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The artist Judy Chicago in her gallery and studio in Belen, N.M., Sept. 13, 2023. (Gabriela Campos/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Like all women and all art, Judy Chicago contains multitudes. This summer, the 84-year old American artists lifelong interest in excavating and subverting female history through storytelling, activism and overtly feminine aesthetics and materials is on display in two bold and affecting European retrospectives. Across venues in Britain and France, six decades of Chicagos distinctly feminist oeuvre show a remarkable range. Minimalist sculptures; psychedelic spray-painted car hoods; landscapes billowing with bright plumes of smoke; and paintings of swirling, hallucinatory flowers fill the galleries with Chicagos hallmark bright colors and undulating line. Many works incorporate personal texts in tidy, looping cursive about gendered rejection, shame, longing and anger. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Your Museum! Your Collection! Masterpieces from Etel Adnan to Andy Warhol, exhibition view, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2024, Photo: Achim Kukulies.
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| Audrey Flack, creator of vibrant photorealist art, dies at 93 | | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen opens a new presentation of its collection | | 'Mapping the 60s. Art Histories from the mumok Collections' opens in Vienna |
The artist Audrey Flack in New York on Oct. 23, 2017. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Audrey Flack, a pioneer of photorealism who became known for oversize, in-your-face still lifes crowded with color and detail, died Friday in Southampton, New York. She was 93. Her daughter Hannah Marcus said her death, at a hospital, was caused by an aortic tear. Flacks best-known paintings were still lifes painted from photographs, sometimes with an airbrush. In Queen, a dewy rose, an orange section, a playing card and a photo locket with pictures of Flack and her mother nestle among other symbolic and sentimental objects on a canvas 6 1/2 ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Big Torn Campell's Soup Can (Black Beans), 1962, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 137 cm, © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/TM Licensed by Campell's Soup Co.
DUSSELDORF.- New perspectives on art history: Under the title Your Museum! Your Collection! the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is showing its collection at K20 with masterpieces from Etel Adnan to Andy Warhol in a comprehensive new presentation beginning on July 6, 2024. With the reopening, visitors to the museum can look forward to several new offerings. The new collection tour takes visitors through twenty rooms featuring more than 180 works of art ... More | |
Mario Merz, Il fulmine colpisce il campo, 1968. 160 x 50 x 50 cm. Straw bales, wood, neon, transformer. mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, since 1983. Photo: mumok © Bildrecht, Wien 2024.
VIENNA.- The exhibition Mapping the 60s is based on the thought that substantial sociopolitical movements of the twenty-first century have their roots in the 1960s. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, for example, have built on the anti-racist and feminist upheavals of yesteryearas have current debates on war, mass media and mechanization, consumerism, and capitalism. The developments of the 1960s ... More |
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| Salvador DalÃ's iconic Mae West Lips Sofa goes on display at NGV International | | San Francisco's arts institutions are slowly building back | | The Beatles and the Beach Boys lead Heritage's Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters Auction |
Installation view of Salvador Dalis Mae West Lips Sofa 1937-38 on display at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tim Carrafa.
MELBOURNE.- Resembling two scarlet-red lips, Salvador DalÃs iconic Surrealist design Mae West Lips Sofa, manufactured in 193738, will go on display at NGV International from 1 July 2024. Acquired by the NGV in 2023 as part of its Annual Appeal, which invites philanthropic contributions from the community, the work is one of only two in the world featuring an eye-catching ... More | |
Attendees at the San Francisco Symphony in San Francisco on June 7, 2024. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On a recent clear day, visitors were wandering through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to gawk at works by Yayoi Kusama and Alexander Calder, and, a few blocks away, making their way through the galleries at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora. That evening, music lovers poured in to Davies Symphony Hall ... More | |
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds RIAA Circle Hologram Gold Sales Award.
DALLAS, TX.- Theres a famous 115-year-old bronze sculpture of a Native American on horseback, titled Appeal to the Greater Spirit, in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston that is hardly associated with its creator, Cyrus Dallin. It is instead associated with the Beach Boys. Brian Wilson, the bands resident genius, chose it as the bands company logo in the 1960s because, as his brother and bandmate Carl has explained, the ... More |
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| The man behind the Minions | | Solo exhibition of new work by Lorna Robertson on view at Alison Jacques | | Kröller-Müller Museum restores '56 Barrels' by Christo |
The director Pierre Coffin, who provides the voice of the Minions in the Despicable Me movies, in Paris on June 26, 2024. (Violette Franchi/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When the French animation studio Illumination was developing Despicable Me, an ingratiating family comedy about a second rate supervillain and his adopted children, the team decided that the movie needed some lighthearted relief to help make the movies antihero, ... More | |
Lorna Robertson, Socks and shoes, 2023.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques presents a solo exhibition of new work by Lorna Robertson (b.1967, lives and works in Glasgow). Her first solo show in London includes new paintings made with a combination of oil paint, watercolour, collage and linseed oil on canvas and paper. These paintings sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, as Robertson describes, a ... More | |
There have been several versions of 56 Barrels.
OTTERLO.- After a thorough restoration, 56 Barrels (1968) by Bulgarian-American artist Christo (Gabrovo, 1935 New York City, 2020) is back on display in all its glory in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum. Exposed to the weather, the work had suffered greatly: the barrels were full of rust, the paint was worn and there were cracks in the concrete base. A presentation on the history ... More |
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| parrasch heijnen's first solo exhibition with Nabilah Nordin to open in Los Angeles | | One of comicdom's most (in)famous covers, 'Black Cat Mystery' No. 50, scares up a record $840,000 at Heritage Auctions | | How a patriotic painting became the Internet's soap box |
Nabilah Nordin, Ember, 2024. acrylic polymer, epoxy modeling compound, wood. 31 x 16-1/2 x 11 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen will present Nabilah Nordin: Primary Matter, the gallery's first solo exhibition with Los Angeles, CA-based artist Nabilah Nordin (b.1991, Singapore). Nordins sculptures dance with gravity and an internal buoyancy that evokes the process of their creation. The artist's organic yet constructed forms unfurl, topple, grow, and balance, as each work's uniformity in color is juxtaposed in a vibrant ... More | |
Lee Elias Black Cat Comics #50 Cover Original Art (Harvey, 1954).
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage's June 20-23 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, which realized more than $19.68 million, left no doubt that there are occasions when a Black Cat brings good fortune. The four-day event scared up numerous major auction records, led by one of the most (in)famous horror comic-book covers of all time: Lee Elias' original art for Black Cat Mystery No. 50, which sold for $840,000 after a prolonged bidding war. Elias' ... More | |
"Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
NEW YORK, NY.- So you have an opinion you want to share online something you need to get off your chest. Maybe its about the current political climate. Maybe you want to have the final word on whether or not people should wear their shoes in the house. If you know you have a spicy take on your hands, you might look to American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell to help you share it. Across social media, his work Freedom ... More |
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Rob Stone, master marketer of hip-hop, is dead at 55NEW YORK, NY.- Rob Stone, who as a founder of the music magazine The Fader and the brand-strategy firm Cornerstone Agency bridged the sounds of the streets and the corporate suites, giving early exposure to rappers such as Kanye West and Drake while brokering lucrative endorsements at a time when corporate America was still resistant to hip-hop, died June 24 in Mount Kisco, New York. He was 55. His longtime professional partner, Jon Cohen, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was lung cancer. Early in his music business career, first at SBK Records and later at Arista, Stone was charged with finding exposure and radio airplay for new artists. He began to establish himself as a hip-hop insider, working with performers includoing the Notorious B.I.G. and Craig Mack, as well as with Sean Combs, whose label, Bad ... More Ben Hunter and Offer Waterman announce co-representation of Tess JarayLONDON.- Ben Hunter and Offer Waterman announced co-representation of Tess Jaray. The galleries will present a solo booth of work by Jaray at Frieze Masters 2024 (9-13 October). The installation will focus on significant paintings from 1979-1987 which were included in her seminal 1988 solo exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, London. In July 2024, a retrospective of Jarays work will open at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Museum, UK. This will be her second solo exhibition at the museum, her first was in 1972. The exhibition will run from 20 July -13 October 2024. For more than 60 years, Jaray has developed a singular practice which explores pictorial and architectural space through abstract painting. Born in Vienna in 1937, she came to the United Kingdom in 1938 as part of the flight of Jewish refugees from the Nazis. Jaray studied at Saint ... More The Phillips Collection presents 'Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage'WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, the first major museum exhibition dedicated to contemporary collage reflecting the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States. The monumental exhibition, spread across three floors in two buildings, brings together nearly 60 works by an intergenerational group of 49 African American artists to explore diverse Black-constructed narratives through collage and collage-informed works. Organized by the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is on view from July 6 through September 22, 2024. Multiplicity examines how themes of personal and ... More On the Jersey Shore, there's a flag for everythingAVALON, NJ.- The monthly teatime event at the Avalon Historical Center is a casual affair. Theres no agenda or talking points for the handful of regulars who dress up for the occasion, and anyone in a bathing suit and flip-flops can wander in and sit down to fresh scones and hot tea. At the groups June meeting, I showed up to ask about something that has long been a curiosity but recently became national news: Whats with all the flags on the Jersey Shore? In 2023, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, flew three flags from their Barnegat Bay shore home: a Philadelphia Phillies 2022 National League Championship pennant; a flag for Long Beach Island, which Barnegat Bay is part of; and, in the highest position, an Appeal to Heaven flag, a Revolutionary War-era flag that has been embraced ... More Chinese coins celebrating scientific inventions lead Heritage's $8.4 million HKINF World & Ancient Coins AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Two gold Chinese coins celebrating notable scientific inventions sold for $816,000 each to lead Heritage's HKINF World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction - Hong Kong to $8,398,056 June 19-21. Heritage's HKINF World Paper Money Signature® Auction - Hong Kong reached $2,231,089 June 18-21, boosting the total from the events to $10,629,145. Sharing top-lot honors were a People's Republic gold Proof "Compass" 2000 Yuan (1 Kilo) 1992 PR69 Ultra Cameo NGC and a People's Republic gold Proof "Seismography" 2000 Yuan (1 Kilo) 1992 PR68 Ultra Cameo NGC from the Scientific Inventions and Discoveries Series of Ancient China Series, each of which comes from a minute ... More Paul Smith's Foundation announces inaugural DirectorLONDON.- As of October 2023, Paul Smiths Foundation named Martha Mosse the inaugural Director. Appointed to take the helm on programming, strategy, fundraising, and events to deliver on its global mission and ensure the long-term success of the Foundation. Working closely with founder & designer Sir Paul Smith and the trustees, the role harnesses the spirit and values of Sir Pauls career by cultivating programmes which bring about opportunities for early career creative people, by supporting with business development skills and offering valuable advice to help build long term sustained careers. Previously at Sarabande Foundation from its inception to serving as Head of Operations & Artist Relations. Assisting the CEO, responsibilities were to support the establishment of the headquarters and programme of the charitable ... More The Dutch LAM museum adds flavour to art viewing experiencesLISSE.- The LAM museum has created the perfect recipe for summer: an art collection all about food and drink combined with unique flavours that add a special twist to the viewing experience. During the summer holidays, visitors will be able to enjoy a sensory feast for both their eyes and their taste buds. What does the artwork taste like? Do you notice different details when you add flavour? How does taste affect sight and vice versa? Experience Taste a Work of Art between 13 July and 1 September 2024 at the LAM museum on the Keukenhof Estate in Lisse, the Netherlands. Taste a Work of Art is a genuine LAM creation, conceived and developed in-house. The museum first introduced this multisensory experience in 2019, and visitors have been requesting its return ever since. This summer, the LAM museum has expanded and enhanced ... More Casino Luxembourg presents 'My Last Will', a project by M+MLUXEMBOURG.- Casino LuxembourgForum dart contemporain presents the multimedia exhibition My Last Will. On the initiative of the German-Luxembourg artist duo M+M (Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia), 32 international artists and artist groups explore the question What remains?. The result is an impressive exhibition course, in which a multitude of recently created works can be experienced, including five space-consuming film and sound installations commissioned specifically for the exhibition. In the individual examination of their own legacy, it becomes apparent how multifaceted contemporary artists reflect on and critically question the significance of their own creative work. They try to get to the core of what constitutes their artistic goal or their personal interest. They explore the presumed relevance of their work for a future that ... More Niclas Larsson is ready to shoot more close-upsNEW YORK, NY.- If old age is not for snowflakes, well, try directing a 90-minute feature film about old age in the iPhone era, as Niclas Larsson has done. Larsson, 33, greeted me on a recent morning at his 15th-floor terraced apartment in a former button factory, looking eerily like his dog, a blond lurcher named Ted, the way many owners do. He had settled here, in the garment district of midtown Manhattan, after rejecting hipper quarters in Brooklyn and the financial district. A native Swede with a deep appreciation of Americana, he was offering strong black coffee and strong opinions on where his new movie, Mother, Couch, should be seen, like the Angelika theater downtown, where it opens Friday, and the Nuart in Los Angeles. Hollywood is like, Whats going on? Larsson said, considering the summer box office, which has thus ... More Paul Theroux on necessary solitude, risks and the joy of writingNEW YORK, NY.- After 60 years of writing and publishing and almost 60 books I feel ordering my thoughts on paper to be not a job but a process of my life. You always hear writers complain about the hellish difficulty of writing, but its a dishonest complaint. So many people have it much harder soldiers, firefighters, field workers, truckers. The writers profession is a life of self-indulgence. With luck and effort, you make a living. The only difficulty is its necessity for solitude. Writing is not compatible with anything its utter self-absorption is generally destructive to family life and friendships and yet I find it joyous. All creativity is uplifting; I finish a book in a mood approaching rapture. Having difficulty writing? Has it occurred to you that maybe you have nothing to write? I once wrote a book, Sir Vidias Shadow, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Cy Twombly died July 05, 2011. Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 - July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In this image: Cy Twombly, (American, 1928 2011), Anabasis (Bronze), 2011. Bronze, 46 1/16 x 19 1/8 x 19 5/16 inches, Base (pedestal): 39 à 26 1/4 à 26 inches. © Cy Twombly Foundation.
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