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From left: Lars Ole Klavestad, Magnus Tangen and Tormod Fjeld hunting for Bronze Age rock carvings in the Ostfold region of southeastern Norway, Dec. 13, 2022. Some Norwegian hobbyists are having a great time uncovering hundreds of the carvings. Their discoveries have lent weight to theories about what the mysterious images mean. (David B. Torch/The New York Times)
by Lisa Abend
NEW YORK, NY.- It was December and the first snow of the season was falling when the three friends set out on their weekly hunt through the fields of Ostfold, in southeastern Norway. Although it was not quite 6 p.m., the sun had set hours earlier and, except for the flickering glow from their homemade flashlights (aka bike lights duct-taped to sticks), it was pitch black. Tromping across the blanketed farmland, the men came to a low outcrop of rock, a few feet wide. With a child-size plastic broom, they brushed away the newly fallen snow from the stone to reveal the outline of a ship, its curved keel carved into the granite roughly 3,000 years ago. It was just one of more than 600 Bronze Age rock carvings, known as petroglyphs, that Magnus Tangen, Lars Ole Klavestad and Tormod Fjeld have discovered. Since making petroglyph hunting their collective hobby, in 2016, the three enthusiasts have transformed knowledge about prehistoric art in Norway, more than doubling the number of carvings known in their ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion currently on view at the Naples Art Institute presents a rare and thrilling privilege of examining first-hand 150 masterworks of Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), one of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. Drawn from the largest private traveling Escher collection in the world, this exhibition includes early figure drawings, lesser-known book illustrations, detailed Italian landscapes, the âtessellationsâ for which he became famous, and several examples of his signature architectural fantasies in which stairways seem to go both up and down.
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| Jack Hanley Gallery opens exhibition Jeff Williams: Living Things today | | Yancey Richardson presents a series of seminal early photographs by Ed Ruscha | | Bonhams achieves $1 billion turnover in 2022 for first time in its history |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Living Things, an exhibition of new works by Jeff Williams. Living Things is Williams third exhibition with the gallery and presents a collection of recent sculpture and video. Nobel laureate in Physics Didier Queloz, who shares the 2019 prize for discovering satellites orbiting distant suns, stated we should not really have any hope, serious hope, to escape the earth, in response to a reporter dismissing the severity of climate disaster. Beyond the obvious warning of the impracticalities of leaving this planet Queloz underscores that we should not even have the hope to do so. The sculptures in Living Things are the results of waking from the dream of escape. A majority of the sculptures are cast and welded aluminum, a combination of handmade studio processes and mass-produced items. Aluminum is a paradoxical material, containing several different binary opposition ... More | |
Federal, County and Police Building Lots, Van Nuys from the series Parking Lots, 1967/1999. Gelatin silver print. Image: 15 x 15 inches. Frame: 21 ½ x 21 ½ inches. All images © Ed Ruscha.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yancey Richardson is presenting a series of seminal early photographs by Ed Ruscha from January 5 through February 18, 2023. Parking Lots, a portfolio of 30 images from 1967, anchor the artists trajectory over a career spanning six decades. One of the most influential American artists of his time, Ruscha is known for his iconic images of gas stations, swimming pools, and vacant lots that emphasize the banality of modern urban life. Made from a helicopter in Southern California early on a Sunday morning, the aerial photographs of mostly empty parking lots show the rapidly growing urban sprawl of Los Angeles including Dodgers Stadium, Universal Studios, Good Year Tires, and Sears, Roebuck & Co. Parking Lots reflects Ruschas interest in serial imagery, topography and mapping, and car culture ... More | |
La femme en rouge au fond bleu by Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943). Sold for £1,842,300 (US$2,236,940). Expressionism: Germany, Austria and Beyond Sale, London, 16 November 2022. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- For the first time in its history, Bonhams has achieved more than $1 billion turnover for 2022. The figure includes sales by Bonhams and its network from Art and Collectables, Luxury and Collectors Cars, and is a +27% year-on-year increase from $816m, the result posted in 2021. Bonhams now has 14 salerooms around the world, with 34 offices and 60+ departments, making it one of the largest international auction houses, both in the range of categories and in global reach. Bruno Vinciguerra, Global CEO for Bonhams, commented: This has been an extraordinary year. It is the largest turnover Bonhams has achieved in its history and we are very proud of the result. We saw particular growth in our digital activity: 91% of items were sold through online channels, and this accounts for 44% of value ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by Carmen D'Apollonio opens at Friedman Benda | | Cohen & Cohen collection of fine Chinese Export porcelain to be offered at Bonhams | | Almine Rech presents Xin Ji's first solo show with the gallery |
Carmen D'Apollonio [Swiss, b. 1973], Call 911, 2022. Ceramic, cotton, maple, 32 x 40 x 5.5 inches, 81 x 102 x 14 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Friedman Benda has announced the presentation of Im Not a Shrimp , Carmen DApollonios first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles opening on January 6th. Highlighting the intuitive, self-taught approach and the tongue-in-cheek sensibility that defines her practice, Im Not a Shrimp represents an adventure with new typologies and more complex compositions in clay and bronze. Bringing together works into a surrealist landscape, each piece is personified with its own stand-alone narrative through familiar organic forms. As a sculptor, DApollonio communicates her mindset and personal observations on everyday life with spontaneity and relentless energy. The exhibition includes a series of floral vessels that reflect what she refers to as her romantic side. Emphasizing her recent experiments with gesture and materiality, the exhibition debuts a series of contoured lights that float ... More | |
A large Qianlong period (circa 1740) famille rose standing figure of a lady in
Jewish dress, estimated at $80,000 120,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On January 24, 2023 in New York, Bonhams is honored to present Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, a single-owner collection from the renowned gallery. Comprising of over 150 lots, the sale will primarily feature magnificent eighteenth-century Chinese porcelains including exceptional examples of famille rose jar garnitures, large Chinese-taste enameled standing figures, rare European-subject plates and figures, and massive Kangxi-period famille verte and blue and white dishes. The single-owner auction is carefully timed to complement Americana Week and the famed Winter show at the Armory, both prestigious events which traditionally attract the worlds leading collectors of Chinese Export art. Established in 1973, Cohen & Cohen is widely respected as handling the finest, rarest, and most beautiful Chinese Export porcelains ... More | |
Ji Xin, Moon Light, 2022. Oil on canvas, 180 x 15o cm. Ji Xin. © Courtesy of the Artist and Almine.
PARIS.- Is I another? With his large portraits of evanescent women, depicted in graceful, timeless and undulating states between Baudelairean spleen and a somewhat more eastern meditative feel, Ji Xin creates paintings unlike any other artist of his generation. The formats here are imposing, although the artist has on occasion produced even larger canvases confronting the viewer with almost life-size models, endowed with deformed limbs à la Ingres and, in some, enlarged eyes à la Modigliani. His elegant models appear in equally elegant Art Deco interiors; they are essentially feminine, confronting their moods with actual or imaginary reflections. The pared down colours play with each other in a pastel or ochre palette of solid surfaces. These pieces may feature a form of peaceful, serene mystery, but do not deliberately seek to reference art history modernism as the first glance may suggest. Not to mention direct references - painters always admire those who have enriched ... More |
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| Mary Dill Henry: The Gardens, paintings from the 1980s opens at Berry Campbell Gallery | | Galerie Ron Mandos announces the representation of Brussels-based artist Hadassah Emmerich | | Launch La - Public Neon Art Exhibition by Donna Gough and David Otis Johnson on view now |
Mary Dill Henry, Giverny 2, 1985, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell opened on January 5th Mary Dill Henry: The Gardens (Paintings from the 1980s), the second solo exhibition of work by Mary Dill Henry (1913-2009). The exhibition will feature a curated selection of paintings and works on paper from 1984 to 1989. This work was inspired by her love of gardens, either those she visited abroad or the English garden she cultivated in her backyard. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 20-page catalogue with an essay by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., and will end on February 4th, 2023. In 1982, Mary Dill Henry settled on Whidbey Island, Washington, where she lived alone, deep in the woods, for the rest of her life. There she transformed her remote surroundings into an English-style picturesque garden and remodeled a woodshed into a studio. During this time, her work became increasingly more influenced ... More | |
Portrait of Hadassah Emmerich by Teri Romkey.
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos will soon present the exhibition Botanical Body Bliss of Hadassah Emmerich, her first solo show at the gallery. For the exhibition Emmerich created new paintings, vinyl collages and a mural design. She will mount an immersive show in which the visitor steps into a colorful erotic jungle. As in her recent exhibitions at Bonnefanten and Kunsthal Kade, an ornamental fusion world is presented through the work, in which body parts and plant motifs merge into new species. Botanical Body Bliss is running from January 28 through March 5, 2023. On Saturday January 28th, 2023 the gallery will be welcoming guests to the official opening of the exhibition. During the opening, Mirjam Westen (Former Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum Arnhem) will tell us more about the works of Hadassah Emmerich, who had one of her first solo exhibitions at Museum Arnhem in 2003. The fusion of flowers ... More | |
Donna Gough, Valueless, 2022.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- Since December 19th, 2022 LAUNCH LA began the presentation of La Cienega & West Third, a neon light exhibition by local artists Donna Gough and David Otis Johnson, which will run through January 28th, 2023. These artists illuminate this intersection of commerce and culture through neon art. Using techniques that dazzled the world since the early 21st century, these contemporary artists use the allure of light coupled with vivid color to move beyond drawing attention and commercialization to give us astute and enticing commentary on present day life. From abstraction to 3D objects to text, these artists use this former tool of branding and sales to redirect our gaze and present a deeper message. This public art installation is a study of light, space and time located in a glass-walled, vacant retail space in the perimeter of the Beverly Connection shopping center at the corner of La Cienega Blvd ... More |
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| AIPAD announces Lydia Melamed Johnson as new Executive Director | | Will Boone No Man's Land to open January 7th at Karma, New York | | On Remembering for a Future: Maria Thereza Alves exhibits at Michel Rein, Paris |
Lydia Melamed Johnson, new Executive Director of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers.
NEW YORK.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced that Lydia Melamed Johnson has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the prestigious photography organization. AIPAD is well known for The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, the highly anticipated fair held annually in New York City. Melamed Johnson was previously Show Director for The Photography Show presented by AIPAD 2022. Last years 41st edition of the fair received high praise and excellent reviews in its new location at Center415 on Fifth Avenue in Midtown following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The next AIPAD show will be held March 30 through April 2, 2023 and will return to its location at Center415. Previously Melamed Johnson was Corporate Partnership and VIP Officer at Paris Photo New York. She founded October Art Week while serving as Director of Robert Simon Fine Art in New York. Melamed Johnson is a member of the Boa ... More | |
Boones sculptures stand in a strange arrangement, like an abandoned movie set. Their bronze construction guarantees their permanence, through which Boone unites the vastness of time with the vastness of the desert. There, we find his sculptures, lingering in the inexorable unknown that is No Mans Land.
NEW YORK, NY.- Karma is pleased to present No Mans Land, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Will Boone. For the opening of the exhibition, please join us for a conversation on No Man's Land between Will Boone, writer Randy Kennedy and curator Lucia Simek on Saturday, January 7th at 3pm at 22 East 2nd Street. No Mans Land is a scenic exhibition that began for Will Boone with an encounter at a swap meet in 2017. Among a menagerie of figurines, toys, horror movie monsters, and busts of United States presidents and music legends, Boone found resonance with sculptures of antiquity. Medusa and Julius Caesar were swapped for Frankenstein and John F. Kennedy; dinged-up plastic and flaking enamel paint took the place of chipped marble and weathered bronze ... More | |
Installation view.
PARIS.- The carpets patterns designed by Maria Thereza Alves are inspired by the Middle East and its traditionally rich floral patterns. They are usually placed in indoor or outdoor spaces to create meeting places - creating portable gardens, recalling the different forces underlying human existence. The flowers and plants represented are a reminder of man's increasing control over nature as well as colonization. The circulation of beings allows Alves to draw up a paradoxical history of globalization, between uprooting, abandonment and resistance. These plants placed into new complexities are the trace of a vestige of our past. On Responsibilities Acquired while on a Stroll in a Garden in Europe, 2022 represents four plants (Oak, Ivy, Butia and Poke plant) that the artist found while strolling through the Capodimonte garden in Naples. Made up of local flora as well as exotics, the garden can be seen as colonial spoils of the Spanish Empire. Among the four plants which compose the carpet ... More |
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Saatchi Gallery announces exhibition of works created by George Westren
LONDON.- From 6 25 January, Saatchi Gallery presents George Westren: On the straight and narrow in one of the main spaces at the Gallery. This free-to-enter exhibition celebrates the life and work of a relatively unknown artist, George Westren. The show represents a positive outcome to an emotive story that gained worldwide news attention in the summer of 2022. In June 2022, George Westren became the unlikely subject of a viral news story reported by TV, radio and print media across the world. Westren, a relatively unknown artist living in a tiny housing association flat in Spitalfields, East London, had sadly died in July 2021 during the UKs Covid lockdown. A year later, in June 2022, a neighbour stepped in to prevent Georges portfolio of intricate op art drawings from being destroyed by a home clearance firm. The artwork went viral on Twitter ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery announces highlights included in the Winter Estates Auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Original paintings by renowned artists Keith Haring (N.Y./Pa., 1958-1990) and George Louis Viavant (La., 1872-1925), an 89-piece set of Herend porcelain dinnerware and a 110-piece sterling flatware set by Gorham-Alvin are a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys Winter Estates Auction slated for January 20th and 21st. The auction, starting at 10 am Central time both days, is loaded with nearly 1,000 choice lots in a wide variety of collecting categories. Bidding is available online, as well as live in the Crescent City gallery at 1330 Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans. In-person gallery previews will begin on Wednesday, January 11th, from 10-5 Central time. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. Keith Harings unique pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s ... More
Norton Museum of Art announces Dr. Deborah Willis as the 2023 Artist-in-Residence
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art recently announced Dr. Deborah Willis as the 2023 Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence. The Museums residency program began in January 2019 and demonstrates Nortons deep commitment to fostering creative and intellectual growth for mid- to late-career artists whose work warrants greater attention, and emphasizes the promotion of gender, racial, and ethnic parity in the arts through dedication of two residencies annually for women artists. One is exclusively for an African American or Latina woman artist and is endowed as the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence. Dr. Willis is a celebrated author, photographer, and acclaimed historian, whose work and research examine iconicity and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Among Williss many awards and honors ... More
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul opens a group exhibition of new work by three artists
SEOUL.- Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents Myths of Our Time, a group exhibition of new work by three artists for whom Koreas artistic, cultural and social landscape serves as a vital source of inspiration: Heemin Chung (South Korea, b.1987), Sun Woo (South Korea, b.1994) and Zadie Xa (Canada, b.1983). While the work of each artist illustrates their own unique perspective and distinct approach to artmaking, the title of the show highlights their shared engagement with mythological traditions of storytelling. Through sculpture, textile and painting created especially for the exhibition, narratives drawn from diverse cultural contexts are reimagined through a contemporary lens to address urgent issues relating to technological developments, identity and notions of self. Employing a visual language of poetic abstraction, Heemin Chung presents three large-scale ... More
Farewell to 'Stomp,' a show at the beating heart of New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The stage has no curtain. The set is littered with highway signs and mass transit insignia. And then there are the gigantic oil drums, ominous and puzzling. It could be a storage facility. Or the site of an industrial warehouse party. But then the sweepers start to trickle in, swooshing across in balletic punk pageantry. Since its debut at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village in 1994, Stomp, the wordless percussion spectacle of twirling, tapping, sweeping, banging, clanging and yes, stomping, has gone from a scrappy neighborhood attraction to a mainstay of the culture of New York City. In honor of the shows 10th anniversary in 2004, a mayoral proclamation declared March 14, 2004, as Stomp Day. For its 20th birthday in 2014, the Empire State Building shone in red light in its honor. That year, the production was also the centerpiece of the citys Stomp Out Litter ... More
A tablecloth as source material
NEW YORK, NY.- The Edith Piaf impersonator was belting out La Vie En Rose as an ice sculpture of the divine Greek stallion Pegasus slowly melted between two seafood towers. Potted orchids dotted the draped tables alongside standing ice buckets filled with bottles of Champagne, in a nod to a more midcentury kind of evening decor. What had seemed an ordinary winter night at Orsay, a French bistro on New Yorks Upper East Side, had been temporarily transformed into a scene from the citys 1940s cabaret culture. And even if the partygoers, who included actors Lucas Bravo and Tommy Dorfman, artist Nate Lowman, model Ella Emhoff and fashion designer Aurora James, appeared more interested in the present than the past, it didnt matter. The evenings hosts fashion designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla and fine-jewelry designer Jean Prounis ... More
Frank Galati, mainstay of Chicago theater, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Frank Galati, a writer, director and actor whose work in Chicago, especially his celebrated adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, furthered that citys international reputation in theater, and whose long resume included directing the Broadway hit Ragtime, died Monday in Sarasota, Florida. He was 79. His husband, Peter Amster, said the cause was complications of cancer. Galati was a towering figure in Chicago-area theater for decades, working with the Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters and other houses there and teaching at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He specialized in adaptations, and in 1988 his version of John Steinbecks Dust Bowl epic, The Grapes of Wrath, was a hit for Steppenwolf. He wrote and directed The Grapes of Wrath, although it took work to persuade Steinbecks widow, Elaine Steinbeck, to release the rights ... More
Prototype, an essential New York opera festival, turns 10
NEW YORK, NY.- There are all these unbelievable artists who are creating work thats really hard to define, Beth Morrison, a music theater impresario, said during a recent interview. Its the work that falls between disciplines, that is beautiful and strange and challenging, and theres so little space for that in New York right now. Morrison, the leader of Beth Morrison Projects, produces exactly those types of works operas and other pieces that can approach cabaret, concert or musical forms but defy categorization with white-hot fervor, particularly as one of the founders of the Prototype Festival, which started 10 years ago and returns Thursday with seven shows as idiosyncratic and fearlessly strange as ever. The niche that Prototype occupies on the New York performing arts calendar something of a purely musical cousin to the Under the Radar theater festival ... More
Fay Weldon, British novelist who challenged feminist orthodoxy, dies at 91
LONDON.- Fay Weldon, a British novelist and dramatist who explored the rifts and rivalries between men and women and whose embrace by feminists loosened over time as critics accused her of retreating from the cause and even betraying it, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Northampton, England. She was 91. Her death was confirmed by her son Dan Weldon, who did not specify a cause but said she had experienced strokes and had some health problems. While she was too weak to hold a pen, she was still writing in her head, he said. She was thinking about writing poetry, he said. She was a writer to the very end. By turns elusive and confessional, Weldon liked to say she divided her life into two segments. The first, which she termed mildly scandalous and delinquent, lasted until her early 30s and was covered in her autobiography, Auto da Fay ... More
Danish ceramist, Morten Löbner Espersen opens an exhibition at Jason Jacques Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery is presenting its fourth solo exhibition of work by the iconic Danish Ceramist, Morten Løbner Espersen, following his first solo museum exhibition outside of Denmark at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and coinciding with his tour de force one-man-show at the CLAY Keramikmuseum. "Some of the oldest fragments of human civilization are made in clay," says Espersen, whose oeuvre hones in on classical forms from around the globe and takes them to fantastic extremes using color and texture. Color and texture themselves become subjects in his work, which he carries to their own extremes through a combination of masterful glaze chemistry, technical precision in his wheel-throwing and hand-building, and the application of multiple firings that ensure an abundance of exuberant detail in his works ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 x 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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