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John MacDonald, Fading Ember. Oil on linen 12x18.
VENICE, FLA.- After the cancellation of the 2021 biennial due to the pandemic, The American Tonalist Society are showcasing over 60 artworks that represent the best of American Tonalism today. The American Tonalist Society was founded in 2016 by four East Coast artists, Daniel Ambrose (FL), Eleinne Basa (NJ), Donald Demers (ME) and Mary Erickson (NC) during a summer artists retreat in Port Clyde, Maine. The tonalist movement focuses on emotion, spirituality and mood, encompassing luminous atmospheric effects with a minimal palette of neutral hues. Like visual poetry, tonalist paintings evoke a quiet statement of contemplation, mystery, and intrigue. The American Tonalist Society is pleased to announce its Biennial Exhibition, SHADES OF GRAY II, at the Historic Salmagundi Club in New York City, April 28 - May 7, 2023. An opening reception is planned for April 28. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Richard Tuttle, 18 x 24, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 26 April - 20 May 2023. Photo: Michael Brzezinski. Courtesy: the artist, Modern Art, London and Pace, New York.
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| Karl and Anna, a love story in clothes | | Cantor Arts Center showing 'Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929 to 1941' | | Fourth-generation Italian art dealer brings rare collection of 13th-17th century paintings to South Florida | 
A gold suit from the Chanel fall 2014 couture runway, now part of Anna Wintour's collection, in New York, April 18, 2023. Wintour remembers the designer Karl Lagerfeld, and how shes worn his clothes to the most important events in her life. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue and global editorial director of Condé Nast, has been the maestro of every Met Gala since 1999. But this time, its personal. Not just because the exhibition that the party honors is devoted to the work of much celebrated designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, but because Lagerfeld was one of Wintours closest friends for decades. He created the clothes that, she said, Ive worn to the most important events in my life to my wedding, to my childrens weddings, to Met Galas and state dinners and tennis championships at which I watched my heroes compete for their dreams. For her, she said, Lagerfelds designs were a uniform, a kind of armor and a way of holding certain moods and memories close. His fashion does for me what fashion should. It makes me feel more confident in being ... More | | 
Dorothea Lange (American, 18951965), Migrant Mother, California,1936. Gelatin silver print. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Gift from the Alinder Collection.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center is pleased to present Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 19291941, an exhibition featuring over 100 photographs, periodicals, and photobooks. This material collectively pushes against the typical history of 1930s photography that views the work of this period as primarily documentary, and instead illustrates that artists of this era frequently used photography to ignite the imagination. The exhibition and the expansive art historical narratives it illuminates result from Dr. Josie R. Johnsons study over the past three years of the Cantors Capital Group Foundation (CGF) Photography Collectiona major gift of over 1,000 twentieth-century American photographs. Currently serving as the museums CGF Curatorial Fellow for Photography, Johnson comments: The Cantors holdings of American photography from the 1930s ... More | | 
Umbrian painter, End of the 13 th Century, Painted Cross, ca. 1295. Tempera on panel, 160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47.2 inches.
MIAMI, FL.- The largest exhibition of art from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Periods to be assembled in Miami from a private art collection is heading to South Florida this fall. Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings is being organized by Federico Gandolfi Vannini, a fourth-generation art dealer and owner of Frascione Arte in Florence, Italy, his wife Daisy Diaz (a native South Floridian) as the Cultural Director of the Gallery, and Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. This collection from Italy, now arriving in America for the first time, is the embodiment of our familys constant and passionate pursuit of representations of beauty and history, comments Vannini. Belen Jesuit, with its tradition of faith, is the ideal setting to highlight the intrinsic meaning ... More |
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| NYC libraries stave off Sunday closings in Mayor's new budget plan | | Sotheby's presents MOTHER of all: Louise Bourgeois, Spider this May in New York | | Ladroke Hall unveils reimagined historic building for artistic expression | 
The Brooklyn Heights Library, in Brooklyn on Jan. 16, 2023. Mayor Eric Adams plans to announce on Wednesday that he will back off from threatened budget cuts to New York Citys public libraries, sparing them from having to close many of their branches on weekends. (Justin Kaneps/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that he would exempt New York Citys public libraries from his latest round of threatened budget cuts, sparing them from having to close many of their branches on weekends. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, had faced growing pressure to call off the 4% budget cuts that library leaders have warned would be devastating to the system. Library officials were appreciative of the mayors decision but cautioned that they still faced another $36 million in previously announced budget cuts and were worried about their impact on libraries hours and programs. The announcement was part of Adams latest $106.7 billion executive budget proposal, where he also reduced some cuts planned for the Fire Department, Sanitation Department, the Parks ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois photographed with Spider IV, 1996. Image © Peter Bellamy. Art © The Easton Foundation. Photo courtesy of Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- At once beautiful and haunting, familiar and uncanny, Louise Bourgeois monumental Spiders stand among the most entrancing and ambitious artistic achievements of the twentieth century. Hailing from the apex of Bourgeois mature practice, the poignant series serves as a testament to the enduring appeal of the artist, capturing the most fundamental human emotions love and fear in sculptural form. Her most widely recognizable and renowned body of work, Bourgeois monumental Spiders are today key highlights of the most prestigious museum and private collections all over the world. This May, Sothebys will offer Spider from 1996 - an early and profoundly significant example of Bourgeois most iconic motif, and one of just four monumental Spiders to ever appear at auction.1 A cast of this Spider has not appeared at auction in over a decade, with other editions of this cast held in the National Gallery of ... More | | 
Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard. Courtesy of Ladbroke Hall and Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Photo by Tom Jamieson.
LONDON.- Londons newest arts and cultural destination, Ladbroke Hall, will unveil its abundant offering in stages this spring and summer. The historic building has been reimagined as a meeting place for artistic expression. Eager to welcome the public, visitors are invited to engage in a taster of its contemporary art, collectible design, music, theatre and film programme and the opening of its restaurant. Its restoration and expansion include contributions from leading artists, designers and architects such as Sir David Adjaye OBE, Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA, Ingrid Donat, Nacho Carbonell, Vincenzo De Cotiis, Luciano Giubbilei, Nicolas Schuybroek, Robert Stadler, Michèle Lamy and Rick Owens. On 28 April, Carpenters Workshop Gallerys new London flagship gallery, situated across the east wing of Ladbroke Hall, will open with two coinciding inaugural exhibitions. One will premiere Sir David Adjayes latest body of collectibl ... More |
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| A new show celebrates the guitar and its symbolism | | Making art accessible for all | | Colorful stories for children, with the darkest history as backdrop | 
An undated photo provided by Estate of Mary Swords Boehmer shows Thomas Cantwell Healys portrait of Charlotte Davis Wylie (1853). Opening in May 2023 at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, the exhibition will delve into the instruments myriad representations and stars who have played it. (Estate of Mary Swords Boehmer via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Guitarists and their music from folk singers to rock n roll stars and protest songs figure prominently in American history and culture, but the instrument has a notable heritage of its own. The guitar itself can have meaning, other than simply being beautiful or making music, said Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, where Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, on view from May 26 to Aug. 13, will explore the guitars symbolism in American art, from late 18th-century parlor rooms to todays concert halls. On display will be more than 165 works: paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, illustrations, videos, music in multimedia presentations and musical instruments, including a rare cittern, a popular string instrument in the 18th ... More | | 
A photo provided by MoMA of a touch tour, for visitors who are blind or have low vision, in New York in 1972. The tours have been offered at the Museum of Modern Art for over 50 years. (MoMA via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Imagine encountering Umberto Boccionis 1913 bronze sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space without being able to see it. A little over 3 1/2 feet tall, the abstract striding figure is all sharp edges and curves. On a Sunday in early March at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, a group of about 100 people, most of whom were blind or had low vision, put on thin plastic gloves and felt this and other sculptures. The tour was part of a celebration of 50 years of touch tours at the museum. Abigail Shaw, who has been blind since birth, ran her hands over and around Boccionis sculpture, unable to identify at first what she was feeling. Jamie Mirabella, a teaching artist, told the small group the name of the artist, who was part of the Italian futurist movement, and the name of the sculpture. But it wasnt until Mirabella mentioned the date, which Shaw recognized as a time when industrialization was influencing modernism, that she began to see t ... More | | 
A childrens book by El Pintor in New York, March 27, 2023. Whimsical childrens books signed El Pintor were a success in the Netherlands during World War II behind the pseudonym was a Jewish couple who used the proceeds to help the resistance. (Hugo Yu/The New York Times)
AMSTERDAM.- During World War II, a clutch of whimsical childrens books were published in the Netherlands under a pen name, El Pintor. One book shows children flying on the backs of sparrows. In another, they float, attached to balloons. There is a pop-up book with people and animals nestled in trees and an activity book with paper cutouts. The books sold thousands of copies, and were popular not only in the Netherlands, which was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940, but in Germany as well. The books did more than entertain children during the grim days of war. Behind the pseudonym El Pintor was a Jewish couple, Galinka Ehrenfest and Jacob Kloot. They used the name El Pintor to obscure their heritage, and funneled the proceeds from their picture books to fund Dutch resistance efforts and to help Jews who were hiding from the Nazi regime. They did so at ... More |
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| Pace Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Keith Coventry in London | | 'Kaloki Nyamai: Dining in Chaos' 2023 now open through June 24th, 2023 at Galerie Barbara Thumm | | 'Call of the Void: Robin Megannity' now open at WORKPLACE until June 4th | 
Keith Coventry, Landscape Junk 1, 2023. Oil on linen, Perspex and wood framed, 150 à 275 cm © Keith Coventry.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery opened Keith Coventry: City Racing, which will continue through May 25th, 2023. Taking over two galleries in Paces Hanover Square space, Coventry brings together several of his most celebrated bodies of work, as well as a new series he has been ruminating on for nearly three decades. Titled after the renowned South London gallery Coventry co-led from 1988-1998, this presentation marks a significant moment in the artists career as he works towards the opening of his new gallery in a renovated church in Shropshire, UK, which is set to open in summer 2023 under the City Racing name. Taking inspiration from the urban environment of contemporary London, Coventrys practice is preoccupied ... More | | 
Kaloki Nyamai, Twikale vaa gutavye kela kindo 1, 2023. Mixed media, acrylic, collage stitching on canvas 205 x 210 cm.
BERLIN.- The paintings on view at Galerie Barbara Thumm by Kaloki Nyamai are characterized by organic layers. While his figurative motifs are ea- sily recognizable, each image is a unique marriage of storytelling and material. His compositions involve threaded layers; braiding, stitched rope, collage, and yarn. Overall, his use of unusual mate- rials suffuses canvases with narrative and physical weight. His compositions, at times framed and others suspended or un-stretched, explore the historical tradition of painting. Dining in Chaos presents an ensemble of five paintings. The quintet displays Nyamais ongoing vocabulary of mix-media and figurative portraitu- re. The diptych of Twikale ... More | | 
Robin Megannity, Detail of PICA, 2022. Oil on linen. Photography by Tom Carter. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.
LONDON.- Workplace opened Call of the Void, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Manchester based artist Robin Megannity. The exhibition explores Megannitys endeavour to hold paradoxical or contrary sentiments within his painting that connect the ubiquitous with the sublime. Lappel du vide, is a French phrase which literally means the call of the void, and describes the widely experienced phenomena of the strong or compelling urge one might feel to jump or fall from a high place, such as from a tall building or precipitously soaring cliff. It is a vision of a dangerous action that appears like a flash across previously calm or disinterested thoughts exposing a shift, or psychological quiver, between the conscious and unconscious mind. ... More |
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Sothebyâs Spotlight: The Collectorâs Eye: Works from the Collection of Frances Wells Magee
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 Dread Scott awarded the Rome Prize and now opening the exhibition 'Goddam' at Cristin Tierney GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery congratulates Dread Scott on winning the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize in Visual Arts for 2023-24. The American Academy in Rome awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research by granting the recipients a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy's eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2023. In addition, Cristin Tierney Gallery is opening a solo exhibition of new works on canvas by Dread Scott. Entitled Goddam, the show features four works inspired by songs sung by Nina Simone: Goddam, Four Women, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free, and Pirate Jenny. Goddam ... More  Coloring in the margins: Pacita AbadNEW YORK, NY.- On a wintry March day in Minneapolis, a small group gathered underground to look at monumental and hyper-colored works of art. In the sprawling storage area beneath the Walker Art Center, Jack Garrity pulled one toward him, a towering piece by Pacita Abad, his wife, who died in 2004. This piece was our tablecloth, he said. We were always having parties, and I spilled my red wine. As guests fretted about the white brocade fabric at the couples Washington, D.C., apartment, Abad already had an idea. She goes, No problem. Ill paint it, Garrity recalled. The wine-stained cloth became Baguio Fruit (1981-83), a textile bounty swelling with guavas, bananas, mangos and more, referencing an area of the Philippines famous for its produce. The piece is one of Abads first trapuntos, a type of stuffed and quilted painting ... More  Karl Berger, 88, who opened minds of generations of musicians, is deadNEW YORK, NY.- Karl Berger, a musician, composer, educator and author who taught improvisation and his concept of an attentive, collaborative music mind to generations of musicians and artists at his Creative Music Studio near Woodstock, New York, died April 9 in Albany, New York. He was 88. Billy Martin, the studios executive director, said the death, at Albany Medical Center, was caused by complications following gastrointestinal surgery. Berger was a pianist and vibraphonist who performed and recorded with leading jazz musicians including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Pharoah Sanders, Dave Brubeck and Lee Konitz, among many others. Coleman, Berger and his wife, the singer Ingrid Sertso, founded the Creative Music Foundation in the early 1970s, to focus ... More  Evidence of gravity and other works by David Yūst of Fort Collins, COLINDSBORG, KS.- Knowing that Dave Yūst started out by studying aeronautical engineering and architecture design explains much about his painstaking, meticulous process of planning and building each of his dynamic acrylic paintings now on view through May 28th at Sandzén Memorial Gallery . As a boy in Wichitastill known as the air capital of the worldhe designed and built model airplanes from scratch, learning by doing the physics necessary to support flight. Turning to painting and rendering images in pure abstraction by the 1960s, Yūst remained fascinated by the challenge of resolving the philosophical problems sparked by combining geometric, hard-edged flat color and biomorphic, organic shapes in his canvases that would also remain true to mathematical and physical laws of the universe. ... More  Exhibit featuring the works of renowned visual artist Keith Collins now open at the Mullin Automotive MuseumOXNARD, CALIF.- The worlds premier French automotive museum opened its newest art exhibition highlighting the works of visual artist Keith Collins on April 20. Collins, whose work explores the automotive realm, portraiture, music, sports, and abstract genres, showcases 20 art pieces influenced by the Mullin Automotive Museum collection. Titled ArTexture, the exhibit spotlights fine art tapestries, paintings and assemblage sculpture alongside the actual vehicles that inspired the very pieces. On display includes a painting capturing the Mullins 1935 Voisin Type C25 Aerodyne winning Best of Show at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours dElegance, as well as a painting of the Mullins 1936 Type 57SC ... More  'New York, New York' review: The Big Apple, without much biteNEW YORK, NY.- Theres a big new Broadway musical called New York, New York, and its based on the Martin Scorsese film bearing the same title. Sort of. Both the movie and the show have lead characters named Jimmy Doyle and Francine Evans, both are set immediately following World War II and both prominently feature a certain anthem by John Kander and Fred Ebb. You know, the one whose first five notes, plunked on a piano, are enough to automatically prompt the brain to fill in the rest. And it is that title song alone, rather than the movie, that is the true inspiration for the sprawling, unwieldy, surprisingly dull show that opened Wednesday night at the St. James Theater. Extrapolating from its lyrics, New York, New York, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, is about the people wearing those vagabond shoes, the ones who want to wake up in the city that does ... More  The Met is planning a big bet on contemporary operaNEW YORK, NY.- When the Metropolitan Opera staged a starry adaptation of The Hours last year, the first world premiere at the company since 2006, something unusual happened. The Met had long struggled to attract new audiences for classics like Carmen, Don Giovanni and Tosca. But The Hours gave it a jolt of energy: More than 40% of ticket buyers had never set foot in the opera house. Peter Gelb, the Mets general manager, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Mets music director, had a hit. The box-office success of The Hours, by writer Greg Pierce and composer Kevin Puts, deepened their belief that contemporary works could help ensure the future of opera, an art form seemingly always in existential crisis. So, the Met persuaded the works three leading singers Renée Fleming, Kelli OHara and Joyce DiDonato to ... More  'Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Years of Bad Hair' now on view at P⋅P⋅O⋅WNEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Years of Bad Hair, Hortensia Mi Kafchins first solo exhibition with the gallery. Imbuing a highly classical painting style with her own mythologies, fairytales, and belief systems, Kafchins avatars traverse time, space, and reality to reach states of self-transformation and liberation. Hybridity, a central tenet of Kafchins practice, is innately tied not only to her transition from male to female, but also to her upbringing in a post-Communist and post-Chernobyl Romania in which an influx of Western culture intertwined with deeply rooted Eastern Orthodoxy and Medieval traditions. Akin to alchemical experiments, Kafchins canvases combine the male and female, the East and West, the traditional and contemporary, and the scientific and spiritual, to create dialectic formulas which together reveal the power ... More  Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023 to feature work by Björn Dahlem at Galerie Guido W. BaudachBERLIN .- On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is opening its eighth solo exhibition with Björn Dahlem, which will continue until June 10th, 2023. Under the title Something Secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you), the artist, who lives in Potsdam, is showing a spatial installation in situ in which various new sculptures are embedded. Björn Dahlem has been exploring the connection between aesthetic imagery and scientific world views in his works since the late 1990s. His installations, sculptures and objects are mostly made of simple materials that he transforms into precisely composed and visibly handmade forms incorporating selected objets trouvés. The structural complexity of the works is derived from the intricacy of the cosmological models and astrophysical theories from ... More  Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art online auction returns to Dubai this MayDUBAI.- Christies Middle East is pleased to announce the return of the Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Online auction taking place from 1 16 May. The sale comprises 63 works across mediums including paintings, sculpture and photography, from the period 1963 to 2021. Leading the sale is an exceptional work by Moroccan artist Mohammed Melehi, Wilde, 1963. (Estimate US$100,000-150,000) coming from the Private Collection of Toni Maraini, Rome. This rare work hails from the artists time in New York, and was exhibited in Galleria Trastevere in the same year of its making, and was also recently exhibited at Londons New Waves exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms in 2019. The sale covers artistic production from across the Middle East and North Africa, including works by artists from the U.A.E, KSA, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey. Exciting contemporary names from the region such a ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (French pronunciation: (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, âUntitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),â 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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