| | The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Wednesday, September 21, 2022 |
| | | When construction crews find fossils, job sites become science labs | |
|
|
Laura Emmert, a lab and field technician , at a dig site in Gray, Tenn., on Sept. 1, 2022, which has yielded a large collection of fossils. Several significant discoveries have started with a construction worker unearthing a bone and calling in an expert. Mike Belleme/The New York Times.
by Mitch Smith
KENT CITY, MICH.- It all started with a very large femur. When Kevin Busscher dipped the scoop of his excavator into the soft Michigan soil last month, he knew the thigh bone he plucked from the dirt was far too big to have belonged to a cow or a horse. And he knew the culvert he was replacing would have to wait. My first thought was, woolly mammoth! said Busscher, who reported his find to the county officials overseeing the project, who relayed photos of the bones to scientists. As it turned out, he had found the skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like beast that roamed North America during the last ice age. By the next morning, a team of university and museum researchers had assembled to extract the rest of the bones. When they pulled out the mastodons massive jaw, several bright white teeth were still in place. That discovery, a few feet below the ground between a rural road and a hayfield, was the latest in a long tradition of construction workers becoming accidental ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nel Tuo Tempo (In your time), Olafur Eliassons largest exhibition in Italy to date, opened to audiences in Florence today, unveiling a major new site specific courtyard installation that uses the moiré effect to create a unique visual experience for every visitor.
|
|
|
|
|
| Casey Kaplan opens an exhibition of works by Jordan Casteel | | 'The Classical Orders: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in the Drawings of Sir John Soane' at the Tchoban Foundation | | Olafur Eliasson unveils new site specific work at Palazzo Strozzi with Nel Tuo Tempo |
Jordan Casteel, In bloom, 2022 (Detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Jordan Casteel presents In bloom, an exhibition of nine figurative and landscape-based oil paintings. Completed in 2022 amid the artists relocation to rural New York State, this body of work invests in the reciprocity between painter and subject through a renewed approach to community engagement and an increasingly poignant vantage point of self-reflection. The sensory influence of a landscape has the capacity to connect or divide us, to inform our movements through space and the manners in which we relate to our surroundings, and to one another. Casteel sources her subject matter from her own photographs of the people of color who share and shape an environment, directly informing her own accessibility to the collective experience. In a departure from the comforts of an inbuilt community, as portrayed in previous works ranging from the sidewalks ... More | |
Sir John Soanes Office, Royal Academy lecture drawing. An Egyptian order, with two temples in the background. Pencil, pen and coloured wash on laid paper.
BERLIN.- This new temporary loan exhibition at the Museum for Architectural Drawing is the fourth cooperation project with Sir John Soane Museum in London and is dedicated to a series of remarkable drawings produced by John Soane (1753 1837) and his Office. Soane was the leading neo-classical architect in late Georgian Britain, and many of the drawings included were produced for his lectures given as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1809 and 1820 to illustrate classical architectural orders. The orders are a series of architectural styles developed in the ancient Greece and adopted by the Romans. For Soane, a proper understanding of the three primary ancient orders Doric, Ionic and ... More | |
Installation view.
FLORENCE.- Nel Tuo Tempo (In your time), Olafur Eliassons largest exhibition in Italy to date, opened to audiences in Florence today, unveiling a major new site specific courtyard installation that uses the moiré effect to create a unique visual experience for every visitor. Featuring a number of new, site specific works, the exhibition embraces the Palazzo Strozzis Renaissance architecture in creating a powerful series of immaterial artworks that address subjective perception and shared experience. The exhibition brings together new and older works that feature light, shadows, reflections, patterns, and intense colour, and includes new digital artwork created using VR technology presented to the public for the first time at Palazzo Strozzi. Curated by Arturo Galansino, the exhibition is the result of the artists direct interaction with the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi whose historical and symbolic ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Musée Marmottan Monet celebrates the 150th anniversary of Monet's 'Impression, soleil levant' | | Art Basel Miami Beach reveals line-up of 283 leading galleries for the fair's largest edition to date | | Met appoints new leader of Modern and Contemporary art |
William Turner, Mortlake Terrace, 1827. Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 122.2 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons Permanent Fund, 1990.1.1 © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
PARIS.- On 13 November 1872, from the window of his hotel in Le Havre, Claude Monet painted a view of the port through the mist. Exhibited two years later under the title Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise] (1872, Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet), the work inspired critic Louis Leroy to coin the term Impressionist, thus giving a name to the group formed by Monet and his friends. In 2022, the Musée Marmottan Monet celebrates the 150th anniversary of the centrepiece of its collections, Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise] and pays tribute to it through the exhibition Facing the Sun: The Celestial Body in the Arts from 21 September 2022 to 29 January 2023. Albrecht Dürer, Luca Giordano, Pierre-Paul Rubens, Claude Gellée known as Le Lorrain, Joseph Vernet, Mallord William Turner, Gaspar David Friedrich, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, André Derain, Maurice Denis, Félix ... More | |
Eric Firestone Gallery Helly Nahmad Gallery
MIAMI, FL.- Art Basel celebrates its 20th-anniversary edition in Miami Beach with 283 premier galleries the largest show in Miami Beach to date including 26 first-time participants as well as multiple exhibitors returning after a brief hiatus. More than half of this years galleries have principal gallery locations in North and South America, joined by new and returning exhibitors from Africa, Asia, and Europe. The 26 newly participating galleries include: Alexandre Gallery (New York); And Now (Dallas); Edel Assanti (London); Berry Campbell (New York); José de la Mano (Madrid); Bridget Donahue (New York); Emalin (London); Herlitzka + Faria (Barrio Norte); K Art (Buffalo); Kristina Kite Gallery (Los Angeles); Paulo Kuczynski (São Paulo); Magenta Plains (New York); P21 (Seoul); Queer Thoughts (New York); Residency Art Gallery (Inglewood); Rolf Art (Buenos Aires); Meredith Rosen Gallery (New York); Chris Sharp ... More | |
In an undated photo provided by Eileen Travell of David Breslin, who has been named the Metropolitan Museum of Arts curator in charge of Modern and Contemporary Art, replacing Sheena Wagstaff. Eileen Travell, via Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In a decision eagerly awaited by the art world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday announced that David Breslin would become its curator in charge of Modern and Contemporary Art, indicating that he will play an important role in the new wing now under development for that department. Breslin, who currently serves as the director of curatorial initiatives at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, is expected to start at the Met later this fall. He replaces Sheena Wagstaff, who announced in May that she was leaving after 10 years in the position. Breslin will have an important role in how the Met defines the ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Michael Rakowitz's first solo exhibition at Green Art Gallery opens in Dubai | | Virginia Dwan, behind-the-scenes force in the art world, dies at 90 | | Christie's to offer legendary and unique watches in Geneva |
Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Kalhu, Room S, Panel S-d-2), 2022. Arabic newspapers, food packaging, cardboard relief sculptures on wood panel, 224.79 x 163.83 x 10.16 cm.
DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery is presenting Michael Rakowitzs first solo exhibition at the Gallery, following his large-scale institutional exhibition at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai in 2020. He has shown regularly at Sharjah Art Foundation including mostly recently in Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber (2019) and Unsettled Objects (2021) at the Flying Saucer. His work will be included in the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, opening February 2023. The invisible enemy should not exist is an ongoing project centering on threatened, destroyed, and missing cultural heritage. Michael Rakowitz began this work in 2007, reappearing artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003. Drawing from a database of reference images and information, ... More | |
Art dealer Virginia Dwan at her apartment at the Dakota in New York, June 14, 2016. Alex Wroblewski/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Virginia Dwan, who through her galleries in Los Angeles and New York and her personal financial support helped fuel the explosion of artistic innovation of the 1960s and beyond, and who later enriched the collections of the National Gallery of Art and other institutions with extensive donations from her personal collection, died Sept. 5 at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was 90. Her daughter, Candace Dwan, said the cause was cancer. Dwan was a granddaughter of John Dwan, a founder of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., which became 3M, and was one of the heirs to that family fortune. Beginning in her 20s, she used her resources to exhibit and often support Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Ross, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Michael Heizer and many others who were breaking new ground ... More | |
Rolex ref. 6241 Daytona, 18K gold, champagne Paul Newman dial, ca. 1968. Image courtesy of Phillips.
GENEVA.- Christies Watches announced Legendary and Unique Watches: The Collection of a Lifetime, presenting 112 timepieces considered rare treasures by astute collectors. Not one of these watches has ever been offered at auction and many carry the most coveted and desirable specifications. One-off creations, personalised dials, prototypes and the No.1 of limited editions many watches will represent a unique opportunity for collectors around the globe. Following a month-long world preview that begins in New York on 1 October 2022 and will take a carefully curated selection of timepieces to Hong Kong, Dubai, London, Jakarta and Los Angeles "Legendary and Unique Watches: The Collection of a Lifetime will arrive in Geneva on 2 November 2022. For your calendar: the auction will be held on Sunday, 6 November 2022 at 5.00pm in Geneva at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. This collection spans four decades of passion ... More |
|
|
|
|
| Art Gallery of New South Wales unveils opening program for transformation and expansion | | Hauser & Wirth debuts selections from Zoe Leonard's 'Al rÃo / To the River,' | | The Fundació Joan Miró presents the photographic exhibition Bimbo, by Nora Baylach |
Phyllida Barlow 'untitled: brokenupturnedhouse' 2013, steel armature, polystyrene, polyfiller, papier-mâché, paint, PVA, sand, plywood, timber, varnish, 360 x 480 x 330 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, gift of Geoff Ainsworth AM and Johanna Featherstone 2017 © Phyllida Barlow.
SYDNEY.- Epic sculptures by international artist Adrián Villar Rojas installed in a vast underground former Second World War fuel tank, large-scale narrbong-galang (many bags) by Waradgerie artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey and an exuberant floral sculpture by Yayoi Kusama are among the highlights of the opening program for the expanded Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Art Gallery today unveiled its new exhibitions, collection displays and inaugural Tank commission as part of the Sydney Modern Project. The opening program, featuring works by more than 900 Australian and international artists, will be free to visitors when the transformed art museum opens on 3 December. On Gadigal Country, overlooking Sydney Harbour, the expanded art museum comprises the new SANAA- ... More | |
Installation view, Zoe Leonard. Excerpts from Al rÃo / To the River, Hauser & Wirth New York 22nd Street , 8 September 29 October 2022 © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the past three decades, Zoe Leonard has probed the conditions of image-making and the politics of display, bringing together photography, sculpture, and installation in her acclaimed conceptual practice. This fall, Hauser & Wirths West 22nd Street space in New York hosts a selection from her latest work Al rÃo / To the River (20162022), a six-year undertaking in which the artist photographed the 1,200-mile stretch along the Rio Grande / RÃo Bravo that runs between Mexico and the United States and is used to demarcate the border. The full work, Al rÃo / To the River, encompassing hundreds of photographs, debuted at MUDAM, Luxembourg, in February, and will travel to the Musée dArt Moderne, Paris this fall. Hauser & Wirth presents excerpts from this epic project for the first time in the United ... More | |
Bimbo. Nora Baylach. Fundació Joan Miró.
BARCELONA.- The title of the exhibition is a reference to Bimbo, one of the several cats Paul Klee (18791940) had as pets in his lifetime, and which he photographed with genuine devotion. This fascination is connected to Klee's admiration for felines as animals that do not suffer from the same gravitational limitations as humans. Likewise, a dancer's body can achieve some of the cat's qualities in terms of movement that are beyond most people. In fact, Bimbo belonged to Karla Grosch, a dancer and Bauhaus teacher who lived with the Klee family in Dessau. Grosch tragically died in 1933 and the Klees took in their friend's cat. Nora Baylach (Granollers, 1994) has studied Klee's cat photos and taken them as inspiration for a street photo session in Barcelona, devoted to a single cat: an anonymous animal with white fur, like Bimbo, and with different-coloured eyes. To portray this new Bimbo, Baylach returned to analogue technology, well aware that rolls of film are practically impossible to find ... More |
|
An Evening with Artist Hew Locke
|
|
|
| More News |
Samson Kambalu's 'Crossing Borders' opens at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts is presenting the work of Samson Kambalu in his premiere Philadelphia exhibition. Born in Malawi in 1975, Kambalu attended Kamuzu Academy, known as the "Eton of Africa." He graduated from the University of Malawis Chancellor College in 1999, where he trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist. In 2003, he completed his MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and later received his PhD from Chelsea College of Art and Design for an investigation of Marcel Mauss concept of the gift and how economies animate aspects of art practice. Kambalu has won research fellowships with Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution, and is an Associate Professor of Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art, and a Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University. Kambalu works in a variety ... More
Kunsthaus Pasquart opens Francis Upritchard's 'A Loose Hold'
BIEL/BIENNE.- Francis Upritchards (*1976, New Zealand) sculptures are situated between realism and fantasy; whilst flamboyantly theatrical, they are also keenly observant of human nature. Made from a wide variety of materials, such as rubber, bronze, stone and glass, they explore both material and aesthetic aspects of human and anthropomorphic forms. Upritchards work draws on craft traditions and design, combining references from science fiction and folklore to ancient sculptures and the animal kingdom. In A Loose Hold, the artist creates a sculptural and spatial installation to which she imbues human and anthropomorphic forms, carefully arranging them into mysterious environments. Often hand-woven blankets, tie-dyed silks, and custom-made garments adorn the deftly crafted sculptures, which are sometimes combined ... More
Christie's and a Baltimore gallery to sell work by Black artists
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time when galleries and museums are focusing on diversity in the artists they show, Christies auction house this month will collaborate with the Black-owned Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore to sell a selection of work by six contemporary Black artists. It gives us the opportunity to think about the auction model and try to expand it, said Julian Ehrlich, the Christies specialist organizing the sale. The goal is to bring a wider group of voices into the Christies world. The paintings, to be featured in Christies Post-War to Present sale on Sept. 29, were all chosen by Myrtis Bedolla, the founder of the gallery. It is very impactful and part of what needs to happen across the board, Bedolla said. Its important in achieving our blue-chip status, the visibility that it allows for us as it relates to equity and Black economic empowerment. The ... More
Martyn Cross joins Hales
LONDON.- Hales announced representation of Bristol based artist Martyn Cross. The gallery is looking forward to exhibiting Crosss work at Frieze London and opening his first solo show at Hales London later this year. Martyn Cross (b. 1975, Yate, UK) is primarily a painter engaged with world making. Each of his works begins in reality, with recognizable limbs and elements of landscape, which transform into uncanny scenes. Biomorphic landscapes speak to mythologies, but in Crosss paintings the narratives are knowingly ambiguous. Familiar and mysterious, quiet and epic, scale and irregularity in proportion puzzles the viewer. Deliberately hard to place in history, there is a timelessness to Crosss paintings, reminiscent of unearthed artifacts. Martyn Cross (b. 1975, Yate, UK) holds a BA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University. He lives and works in Bristol, UK. Cross is primarily a ... More
The buildings that drove their creators to despair
NEW YORK, NY.- Reading Charlotte Van den Broecks beguiling book about architects and melancholy on a blue and gold September day, I found it impossible not to think of the twin towers. Widely disfavored in their heyday by critics who preferred the elegant art deco Empire State Building, the audacious modernist buildings often compared to exclamation points or front teeth and almost synonymous with Frank Sinatra singing New York, New York are now missed most terribly from the anodyne skyline of downtown Manhattan. Their architect, Minoru Yamasaki, died of cancer long before 9/11, but he had castigated himself during his lifetime for the failure and eventual demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex he had designed in St. Louis. Though she doesnt mention Yamasaki or either of his ill-fated projects, Van den Broeck, a young ... More
EstateOfMind announces highlights included in Fall Auction, live and online
MIDDLETOWN, NY.- Five furnishings by Vladimir Kagan that once decorated Apartment 30 of the legendary Dakota apartment building in New York City, a Pablo Picasso vase for Madoura and a book written, illustrated and published by Edward S. Curtis will all be part of a two-session auction on Saturday, Oct. 15, by EstateOfMind, online and live in the firms Middletown gallery. The five furnishings signed and designed by Kagan (1927-2016), the renowned German-born American furniture designer, include three sectional free-standing fabric and Lucite sofas, one an Omnibus (all circa 1940); a glass, chrome and steel coffee table (circa 1969-70); and a wood and Lucite zebra floor lamp (circa 1960-1970). These will be offered in Session 2, at 11 am Eastern. Session 1, starting at 10 am Eastern, will kick things off with estate firearms, ammunition ... More
To expand, arts centers seek to build their own community
NEW YORK, NY.- Not long after Linda C. Harrison became CEO and director of the Newark Museum, she strolled through the 4 1/2-acre campus in the heart of the city and examined two parking lots on the site. These were kind of sleepy little lots, she said. She decided that the parcels could be put to better use by helping the museum get on a sturdier financial footing and, at the same time, helping fuel redevelopment in Newark, New Jersey. That was more than three years ago. The museum, now known as the Newark Museum of Art, is poised to become one of the citys newest mixed-use developers. The two parking lots have been sold to a developer who will help Harrison realize her vision a vibrant arts district called Museum Parc, which will include two buildings with 250 apartments. Fifty of them will be moderately priced rentals that she ... More
Jack Charles, grandfather of Aboriginal theater, dies at 79
MELBOURNE.- Jack Charles, one of Australias leading Indigenous actors, who has been called the grandfather of Aboriginal theater but whose heroin addiction and penchant for burglary landed him in and out of jail throughout his life, died Sept. 13 in Melbourne. He was 79. He died in a hospital after having a stroke, according to his publicist, Patrice Capogreco. Charles had a voice that made people stop and listen. Gravelly and majestic, with rounded vowels honed by elocution lessons in a rough-and-tumble boys home, it assured him an audience even over the scrum of the Australian prisons where he spent much of his life. Its very unusual for a crim or a screw to listen to a prisoner talk for very long, he wrote in a memoir, using slang for fellow inmates and prison officers. But for whatever reason, theyd let me run with whatever I was ... More
Whitechapel Gallery presents latest commission from Zadie Xa
LONDON.- In autumn of this year, Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa (b.1983) presents her largest solo exhibition in London to date, commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery. Xa works across a range of mediums from textile, painting, sculpture and installation to live performance, sound and moving image. Her practice is an exploration of matrilineal societies, familial legacies, histories of migration and the ways in which different species communicate with one another. Korean mythology often provides the narrative framework for Xas investigations into ideas of cultural conflation, systems of power, home and belonging. Often drawing on her own lived experiences, Xa seeks to articulate multiple narratives within hybrid and diasporic identity that she situates in both our contemporary socio-political context as well as through a study of the supernatural, ... More
Lehman College Art Gallery presents the New York Latin American Art Triennial
BRONX, NY.- The Lehman College Art Gallery presents, Abya Yala: Structural Origins, an exhibition featuring the work of 20 artists from 14 countries across the Latin American diaspora from September 21, 2022 through January 28, 2023. Organized by the New York Latin American Triennial under the auspices of the Bronx Hispanic Festival, Lehman College is one of eight New York City venues to display the artistic and cultural legacies of the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Triennial exhibition, last seen at Lehman College Art Gallery in Fall 2019, examines contemporary art and the inspiration it draws from historical epochs of cultural and intellectual growth across the American continent. The title ABYA YALA means Continent of Life in Kuna, a language spoken in southeastern ... More
|
|
PhotoGalleries
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Carolee Schneemann
Ross Ryan
Ben Sledsens
Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was born September 21, 1960. Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960, Padua, Italy) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997). In this image: The sculpture middle finger by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the inauguration in front of the Stock Exchange building in Milan, Italy.
|
|
|
|
