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Artist Allison Zuckerman at her studio in Brooklyn, on July 3, 2023. Zuckerman is making a new body of work based on the paintings that sold at auction, saying it helps her reclaim her sense of agency. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
How did the best years of Amani Lewis career turn into the worst time of the artists life? First came the meteoric rise. A haunting painting Lewis made in 2020 sold at auction just a year later for $107,100, more than double its estimate. Two other works had recently tripled expectations, and a collector offered $150,000 in cash for new pieces fresh from the studio. There were shows in Paris and Miami Lewis had seemingly conquered the market at age 26, upgrading to a new art studio and a Tesla. But when the original painting reemerged at auction in June, and its price plunged to $10,080 losing 90% of its value the party was over. By then, Lewis had stopped renting a $7,000-a-month luxury apartment in Miami and temporarily moved in with their brother. It was such a nice high, and then it drops, the artist, now 29, said. It feels like, Were done with Amani Lewis. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gagosian will present a takeover of its Burlington Arcade gallery and shop dedicated to Howard Hodgkin (1932â2017), opening on September 3, 2024. In this image: Howard Hodgkin Home limited-edition rug based on "Red Sky in the Morning" (2016) hanging alongside the original painting in the artistâs studio, London, 2023. Artwork © The Estate of Howard Hodgkin. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Photo: Christopher Horwood. Courtesy The Estate of Howard Hodgkin and Gagosian.
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| Alain Delon, smoldering French film star, dies at 88 | | Pace announces a focused exhibition of new works by Wang Guangle | | Fossils show giant predatory sea scorpions were distance swimmers |
The César-winning actor was an international favorite in the 1960s and 70s, often sought after by the eras great auteurs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alain Delon, the intense and intensely handsome French actor who, working with some of Europes most revered 20th-century directors, played cold Corsican gangsters as convincingly as hot Italian lovers, died Sunday. He was 88. He died at his home in Douchy-Montcorbon, France, ... More | |
Wang Guangle, Coffin Paint 240718, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 200 cm à 200 cm (78-3/4" à 78-3/4") © Wang Guangle, courtesy of Pace Gallery.
SEOUL.- Pace will present a focused exhibition of new works by Wang Guangle at its Seoul gallery. On view from September 4 to October 26, this presentation, titled Wang Guangle and coinciding with Frieze Seoul, marks the artists first-ever solo show in Korea. Wang will present three never- ... More | |
Specimens of what appear to be the largest eurypterid species found in Australia could shed light on the sudden extinction of the massive arthropods.
NEW YORK, NY.- Most modern scorpions would fit in the palm of your hand. But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were apex predators that could grow larger than people in size. They were effectively functioning as ... More |
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| Artpace receives funds for rooftop renovation project | | Experience new work by one of the world's most highly regarded artists | | Birth of Impressionism explored in exhibition at National Gallery of Art |
The project's highlight includes a shade structure equipped with solar panels to harness renewable energy. Image courtesy of Grasso Gay.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace, recognized for the last 30 years for exhibiting avant-garde artwork by Texas, national, and international artists in San Antonio, announced a generous grant of $250,000 from the 80|20 Foundation in support of its Rooftop Renovation project. This grant will enable Artpace to transform its space into a vibrant, eco-friendly, and dynamic public cultural hub. Also supporting the project are local patrons, the Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler ... More | |
Lee Ufan painting on stone, Hakone Valley, Japan, 1998, photo courtesy Studio Lee Ufan.
SYDNEY.- Within spaces designed by the artist, this exhibition by Lee Ufan distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of recent paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Lees sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self in relation to the work. Lee is also a writer whose philosophical approach to art embraces Zen Buddhism ... More | |
Auguste Renoir, The Theater Box, 1874. Oil on canvas. Original canvas: 80 x 63.5 cm (31 1/2 x 25 in.) The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Photo © The Courtauld.
WASHINGTON, DC.- On April 15, 1874, an exhibition by the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc. opened at the Parisian studio of the photographer Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines. It was a defiant response to the official, government-sponsored annual exhibition known as the Paris Salon. The first exhibition of these Société anonyme artists included works by Claude ... More |
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| Diving Into New York's murky green waters, searching for treasure | | New exhibition by Ragna Bley opening at OSL Contemporary on August 22 | | Casey Kaplan will open "Judith Eisler: Dreams, Jokes, Mistakes" this September |
Manhattans skyline and Gabriela Torres Schwartz during a dive in the East River off Brooklyn Bridge Park to monitor oyster gabions. (Michael Turek/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam Riback has spent a lifetime thinking about what lies beneath the surface. Growing up in Sea Gate, a small community on the western tip of Coney Island in Brooklyn, Riback, 53, said he would spend hours gazing out at Gravesend Bay, thinking: Whats underneath it? Whats down there? It wasnt until decades later, when ... More | |
Ragna Bley, 'Leaden Fall', 2024, oil and acrylic on linen canvas, 207 x 150 cm. © 2024 OSL contemporary, All rights reserved.
OSLO.- Titled SILENT ARREST, Ragna Bleys exhibition explores the silent forces that shape us, their ability to arrest our focus, and their influence on our sense of self. At a time when both human existence and nature demand our undivided attention, Bley breathes life into an imaginative cosmos of paintings and a bespoke skylight that illuminates the minimalist gallery space. Throughout the day, ... More | |
Judith Eisler, Toni 2, 2023 (detail). Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- For her third solo exhibition at Casey Kaplan, Judith Eisler presents Dreams, Jokes, Mistakes, including new and earlier paintings based on her photographs of paused film scenes. Each composition depicts a frozen moment in cinematic time, where Eislers predominantly female subjects are caught mid-narrative, cropped, and re-contextualized by the fundamental elements ... More |
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| Interview with the Mexico City and Istanbul-based artist Yoab Vera about his work | | Exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Teresita Fernández to open in London | | Exhibition of works by Stefán V. Jónsson a.k.a. Stórval opens at i8 Gallery |
Yoab Vera, Reminiscence: Lines of Sight (to Carmen Herrera), 2024. Oil, oil-stick, and concrete on canvas, framed, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 80 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of Alexander Berggruen's current exhibition Yoab Vera: Reminiscence Contigo Aprendà (July 10-August 22, 2024), we spoke with the Mexico City and Istanbul-based artist about his work. Q: Could you explain the physical process of how you apply paint and concrete to canvas? A: I paint with treated concrete, oil-stick, and oil by moving the palm of my hand gently from side to side, smearing the painting ... More | |
Teresita Fernández, Astral Sea 1, 2024 (detail). Glazed ceramic, 72 x 84 x 1.25 inches, 182.9 x 213.4 x 3.17 cm. Photo by Daniel Kukla.
LONDON.- Lehmann Maupin will present Astral Sea, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Teresita Fernández. Featuring a series of glazed ceramic pieces and new sculptural paper panels, Astral Sea extends the artists interests in the confluence points of the cosmos, land, and water, as seen through the lens of an embodied sculptural landscape. Astral Sea will inaugurate Lehmann Maupins temporary location ... More | |
Stefán V. Jónsson (Stórval), Untitled, 1986. Acrylic on paper.
REYKJAVÃK.- i8 Gallery announced The Mountain Within, an exhibition of historical paintings by Stéfan V. Jónsson, who is commonly known as Stórval. The exhibition is on view from 15 August until 5 October 2024. Stórval (1908-1994) is an important figure in Icelandic art who captured his native landscape in a signature frank style using colour-blocking. Particularly known for his paintings of Herðubreið, a revered mountain in the highlands of Iceland, Stórval ... More |
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A virtuoso cellist's painstaking path from long COVID back to the stageNEW YORK, NY.- Since he began playing cello at 3, Joshua Romans talent has taken him from his hometown of Mustang, Oklahoma, to concert halls all over the world. He was the youngest principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, at 22, and has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and many other orchestras. His daily routine often included 10 hours of playing, along with a six-mile run. Then, on Jan. 9, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida, the morning after performing Prokofievs Symphony-Concerto, a piece he loves for its giant sections of flashy, virtuosic excitement, everything changed. He woke up and found he couldnt smell his toothpaste. Later that day, he tested positive for COVID. He was only 37 years old, but he felt extreme fatigue, as if wearing a coat of weighted down metal inside my body. It would be a month before ... More Statue of John Lewis replaces a Confederate memorial in GeorgiaNEW YORK, NY.- A statue of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman, was installed Friday in front of a Georgia county courthouse in a space occupied for more than 100 years by a Confederate memorial. The 12-foot-tall bronze statue was placed in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Georgia, which was part of the congressional district that Lewis represented for 17 consecutive terms. For years, activists pushed for the Confederate memorial, a 30-foot stone obelisk, to be removed. In 2019, a plaque was installed that said the memorial promoted white supremacy and the obelisk was removed in 2020. Before Lewis, a Democrat, was elected to Congress, he had risked his life for the Civil Rights Movement. He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who rode buses across the South in 1961 to protest ... More Kerlin Gallery announces Twofold, an exhibition of new paintings by Liliane TomaskoDUBLIN.- In Twofold, Liliane Tomaskos distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour unfold across five new diptychs on aluminium and linen. Opening up spatial possibility, this format allows tone, form and texture to dialogue back and forth across surfaces, sparking new resonances and shaping our understanding of each panel in relation to its neighbour. These paintings must negotiate two distinct voices sometimes finding harmony, elsewhere tension; forging complex relationships that actively engage the viewer. To confront these monumental diptychs of Tomasko is to enter a garden of forking paths, a forest of signs, writes critic Raphy Sarkissian in a newly commissioned text. Diaphanous and opaque forms coexist within these enigmatic diptychs. Like much of Tomaskos oeuvre, the works in Twofold appear abstract but bear deep ... More Pace presents Lee Kun-Yong's first exhibition in SwitzerlandGENEVA.- Pace announced an exhibition of pioneering Korean performance artist and painter Lee Kun-Yong at its gallery in Geneva. The exhibition will include paintings and drawings that are emblematic of the spectrum of Lees practice, as well as photographs documenting a 1976 performance. Running from August 28 to November 6, this exhibition marks the artists first-ever presentation in Switzerland. Lee Kun-Yong is widely regarded as one of Koreas most influential experimental artists. His practice, which spans performance, sculpture, installation, and video, has been instrumental in shaping the trajectory of contemporary art in Korea and beyond. Emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, Lee was at the forefront of the avant-garde movement in South Korea. Alongside contemporaries such as Ha Chong-Hyun, Jung Kangja, and ... More Central Gallery announces the opening of "Void and flood" by Marilia FurmanSAO PAULO.- Throughout her work, Marilia Furman has been raising questions about the crisis ridden and imminently collapsing nature of the system of commodity production (or, late capitalism). Whether through appeals to immediate sensibility via mechanisms that put raw materials like glass, paraffin, and ice into conflict; or through the appropriation and diversion of meanings of objects and images, the artist seeks to shape structures of violence and social domination. In recent years, Furman has mainly focused on discussing the Brazilian political context, creating works that draw on national symbols, military imagery, and visual elements from the countrys cultural industry, treating this scenario as part of a global phenomenon of violent intensification of social disintegration and material destruction. Void and flood critically addresses ... More Perry Kurtz, comedian who appeared on 'America's Got Talent,' dies at 73NEW YORK, NY.- Perry Kurtz, who worked stand-up comedy circuits for decades and appeared on Americas Got Talent and The Late Late Show With James Corden, died Thursday night in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles. He was 73. A daughter, Zelda Velazquez, confirmed his death. Kurtz was crossing Ventura Boulevard when he was struck by a car, according to authorities. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver was later arrested. Kurtz was a familiar face in long-established comedy halls, such as the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, but rose to prominence on the national stage with an appearance on Americas Got Talent in 2013 in which he performed a rap wearing a silver suit that gleamed like a disco ball. The performance did not go over well with the judges, who eliminated him from the competition, but it fit a campy persona that Kurtz embraced. ... More Bergen Kunsthall announces an extensive exhibition by artist Edgar CalelBERGEN.- Bergen Kunsthall will present an extensive exhibition by artist Edgar Calel, his first solo presentation in Europe. Working in a variety of media, Calel celebrates the traditions and spirituality of his Mayan Kaqchikel heritage in Comalapa, Guatemala. His works are often grounded in attentive relationships with the earth and its elements, featuring animal-vegetal motifs and playfully challenging Western conventions and perspectives of permanence. The works in the exhibition Ni Musmut (Its Breezing), made specifically for the spaces of Bergen Kunsthall, continue Calels engagement with the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision and the connections of its concepts and practices to other cultural contexts. The artists use of the Kaqchikel language and reflexivity of his presence in the places he travels belong to a practice ... More My wild night with Edna O'BrienNEW YORK, NY.- I was terrified the first time I had to pick up the phone to call Edna OBrien at her house in London. I pictured a grande dame in a Georgian manse. At the time, the mid-90s, I was a 28-year-old senior publicist in the publishing business, working for Dutton and its paperback line, Plume, and OBrien was more than three decades into a storied writing career. But she was easy to talk to, and we became fast phone friends. As we discussed plans for promoting her most recent novel, House of Splendid Isolation, we found we had something in common: men. The unavailable kind, in particular. Ralph Fiennes had, unbeknown to him, captured our hearts. That year he was playing Hamlet on Broadway, and so in love was I that I saw the play four times. Id buy a cheap seat high in the bal ... More They're putting some fun in funeralsLONDON.- In the affluent neighborhood of Crouch End in London, a new business is attracting some attention. The storefronts blue-and-white facade is airy and minimalist. Three polka-dot vases on plinths sit in the window. To the casual observer, the space might look like an art gallery. But through the window is something a little more curious: a sea-foam-green box measuring 7 feet by 2 feet. Its generally upon noticing the box that passersby will do a double-take of the shops signage: Exit Here. The polka dot vases arent vases. Theyre urns. The box is a coffin. And in the back, unknown to them, is a 12-person morgue. We knew the name would be Marmite, said Oliver Peyton, a renowned restaurateur, comparing the polarized reactions to his funeral homes somewhat cheeky name to those elicited by the yeasty British spread. You either love ... More The Weatherspoon Art Museum is reopened and ready to reconnectGREENSBORO, NC.- After a summer of gallery and lighting remodeling work, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro reopened on Tuesday, August 13, and we are ready to reconnect with our visitors and campus. The museum will be welcoming the campus and Greensboro community back with our WAM Fall Open House celebration on Saturday, September 14, 3-6pm. At this always popular event, you will enjoy refreshments by Chez Genèse, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, music by Rene Roman, and gallery conversations in our three new exhibitions: Interpreting America: Photographs from the Collection, Crip* | Artists Engage with Disability; and Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships. Drawn from the Weatherspoons stellar collection, these photographs illustrate what artists have had to say about American ... More P·P·O·W to represent Srijon ChowdhuryNEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W announced the co-representation of Portland-based artist Srijon Chowdhury with Ciaccia Levi, Paris. Chowdhurys first solo exhibition with the gallery, Tapestry, will open September 6. Oscillating between a highly stylized technique and uncanny realism, Chowdhury's prismatic compositions mine elements from daily life to find the universal in the quotidian. Combining interests in philosophy, religion, ecology, and art history, Chowdhurys intensely detailed, saturated, and hypnotic narrative compositions transform the artists immediate environment into immersive dreamscapes where the boundaries between our physical reality and the metaphysical, mythological and the supernatural dissolve. Speaking to subjective perceptual experience, Tapestry aims to transport the viewer on a visceral and emotional ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Gustave Caillebotte was born August 19, 1848. Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 - 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an art form. In this image: An employee looks at a painting 'Oarsmen' of 1877 of French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) in the Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, Thursday, June 26, 2008.
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