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Herbert Singleton, United States, 1945-2007, Joe Horse Shoe Grocery, c. 1990s, carved and painted wood bas relief, 20.25 x 42 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (51.43 x 107.95 x 3.81 cm), photo courtesy Gordon W. Bailey Collection.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Advocate, scholar and collector Gordon W. Bailey recently gifted 16 artworks to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans LA. The gift includes works by Leroy Almon, Eddie Arning, Roy Ferdinand, Daniel Johnston, Barbie LâHoste, John K. Lawson, Jake "J.T.â McCord, Samuel Pace, Juanita Rogers, Welmon Sharlhorne, and Herbert Singleton. âWe are an institution dedicated to telling the story of the South through the regionâs visual arts, and Mr. Baileyâs important gift will prove crucial in that endeavor,â said Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection. âHis advocacy and support of artists and the art of the American South, especially the visionary outliers, is truly inspiring. This collection adds significantly to the Museumâs holdings, allowing us to more fully define our region through the artists that give voice to the culture.â ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day RIBA announces shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2024. With shared themes of refuge, ambition, and restoration, this year's shortlisted projects offer inspiring examples of early career architects placing social value and community at the heart of their work.
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| Introducing PPULI PROJECT: A New Vision for Art and Nature in Urban Spaces | | Ahlers & Ogletree will offer nearly 400 curated lots from the Atlanta Estate of Gregory Crawford | | Intuit Dome: Where art competes with hot dogs, beer and busy fans |
Irene Gong is an independent curator based in New York, where she leads PPULI PROJECT.
NEW YORK, NY.- PPULI PROJECT, an international curatorial organization founded by Irene Gong, is thrilled to announce its official launch. Rooted in the Korean word for root, PPULI signifies the foundation of elements and the interconnectedness of nature. With a mission to curate, commission, and support interdisciplinary public art projects, PPULI PROJECT seamlessly integrates art and nature in urban environments ... More | |
Large pair of bronze standing crane garden figures, possibly European and dating to the late 20th/ early 21st century. The taller of the two measures an impressive 53 ½ inches tall (est. $1,500-$3,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- Nearly 400 curated lots from the Atlanta estate of Gregory Crawford including decorative and fine arts, exquisite 19th century furniture, elegant silver pieces and stunning Chinese export items will cross the auction block on Thursday, September 12th, by Ahlers & Ogletree, online and live in the Atlanta gallery at 1788 ... More | |
Patrick Martinezs Same Boat, a quote by civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. rendered in neon. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
INGLEWOOD, CALIF.- Art in the wild that is, in public spaces outside of museums and galleries will succeed or fail depending on its capacity to speak meaningfully and surprisingly to its environment. A sublime Alexander Calder sculpture can look inert if plunked in a corporate plaza. A flippant Banksy mural, on a dreary back street, can be just the thing. When several thousand Bruno ... More |
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| Coming soon to Jersey City: A gleaming home for the symphony | | The British Museum announces new touring exhibition "Gladiators of Britain" | | Under a frozen army base, he found incredible fossils |
A rendering of the Symphony Center. (DLR Group via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Jersey Symphony has long lacked a permanent home, performing in a variety of spaces across the state. But come 2026, that will change: The orchestra is getting a gleaming 550-seat theater in downtown Jersey City, the ensemble and the city announced Wednesday. The new theater, to be called Symphony Center, is expected to become a hub ... More | |
Ceramic cremation vessel decorated with a gladiator fight between a secutor and retiarius, Colchester, 2nd century AD. © Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service: Colchester Collection.
LONDON.- A major new touring exhibition will tell the story of the gladiators who fought and died to the roar of the crowd in Britain. A British Museum Partnership Exhibition with Colchester + Ipswich Museums, Gladiators of Britain will travel to four venues around the UK, starting at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery ... More | |
Paul Bierman. (Joshua Brown/University of Vermont via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Somewhere deep inside a glacier in Greenland are the remains of Camp Century, a short-lived experiment in making the Cold War literal. In 1959, the U.S. Army began building a network of tunnels, carved inside the ice, that it hoped might become a launch site for nuclear missiles. By 1967, the military had abandoned the idea and the base. But the samples of ice and frozen ... More |
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| Kistefos Museum unveils Kader Attia's Whistleblower | | Gagosian to host inaugural exhibition in Korea | | New commission by Caroline Chinakwe unveiled at London Museum Docklands |
Whistleblower by Kader Attia. Photo: Vegard Kleven.
JEVNAKER.- Kistefos Museum announced the unveiling of Whistleblower, six captivating glass sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist Kader Attia. The sculptures, revealed to the public on August 22, 2024, are nestled in the tranquil forest south of The Twist. Whistleblower is the 54th work in the sculpture park, contributing to the museums rich collection with its profound exploration of the relationship between nature and culture. Kader Attias Whistleblower is a ... More | |
Derrick Adams, Bills, Bills, Bills (Destiny's Child), 2024. Acrylic and spray paint on wood panel in artist frame, 95 x 72 inches (241.3 x 182.9 cm) © Derrick Adams Studio. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
SEOUL.- Gagosian announced Derrick Adams: The Strip, the artists debut exhibition in Korea. New work by Adams will be presented in the headquarters of Amorepacific, the world-renowned Korean beauty company, in the center of Seoul, opening on September 3, 2024, alongside the third edition of the Frieze Seoul art fair, which is open ... More | |
Artist Caroline Chinakwe unveils new portraits at London Museum Docklands © London Museum.
LONDON.- Today, London Museum Docklands (formerly Museum of London Docklands) unveils a new artwork commission by London-based, British-Nigerian mixed media artist Caroline Chinakwe. Drawing on the contemporary lives and experiences of Black Londoners, the new artworks explore what it means to be Black in Britain today. They will go on permanent display in the Museum's London, Sugar & Slavery gallery as the ... More |
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| RIBA announces shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2024 | | 7 days in the cultural life of an artistic director | | Trailblazing artist Marta MinujÃn is about to have her first major museum exhibition in Europe |
Bluebird by SKArchitects (Project Architect: Danielle Simpson). Billy Haynes, Miru3D.
LONDON.- Founded by Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE and the Marco Goldschmeid Foundation, the annual prize was established in 1998 in memory of Stephen Lawrence, a teenager and aspiring architect who was the victim of a fatal racist attack in 1993. Intended to encourage new talent and inspire others in the early stages of their architectural career, the award exclusively recognises projects led by an early career project architect. This is typically someone who has ... More | |
Violaine Huisman and her daughter, George, stand behind Demian DinéYazhis installation titled we must stop imagining apocalypse/genocide + we must imagine liberation at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Bastille Day felt a little bit different this year than others, said Violaine Huisman, the artistic director of New Yorks annual Crossing the Line festival. LAlliance New York, the French cultural center in midtown Manhattan, throws a party every July 14, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. ... More | |
Marta MinujÃn at her studio in Buenos Aires, photos by Emilia Van Raap.
COPENHAGEN.- Marta MinujÃn (b.1943) is an iconic figure and one of the most prominent Latin American pop and conceptual artists ever. She created some of art historys first spectacular immersive installations, and over the last sixty years she has developed happenings, performances, installations and video works that have influenced generations of contemporary artists in Latin America, the US and Europe. Despite her already long and illustrious career MinujÃn is still a force to be reckoned with, and when ... More |
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The life of an (extra)ordinary Roman soldier
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Quartz Studio will present the first solo show in Turin by Davide MineoTURIN.- On Monday, September 9, 2024, at 7:00 pm, Quartz Studio will present Masse non nulle, the first solo show in Turin by Davide Mineo (Palermo, 1992), curated by Carlo Corona. The site-specific installation Masse non nulle, which Davide Mineo conceived for Quartz Studio, visually presents itself as a sculptural-painting mechanism that occupies the exhibition space and alters its perception and thereby conditions the experience of it. The physical and optical substance of the room-sized brass form is capable of attracting and repelling the viewer with the open intention of creating a sense of alienation. In terms of color, the metal's luminosity creates a powerful contrast with the acrylic painting on the surface within fields of irregular geometric shapes (reminiscent of certain 1950s geometric abstractions). In spatial terms, the room- ... More Royal College of Art features at London Design Festival with multidisciplinary events and displaysLONDON.- The Royal College of Art will present a series of multidisciplinary events and displays for the 22nd edition of the London Design Festival, positioning London as the design capital of the world and running from 14 - 22 September 2024. The Royal College of Arts highlight events and displays include the Sustainable Markets Terra Carta Design Lab exhibition featuring the RCAs finalists, an exhibition from RCAs new research and innovation projects including AiDLab, Ecological Citizen(s) and the Textiles Circularity Centre, and an exhibition from RCAs MA Design Products students in partnership with Brompton Design District. Located at RCAs Battersea Campus, the public will have the opportunity to discover the Royal College of Arts 10 finalists for this years edition of the Sustainable Markets Initiatives Terra Carta Design ... More Hayward Gallery announces second show as part of free RC Foundation Project Space Exhibition SeriesLONDON.- The Hayward Gallery, in partnership with the RC Foundation, Taiwan (R.O.C.), will present Huang Po-Chih: Waves (9 Oct 2024 - 5 Jan 2025), a multidisciplinary exhibition from Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih imaginatively reflecting on the socio-political impacts of the globalised garment industries in East Asia. Nominated for the HUGO BOSS Asia Arts Award in 2015, and recipient of the Prudential Eye Awards in 2016, Huang Po-Chihs work has been widely shown across the globe. Waves will be the artists first solo exhibition in the UK, and the second exhibition in the RC Foundation Project Space Exhibition Series at the Hayward Gallery, showcasing the next generation of emerging international artists. Featuring new video and text-based work as part of a presentation of installation, photography and sculpture, the exhibition ... More Jane Lombard Gallery announces a solo exhibition by gallery artist Margarita CabreraNEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery will present Secuelas: cuerpo, tierra, y mar (Repercussions: body, land, and water), a solo exhibition by gallery artist Margarita Cabrera. Secuelas marks the artists first solo presentation with the gallery. Utilizing textile, gouache, dye, copper, and sound, the works delve into Cabrera's unyielding exploration of global policies surrounding migration, displacement, and capitalism. The exhibition will run from September 6th - October 26th with an opening reception on Friday, September 6th, 6 - 8 PM. Secuelas: cuerpo, tierra, y mar weaves together narratives of immigration, identity, and heritage, addressing both historical and present-day perspectives of colonization. Emphasizing currency as a marker of power dynamics behind contemporary border relations, Craft of Resistance, a kaleidoscope ... More Leading ceramicist Yukiya Izumita returns to New York in new exhibition at Ippodo GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery presents Expanding Earth: New Works by Yukiya Izumita, the leading ceramicists return to New York for his fifth solo exhibition in the United States. Over 40 of Izumitas latest laminate-layered sculptures, flat-folded vases, and tea bowls are on view from September 12 to October 3, 2024. Izumitas unseen sceneries of earthen formations demonstrate his capacity to push the physical constraints of hand-built ceramic and miraculously defy the laws of gravity withstanding the intensity of the anagama tunnel-kiln fire. Yukiya Izumita (b. 1966) has established himself as a most innovative ceramicist from his remote kiln in Japans north-east Tohoku region. He seamlessly integrates the geographically-specific elements of Iwate Prefecturenamely its harsh northern climate and rural seaside localeinto the black, yellow, ... More FLAG Art Foundation announces "Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend"NEW YORK, NY.- The recipient of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, British artist Lubaina Himid presents Make Do and Mend, a solo exhibition comprising two new bodies of work: a suite of Strategy paintings that depict Black men and women seated around tables featuring different configurations of objectsin each case, imagining a specific problem to be solved; and an arrangement of sixty four plank paintings entitled Aunties, building on her previous plank works that evoke the form of funerary objects from East Africa. This exhibition is co-organized by The Contemporary Austin. Throughout a career spanning four decades, Lubaina Himid, a self-described painter and cultural activist, has expanded the possibilities of storytelling through painting as a means of exploring the legacy of British colonialism ... More Alvar Aalto Medal 2024 goes to Belgian architect Marie-José Van HeeHELSINKI.- The fifteenth Alvar Aalto Medal has been awarded to Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee. Her output covers a wide range of projects, from private houses to public spaces and cultural buildings. Van Hees works beautifully emphasise respect for architecture, nature and handicraft, as well as an understanding of traditional and folk building methods. Marie-José Van Hees work shows a consistently sensitive, contextual, and finely crafted approach. Her architecture is rooted in its context and the surrounding landscape not only reflecting but contributing to a Flemish local vernacular over the course of her career. Her work is characterised by a beautifully understated command of natural materials, light and proportions, producing quiet, intimate spaces, designed around daily life, the Medal jury said in its statement. ... More 'Hannah Gadsby: Woof' review: A comic's pet themesEDINBURGH.- The title of Hannah Gadsbys new stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is Woof, but the Australian comic has a very specific type of dog bark in mind. It sounds like something between a burp and a cough. Its impossible to spell, but if you had to, it might go something like peuh. Gadsby says it typically signals that the animal is about to go into a frenzy. As a metaphor for Gadsbys state of mind, its inauspicious. Should we be concerned? Well, yes and no. For the most part, Gadsbys new routine, at the Underbelly through Sunday, is a chill affair. Gadsby is on genial form, taking acerbic pot shots at Taylor Swift (a can of Coke masquerading as a sorority cult) and social media (where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of autism). Theres some pleasingly risque material about the sex lives of lesbian ... More Americas Society presents "The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean"NEW YORK, NY.- Opening at Americas Society on September 4, 2024, the exhibition The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & The Caribbean, is the first show in New York City to center on the artistic production of the Asian diaspora in the region from the 1950s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary art, the exhibition showcases the work of twenty- nine artists from fifteen countries working in a range of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and video. The Appearance sheds light on the often-overlooked experiences and artistic trajectories of Asian diasporic subjects and collectives across Latin America and the Caribbean, contextualizing them within histories of transoceanic migration, displacement, and resettlement. The show embraces the multiple and int ... More Want to see a play about Gwyneth Paltrow's ski trial? How about 2?EDINBURGH.- Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, was unsuccessful when he sued the actress turned wellness entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow over a collision on a Utah ski slope. Though he claimed that she had crashed into him, a jury determined it was actually his fault. The livestreamed 2023 civil case was an unseemly but strangely fascinating spectacle featuring two equally dislikable archetypes: the vexatious litigant and the preening, out-of-touch celebrity. But in another sense, Sanderson won: His name is now forever etched into pop culture folklore, as not one but two new stage productions about the ski trial at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe attest. The more rough and ready of the two, Gwyneth Goes Skiing, at the Pleasance Courtyard, is a camp burlesque in which both parties are mercilessly skewered. Linus ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born August 23, 1846. Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 - June 4, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, would become significant sculptors in the 20th century. In this image: William Warner Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery (1889).
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