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Installation view. Photo: Jim Bennett/Photo Bakery for National Nordic Museum.
SEATTLE, WA.- Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: A Place of Opportunity and Transformation opened at the National Nordic Museum this weekend. The Museum presents the cutting-edge work of celebrated Swedish artists from August 3rd to October 27th. Immersive installations of sculpture, sound, and video clay animation are included in the artists first museum exhibition on the West Coast in over a decade. Djurberg and Bergs collaborative works convey psychological states and common life experiences by using anthropomorphic objects as metaphors. Visitors will be invited to step inside a large-scale immersive installation titled The Stone Garden (2023), a cold and inhospitable environment, yet one that supports plant life. Colorful flowers bloom from boulders and branches. Elsewhere in the exhibition are ovoid and spherical sculptures of eggs and moons. These objects resemble people with facial features and limbs. The sculptures assemble as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day One of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary artists, Angelica Mesiti, will premiere an immersive visual and sonic experience in the extraordinary Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in September. In this image: Angelica Mesiti 'The Rites of When' 2024 (video still), 7-channel digital video installation, colour, sound, approx 30 min, collection of the artist, commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the Tank, 2024 © Angelica Mesiti.
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| Hauser & Wirth announces 'L.A. Story' organized in dialogue with Steve Martin | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens its first exhibition of works by Hans Josephsohn | | All aperto exhibit Annamarie Trombetta July 15th to August 10, 2024 |
Mark Bradford, When the Hilltop Gets Heavy, 2016. Mixed media on canvas, 199.4 x 381 x 5.7 cm / 78 1/2 x 150 x 2 1/4 in © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joshua White.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.- Titled for and inspired by the 1991 film beloved for its playfully satiric and unabashedly romantic foray into the land of Los Angeles swimming pools, Hollywood machers, earthquakes, freeways and extravagant sunsets, Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood will present the group exhibition L.A. Story. Co-organized by Ingrid Schaffner, senior curatorial director, and Mike ... More | |
Hans Josephsohn, Untitled (Ruth), 1975-78. Brass, 117 x 65 x 45 cm (46.06 x 25.59 x 17.72 in).
SALZBURG.- This first exhibition of Hans Josephsohns (19202012) works at Thaddaeus Ropac presents sculptures and reliefs from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, tracing the Swiss artists stylistic development over the course of three decades, and placing an emphasis on his late work. Josephsohns practice is characterised by his lifelong preoccupation with the human form as the starting point for his art. Throughout his career, he developed a wholly unique ... More | |
Annamarie Trombetta, Preparing for the Picnic. Oil on canvas with photo of artist at work.
STATEN ISLAND, NY.- The Garibaldi Meucci Museum is presenting the second solo exhibit of Italian American artist, Annamarie Trombetta from July 15th to August 10, 2024. A closing event on August 10, 2024 will include a lecture by the artist on this exhibit, with refreshments. Ms. Trombettas exhibit includes original drawings, pastels, etchings, watercolors and oil paintings that were created on location, outdoors also known in Italian as all aperto. Trombettas ... More |
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| Perrotin Paris will open "Nick Goss: Isle of Thanet" | | David Zwirner announces an exhibition of works by Ad Reinhardt | | Jordan Casteel at the Hill Art Foundation opens September 13 |
Nick Goss, Newgate Gap, 2024. Distemper, oil and silkscreen on linen, 210 x 140 cm | 82 11/16 x 55 1/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
PARIS.- Nick Gosss exhibition of new works at Perrotin Paris (his first solo show in Paris and with the gallery) has a history, or more precisely, a genealogy. Walpole Bay is the product of numerous kinships and genetic peculiarities, whose lineage has been freely arranged by the artists imagination. The islands name, Thanet, comes from the Greek Thanatos, the mythological personification of death. Goss allowed his mind to roam freely, marrying death and insularity ... More | |
Ad Reinhardt, 10 Screenprints (portfolio cover), 1966. © Anna Reinhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2024. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner will present an exhibition of works by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Curated by Jeffrey Weiss and organized in collaboration with the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, the exhibition will explore Reinhardts screenprintsa group of works that the artist created toward the end of his lifeand his interest in translating the subtleties of his painted work into the print medium. By the time Reinhardt ... More | |
Jordan Casteel, Medinilla, Wanda and Annelise, 2019. Oil on canvas, 96 à 78 inches (243.8 à 198.1 cm). © Jordan Casteel, courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hill Art Foundation announced a solo exhibition of work by Jordan Casteel on view from Friday, September 13Saturday, November 23. The presentation is curated by Lauren Haynes, Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President of Arts and Culture at the Trust for Governors Island. Casteels figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes will be accompanied by original scholarship by Haynes. ... More |
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| Opening next at Fraenkel Gallery: Elisheva Biernoff | | Aerosmith retires from touring, citing Steven Tyler's vocal injury | | Anton van Dalen, whose art examined an evolving neighborhood, dies at 85 |
Elisheva Biernoff, Strike, 2021 Acrylic on wood, painted both sides, 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 1/32 inches [8.9 x 8.9 x .08 cm].
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery will present Elisheva Biernoff: Smashed Up House After the Storm, an exhibition of 13 recent works tracing the artists expanding approach. Biernoff makes delicate paintings that meticulously recreate found, anonymous photographs astonishingly faithful renderings on thin sheets of wood that match the intimate scale and detail of the originals. Severed from their original role as personal ... More | |
Joe Perry, Aerosmith guitarist, performs at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., July 1, 2012. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Aerosmith, the venerated American hard rock band whose hit records like Dream On have reverberated across the airwaves and in sweaty sold-out venues around the world for more than half a century, announced Friday that it was retiring from the tour stage, citing a permanent vocal injury to its star frontman, Steven Tyler. He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury, ... More | |
Installation view Doves: Where They Live and Work, Anton van Dalens third solo exhibition with P·P·O·W.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anton van Dalen a socially conscious artist, dedicated pigeon keeper and longtime assistant to illustrator Saul Steinberg lived on the Lower East Side for more than 50 years, documenting the neighborhoods evolution from dereliction to gentrification in paintings, drawings and sculptures. His best-known work was, perhaps, a performance piece called Avenue A Cut-Out Theater, a 3-foot-tall cardboard model of his town house at 166 Ave. A. ... More |
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| Tim Johnson's new exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Universal Mind to open at Tolarno Galleries | | Police investigate death threats against Olympics opening ceremony director | | ICA San Jose announces upcoming exhibitions |
Tim Johnson and Paul Rhodes, Revelation 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 103 x 142 cm.
MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries will present Tim Johnsons new exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Universal Mind. Floating realms, magic carpets, metaphysical fields, portals to the paranormal Johnsons cosmic canvases inspire otherworldly analogies for their dreamlike visual harmonies and esoteric iconography. Captivating the eye, stimulating the mind and awakening the soul, his syncretic compositions are structured ... More | |
Thomas Jolly, artistic director of all four Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies, in Paris on April 4, 2024. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
PARIS.- Paris police are investigating death threats and online harassment targeting Thomas Jolly, the Olympic opening ceremonys artistic director, the Paris prosecutors office said Friday. While the opening ceremony was broadly praised in France, a banquet scene featuring drag queens fueled intense controversy in conservative circles after some people interpreted it as a parody ... More | |
ICA San Josés newest Facade Project Without Them Is Not Us with emerging artist Oscar Lopez.
SAN JOSE, CALIF.- ICA San José announces the opening of three exhibitions on Saturday, September 14th 5-8pm. The group exhibition Allegedly the worst is behind us, features twelve contemporary artists who work to mend and amend the past in reckonings with memories, records, and archives, acting as both revisionists and storytellers. Allegedly the worst is behind us highlights the practice of twelve contemporary artists ... More |
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How two Russian spies went deep undercover with their childrenLJUBLJANA.- Darja Stefancic, a painter in Slovenia known for technicolor landscapes, thought it strange when an obscure online art gallery run by a woman from Argentina contacted her out of the blue and asked her to join its thin roster of artists. The painter suspected a scam, and she worried that the gallery, which virtually nobody in Slovenias tiny, tight-knit art scene had heard of, just wanted to cheat people. It did but in ways that far surpassed even her darkest suspicions. The online gallery was a front for Russian intelligence, part of an elaborate network of deep-cover sleeper spies trained to impersonate Argentines, Brazilians and other foreign nationals by Russias foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, around Europe. They were real-life versions of the fictional stars of The Americans, a television ... More Review: Death drives a new 'Tristan' at Wagner's FestivalBAYREUTH.- Richard Wagnerâs âTristan und Isoldeâ is not a love story. Itâs a death story. Itâs an opera in which the central duet is an ecstatic, philosophical declaration of love through a pledge of mutual death. Tristan, his name itself rooted in sadness, welcomes his end as a release; the greatest act of devotion, for Isolde, would be to join him in a state of love transfigured. OK, maybe âTristanâ is both a love story and a death story. Thorleifur Orn Arnarssonâs new production, at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, emphasizes the death part more. (People in the country can stream it on BR Klassik.) He sets the opera in a purgatorial space and, instead of spiritual transformation, portrays a scarcely transcendent suicide, an act of self-destruction in service of love. Itâs a bleak but still Romantic outlook, conveye ... More In Chicago, 3 shows that keep the audience in mind and engagedCHICAGO, IL.- The musical adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil thats playing at the Goodman Theater incorporates quite a bit of crowd work. In a final coup de théâtre that felt both radical and exhilarating, a character leads theatergoers in a communal use of their Playbills. While the three shows I saw during a recent weekend trip to Chicago were wildly different from one another, my mind kept returning to their relationship with their respective audience. Seeing Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil first set me off on that train of thought. Based on John Berendts bestselling retelling of a true crime in 1980s Savannah, Georgia, the musical, which is running through Aug. 11, has edited out some colorful figures (goodbye, Joe Odom) and condensed the events (the legal wranglings taking up a good ... More Alexander Waugh, literary scion of a literary dynasty, dies at 60NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Waugh, who throughout his varied career as a composer, columnist and historian bore lightly the weight of his literary inheritance his father, Auberon, and his grandfather, Evelyn, were considered among the finest English writers of the 20th century died July 22 at his home in Milverton, in southwest England. He was 60. His sister, Daisy Waugh, herself a well-known English novelist, said the cause was cancer. The Waughs are one of Britains greatest literary dynasties, both in their level of acclaim and their sheer output. Beginning with Waughs great-grandfather, Arthur, the family has produced nearly 200 books and thousands of pieces of journalism; all four of Auberon Waughs children, including Alexander, became writers. Evelyn Waugh was known for his witty, incisive novels of class and culture, while Auberon perfected a kind of cheeky, ... More Lin-Manuel Miranda's next project: A 'warriors' album with Eisa DavisNEW YORK, NY.- In the nine years since Hamilton opened on Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda has acted (in the film Mary Poppins Returns and the HBO series His Dark Materials, among others), composed (songs for Encanto and Moana, for example) and even tried his hand at movie directing (Tick, Tick ... Boom!). Now hes returning to his roots, sort of. Miranda, who rose to fame as a musical theater savant, has been working with playwright Eisa Davis on a concept album inspired by a cult 1979 action film, The Warriors. And Thursday, Miranda and Davis announced that Atlantic Records will release the album Oct. 18. The albums executive producer is rapper Nas; the producer is Mike Elizondo. The album will have 26 songs; the names of the singers have not yet been announced. The album has been in the works for three ... More What to see at the Edinburgh Fringe, the event that launched 'Baby Reindeer'NEW YORK, NY.- Each summer, artists and audience members from across the globe decamp to Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the worlds largest performing arts event. This year, from Aug. 2-26, the city will be repurposed into a labyrinth of makeshift theaters, in dingy rooms above pubs, hotel conference rooms and university lecture theaters. Throughout the Fringes 77-year history, its eclectic approach to performance has been integral to its appeal. Unlike the more highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, which runs concurrently, the Fringe is open to all comers. And a buzzy Fringe show can give an artist a very big break. Fleabag and Six, the musical, were originally Fringe success stories. So was Richard Gadds 2019 one-man show, Baby Reindeer, which this year became a Netflix series and an unexpected global hit. Very few artists make money at ... More 5 classical music albums you can listen to right nowNEW YORK, NY.- This fourth installment in Wild Ups vibrant traversal of the works of Julius Eastman (1940-90) focuses not on Eastmans fiery, rough-hewed vision of minimalism (Stay on It, Femenine and Gay Guerrilla) but on his somber, spiritual side. This volume features pieces that could easily fit into a religious ceremony albeit an idiosyncratic one. The opener, Our Father, among his last surviving scores, is for two male voices and has the stark, brooding sound of a medieval chant; Davóne Tines has been multitracked into close-harmony duet with himself, and his capacious, severe baritone is perfect for this music. Tines is also a model of focused clarity in the fervent declamation of Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan dArc. Eastman intended this as a companion to The Holy Presence of Joan dArc, 20 seething, soulful ... More Adam Driver is to star off-Broadway as a country-western singerNEW YORK, NY.- Adam Driver, a Broadway alumnus and prolific film and television actor best known for Girls and Star Wars, will return to the stage this fall to portray a narcissistic country-western singer in a limited-run off-Broadway comedy. The play, Hold On to Me Darling, was written by Kenneth Lonergan, an accomplished playwright (The Waverly Gallery), screenwriter and film director. (He won an Oscar for the Manchester by the Sea screenplay.) In Hold On to Me Darling, the main character decides to move home to Tennessee after his mother dies. The collision of a big star and a small town fuel the comedy of the play, which was first staged in 2016 at Atlantic Theater Company, an off-Broadway nonprofit. The new production, a commercial endeavor, is to begin previews Sept. 24 and open Oct. 16 at the Lucille Lortel Theater ... More First retrospective exhibition of the multi-media work of Mohawk artist Shelley Niro on view in CanadaOTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada presents Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch, the first retrospective exhibition of the multi-media work of Mohawk artist Shelley Niro. The exhibition runs until August 25, 2024. Spanning four decades of photography, film, painting, installation, sculpture and mixed media, this major exhibition features more than 70 works, some in seriestotalling 136 piecesfrom public and private collections across Canada and the US. It also includes close to 20 artworks from the National Gallery of Canadas collection. Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) with the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and with curatorial support from the National Gallery of Canada. Major support for this project is provided by the Canada Council ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Canadian painter Tom Thomson was born August 05, 1877. Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 - July 8, 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. Thomson died under mysterious circumstances, which added to his mystique. In this image: This newly discovered Tom Thomson oil on board recently sold for $126,500.
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