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Monetta White of the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Its more important than ever to build a unified Bay Area art scene, she said, to counter what she calls the doom and gloom headlines that have plagued the region of late. (Tinashe Chidarikire, via MoAD via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Monetta White was a co-owner of San Francisco restaurant 1300 on Fillmore a decade ago, she participated in the citys restaurant week, promoting the local food scene. Now, as the executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora downtown, she is organizing a celebration of Black visual culture, called Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week, to run Oct. 1 through Oct. 6. For me personally, as a native San Franciscan, the one thing I always look back on is the importance of the Black community in the citys art, music and hospitality, said White, who became the museums director in 2019 after a brief period on the board and who brings her marketing savvy to the job. The week is a way to create energy and celebrate the rich Black art landscape in the Bay Area, she added, explaining that the initiative extends beyond San Francisco to recognize Oaklands long-standing influence as a center of Black arts and culture. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A room for cryptocurrency traders with whirring servers in âMonte di Pietà ,â a sprawling, multilayered project by the Swiss-born artist Christoph Büchel, at The Prada Foundation in Venice, Italy, Aug. 7, 2024. Over the last 30 years, the Foundation has often commissioned âutopian projects that are seemingly impossible to realize,â according to Chiara Costa, the head of programs at the Prada Foundation. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
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| Major exhibition of French modern art coming this fall to the Columbia Museum of Art | | Apollo Art Auctions' popular e-sale series returns Aug. 24-25 with precious coins, ancient art & antiquities | | From a flour mill to a magnet for music and art in Upstate New York |
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement, effet de soleil), 1903. Oil on canvas, 32 x 36 1/4 in. (81.3 x 92.1 cm). Bequest of Grace Underwood Barton, 68.48.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art announced French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 1950, a major exhibition on view Saturday, October 5, 2024, through Sunday, January 5, 2025. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, French Moderns showcases more than 50 works from its distinguished collection, encompassing the key avant-garde movements that emerged in and around Paris during this period. The ... More | |
Egyptian painted limestone false door belonging to Itet, priestess of the goddess Hathor and lady at the royal court; end of Old Kingdom to beginning of First Intermediary Period, circa 2181-2160 BC. Opening bid: £8,000 ($10,205). Image courtesy of Apollo Art Auctions.
LONDON.- Some of historys most fascinating artifacts have passed through the doors of Apollo Art Auctions elegant Central London gallery. On August 24 and 25, in an online-only format, a fresh selection of precious coins, ancient art and antiquities will continue Apollos tradition of offering only the finest authentic examples of material culture from important civilizations. The opening ... More | |
From left, Catherine Ross Haskins, a visual artist, and Taylor Haskins, a veteran jazz trumpeter, perched on a Jillian Mayer sculpture in their new performance and gallery space, the Mill. (Sinjun Strom/The New York Times)
WESTPORT, NY.- Fourteen years ago, Taylor Haskins, a veteran jazz trumpeter, and Catherine Ross Haskins, a visual artist, moved from Brooklyn to Westport, New York, a picture-book town on Lake Champlain, 275 miles north of Manhattan. It became the place on Earth that we love, Haskins said. But sometimes it could use a little bit of an injection of the outside world. So three years ago, they bought an abandoned, 11,000 ... More |
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| Marian Goodman Gallery Paris announces Andrea Fraser's first solo exhibition in France | | Photo Elysée announces "Daido Moriyama. A Retrospective" | | Christie's negotiates the sale of a masterpiece by Alma-Tadema to the National Gallery |
Andrea Fraser, Untitled, 2003 (Video Still) Project and video installation. SD video transferred to digital format. Duration: 60 minutes, looped. Edition of 5 + 2 AP © Andrea Fraser. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris will present Untitled (Video, Audio, Objects), the first solo exhibition of Andrea Fraser in France. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation, Fraser emerged in the 1980s as a major figure in the field of institutional critique. She has used performance, video, installation, text, and a range of other mediums to investigate the social, economic, political, ... More | |
Tokyo, 1967. From 'Japan, a Photo Theater'. © Daido Moriyama. Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.
LAUSANNE.- With a career spanning almost sixty years, he used his camera to present and interrogate the world, challenging our views of Japanese society, while also reflecting on the abundant circulation of images and their consumption. Books and magazines were fertile ground for Moriyama's production and for such reason they take a central role in this exhibition. Born in Ikeda, Osaka in 1938 Moriyama was raised in post-war Japan. Following its defeat in World War II, Japan was subject to US Military occupation which brought with it rapid westernisation ... More | |
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. (1836‐1912) After the Audience signed and numbered 'L. Alma‐Tadema./ op. CXCVI‐' (lower right) oil on panel 36 x 26 in. (91.4 x 66 cm.). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- The National Gallery has secured a masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, After the Audience, from the noted Pre-Raphaelite collector, Isabel Goldsmith, in negotiations brokered by Christies Private Sales. This tour de force by Alma-Tadema impresses in its depiction of the pomp and majesty of Ancient Rome, and dazzles in its technical brilliance. Agrippa, son in law of the Emperor Augustus, mounts the stairs of his villa after receiving petitioners ... More |
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| Nelson-Atkins presents major Hokusai exhibition | | Bergen Kunsthall presents a new large-scale commission by artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger | | MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology presents an exhibition by Ernesto Neto |
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 17601849). The Ghost of Oiwa (Oiwa-san) from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories (Hyaku monogatari), about 183132 (Tenpō 23). Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City presents a sweeping exhibition that details the enormous impact of Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1869) on the art world. His instantly recognizable Great Wave, ... More | |
Florentina Holzinger, "Schrott-Etüde (Scrap Etude): An Etude for Extinction", 2023. Photo: Mayra Wallraff.
BERGEN.- Holzinger works across artistic disciplines and has produced extensive and widely discussed theatre productions. Since 2020, Holzinger and her team have been arranging experiments in public spaces, creating compositions between bodies, sound and architecture. Under the title Ãtudes, these one-time performances take place on lakes, parking lots, streets, and public squares. According to Frederic Chopin, ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Bruno Lopes.
LISBON.- Ernesto Neto, one of Brazil's most international and well-known artists, presents an immersive installation that evokes the crossing of cultures between different continents. Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Nosso Barco Tambor Terra [our boat drum earth] is one of the largest sculptures Ernesto Neto has ever made. Its shape is a product of months of work, in dialogue with MAATs architectural space and the museum's surroundings, richly imbued ... More |
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| CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo opens a solo exhibition of works by Tal Engelstein | | Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa to open a solo exhibition of works by Tuấn Andrew Nguy& | | Ingrid Castelein to open exhibition at valerie_traan |
Tal Engelstein, Untitled, 2024 (detail). Sculpted New Israeli Shekel coins on rotary axis, flue gas from kitchens, listening devices installed inside power sockets (spread in Israel and the West Bank), distorted live-broadcasted sound by a specially crafted program, pipes, speakers, pumps, controllers, wiring, amplifiers, audio card, installation view at Tsadok HaCohen St. 5, Tel Aviv, and other sites. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Daniel Hanoch
TEL AVIV.- Working in different media and materials, Tal Engelstein (*1989, Haifa; lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo) creates works that explore extreme physical and mental spaces. His installations are always in a process of transformation from solid ... More | |
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Because No One Living Will Listen / Người Sống Chẳng Ai Nghe, 2023. Two channel, 4K video, stereo,10 min. Film still.
CAPE TOWN.- Zeitz MOCAA presents The Other Side of Now, a solo exhibition of film and sculpture by Vietnamese American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn which opens August 22, 2024 and will be on show until July 20, 2025. This exhibition explores the transnational entanglements created by colonisation and war. Attending to the erased voices of Vietnamese, Senegalese, and Moroccan history, it proposes a space for communal healing and remembrance. Tuấn Andrew ... More | |
"My paintings are arrested turmoil. Thus, they bear witness to the nature of the work from which they spring." --Ingrid Castelein
ANTWERP.- It is sometimes said that a work of art is grasped in the accomplishment of a kind of re-creation: the re-creation of a creation, an intuitive reconstruction of the actions that brought it into being. This thought appeals to me because as a painter, I know for sure that the painting should not convey a message, that the art of painting is not a means to an end. The division of roles proclaimed by elementary oppositions such as maker-observer, artist-viewer, author-audience, ... More |
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Art should be for everyone' â Mari Katayama | Tate
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Urgent appeal from Brighton & Hove Museums to save damaged Royal Pavilion dome on roof BRIGHTON AND HOVE.- The charity that owns and operates the historic Royal Pavilion in Brighton has today launched an urgent appeal to close the £10K funding shortfall to restore a 200-year-old dome on the palaces roof. Brighton & Hove Museums is asking for support in saving one of the smaller domes on the east side of the Pavilion near the front entrance which has been damaged by water. Close examination of the domes and minarets of the Royal Pavilion roofline is only feasible when areas of the building are scaffolded for routine maintenance. Contractors were shocked when routine restoration work unexpectedly identified that a crack in the domes exterior was letting more water inside than previously thought. On closer inspection, it was revealed that there was significant rotting on the central timber post and framework that support the structure of the dome. ... More Little Simz to curate Tate Modern Late in AugustLONDON.- On the last Saturday in August, Tate Modern Lates launches a unique collaboration with award-winning rapper, singer and actor Little Simz, who will take over the gallery with a specially curated evening of music, conversations, workshops and more. Not only will Simz be designing this exclusive night, but visitors will also have the chance to hear from the acclaimed artist herself, as she joins celebrated broadcaster Clara Amfo to discuss her inspirations, relationship with visual art and creativity in her much-loved hometown of London. Each month, Tate Modern Lates offer visitors a free evening of art, music, film and more, where like-minded people can come together in the heart of Londons cultural landscape. For one night only, Little Simz will take the reins of Augusts programme, with an exciting line-up that celebrates Londons creative ... More University Museums honors 50th anniversary with companion exhibitions at Brunnier Art MuseumAMES, IA.- In honor of its 50th Anniversary, University Museums, Iowa State University, opens two new exhibitions at the Brunnier Art Museum that delve into the collections and exhibition practices of museums. At times throughout history museums have been seen as static, unchanging, and out of sync with popular taste and fashion. This generalization is often located in the belief that art or history museums that aim to exhibit the past do not always make room for changing ideas. Yet contemporary art or cultural museums are also assaulted with similar accusations, which can come out of very understandable circumstances and reasons due to current worldwide sociopolitical situations. In Their Time is an exhibition that takes a hard look at key questions within University Museums collections and aims to lift the veil from museum work. What does ... More Gena Rowlands, actress who brought raw drama to her roles, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Gena Rowlands, the intense, elegant dramatic actress who, often in collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes, starred in a series of introspective independent films, has died. She was 94. The death was confirmed by the office of Daniel Greenberg, a representative for Rowlands son, director Nick Cassavetes. No other details were given. In June, her family said that she had been living with Alzheimers disease for five years. Rowlands, who often played intoxicated, deranged or otherwise on-the-verge characters, was nominated twice for best actress Oscars in performances directed by Cassavetes. The first was the title role in A Woman Under the Influence (1974), in which her desperate, insecure character is institutionalized by her blue-collar husband (Peter Falk) because he doesnt know what else to do. Critic Roger ... More Betty A. Prashker, book publishing pioneer, is dead at 99NEW YORK, NY.- Betty A. Prashker, a pioneering woman in the book business who published the feminist classics Sexual Politics by Kate Millett and Backlash by Susan Faludi, but who also brought out racy commercial fiction by Judith Krantz and Jean M. Auel whose frank female sexuality she viewed as no less a statement of feminist empowerment died on July 30 at the home of a daughter in Alford, Massachusetts. She was 99. Her death was confirmed by her family. The list of authors Prashker discovered, championed or positioned for bestsellerdom as a top editor and executive at two of the leading publishing houses, Doubleday and Crown (now both divisions of Penguin Random House), included plenty of men, too, among them Issac Asimov, Erik Larson, Dave Barry and Dominick Dunne. She was a Vassar graduate ... More PICA announces three major artistic commissions valued at $210,000PERTH.- The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts announced Amanda Bell (WA), Alana Hunt (NSW) and Second Generation Collective (WA) as the recipients of commissioning funds aimed at expanding artistic careers and presentation opportunities in Western Australia. Valued at $210,000, the commissions are the largest funding pool offered to Australian artists through an independent arts organisation in WA. The pool comprises $30,000 for the Judy Wheeler Commission (an annual site-specific commission made possible by the Simpson family), $80,000 for the Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) Commission and $100,000 provided through Creative Australias VACS (Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy) Major Commissioning Projects Fund. The three projects will be unveiled in 2025 and were chosen following ... More Robert Wilson's chance encountersNEW YORK, NY.- Stage director and production designer Robert Wilson explains, in his own words, what continues to motivate him. (This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.) When I first came to New York, I worked in an Italian restaurant as a waiter and was fired. Then I worked in another Italian restaurant, this time as a dishwasher, and that was a job I liked. I was very good at organization, and I organized the entire restaurant, the supplies and the dinnerware, and left everything in perfect order. The owner wanted to keep me. I think of something my mother used to say: If they ask you to jump 2 feet, jump 5. I had grown up in central Texas, in Waco, and I didnt know anything about anything. I came to New York to study architecture and, basically, to see the work of George Balanchine. I tried going to Broadway theater, and ... More 'Life and Trust' review: Choose your own Faustian adventureNEW YORK, NY.- In one room of Conwell Tower, a stately skyscraper in Manhattans Financial District, a police officer strips off his shirt and flogs himself passionately, even sensually before coolly donning his uniform again. At the end of a long hall, a woman performs a Houdini-esque escape from a straitjacket. Elsewhere, in a dark underground boxing ring, two men trade punches in a cinematic fight scene where lights flash and dim with each maneuver, the bodies sometimes moving in slow motion like scenes from a Rocky film. What are these characters motivations, and what is their connection to one another? Your guess is as good as mine. In Life and Trust the new theatrical experience from Emursive, producers of the popular Sleep No More with Punchdrunk the story never rises to meet the spectacle, creating a visually appealing ... More Cailee Spaeny is still learning how to be a starNEW YORK, NY.- Actress Cailee Spaeny, the seventh of nine children born to committed Southern Baptists, left school in Missouri at 13. She had found work at a theme park, Silver Dollar City, in the Ozark Mountains, which allowed her to strike out on her own. I was just so ready, she said. I definitely had a feeling that I needed to experience something else really early on. I wanted out of this Midwestern box. Silver Dollar City was that first step. The next year, she took another one, persuading her mother to drive her across the country to Los Angeles, where she quickly secured an agent and a manager. More trips followed, more nights sleeping in the spare rooms of friends of friends, or of families met at church. Finally, when she was 17, she booked a role in the action movie Pacific Rim Uprising. Casting directors noticed her ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and etcher Agostino Carracci was born August 16, 1557. Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 - 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Progressives) in Bologna. In this image: Selfportrait as a watchmaker.
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