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The exhibit at the Resistance Museum in Amsterdam was designed to be a more nuanced look at Dutch wartime experiences, but it has been accused of downplaying the heroism of some and the sins of others.
by Nina Siegal
AMSTERDAM.- Since 1985, the Resistance Museum here has presented a view of life in Holland during World War II, with displays that focused on the perseverance of a resistance movement in the face of Nazi terror and the daily struggles for food and safety. In recent weeks, though, the museum has unveiled a new display designed to be more inclusive and to illustrate the nuance and complexity of history. The exhibit portrays the lives of victims and perpetrators, bystanders and resisters, and everything in between, Liesbeth van der Horst, the museums director, said in an interview. We wanted to tell the story of all the Dutch people. So in addition to describing the life of Janny Brilleslijper, a Jewish woman who refused the Nazi command to register her race, the displays also focus attention on Gerard Mooyman, a Dutch teenager so impressed by German military propaganda that he signed up to serve with its army at the front. They are two of roughly ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View, Leo Villareal: Nebulae, Jan 24 - Mar 18, 2023, Pace Gallery, Geneva © Leo Villareal, Geneva, 2022. Photo: Annik Wetter, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| A curator unbound: First she was fired. Then she found freedom | | Pace opens Kenneth Noland's first solo presentation in London for more than two decades | | Exhibition at Glyptotek provides a rare glimpse of the absolute monarchy and lifestyle of a famous pharaoh | 
Helen Molesworth, who curated Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie, at the International Center of Photography in New York, Jan. 24, 2023. (Daniel Terna/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Whether walking among outsize portraits of artists such as John Baldessari, Kara Walker and Lawrence Weiner, taken by photographers Catherine Opie and Brigitte Lacombe, or sitting in darkness watching Tacita Deans mesmerizing film of David Hockney smoking in his studio, curator Helen Molesworth looked the other day as if she were moving among friends. And she was. The show she has organized at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, New York Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie which opens to the public on Friday, features artists Molesworth has been close to throughout her 25-year career ... More | | 
Kenneth Noland, Glean, 1977. Acrylic on canvas, 93" à 76-1/2" (236.2 cm à 194.3 cm). © The Kenneth Noland Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY. Photo: Tom Barratt.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery opened a solo exhibition of the American abstract painter Kenneth Noland. Stripes/ Plaids/ Shapes, the opening show of 2023, surveys canvases from a significant period in the artists remarkable career. Marking Nolands first solo presentation in London for more than two decades, this exhibition charts the development of his iconic Stripe paintings of the late 1960s through to his Shape canvases in the early 1980s. A founding member of the Washington Color School which included figures such as Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis, and Alma Thomas Noland was instrumental in creating the language of post-war abstraction in the US. His experimental approach to form, material, and colour gave rise to radical works that redefined the notion of painting. Between 1946 and 1948 ... More | | 
Blok med Atens navn, sandsten. Foto Ole Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
COPENHAGEN.- Join The Glyptotek on a journey to Egypt and the rise and fall of the ancient city of Amarna. The Glyptotek is providing a rare glimpse not only of the absolute monarchy and lifestyle of a famous pharaoh, but also of the lives and dreams of the people of ancient Egypt. The special exhibition Amarna City of the Sun God will run from 26 January to 18 June 2023. What happens when a new pharaoh takes over as ruler and sets a completely different agenda? He replaces magical animal gods with the sun god Aten, heralding the start of a brand new religion and social structure. The year is 1350 BCE, and we are in ancient Egypt. The pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti are in power. The sun god Aten is now the sole permitted god, and the new cult leads to major social upheaval. The royal couple move 250 km along the Nile and build a magnificent new royal seat - Amarna ... More |
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| Move over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan has a new female lawgiver | | Getty Research Institute acquires work by Fritz Block | | Leo Villareal's first solo exhibition in Switzerland on view at Pace Gallery | 
The artist Shahzia Sikander with her work Witness in Madison Square Park in New York, Jan. 21, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).
by Dan Bilefsky
NEW YORK, NY.- Frenzied commuters in New York Citys Flatiron district have been stopped in their tracks in recent days by an unlikely apparition near Moses, Confucius and Zoroaster. Standing atop the grandiose state courthouse is a shimmering, golden 8-foot female sculpture, emerging from a pink lotus flower and wearing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs signature lace collar. Staring regally ahead with hair braided like spiraling horns, the sculpture, installed as part of an exhibition that opened last week, is the first female to adorn one of the courthouses 10 plinths, dominated for more than a century by now weathered statues representing great lawgivers throughout the ages all of them men. Shahzia Sikander, 53, the paradigm-busting Pakistani American artist behind the work ... More | | 
The series dedicated to art, architecture, design, and technology of Los Angeles from 1943 to 1954.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired by donation from The Manfred Heiting Trust twenty-seven complete sets of Kodachrome slides produced by Fritz Block from 1943 to 1954 when he lived and worked in Los Angeles. Block's aim was not only to produce color photography of aesthetic significance, but also to make color slides for progressive visual education, says Mary Miller, Director of the Getty Research institute. The development of slide film in the 1940s had led to a range of innovations in pedagogy. Schools, colleges, and universities purchased projectors and set up slide libraries. Block positioned himself to fill the gap of slides readily available for purchase. Blocks slides number approximately 6,000, the majority of which were taken with a 35-mm Leica camera. Series topics include arts from underrepresented fields - African Art, Art of the South Pacific, Religious Folk Art, ... More | | 
Installation View, Leo Villareal: Nebulae, Jan 24 Mar 18, 2023, Pace Gallery, Geneva © Leo Villareal, Geneva, 2022. Photo: Annik Wetter, courtesy Pace Gallery.
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery is presenting Leo Villareal: Nebulae, the American artists first solo exhibition in Switzerland. Bringing together a suite of eight new wall-based digital sculptures, this presentation coincides with the 2023 edition of artgenève, where the artist will showcase a major installation in the main hall. Nebulae marks Paces sixth solo exhibition of Villareals work, underscoring the gallerys commitment to championing contemporary practices that push the boundaries of art and technology. Rooted in art historical language of abstraction, Villareals practice uses pixels and binary code to create complex, rhythmic compositions. Investigating the capacity of light and code as both medium and subject, Villareals practice is concerned with the immersive, experiential, and sensorial qualities of perception. Villareals major projects include his public installation ... More |
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| BAMPFA presents Rina Kimche's first solo exhibition in the United States | | Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth opens in New York | | Museum of the Moving Image Executive Director Carl Goodman exiting after 34 years with institution | 
Rina Kimche: Structure with Canal, 2012; hand-built sculpture with an arbitrary combination of clays; 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; BAMPFA Collection, gift of Cathryn M. Cootner, 2021.13.4.
BERKELEY, CA.- The influential Israeli ceramicist Rina Kimche receives her first solo exhibition in the United States next year at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Kimches eponymously titled solo exhibition at BAMPFA features seventeen sculptures by the 88-year-old artist, who is regarded as an important figure in the Israeli Modernist movement but has rarely exhibited her work in North America. Focusing primarily on work created in the past twenty years of the artists practice, Rina Kimche includes several sculptures that have never been publicly displayed until now. Noted for the deceptive simplicity of their abstract forms, the sculptures of Rina Kimche (pronounced KIM-kuh) are typically diminutive in scale, recalling the historical forms and styles of Mediterranean clay artifacts as well as the rocky desert landscape of the artists native Israel ... More | | 
Roberto Cuoghi, SS(XLIIIPs)mm, 2020. Sugar paste, steel structure, Styrofoam, 170 x 80 cm / 66 7/8 x 31 1/2 in. Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth and first New York City solo presentation in nearly a decade, Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi populates the ground floor of the gallerys 22nd Street building with an entirely new body of work. One of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, artists of his generation, Cuoghi is known for an exacting, almost obsessive, research- and process-driven practice that spans the full spectrum of styles and genres. Pepsis* will debut works from Cuoghis ongoing, all-consuming project of the same namea complex, multi-faceted investigation initiated in early 2020 after a fully immersive stay in New York City. Much of this body of work focuses on a rarely explored aspect of his ever-expanding practice, a medium infrequently associated with Cuoghi but central in contemporary art discourse now: painting. Ive been painting exactly how Ive seen that one pain ... More | | 
Carl Goodman stands in the Redstone Theater at MoMI (credit: Josefina Fernandez Moran / MoMI).
ASTORIA, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image today announces that Carl Goodman is stepping down from his role as Executive Director on March 3, 2023, after 34 years with the institution. Goodman will assume the role of President and CEO of The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg following his departure from the Museum. Goodman joined the Museum as an educator in 1989 and served in a number of capacities including Curator of Digital Media and Senior Deputy Director before his appointment as Executive Director in 2011. Under his twelve-year tenure as Executive Director, the Museum experienced a three-fold increase in annual attendance following the Museums major expansion and renovation. The Museum acquired a major collection of puppets and other material from the family of Jim Henson, and created a new permanent gallery and exhibition devoted to the work of Henson, while also developing a traveling version of this exhibition that continue ... More |
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| Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU announces four new exhibitions for Spring 2023 showcase | | Drawing Room announces its new exhibition 'Noi Fuhrer POLAR' | | Artist duo TARWUK join White Cube | 
Garry Dorsainvil, Untitled, Oil on canvas, Late 20th century, 25.5 x 31.5 inches, Gift of Raymond and Judi Richards.
MIAMI, FLA.- This spring, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU unveils a diverse slate of innovative exhibitions that focus on space, place, location and dislocation. They are: Together/Apart: Modern and Contemporary Art of the United States (on view from Jan. 21, 2023 through Feb. 2, 2025) displays the rich collections of the Frost Art Museum and the Wolfsonian Museum-FIU. The exhibition is organized around three themes: Identity: Expressed, Imagined and Constructed; Re-Design: Expressing Identity though Form; and Place and Space: Where Identity Lives. This exhibition taps into the rich collections of both museums to showcase works by 20th-century and contemporary artists that tell stories about identity in the U.S. from myriad perspectives. Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse (on view from Jan. 21, 2023 through April 16, 2023) draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction ... More | | 
Noi Fuhrer On Watch, 2022. Charcoal on Paper, 121 x 131 cm. Photo: Helge Mundt, Hamburg. Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg.
HAMBURG.- In each of Fuhrers images, there are objects or elements that are accentuated as white spots against the charcoal drawing. In On watch (2022), this is the upper edge of a towel that the woman in the bikini is holding up as a screen so that her companion can get changed unseen. It was generated by omissions of the charcoal pencil, by interruptions in the otherwise straight lines drawn downwards. How glaring the edge of the towel appears, almost as if it were not an analogue drawing but the image was glinting at us from a digital display. This effect in the visual perception of the images results from Fuhrers mechanical drawing technique, with which she sets scenes and images onto the paper that could also have been created by software. As if they were not meticulously drawn by hand. Contemporary peoples everyday lives are sustained by constant contact with digital interfaces such as CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) and virtual realities ... More | | 
Working as a single entity since 2014, TARWUK form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of the New York-based, Croatian artistic duo TARWUK [Bruno Pogačnik Tremow (b. 1981, Zagreb, Croatia) and Ivana Vukić (b. 1981, Dubrovnik, Croatia)]. Their first solo exhibition in the UK opens at White Cube Masons Yard on 1 February, and continues until 18 March 2023. Working as a single entity since 2014, TARWUK form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Now living and working in the U.S., their practice can be understood within the context of the aspirations, struggles and eventual dissolution of the former Yugoslavian state, and its elusive avant-garde. Through painting, sculpture, works on paper and installation, TARWUK combine disparate visual languages to make subtle historical connections and create multi-disciplinary micro-worlds. Their paintings are characterised by a sense of escaping the specifics of time ... More |
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 Sholto Blissett opens an exhibition at Alexander BerggruenNEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Sholto Blissett: Rubicon. This exhibition opened Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Sholto Blissett continues his interrogation of humankind's interactions with and influence on the natural world in his latest series Rubicon. The shows title originates from Caesars crossing of the eponymous Rubicon river, which started Caesar's Civil War (4945 BC). The idiom to cross the Rubicon thus means to commit an irrevocable act. With turbulent waters constantly in flux, Sholto Blissett: Rubicon explores the hydraulic process and its symbolism in relation to the sensitivity and interconnectedness of all systems where irreversible transformations are caused by both humans and nature. Applying a light and precise hand, Blissett renders convincing painterly fluvial mountainscapes, composed of meticulous yet also Impressionistic ... More  Monica Bellucci tries on the dress, and life, of Maria CallasNEW YORK, NY.- There are opera stars, and then there is Maria Callas. Birgit Nilsson or Luciano Pavarotti may have been great, but they havent sung posthumously. Callas, on the other hand, has toured as a hologram decades after her death. Few have heard of the William Luce play Bravo, Caruso! about that classic tenor, but Terrence McNallys Master Class, which revolves around Callas exacting methods as a teacher, won a Tony Award in 1996 and is regularly revived. This sopranos fans the fiercest of whom critic Anthony Tommasini affectionately dubbed Callas crazoids will be kept busy this year, which marks the 100th anniversary of her birth. Early out of the gate, in New York, is actor Monica Bellucci, who is bringing her solo show, Maria Callas: Letters & Memoirs, to the Beacon Theater on Friday. Bellucci, 58, has been performing the piece ... More  Salman Rushdie has a new book, and a message: 'Words are the only victors'NEW YORK, NY.- In Victory City, a new novel by Salman Rushdie, a gifted storyteller and poet creates a new civilization through the sheer power of her imagination. Blessed by a goddess, she lives nearly 240 years, long enough to witness the rise and fall of her empire in southern India, but her lasting legacy is an epic poem. All that remains is this city of words, the poet, Pampa Kampana, writes at the end of her epic, which she buries in a pot as a message for future generations. Words are the only victors. Framed as the text of a rediscovered medieval Sanskrit epic, Victory City is about mythmaking, storytelling and the enduring power of language. It is also a triumphant return to the literary stage for Rushdie, who has been withdrawn from public life for months, recovering from a brutal stabbing while onstage during a cultural event in New York last year ... More  "After Before" now on view at No 20 in LondonLONDON.- This past January 11th, No 20 Arts opened the presentation of AFTER BEFORE, a group show featuring artworks by Judith Burrows, Jo Dennis, Tom de Freston, Simon Kidd, Arthur Lanyon, Max Maxwell, Jhonatan Pulido and Keith Roberts. This exhibition, which will end on March 25th, 2023, brings together the work of eight artists who embrace risks, uncertainties and organic transformations of materials and forms in different ways to create distinct captivating works of art that investigate themes of change, belonging, violence and hope. Based in London, Judith Burrows is a multi-disciplinary artist who encapsulates the exchange between vegetation, the elements and raw steel. Her work observes the imprint of organic matter on metal panels to search for symbiosis and connectivity with the natural world. Jo Dennis is a British artist based in London ... More  kaufmann repetto presents "Re-materialized: The Stuff That MattersNEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presentingsince January 13th Re-materialized: The Stuff That Matters, a group exhibition curated by Astrid Welter, spanning across both Milan and New York galleries. This dual-presentation features the work of Lisa Alvarado, Maja Bajevic, Jonathan Baldock, Leda Catunda, Christina Forrer, Jeffrey Gibson, Françoise Grossen, Yee I-Lan, Suzanne Jackson, Charlotte Johannesson, Luba KrejčÃ, Maria Lai, Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, Rodney McMillian, Hana Miletić, Małgorzata Mirga Tas, Rosita and Angela Missoni, Dianna Molzan, Margherita Raso, Erin M. Riley, LJ Roberts, and Pae White. This project is in relation to an ongoing research program that kaufmann repetto has dedicated to the textile medium. To coincide with the current group show, the New York gallery is also featuring a presentation of works by the late Italian textile designer ... More  Adam Putnam presents 365 "visualizations" in exhibition at PPOW NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is now presenting, Adam Putnams fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the building up of imagery by means of photography, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance, Adam Putnam continues an ongoing exploration of the boundaries between architecture, nature, the physical and the internal self, often using one as a stand in for the other. A single, hand-carved wooden finger beckons the viewer toward a labyrinth of 365 visualizations. Initiated during the long months of lockdown, this mass of miniature drawings takes on an elusive arrangement, like an archaic diagram of the unconscious mind, with patterns emerging and dissolving as the visitor weaves through the space. Accompanying this accumulation are a new series of drawings and photographs, depicting architectural inversions and other implements such as a crumbling brick column ... More  China, The Seventh Guangzhou Triennial: Symphony of all the Changes GUANGZHOU.- The Guangdong Museum of Art presents SYMPHONY OF ALL THE CHANGES, the seventh edition of the Guangzhou Triennial, which opened on January 10th and will continue through to April 10th, 2023. WANG Shaoqiang, Director of Guangdong Museum of Art, Chief curator of The Triennal comments: "The theme of Guangzhou Triennial heralds the unveiling of a new and contemporary landscape of change within change. SYMPHONY OF ALL THE CHANGES focuses on connection and transformation, reflecting the end of an era and a new beginning for the museum as well as the impact of the unexpected public health crisis that has shattered our expectations of a continued trajectory of development resulting from globalisation. The Triennial is not only an opportunity to connect with an international perspective, it also offers a thoughtful and dynamic testament ... More  New MFA Boston exhibition presents photographs from war in UkraineBOSTON, MASS.- New MFA Boston exhibition is now presenting photographs from war in Ukraine. Since the start of Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, attacks have continued endlessly in different regions of the country, and ordinary citizens have been forced to pick up arms and fight back. Organized in partnership with The Wartime Art Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) NGO in Kyiv, Who Holds Up the Sky? presents the work of artists who have been documenting the warproviding testimony of Russias crimes and a glimpse into many Ukrainian citizens lives. The exhibition is on view through May 21st, 2023. Reportage photographs from Vadym Belikov capture Russian missile launches targeting Kharkiv, one of Ukraines largest cities. War correspondent Efrem Lukatsky films missiles striking fields where farmers still reap their grain harvests ... More  Jerwood Arts announces project funding for 24 extraordinary early-career artists to bring new work to audiencesLONDON.- Jerwood Arts has announced the 24 early-career artists, makers, curators, and producers selected for the Jerwood New Work Fund (JNWF). They will receive funding towards the final development and public presentation of exceptional new projects spanning ten different artforms including theatre, music, installation, live art, visual arts and circus. The awardees are working on projects that will lead to new exhibitions, performances and publications by the end of 2024, taking place across the UK from Belfast to Blackpool to Battersea, as well as online. JNWF is designed to support extraordinary artists to lead on the development and presentation of new work at a milestone moment in their career. It aims to support artists with a track record ... More  Kapwani Kiwanga to represent Canada at The 60th International Art Exhibition Of La Biennale di VeneziaOTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada announced today that Kapwani Kiwanga will represent Canada at the 60th International Art ExhibitionLa Biennale di Venezia from April 20th to November 24th, 2024. Kiwanga is recognized as one of the countrys most acclaimed contemporary artists whose research-driven work is instigated by marginalized or forgotten histories, and articulated across a range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her presentation in Venice will be curated by Gaëtane Verna, Executive Director, Wexner Center for the Arts. Angela Cassie, Interim Director & CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, commissioner of the Canada Pavilion in Venice, said: The NGC is proud to present Kapwani Kiwangas work for Canada at the 60th International Art ExhibitionLa Biennale di Venezia. Widely recognized for her singular approach ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp was born January 27, 1585. Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) - May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569â1625), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel. Avercamp was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" (the mute of Kampen). In this image: Hendrick Avercamp, IJsgezicht met jager die een otter toont. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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