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Various works by Fred Eversley in the living room of his five-story building in Manhattans SoHo neighborhood in New York on Aug. 16, 2022. His parabolic lenses are positioned to capture and bend the light and views. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
COSTA MESA, CALIF.- As a teenager in Brooklyn, Fred Eversley filled a pie pan with Jell-O and spun it on a turntable in his fathers basement laboratory. It was one of his many early science experiments, inspired by an article in Popular Mechanics about Isaac Newtons contributions to modern physics involving a bucket of water and a rope. Eversleys motion produced a concave parabolic hollow in the quivering Jell-O that turned out to be his first artwork, though he didnt know it at the time. He pursued engineering first, becoming an artist in 1967 and he has essentially applied the technique of centripetal force in endless variations for more than five decades in his sculpture practice. He casts liquid plastics tinted with pigments in molds and gives them a good spin on modified turntables, producing parabolic forms that he hand-polishes to a lustrous sheen. These seductive fish-eye lenses, varying in translucency and up to 8 feet wide, are central to the story of the Light and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Immagine della mostra / Exhibition view of "Preserving The Brain" Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani e Alessandro Saletta - DSL Studio IG: @delfino_sl e @alessandrosaletta - @dsl__studio Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
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| The Art Institute of Chicago opens the most extensive museum exhibition of Bridget Riley's work | | Hauser & Wirth announces representation of acclaimed American artist Pat Steir | | Exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Marco Pariani opens at Cheim & Read | 
Bridget Riley. Blue Landscape, 1959. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2022. All rights reserved.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artists Studio, the first and most extensive American museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to Rileys drawings in over half a century. Organized in collaboration with the Hammer Museum and the Morgan Library & Museum, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artists Studio is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 17, 2022 to January 16, 2023 and includes more than 90 sheets from Rileys private collection, which have long been kept as part of her dynamic studio practice. In her early student drawings made in the 1950smany on view here for the first timeRiley looked to the human form and nature to establish the foundation for her investigation of pure abstraction. Starting in 1960 and up until today, the British artist has created abstract, geometric drawings that challenge optical sensations. ... More | | 
The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) 1982-1984. Oil on Canvas, 64 panels, 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in, each. Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced worldwide representation of renowned American artist Pat Steir. Among the great innovators of contemporary painting, with a lifelong commitment to drawing and printmaking, Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to painting the rigorous pouring technique seen in her Waterfall works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in both visual and literary realms, Steirs storied five-decade career continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration ... More | | 
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Marco Pariani: Trees and Traditions, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by the Brooklyn-based, Italian-born artist. The show opened on September 15, 2022, at the gallerys Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street in Manhattan, and run through November 12. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery. The trees and traditions cited in the exhibitions title are Christmas trees and the decorating, gift-giving, and family gatherings traditionally associated with the holiday. Casting an ironic eye on the stress, materialism, and forced good cheer endemic to the season, Pariani focuses on the inflatable decorations that bloom across suburban lawns and town squares as the holiday approaches. However, the artist never directly quotes the appearance of these oversized ornaments, whose images he has downloaded from the internet. His canvases teeming with spr ... More |
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| Gagosian presents editions of furniture pieces from Casa Malaparte | | The A arte Invernizzi gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Rodolfo Aricò | | The eyes have it in Hew Locke's power-challenging show | 
Original walnut and Carrara marble bench conceived in 1941 by Curzio Malaparte in situ at Casa Malaparte, Capri. Malaparte. Photo: Dariusz Jasak.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting editions of furniture pieces from Casa Malaparte, in an exhibition that opened on September 14, 2022. Constructed on an isolated promontory on the rugged eastern coast of Capri, Italy, Casa Malaparte is a unique exemplar of twentieth-century Italian architecture. The visionary residence was designed in 1938 by Curzio Malaparte (the pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert), a provocative writer, editor, and intellectual active in the Italian literary and artistic avant-garde who was notorious for his oscillations between the ideological extremes of the era. Malaparte completed the home in 1941, realizing a strikingly spare design incorporating a trapezoidal exterior staircase that leads to a broad terrace overlooking the luscious green of maritime pine trees, the buff tones of limestone cliffs, and the aqueous blues of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Combining an austere modernism with interpretations of classical ... More | | 
Rodolfo Aricò, [Pulsa Rossoarancio (nè angelo nè demonio)], 1989. Acrylic on canvas, 220x230 cm. Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milan. Photo Mattia Mognetti, Milan.
MILAN.- The A arte Invernizzi gallery opened a solo exhibition entitled Rodolfo Aricò: The Dissonant Image, curated by Francesca Pola, with representative works from the 1960s and 1980s. From the mid-1960s, Rodolfo Aricò, one of the leading names in Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century, used his shaped canvases to highlight the paradox of geometry as a means of representation, turning it into a place of temporal sequencing and relational responsiveness. His images appear with wavering precision in a form of painting that is layered on both a structural and a chromatic level. It is as though they were constantly pushing against the edges, while colour gives a sense of an understanding of space, in a never-ending tension between surface and depth. The images are thus dissonant, with the monochrome essentiality of his works constantly confounded by structuring dynamics and perceptive intermixing. ... More | | 
Artist Hew Locke in front of Gilt: Trophy 4, 2022, one of his sculptures displayed on the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, on Sept. 14, 2022. Lila Barth/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- My introduction to the work of Guyanese British artist Hew Locke, whose cranky, bling-gold, power-pricking sculptures are currently embedded in the Metropolitan Museums facade, came in 2007 in a group show of contemporary Caribbean art at the Brooklyn Museum. Lockes contribution there was a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, the most maybe only interesting one Ive encountered. For it, he took a standard bust-length postage stamp image of the sovereign and translated into a 10-foot-tall wall relief mosaicked from hundreds, possibly thousands of small, carefully chosen down-market things: plastic toy guns and swords, rubber lizards and bugs, and red and yellow fake flowers. The visual effect was sensational: molten and spiky, monstrous and fragile. Within the context of the shows anti-colonial buzz and Lockes own biography born in Scotland in 1959, he grew up in a newly independent ... More |
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| Staatliche Museen zu Berlin opens 'Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance' special exhibition | | Pace welcomes Gideon Appah | | Hannah Traore Gallery Presents Moya Garrison-Msingwana: LAUNDRY 002 - A Thread Is A Vein | 
Donatello, Maria mit dem Kind (Mantel-Madonna), um 1415, Terrakotta, ursprünglich bemalt, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt.
BERLIN.- Donatello is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Italian Renaissance. The Florentine sculptor revolutionised the art of his day, his outstanding talent was recognised by his contemporaries, and renowned patrons vied to acquire his artworks. Now, a one-off collaboration between the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, the Musei del Bargello, Florence, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, sees the first ever exhibition in Germany focused exclusively on Donatello. Across 90 works, many of them key works from his oeuvre that have never before been shown together, a panorama emerges that sparks the realisation that the story of Donatello is also the story of the Renaissance. Donatello (ca. 13861466) was a versatile and pioneering force who experimented tirelessly with a range of different materials, ... More | | 
Gideon Appah, Night Watcher, 2020, oils, acrylics on canvas, 243cm x 183cm. Photography by Nii Odzenma © Gideon Appah, courtesy of Gallery 1957 and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its representation of Gideon Appah, who is known for his dreamlike and enigmatic paintings, drawings, and mixed media works that often explore Ghanaian history and popular culture. Appah will have his debut presentation with Pace next month at Frieze London, where the gallerys booth will focus on works by artists new to the program. His first solo exhibition with Pace will take place in London in spring 2023. Pace will represent Appah in collaboration with Gallery 1957 and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, where Appahs second solo exhibition with the gallery opened in New York on September 8. Born in Accra, where he continues to live and work, Appah interlaces visual fragments from modern-day Ghana with his own imagination in the fantastical figurative scenes that make up his paintings. Drawing from childhood memories, family photographs, ... More | | 
Moya Garrison-Msingwana, SPINSTAR, 2022 44 x 46 x 1. Acrylic on Plywood.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery is presenting LAUNDRY 002 - A Thread Is A Vein, the first U.S solo exhibition of artist Moya Garrison-Msingwana, on view from September 15-November 10, 2022. Garrison-Msingwana is a Toronto-born and based artist and illustrator exploring themes rooted in fashion, pop culture, the absurd and the supernatural world. Working across many different mediums - including painting, sculpture and digital rendering - he uses this entirely new body of work to paint his way into a new reality. LAUNDRY is a series predicated upon a fictional premise; one in which clothing possesses minor sentience. PILES are the inhabitants of this world, which Garrison-Msingwana describes as a post-human and garment hybrid. In this uncanny universe, fabrics and textiles attempt to adopt and display a suitable identity for their human frame. In his own words: I love how fashion amplifies or changes the ... More |
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| Humboldt Forum in Berlin opens completed Ethnological Museum and Asian Art Museum | | Marian Goodman Gallery announces new Directors in Los Angeles and Paris | | CUE Art Foundation announces: 'Remnants of an Advanced Technology by Alisha B Wormsley | 
Versammlungshaus (Bai) aus Palau im Ausstellungsbereich Bauwerke aus Ozeanien. Mehr als ein Dach über dem Kopf des Ethnologischen Museums im Humboldt Forum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel.
BERLIN.- The final phase of the opening of Berlins Humboldt Forum will take place on Saturday 17 September 2022, making it possible for the first time to experience in full the great collections of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin). The objects on display offer a survey of the worlds cultures and have been chosen to place a new emphasis on the importance of art from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas. Located on the second and third floors of the Humboldt Forum, approximately 20,000 objects are displayed in state-of-the-art ... More | | 
Adrian Rosenfeld. Photo: Aaron Wojack.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following the recent announcement of plans to open in Los Angeles in early 2023, the Partners of Marian Goodman Gallery today announced the appointment of Adrian Rosenfeld as Executive Director of the Gallerys forthcoming Los Angeles location. With 25 years of experience as an art dealer, advisor, and consultant, and with deep ties throughout the West Coast, Rosenfeld will work from L.A. to cultivate client relations and develop new strategies and programs in support of the Gallerys global roster of artists. He joins the Gallerys senior sales team on October 1. The Partners simultaneously announced that Nathalie Brambilla has joined as a Director for the Gallerys Paris location where she will work with Executive Director Nicolas Nahab on global sales. Brambilla comes to Marian Goodman Gallery from Simon Lee Gallery, where she served as Director and Artist Manager and worked with an ... More | | 
Alisha B Wormsley, Detail of So Says The Beautiful Spirit: Mother, 2020; cotton and wool, motherboards, and vinyl text. Photo courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, September 15th, CUE Art Foundation opened Remnants of an Advanced Technology, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha B Wormsley, with curatorial mentorship from Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels. The exhibition, presented at CUEs gallery space (137 W. 25th Street) is the first solo show by the artist in New York City. During the opening reception, artists Li Harris, Jasmine Hearn, and Jamila Raeganlongtime collaborators of Wormsleyswill each host a ritual offering to bless the Children of NAN archive. The show will remain on view until October 22nd, 2022. Attendance during gallery hours (WedSat, 12-6 pm) is free; no reservations are required. It is right that a woman should lead. A womb is what god made in the beginning. And in the womb was born Time and all that fills up space. ... More |
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 Alex G and the art of interesting choicesPHILADELPHIA, PA.- On a blustery Thursday in June, 29-year-old musician Alex Giannascoli sat on a bench in tranquil Penn Treaty Park, overlooking the Delaware River, the breeze occasionally shaking loose acorns from an overhead tree. Giannascoli, who is known professionally as Alex G, has dark, shaggy hair and a disheveled handsomeness that makes him look a bit like a softer, more approachable Andrew W.K. He clutched a large Dunkin Donuts coffee cup and whenever he felt like he had gone on a tangent, he blamed the caffeine. Before long, a hiply dressed 20-something walking an old dog came up and interrupted to politely ask if Alex G was indeed Alex G. Alex grinned sheepishly and laughed. Yeah. I knew it! the man said, shaking his head. I just moved to Philly and what do you know! To a certain type of indie music fan, Alex G ... More  Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers' longtime director, dies at 70NEW YORK, NY.- Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who cemented the ensembles reputation as one of the countrys premier interpreters of African American spiritual music, died Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70. His wife, Susanna Kwami, confirmed the death, in a hospital, but did not provide a cause. The Fisk Jubilee Singers put Nashville on the musical map long before the city became famous for its honky-tonks and slide guitars. The group, based at Fisk University, a historically Black institution that was founded a year after the Civil War, was originally intended as a fundraising tool; it toured the country in the 1870s to bring in money for the struggling college. The group, many of whose members were formerly enslaved people, was among the first to perform spirituals like Go Down Moses and ... More  Opening Saturday: Wellin Museum tenth anniversary exhibition, including over 140 worksCLINTON, NY.- Dialogues Across Disciplines: Building a Collection for the Wellin Museum celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Featuring a selection of artworks acquired through gifts and purchases over the last decade, the exhibition highlights the museums ongoing commitment to building a globally representative collection that is reflective of the academic and cultural richness of Hamilton College. The exhibition will be on view September 17, 2022, through May 20, 2023, and is curated by Tracy L. Adler, Johnson-Pote Director, and Alexander Jarman, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions and Academic Outreach. Says Adler, who is the Museums founding director, At the core of our mission are exploration and experimentation. As a teaching museum, the Wellin has worked throughout the last ... More  A Uyghur author and translator were detained. Now, their novel speaks for them.NEW YORK, NY.- Perhat Tursun was eager for his novel, The Backstreets, to come out in the United States. It would be the first Uyghur novel to appear in English, and he considered the grim tale of one mans struggle within an oppressive environment one of his most consequential works. But Darren Byler, who translated the volume and is a leading scholar on Uyghur culture and Chinese surveillance, was reluctant to go ahead. The text was ready by 2015, but the crackdown on Uyghurs living in Chinas far western region of Xinjiang left him concerned for Tursun, and for his Uyghur co-translator. Publishing the book in English, he feared, might heighten their exposure. Hundreds of Uyghur intellectuals were detained in China as part of a repression campaign targeting predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities that started in 2016, then escalated. ... More  Art Rosenbaum, painter and preserver of folk music, dies at 83ATLANTA, GA.- Art Rosenbaum, a painter and folk musician acclaimed for a half-century of field recordings of American vernacular music, including old-time Appalachian fiddle tunes and ritual music imported from Africa by enslaved people, died Sept. 4 at a hospital in Athens, Georgia, his adopted hometown. He was 83. His son, Neil Rosenbaum, said the cause was complications of cancer. Art Rosenbaums passion for documenting a broad range of American musical traditions as they were passed down and performed at work camps, church gatherings and rural living rooms expanded upon the famous field recording work of the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. An important inspiration was Pete Seeger, another high-profile 20th-century champion of folk music. Rosenbaum wrote that Seeger had once told him, Dont learn from me, learn from the folks I learned ... More  Three rare turn of the century motor vehicles roar off for a combined $120,950 NEW HAMBURG.- Three extremely rare, turn-of-the-century motor vehicles a 1907 REO Model A 5-passenger touring car, an 1899 Stanley Stanhope No. 1 Locomobile and a prototype of the 1911 Model H REO pickup truck sped away for a combined $120,950 in Miller & Miller Auctions online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction held on September 10th. All figures quoted are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyers premium. The 1899 Stanley Stanhope Model No. 1 Locomobile, made by the Locomobile Company of America, was the auctions top lot, selling for $44,250. It was very popular and quickly became known as the Stanley Steamer due to its quiet but powerful two-cylinder steam engine. The literature boasted it weighs less than 400 pounds and is odorless and noiseless when in use. The 1907 REO Model A ... More  Ben Brown Fine Arts opens Ghosts of Empires ll, an exhibition curated by Larry Ossei-MensahLONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts announces Ghosts of Empires ll, an exhibition curated by Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic Larry Ossei-Mensah. Taking place at Ben Brown Fine Arts London (16 September 22 October 2022), the exhibition seeks to explore the intersections, overlaps, and dissonance between the Black Atlantic and Asia Imperialist Trade routes and brings together an extraordinary group of contemporary artists hailing from African and Asian diasporas. This seminal exhibition features the work of Hurvin Anderson, Alvaro Barrington, Adam de Boer, Delphine Desane, Theaster Gates, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Chris Ofili, Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Maia Cruz Palileo, Miguel Ãngel Payano Jr., Paul Anthony Smith, Zao Wou-Ki and Livien Yin. Inspired by the formative text by British-Ghanaian author and Chancellor ... More  Fondazione Prada, Milan: Preserving the Brain - A forum on neurodegenerative diseases MILAN.- Preserving the Brain, a forum on neurodegenerative diseases, is the fourth phase of Human Brains, Fondazione Pradas neuroscience project. Realized in collaboration with thirteen of the most relevant international neuroscience institutes and universities, Human Brains: Preserving the Brain Forum on Neurodegenerative Diseases comprises an exhibition (16 September 10 October 2022) and a conference (6 7 October 2022) at Fondazione Pradas Milan premises and a series of online workshop (19 September 4 October 2022) organized by the research centers. The international institutes involved in Preserving the Brain are: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases, Boston, United States; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne University AP-HP, Neurology department and Paris Brain Institute, ... More  The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens the first retrospective of Alexis Smith's work in over 30 yearsSAN DIEGO, CA.- On September 15, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Alexis Smith: The American Way, the first retrospective of California artist Alexis Smith (b. 1949, Los Angeles, CA) in thirty years. A series of public programs and educational events are planned to coincide with the exhibition, which will run through February 3, 2023 at the recently renovated La Jolla flagship location. Smith is widely known for her mixed-media collage works which draw heavily on film, literature, pop culture and Hollywood. Her unique practice has been informed by Conceptual and Pop art and shaped by the Feminist movement of the 1970s, yet she has set out a path all her own and her consistently defies easy ... More  Opening hours extended for final weeks of NGV's unmissable blockbuster exhibition The Picasso Century MELBOURNE.- To celebrate the final weeks of the world-premiere Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition The Picasso Century, the NGV will extend opening hours from 24 September to 9 October, offering visitors greater opportunity to view over 80 works by Pablo Picasso alongside over 100 works by more than 50 of his contemporaries. Exclusively developed for the NGV by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, The Picasso Century presents extraordinary artworks seldom seen in Australia by some of the most prominent names in twentieth century art history, including Georges Braque, Salvador DalÃ, Françoise Gilot, Marie Laurencin, Dora Maar, Henri Matisse, Dorothea Tanning and many more. From 24 September to 8 October, NGV Internationals ground floor will be open an hour early from 9.00 am. On 9 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Alsatian sculptor and painter Jean Arp was born September 16, 1886. Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 - 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. In this image: Visitors look at Jean Arp's painting "Femme" (woman), right, exhibited at Drouot Gallery in Paris, France Tuesday, April 1, 2003. The painting is one among hundreds of art pieces from French surrealist writer Andre Breton's art collection which is being auctioned.
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