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Jan David Winitz, president and founder of Claremont Rug Company.
OAKLAND, CALIF.- Red carpets have a pop culture, symbolic meaning to the point of almost cliché status. Want to raise the status of your events entrance? Lay down a red carpet. Want to make a banquet more special? Lay down a red carpet. The list goes on. Chappell Roan had another vision for her red carpet moment, and she worked with her stylist, Webb Genesis, to fulfill it. Performing recently at the MTV/VMA 40th annual awards ceremony, they approached Claremont Rug Company (www.claremontrug.com) with a simple request. To provide her with a rug that would capture the moment as she performed her breakout hit, while performing her breakout hit, "Hot to Go," the 26-year-old Roan sang the lovelorn electropop hit while standing on a 200-year-old, elite-level antique Oriental rug provided by Claremont Rug Company. She wore a full-bodied warrior suit that resembled the iconic saint Joan of Arc. She kicked off the theatrical performance by ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tracey Emin 'I followed you to the end', White Cube Bermondsey 19 September - 10 November 2024 © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis).
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| Almine Rech Paris, Turenne presents Mehdi Ghadyanloo's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery | | Suchitra Mattai explores colonization and identity in solo exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts | | Abe Odedina solo exhibition at the British Art Fair presented by The African Art Hub and Virginia Damtsa |
Mehdi Ghadyanloo The curved temple, 2024. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 230 x 120 cm. 90 1/2 x 47 in. © Mehdi Ghadyanloo. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Alessandro Wang.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris, Turenne is presenting Mehdi Ghadyanloo's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 7 to October 5, 2024. At a time when screens and many augmented-vision digital devices which are widely used by contemporary art and biennales reign supreme, Mehdi Ghadyanloo's painterly work may intrigue us for many reasons, and even challenge many of our ways ... More | |
Suchitra Mattai, future perfect, 2023; Embroidery floss, found objects, freshwater pearls, and trim on vintage needlepoint, 25 x 19 in.; Collection of Julie and Bennett Roberts, Los Angeles; Courtesy of Roberts Projects; © Suchitra Mattai; Photo by Heather Rasmussen.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a solo exhibition of work by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Suchitra Mattai (b. 1973). On view from September 20, 2024, through January 12, 2025, Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter will feature approximately 40 mixed-media works and large-scale textile installations by Mattai that explore how memory, myth ... More | |
Abe Odedina embarked on his artistic journey after a successful career in architecture, beginning his painting career on a transformative trip to Brazil in 2007.
LONDON.- Described as mesmerising by The Guardian, award-winning painter Abe Odedina makes his British Art Fair debut at the Saatchi Gallery this September with Son of the Soil, an exclusive solo exhibition as part of the Fairs Solo Contemporary exhibition presented by curator Virginia Damtsa in collaboration with The African Art Hub. Architect turned self-taught painter Abe Odedinas work, hailed as vivid, layered and deeply human ... More |
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| An artist turns detritus of Ghana's past into future possibility | | The extraordinary story behind probably the most unlikely art deal of the 20th century, told in full for the first time | | Axel Rüger appointed as next Frick Director |
Ibrahim Mahama at the White Cube art gallery, where his show, A Spell of Good Things, is on display, in New York, Sept. 5, 2024. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Ibrahim Mahama keeps on the lookout for scrap major scrap that bears the marks and summons memories of the labor that built Ghana, his country. When the discards are smallish for instance, square mesh grids used for smoking fish or wood boxes in which shoeshine workers carry their brushes Mahama will buy them by the dozens or hundreds and stash ... More | |
With a foreword by Dr. Julian Raby, former director of the Smithsonians National Museum of Asian art.
LONDON.- In July 1994, on the tarmac of Vienna airport, a clandestine swap saw the government of Iran acquire the most significant part of the 16th century Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp the greatest manuscript in the history of Persian painting in return for Willem de Koonings Woman III. This was the culmination of a series of events which had taken place over many years, and which resulted in an extraordinary and ambitious exchange described at the time ... More | |
The Gilded Age mansion housing the Frick Collection on East 70th Street in New York, June 23, 2018. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of The Frick Collection today announced the appointment of leading museum director Axel Rüger as the museums next Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director. He will start in the position in the spring of 2025. Rüger will join the Frick after successful tenures guiding the acclaimed Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Throughout his career as a ... More |
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| A fossilized creature may explain a puzzling painting on a rock wall | | Gagosian to exhibit new sculptures by Carol Bove at Frieze London 2024 | | Monet & Picasso masterworks to lead Collection of Sydell Miller at Sotheby's this fall |
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. (Julien Benoit via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a sandstone cliff in South Africa, a series of paintings recount a riveting battle. Spears fly as shield-wielding warriors charge. Animals, including an aardvark and scores of antelope, fringe the fracas. This dramatic rock art, known as the Horned Serpent panel, is estimated to be more than 200 years old. In addition to the well-known wildlife of the region, it also features ... More | |
Carol Bove, Grove I, 2024. Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 120 x 36 x 18 inches (304.8 x 91.4 x 45.7 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian announced a solo presentation of new large-scale works by Carol Bove at Frieze London 2024. Boves installation comprises a group of nine approximately ten-foot-tall abstract sculptures titled Grove IGrove IX. Each slender, vertically oriented form incorporates a chain, a painted disc, or one of the artists now-familiar painted and partially crumpled square ... More | |
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, oil on canvas, circa 191417. Estimate on request. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Known to many as the queen of the beauty industry, Sydell Miller was guided in every aspect of her life by her familys mantra: Think, Believe, Dream, Dare. From her very first forays into fashion and the beauty business, to her innumerable philanthropic endeavors, and the collection of fine art and design that she surrounded herself with, Miller lived a life of beauty, both inside and out. This November, Millers extraordinary collection will take center ... More |
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| Aline Thomassen wins the 2024 Ouborg Award | | After 'a treasure hunt,' a cut-up masterpiece returns to Venice | | Serpentine to unveil large-scale mural by Esther Mahlangu |
Aline Thomassen, photo Nieck Bakker.
THE HAGUE.- This years Ouborg Award, The Hagues most important visual arts award, will be presented to Aline Thomassen. She will receive the award from the citys councillor for culture, Saskia Bruines, on Friday 29 November. The award consists of a sum of money of 25,000 to stimulate the artist's further development and a solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The opening will coincide with the award presentation. The Ouborg Award is a joint initiative of the Municipality of The Hague, the ... More | |
The main entrance of the Gallerie dellAccademia in Venice, Nov. 4, 2018. (Marco Zorzanello/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Over 40 years ago, Italian culture officials in Venice began searching for the pieces of a nine-panel ceiling that artist-turned-biographer-of-artists Giorgio Vasari painted during a 16th-century Venetian sojourn. Commissioned by Giovanni Corner, who belonged to one of Venices most powerful families, the ceiling depicting the Triumph of Virtues had been dismantled and scattered across Europe after his branch ... More | |
Esther Mahlangu, photo by Clint Strydom, courtesy of The Melrose Gallery.
LONDON.- This Autumn, Serpentine will unveil a new site-specific mural by artist Esther Mahlangu. On view in the garden at Serpentine North from 4th October 2024 to 28th September 2025, the monumental painting will celebrate concepts of community and unity. The work will mark her first public artwork in the UK. Celebrated for her brightly coloured geometric paintings rooted in matrilineal Ndebele culture, Dr Esther Mahlangu (b. 1935, South Africa) has been creating ... More |
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Tokyo Beat: Marc Glimcher and Maysha Mohamedi | Pace Gallery
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Celebrating a very fashionable middle ageLONDON.- There is a scene in the second episode of the compulsively watchable and entirely self-hagiographic new fashion docuseries, In Vogue: The 90s, in which Anna Wintour describes London as the place you went to look for the best talent. Although as the current 40th-birthday-of-fashion-week celebrations in London reflect the collections were officially organized in 1984, it was the shows of the late 90s and early 2000s that really put the local scene on the international map. They were fashion weeks equivalent of raging adolescence: a period of great chaos, intensity and transformation. That was when Lee Alexander McQueen was upending and dazzling expectations showing one collection that involved ink spreading through an acrylic runway and models doused in rain, so their clothes stuck to their bodies and ... More Kunstmuseum Bern opens Amy Sillman's first major institutional solo exhibition in EuropeBERN.- Amy Sillman is an important voice in contemporary painting. Between 20 September 2024 and 2 February 2025, the Kunstmuseum Bern is showing the artists first major institutional solo exhibition in Europe. Sillmans powerful and allusive artistic language refers time and again to the history of painting. In her presentation in Bern, she is involving works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern. The American painter Amy Sillman (b. 1955) has consistently interrogated her medium since the 1990s. Her works include drawings, prints and texts, as well as objects and animations. Sillmans complete devotion to processes of transformation, reversal, reconfiguration and re-examination is characteristic of her painterly explorations. Her quick serial drawings and multi-layered paintings move deftly between abstraction and figuration ... More American Made - A collection of American masterpieces coming to Asheville Art MuseumASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum announced the upcoming exhibition, American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection. American Made is on view from October 17, 2024 to February 20, 2025, and features over 80 paintings and sculptures. Though many objects in the exhibition have been on view at other museums, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this exhibition showcases the best of the DeMell Jacobsen Collection brought together in one location. American Made provides an in-depth look at the evolution of American creativity from the Colonial era to the early 20th century. The highlights include portraits by masters like Benjamin West, Thomas Sully, and Sarah Miriam Peale. There are sweeping landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher ... More Chazen Museum of Art names inaugural Chief Engagement OfficerMADISON, WISC.- The Chazen Museum of Art has named Berit Ness as the institutions inaugural chief engagement officer. In the new role, Ness leads the Chazens visitor-focused and inclusive outreach efforts that align with the Museums mission as a teaching and learning institution. She oversees public programs and education, marketing and communications, campus and community outreach and the visitor services program. Her appointment began Sept. 9. Ness comes to the Chazen from the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, where she focused on interweaving the Smart Museums collections, exhibitions and broader resources into teaching, learning, research and co-curricular life on campus. She held successive roles at the Smart Museum since 2015, most recently serving as the associate director and ... More Stirring up an Indigo revival where slave cabins still standJOHNS ISLAND, SC.- On a spring morning nearly a decade ago, Leigh Magar was out walking rural Johns Island, off Charleston, South Carolina, with her snake stick, a wooden cane with a jangling Greek goat bell that she carries to ward off loathsome reptiles. As she tells it and she swears this story is true a beautiful blue dragonfly alighted on her stick and then encircled her, before fluttering toward the woods. She followed it into a thicket of pines, where she discovered a patch of wild blue indigo hidden among the trees. Magar, a textile artist and dressmaker partial to indigo-dyed jumpers and indigo-stained silk ribbons tucked into her hair, is at the artful forefront of the seed to stitch movement the growing, harvesting and processing of Indigo suffruticosa, a robust plant that flourishes in the tropics and produces a deep, ... More Fall for Dance returns, problems intactNEW YORK, NY.- The Fall for Dance Festival got its start at New York City Center 20 years ago with a $10 ticket price and a worthy aim: to introduce the art form to new audiences. Admission is now $30, but the goal of spreading the gospel of dance remains the same. On Wednesday, Wendy Whelan, associate artistic director of New York City Ballet, unveiled the 21st edition with an opening night speech pointing out that each of the evenings choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck and Andrea Miller has ties to City Ballet. Whelan is a lovely, warm speaker, but having her open the program seemed a little out of left field. While she has performed at City Center, she doesnt actually work there. Fall for Dance, frustratingly, is as hit or miss as ever, but on opening night, something else was in short supply: range. For a festival ... More The octagon inside the Sphere: Bloody fights and soaring filmsLAS VEGAS, NEV.- After an animated vignette of conquistadors ransacking Indigenous Mexican temples played on the Spheres enormous video screen and the venues haptic seats shook violently, two mixed martial arts fighters approached each other on Mexican Independence Day weekend. As they battled in the Ultimate Fighting Championships caged octagon, birds soared across a backdrop of temple ruins. The Sphere a futuristic orb-like structure with more than 700,000 square feet of programmable screens inside and out has primarily hosted musicians, keynote speakers and filmmakers since opening its radiant gaze upon the Las Vegas Strip in July 2023. It was one of those concerts last year, part of U2s nearly six-month residency, that amazed and inspired Dana White, the UFCs chief executive. For months he has grandiosely ... More Mark Podwal, prolific artist of Jewish themes, dies at 79NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Podwal, a dermatologist with a parallel career as an acclaimed artist who drew political cartoons for The New York Times; illustrated books, including several written by Auschwitz survivor and writer Elie Wiesel; and created a portfolio of Jewish-themed paintings, died on Friday at his home in Harrison, New York, in Westchester County. He was 79. His son Michael said the cause was cancer. Podwal, who chose dermatology as his specialty because it would give him time to pursue his art, began contributing to the Times opinion page when he was a resident at New York University Hospital (now NYU Langone Health). His first cartoon, published after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, depicted a faceless Israeli runner, blood pouring from an abdominal ... More Lucine Amara, 99, dies; Familiar soprano at the Met saw bias thereNEW YORK, NY.- Lucine Amara, an American singer who continued a decades-long career at the Metropolitan Opera after she successfully brought the company up on age-discrimination charges in a widely publicized case, died on Sept. 6 at her home in the New York City borough of Queens. She was 99. Her daughter, Evelyn La Quaif, a soprano and stage director, who had shared an apartment with her mother in recent weeks, said that the cause was respiratory illness and heart failure and that Amara also had dementia. She had lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for decades. A lyric soprano known for her clear, supple voice, Amara sang 748 performances with the Met between 1950 and 1991, an impressively long tenure. Her dozens of roles there included Mimì in Puccinis La Bohème, Nedda in Leoncavallos I Pagliacci, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American glass artist Dale Chihuly was born September 20, 1941. Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. In this image: Dale Chihuly sits in front of a wall featuring his drawings in the cafe during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Seattle. The new, permanent 1.5 acre exhibit is located near the base of the Space Needle. It looks at the career of Chihuly and features an eight-gallery exhibition hall, conservatory and garden as well as a cafe with a selection of Chihuly's collections of vintage accordions, radios, clocks and other mid-century memorabilia.
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