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A conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston inspects Philip Gustons City Limits (1969) during installation, April 25, 2022. The long-delayed show of Gustons work, known for featuring Ku Klux Klan motifs, is now wrapped in the equivalent of caution tape, the New York Times critic Holland Cotter writes. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK, NY.- When Philip Guston Now opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington this spring, I could practically hear the collective sigh of relief on my Instagram feed. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the nationwide protests that followed, the four museums organizing a retrospective of his work announced a four-year delay of the exhibition, citing the need to make sure they were contextualizing Gustons paintings which include a series of cartoonish images of Klansmen as bumbling Keystone Kops with proper sensitivity. Many saw this as a move driven by a fear of controversy. A number of artists, critics and curators balked at the decision in an open letter of protest, arguing that these museums were underestimating the capacity of Black viewers to face difficult content head on. Among the signatories were a number of Black artists, including Julie Mehretu, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Modern Art is presenting an exhibition by Jacqueline Humphries at their Bury Street (7 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL) and Helmet Row locations (4-8 Helmet Row, EC1V 3QJ).
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| Inhotim opens Galeria Yayoi Kusama, dedicated exclusively to the artist | | National Gallery of Art acquires drawing by Baccio Bandinelli | | Artist Josh Kline's first U.S. museum survey presented at the Whitney | 
Im Here, But Nothing (2000). Photo credit: Daniel Mansur.
BRUMADINHO.- Instituto Inhotim recently opened its twentieth permanent gallery, this time dedicated to Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, Japan, 1929), one of the most renowned and emblematic artists working today. Galeria Yayoi Kusama features two of her works: I'm Here, But Nothing (2000) and Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009). They belong to the Instituto Inhotim Collection; the former was acquired in 2008 and the latter in 2009. The opening of Galeria Yayoi Kusama fulfills a central artistic ambition at Inhotim for the work of one of the most visionary artists of our time, says Inhotim Co-Founder Allan Schwartzman. This occasion enables us to provide a permanent presence for 3 of the artists most emblematic works, with Narcissus Garden (1966/2009), again drawn form Inhotim Collection, completing the artists presentation. Each work embodies a distinctly different environmental expression of the artists creative ... More | | 
Baccio Bandinelli, Four Male Heads, c. 1534. Pen and brown ink on laid paper. Sheet: 35.56 x 26.99 cm (14 x 10 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Patrons' Permanent Fund 2022.159.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- A favorite of the powerful Medici family, Baccio Bandinelli (14931560) was, next to Michelangelo, one of the most important sculptors in 16th-century Florence. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Four Male Heads (c. 1534), a drawing that conveys in two dimensions and on a small scale the presence and power of monumental sculpture. One of the National Gallerys finest 16th-century Italian drawings, it is a bridge between drawings from the High Renaissance and those by Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bandinellis pupil) and Luca Cambiaso, as well as the graphic work of northern Mannerists such as Hendrick Goltzius and Jacob de Gheyn III. Stylistically, it is an exquisite example of a sculptors drawing and virtuoso draftsmanship from any period or school. ... More | | 
Josh Kline, Sleep Is for the Weak, 2011 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 19 through August 13, 2023, is the first mid-career survey of Josh Klines work by an American museum. The exhibition offers a thematic examination of over fifteen years of the artists work, including a major new installation that debuts at the Whitney and projects that have never been seen before in New York. Kline is best known for creating immersive installations using video, sculpture, photography, and design to question how emergent technologies are changing human life in the twenty-first century. One of the leading artists of his generation, Kline is unique among his peers in directly confronting class, labor, and inequity in the United States today. Featuring more than a hundred works and installed across two floors of exhibition space, Josh Kline: Project for a ... More |
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| Phillips announces inaugural jewellery auctions in Geneva | | Launched today: Exactly.ai, a new AI-powered tool designed for artists | | Rare Roaring Twenties poster acquired by Rotterdam City Archives | 
Tiffany & Co Onyx, enamel, rock crystal, jade and diamond desk timepiece, 1920s.
GENEVA.- Phillips announced inaugural auctions of jewellery in Geneva on 6 November. Phillips Jewellery department achieved historic annual sales totals in 2021 and 2022, with an impressive +185% increase in value during Fall 2022 compared with Spring 2022. The decision to hold jewellery auctions in Geneva follows in the wake of the strong results achieved in Phillips jewellery auctions in 2022, and further affirms Phillips' international investment in the category, now spanning across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With its rich heritage and reputation as a global hub for luxury and collectibles, Geneva serves as an ideal location for these prestigious auctions, attracting discerning collectors from around the world. The inaugural Geneva auctions will take place on 6 November and the presale exhibition will go on view in the week preceding the sale from 31 October to 5 November. ... More | | 
Founded by Tonia Samsonova, an accomplished entrepreneur, whose first company The Question was acquired for $10M in 2019, Exactly was built on the idea that AI should be a force for good.
LONDON.- Launched today, Exactly.ai is a new AI-powered tool that lets artists create images in their own unique style with a simple written description. By uploading just 10 images, you can train an AI model and create new artworks in seconds. Founded by Tonia Samsonova, an accomplished entrepreneur, whose first company The Question was acquired for $10M in 2019, Exactly was built on the idea that AI should be a force for good. With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) many artists fear that image generation tools like Dall-e and Midjourney will automate their talents and threaten their jobs. Exactly.ai paints a different picture, of a future where artists use AI as a powerful new creative tool to make artworks in ways that weren't possible before. ... More | | 
Paul Schuitema (1897 1973), TENTOONSTELLING 13 (1927) 39x 27 ¾ inch, 99 x 70,5 cms.
ROTTERDAM.- The Rotterdam City Archives has acquired an extremely rare poster by designer, photographer and filmmaker Paul Schuitema (1897 - 1973). Together with Piet Zwart and Gerard Kiljan, he was founder of New Photography and New Typography in the Netherlands, stylistic forms that gained international fame. His graphic designs for Van Nelle and Van Berkel's Patent, among others, can be found in museums all over the world. His exhibition poster TENTOONSTELLING 13 from 1927 shows modernism at its best, with a sans serif font and the characteristic color combination of black, red and white. During the interwar period, Rotterdam was one of the leading centers of modernism in architecture, design, film and photography. A pioneer in modernist graphic design, Schuitema worked as a photographer, filmmaker ... More |
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| Ai Weiwei among five world-renowned artists announced for Lumiere 2023, the UK's light art biennial | | Bo Lee and Workman open 'I Want to Live Twice', a solo exhibition of new paintings by Kim Booker | | Jerry Bradley, who helped remake country music, dies at 83 | 
For four nights only, the city will be transformed into a nocturnal art experience with spectacular light installations by artists including Ai Weiwei, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Chila Burman, Yinka Ilori and Daniel Canogar.
DURHAM.- Lumiere, the UKs light art biennial, has announced five world-renowned artists who will exhibit their work at this years event in Durham from the 16th 19th November 2023. For four nights only, the city will be transformed into a nocturnal art experience with spectacular light installations by artists including Ai Weiwei, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Chila Burman, Yinka Ilori and Daniel Canogar. Fourteen years after Lumiere debuted in Durham, and more than one million visitors later, it is now the UKs first light art biennial, a global event with major artists from all over the world exhibiting their artwork completely free for the public. Produced by leading arts producers Artichoke, and commissioned by Durham County Council, with additional support from Arts Council England and Durham University and a raft of further supporters, this beautiful medieval city will undergo an incredible re-imagining, with ... More | | 
Kim Booker, Self-portrait in Grey, 2023. Photo: Dave Watts.
SOMERSET.- I Want to Live Twice is a solo exhibition of new work by British artist Kim Booker. Situated in a former Methodist chapel, the paintings explore existential themes befitting of their setting: fear of death, signifying a more personal shift in Bookers practice. Working in acrylic on large canvases, Kim Booker uses colour, gesture, and figurative elements to express the psychology of female experience. The paintings feature poses that are suggestive of differing emotional states, created intuitively through a combination of gestural abstraction and layers of drawn and erased imagery. This new body of work features self-reflective nude female figures that appear in a position of surrender or sacrifice, resembling the crucifix. Bookers expressive and energetic strokes and scrawls, particularly over the mouths and faces, suggest a silencing or a loss of control to a powerful force, internal or external. A transitionary state both spiritual and psychological is clear, and in thei ... More | | 
Mr. Bradley was the driving force behind Wanted! The Outlaws, which the Recording Industry Association of America certified as the first million-selling album in the history of country music.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Jerry Bradley, a record executive who apprenticed with two of the most storied producers in country music his father, Owen Bradley, and guitarist Chet Atkins before challenging that legacy and shaking up the industry, died Monday at his home in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, near Nashville. He was 83. His death was announced by Elice Cuff-Campbell, senior director of media relations for BMI Nashville. No cause was given. Bradley was best known as the driving force behind Wanted! The Outlaws, the groundbreaking 1976 compilation featuring music by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser and Jennings wife, Jessi Colter. Rowdy and irreverent, the record was an out-of-left-field success, certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as the first million-selling album in the history of country music. It also ruffled the Nashville status ... More |
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| 'Ellen Carey: Struck by Light' the NBMAA presents the largest survey of Ellen Carey's photography | | Korean Cultural Centre UK to open the presentation of 'Audible Garden' | | BLACK VENUS opens at Somerset House 'Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture' | 
Ellen Carey, Dings and Shadows.
NEW BRITAIN, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art to open the solo exhibition, Ellen Carey: Struck by Light, on June 23, 2023 through January 28, 2024. Ellen Carey (b. 1952), since the 1990s, has created experimental and abstract works that expand the boundaries of what photography is. Struck by Light, the largest survey of Careys innovative photo-objects and lens-based artworks, highlights her 30 years in the medium. Ellen Carey names her twin umbrella concepts, Photography Degree Zero (1996-2023), for her Polaroid 20 X 24, lens-based pictures Pulls and Rollbacks while Struck by Light (1988-2023), names her series of camera-less photograms Dings & Shadows that continue that legacy. Collectively these visual, unique pictures ask, what is this a picture of? and how is this picture made?, drawing parallels with the arc of photography from the dawn of the medium in the 19th century to now with ... More | | 
Jinjoon Lee, Audible Garden, Variable size, Wall painting with Ink, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- This summer, the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) co-present Audible Garden, the solo exhibition of work by new media artist Jinjoon Lee as part of a yearlong celebration of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and the UK. Drawing inspiration from Asian Sansui landscape painting and Korean garden philosophy, Lee has created a multisensory space that constructs a new environment whilst also deciphering the current world we inhabit. Inspirited by Lees residency at Hertz lab of the ZKM in Germany, Audible Garden will run from the 21 July - 13 October 2023 at the KCCUK exhibition space. Lees work, deeply influenced by Korean garden philosophy, his childhood memories of Dragon Horse Mountain (Youngma San) in his hometown Masan, ... More | | 
Ayana V. Jackson, Anarcha, 2017 © Courtesy of the Artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
LONDON.- Yesterday, Somerset House opened the presentation BLACK VENUS, an exhibition which examines the historical representation and shifting legacy of Black women in visual culture. Curated by Aindrea Emelife, BLACK VENUS brings together the work of over 18 Black women and non-binary artists to explore the othering, fetishisation and reclamation of narratives around Black femininity. BLACK VENUS pairs over 40 contemporary and primarily photographic artworks with a selection of archival imagery, dated between 1793 to 1930, illustrating historical depictions of Black women and the caricaturing of the Black body. Exploring the many faces of Black femininity, the shows contemporary works offer a riotous affront to a centuries-long dynamic of objectification, showcasing all that Black womanhood can be and has always been. The ... More |
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Damien Hirst on 'Where the Land Meets the Sea' | London | Summer 2023
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 "A Deeper Look" Hollywood's first 3-D Wave, 1953-1954 festival to begin in August at Film ForumNEW YORK, NY.- A DEEPER LOOK: HOLLYWOODS FIRST 3-D WAVE, 1953-1954, a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Hollywoods 3-D craze of the early 1950s, will run at Film Forum, beginning with the NYC theatrical premiere of the 3-D Film Archives new restoration of the cult classic ROBOT MONSTER, considered the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE of 3-D movies, screening on August 6 at 8:25 and August 7 at 6:00. The festival will continue with select screenings through November, with 3-D features, shorts, trailers, and special presentations. In ROBOT MONSTER, an alien gorilla in a fishbowl space helmet decimates Earth with death rays and soap bubbles. George Nader, longtime friend (and one time lover) of Rock Hudson, stars, with music by a pre-TEN COMMANDMENTS Elmer Bernstein. Critic/historian Leonard Maltin wrote ... More  Last chance to see the exhibition 'Letting Do' by Andreas Fogarasi & Adrienn Mária KissGYOR.- What happens when an artist voluntarily relinquishes full control over the outcome? Letting Do seeks to answer this question: it selects works that have been created in the course of the creative process by deliberately or deliberate outsourcing of the work. External, calculated influences may be the involvement of another artist in the realisation of a work, reflection as a modifying framework, or the involvement of artificial intelligence. Another recurring theme of the Letting Do duo exhibition is work, production, manufacturing, its historical and industrial context, and the problem of the artist as producer. This frame of reference also reflects the industrial scale of the Torula space and the original factory function of the building. The exhibition includes works mainly from the second half of the decade, as well as works made specifically ... More  Columbia Museum of Art participates in the Art Bridges Cohort ProgramCOLUMBIA, S.C..- The Columbia Museum of Art is sharing works of art and material culture from its collection with three partner museums, including two in the American South, through the Art Bridges Cohort Program, made possible by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts $2 million grant from the Art Bridges Foundation. Through this program launched in spring 2023, the CMA is curating collaboratively with the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, Alabama), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, Alabama) to co-organize and host a series of object loans, sharing American art from their collections with each partner museum. Together, the four institutions are known as the American South Consortium. The American South Consortium is part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program, a national program ... More  Eastside Arts Society invites art lovers to the art-making process at 3rd Annual CREATE! Arts FestivalVANCOUVER, BC.- Eastside Arts Society presents the return of its highly anticipated two-day summer art-making event, CREATE! Arts Festival, taking place at Strathcona Park on Saturday, July 22 and at various Eastside Arts District studios on Sunday, July 23, 2023. A community initiative designed to welcome guests to explore, learn, and create art together with local artists, CREATE! Arts Festival features a wide variety of accessible visual and performing arts workshops for adults and youth, including watercolour painting, needle felting, indigo dying, pottery, glass fusing, photography, ukulele, Salish singing, storytelling, and much more. Following two incredible years growing our new summertime art-making event, we are thrilled to welcome the CREATE! Arts Festival back for its third year, with even more offerings for people of all ages ... More  Abigail Ogilvy Gallery announces expansion to Los Angeles September 15th, 2023LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abigail Ogilvy Gallery has announced a new, second location in Los Angeles, CA, slated to open this fall. The expansion from Boston to Los Angeles marks an important moment for the gallery to establish a bi-coastal presence in the west coasts contemporary art center, presenting a program that adapts the traditional gallery model to showcase collaborative perspectives. AOG x LA is committed to providing much-needed space and resources to curators and artists at all stages of their careers. An opening reception for the inaugural exhibition will take place on Saturday, September 16th, 2023. Abigail Ogilvy Gallery has operated in Boston since 2015, exhibiting local and international artists, including Katrina Sánchez, Austin Eddy, and Alex McClay. Now ready to grow their mission and reach, the gallery is excited ... More  'The Old Village' currently on view through August 31, 2023 at the DuBois Fort Visitor CenterNEW PALTZ, NY.- Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) presents the exhibition The Old Village, currently on view through August 31, 2023 at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center. The exhibition focuses on the changing neighborhood of Huguenot Street as major developments in the New Paltz community were taking place in the years surrounding 1830. By the 1830s, the original patentee families had expanded, most descendants moving outside the early settlement, throughout the town of New Paltz, and beyond. New families of European descent began to arrive and establish themselves and their families in the community. New Yorks legal, yet gradual, abolition of slavery, by this time, meant that some people of African descent could establish their own households nearby (albeit on the outskirts), while many continued to labor as servants, sometimes ... More  National Nordic Museum's Executive Director honored with Royal Norwegian Order of MeritSEATTLE, WA.- On July 18, His Majesty King Harald V of Norway awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, Knight First Class, to Executive Director/CEO Eric Nelson for his longstanding work advancing Norwegian-American relations. The honor was presented to Nelson by Norway's Ambassador to the United States Anniken R. Krutnes during a ceremony at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. In attendance was Governor Jay Inslee, Viggo Forde, Honorary Consul of Norway for the Pacific Northwest, and more than 300 supporters and friends of the Museum. It is my great pleasure to congratulate Eric Nelson on receiving the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit from His Majesty King Harald V, Ambassador Anniken R. Krutnes said. This honor is awarded to individuals who have performed outstanding service in the interests of Norway and Mr. Nelson ... More  Nye & Company announces 2-day, online-only Chic and Antique Treasures auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two-day, online-only Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction slated for Wednesday and Thursday, July 26th and 27th, will feature an extensive selection of fine art and decorative arts, starting each day at 10 am Eastern time. Approximately 700 quality lots will cross the auction block over the course of the two days. Day 1, July 26th, will be a single-owner session, with fine items from a private New Jersey family that has been avidly collecting for decades. After furnishing several tri-state area homes, the family is offering items theyve decided they can now live without. Of note is lot 4, a maquette for Moses Transcendent by Leon Underwood. The abstract figural work has impeccable provenance. Another work is lot 214, a large colorless crystal figural rooster designed by Marc Lalique circa 1953. Lot 211 is by R. Lalique: ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-born American artist Arshile Gorky died July 21, 1948. Arshile Gorky ( April 15, 1904 - July 21, 1948) was an American painter of Armenian descent who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide. In this image: Arshile Gorky, "Agony", 1947. Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 1/2 in., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, A. Conger Goodyear Fund. ©2010 Estate of Arshile Gorky/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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