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Figure Bag Drawing, from 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, on Feb. 1, 2023. Best known for her work as a choreographer, Simone Forti is the subject of a wide-ranging show at MOCA in Los Angeles and a recipient of the Venice Biennales lifetime achievement award. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the mid-1970s, Simone Forti, already established as a dancer and choreographer, experimented with creating holograms miniature images of her body that would spring into motion as you walked around them. The holograms offer one answer to a vexing question for museums interested in the ephemeral art of dance: how to collect or exhibit it. A new, wide-ranging survey of Fortis work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles the city her Jewish-Italian family immigrated to in 1939 and where she has lived for the past 25 years offers another. Spanning six decades, the show includes performance videos, drawings, writing, photographs and three mesmerizing holograms, now owned by major museums. Alex Sloane, a curator of the show, Simone Forti, at MOCA, said: Simone is an artist who works with movement in many different forms. She is always looking at how to transcribe the body in motion into different mediums. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Mohammed Sami, The Point 0 at Camden Art Centre, 2023. Photo: Rob Harris.
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| The Phillips Collection presents Linling Lu's 'Soundwaves' as 2023 Spring Intersections Project | | Doyle to auction fine paintings, prints & sculpture on February 15 | | The biggest penguin that ever existed was a 'monster bird' |
Linling Lu, One Hundred Melodies of Solitude, No. 238, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 46 in., Courtesy of the artist.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents Soundwaves by Baltimore-based artist Linling Lu, the first project in 2023 of the museums ongoing Intersections contemporary art series. On view from February 9April 30, 2023, Soundwaves features Lus signature works of abstract paintings with concentric rings of bright, pulsating colors. Ranging in scale from small to human-size, the circular canvases (tondos), are equally hypnotic and sonic, inspiring contemplation and introspection. Soundwaves responds to Philip Glasss Etude no. 16 played on piano by Timo Andres as part of the 2015 Phillips Music program. Lus paintings visualize the sound into a spatial configurationsoundwaves. Repetitive notes and chords from Glasss music are translated into a physical space: the seven notes played on the piano by the left hand are represented by seven paintings on the left side of the gallery, and the five notes ... More | |
William Meyerowitz (1887-1981), Houses (detail), Watercolor on paper, 15 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches (38.4 x 56.8 cm) Est. $2,000-3,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will hold a sale in the Fine Art auction category on Wednesday, February 15 at 11am. Showcased will be a wide range of affordable paintings, prints and sculpture spanning the Post-War years to the present day by established and emerging artists. Exciting opportunities abound in this popular category for seasoned buyers and new collectors alike! Among the offerings are a group of works on paper by Larry Rivers, several rare abstract works by famed still life painter and frame-maker Robert Kulicke, and a whimsical 1960s work on canvas by Orville Bulman. The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, February 11 through Monday, February 13 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at Doyle.com One of a group of 1980s works on paper by Larry Rivers featured in this sale, Die Meistersinger ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Simone Giovanardi shows a skeletal sketch comparing, from left, Kumimanu, Petradyptes, the two new fossil penguins, and an emperor penguin. Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant flightless birds prowled the seas for prey. (Simone Giovanardi via The New York Times)
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons. The absence of terrestrial predators allowed flightless parrots, kiwis and moas to thrive. Now researchers are adding two prehistoric penguins to this grounded aviary. One species is a beefy behemoth that waddled along the New Zealand coastline nearly 60 million years ago. At almost 350 pounds, it weighed as much as an adult gorilla and is the heaviest penguin known to science. Alan Tennyson, a paleontologist at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, discovered the supersize seabirds bones in 2017. They were deposited on a beach known for large, cannonball-shaped ... More |
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| An artist with roots in Nairobi and New York imagines a new destiny | | Mendes Wood DM announces the opening of its new gallery space in Paris | | Sotheby's to offer the Al Zayani Collection of Middle Eastern Modern & Contemporary Art |
Wangechi Mutu in her studio in Nairobi, Kenya, Jan. 30, 2023. (Khadija Farah/The New York Times)
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- Its the difference between a plant with one root and one with a network of roots, artist Wangechi Mutu said. She was speaking in the clear light of her expansive, white-walled and wood-beamed studio, on the outskirts of Nairobi, about her decision in 2015 to begin dividing her time between New York where she had been living and working since the mid-1990s and Kenya, the country of her birth. If a plant has just one root, she added, that doesnt necessarily mean its going to stand straight and strong. The idea of having many roots, of having your feet really grounded in different places, is extremely empowering for me. This idea finds its form in In Two Canoe (2022), a cast bronze sculpture installed on the grounds of Storm King Art Center. Two strange figures part human, part botanical r51; undertake a journey in a shallow boat. Their branchlike limbs dangle ... More | |
Mendes Wood DM was founded in São Paulo in 2010 by Felipe Dmab, Matthew Wood, and Pedro Mendes to exhibit international and Brazilian artists in a context conducive to critical dialogue and the cross-pollination of ideas.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mendes Wood DM announced the opening of a new gallery space in Paris in July, 2023. Located in the historic square of the Place des Vosges, in the 3rd arrondissement, the new gallery features 200 square meters of exhibition space across two floors of an iconic period building. Built in the early 17th century, Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris, and a destination on the cultural map of the French capital. Situated in the neighborhood of the Marais, Mendes Wood DM joins a number of prominent contemporary art galleries present in the area. The ongoing renovation is being overseen by the Parisian architecture firm NeM / Niney et Marca Architectes (with Paul de Coudenhove), responsible for the transformation of the Bourse de Commerce, now the home of the Pinault Collection ... More | |
Fouad Kamel, Untitled (The Drinker), 1951 (estimate in the region of £60,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Based between Bahrain and London, Abdulrahman Al Zayani is one of the leading collectors in the Middle East, together with his family assembling a multitude of artworks from the historic Islamic world to modern and contemporary international art and design. In recent years, they have also launched A2Z, a luxury advisory service for private clients in New York, London and the Gulf who want to expand their jewellery and collections. This Spring, Sothebys will offer over 80 works of art from the pioneering Al Zayani family collection, all of which have been hung alongside each other in their home in Bahrain marrying together an impeccable taste with eclecticism. Hailing from Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and North Africa, the artists in this collection represent the vast artistic production created over the last century in the Middle East. Exploring myriad themes ... More |
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| Pace Gallery announces exclusive global representation of John Wesley Estate; Debut presentation at Frieze LA | | Hermès wins MetaBirkins lawsuit, jurors not convinced NFTs are art | | Hip-hop, still fly at 50 |
Portrait of John Wesley ca. 1960s. © John Wesley; Courtesy of The John Wesley Foundation and Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its exclusive and worldwide representation of the John Wesley estate. Wesley, who died in 2022 at age 93, is known for his flattened, idiosyncratic figurations that defy easy classification within any single artistic movement. Paces debut presentation of the artists work will take place at Frieze Los Angeles 2023, where his painting Afternoon Sail at the Edge of the World (1978) will be featured on the gallerys booth. Associated with Pop Art and later Minimalism, Wesley was a key figure in American art from the 1960s until his death last year. Drawing inspiration from images in comics and other mass media, the painter cultivated a distinctive, graphic style characterized by bold, weighted lines, unmodulated color, and an absurdist-edge. Eroticism, humor, and an ineffable disquietude cut across Wesleys works in a manner that critics have likened to Surrealism, though the artist asserted that ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a Birkin handbag by Hermès that sold for $136,617 at auction last year. Legal experts have been monitoring the First Amendment ramifications of a fashion brands lawsuit against the creator of a digital project that blurs the line between art and business. (Sotheby's via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Perturbed when an artist made a digital version of its coveted Birkin handbag with a reproduction of a mature fetus inside it, luxury fashion brand Hermès watched in shock as other iterations popped up online. A Birkin with mammoth tusks affixed to it. One sporting the Grinchs shaggy green fur. Others stamped with Vincent van Goghs Starry Night or populated by smiley emoji. Hermès swiftly sued the artist, Mason Rothschild, over the NFT project he called MetaBirkins, arguing that the companys trademark was being diluted and that potential consumers might be fooled into buying the unaffiliated virtual goods. The cases ramifications extended far beyond Hermès. In some of the first litigation to scrutinize the nature of digital assets sold ... More | |
In a photo provided by Jamel Shabazz shows, Dressed to turn heads with hip-hop style on the Lower East Side in 1982. (Jamel Shabazz via The New York Times)
by Guy Trebay
NEW YORK, NY.- Everything is a flashback, Syreeta Gates said last week. Thats the way it always is with our culture. Black folks are going to see whats out there, take it and remix it for themselves and transform it into something else. Gates, the archivist and founder of the Gates Preserve, a core source of historical material from the 50-year evolution of hip-hop, was referring to an art form created, maintained and valued by nonwhite poor folks. She was also talking about hip-hop style. That the genre and its look are indivisibly linked was never clearer than during last Sundays Grammys, when a 15-minute musical medley brought together a panoply of hip-hop artists, styles, eras and regional variations, with performers as disparate as LL Cool J, Rakim, Queen Latifah and Lil Baby crowding the Crypto.com Arena stage. It was a dizzying convergence, musically and visually ... More |
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| Philbrook cements commitment to contemporary art with new hires and acquisitions | | February auctions at Bonhams Skinner | | SFMOMA announces the appointment of Sheila Shin as Chief Experience Officer |
Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art .
TULSA, OK.- Kate Green, Ph.D. recently joined Philbrook as Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art and Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee Nation enrollee, Muscogee Creek Descent) was promoted to the role of Assistant Curator of Native Art, advancing the Museums commitment to Contemporary Art and to diversifying its renowned collection. Kate Green previously directed Museum of Contemporary Art Tuscan and Marfa Contemporary, led curatorial affairs for Oklahoma Contemporary, served as Senior Curator at El Paso Museum of Art, and led curatorial and education for Artpace. She has curated projects with Andrea Bowers, William Cordova, and Autumn Knight, and led the 5th Transborder Biennial and La casa que nos inventamos: Contemporary Art from Guadalajara. Green is co-curator, with Isabel Casso, of Celia Ãlvarez-Muñoz: Breaking the Binding, the first museum retrospective for the artist (opening March 2023 ... More | |
A carved and painted life-sized bust of George S. Patton by Armand LaMontagne, estimated at $3,000 - 5,000. Photo: Bonhams.
BOSTON, MASS.- Bonhams Skinner will present a trio of sales in February. This includes Fine Wines & Rare Spirits highlighted by a 1955 Glenfarclas 50 Year Old whisky and 23 unique bottles from the Macallan Exceptional Single Cask series. American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection presents the impressive, single-owner collection of wood works from Bob and Anne Levine. Closing out the month, Curiosities & The Instruments of Science features a rare, 19th century Dr. Louis Auzoux anatomical teaching model and a collection of American and English surveying instruments. Featuring nearly 1,000 lots of fine wines and rare spirits ranging from Grand Cru Champagne and Burgundy to 50+ year old single malt Scotch and aged Bourbon, Bonhams Skinner will present Fine Wine and Rare Spirits from February 6 16. The highlight of the sale is a 750ml bottle of 1955 Glenfarclas 50 Year Old whisky, estimated ... More | |
Sheila Shin; photo Christophe Testi courtesy SFMOMA.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art today announced the appointment of Sheila Shin as the museums Chief Experience Officer. A pivotal new role, the Chief Experience Officer will advance SFMOMAs strategic priority to enhance its role as an inclusive, community-centered museum and will oversee the Brand Marketing, Communications, Digital Experience, Visitor Experience and Retail Operations teams, as well as the museums Food & Beverage program. In this capacity, Shin will realize a leading-edge vision for audience engagement by driving new data-based approaches and insights via comprehensive marketing and digital engagement plans. This work will amplify explorations of SFMOMA's collections, exhibitions and further participation and connection with the museums education and public engagement programs. An essential member of SFMOMAs executive team, Shin will lead the museum in delivering meaningful experie ... More |
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Soul told Black musicians' stories. Its archives are going digital.
NEW YORK, NY.- The rock n roll bible Rolling Stone was founded in 1967. The renegade music magazine Creem started in 1969. But another publication predated them both: Soul. Motown, Stax and Phil Spectors Philles Records were busting out (and Gamble and Huffs Philadelphia International label was on the horizon), but until Soul, no publication had been feeding the growing appetite for even the most basic information about Black artists like Marvin Gaye, Carla Thomas or the Isley Brothers. The world knew the names of the Beatles wives, but not of the Ikettes. With the smoke barely cleared from the Watts riots in Los Angeles, two men saw an opening: Ken Jones, Los Angeles first Black television anchor, and Cecil Tuck, who revitalized KRLA Beat, an early rock title. But the face of Soul, the one who told record company bosses where to get off and had artists calling ... More
Review: A hip-hop take on Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers
NEW YORK, NY.- Hip-hop is now established enough to get an all-star 50th-birthday celebration at the Grammys. Hip-hop concert dance isnt quite that old, but it can look back a few decades, as with the revival of Rennie Harris Rome & Jewels at the Joyce Theater this week. When this adaptation of Romeo and Juliet had its debut in 2000, it was Harris first evening-length work, and it established him as the most gifted and canny choreographer exploring and expanding the possibilities of street dance in a concert setting. In that realm, hes still unsurpassed, but Rome & Jewels, slightly updated and still vital and affecting, is showing its age. The concept is classic. As in West Side Story, Shakespeares warring families are rival gangs. Rome falls in love with Jewels, who is Tybalts girlfriend rather than his cousin. The gangs go to war, and almost everyone dies ... More
'Lucy' review: There's something about the babysitter
NEW YORK, NY.- Hiring a babysitter is a high-stakes leap of faith. How well can you really know someone before trusting them with your kids? And whats going to happen when youre not at home? Maybe she wont quite be Mary Poppins, but lets hope the glint in her eye doesnt remind you of the unassuming villain in a psychological thriller. With her Pre-Raphaelite curls, plinking bangles and wide-eyed smile, the candidate who sweeps through the door in Lucy, which opened at the Minetta Lane Theater on Monday night, appears closer to the former ideal. Ashling (shes distantly Irish) calls herself a career nanny with 40 years of experience, despite seeming not quite as old herself. Played with a sly incandescence by Lynn Collins, Ashling colors her speech with generous emphasis, insisting that child care keeps her young and that she considers her role on par with a co-parent ... More
At Cooper Union, a Russian design show caught in a political crossfire
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been cancellations of concerts, exhibitions and performances, often involving high-profile Russian artists with ties to the government of President Vladimir Putin. But the latest event to be postponed and debated was somewhat different: an architecture exhibition at the Cooper Union in New York. On Jan. 25, hours before the opening of a student exhibition titled Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1930 a modest show in a single gallery about a limited, seemingly apolitical subject the Cooper Union abruptly postponed the show, without guaranteeing its reinstatement. By Monday, after hundreds of signatures on a letter of protest from academics and students, the school reversed its stand. For three years, students led by Anna Bokov, a Harvard-trained architect and assistant adjunct professor ... More
"Everything, Earth and Sky: An Exhibition of Haitian Art" on view at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, a Smithsonian Affiliate and one of the largest academic art museums in South Florida, announces its exhibition, Everything, Earth and Sky: An Exhibition of Haitian Art. The museum is home to one of the largest collections of Haitian paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the United States and this exhibition and its accompanying catalog supports its ongoing efforts to make its collection accessible through research and digitization. The exhibition also includes contemporary Haitian American artists Vanessa Charlot, Mark Delmont, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Mark Fleuridor, Madjeen Isaac, Abigail Lucien, and Asser Saint-Val as well as paintings from the collection by Gerard Fortuné, Alexandre Gregoire ... More
Rockbund Art Museum appoints Guggenheim Curator X Zhu-Nowell as new Artistic Director
SHANGHAI.- Rockbund Art Museum, the leading contemporary art institution in Shanghai, announced the appointment of X Zhu-Nowell as Artistic Director starting February, 2023. Liu Yingjiu assumed the role of Director in January 2023. These new appointments follow the departure of Larys Frogier, who will be leaving the institution after an extraordinary tenure as Director for over a decade. Chinese-born, New York-based X Zhu-Nowell is a dynamic presence in the field of contemporary art and has received international acclaim for their daring support of artists and innovative curatorial projects, which foreground experimentation and intervention. Zhu-Nowell comes to the Rockbund Art Museum from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where they have worked as a curator since 2014. RAM believes that Zhu-Nowell's intellectual rigor and imaginative approach to presenting ... More
Ronald Blythe, scribe of the English countryside, dies at 100
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronald Blythe, an English writer who rarely ventured far from his birthplace in rural Suffolk, but who rose to international literary fame with his 1969 book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Country Village, an oral history of the quickly vanishing world he knew so well, died Jan. 14 at his home near the village of Wormingford, about 75 miles northeast of London. He was 100. His friend and executor, art critic Ian Collins, confirmed the death. Blythe wrote more than 30 books over his 60-year career, along with reams of reviews, essays and poems. He traversed genres, equally comfortable with novels, verse and conventional history. For 30 years he wrote a weekly column, Word From Wormingford, for The Church Times, an Anglican newspaper. But it was Akenfield that established his reputation as Britains greatest chronicler of rural life ... More
In LA, Dudamel's influence extends beyond the concert hall
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For more than 13 years, Gustavo Dudamel has been the public face of an orchestra that became the envy of the nation and the pride of this city. He began his tenure as the Los Angeles Philharmonics music director in 2009 with a free concert at the Hollywood Bowl, followed by a performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall where he paired Gustav Mahler with the premiere of a John Adams piece evoking postwar Los Angeles, drawing ecstatic ovations. Offstage, he became a symbol of youth and energy and inspiration for the growing community of Latinos here. He promoted the idea that classical music can be for everyone, creating the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, which has trained thousands of aspiring teenage musicians and now has a home of its own designed, like Disney Hall, by Frank Gehry in a refurbished bank in Inglewood ... More
Ahlers & Ogletree announces highlights included in the American West / Native American auction
ATLANTA, GA.- Vibrant Native American-themed paintings by Frank McCarthy (1944-2002) and Emmi Whitehorse (b. 1956) are expected headliners in Ahlers & Ogletrees Art of the American West & Native American Art & Objects auction on Friday, February 24th, in Ahlers & Ogletrees new location on Atlantas Upper West Side, at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard. The auction, beginning at 10 am Eastern time, will also be held online and will feature 255 lots, to include fine art of the American West and Native American objects, including pottery, fine art and rugs. Artists in the sale, in addition to McCarthy and Whitehorse, will include R. Farrington Ewell, Joe Beeler, Walt Gonske, Curt Walters, Alan Houser, Clyde Aspevig and Dan Namingha. The oil on canvas by Frank McCarthy, titled The Warriors of Canyon Land (1988) depicts a vertical landscape ... More
How 'Some Like It Hot' tunes in to the jazz age
NEW YORK, NY.- During the 1920s and well into the next decade, there was an explosion of creativity in artistic expression and popular entertainment. The Chrysler Building stood proud and tall on 42nd Street, with a headdress worthy of a Ziegfeld girl. Bootleggers ensured liquor was flowing in the speakeasies. A fiery new music called jazz hit the airwaves, courtesy of Duke Ellington and his band in Harlems Cotton Club. Hemlines were higher, hair was shorter, and new moves were showing up on the dance floor and on the cinema screen. It was the Jazz Age, a period whose energy and excitement was in determined defiance of Prohibition and the Great Depression. The era comes to splendid life in Some Like It Hot, a new musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder film, now playing at the Shubert Theater in New York City ... More
LA Modern Auctions announces highlights of the 'Modern & Contemporary Art' sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LA Modern Auctions will present its Modern & Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023. This tightly curated auction brings an exemplary selection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture to the market, with a special emphasis on post-war Californian artists. Highlights include paintings from John Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston, Brian Calvin, and Paul Wonner, Verifax collages by Wallace Berman, Ed Ruschas Made in California, and sculpture from George Rickey, Ken Price, George Herms, Tony Berlant, Vasa, and Loló Soldevilla. Among the remarkable works on offer is the early John Baldessari painting Sign for Rothko and Albers (est. $50,000-70,000). Painted in 1961, this oil on canvas work escaped Baldessaris infamous 1970 Cremation Project, in which Baldessari and friends burned more than 100 of his paintings created between 1953 and 1966 ... More
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Awol Erizku
Leo Villareal
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René Daniëls
Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier died February 10, 1879. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales.
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