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Karel Appels Happy Birthday to You, 1963, at left, and Woman in Front of Mirror, 1957, in the Almine Rech booth at the Independent 20th Century art fair in New York, on Sept. 4, 2024. The fairs third 20th-century-focused edition charts a careful line between safety and excitement. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show was founded 30 years ago by a handful of art dealers who treated the art fair format as a playful, ironic, even experimental affair. Held at the Gramercy Hotel in Manhattan, artworks were displayed on the beds, and viewers wandered from room to room taking in the cheeky display. Were a long, long way from that setup. Now The Armory Show has been swallowed up by a new owner, the multinational Frieze, and the art world calendar is so crowded with fairs that they run simultaneously: Frieze Seoul is underway ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Taro Nasu, Frieze Seoul 2024. Photo by Lets Studio. Courtesy of Frieze and Lets Studio.
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| Mister ArtSee relaunches at Pioneer Works on September 8th | | Woody Auction announces highlights included in its Art Glass, Lamps & Much More auction | | Hirshhorn Museum appoints José Roca as Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator at Large of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art |
Mister ArtSee Relaunch and Pioneer Works Second Sundays Celebration at Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St, Red Hook, NY 11231. September 8th, 2024. Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM.
RED HOOK, NY.- After a three-year hiatus, the beloved nonprofit arts organization Mister ArtSee is making a triumphant return. On September 8th, Mister ArtSee will relaunch at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, coinciding with the reopening of Pioneer Works ... More | |
Late 19th or early 20th century French cameo art glass vase signed Galle in souffle/relief, 15 ½ inches tall, in a rare mold blown plum design, boasting a frosted yellow ground (est. $8,000-$12,000).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- Woody Auction will embrace the active fall auction season with an Art Glass, Lamps & Much More auction slated to happen on Saturday, September 21st, live and online, starting at 9:30 am Central time. Expected top lots include a vase ... More | |
Jose Roca. Photo by Federico Bottia.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announces the appointment of José Roca as the inaugural Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator at Large of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art. Roca will support Hirshhorn leadership in assessing and expanding acquisitions of Latin American and Latin American diasporic holdings, initiating exhibitions ... More |
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| Remarkable gift for Escher in The Palace: Two unknown M.C. Escher drawings | | How dinosaurs rocked Victorian society | | Tate showcases major works of art from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift |
M.C. Escher, Facade design for the Vroom family home, ink and watercolour, 1959. Donation Vroom family collection.
THE HAGUE.- Maurits Cornelis Escher achieved world-wide fame with his optical illusions but it is less well known that he also made art for public spaces. In 1959-60, he designed a tile tableau with fish and birds, inspired by his famous print Sky and Water I (1938), for a villa in the south of Amsterdam. It was commissioned by Wolbert J. Vroom, a great admirer of Eschers work, who was looking for a black-and-white image to decorate ... More | |
In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadnt occurred to anybody?
NEW YORK, NY.- I wasnt any more obsessed with dinosaurs than most adults, Edward Dolnick said. But the accomplished science writer became intrigued by the story of the initial discovery of dinosaur bones in England and how Victorian society coped. In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, published by Scribner last month, he introduces us to Mary Anning, a young woman who ... More | |
Dieter Roth, Grosse Landschaft 1969, on display at Tate St Ives. Presented as part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift 2023 © Estate of Dieter Roth. Photo © Tate (Matt Greenwood).
LONDON.- Visitors to Tates galleries can now enjoy a host of new additions to the national collection, including celebrated sculptures and installations by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hammons and Pipilotti Rist, to be joined later this month by Helen Chadwick, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas and many more. These outstanding works of contemporary art are among over 110 donated ... More |
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| City of London Corporation and the Mayor of London pledge additional £50 million towards new London Museum | | Morgan Lehman Gallery opens Edra Soto's solo exhibition por la señal / by a signal | | Haus der Kunst opens Pussy Riot's largest presentation to date |
General Market Dome Coppersmith 2023 © London Museum.
LONDON.- London Museum (formerly known as Museum of London) has today announced a new pledge of £50 million from its principal funders the City of London Corporation and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. The contribution of £25 million each will go towards the creation of its new home a sustainable and world class development in the historic Smithfield markets. It will be supported by an additional £30 million in fundraising by the museum. ... More | |
Edra Soto, Por La Señal, 2024. Sintra, MDF, latex paint, viewfinder, inkjet print, 14 1/2h x 14 1/2w in. 36.83h x 36.83w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery presents Edra Soto's solo exhibition por la señal / by a signal, a series of abstract works inspired by Puerto Rican rejas, wrought iron screens which are common in the archipelago's lower and middle-class communities. This new presentation draws from Soto's personal history and cultural heritage, examining the connections between Puerto ... More | |
Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riots Russia. Installation shot. Haus der Kunst München, 2024. Photo: Constantin Mirbach.
MUNICH.- Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riots Russia at Haus der Kunst is the largest presentation of the artistic collectives work to date, and the first museum exhibition in Germany devoted to Pussy Riot. It poses the urgent question of what resistance is in art, and which stories need to become a fundamental part of exhibition making nowadays. In illustrating an increasingly hostile ... More |
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| Luca Guadagnino gets crafty | | Tang dynasty terracotta, cloisonné, original paintings and jade lead Heritage's Asian Art event | | Coming soon to the Brooklyn Museum: Liza Lou's Trailer |
Bulgarian Kukeri Mask #2 by Lyudmil Yordanov, a piece in the Dream space at Homo Faber, a craftsmanship exhibition in Venice, Italy. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Luca Guadagnino has added creative director to his list of jobs. As a filmmaker, his credits include Challengers, the Oscar-nominated movie Call Me by Your Name and the upcoming Queer, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs semi-autobiographical novella starring Daniel Craig, which recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He is also the founder of Studio Luca Guadagnino, an award-winning interiors firm in Milan that has designed several ... More | |
A Pair of Sancai-Glazed Pottery Figures of Lokapalas, Tang dynasty, 39 x 16 x 5 inches (99.1 x 40.6 x 12.7 cm) (each, work).
DALLAS, TX.- Remarkable auctions are shaped by remarkable collections, and Heritages September 24 Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature® Auction is made up of works from more than a dozen distinguished U.S.-based collections of significant objects from Japan, China and beyond. The collections boast collector names that keen-eyed connoisseurs notice when scouring a seasons auction schedule: Ruth Sylvia Nelkin, Princess Maria Romanoff, Dr. John Ross, the Kestenband Collection, and ... More | |
Liza Lou, Trailer, 19982000. Glass beads, aluminum, textile, wood, metal wire, plaster, rubber, found objects, electrical parts, and video (color, sound, looped), 120 à 96 à 420 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Sherry and Joel Mallin, 2022.24. © Liza Lou (Photo: Tom Powel Imaging)
BROOKLYN, NY.- On the occasion of the Brooklyn Museums 200th anniversary, visitors will encounter an exciting new artwork in the Museums lobby. Trailer (19982000), the first work by contemporary American artist Liza Lou to enter the Museums collection, is a large-scale, immersive sculpture contained inside a thirty-five-foot-long 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer. The ... More |
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Exhibition explores Chinese art featuring demonic creatures as entities that either bring harm or ward off evil spiritsCLEVELAND, OH.- Featuring paintings and sculptures of secular and religious subject matter from the CMA and an important private collection, Demons, Ghosts, and Goblins in Chinese Art explores the stories in which these creatures appear and the supernatural power that they exert. This exhibition presents three sculptures of fearsome guardian figures and more than a dozen Chinese paintings depicting demons and monsters in their role of either causing havoc on earth or acting as protectors against evil forces and harmful intruders. This free exhibition is on view September 8, 2024, through January 20, 2025, in the Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery. Supernatural spirits exist in many cultures and civilizations, ... More NGV Architecture Commission winner announcedMELBOURNE.- Taking the form of a labyrinthine house-within-a-house, Home Truth by Breathe, the winning design of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2024, invites audiences to envision an alternative way of building homes in Australia. Highlighting how small-scale architecture can create homes that are more sustainable, higher-quality and community-orientated, Home Truth presents a powerful yet elegant commentary on our nations ranking as the country with the largest average house size on earth. The project invites audiences to enter a space that questions the ethical and ecological impact of very large homes commonly being built around Australia. An external house frame represents the oversized silhouette of the average Australian home. Ranking among the largest in the world, the average Australian home is 236m2 ... More The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County presents 'Mark Dion: Excavations'LOS ANGELES, CA.- A worktable is strewn with paleontology tools and models, anatomical blackboard drawings of prehistoric animals wrap around the room, and at the center, crouches a larger-than-life glow-in-the-dark pack rat. On view at La Brea Tar Pits for a year beginning September 15, 2024, the exhibition Mark Dion: Excavations is an immersive, uncanny installation of a behind-the-scenes museum space. Displaying new work alongside early museum murals, dioramas, and maquettes of Ice Age mammals, this playful, irreverent presentation is in keeping with Dionâs well-known meticulous yet mischievous approach. The exhibition is centered around a 10-foot-long glow-in-the-dark sculpture of a fossil pack rat skeleton that stands atop a mix of natural and cultural detritus from the Tar Pits and the Hancock Park ... More New donations to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American HistoryWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History recently acquired several significant artifacts that reflect key moments in American history and culture. These additions include objects from the legendary Titanic, the culturally significant Broadway musical HAIR and jerseys from sports figures Carl Nasib and Shohei Ohtani. The new acquisitions were donated between 2023 and July 2024 and also encompass innovations in automobile and steel recycling; audio engineering, including closed captioning; and early computer-data processing. These newly acquired artifacts highlight the museums ongoing commitment to preserving and showcasing the fascinating breadth of culture and diverse history of the United States, which elevates our mission, said Anthea M. Hartig, the museums Elizabeth ... More David Zwirner now representing Sasha GordonNEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced the co-representation of New Yorkbased painter Sasha Gordon with Matthew Brown. David Zwirner will debut a new painting by Gordon at Frieze London, and a solo exhibition of the artists work will be on view in September 2025 at the gallerys 19th Street location in New York. In her luminous and hyperrealistic paintings, Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision and rigor, the artists visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as a kind of unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience. Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd, darkly humorous scenarios or disorienting ... More Keeping the spirit of Harlem dance aliveNEW YORK, NY.- Every image of dancers Ayodele Casel, LaTasha Barnes and Camille Brown is strikingly contemporary. All artists at the cutting edge of dance today, they regularly perform for rapt audiences. But if you were to cast their angled bodies, brilliant smiles and euphoric turns in black and white, these dancers could almost fit in stills from a night club during the Harlem Renaissance. In motion, these modern women bring to mind historical figures such as the Whitman Sisters, who in 1931 took to the stage of the Lafayette Theater in upper Manhattan to put on a raucous, mesmerizing show featuring brilliantly garbed chorus lines, jazz bands, comedians and child performers. According to The Pittsburgh Courier, one of the preeminent African American newspapers of the day, it was the greatest stage attraction Harlem has ever ... More The Approach opens a solo exhibition by John StezakerLONDON.- The Approach presents Spell, a solo exhibition by John Stezaker celebrating the gallerys 20-year working relationship with the artist. The exhibition brings together two new bodies of work, the Spell and Life Room series, alongside Stezakers ongoing Mask series (1982 Present). Created during the emergence from lockdown, the Spell series is inspired by images of animal/human hybrids in Classical mythology and fairytales and their associated themes of magical enchantment and metamorphosis. By cutting silhouettes from his preferred source imagery of 1950s publicity portraits of film stars, Stezaker imposes his cutouts onto natural history illustrations. These contemporaneous illustrations of invertebrates and their aqueous underworlds are used as metaphors for the instability of human identity, through interspecies hybrids ... More Daniel Dae Kim isn't afraid to failLOS ANGELES, CA.- Its tough to see the resemblance. In the Broadway production of David Henry Hwangs Yellow Face, starting previews at the Todd Haimes Theater on Sept. 13, Daniel Dae Kim will star as DHH, a fictionalized, none-too-sympathetic character based very loosely on the Tony-winning playwright. Who wouldnt want to have their doppelgänger be Daniel Dae Kim?, said Hwang, whose play premiered off-Broadway in 2007 and who helped cast Kim in this Roundabout Theater Company revival. Who indeed? Since Kim first broke through in 2004 as the brooding, morally conflicted former enforcer on the hit ABC series Lost, and later as a tough, shotgun-blasting detective on the CBS reboot of Hawaii Five-0, he has become known for a certain type of character. Earnest. Serious. Enigmatic. Dignified. ... More Mk.gee, an unlikely guitar god, chases the promise of popLOS ANGELES, CA.- On first listen, or even fourth, the songs of Michael Gordon, a guitarist, producer and vocalist who performs as Mk.gee, are not the sort one imagines generating a modern frenzy. Cracked, shrouded and fuzzy, with jazz, AOR and classic rock DNA far from the trendiest of building blocks Mk.gees music can feel like a strange whisper or a brief tantrum. Its hooks are sneaky, the payoff more often implied than obvious. And its never one thing for very long before warping into something else or stopping altogether. His breakout album, Two Star & the Dream Police, which Mk.gee considers his official debut, is just over 30 minutes long. At concerts, he has taken to playing a track called Candy twice. With repeat exposure, it all starts to click. This record was supposed to feel like a little forest fire, said Gordon, a boyish ... More Long-lost sculptures Carel Visser acquired for Rijksmuseum gardensAMSTERDAM.- From today, visitors to the Rijksmuseum public gardens can enjoy two large abstract minimal sculptures by the Dutch artist Carel Visser (1928-2015). It marks a return to the public space for the 1964 works Signal 1 and Signal 2 for the first time in almost a quarter-century. These two identical lead-clad steel structures stand on concrete bases, with one sculpture rotated 180 degrees relative to the other. The Rijksmuseum has also purchased two maquette models of the sculptures that Visser made at the start of the design process in 1961. From November these maquettes will be on display in the 20th-century galleries on the third floor of the Rijksmuseum. KPN donated Signal 1 and Signal 2 to the Rijksmuseum and financed the restoration of both sculptures, as well as the purchase of the two maquettes. Taco Dibbits, director ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-born illustrator Sergio Aragonés was born September 06, 1937. Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. In this image: Mad Magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, seated far right, takes a photo of fellow cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, and Benjamin Meglin during an event to honor Aragones, Davis, and others, including Benjamin's grandfather former magazine editor Nick Meglin, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis where among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
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