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Exhibition view Rineke Dijkstra. Beach Portraits. Photo: Städel Museum - Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- The oceana gaze: The artist Rineke Dijkstra (*1959) portrays young people looking directly into the camera on various beaches around the worldin Poland, Great Britain, Ukraine, Croatia and the United States. The carefully composed photographs are a search for the essence of human existence: sensitive encounters in which the artist also raises questions about authenticity and truthfulness in portrait photography. From 13 December 2024 to 18 May 2025, the Städel Museum presents 27 of Dijkstras works in a solo exhibition, including 23 images from her Beach Portraits series, which attracted international attention and established her as one of the most influential female photographers in contemporary art. Works from the Streets series and a self-portrait of the artist are also featured in the exhibition. In the Beach Portraits series, created mainly in the 1990s, Dijkstra links the young people portrayed across national borders through a consistent composition. Set agains ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bruce Silverstein Gallery opened Sound & Sight: Pete Turnerâs Jazz Album Covers, an exhibition celebrating Turnerâs profound impact on the visual culture of Jazz.
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| Artist Alan Ruiz opens a new site-specific exhibition at the Wadsworth | | Rediscovering everyday magic: A review of Pope.L's "Hospital" | | Dutch and Flemish paintings from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston highlight New York Old Masters sales |
Simon Alexander, DSC_0592.jpg, 2001. Digital image of Director of Facilities & Capital Projects Cecil Adams interacting with an architectural model designed by UN Studio and Fox & Fowle Architects. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Archives.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Artist Alan Ruiz debuts a new body of work made in response to an unrealized 2002 plan to expand the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Entering the 50th year of the Wadsworths signature MATRIX contemporary exhibition series, Ruizs project continues a groundbreaking legacy of championing site-specific artmaking within the museums encyclopedic collections and historic buildings. Known for his critical examinations of the built environment, Ruiz draws attention to the political and unconscious functions of the spaces we occupy. At the Wadsworth, he focuses on a proposal to radically reimagine the museums campus for the new millennium. The installation Split Object features aluminum sculptures informed by the geometry of the architectural model, a subject of heated public debate when it was displayed ... More | |
The 80 color images are thoughtfully selected to showcase the diversity and depth of Pope.Ls work.
AUSTIN, TX.- In the vibrant landscape of contemporary art, few figures have left as indelible a mark as Pope.L. Born in Newark in 1955 and departing this world in Chicago in 2023, Pope.L was a pioneering force in political conceptual art in the United States. His innovative approach, which melded performance, philosophy, and visual arts, challenged societal norms and encouraged viewers to see the world through a different lens. Now, with the release of "Hospital," published by the South London Gallery in November 2024, fans and newcomers alike have the opportunity to delve deeper into his remarkable legacy. "Hospital" is a meticulously curated hardcover edition, measuring 16.5 Ã 23.5 cm, that captures the essence of Pope.Ls final exhibition at the South London Gallery. Spanning 124 pages and adorned with 80 vivid color images, the book serves as both a tribute and a comprehensive documentation of his last artistic endeavor. The title itself ... More | |
Emanuel de Wittes Nieuwe Kerk, (estimate: $400,000-600,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old Master Paintings and Sculpture II, taking place 5 February 2025 at Rockefeller Center. The MFA has one of the worlds finest collections of Netherlandish art, with holdings that span all categories of Dutch painting and include a wide range of artists. This group of almost 20 paintings many of which have been off the market for a half a century or more is being auctioned to fund future acquisitions that will provide further depth and better serve the evolving needs of the museums audiences. A Director of Old Master Paintings at Christies, John Hawley, said: Collectors of Old Masters have long prized works from major American institutions, but only infrequently has a group with such provenance and quality appeared on the market as these Dutch and Fl ... More |
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| Mnuchin Gallery extends Frank Stella exhibition | | Four decades of vision: Museum of Photography Braunschweig marks milestone with special showcase | | The soul of a city in every frame: Discovering Berlin with Helmut Newton |
Installation view of Homage to Frank Stella, at Mnuchin Gallery, September 18 January 25, 2025. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mnuchin Gallery is presenting Homage to Frank Stella, on view through January 25, 2025. In commemoration of both his life and artistic legacy, the selected works illuminate the enduring significance of Stellas diverse and exploratory oeuvre through seminal examples spanning from 1958 to 2023. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue, authored by art historian and critic, Carter Ratcliff. At the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Stella redefined painting with his Black, Aluminum, and Copper series, proposing a new trajectory for the medium which presaged Minimalism. The historical significance of Stellas early works is epitomized in pieces like Arbeit Macht Frei (1958) (Work Will Set You Free), where the haunting phrase from Auschwitzs entrance imbues a dark, contemplative gravitas; or the copper Telluride (1960-1961), where he emphatically conveys his progression toward a more sculptural approach ... More | |
Vivien Slopianka, Miriam, from the series Born in 1984 - We are 40, 2024.
BRAUNSCHWEIG.- In a time when photography in public perception as a standalone artistic medium was only marginally considered and its significance was rather viewed in applied, scientific, or journalistic contexts, a group of 13 dedicated individualsincluding photographers, a female photographer, artists, and art educatorsfounded the Museum of Photography Braunschweig in 1984. They endeavored to recognize the importance of photography and the diversity of its creative and conceptual possibilities in the context of visual arts and its history, as well as with regard to the city of Braunschweig and the important former photo industry based there with Voigtländer and Rollei. As a prerequisite for a legally binding sponsorship, the association "Museum für Photographie Braunschweig e.V." was founded, laying the foundation for the now more than four decades of successful museum work with many facets. Today, the association has 175 members ... More | |
One particularly captivating aspect of the collection is its inclusion of both iconic and previously unseen images.
AUSTIN, TX.- In Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin, readers are invited into the fascinating visual universe of one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. This striking new volume, scheduled for release in January 2025, serves as a powerful homage to the city that shaped Newtons visionBerlin. Contained within its elegant hardcover format, the book spans 244 lush pages filled with vibrant images and thought-provoking essays, granting us a remarkable opportunity to rediscover Newtons life and legacy through his lens. Helmut Newtons unique styleclean, sharp, sometimes provocatively stagedwas inextricably linked to his formative experiences in Berlin. Born there in 1920, Newtons early life was drastically altered by the turbulence of the times. Yet, despite being forced to flee Nazi persecution at the age of 18, Berlins spirit, architecture, and social undercurrents remained etched in his ... More |
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| Exhibition celebrates Pete Turner's profound impact on the visual culture of Jazz | | Denver Art Museum presents Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits | | Ulla Wiggen's masterful paintings guide the gaze into the multilayered worlds of electronics and humanity |
Pete Turner, Dyer's Hand India, 1963. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on recto. Archival pigment print, printed c. 2000. 13 x 19 in (33 x 48.3 cm) Sheet: 17 x 22 in (43.2 x 55.9 cm). Edition of 10 plus 3 artist's proofs (#9/10).
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Sound & Sight: Pete Turners Jazz Album Covers, an exhibition celebrating Turners profound impact on the visual culture of Jazz. Pete Turners vibrant colors and dreamlike compositions have graced the pages of magazines, including Esquire, Look, and Sports Illustrated; however, his work may be most recognizable to a different audiencethose with a passion for jazz. Spanning five decades and over seventy covers, Turners pioneering approach infused jazz album covers with conceptual depth and dynamic energy. By mirroring the improvisational and emotive nature of jazz, Turner bridged sound and vision. His Surrealist predilection and unparalleled ability to translate the essence of music into striking visual compositions redefined the role of the album cover in the art world and reshaped how ... More | |
Dawoud Bey, A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, from the series Street Portraits, 1988. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Daiter Gallery. ©Dawoud Bey.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum is presenting Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits, featuring 38 portraits by celebrated photographer and 2017 MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). From 1988 to 1991, Bey collaborated with Black Americans of all ages whom he met on the streets of various American cities. He asked a cross section of people in these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self-presentation and performance in their urban environments. Were pleased to present the first standalone museum show of this important work, said Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography for DAM. Dawoud Beys Street Portraits mark a turning point where the deliberate, closely observed portraits he had been making with a handheld camera began to contain what he has called the kind of lush physical description he wanted his pictures to conveyand that is a consistent ... More | |
Ulla Wiggen: Passage © Ari Karttunen / EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art.
ESPOO.- EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art is presenting the first extensive solo exhibition in the Nordic region by Swedish painter Ulla Wiggen. The exhibition offers a unique retrospective of Wiggen's key works spanning over 60 years. Featured are paintings of electronic devices, portraits, human anatomy, especially the artist's recent depictions of the irises of eyes. Ulla Wiggen: Passage will be on display at EMMA until 26 January 2025. Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942) is renowned for her paintings depicting electronics and human beings both from the inside and the outside. Her approach is precise and investigative, drawing inspiration from visually interesting electronic components, x-rays and anatomical diagrams. The exhibition at EMMA, comprising nearly 50 works, is one of the first museum exhibitions to present such a comprehensive overview of the artist's work. The title of the exhibition, Passage, reflects the transitions between the internal and external worlds of humans as portrayed in Wi ... More |
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| Exhibition of work by the late Cuban Surrealist painter Jorge Camacho opens in New York | | Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens Bloom, an exhibition of new work by Megan Seiter | | Exhibition pairs photographs by Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman |
Jorge Camacho, The Scissors, 1973. Oil on canvas, 51.25 x 76.75 inches (130 x 195 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- François Ghebaly New York presents Five Paintings at Dusk, an exhibition of work by the late Cuban Surrealist painter Jorge Camacho. Bewitching us, [Camacho] imparts in his work this unlimited range of muted tones displaying the splendor of what may be at dusk that which the aurora is to our morning. --André Breton, Brousse au-devant de Camacho, 1964 An artist is always, despite himself, the voice of a transcendent and exclusive fear; the voice of his landscape and his people
Here is Jorge Camachos insular challenge. -- Reinaldo Arenas, El reto insular de Jorge Camacho, 1984 Hailed by writer and critic Zoé Valdés as the last of the great Latin American Surrealists, Cuban painter Jorge Camacho (1934 - 2011) crafts hazy, vespertine scenes that bridge mythology and occultism, Symbolist literature, Afro-Cuban traditions, and incisive reflections on the nations political and spiritual lot in the second half of the 20th century. Born i ... More | |
Megan J. SeiterGarden Rose, 2024Colored pencil and pastel on paper15 x 15 in (Framed 20 x 19.75 in).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Distracted or otherwise impatient viewers might be forgiven for strolling past Seiters colored pencil works on paper, wrongly presuming them to be handsome color photographs. That would be their loss, and a grievous one at that. These floral still-lives do not bloom in the viewers mind until time is taken to examine and savor them with the considered scrutiny that they deserve. At that point, the passive viewer becomes the active beholder of something remarkable and subtly dramatic: microcosms of pitched effloresce and impending detumescence radiating an uncanny and optimistic grace. Seiters still-lives are both subtle and sophisticated. She uses reference photographs as a starting point for her work. But unlike many artists who operate in this way, she departs from those sources rather than working toward them, judiciously incorporating subtle elements of chromatic fantasy to the rendering of flower petals ... More | |
Installation view of Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung. Image courtesy of M+, Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is presenting Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades, the first exhibition to bring together the photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954), who rethink identity through staged photographs across time, place, and culture. Both use masquerade as an artistic strategy to explore the relationships between identity, mass media, and history. Masquerade is the act of manipulating ones appearance and behaviourthrough costumes, makeup, props, and body languageto temporarily become someone else. Since the 1970s and 1980s, Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman have both drawn inspiration from iconic figures and female archetypes in popular culture and art history, creating staged photographs ... More |
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The National Gallery of Australia announces two new audio releasesCANBERRA.- Listen now to the first Australian edition of Katy Hessels Museums without Men audio tour, and a new season of the Artists Artists podcast. British art historian, broadcaster and international bestselling author of The Story of Art Without Men, Katy Hessel launches her first Australian Museums without Men audio tour with the National Gallery. Designed to spotlight works of art by women and gender nonconforming artists held in public collections worldwide, this series debuted in the United Kingdom and the United States for Womens History Month in 2024 with guides for five international institutions. Created to tackle the gender imbalance in museums and galleries, the National Gallerys Museums without Men audio tour is part of the Know My Name initiative, celebrating the contribution of all women artists to Australias cultural life. Written ... More Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of works by Beatriz Santiago MuñozVIENNA.- Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is a firm believer in the transformative potential of the camera to re-imagine and re-signify the world. At the center of her three films shown at the Secession is, of all things, nonsense. The newly produced works that were shot on 16 mm stock and then transferred to video use free association and formal play to build relationships between sound and image that are not to be grasped by making rational sense. The three films are inspired by jitanjáforas, invented nonsense words, and their exuberant use in Caribbean poetry and music in the twentieth century. These speculative words mostly unfold their poetic dimensions in their phonetic properties. They favor chaos, dissonance and revolutionary spirit over reactionary concepts of fixed truths that secure the political and societal status quo. Muñozs films, too, invent ... More Museum Abteiberg announces annual program 2025MÃNCHENGLADBACH.- Hymnus (Fankurve) is a composition for Mönchengladbach developed and recorded by the Berlin based American composer and artist Ari Benjamin Meyers in collaboration with devoted fans of the Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach. The project draws inspiration from the chants sung in the soccer stadium and various groups of fans gathered in the so-called Nordkurve (Northern curve) of the stands, the designated area for the teams supporters. The commanding power of this massive choruscapable of energizing entire stadium crowdsis taken out of its usual soccer match context and shifted to iconic locations around the city. These range from beautiful landmarks and those that contribute to a sense of identity, such as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle and the Bökelberg, to forgotten or overlooked ... More Nairy Baghramian's first major solo show in a London institution in fourteen years on view at The South London GalleryLONDON.- The South London Gallery is presenting a new exhibition by Nairy Baghramian. This is the artist's first major solo show in a London institution in fourteen years, at a time when she is receiving widespread international recognition for her work. Recent accolades include the 2023 Metropolitan Museum of Art's facade commission, the Aspen Award for Art, the Nasher Prize, and the Nivola Award for Sculpture. Nairy Baghramian's conceptually rigorous work invites viewers to reconsider their sense of self, space, object and site. Particularly in her prime medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual ... More Taft Museum of Art presents photography exhibition celebrating African American beauty and visual cultureCINCINNATI, OH.- Posing Beauty in African American Culture traces the relationship between African American beauty and visual culture from the 1890s to the present through documentary, commercial, and fine art photography. Documentary photographs and portraits of portraits of Black Americanssome famous, some just ordinary citizenspresent the public face of African American beauty, while commercial photographs demonstrate how fashion and advertising have constructed beauty standards. Finally, contemporary photographerssome of whom use themselves as a subjectencourage consideration of how images of beauty impact mass culture and individuals. Posing Beauty in African American Culture (October 5, 2024January 12, 2025) includes more than 100 works by photographers including Charles ... More Exhibition presents early 20th century Latvian art from the Malmö Art Museum collectionRIGA.- In cooperation with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art and the Malmö Art Museum in Sweden, from 14 December 2024 to 23 February 2025, an exhibition titled The Latvian Collection is presented in the 4th and 5th floor exhibition halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga featuring works by Latvian artists from the early 20th century from the collection of the Malmö Art Museum, alongside new, complementary pieces by contemporary artists. In 1939, the Malmö Art Museum (Malmö Konstmuseum) received as a gift the Latvian Art Collection a unique snapshot of Latvian art between the two world wars. This collection includes landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and scenography sketches, capturing the transition from the modernist experiments of the 1920s to the Realism that defined European art in the 1930s. ... More Kunsthalle Osnabrück releases publications by Ibrahim Mahama and Aram BarthollOSNABRÃCK.- On December 15, 2pm, Kunsthalle Osnabrück released two publications on Ibrahim Mahamas TRANSFER(S) and Aram Bartholls Package Ready for Pickup. Both Ibrahim Mahama and Aram Bartholl were present for the event to introduce the publications and reflect on their projects together with the curators Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Bettina Klein as well as with the directors of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück Anna Jehle and Juliane Schickedanz. With TRANSFER(S), Ibrahim Mahama wrapped the former Galeria Kaufhof department store building in Osnabrücks urban space. Following the installation, an interdisciplinary conference was held at Mahamas Red Clay studio complex in Tamale, Ghana. With Package Ready for Pickup, Aram Bartholl transformed the nave of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück into a walk-in recycling yard. His exhibition ... More GNYP Gallery opens the group exhibition Mary With(out) ChildANTWERP.- A considerable part of what we call Western civilization was founded on a specific fear. From the design of our legal and political institutions, all the way to the horizon of expectation between the sexes, that is, what we are allowed to expect in professional and personal terms, many of these grandiose things were guided by a type of fear harbored above all by men. It is the fear of women. Think of some of the cultural initiators figures of our traditions, like Eva or Pandora. Responsible for our perils and downfalls, they were nothing more than women doing as they pleased. But by doing so, they ruined the lives of men and as a consequence, the entirety of the human race. The same would apply, centuries later, to the figure of the witches, who were burned at the stake for not conforming to what was expected of them. Many of the men ... More Grazer Kunstverein presents 2019GRAZ.- 2019 is an exploration of a year poised on the brink of change a moment both recent and elusive, suspended between the mundane fabric of daily life and the pull of an unanticipated future. The air of 2019 carried the hum of the ordinary: city streets pulsing with rhythms, handshakes sealing fleeting alliances, clouds forming with unsettling indifference. But beneath that hum was something else a frantic, fractured culture teetering under the weight of its own choices and regrets, imposed and self-inflicted, bloated by its own consumption. And now, in the stillness left behind, you might sense it too: the bustling sigh of a world unready for the storms that followed. In retrospect, 2019 stands as the closing act of a waning era, now familiar as a turning point in the cycle of time, yet too fresh for scholarly distance to dissect. 2019 features works ... More Catinca Tabacaru Gallery opens two solo exhibitionsBUCHAREST.- Catinca Tabacaru Gallery announces two solo exhibitions and a special collaboration connected by the artists' exploration of ecosystem fragility and the complex relationship between nature, urban life and the human condition. The three projects stretch across the gallerys main gallery, immersive project space, and atelier at Calea Giulesti 14, Bucharest. The exhibition marks Nona Inescus second solo presentation in Romanian, following Hands Dont Make Magic at Sabot, Cluj-Napoca (2015). Recognized as an important voice coming out of Eastern Europe, Inescu's ethereal, multidisciplinary works delve into the intricate nature of life in its many forms. Her new body of work examines the delicate interplay between environmental collapse and the transformation of both human and non-human bodies. Offering ... More First solo exhibition in Italy of works by Laurence Chellali opens at VisionQuesT 4rosso GENOVA.- VisionQuesT 4rosso is presenting for the first time in Italy the solo exhibition by Laurence Chellali. The year is 2119. Climate change has taken full effect. The tipping point had been reached 100 years earlier, but no one had really believed it, despite the desperate warnings of scientists, and especially not the heads of governments who had eyes and hearts only for the sacrosanct market economy. Humanity therefore continued to act as if it had several planets at its disposal to satisfy its consumer urges, telling itself that
.so far, so good. But no... Droughts began to rage in certain parts of the world, while elsewhere the oceans invaded the land. Under the impact of pollution, overexploitation and global warming, the land began to become less and less fertile, turning into desert. All biodiversi ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo was born December 16, 1908. Remedios Varo Uranga (16 December 1908 - 8 October 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican para-surrealist painter and anarchist. Born in Girona, Spain in 1908, she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. She is known as one of the world famous para-surrealist artists of the 20th Century. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. She met her second husband, the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. In this image: Remedios Varo (Spanish/Mexican 1908-1963), Vampiros vegetarianos. Oil on canvas. Painted in 1962. Estimate: $1,500,000 - 2,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2015.
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