have been integral sources for Simpson over the last decade. The new works on view reveal the ways in which Simpsons multidisciplinary, multivalent practice uniquely deploys metaphor, metonymy, and formal prowess to offer a powerful response to the daily experience of American life ... More | |
A "Slice of the Universe" map from 1986. Via The New York Times.
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- At 91, Jasper Johns is turning out impressive and touchingly personal work. During the solitary months of the pandemic, he completed a painting titled Slice, and a group of related drawings and prints. Likely to be a standout of his upcoming show, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, a two-venue retrospective opening Sept. 29 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Slice is a large, horizontal and predominantly black oil painting that combines unrelated images of a map of outer space and a human knee. When I first saw it in July in the artists barn in Sharon, Connecticut, I was riveted and asked him to help me decode it. Without elaborating he mentioned a name that was new to me: Margaret Geller. A few days later I reached Geller, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, known ... More | |
Attendees take picture of a motorcyle during the inauguration of the Johnny Hallyday esplanade in Paris on September 14, 2021. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
by Jean-François Guyot
PARIS.- Adoring fans paid tribute to late French rocker Johnny Hallyday on Tuesday as a statue went up in Paris in honour of the "French Elvis". The beloved star, who died in December 2017, will also be feted with a concert and his very own "Johnny's Bar" at one of the city's biggest arenas. But like much of Hallyday's life, the homage has not been without controversy. The local Green party mayor initially objected to the statue, featuring his beloved Harley Davidson perched on the end of a guitar, feeling it was not in keeping with the city's environmentalist turn. And the family feud that erupted over the partition of his vast estate means two of his four children -- actress Laura Smet and singer David Hallyday -- are not expected to attend. Hallyday parlayed the huge success from Gallic covers of US rock 'n' roll, such as "Blue ... More |
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Theatre debut 'perilous', says French star Vanessa Paradis
PARIS.- She's been in front of cameras since she was a little girl, but Vanessa Paradis admits that treading the boards for the first time on Tuesday is a "perilous" undertaking. Speaking to AFP ahead of the opening night of "Maman" at the Edouard VII theatre in Paris, the singer and actress said she had been "inhabited" by the script, written by her husband Samuel Benchetrit, who also directs the play. "In several weeks, in several months, I will relax, but for now, it's all I'm thinking about," she said. The 48-year-old has been in the limelight for decades: a teen pop idol, appearances in some 20 films, a high-profile relationship with Johnny Depp. But theatre is finally introducing Paradis to stage-fright. "I already had a lot of admiration for theatre actors, but now that I've tried it, I admire them even more," she told AFP. "It's very perilous trying to do justice to the story while projecting your voice loudly." ... More
JFK diary, Anne Revere's Academy Award among remarkable rarities up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction presents Remarkable Raritiesa live auction hosted in Boston, MA on September 25th. The premier annual auction event features only the best of the besta small, curated selection of the most elite items we will offer for sale all year. Highlights include; JFK's diary from the summer of 1945. Towards the close of the war in 1945, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy arranged for his 28-year-old son, Jack, to work for Hearst newspapers. This allowed the young veteran to attend the opening session of the United Nations in San Francisco in May and then travel abroad to cover post-war Europe during the Summer of 1945. JFK followed Prime Minister Churchill throughout England during his reelection campaign. He traveled to Ireland, France, then to the Potsdam Conference in Germany with Navy Secretary James Forrestal. ... More
The Eyes Have It: New exhibition reopens Lehman College Art Gallery
BRONX, NY.- Lehman College Art Gallery opens its Edith Altschul Lehman and Robert Lehman wings from August 31 through November 13 to the work of artists from Pakistan and Guatemala, from Greece, Italy, and Spain, the Bahamas, Canada, and London, and across the United States, from Maryland to California. Their works, created in the last decade, truly bring the eyes of the world to the Gallery and exemplify the need to see and be seen ― the central pillar of the visual arts. In the Gallerys Rotunda, Sima I. Schloss dazzling 30-foot, site-specific installation The Eyes Have It, allows for a wide breath of interconnectivity among all the exhibitions works. Artists include: Humaira Abid, Rodolfo Abularach, Derrick Adams, Carlos Aires, Janine Antoni, Firelei Báez, Gina Beavers, Angelica Bergamini, ... More
Exhibition of new work by Martha Tuttle opens at Tilton Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery announced the opening on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 of Wild irises grow in the mountains, an exhibition of new work by Martha Tuttle. In her third solo exhibition with Tilton Gallery, the artist will present a group of ten large paintings and a video. An interplay between malleability and permanence, fragility and strength permeate the exhibition, ranging from perceptions about the vulnerability of traditional dyes and textile practices to the grief and mourning that strive to encounter the magnitude of climate change. I think that the question of how to care throughout changeeven if that change is distressfulis one that can be seen as symbolized by the object and extending into the realms of the body and the earth, the artist writes. How do we learn to create a culture of care that moves with the needs ... More
Asya Geisberg Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting "Howling Hills" by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen, the artist's fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Thoroddsen continues to employ his painterly trope of anthropomorphized cartoonish dogs, as they traverse implied landscapes or occupy transient spaces. In Thoroddsen's previous exhibition "Earth to Earth", the canine heads seemed frozen, as if broken open and unwilling to reassemble appropriately. Now, his subjects have transformed into fully-fledged human surrogates, a more contained mechanism for the artist to further explore the pressing formal concerns that have engendered this body of work. Thoroddsen deftly weaves a painterly tapestry that effortlessly ping pongs between simplification and obfuscation. Like a lucid dream, obvious "things" cleave into questionable entities, ... More
Kaycee Moore, actress in Black directors' seminal films, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Kaycee Moore, whose nuanced acting documented Black American life in movies by a group of young, Black independent directors in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s, died Aug. 13 at her home in Kansas City, Kansas. She was 77. The death was confirmed by the Watkins Heritage Funeral home. No cause was given. Moore made only a handful of movies, but they had an outsize impact on American cinema. Her portrayals defied the traditional roles for Black women of her era, in action-packed or trauma-filled blockbusters, and instead laid bare the interior lives of her characters. Her debut came in Killer of Sheep (1978), director Charles Burnetts first feature. (It was his thesis for the film program at UCLA.) Burnett was a member of the community of independent filmmakers that would later become known as the L.A. Rebellion. ... More
Classical music looks ahead to a fall in flux
NEW YORK, NY.- Normally, when I look ahead to a new season, I have a pretty good idea of what the performances will be like. But it goes without saying that this is not a normal time. So even with usually sure bets a new piece by a composer who has excited me in the past; recitals by performers I cherish; great casts in operas old and recent its hard to know what the performances this fall will feel like. The very experience of gathering in concert halls is in flux with the lingering challenges of the pandemic. It looks as if vaccine mandates for audience members will be routine. Im with those who see this move as the only way to make performances feel safe. But will masks be required or optional? Will there be full capacity, or some spacing in the audience? Will children be allowed, even if theyre still unvaccinated? And even with precautions, ... More
George Wein, jazz festival trailblazer, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- George Wein, the impresario who almost single-handedly turned the jazz festival into a worldwide phenomenon, died Monday at his apartment in Manhattan. He was 95. His death was announced by a spokesperson, Carolyn McClair. Jazz festivals were not an entirely new idea when Wein was approached about presenting a weekend of jazz in the open air in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1954. There had been sporadic attempts at such events, notably in both Paris and Nice, France, in 1948. But there had been nothing as ambitious as the festival Wein staged that July on the grounds of the Newport Casino, an athletic complex near the historic mansions of Bellevue Avenue. With a lineup including Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and other stars, the inaugural Newport Jazz Festival drew thousands ... More
The trumpeter Adam O'Farrill's art of avoiding the obvious
NEW YORK, NY.- If you pay close enough attention to jazz, Adam OFarrill might have landed on your radar about a decade ago, when he was still an adolescent. His last name is immediately recognizable his father and grandfather are Latin jazz royalty but he stood apart even then, mostly by hanging back and letting his trumpet speak for itself. Since his teens, OFarrill has prioritized restraint, so that his huge range of inspirations Olivier Messiaens compositions, Miles Davis 1970s work, the films of Alfonso Cuarón, the novels of D.H. Lawrence, the contemporary American-Swedish composer Kali Malone could emulsify into something personal, and devilishly tough to pin down. I dont really feel the need to pastiche too heavily, he said in a phone interview last month, while visiting family in Southern California. The point is really how you digest ... More
A climate opera arrives in New York, with 21 tons of sand
NEW YORK, NY.- On a rainy morning this past week, a beach arrived at the front door of a theater in Brooklyn. Or at least the raw ingredients for one: 21 tons of sand, packaged in 50-pound bags, 840 of them. Wheeled into the BAM Fisher on pushcart dollies, they were unceremoniously dropped onto the theaters tarp-covered floor with a dull thud. Once opened and spread around, the sand would form the foundation of Sun and Sea, an installation-like opera that won the top prize at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and has emerged as a masterpiece for the era of climate change. Neither didactic nor abstract, it is an insidiously enjoyable mosaic of consumption, globalization and ecological crisis. And its next stop is the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens Wednesday and runs through Sept. 26. The way it delivers its ideas, its totally ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born September 15, 1881. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams.
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