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A visitor to the Museum of Modern Art squeezes between two nude performers during a Marina Abramovic retrospective in New York on March 7, 2010. A different performer in Imponderabilia, not pictured, has sued the museum. (Joshua Bright/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- A performance artist has sued the Museum of Modern Art, saying that officials neglected to take corrective action after several visitors groped him during a nude performance for the 2010 retrospective Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. The allegations were submitted this week in New York Supreme Court, with the artist, John Bonafede, seeking compensation for emotional distress, career disruption, humiliation and other damages. Bonafede had participated in one of Abramovics most famous works from the 1970s, Imponderabilia, which requires two nude performers to stand opposite each other in a slim doorway that visitors are encouraged to squeeze through to enter an adjoining gallery. According to his lawsuit, Bonafede was sexually assaulted seven times by five museum visitors. He reported four of the individuals to MoMA security, whic ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The highly anticipated international exhibition profiling the work of couture designer Guo Pei opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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| Cindy Sherman: Woman of an uncertain age | | First ever dedicated exhibition of Andy Warhol's textiles in Scotland opens at Dovecot Studios | | Whitney Biennial picks artists who probe turbulent times in 'a Dissonant Chorus' | 
Cindy Sherman at her studio in New York on Jan. 22, 2024. Im not going to go into this aging process silently or happily, said the artist, who is emerging from a creative slump with electrifying new work. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times)
by Nancy Princenthal
NEW YORK, NY.- The facial features in Cindy Shermans hyperenergetic new photo-portraits slide around crazily. Eyes spin out in different directions, competing clamorously for attention. Noses and mouths engage in pitched conflict. The electrifying images, now on view at Hauser and Wirths SoHo gallery, are primarily black and white, but there are patches of vivid color. Butting one fragment of skin, makeup, hair and headgear up against another, Sherman dispenses with the capacity of Photoshop to smooth out edges. Instead, she creates a sense of instability by folding photographic nips and tucks right in with their aging subjects wrinkles. Finding physical comedy in the efforts women take to conceal the effects of time is the least of her concerns. There is also the dark humor she brings to the consideration of photographys ... More | | 
Ice Cream Desserts © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc Licensed by DACS, London, Warhol The Textiles at Dovecot Studios.
EDINBURGH .- Andy Warhols recently discovered textiles are being shown in Scotland for the first time at the world-renowned Dovecot Studios next year. The iconic 20th century artist created and sold his textiles anonymously, leaving them in obscurity until their recent discovery by collectors and curators Richard Chamberlain and Geoff Rayner. This exciting exhibition is the first exhibition in Scotland exclusively dedicated to Warhols textiles, and is a rare opportunity for audiences to see the works, with many of them never exhibited in Scotland before. Warhol: The Textiles showcase more than 60 textile works, featuring fabric lengths, garments, prints, film and photography. Together these pieces demonstrate how textile and fashion design were a crucial element to Warhols success as one of the most iconic artists of the last century. Everyday objects were a key part of the 1950s American textile trade, with prints used for dresses, skirts ... More | | 
Mitchell-Innes & Nash announced artist Mary Kelly on her inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK, NY.- The last time the Whitney Biennial came around, in 2022, its production had been extended an extra year by the coronavirus pandemic, and the curators had to plan the exhibition and meet artists in virtual visits over Zoom. To prepare for the 2024 Biennial the latest iteration in the landmark exhibition of American contemporary art, which opens March 20 this editions organizers, Whitney Museum curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, hit the road. They conducted some 200 studio visits around the country and well beyond. They visited scores of exhibitions and art events from the German mega-show Documenta 15 to the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. So this cycle has been, in one sense, more normal. But normal stops here. The drastic phase of the pandemic, with its restrictions, may have receded. But the landscape left in its wake is a panorama of compounding crises and ... More |
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| Wolfsonian & FIU celebrates authors and artists of Harlem Renaissance, timed to movement's centennial | | Academy Art Museum announces appointment of new Senior Curator, Dr. Lee Glazer | | At White Columns Annual, outsiders mix with insiders | 
Book cover, For Freedom: A Biographical Story of the American Negro, 1927. Aaron Douglas (American, 18991979), dust jacket illustrator. Arthur Huff Fauset (American, 18991983), author. Franklin Publishing and Supply Co., Philadelphia, publisher. The WolfsonianFIU, Gift of Historical Design.
MIAMI, FLA.- Presenting a profile of modern Black creativity, a new exhibition at The WolfsonianFlorida International University spotlights the forces and figures behind a major American cultural movement and centers the museums exceptional holdings of rare books from the Harlem Renaissance. Silhouettes: Image and Word in the Harlem Renaissancenow open in Miami Beach, 100 years after Harlems emergence as a global cultural capitaljoins seminal books and periodicals with paintings, prints, and sculpture, including key loans, that together offer an evocative glimpse into the African American experience in the first half of the 20th century. Silhouettes tells the story of a people, said Christopher Norwood, a Miami-based collector, gallerist, and founder of ... More | | 
AAM's new Senior Curator Dr. Lee Glazer, will join the staff beginning February 2024.
EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum has announced Lee Glazers appointment as Senior Curator beginning February 20, 2024. Glazer brings to AAM more than 20 years of experience in American art museums, serving in leadership, curatorial and educational programming roles. Director Sarah Jesse states, We are delighted that Lee will be joining the Academy at an exciting time of growth for the museum, as we originate new exhibitions, expand the collection, and build a state-of-the art collection storage annex. Lees expertise in generating rigorous exhibitions that resonate with broad audiences will make her an invaluable addition to the team. Dr. Glazer leaves her current role as director of the Museum Programs Division at the National Archives to join the team at AAM. There, she led the administrative, operational, and programmatic activities, including a $60-million redesign of the permanent galleries and learning cent ... More | | 
Looking Back, the nonprofit gallerys group show, brings together self-taught and highly trained artists. It isnt obvious whos who.
by Travis Diehl
NEW YORK, NY.- Its pleasantly disorienting to enter the White Columns Annual in New York in 2024 and see so much work that could have been, and was, made any time in the past half century. Theres not a screen, QR code or 3D print in sight. But since its inauguration in 2006, the nonprofit gallerys Looking Back series has made an old-school proposition: to curate a group show around one persons (or collectives) taste, shorn of commercial or institutional impulses to either move product or capture a zeitgeist. The Annual has one constraint. The curator must have seen the included work in New York City in the previous year. In this grassroots way, the show offers a (very subjective, and therefore narrow) group portrait of an increasingly unwieldy scene. Those who see a lot of art might recognize a few pieces. But not everything. ... More |
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| Retrospective exhibition of 80 works by painter Leonard Rickhard now on view | | Kyoto City Museum of Art 90th anniversary exhibition Takashi Murakami Mononoke Kyoto | | Why China has lost interest in Hollywood movies | 
Leonard Rickhard, Vårlig modell mot rød bakgrunn, 1995. Private collection. Photo: Alf-Georg Dannevig.
OSLO.- Astrup Fearnley Museets first exhibition of 2024 is devoted to the painter Leonard Rickhard. Over a long artistic career, Rickhard has cultivated a distinctive, easily recognizable style a visual signature that is all its own within recent Norwegian art history. For the public, and for a younger generation of artists, Rickhards visual universe remains a point of reference and acontinuous source of inspiration. This retrospective exhibition with more than 80 works reviews an artistic practice spanning half a century, while showing how Rickhard has tirelessly pursued his project as a painter well into its sixth decade. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to experience the full breadth of Rickhards body of work, including several first renderings of familiar motifs such as interiors, studies of railway carriages and car wrecks, and evocative landscapes. ... More | | 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. © 2017 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
KYOTO.- A large-scale solo exhibition of works by Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), an artist at the forefront of contemporary art, will be held at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art as it celebrates its 90th anniversary. For Murakami, who has developed his career primarily overseas, this will be his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan in about eight years and his first outside of Tokyo. The exhibition Superflat curated and organized by Takashi Murakami toured Japan and the U.S. from 2000 to 2001, and together with the Superflat Manifesto that accompanied it, had a significant impact on the contemporary art scene. The concept not only linked traditional Japanese pictorial expressions with popular contemporary culture represented by anime, manga, and video games, but also considered the sensibility and social aspects of the Japanese people in the postwar period, as well as the capitalist economy ... More | | 
A multiplex patron checks out a poster for a Chinese-language comedy at a theater in Beijing on Jan. 13, 2024. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
by Claire Fu, Brooks Barnes and Daisuke Wakabayashi
NEW YORK, NY.- Before the sequel to Aquaman was released in China last month, Warner Bros. did everything it could to sustain the original movies success. The Hollywood studio blanketed Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, with movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage and a video of an Aquaman ice sculpture at a winter festival in Harbin, a city in Chinas northeast. It sent the franchises star, Jason Momoa, and director, James Wan, on a publicity tour in China the type of barnstorming that had disappeared since the COVID pandemic. Momoa said Chinas fondness for the first Aquaman was why the sequel was debuting in China two days before the U.S. release. Im very ... More |
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| Celebrated photographer David LaChapelle's new Miami exhibition and world premiere | | Melanie, singer who made a solo splash at Woodstock, dies at 76 | | The man who all but created vintage fashion | 
David LaChapelle, Archangel Uriel, Farmington, 1985. Courtesy of VISU Contemporary. © David LaChapelle
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- VISU Contemporary announced its new exhibition for 2024 featuring works by internationally acclaimed photographer David LaChapelle. The collection, titled DAVID LACHAPELLE: HAPPY TOGETHER curated by VISU Contemporary gallery owners Bruce Halpryn and Blake Pearson, is on display from today through to March 2, 2024, and features a selection of over 30 significant photographs from the artists career from 1985 to the present, including the premiere of a new work. Highlights of the exhibition include: Archangel Uriel (1985), one of LaChapelles earliest figurative works displaying a stoic cherub resting on the overlook of a great forest; My Own Marilyn (2002), which presents the artists muse Amanda Lepore in an homage to Warhols Shot Sage Blue (1964); After the Deluge: Museum (2007), where LaChapelle reminds us that human survival cannot be ... More | | 
The singer-songwriter Melanie poses for a photo during the Day in the Garden concert in Woodstock, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1998. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
by Peter Keepnews
NEW YORK, NY.- Melanie, the husky-voiced singer-songwriter who was one of the surprise stars of the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and two years later had a No. 1 single with the disarmingly childlike Brand New Key, died Tuesday. She was 76. Her death was announced on social media by her children, Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred. Neither the cause nor the location were cited. Melanie, born Melanie Safka in 1947, was only 22 but already a presence on the New York folk scene when she appeared at Woodstock. She was one of only three women who performed unaccompanied at the festival and, as she later recalled, she was petrified at the thought of performing in front of a crowd vastly bigger than the coffeehouse audiences ... More | | 
Didier Ludot at his vintage boutique in Paris on Jan. 21, 2024. Fifty years ago Ludot opened his couture resale boutique in Paris and changed style forever. (Hugues Laurent/The New York Times)
by Jean Grogan
PARIS.- In July 2022, just before the Balenciaga couture show, Didier Ludot returned from lunch to discover the longest, most beautiful legs I have ever seen at his namesake vintage couture boutique in the shopping arcades of the Palais-Royal. They belonged to Nicole Kidman, who was in Paris to walk in the Balenciaga show and was patiently waiting with her husband, Keith Urban. They spent three hours browsing, with Urban fetching dresses for his wife, helping her to zip them up and then carefully replacing them on their hangers, prompting Ludot to jokingly offer him a post as his assistant. They were a delight, Ludot, 72, recalled recently. Its hard to imagine now that every red carpet features a vintage dress or two, many ... More |
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Mika Tajima on "Energetics," Her Latest Exhibition in New York
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 Review: They Fly. They Spin. They Change How You See the Amazing.NEW YORK, NY.- The dancers of Compagnie Hervé Koubi spend a lot of time upside down. Inverted, they spin on one or both hands or on their heads, legs spiraling. Upright, they bound into the air, as if off trampolines, ball up their bodies and rapidly rotate in high-flying arcs. They toss one another even higher. This is all thrilling. But the distinctive aesthetic achievement of this French company is to make those extraordinary acrobatics and hip-hop power moves feel at times pedestrian, almost like walking. What for other dancers might be showoff steps are integrated into a poetic vision, a different way of being. The dancers also tumble slowly, as in capoeira, showing fluid control rather than momentum and daring. Some of the head spins happen in the background, off to the side, like nothing special. This integration of the amazing is both a source ... More  Dan Wagoner, acclaimed modern dancer, is dead at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Dan Wagoner, who danced with Martha Graham, was an early member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and led his own well-regarded troupe for 25 years, died Friday in Oakland, Maryland. He was 91. His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by his sister Hannah Sincell. Wagoner was a child of small-town Appalachia for whom the idea of going to New York City, he once said, was like going to the moon. But New York was where, starting in the late 1950s, he built a successful career as a dancer and choreographer, working with several central figures of American modern dance. He performed in the Martha Graham Dance Company from 1957 to 1962, and again briefly in 1968. From 1960 to 1968, he danced in the troupe formed by Taylor, a fellow company member. And from 1969 to 1994, he led his own group, ... More  "Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond": First monograph of the street art legendNEW YORK, NY.- A comprehensive monograph on the work of a pioneering subway artist, Lee Quiñones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond (Damiani Books, 2024) presents a sweeping overview of Quiñones five-decade oeuvre, as he moved from subway cars and street murals to art galleries and museums. Street Art legend Lee Quiñones started his career at 14 years old, when he made his first spray paint mural in the New York City subway system. He eventually spray-painted murals on more than 120 subway cars, infusing kinetic elements of Futurism and social commentary into his work. Quiñones also invented the concept of the freestanding urban mural through his handball court piece, Howard the Duck (1978), and introduced spray paint-based work to international audiences upon his first formal exhibition in 1979. The monograph ... More  Georgetown University Art Galleries & Italian Cultural Institute present 'Confluences'WASHINGTON, DC.- The Georgetown University Art Galleries and the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington are now showing Confluences: Intersectional Visions of Italy. The exhibition presents for the first time in the United States a group of artists addressing social justice issues connected to notions of Italywhich is far more complex than the single cultural, political, or social space it is commonly thought to be. These contemporary artists counter such familiar fictions through projects that consider nuances of individual and collective experience across a variety of topics, such as colonialism, societal amnesia, gender-based biases, and civic activism. Alessandra Ferrinis My Heritage? (2020) questions notions of legacy and Italian identity in relation to the countrys colonial history, while Valeria Cherchis newly commissioned installation In F ... More  Frist Art Museum presents woodblocks, prints, and mixed-media works by LaToya M. Hobbs NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Carving a New Tradition: The Art of LaToya M. Hobbs, an exhibition of recent woodblock prints and mixed-media portraits from the Arkansas-born, Baltimore-based painter and printmaker. Organized by the Frist Art Museum with Dr. Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of African American art at Vanderbilt University, the exhibition will be on view in the Frists Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from January 26 through April 28, 2024. In her practice, LaToya M. Hobbs explores Black womanhood, family, labor, self-care, and the rich traditions of printmaking while pushing the mediums boundaries. She often uses herself, her family, and friends as subjects in her work to draw attention to the power of representation and legacy. She has stated, Though Im presenting ... More  Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes 'Night' is a hymn to nocturnal worlds at Victoria MiroLONDON.- Victoria Miro as of today commences an exhibition of new paintings by Doron Langberg. Featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclubs and beach scenes, Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation physical and psychological that open up after dark. The exhibition coincides with Part of Your World, the artists first solo institutional presentation in Europe, on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam from 1 February26 May 2024. It is accompanied by a new essay by writer hannah baer. Touch is what brings these figures into being, whether its touch between lovers of many years or complete strangers, old friends or eager ... More  How SofÃa Vergara created her Tony Soprano roleNEW YORK, NY.- When SofÃa Vergara invited Narcos showrunner Eric Newman to her home in Los Angeles in 2015 to pitch a TV show about Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco, shed done her research. I watched the Cocaine Cowboys documentary in 2006, and I was like, Wow, this character has so many layers, Vergara, 51, said of Blanco, the kingpin who was suspected of being involved in more than 200 murders before being shot dead in her hometown, MedellÃn, in 2012 at age 69. The facts of Blancos life the murders, the kidnappings, the tense backroom meetings with drug bosses hardly needed embellishment for TV. But what had so hooked Vergara, she said, was the idea that this innocuous-looking woman was raising four kids while building this insane, brutal empire. She knew it would be a tougher sell to convince people ... More  Ford Thunderbird and Wehsener porcelain set lead January Michaan's gallery auctionALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions January Gallery Auction, held on Friday, January 19th realized a strong sell-through rate as Michaans Auctions orchestrated another successful sale for its cosigners. The sale was headlined by a 1955 Ford Thunderbird which sold for $20,910, and an elegant collection of Twelve R. Wehsener Dresden Porcelain Cabinet Cup Set, which reached $9,840. Two paintings by Old Masters, the Michele Pace Del Campidoglio, Still Life and the Studio of Giovanni Paolo Panini, Ruins Landscape each achieved $6,765. The jewelry department had another strong showing with a Cartier Santos Tank Two-Tone Wristwatch reaching $5,535, while a Jadeite Jade, Diamond, 18k White Gold Ring sold for $3,997.50. The Asian Art Deparment was led by A Chinese Rectangular Bronze Relief Censer, selling for $5,842.50 and ... More  National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia announces curators for Biennale Arte 2024RIYADH.- Jessica Cerasi, Maya El Khalil and Shadin AlBulaihed will curate the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by the Visual Arts Commission, one of the Ministry of Cultures 11 sector-specific commissions. Co-curators Cerasi and El Khalil and assistant curator AlBulaihed will work with artist Manal AlDowayan on her installation for this years Biennale Arte 2024, held under the theme Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere and curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Cerasi, El Khalil and AlBulaihed bring an incredible depth of experience to this year's national pavilion, drawing upon rich curatorial backgrounds. Cerasi worked with AlDowayan in co-curating her participatory artwork From Shattered Ruins, New Life Shall Bloom at the Solomon R. Guggenheim ... More  Pace welcomes Gary Waterston as Executive Vice PresidentNEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced the appointment of Gary Waterston as Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Operations. In this role, Waterston will be responsible for managing multiple departments across the gallery's global platform. Based in London, he will officially join the gallery on February 1, 2024. Waterston brings 20 years of experience working at the highest level of gallery management to Pace. Over the past three years, he has worked with Atlantic Contemporary LLC in New York, exploring new structures for gallery ownership and funding. Prior to joining Atlantic Contemporary LLC, he was at Gagosian in London since 2003, overseeing the gallerys expansion to three exhibition spaces in the English capital and winning two Royal Institute of British Architects awards for the work on the Britannia Street ... More  The Sports Illustrated cover, a faded canvas that once defined sportsNEW YORK, NY.- Maybe it was the wordless image of the U.S. Olympic hockey team celebrating the Miracle on Ice. Perhaps it was the perfect frame of Dwight Clark making The Catch to send the San Francisco 49ers to the 1982 Super Bowl. Or it could have been the declaration that a 17-year-old LeBron James was The Chosen One, 20 months before he played in his first NBA game. For sports fans of a certain age, the memory of running to the mailbox to see what was on the cover of the latest weekly issue of Sports Illustrated is indelible. For decades, the magazines photographers, writers and editors held the power to anoint stars and deliver the definitive account of the biggest moments in sports, often with just a single photograph and a few words on the cover. It was the most powerful real estate in sports journalism. When ... More  This 'Expats' star can't believe she's actually in itLOS ANGELES, CA.- In Expats, actress Ji-young Yoo, a relative newcomer to Hollywood, shares the screen with Nicole Kidman, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress-producer. Yoo plays Mercy, a Columbia University graduate and would-be babysitter for the young son of Kidmans Margaret, a former landscape architect and a mother of three living, none too happily, in Hong Kong. When Mercy loses her charge in a moment of distraction (yes, she was texting), it sends Margaret into well, just imagine how Nicole Kidman might react if, say, you were texting and you lost her child. Yoo, 24, and a film student only a few years ago I used to watch Moulin Rouge with my mom constantly, she said finds all of it difficult to believe even now, two years after shooting wrapped on the six-episode miniseries. When I watch the scenes ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Théodore Géricault died January 26, 1824. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this image: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820-21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm.
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