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Installation view: Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you it was wonderful., Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2024-2025. Photo: Hasegawa Kenta. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by JASPAR, Tokyo, and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
TOKYO.- The Mori Art Museum, in Tokyo, is presenting Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful through January 19, 2025. Louise Bourgeois (born 1911 in Paris; died 2010 in New York) is one of the most important artists of the last century. During a career that spanned 70 years, and in a wide variety of media including installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting she explored the tensions within binary oppositions through unrivaled formal invention. Polarities such as male and female, passive and active, figuration and abstraction, conscious and unconscious, and others, often coexist within the same work. Bourgeoiss art was inspired in part by the complex and at times traumatic events of her early childhood. The act of restaging her memories and emotions allowed her to sublimate them into universal motifs and to express contradictory emotional and psychological states: hope and fear, anxiety and calm, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin is presenting the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the American artist Mary Heilmann, born in San Francisco in 1940. Photo Nicola Morittu.
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| Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist - A masterful tribute to desert architecture | | Festive collection of prominent New York philanthropic family sparkles at Roland Auction's holiday sale | | The Long Museum West Bund offers a comprehensive overview of Wang Yuyang's painting practice since 2010 |
Albert Frey was in love with the desert and with architecture.
AUSTIN, TX.- Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist, edited by Brad Dunning and co-published with the Palm Springs Art Museum, stands as a comprehensive and visually stunning homage to one of the twentieth centurys most influential architects. Spanning 282 pages and enriched with 169 images, this hardcover volume meticulously chronicles the life and legacy of Albert Frey, a Swiss-American architect whose love for the desert and innovative designs left an indelible mark on Palm Springs and the broader architectural landscape. Albert Freys passion for integrating architecture with nature is eloquently captured in Brad Dunnings opening remarks: Albert Frey was in love with the desert and with architecture. By fully integrating his designs with nature in the small desert town of Palm Springs, Freys work became icon ... More | |
French Gilt Bronze Mounted & Painted 19th century tall Case Clock. Sold for $!2,500.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY celebrated the holidays in style with their Multi-Estates Auction on Saturday, December 14th. While the top bidder of the day drove home in a stylish 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Convertible, near mint condition, approximately 57,000 miles, two door, standard Thunderbird 292 V8; Fordomatic 3-speed automatic transmission; retractable hardtop; red and white exterior and interior. This 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner is an extraordinary find and a true piece of automotive history. Runs great, showcases limited use and careful preservation over the decades, which sold for $28,125, most of the top sellers of the day came from the Collection of a very prominent NY philanthropic family. This personal collection featured hundreds of lots from the Upper East Side Manhattan apartment ... More | |
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SHANGHAI.- The Long Museum West Bund is presenting "Wang Yuyang: Painting," a solo exhibition showcasing the artist's latest works. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Wang's painting practice since 2010. Wang Yuyang developed his passion for painting at an early age, starting with traditional Chinese painting. He later studied realist oil painting under the guidance of Zheng Yi and was admitted to the High School Affiliated with the Central Academy of Fine Arts to continue his artistic training. During this time, driven by curiosity and youthful rebellion, Wang briefly stepped away from painting to study theater at the Central Academy of Drama. He then began exploring contemporary Chinese art through various mediums, including performance, video, and installation. In 2015, Wang Yuyang held a major solo exhibition, Tonight, I Shall Meditate On That Which I Am, at Long ... More |
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| Ancient reptile with unique teeth found in Gloucestershire | | Exhibition celebrates 20 years of Candida Höfer at Ben Brown Fine Arts | | P420 presents an exhibition of works by Richard Nonas |
Reconstruction of new species Threordatoth chasmatos © Palaeoartist Mark Witton.
LONDON.- A fossil hotspot in southern England has revealed another of its secrets. The former quarry located in Cromhall, South Gloucestershire, is renowned as a rich source of Triassic wildlife. Gliding reptiles, dinosaur relatives and even one of the earliest known lizards have all been found at the site over the past few decades. Now, scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile notable for its unusual dental apparatus and jaw mechanics. The remains of Threordatoth chasmatos, some of which are now cared for as part of the Natural History Museum collection, were recovered from ancient fissure fills, often described as time capsules which had preserved fragments of skulls and jaws, offering insight into the anatomy of Threordatoth. The discovery offers a glimpse into the CarnianNorian age of the Late Triassic, roughly 220210 million years ago allowing the researchers to reconstruct ecosystems from a period when early dinosaurs were emerging as domina ... More | |
Candida Höfer, 'Trinity College Library Dublin I 2004', C-print, 180 x 215 cm. (70 7/8 x 84 5/8 in.) Edition of 6.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty, an exhibition showcasing a selection of works by the esteemed German photographer Candida Höfer at the London gallery. This exhibition marks twenty years since Höfers debut with the gallery, celebrating a longstanding and fruitful collaboration that began with the seminal 2004 show, Libraries. As one of the first artists to join Ben Brown Fine Arts, Höfer returns for her thirteenth solo exhibition at the gallery, affirming her enduring significance in contemporary photography and the evolving depth of her artistic practice. The exhibition features an extraordinary assemblage of photographs depicting iconic libraries, theatres, museums, and palaces treasured symbols of universal culture and human achievement offering a journey through cultural landmarks across Italy, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia. Her large-format works capture the beauty and historical gravitas of these institutions, wh ... More | |
Richard Nonas, Senza titolo-Untitled, 2018, wood, cm 83x10.
BOLOGNA.- P420 is presenting the third solo exhibition in the gallery by Richard Nonas (New York 1936 2021), the first show after the artists death. Richard Nonas occupies a unique, original position in the field of sculpture, thanks to his profound comprehension of space as a physical and psychological construct. His transition in the late 1960s from anthropology to art proved crucial for his development, leading to an utterly singular approach to sculpture that transcends mere considerations on form. Anthropology gave me the doubt Nonas said doubt of what is most obvious, doubt of what is most pleasant, doubt of what is most useful and self-serving, doubt of what is obscure and difficult, doubt of what is painful, destructive or useless. Doubt, I mean, of everything. Anthropology gave me the gift of continual doubt. But sculpture forced me to use it. Among the first post-minimalist artists, working mainly with simple forms and raw materials like wood, ste ... More |
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| The City as Stage: Bêka & Lemoine's epic video installation at MAC/CCB | | Streic! 84-85 Strike! brings to life the story of the Miners' Strike and the profound impact it had on Wales | | British Library announces 2025 exhibitions |
Installation view.
LISBON.- Through close observation of how people inhabit, adapt, appropriate, or endure the spaces that frame their lives, artists and filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine cast light on the way people and places influence each other to unveil how the built environment affects our physical, psychological, and emotional state. In parallel to a body of films that have sought to humanise the way architecture is perceived and represented, since 2017 Bêka & Lemoine have been travelling the world to explore the idea of the city as an ecosystem, observing the peculiarities of the species they name Homo Urbanus in the international habitat it continues to constructand be constructed by. At MAC/CCB, the largest presentation of this extensive ongoing project to date exhibits over 13 hours of films from 13 very different citiesfrom Rabat to Venice, Tokyo to ... More | |
Key items from Streic! 84-85 Strike! include personal photos.
CARDIFF.- Its been over forty years since 22,000 Welsh miners downed tools and walked out of pits across Wales in protest at the National Coal Boards plans to close twenty coal mines across the UK. The 84-85 Miners Strike lasted twelve brutal months, fostering unprecedented solidarity and political awakening in Wales. The human cost was immense: families suffered hardship, communities were divided, and the mining industry's decline continued. Amgueddfa Cymrus latest exhibition, Streic! 84-85 Strike!, which opened at National Museum Cardiff on Saturday 26 October 2024, brings this era to life - sharing the experience of what life was like for the families whose husbands, fathers, brothers and sons stood in solidarity on the picket line and follows the politics, ... More | |
King's Library Tower and public areas in the British Library © Sam Walton.
LONDON.- In 2025, the British Library's major exhibitions will explore the transformative, enriching and sometimes radical power of gardening in Britain (May to August) and the relationship between mapping and secrecy in a global context between the 9th and 21st centuries (October to January 2026). Next spring, a free, family-friendly experiential space inspired by the Librarys collection will introduce children to the wonders of literature through exploratory, imaginative and sensory play. As part of the Library's public programme in Leeds, Voice of the Fans, a free exhibition at Leeds Central Library (May to August), will address how football fans have used grassroots media to make their voices heard since the 1970s. The Library will also take part in the UK City of Culture ... More |
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| Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf exhibits works by Dorota Jurczak | | Ronchini opens the first solo exhibition of works by Jessica Wilson at its Mayfair space | | Exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries features works by Bella Foster and Blair Saxon-Hill |
Dorota Jurczak, Ściak, 2024. © the artist; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Photo Tino Kukulies.
DUSSELDORF.- Dorota Jurczaks relief busts appear almost slightly archaic in their stylization. This is partly due to the fact that these sculptural portraits with their long necks, timeless clothing, and only subtly individualized facial features assume a representative function: they are abstracted characters, but nevertheless endowed with striking attributes. Despite their restrained self-sufficiency, they exude a subtle eloquence. You cant escape the feeling that you have encountered them somewhere before in a similar form. Something almost folkloric radiates from them, filtered through its distorted representation in advertising, comics, everyday culture, and design. However, these works lack the dumbed-down cuteness that characterizes the latter, and their consistent rejection of apparently contemporary influences, the choice of classic materials and techniquesin this case glazed stonewarelends them a timeless intensity. Form and material are always directly connected i ... More | |
Jessica Wilson, Cartwheels in my stomach when you walk in, 2024, oil on aluminium, 160 x 120 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 in.
LONDON.- Ronchini is presenting, I know I Mountain Dew it for ya, the first solo exhibition of works by Jessica Wilson at its Mayfair space. Featuring an all new, site specific collection of work that continues the artists ongoing inspiration of the conjunction between classical painting and contemporary expression. By subverting the gallery into Venuss sacred grove, Wilson invites the viewer to walk into and physically interact with her own rendition of Botticellis Primavera, showing a continuation of the artists signature integration of furniture elements within her installations. In this exhibition, Wilson elevates this concept into a three-dimensional and interactive interpretation of the Primavera. At the heart of the exhibition is a lounge chair (made by the artist) which serves as a modern throne for Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, inviting guests to engage with the artwork in a way that surpasses traditional viewing. Wilson explains: I envision the g ... More | |
Bella Foster, Last Time Around, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4 cm.
SHANGHAI.- Pearl Lam Galleries announced the duo exhibition Still Lives, featuring works by Bella Foster and Blair Saxon-Hill. Still Lives highlights the evolving nature of still life painting, emphasising individual expression and emotional depth. The two California-based female artists bring new perspectives to these traditional genres, using everyday fragments and serendipity as their subjects to celebrate what our lives have to offer. By embracing the everyday, their direct painting approaches allow them to create intimate visual realities. Influenced by modernism, their revisionist approaches towards colour and surface treatment are personal yet independent of the objects they depict. The subdued style of their paintings creates a sense of stillness or a reverse gaze to entice beholders to form psychological attachments with the artwork on view. This reciprocal approach resonates with late Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandis idea of valuing moods above all else, merging sha ... More |
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Galleria Niccoli exhibits the work of a fundamental figure in the Roman art scene since the seventiesPARMA.- Felice Levinis exhibition The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows a big thing is on view at Galleria Niccoli in Parma. Starting from the enigmatic sentence that gives the title to the exhibition, a quotation by the Greek poet Archiloco, some central elements of Levinis thought are revealed. In this inedited project conceived specifically for the spaces of the gallery, the artist continues his research between painting and object-based art, between abstract and figurative in a series of dualisms in which the role of text is as central as the one of self-potrait. The quotations and the references remain thus suspended between the decorative elements, the mythological images and the hints to daily elements, while the technique remains an essential element, strictly connected to the idea of slowness. Felice Levini is a fundamental figure ... More "The Reappeared Image": A contemporary dialogue with art history unveiled in GenevaGENEVA.- Art enthusiasts and scholars are invited to immerse themselves in a profound exploration of the interplay between past and present at the Musée dArt et dHistoire (MAH) and Fundación "la Caixa"'s latest exhibition, "La imagen reaparecida" ("The Reappeared Image"). This compelling showcase delves into the myriad ways contemporary artists engage with, reinterpret, and challenge the rich tapestry of art history and tradition. Conceived specifically for the MAH, "The Reappeared Image" features 18 meticulously selected works from the esteemed Contemporary Art Collection of Fundación "la Caixa," renowned as Spain's premier private collection and one of Europe's most distinguished. The exhibition is curated by Nimfa Bisbe, the director of the Contemporary Art Collection at Fundación "la Caixa," alongside Carlos ... More Each Modern presents the winter group show "Through Nature to Eternity"TAIPEI.- In the face of the changing tides of 2024, the term "nature" carries multiple interpretations: it is both a refuge after enduring worldly hardships and a sedimentation of humanity accumulated over time; it is a vessel for new beginnings and a symbol of what Hamlet referred to as "passing through the earthly to reach the eternal." The works in this group exhibition inherit the classics, beginning with various media such as ink, oil paint, and photography, and gradually developing profound conceptual practices as time progresses. These works not only convey a tangible sense of reality but also incorporate Eastern cultural understandings of infinite time and space, showcasing the relationship between the East, nature, and the universe. Nature exists as a coherent reality, yet independent of reality itself, allowing the audience ... More Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents an exhibition of works by Yen Chun LinTAIPEI.- Whorling in the cycles of breathing and resting, dreams and wakefulness, silence and sound, here and elsewhere: boundaries fade in the darkness, myriad happenings converge, and here becomes the elsewhere. In this realm, the shapes of perception blur, like the hazy memories of waking from a dream, layering different times and transcending the present reality. Within the natural cycles of growth and decay, the far shore of daylight seems to be easily overlooked: the edge of darkness, the breathe of sleep, the wakefulness of dreams, different shades of silence
these entities, like dust, exist ominously whether seen by human eyes or not. Following this path, Whorl Whirr emerges from the one-hour cyclical alternation of Sumnium Susurrus and Tunnel. In this realm, Yen Chun Lin weaves sculptural installations and spatial sound ... More Exhibition draws inspiration from the landscapes and architectural motifs of American filmsTOKYO.- Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is presenting the solo exhibition Scenery reflected in the window by Motomasa Suzuki. This is Suzukis first solo exhibition at TSCA in eight years, since wall, roof, window in 2016, and his first with the gallery since its relocation to Tennozu Isle in Shinagawa. Scenery reflected in the window presents a new group of wood sculptures, which form the core of Suzukis multidisciplinary practice. These sculptures, with their variations in scale and proximity to painting, offer an unprecedentedly immersive visual experience. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and architectural motifs of American films, Suzuki gives form to memories that drift between physical matter and space. His sculptures, while reminiscent of miniature replicas and dioramas, provoke a sense of estrangement through optical distortions ... More Galleria Alberta Pane presents group exhibition "On and Beyond"PARIS.- In the vast spectrum of expressive possibilities offered by contemporary artistic language, a multiplicity of techniques, approaches, and materials shape sculptural practices that are not univocal nor bound by strict conventions. Installations that engage with space, videos, and performances interweave and expand the definition of contemporary sculpture, which is continuously evolving. Building on this premise, On and Beyond seeks to explore the nuances and complexities of the multifaceted world of contemporary sculpture through the works of artists Christian Fogarolli, Luciana Lamothe, Marie Lelouche, Fritz Panzer, Michelangelo Penso, and Esther Stocker. Although he works across various media, including photography and video, Christian Fogarolli (IT, 1983) primarily focuses on sculpture and installation as his preferred ... More Buffalo AKG announces HI-VIS, a 10-year retrospective of the Public Art InitiativeBUFFALO, NY.- The Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced Hi-Vis, an upcoming exhibition that celebrates many of the artists who have worked with the Buffalo AKGs Public Art Initiative in its first ten years. Artists whose work will be on view include Julia Bottoms, FUTURA 2000, Maya Hayuk, Logan Hicks, Jun Kaneko, Monet Kifner, Shantell Martin, Louise Jones, Felipe Pantone, Pat Perry, and Edreys Wajed. The exhibition will be presented on the third floor of the museums new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building from February 21 to June 9, 2025. Hi-Vis is co-curated by the Buffalo AKGs Public Art Team: Aaron Ott, Curator of Public Art; Eric Jones, Public Art Projects Manager; and Zack Boehler, Assistant Curator, Special Projects. The Public Art Initiative was born in 2013 out of a partnership between the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and Erie County, soon after joined ... More Swiss Institute presents an international group exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- Swiss Institute (SI) presents Energies, an international group exhibition that unfolds throughout the entire building at 38 St Marks Pl and expands into numerous partner locations in the surrounding East Village community. The exhibition includes influential historic artworks alongside contemporary positions and new commissions that address ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present. A largely forgotten yet influential piece of neighborhood history forms the starting point for the show. During the oil crisis in 1973, inhabitants of one of the first sweat equity co-ops, located at 519 E 11th Street, installed a landmark two-kilowatt wind turbine on the roof of their torched building. This machine generated electricity and supplied the community with light during ... More Solo exhibition by the Swiss artist and writer Tina Braegger on view at Société BERLIN.- Société is presenting Selected works, a solo exhibition by the Swiss artist and writer Tina Braegger. The first chapter Its Not Looking Good For You was on view from September 2 to October 24, 2024 at Duarte Sequeira in Seoul. Tina Braeggers work addresses questions related to originality, reproduction, authenticity, repetition, and difference. Since 2016, she has explored these topics through the motif of the dancing bear, a bootleg drawing that became an emblem of the American rock band The Grateful Dead in the 1970s. Braegger first started working with the bear after seeing it on a concert handbill and the image subsequently evolved into a reference system that has since permeated every aspect of her artistic practice. Braegger employs the bear as a structuring logic to follow the same set of rules over and over again, using it as an anchor ... More Exhibition is a tribute to one of the greatest names in algorithmic and computer artISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum has announced another exhibition that brings art enthusiasts together. Titled In Search of Vera Molnár (à la recherche de Vera Molnár), the exhibition is a tribute to one of the greatest names in algorithmic and computer art, Vera Molnár. It showcases works by 15 contemporary artists inspired by Molnár and her groundbreaking contributions to the arts, alongside Vera Molnar's works. Developed in collaboration with Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. and Broich Digital Art Foundation, In Search of Vera Molnár will welcome visitors until January 26, 2025. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum opened an exhibition titled Calculations and Coincidences: Algorithmic Art from the Central Bank of Hungary Collection in September, featuring works by three pioneers of algorithmic ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian photographer and architect El Lissitzky died December 30, 1941. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941) was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. In this image: El Lissitzky, "Proun, Street Decoration Design", 1921. Photo Peter Cox.
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