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Curator Laura Sims Peck. Photo by Robb Quinn courtesy The Warehouse.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Warehouse has opened a new exhibition, Carve, Cast, and Coil: International Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, which is on view through Aug. 30. Featuring works by 20 artists from 12 countries on 5 continents, the exhibits sculptures are from The Warehouses permanent collection. Artists include Ruth Duckworth, Truman Lowe, David Nash, Mimmo Paladino and Alejandro Santiago. The work of two of the artists Bruno Cidra and Pamela Mei Yee Leung has never been exhibited in the U.S. With a focus on material, traditional sculptural mediums, such as bronze, wood, and stone, are juxtaposed with barbed wire and houseplants. Materials found in craft, such as bamboo and ceramic, are sculpted to form complex and elegant shapes. Works are carved, cast, and coiled and burned and welded and woven and more to create unique forms that push the limits ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation View 'Unconscious Landscape. Works from the Ursula Hauser Collection', 2019, Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Photo: Ken Adlard
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 | | Marlborough announces Jay Gorney as new Senior Director | | Baseball legend Babe Ruth's coaching uniform expected to fetch $500,000 | | New research highlights threats facing Edinburgh's Royal Mile | 
Since 2017, he has been a Director at Paula Cooper Gallery, and was previously a dealer, art advisor, and independent curator.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough announced that it has hired art world veteran Jay Gorney as Senior Director. Gorney joins Vice President Pascal Spengemann to form a new senior directorship team at the recently globally unified gallery, now led by Marlborough President Max Levai. Gorney brings more than 30 years of experience as a gallerist in the contemporary art community to his new role at Marlborough. Since 2017, he has been a Director at Paula Cooper Gallery, and was previously a dealer, art advisor, and independent curator. In 1985, he founded his own gallery, Jay Gorney Modern Art, in New York Citys East Village, which subsequently moved to Soho in 1987. The gallery represented, among others, artists Martha Rosler, James Welling, Gillian Wearing, Haim Steinbach, Jessica Stockholder, ... More | | 
This Babe Ruth uniform is the top item in a stunning 350 piece private collection.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- What makes a cotton baseball uniform worth $500,000? The answer is that the Brooklyn Dodgers coaching uniform was worn by Babe Ruth, Americas baseball hero. For baseball fans, this uniform is the equivalent of the Holy Grail. This Babe Ruth uniform is the top item in a stunning 350 piece private collection amassed over 30 years and it will all be offered by Juliens Auctions, the world record breaking auction house specializing in Sports, Hollywood, Rock N Roll, Contemporary Art, and more. The Babe Ruth Brooklyn Dodgers coaching uniform was worn by him during the 1938 season and it is without doubt one of the top highlights in the sale. Recently, a Babe Ruth New York Yankees road jersey dating from 1928-30 sold for $5.64 million, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold. The market for celebrity sports items ... More | | 
Much of its local character is being lost.
EDINBURGH.- New research published today by Edinburgh World Heritage concerning the authenticity of the Royal Mile reveals the threats and opportunities facing the historic thoroughfare in the heart of the Old Town. The research shows that the appeal of the famous succession of five separate streets is due to the historic character of its buildings, architecture, and streets, but that much of its local character is being lost, and that the ubiquitous gift and souvenir shops which line the Royal Mile are undermining its authenticity. Research Highlights: The historic buildings, Scottish architecture, setted streets, wynds and closes, are seen by visitors and residents as authentic, and are at the core of what makes the area so attractive. However, the Royal Mile is losing its local character. The research shows that visitors associate the area with being surrounded by foreigners more than hearing local Scottish accents. ... More |
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| | | Almine Rech now represents Vaughn Spann | | MADSAKI's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong opens at Perrotin | | Only Morton Bartlett figure in private hands to sell at Rago Auctions | 
Portrait of the Artist. Photo by Levi Mandel.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech announced its exclusive representation of Vaughn Spann in Europe, the United Kingdom, and China. The gallery will also be working in collaboration with Spann in the US. An inaugural solo show at the gallery for the artist will take place at Almine Rech New York in January 2020. Vaughn Spann devotes his practice to abstraction and figuration as an investigation into space, time and memory. He locates subjects from deeply personal spaces as he reconciles with his body within and out of the studio. With a deep admiration for formalism, he enjoys approaching paintings through the lens of color, line, and shape, but seemingly understands that one's subjectivity can't simply be divorced from the studio. For him, a form is a striking means of generating content in ways that are compelling. His formal investigation permeates throughout his paintings, symbolically reflecting his encounters with diverse people and places. Throug ... More | | 
View of the exhibition If I had a dream at Perrotin Hong Kong. Photo: Ringo Cheung © MADSAKI/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. / Courtesy Perrotin.
HONG KONG.- Perrotin is presenting Japanese artist MADSAKIs first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, his third with the gallery following previous shows in Paris and Seoul. Featuring new paintings and an installation, the exhibition will showcase three of MADSAKIs iconic series: his Warhol series, Movie series, and Character series depicting popular cartoons. As a special homage to the city, MADSAKI is exhibiting a series of paintings referencing celebrated scenes from Hong Kong cinema, including Wong Kar-wai classics such as In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express, comedy star Stephen Chows Kung Fu Hustle, and more. Despite its title, Andy Warhols 1965 underground film, My Hustler, is not, as far as I can tell, one of the many cinematic references in Stephen Chows 2004 madcap action comedy, Kung Fu Hustle. Yet, the work of these two artistsChow and Warhol ... More | | 
Morton Bartlett, Daydreaming Girl, c. 1950. Est. $100,000 - 150,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- On October 20, Rago Auctions will offer for sale the only Morton Bartlett figure still held in private hands as part of the Curiouser and Curiouser auction of outsider art and extraordinary objects. The quintessential figure, never before offered for sale, is titled Daydreaming Girl and is currently on display at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD as part of the year-long exhibition Parenthood: An Art without a Manual. Morton Bartlett, a reclusive Bostonian bachelor who died in 1992 at the age of 83 was the very definition of an outsider artist, untrained and uninhibited. Beginning in 1936 at the age of 27 Bartlett began producing what would become his artistic legacy, a series of exceptionally rendered and expressive half-sized figures of children. Not only did Bartlett create the anatomically correct plaster forms, he also designed individually tailored clothing for them. These figures exist ... More |
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| | | Francisco Moreno's Chapel, the artist's largest painting project to date, acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art | | Woodstock 50 fest will go on -- in Maryland | | Owen Duffy appointed Director of Yeh Art Gallery at St. John's University | 
Chapel is Moreno's second large-scale painting installation. Courtesy of the artist and Erin Cluley Gallery.
DALLAS, TX.- Erin Cluley Gallery announced the Dallas Museum of Arts recent acquisition of Chapel, a large scale painting installation by Francisco Moreno. The Chapel was initially shown at Erin Cluley Gallery in Morenos solo exhibition, The Chapel and Accompanying Works, in April May 2018. The Chapel engages the past while making a new mark, using an iconic structure as the foundation for Morenos large-scale painting project. Inside Chapel, imagery is painted from a collapsed archive that draws on a range of works significant to the history and practice of painting, sculpture, architecture and other cultural producers. The imagery is painted in a collage-type manner, integrating processes that cross cultural borders and recognize Morenos transnational heritage as a Mexican born American citizen. Influenced by ideas of the Baroque aesthetics, Chapel creates an experience of temporality marked ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on August 13, 2009, Woodstock Music Festival co-producer Micael Lang attends a celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock at the at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC in New York City. Michael Loccisano / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK.- This year's 50th anniversary Woodstock festival will be held not in upstate New York but in Maryland, according to an announcement coming just weeks before the massive event is to take place. Woodstock 50 producers told The New York Times that the August 16-18 event would be held at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland northeast of the US capitol. Organizers of the event did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment. Much of the music world had given up on the prospect of the anniversary blast, as the festival's producers ran into a number of financial woes and rejection by multiple venues in upstate New York, where the original 1969 celebration of peace, love and music took place. The lineup announced earlier this year boasted ... More | | 
Duffy joins St. Johns University from the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD),where he was the Development Manager, Exhibitions.
NEW YORK, NY.- St. Johns University in New York City has named Owen Duffy as the new director of the Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery. In this role, Duffy assumes leadership of the Yeh Art Gallery, which is located on the Queens campus in historic Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. He will oversee the contemporary art spaces exhibition program, educational initiatives, and fundraising efforts. Duffy will contribute his extensive experience in development and curatorial programming to the Yeh Art Gallery, connecting the gallerys exhibition program both with the universitys campus-wide academic initiatives and the wider Queens community. I am thrilled by the opportunity to work with the St. Johns University community, synthesizing my fundraising, academic, and curatorial backgrounds with the goal of distinguishing the Yeh Art Gallery among the leading university art galleries in the country. We ... More |
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| | | ICA Miami awards new annual sculpture prize to Damián Ortega | | Cannes demands release of jailed Iranian film director Rasoulof | | Daniel Silver creates new installation for London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE | 
Damián Ortega, Warp Cloud, 2018. EchigoTsumari Tiennale. Photo by Keizo Kioku. © Damián Ortega. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami today announced the creation of a new sculpture prize, made possible with the support of the Ezratti family, whose $500,000 gift launches the annual initiative. The Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture is awarded by ICA Miami to a living artist in recognition of her or his exceptional contributions in the area of sculpture and supports the creation of a new commission to be presented in the museums Sculpture Garden, as well as an award of $15,000. Building on the museums history of commissioning and presenting new works, the prize reflects ICA Miamis ongoing commitment to promoting experimentation in artistic practice and providing an international platform for influential voices in contemporary art. The inaugural recipient of the Ezratti ... More | | 
A file photo taken on May 19, 2017 shows Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof posing during a photocall for the film 'Lerd' (A Man of Integrity) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Rasoulof was sentenced to one year in prison by the Iranian Revolutionary Court in a verdict he received in July 2019. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Cannes film festival called Thursday for the "immediate and unconditional release" of the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who was jailed for a year Wednesday for "attacking the security of the state". The dissident director -- who was previously sentenced to six years in prison in 2010 for filming without a permit -- won the Certain Regard section of the world's biggest film festival two years ago with his acclaimed film about small town corruption, "A Man of Integrity". As well as the prison sentence, an Iranian court also banned him from leaving the country for two years and getting involved in "any social or political activity", according to the festival. It expressed its "utmost ... More | | 
Daniel Silver, Human Activity, 2019. Photo by Andy Keate.
LONDON.- London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE today opened its latest contemporary art commission, Human Activity, by London-based artist Daniel Silver. Silvers installation features a set of monumental, figurative works that speak to Silvers fascination with the psychology and history of sculpture-making as well as his profound interest in ancient cultures and archaeology. The 3.5-metre high works which comprise Human Activity originated as small clay objects made by Silver whilst observing a dancer in his studio. Sculpted by the artist to capture momentary postures and attitudes of the body in movement, a number of these diminutive figures have since been reconsidered and scaled in metalized polystyrene for the Bloomberg SPACE gallery. Best known for his figurative sculptures, Silver is fascinated by the physical and emotional impact of the body and its ... More |
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 Venice announces star lineup but just two films by womenROME (AFP).- Stars including Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt and Scarlett Johansson will attend this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said Thursday, with 21 films vying for the Lion d'Or although only two by women made the cut. "Numerous films this year deal with the theme of the feminine condition in the world which, even when directed by men, reveal a new sensitivity, proof that the scandals of recent years have left their mark on our culture," Mostra director Alberto Barbera said as he presented the lineup in Rome. The festival was criticised last year for selecting just one film directed by a woman, and this year the number has doubled. Saudi Arabia's Haifaa al-Mansour will screen "The Perfect Candidate" about a female doctor trying to run in local elections in the conservative kingdom and Australian comedy "Babyteeth" by Shannon Murphy is also competing. ... More Denver Art Museum announces Dakota Hoska as Assistant Curator of Native ArtsDENVER, CO.- Concluding an extensive search, the Denver Art Museum announced Dakota Hoska as the new assistant curator of Native arts. After working as a curatorial research assistant for the Arts of Africa and the Americas department at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) for four years, Hoska will join the DAMs Native arts department, which is internationally recognized for its holdings of American Indian art collections and is composed of the arts of Indigenous peoples of North America, Africa and Oceania. We are fortunate to have such a passionate, creative and knowledgeable professional joining our Native arts department, said Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM. Dakota shares the Denver Art Museums ongoing commitment to engaging Native communities, and I look forward to seeing how she will strengthen the connection ... More PAFA receives Getty Foundation grant for traveling seminar on contemporary prints for new curatorsPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has received a $134,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to offer a traveling seminar on contemporary prints for early-career curators, organized by The Brodsky Center. The Getty funding is provided through The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century. This initiatives primary focus is on training and professional development for early- to mid-career curators of prints and drawings. The Getty Foundation seminar, to be held April 6 12, 2020 in both Philadelphia and New York, will help establish The Brodsky Center at PAFA -- a collaborative paper and printmaking center devoted to the creation of new work -- as a leading resource in contemporary prints and works on paper for print curators, said Center Director Paola Morsiani. The seminar will provide valuable ... More Tupac Shakur's I.D. card sets world record for most expensive piece of rapper's memorabiliaDALLAS, TX.- A 1995 prison I.D. badge issued to rapper Tupac Shakur sold on Sunday, July 21, for $30,000, setting a world record for the most expensive piece of Tupac memorabilia ever sold at public auction. The sale comes exactly one month after what would have been Tupac's 48th birthday. Heritage Auctions opened bidding on the badge, issued Feb. 28, 1995 by the State of New York Department of Correctional Services, at $2,000. More than 10,200 visitors viewed the lot before 30 bids were cast for the rare piece of Shakur memorabilia. "Some say Tupac and his music are just as relevant today as they were more than 20 years ago," said Garry Shrum, Director of Music Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. "Fans haven't forgotten his impact on hip-hop. They will go to any lengths to own a piece of Shakur's life and times." The I.D. has been held privately since the ... More New book offers an assessment of 50 years of design by architect Barton MyersSANTA BARBARA, CA.- Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism, edited by Kris Miller-Fisher and Jocelyn Gibbs, with essays by: Natalie Shivers, Howard Shubert, Luis Hoyos, Lauren Bricker, and Charles Oakley is published by The Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara and punctum books, July 2019. This monograph is available in digital and printed editions. Drawing on the vast archival resources of its Architecture and Design Collection, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and punctum books have published an assessment of 50 years of design by architect Barton Myers, beginning with his work in the Toronto firm A. J. Diamond and Barton Myers (1967-1975) to his own office in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, Barton Myers Associates (1975-present). Five essays on urban planning, civic structures, ... More Zhang Enli collaborates with Fortnum & MasonLONDON.- This September, Fortnum & Mason will present Fortnums X Zhang Enli, 10 September 18 October 2019. This collaboration with eminent Chinese artist, Zhang Enli, will see a rich body of 28 works, with 19 never-before-seen paintings specially commissioned for Fortnums, including a 6-metre site-specific work, take over the flagship London store. Regarded as one of the 21st centurys most celebrated artists, Shanghai-based Zhang Enli is known for his captivating paintings that document the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life. Having achieved acclaim for his earlier figurative paintings, Zhang Enli has dedicated recent years to developing his own abstract visual language. In his latest body of work, commissioned specifically by Fortnums with the space in mind, Zhang Enlis uninhibited, intuitive approach to colour and form is exemplified ... More Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart opens an exhibition of works by Céline Condorelli BIEL/BIENNE.- In her work Céline Condorelli (b. 1974, FR/I, lives and works in GB/PT) connects art with her environment. The artist transfers elements of urban construction, architecture and interior design, but also aspects of museum scenography such as lighting, support structures and seating, into installations, sculptures and videos. Thus the components and materials of a building, which are actually part of the formal language of building construction, become themselves works of art. By placing these elements in the context of the neutral museum space, she opens up a discourse on the manner in which exhibitions are presented, reflecting on values, the visibility of things, forms of communication and manipulative interventions. Above and beyond this Condorelli creates connections between history and socio-economic contexts in order to question ... More British Library project breathes new life into earliest recordings of Pacific culturesLONDON.- A new project led by the British Library aims to reconnect a rich archive of early sound recordings of cultures from the Pacific region with the indigenous communities from which they originate. Funded by Leverhulme Trust and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), True Echoes: reconnecting cultures with recordings from the beginning of sound will utilise recently digitised wax cylinder recordings that date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and which represent some of the earliest uses of sound in anthropological research. Beginning with the recordings made in 1898 by members of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, the wax cylinder collection held by the British Library Sound Archive also includes recordings made over the subsequent two decades in Papua New Guinea, ... More Elisabetta Benassi's EMPIRE opens at MOSTYNLLANDUDNO.- From 13 July to 27 October 2019 MOSTYN, Wales UK is hosting EMPIRE, a project by Elisabetta Benassi, winner of the third edition of the 'Italian Council (2018)' call set up by the DirectorateGeneral for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide. EMPIRE reflects the basic building element of ancient architecture, the Roman brick, transforming it into an element with new aesthetic potential and meaning, constitutive of a site-specific installation made of six thousand terracotta bricks impressed with the inscription that entitles the work. The term 'empire', with its varied and contrasting meanings, suggests figures of power and grandeur, and at the same time evokes dark scenes of coercion, domination and submission. ... More Denny Dimin Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Jordan TateNEW YORK, NY.- Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce Polemics of the Landscape, a solo exhibition by Jordan Tate, on view from July 11th to August 16th, 2019. This is the artists fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Polemics of a Landscape is a new, ongoing body of work by Jordan Tate exploring the experience of viewing land and making landscape photographs. It is a marked departure from the work for which he is best known, a conceptual digital photography practice. In early 2018, Tate embarked on a series of written correspondence with art historian Abigail Susik in which they create a framework for how to talk about this work, investigating philosophy and art criticism alongside of their everyday experiences of travel, teaching, and familial obligations. A publication ... More Exhibition of graphite drawings by Brian Wood on view at Arts + LeisureNEW YORK, NY.- Arts + Leisure is presenting Brian Wood Drawings, an exhibition of graphite drawings by Brian Wood. Working across a variety of mediums, Woods practice is intimately attuned to the specificity of his materials. He draws with a richly varied array of expressive lines, marks, and tonal effects. The artists handling of line is central to his practice, in turn fluid and sharp, qualities that function as a lightning rod for inner emotional and psychological states. Wood is an originator of what is now called neo-Surrealism and neo-Symbolism. His deep inquiry into psychology and spirit, reaching back to his earliest work in the 70s, bridges and melds these identities. Woods drawings hover between reality and the subconscious, manifesting as impressions of otherworldly dreamscapes, yet appear refracted from the organic textures of our surroundings. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter George Grosz was born July 26, 1893. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. In this image: George Grosz, Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen, 1918 (Germany, a Winter's Tale). Watercolour, reed pen, pen and ink, 50.8 x 36 cm. Private Collection, Courtesy Richard Nagy Ltd, London
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