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Beadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. Exhibits and programs at the museum have been reworked to focus on the enslaved people who lived and worked there. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
by Laurel Graeber
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1765, a young woman named Flora came to live on the Lefferts family farm in what is now the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Skilled in treating illnesses with medicinal herbs and in preparing and preserving food, she took charge of the farmhouses kitchen, planning daily meals on the 250-acre property. But Flora was property, too. Her record of enslavement is one of 25 personal histories recently unearthed by ReImagine Lefferts, an initiative dedicated to redefining the identity of the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park. This Brooklyn institution, which consists of the homestead where Flora worked it was burned during the American Revolution, rebuilt in 1783 and relocated to the parks east side in 1917 was originally a monument to the Lefferts family, prosperous Dutch immigrants who arrived in the 1660s. The house is this very large artifact, landmarked artifact, of a pretty brutal history, Dylan Yeats, the ReImagine Lefferts project coo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Almine Rech is presenting French artist César Pietteâs second solo exhibition with the gallery, in which he applies his trademark style to a perennial subject of philosophy, literature and art: the humble butterfly. Photo: Dana Bradica.
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| The Missing Saint's Head: A rediscovered American Symbolist masterpiece | | Dana Powell: Night Tripper opened yesterday at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | | 'Cesar Piette: Butterfly paintings' now open at Almine Rech | 
William Sergeant Kendall, Saint Yves, Pray For Us (detail). Signed and dated, 38 ½ x 42 ½ in.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is often fascinating to look at artists and find out what inspires them. Some are inspired by nature, others by family and friends, many are often inspired by political change or unrest. Part of our attraction to art is likely that artists often translate their emotion and opinions into a tangible picture for us to see. Something that for most people is internalized or only expressed by words, these talented souls can express in a visual form. Their genius and our limitation are often why we are drawn to their work. The viewer can be pulled to their images of family, war, poverty whatever is touching our own heart. However, these artists must first find their own stimulation to create these works, and at the end of the 19th century, it was for some artists Le Pouldu. In the late 1800s, the Paris Salon often drew half a million visitors setting the commercial and aesthetic taste in the Western world. It was habitually rigid and specific ... More | | 
Dana Powell, Night trip, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dana Powells newest body of work, now on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, is a continued portrayal of the familiar and mundane with a mysterious and sometimes unsettling undertone. Small-scale oil paintings depict ordinary moments in time - dark roads, weather, grubby interiors, and still lifes. Considered austerity is apparent in each painting. Using thinly applied oil paint on tightly woven linen, the artist omits extraneous detail in both subject and medium. Acutely captured, these paintings are simple, common scenes, but when viewed together the paintings develop a cinematic suspense, a narrative that Powell encourages but doesnt explicitly detail. Pushing paintings beyond face value interpretation, the artists core strategies are often rooted in the ambiguity of an object or scenario. Extremes of weather and fire are the most dramatic depictions, and Powell continues to celebrate the contradiction of in ... More | | 
César Piette, Gold dripping Butterfly, 2023. Acrylic on board, 168.3 x 123.2 x 4.4 cm, 66 1/4 x 48 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech has now opened French artist César Piettes second solo exhibition with the gallery, in which he applies his trademark style to a perennial subject of philosophy, literature and art: the humble butterfly. Since the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Chinese, butterflies have served as a metaphor, and artists as varied as Katsushika Hokusai, Frida Kahlo, and Damien Hirst have used them to illustrate themes such as the potential for transformation as well as the brevity of life and the flight of the soul. And while there are thousands of varieties of butterfly, no lepidopterist has ever captured one that quite resembles the creature in Piettes paintings, slightly slumped on a blade of grass, a few teeth poking out of its open mouth. Piette depicts the winged insect in a variety of materials and textures: silver, colorful plastic, marble, ice, gold and ivory, and against varied backdrops: a single color, a hazy lands ... More |
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| Highfield Hall & Gardens opens 'End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land' | | Magazzino Italian Art announces welcome to New York | | Timken Museum of Art presents distinguished, major work by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley | 
Verdant. Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in.
FALMOUTH, MASS.- Highfield Hall & Gardens, a premier destination for arts and culture in Falmouth, MA, has opened End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land, the summer exhibition where thirty artists present their interpretations of the regions diverse geography. Although this hooked shaped peninsula has appealed to artists for well over two centuries, its beauty and diversity is constantly under threat due to issues ranging from the health of the environment to economic equity. We are fortunate to have these artists present this contemporary record of the land. End-to-End will feature artists from every one of the fifteen towns of Cape Cod and three from the islands. Visual artists are inspired by the land as much as they are by the sea on the Cape. As light and color continuously change, even day to day, the natural landscape offers artists a rich visual feast twelve months a year. The artists have been ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Marco Anelli Tommaso Sacconi. Courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art.
COLD SPRING, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art announced its six-year anniversary on June 25, 2023, marked by the unveiling of a special project dedicated to the renowned artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. This date coincides with Maestro Pistoletto's 90th birthday, making it a truly momentous occasion for both the artist and the museum. Pistoletto's presence in the Olnick Spanu Collection and his significant contributions to the history of Magazzino resonate throughout the galleries of the museum. For the inaugural opening of Magazzino, the museum unveiled Stracci italiani (Italian Rags, 2007), a work that was commissioned to commemorate the anniversary of Italy's unification. The tricolor Italian flag made of discarded fabric greets visitors upon entering the lobby. In 2017, Magazzino acquired Sfera di giornali (Newspaper Sphere), a sculpture composed during ... More | | 
Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan, (2015).
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.- The Timken Museum of Art, located in San Diegos Balboa Park, announced has announced the presentation of a distinguished, major work by artist Kehinde Wiley: Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan (2015), a modern-day version of the famed 17th-century painting by Dutch master, Anthony van Dyck. Wileys version, a massive artwork measuring. 112 x 118 x 3 inches is an extension of his Rumors of War series, which takes the form of an historic equestrian portraiture. Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan is currently on display at the Timken. Kehinde Wiley has become internationally recognized for creating exquisitely beautiful portrayals of power and masculinity via the age-old portraiture genre. Wileys artistic expression explodes with an array of bold and bright colors. However, contrary to tradition, ... More |
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| Five hundred years after his death, Luca Signorelli takes centre stage in his hometown | | Chapel of St. Nicholas in the Basilica of SS. Annunziata in Florence is now restored | | Blaffer Art Museum opens 'John Guzman: Flesh and Bone' | 
Annunciation, 1491. Oil on panel, 258 x 190 cm. Volterra, Parish Basilica Cathedral at the Civic Art Gallery of Volterra.
CORTONA.- Starting this June 23rd until October 8th, Cortona celebrates the painter who was a beacon for the greatest Renaissance artists with a carefully curated exhibition that traces his artistic evolution, accompanied by thematic itineraries through the town and in key places in Tuscany and Umbria. An extraordinary innovator of the Renaissance period, Luca Signorelli (1450 1523), born as Luca dEgidio di Ventura or Luca da Cortona, has been a somewhat elusive figure for critics and the public alike; yet, he was fundamental in blazing a trail for Raphael and Michelangelo, the two giants who, ironically, would end up overshadowing his fame. In October 1523, Luca, then old and affected by tremors exhaled his last breath. On the 500th anniversary of his death, Cortona the birth town to which he remained attached throughout his life, even holding several ... More | | 
Chapel of St. Nicholas in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata.14th Century. Back wall frescoes by Matteo Rosselli and Domenico Pugliani, 1628. After restoration. Photo: Ottaviano Caruso.
FLORENCE.- The Chapel of St. Nicholas in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata has been restored to its original splendor thanks to support from Friends of Florence Foundation and The Giorgi Family Foundation. The project began in October 2021, was completed in January 2023, and formally presented this month with Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture Alessia Bettini, Friends of Florence President Simonetta Brandolini dAdda, and the restoration experts in attendance. This is the most recent project funded by Friends of Florence in the Basilica which dates to the 14th century. Another wonderful project restoring an important piece of the citys inestimable heritage, said Deputy Mayor Bettini. As we can see once again from the work performed and the results achieved, these operations are extremely meticulous. Theyi ... More | | 
The Wake (2023). Image courtesy of the artist.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Blaffer Art Museum is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of work by artist John Guzman (b. 1984). Flesh and Bone focuses on works produced in the artists hometown of San Antonio and the Texas debut of paintings completed during, and immediately following, time at the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program in New Haven, Connecticut. John Guzman: Flesh and Bone, is on view at Blaffer Art Museum June 23September 23, 2023. As a spectator to claustrophobic psychological and physical states growing up in San Antonios Southside, Guzmans monumental paintings are a byproduct of experiences, recordings, and environmental reflections. The artist abstracts the human figure to reflect the harm endured by the body, and the unrecognizable transformation brought on by years of punishment, addiction, relapse, and self-destruction. Through large-scale paintings, Guzman assembles distorted, tangled, and deteriorated ... More |
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| 'Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest' opening today at Vito Schnabel Gallery | | Julie Garwood, bestselling romance novelist, dies at 78 | | A Britney Spears jukebox musical hopes for #SeeBritney energy | 
Elisabetta Zangrandi, Brigid Berlin Polaroid, 2023 Acrylic on canvas board. 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm), © Elisabetta Zangrandi; Courtesy the artist and James Barron Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening at Vito Schnabel Gallerys Clarkson Street space on June 23, 2023, Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest is the first exhibition ever to document all aspects of the artists life, shedding light on the full scope of her career beyond the shadow of her famous friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Also on view will be portraits of the artist made by her peers, as well as posthumous homages to Berlins legacy created for the exhibition by a handful of contemporary artists. In the New York art scene of the mid-1960s and early 70s, Brigid Berlin achieved the rarest of feats by becoming an essential member of both of the two opposing spheres of the downtown creative classes gathered at Maxs Kansas City, the definitive watering hole of the avant-garde. She was a fixture in the queer délire of the back room, where Andy Warhol held court among his Factory Superstars, drag queens, and other hangers-on. At the same time, Berl ... More | | 
Julie Garwood in 2010. Garwood, a romance novelist whose books some set centuries ago, some sampling present-day maladies like computer hacking and Ponzi schemes routinely landed on best-seller lists, died on June 8, 2023, at her home in Leawood, Kan., on the Missouri border. She was 78. (Charles Bush via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Julie Garwood, a romance novelist whose books some set centuries ago, some sampling present-day maladies like computer hacking and Ponzi schemes routinely landed on bestseller lists, died on June 8 at her home in Leawood, Kansas, on the Missouri border. She was 78. Her publisher, Berkley, part of the Penguin Group, announced her death in a statement but did not specify a cause. More than 40 million copies of Garwoods books are in print in 32 languages, the company said. She was in her 40s when her writing career took off. She had written but not yet published a young-adult novel, A Girl Named Summer, when she entered the historical romance genre in 1985 with Gentle Warrior, a story set in feudal ... More | | 
Stoyanka Damyanova, from Bulgaria, poses for a photo before seeing the musical Once Upon a One More Time for the third time at the Marquis Theater in New York, June 12, 2023. The Britney Spears jukebox musical is bringing hits like Toxic and Circus to Broadway. (Ye Fan/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The book writer for Once Upon a One More Time, the Britney Spears jukebox musical opening on Broadway Thursday night, often returns to a memory from five years ago, when Spears sat in a Manhattan theater a few rows in front of him and watched an early reading of the show. I was just watching her, and it was like, Is she going to like this? the writer, Jon Hartmere, said recently, recalling his relief whenever he saw Spears clap along or smile as one of her songs came on. It was pure delight. A campy fairy tale spoof that sidesteps the bio-musical formula to focus on a cast of disillusioned Disney princesses and storybook protagonists, Once Upon a One More Time is the latest in a long line of jukebox musicals that have plumbed the catalogs of acts including Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner ... More |
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 Wes Anderson's secret weapon: The camera moves of Sanjay SamiNEW YORK, NY.- Wes Andersons intricate films are known for their jewel box sets, vibrant costumes and starry ensemble casts. But theres another element that gives his movies their distinctive look and feel, and it comes in the form of a 52-year-old grip. Sanjay Sami, a native of Mumbai, India, got his start on Bollywood movies and has been working with Anderson since 2006, mostly as a dolly grip. Its a rough job, pushing and pulling a camera mounted on a dolly a setup weighing up to 900 pounds along hundreds of feet of track built for a scene, and Sami has engineered, invented and refined it into an art form. On a typical movie, a dolly might move the camera left to right or back and forth. In the Wesiverse, it goes in all those directions and sometimes up and down, too in a single tracking shot, allowing, Anderson said, for unbroken expression ... More  Haim Roet, who kept Holocaust victims' names alive, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Rosina Roet. Adelheid Roet. Abraham Roet. The names of three Dutch Jews and others who died in the Holocaust could have easily been lost to history, their individual humanity snuffed out under the overwhelming weight of 6 million victims. Haim Roet, a relative, ensured that this never happened. Roet, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Dutch village, came up with the simple but powerful idea of memorializing Jewish victims of the Nazis by intoning their names. I tried to find a way to make the Holocaust more personal, so people can understand the calamity of 6 million souls murdered for being Jewish, Roet said in a speech before the United Nations in 2016. Roet died on May 22 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 90. His daughter Vardit Lichtenstein confirmed the death. ... More  Hidden in a mini-mall in Flushing, a home for artNEW YORK, NY.- The flier announcing a new exhibition in Queens, Home-O-Stasis, doesnt give an address. Instead, it has instructions: When you reach the Queens Public Library in Flushing, go up to Kissena Boulevard till you see the Q17/Q27 stop. Go past the garage gate, enter the mini-mall on the right where scooters and bikes are parked outside. (How you get to the library is up to you and Google maps.) The gesture says a lot about the show, up until July 23: it pays homage to a neighborhood whose residents are almost 70% Asian, most from China, Korea and Taiwan. To find the art, which jostles for space with shop signs, advertising notices and handbills that plaster the walls and windows of its nondescript site, you need to experience Flushing as its residents do as a series of everyday, visual cues that shape a sense of place rather ... More  Now on view at Roberts Projects: 'Evan Nesbit: /ˈsɪn.kə.sɨs/ and Wanderlust'LOS ANGELES, CA.- Evan Nesbit: /ˈsɪn.kə.sɨs/ is now on view at Roberts Projects through July 8. Evan Nesbit's newest exhibition of paintings constitutes an exercise in precision and restraint, utilizing modernist systems of understanding, and recodifying this understanding through an intensely realized and deliberately implemented lyricism. On the surface, this might appear to be a daunting task, however, Nesbit employs restraint as a challenge, a liminal provocation to expand the painterly surface as a phenomenological object, rather than a static irrepressible expression of personal ideation. These paintings derive from an in body, proprioceptive sensibility that has no literal beginning and no predetermined end. This haptic awareness extends to all points across the paintings surface, wherein the movement of the paint is dislocated and reanimated ... More  Galeria Nara Roesler New York opens a group show curated by Luis Pérez-OramasNEW YORK, NY.- Galeria Nara Roesler New York presents Co/respondences: Brazil and Abroad, a group show curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas where works by major Brazilian artists represented by Nara Roesler Gallery are in dialogue vis-à -vis works by significant international artists not necessarily linked to Brazil, stressing their mutual resonance -either based on formal, structural, thematic, biographical or historical rationale. The exhibition opened to the public on June 22 and will remain on view through August 26. Through juxtapositions of works carefully selected, featuring at the same time resemblance and difference even if minimal the show aims to stress that art is, and it has always been, global as it stands as a field of unlimited and always ever potential affinities, beyond contexts and chronologies. Prioritizing affinity over genealogy, ... More  John Craxton painting sets new world record at Bonhams Modern British & Irish Art saleLONDON.- Summer Triptych by John Craxton (1922-2009) set a new world record at Bonhams Modern British & Irish Art Sale in New Bond Street, London, on Wednesday 21 June selling for £343,300, over four times its pre-sale estimate. The 69-lot sale made over £2 million (£2,257,000) with 72% sold by lot and 100% sold by value. The figures of the boy, the girl and the goat in Summer Triptych were based on sketches Craxton made on the Greek island of Paros where he lived for many years. The girl with the scarf is Maria Mastropetros, who later inspired a solo for Margot Fonteyn in Frederick Ashtons 1951 ballet Daphnis and Chloë at Covent Garden for which Craxton executed the designs. Believed to have been painted in 1958, Summer Triptych surpassed its pre-sale estimate of £80,00 - 120,000. Penny Day, Bonhams Head of UK & Ireland, ... More  The Hartwig Art Foundation announces its collaborations dedicated to the artists Meredith Monk and Ed AtkinsAMSTERDAM.- Living legend Meredith Monk has devoted her life to exploring the potential of the human voice, weaving together new modes of perception and expanding the boundaries of music, performance and visual art. Her newest work, Indras Net, is an immersive installation performance work inspired by a Buddhist tale that illustrates lifes interconnectedness. In the ancient Buddhist/Hindu legend of Indras Net, an enlightened king, Indra, stretches a large net across the universe with an infinitely faceted jewel placed at each intersection. Each jewel is unique yet reflects all the others, illuminating the interdependence of all living things. For this world premiere at the Holland Festival 2023, together with members ... More  Kate MacGarry now representing Lisa MilroyLONDON.- Kate MacGarry announced the representation of Lisa Milroy. Lisa Milroy was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1959 and lives and works in London and Kent. Still life is at the heart of Milroys practice. In the 1980s, her paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white background. Subsequently her imagery expanded to include depictions of objects within settings, as well as landscape, architecture, people, textiles and patterns. As her approaches to still life diversified, so did her manner of painting, giving rise to a range of stylistic innovations. Throughout her practice, Milroy has been fascinated by the relation between stillness and movement, and the nature of making and looking at painting. Recent solo exhibitions include If the Shoe Fits/Bien dans ses pompes, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, France (2021); Exchange Paintings by Lisa Milroy, White Conduit Projects, London (2021 ... More  Oscars' best picture hopefuls must spend more time in theatersNEW YORK, NY.- In a move designed to signal Hollywoods commitment to the moviegoing experience, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would require an expanded theatrical release for films seeking to be eligible for a best picture nomination. The new eligibility rule is sure to affect how Netflix and other streaming services release films they consider to be Oscar worthy. And it could be an impediment to smaller distributors that lack the means to release films in cities across the United States. Oscar-oriented films have struggled mightily at the box office in recent years, making some people wonder if the importance of big screens has been forever altered by ... More  Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens 'CHAOS' curated by Alexander MayLOS ANGELES, CA.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery Los Angeles presents CHAOS, a group show curated by Alexander May Creative Director and Founder of SIZED. Marking one year since the launch of the physical gallery space in Los Angeles, this exhibition is curated to illustrate the breadth of the gallerys creative collaborative approach in bringing to the fore all forms of artistic expression using form and function as a guiding principle. The show encompasses the work of over 20 renowned artists, including Ingrid Donat, Sterling Ruby, Vincenzo De Cotiis, Thomas Houseago, Victor Barragán, Suda Kokuta and Rick Owens. The title CHAOS refers to the investigation of contrasting textures and forms, showcasing a balance of opposing creative perspectives and the inherent beauty that can emerge from disorder. CHAOS seeks to present a cultural ... More  'Peter Davies: From the land of' on view for last few daysLONDON.- For over 25 years I have been making abstract paintings. Going in different directions, by trial and error. Everything I made before was necessary to paint what I make now. Every change of gear, direction, pause or restart within a painting reflects the complexity of navigating and negotiating the world. My work, currently on view at The approach, is motivated by a curiosity as to what the world is, and a desire to learn what painting is, and who I am. My education, at Goldsmiths in the mid 1990s, embraced painting as a method for commodification, but emotion was discouraged. Around 2015 when I made my show RITES I realised emotion was the thing I most wanted in my work. I then found a way to do this through making small painted paper collages. Agnes Martin in 1973 said I would rather think of humility than anything else.* In response ... More  Reading Public Museum receives landmark gift of artREADING, PA.- The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum is pleased to announce a landmark gift from the Estate of Dr. Luther W. Brady, Jr., an important collector and world-renowned radiation oncologist from Philadelphia. A long-time friend and beloved patron of The Museum, Dr. Bradys extraordinary generosity will enrich The Museum and the community for years to come. The gift includes over 120 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by important twentieth and twenty-first century artists. The Museum will display many of the works in an exhibition in the Jerome I. Marcus American Gallery and the Irvin and Lois E. Cohen Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art from July 8, 2023 through January 7, 2024. One of the largest and most valuable bequests in The Museums 120-year history, the donation will unquestionably transform ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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