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. there is nothing here for a painter but the breakers - & sky which have been lovely indeed
. -- John Constable on Brighton
BRIGHTON.- An unseen masterpiece by Constable has been unveiled for the first time in almost 200 years at the Royal Pavilion. Labourers and fishermen on Brighton & Hoves beaches captured the imagination of the English artist and inspired him to produce Colliers unloading on Hove Beach, looking towards Shoreham, Brighton. The painting is now on display in public for the first time in the Royal Pavilion thanks to the generosity of London art dealer and collector Danny Katz, a former Brighton resident. The painting, which was rediscovered in 2017, is a significant addition to the body of John Constables work. Previously completely unknown to art experts, it belonged to the great French collector Camille Groult (18321908), who established the most significant collection of British art in France in the nineteenth century. The composition is based ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view "Joseph Rebell. In Southern Light" Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
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| Portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks will hang with Old Masters at the Frick | | Bernd & Hilla Becher, first posthumous retrospective of the highly influential photographers opens at The Met | | The saga of a World War II ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda | 
In an image provided the Studio Museum in Harlem shows, Barkley L. Hendrickss Lawdy Mama (1969) which will be displayed as part of a solo show of his work at the Frick Madison. He is the first artist of color to have a solo show at the 87-year-old museum, organized by Aimee Ng and Antwaun Sargent. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York via The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Portrait artist Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017, considered the Frick Collection one of his favorite museums. Now Hendricks celebratory, large-scale paintings of Black Americans will hang in that institution, long the home of Rembrandt, Bronzino and Van Dyck, as the first artist of color to have a solo show at the 87-year-old Frick. In the fall of 2023, the museum will intersperse about a dozen of Hendricks portraits among its own holdings in an exhibition at its temporary home, Frick Madison. Hendricks made life-size portraits of Black friends, relatives and strangers he encountered on the street paintings that only recently have been widely recognized by museums and the art market but helped set an assertive tone for figuration and opened the field for many younger artists. He was painting in the old master ... More | | 
Coal Bunker, Zeche Concordia, Oberhausen, Ruhr Region, Germany, 1968. Gelatin silver print, 23 1/4 à 19 1/4 in. (59 à 48.9 cm) Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung KulturBernd & Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernd and Hilla Becher (19312007; 19342015) are widely considered the most influential German photographers of the postwar period. Working as a rare artist couple, they developed a rigorous practice focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on July 15, 2022, Bernd & Hilla Becher features some 200 works of art and is the artists first posthumous retrospective of their 50-year career. It is organized with full access to the Bechers comprehensive archive and personal collection of working materials and is the first American retrospective since 1974 (when their mature style was still evolving). Bernd and Hilla Becher changed the course of late 20th-century photography, and their groundbreaking work continues to influence artists to this day, said Max Hollein, Marina Ke ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by Frank Oznowicz, Jenny Oznowicz and Ronald Oznowicz; Jason Madella shows an old photo of a marionette of Hitler that was created in the 1930s as an instrument of parody by Isidore (Mike) Oznowicz, Frank Ozs father, and will be displayed at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Long before Oz brought many Muppets to life, his father, an amateur Dutch puppeteer, made a Hitler marionette as an act of defiance. Frank Oznowicz, Jenny Oznowicz and Ronald Oznowicz; Jason Madella via The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
NEW YORK, NY.- The puppet stands 20 inches tall, carved out of wood and hand-painted, its uniform tattered and torn. But for all it has endured over more than 80 years buried in a backyard in Belgium at the outset of World War II; dug up after the war and taken on a nine-day cross-Atlantic journey; stored and almost forgotten in an attic in Oakland, California it remains, with its black toothbrush mustache and right arm raised in a Nazi salute, immediately and chillingly recognizable. It is a depiction of Adolf Hitler, made in the late 1930s by an amateur Dutch puppeteer, Isidore Oznowicz (also known as Mike), and clothed by his Flemish wife, Frances, as ... More |
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| Solo exhibition fills a research gap in Joseph Rebell's work | | Jessica Silverman announces representation of Loie Hollowell | | Five Leonard Pryor paintings gifted to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | 
Joseph Rebell, Self-Portrait, undated © Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- Joseph Rebell captured the sunlight of Italy on canvas. Born in Vienna in 1787, he spent many years in Milan, Rome, and, most notably, on the Gulf of Naples. He not only established himself as an influential artist and a source of inspiration, he also pioneered the transformation of the Belvedere into a modern art museum. This first solo exhibition fills a research gap in Joseph Rebell's work and at the same time celebrates the institution's own history. General Director Stella Rollig: Joseph Rebell was a pioneer in more ways than one. Not only do his paintings continue to inspire, he also built his career on the art market in a way that continues to define what an independent artist looks like today. In his capacity as a Belvedere director, he transformed the former summer palace into a progressive museum. While a look at the artist offers a reflection of our own institutional history, it also sheds light on one of the most ... More | | 
Loie Hollowell, Eclipse, 2021. Materials for all images: Oil paint, acrylic medium, aqua resin, and epoxy resin on linen over panel. Images courtesy of the artist, Pace Gallery, and Jessica Silverman.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jessica Silverman announced the representation of Loie Hollowell in partnership with Pace Gallery who has represented the artist since 2017. Loie Hollowell is known for her paintings, drawings, and sculptural wall-works that explore the sensuality and spirituality of geometric abstraction and the human body. In dialogue with diverse historical traditions, Hollowell gestures towards artists such as light-and-space leader James Turrell, feminist pioneer Judy Chicago, mystical modernist Hilma af Klint, and neo-tantric painter G.R. Santosh. Combining her cosmic perspective on biological life with her aesthetic intelligence, Hollowell shifts our sense of time, space, and beauty. Hollowells most recent body of work focuses on breasts as sources of love and otherworldly nourishment. Around the Clock (2022), for example, consists ... More | | 
Leonard Pryor (American, 19242015). Lonesome, 1950. Oil on canvas. 30 1/8 à 26 inches (76.52 à 66.04 cm). Gift of Reneé Pryor Newton and Craig Pryor in loving memory of their parents Leonard and Maxine Pryor, 2022.8.3.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The two heirs of Kansas City artist and educator Leonard Pryor (1924-2015) have given five of their fathers paintings to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Pryor dedicated his career to advocating for the arts and worked tirelessly to enrich Kansas Citys creative community. Leonard Pryor was a pivotal figure in Kansas City arts, not only because of his enormous talent, but because he was a trailblazer in multiple arenas, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. He was the first Black student enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute, he organized exhibitions of Black artists, and he was also the first Black to be named Dean of Students at KCAI. His contributions were truly groundbreaking, and we are deeply grateful to his children for reaching out ... More |
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| Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism exhibition opens at Reynolda House Museum of American Art | | New Museum opens new solo exhibition of works by Doreen Lynette Garner | | Time capsule of '70s Los Angeles beaches from Tod Papageorge | 
Robert Cottingham (1935 ) Buffalo Optical, 1982 Oil on canvas Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, AFI.1.1983 © Robert Cottingham. Photo: Sean Pathasema.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art announced the opening of its latest world-class exhibition, Chrome Dreams and Infinite Reflections: American Photorealism. Open to the public on July 15, 2022, the exhibition will run through Dec. 31, 2022. Curated by Reynoldas Curator, Allison Slaby, Chrome Dreams highlights the nostalgia associated with Americas post-war boom. Reynolda has assembled 41 works of art, 28 of which are from private collectors in the Winston-Salem area, that reflect the glittering cityscapes, shiny storefront windows and sleek automobiles that are indicative of the period and the style of Photorealism. Beginning in the 1960s, a small group of artists began examining their world through photographs and then creating paintings and prints that mimic those photographs with extraordinary precision. The exhibition features multiple artists considered pioneers of the style, including Ro ... More | | 
"Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTED," 2022. Exhibition View: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum premieres Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTED, a solo presentation of new works by Doreen Lynette Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA), whose practice exposes the histories and enduring effects of racial violence in the United States through the frameworks of medicine and pathology by examining past and present examples of experimentation, malpractice, and exploitation enacted upon Black people. Drawing parallels to contemporary forms of displacement and neo-imperialism, her latest projects survey the forced spread of viruses and diseases to Indigenous lands in the Americas from Europe via the transatlantic slave trade and colonization. REVOLTED is a visceral confrontation with the gruesome physical and spiritual consequences of the transatlantic slave trade and the multitude of inhumane tortures carried out in its name and in its aftermath. Garners intricate and mesmerizing sculptural objects ... More | | 
The photographer Tod Papageorge at his home in New Haven, Conn., with proof prints, July 8, 2022. The photographer, at age 82, is still making waves, with a show at the Danziger Gallery in Los Angeles that debuts a body of work from his past. Frances F. Denny/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Longhaired young men carrying surfboards toward the waves; girls in bikinis lolling on blankets; children digging in the shallows; clusters of bodies sunning on the sand. The coronavirus pandemic lockdown provided prominent photographer Tod Papageorge with an unexpected expanse of time in which to revisit these images of Los Angeles beaches that he had captured on several trips to California between 1975 and 1981. He had never taken a break to organize them before. Now that body of work is on view at the Danziger Gallery in Los Angeles, the first time they have been exhibited. To think of those pictures sitting as negatives in yellow boxes was a little disheartening, ... More |
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| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announces selection of Matthew Hargraves as Museum Director | | Ruiz-Healy Art New York opens 'Ariel René Jackson & Lina Puerta: Woven Land ' | | Collecting Policy: Exhibition presents new works in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg | 
Hargraves has served as Interim Robert H. Schutz Jr. Chief Curator at the Wadsworth since June 2021, overseeing the Curatorial, Conservation, Exhibition and Design departments.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art announced today the selection of Matthew Hargraves, PhD to serve as its Director. The selection of Hargraves by the Board of Trustees, concluding an extensive seven-month national search process, completes the museums transition to a distributed leadership model first announced by the Board last November. The roles of CEO and Director will be split into two separate positions, enabling the institution to better seize opportunities in a changing museum environment, consistent with its evolutionary heritage. We were fortunate to have a robust field of well-qualified candidates. As the review process proceeded and multiple candidates were considered and extensively interviewed, it became increasingly apparent that Matthew Hargraves is precisely the right person to serve as Director of the Wadsworth, said Wadsworth Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey ... More | | 
Lina Puerta, Crop Laborer- Green, 2018. Handmade paper composed of pigmented cotton and linen paper pulp; embedded with, sequined fabrics, lace and finished with gouache, 29 x 20 in., 73.7 x 50.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruiz-Healy Art opened Ariel René Jackson & Lina Puerta: Woven Land. This is the first exhibition for both artists with Ruiz-Healy Art. Woven Land focuses on the relationship between humans, labor, and land. Ariel René Jackson utilizes found objects, printing, painting, and fiber work to create scenes and experiences from their cultural past. Lina Puerta creates collages, handmade- paper paintings, and wall hangings to examine the relationship between nature and the human-made. Puertas work engages themes of food justice, xenophobia, hyper-consumerism, and ancestral knowledge. Featured in the exhibition are Puertas Latinx Farmworkers in the US tapestry series which combines cotton and linen paper pulp with recycled fabrics and paint. Latinx Farmworkers in the US highlight the extreme physical labor and hardship demanded by industrial agricultural systems, contrasted against the poetic life cycle ... More | | 
Julia Haugeneder, Faltung 103 (Heizung),2020, bookbinding glue, pigment, PU foam, Museum der Moderne Salzburg CollectionAcquisition with Federal Gallery Funds, © Julia Haugeneder.
SALZBURG.- The Museum der Moderne Salzburg oversees its own collection as well as the Federal Photography Collection, the Generali Foundation Collection, and the art collection of the State of Salzburg. Its task is to preserve the collections entrusted to it, to expand their holdings, to make them accessible to scholars, and to exhibit them to the public. The museum is guided by strategic considerations when adding to its holdings. It might desire to fill in gaps, to expand an existing group of works, or to establish new foci for its collections. It is rare for a museums collecting policy to be discussed in public. Significant policy decisions are made behind the scenes by the director of the museum in consultation with the curators of its collections. These decisions are legitimized by the professional expertise of those responsible. Official reports on the number of new purchases, donations, and permanent loans often remain a ... More |
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 Kunsthalle Mannheim presents Rimini Protokoll's new project URBAN NATUREMANNHEIM.- The city is an enormous, future-defining project. With URBAN NATURE, Kunsthalle Mannheim invites visitors to take part in an immersive spatial experience that spans the meeting point of art, theater and performance. A large walk-through labyrinth in which visitors move from scene to scene through the exhibition spaces of the Kunsthalle Mannheim this is Rimini Protokolls new project URBAN NATURE, which makes it possible to experience people in different economic parallel worlds. The artists collective develops seven scenes, in each of which one person shares their special perspective on urban space with the visitors. In the process, URBAN NATURE creates an unforgettable experience in which the boundaries between exhibition and staging, between reality and fiction, become blurred. The joint project of the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Nationaltheater ... More  Far from Kabul, building a new life, with music and hopeLISBON.- On some nights, when her dorm room in Lisbon turns dark and the church bells stop ringing, the young trumpet player thinks about the distant afternoon when her uncle took her to the graveyard to gather stones. That was in Afghanistan, in the chaotic days after the United States withdrew last year and the Taliban reasserted control. Her uncle had insisted that they pay respects at the family cemetery before they packed their bags with walnuts and spices and books of poems by Rumi, before they began their lives as refugees. Standing by the graves, she watched as her uncle closed his eyes and listened to the wind. The ancestors, he said, were displeased with their decision to leave Afghanistan. Even the stones, he said, seemed to speak, urging them to stay. Zohra Ahmadi, 13, could not hear the voices her uncle described. But as she scooped rocks and soil ... More  JHB Gallery hosts an exhibition of works by artist Jaanika PeernaNEW YORK, NY.- JHB Gallery, in collaboration with Jetsam Studio, hosts an exhibition and book signing by artist Jaanika Peerna. Peerna works across drawing, performance and installation platforms. Central to her practice is an expanded conception of drawing that engages the rhythms and movements of the body in broad gestural mark making. Working with the semi translucent material of Mylar, Peerna's drawn lines are often altered and erased by the application of water and ice, manipulated, like her drawing materials, with two hands in whole-body movements. Her wall installations add new layers to this process, the Mylar drawings sliced, twisted, and spun out in sensual arrangements that cascade across the gallery wall. At Jetsam Studio, Peerna will be presenting Cold Love, a new site-specific installation, alongside a series of framed drawings. To ... More  Exhibition aims to illustrate the many ways in which design and the Olympics are intertwinedMUNICH.- To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum is focusing on developments in design for the Olympics and Paralympics. As the largest sporting event in the world, the Games have always been a motor for and focus for innovations. Not only do international athletes compete with one another. The manufacturers of sports equipment also try to outdo one another when it comes to equipping the athletes, just as do the host countries when it comes to the visual and architectural design of the games. Despite the original idea of the Olympic Games as an ambassador for peaceful, non-political understanding among people and nations, they do in fact often become vehicles for political and social statements. The exhibition Designing for the Olympics aims to illustrate the many ways in which ... More  The art of Cinthia Marcelle, linking poetry and social critique, at MACBABARCELONA.- The synthesis of poetry and social critique that characterises the work of Cinthia Marcelle (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974) fills the exhibition space of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona with collective energy. The artist, who enjoys great prestige in the international art world, has created her own language from the everyday objects and materials including earth, chalk dust and brick that appear and reappear throughout her work. Marcelles interest in proposing new circuits by disrupting existing systems is reflected in subtle interventions as well as large-scale installations, films and photographs made in collaboration with people from diverse walks of life. On show at MACBA until 8 January 2023, Marcelle's first ever survey exhibition will allow visitors to immerse themselves in the powerful poetics of her creative proposals: a suggestive ... More  Sargent's Daughters opens a solo exhibition of sculptor and installation artist Rachel YounNEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is presenting No Pain No Gain, the debut New York solo exhibition of sculptor and installation artist Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA). Based in St. Louis, MO, Youn uses online secondhand shopping to source materials that evoke aspiration and failure, then combines them into kinetic sculptures through an improvisational and intuitive studio practice. These motorized objects are easily anthropomorphized, as their repeated movements suggest labor, melancholia, and a sardonic sense of humor. For several years, personal massage devices and plastic flora have been Youns primary media. Affixed to the motorized devices, the fake plants appeared to gyrate and groove in stylized installations that comment on queer joy, eroticism, and the absurd. While Youns new body of work retains the same core ... More  New British Council commission, in partnership with the V&A, marks 75th anniversary of PakistanLONDON.- Today the V&A and the British Council jointly announce details on What is Seen and What is Not by inter-disciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada, opening 15 July at the V&A. This series of interventions responds to the 75th anniversary of Pakistan and explores themes of displacement, movement, migration, and the impact of the climate crisis. The interventions across the museum are free to visit, and have been commissioned by the British Council in partnership with the V&A and the Pakistan High Commission as part of the British Councils festival season Pakistan/UK: New Perspective. Osmans work is a tripartite of site-specific works, and will bring together textiles, wrapped objects and a seating installation to showcase the rich variety of traditional and contemporary Pakistani craftsmanship. Together, the works present Osmans unique ... More  Nancy Hoffman Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Frank OwenNEW YORK, NY.- Retrospection is an act of looking back. It is a mental process of remembering done in the hope that those recalled facts and experiences might enrich the present and the future. As a painter who has long relied on creating and using multiple image events to be collaged into my paintings, I am always looking back at my form inventory. As someone in the eighth decade of life, I often recall memories, excitements and, occasionally, instances of "Whew." This exhibition is the 12th with my dealer and friend of 51 years, Nancy Hoffman. It is a two-part combination of work. The first is a group of paintings that measure 50 x 40 inches from 2017 to present. I undertook to make smaller pieces as a necessary response to shoulder surgery gone wrong. It became apparent that continuing at this smaller scale was the best path. Plus, it proposed ... More  The Art Show announces record number of exhibitors for 2022NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, the Art Dealers Association of America announced the 34th annual edition of The Art Show, one of the longest-running art fairs in the country. Founded as a means to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the fair will donate all admissions proceeds to the social services organization that has aided New Yorkers in need for nearly 130 years. The 2022 edition takes place in the historic Park Avenue Armory, and will run from November 3-6, with the annual Benefit Preview on Wednesday, November 2. This year, The Art Show will feature a record number of booths from 78 ADAA member galleries. Of these, an impressive 55 booths will feature solo presentations that explore the work of just one artist, allowing visitors thoughtful, curated experiences akin to those found in galleriesalso ... More  Banksy, KAWS, RETNA and other urban art stars shine at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- For its July 28 Urban Art Signature® Auction, Heritage Auctions has gathered a who's who of Urban Art superstars. "This might be one of our best-curated auctions, with a great selection of artists such as RETNA, KAWS, Banksy, Crash, Futura and others," says Walter Ramirez, Urban Art Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. "With a variety of editioned and original works, the diverse sale has something for everyone." Among the highlights are nine Banksy prints, all with Pest Control certificates of authenticity. "These works include some of his more iconic images," Ramirez says, "such as Morons from 2006, Choose Your Weapon from 2010 and the ever-great image of Dorothy being searched by a cop in Stop and Search from 2007." In addition to a great selection of works by KAWS, including an untitled diptych from 2013 ... More  Heritage Auctions awarded the historic, world-renowned Harry W. Bass Jr. Collection of Gold Coins and PatternsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced Wednesday that it has been selected to offer one of the most revered and valuable rare-coin collections in numismatics history: The Harry Bass Core Collection. The historic assemblage of some of the rarest U.S. gold coins and die patterns is estimated to be worth more than $60 million, and proceeds from its sale will benefit the dozens of Dallas-based nonprofits supported by the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation with a particular emphasis on early childhood education and literacy in Dallas. The collection, which the late Dallas oilman and philanthropist Harry W. Bass Jr. began assembling in the 1960s, has been on display at the American Numismatic Association's Edward C. Rochette ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt was born July 15, 1606. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. In this image: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), The Mill, 1645/1648 (detail). Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 105.6 cm. Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. Widener Collection.
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