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Jeanie Bryson, daughter of Dizzy Gillespie, blows a kiss toward a a photo of her father at Dizzys Club in Manhattan, Dec. 1, 2023. In June, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission honored the formal and informal spaces from which New Yorks jazz scene spawned and flourished by designating three sites as landmarks for their cultural significance to modern jazz the building at 935 St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights where Duke Ellington and Noble Lee Sissle once lived; Mintons and its home the Hotel Cecil; and Gillespies house at 105-19 37th Avenue in Corona. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
by Mia Jackson
NEW YORK, NY.- Dizzy Gillespie helped make Mintons Playhouse famous. Mintons in Harlem was where jazz musicians from out-of-towners to locals performing in nearby big band theaters in Harlem sought refuge during late-night jam sessions, and a new genre, bebop, was born. Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, is largely considered a pioneer of the rebellious jazz style that diverged from mainstream swing jazzs emphasis on orchestrated productions and collective harmony. Instead, it ushered in an era of artistic experimentation that better reflected the realities of Black urban life and the talents of Black musicians. Jam sessions, such as those wonderfully exciting ones held at Mintons Playhouse, were seedbeds for our new, modern style of music, Gillespie wrote in his autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop. But there was another gathering spot for Gillespie and his peers: the three-story Colonial Revival-style building in Corona, a neighborho ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung is devoting an exhibition to one of the most exciting connections in the history of mankind - the connection between art and technology.
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| 2000...miles to the edge: The Kasper Känig Donation on view at Museum Ludwig | | Last chance to see: Matt Phillips solo exhibition at Anna Zorina Gallery | | At 95, this designer has never been out of fashion | 
Jonathan Borofsky, o.T. (Entwurf Portikus Plakat/Portrait Kasper König), 1990. Acryl, Fotografie und Schriftmaterial auf Leinwandkarton, 35 x 27,5cm © Jonathan Borofsky. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln.
COLOGNE.- As an exhibition organizer, cofounder of Skulptur Projekte Münster, curator of the major exhibitions Westkunst and von hier aus as well as Manifesta in St. Petersburg, Kasper König played an incomparable role in shaping art discourse over the past five decades. He was director of the Museum Ludwig for twelve years (200012). In his view, a museum is a public place: It belongs to everyone and no one. König is now donating a selection of works from his private collection to the Museum Ludwig, which is being presented in one room within the museums permanent collection. Although he never saw himself as a traditional collector, over the decades, spontaneous purchases, souvenirs, and gifts have grown into a very personal collection. The conceptual meets offbeat ... More | | 
Matt Phillips, Untilted-R, 2023. Pigment, silica on canvas, 56 x 44 in (142.2 x 111.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting Matt Phillips solo exhibition Hold Tight Horizon Eyes. The show features the artist's latest paintings, which convey aspects of the world that are not readily visible yet reflect elements of time, tension, and rhythm. While these forces remain essentially invisible, their presence is ubiquitous. We encounter subtle hints of their existence in the rhythmic patterns of ocean waves or the graceful billowing of a curtain shaped by a once-distant wind. Musical notes mark seconds like an irregular and impulsive clock. For Phillips, painting serves as the ideal medium for exploring his interest in how time and light can be materialized. His investigation into our relationship to nature is captured through abstract distillations characterized by flowing color fields and rhythmic applications of paint. Phillips employs timeless languages of color, texture, and form placement ... More | | 
Stan Herman, a fashion designer, at his home in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan on Nov. 30, 2023. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
by Joanne Kaufman
NEW YORK, NY.- Styles come and styles go, but Stan Herman has been in fashion for decades. Just recently, Herman, 95, the king of cozy couture, was moving the merch velour loungewear on QVC, where his creations have been a durable staple for 30 years, and where has he sold close to 900,000 units since 2017. They buy more each season. Ive retained my viability, which is not so easy, said Herman, who has a particular affinity for chenille. Its my secret weapon. When hes not outfitting people for repose, Herman is dressing them for work. In 1975, after a successful run with a line of stylish, affordable womens clothing under the label Mr. Mort, he began designing uniforms for hotels, casinos and businesses of all stripes, among them Avis, Amtrak, McDonalds and ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of new paintings by Markus Amm to be opened at David Kordansky | | 'Books: A Group Exhibition' now open at Paula Cooper Gallery | | Now open: Sandra Cinto, "May I Know How to be the Sun on Cloudy Days" at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | 
Markus Amm, Immer einer mehr, 2024. Oil on gesso board, 27 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 1 inches (69.8 x 60 x 2.5 cm). Photo: Annik Wetter
NEW YORK, NY.- David Kordansky Gallery will be opening How Much Paint Is in a Painting, Markus Amm's first solo exhibition in New York. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, January 9 from 6 to 8 PM. Amm has consistently rearticulated the terms of abstract painting, rendering formal languages associated with modernism in luminous, materially rich ways that reflect the fullest range of contemporary concerns. He emerged as a singular member of a generation of European painters who sought to understand non-objective artmaking according to the pressures of life as they knew it in the 1990s and early 2000s. Since that time, he has produced a body of work distinguished by its focus and emotional resonance. This work is produced using techniques that the artist has developed to maximize the intensity of his pigments, as well as the depth and ... More | | 
Seung-taek Lee, Untitled, 1980. Rope, book and canvas, 44 7/8 x 34 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (114 x 88 x 4.3 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery opened a group exhibition on the subject of the book. The gathering of works demonstrates the many ways in which contemporary artists have engaged with the book as surface, structure, found object, and philosophical guide. Reading, collecting, and fabricating books informs a particular way of creative thinking, in which a double-page spread, a fabric-bound volume, or an illustrious typeface become crucial components of works of art. While artists have often made books, and many are involved in the design of books about their own works, this exhibition focuses on how books have infiltrated the very form, shape, and structure of contemporary art. The exhibition includes works that memorialize the cover or internal pages of a book through photography or print. There are books on shelves, indicating how intensely revelatory a library can be about its owner, and sculptures incorporating ... More | | 
Installation view, Sandra Cinto, May I Know How to be the Sun on Cloudy Days, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2024. Photo by Pierre Le Hors.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced May I Know How to be the Sun on Cloudy Days, Sandra Cintos tenth exhibition with the gallery, on view in New York through February 10, 2024. Since the early 1990s, Sandra Cinto has explored the potential of drawing to create intricate images and immersive environments, often using the line as a gesture to deconstruct the physical and conceptual boundaries between painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Delicately repeated motifs such as stars, waves, cliffs, bridges, and swings, comprise a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines that construct lyrical landscapes, hovering gently between fantasy and reality. With little more than a very fine brush, the artist renders mesmerizing seascapes, rainstorms, and landscapes to create seemingly weightless, immersive environments. ... More |
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| The voice of the subway speaks for herself, at last | | Saul Leiter centennial exhibition on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery + book | | Amon Carter Museum of American Art names Michaela Haffner Assistant Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper | 
Bernie Wagenblast, a longtime voice of the New York City subway system, at her home in Cranford, N.J., on Nov. 30, 2023. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
by Ana Ley
NEW YORK, NY.- Its a voice unmistakable to millions of harried New York City subway riders, telling them to please stand away from the platform edge or that the next train is approaching the station. It is deep and sounds authoritative, even comforting. But behind those disembodied familiar reminders was a secret. Bernie Wagenblast, the voice actor and traffic reporter who found success as one of the most recognizable voices of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, knew that despite living as a man for most of her life, she was a transgender woman. And at 65, she wanted to live as one. She had kept the secret for six decades because she was paralyzed by what the truth might bring: Would this make me a laughingstock? Would this make me a source of pity? Would this endanger my safety? A marriage and ... More | | 
Saul Leiter, Pull, c.1960. Chromogenic print; printed later. Image size: 19 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches; Paper size: 20 x 16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, an exhibition showcasing the diverse range of Saul Leiters career is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery through February 10, 2024. Saul Leiter: Centennial features more than 40 photographs, paintings, and painted photographs, many of which have never been on public view in the U.S. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, coincides with a new book, Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, published by Thames & Hudson in November. Saul Leiter, who was born on December 3, 1923, photographed and painted nearly every day for over 60 years. He made an enormous and unique contribution to photography during a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s as an early pioneer of color. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out from ... More | | 
Michaela Haffner, new Assistant Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Carter. Image: courtesy of Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) today announced the appointment of Michaela Haffner as the Museums Assistant Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper. Haffner, who is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Yale University, will assume her role beginning January 22, 2024. As Assistant Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, Haffner will leverage her experience and deep knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and visual culture to work with the Carters extensive collection and realize projects that further the Carters missionto tell the ongoing story of American creativity across artistic traditions, mediums, and time periods. In her new role, Haffner, who previously served as a Curatorial Assistant at the Carter, will report to the Director of Collections and Exhibitions and work alongside the Museums curators and the exhibit ... More |
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| Heidi Bucher's 1st solo exhibition in China on view at Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing | | Painted walls, canvases and works on paper by Jean-Michel Alberola on view at Templon | | Giacomo Piussi museum exhibit in Florence, Italy | 
Installation views of Heidi Bucher: Beyond the Skins at the Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing.
BEIJING.- Red Brick Art Museum will host a major retrospective exhibition entitled Heidi Bucher: Beyond the Skins on August 5th, featuring the avant-garde artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993). Regarded as one of the most significant but widely overlooked artists of the 20th century, Heidi Buchers showcase is curated by Yan Shijie with assistance from Yan Zi. For the first time in China, this exhibition will present over 100 of her important works, including rediscovered and restored visual materials, early paintings on paper, abstract silk collages, wearable sculptures from her time in Los Angeles, her iconic skinning series that explores the relationship between architecture and the human body, and her later works created on Lanzarote Island. These transformative artworks delve into human psychology and spatial connections while also addressing important ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Alberola, Vladimir Tatlin III , 2023. Oil on canvas huile sur toile, 146 x 89 cm, 57 1/2 x 35 inches. Photo Adrien Millot.
PARIS.- Jean-Michel Alberola marks his return to the City of Light with a protean exhibition that takes us on different journeys with its combination of new painted walls, canvases and works on paper. We encounter the irresistible Rois de Rien [Kings of Nothing, Ãmeutes de Watts [Watts Riots], Tatlin and other abstraction works, which adorn the walls of the ground floor, plunging the visitor headfirst into the artists poetic, engaged and humorous universe. Hanging side by side, Alberolas works form a series of philosophical puzzles questioning the perspective of artists and their role in society. The basement continues the exploration the artist initiated in Brussels in March 2023 with 1965-1966-1967. A turning point heralding the explosiveness of politics in the 1970s, explains the artist. Those three years still ... More | | 
Giacomo Piussi, Man with Car, 2019. Oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following his solo show "Daylight" at the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City, the gallery is presenting Giacomo Piussi's exhibit "The order of things - Journey to Italy" in the historic Museum Palazzo Pretorio in Certaldo, Florence, Italy. If you happen to be in Florence, Italy, the exhibit runs through January 29, 2024 Tuesday - Sunday 10AM - 1PM and 2:30PM - 6PM Im fascinated, captivated and amused by the appeal of the obvious. Theres nothing easy in simplicity, or in the search for it, and Id dare to say that this is how great truths manifest themselves. I content myself in looking at the result of a certainly complex work, Im satisfied by the coming into being of his bright, immediate, unmistakable stories. The path leading to all of this remains hidden, as if everything had come out of the blue, at once, in the fresh epiphany of an evening spent drawing. There is nothing involute even if nothing is ... More |
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 With 'Good Grief,' Daniel Levy goes from laughs to tearsNEW YORK, NY.- Good Grief might have made an alternate name for Schitts Creek, a multi-Emmy-winning comedy that Daniel Levy created and starred in with his father, Eugene. But unlike that series, which mined comedy from the dynamics of a family in financial crisis, Levys latest project, a drama, explores how loss affects a close-knit friend group in their late 30s. The film, streaming on Netflix, is the younger Levys directorial debut (he also wrote the film, starred in it and was a producer). Set in London, it follows Levys character as he travels to Paris with his best friends (Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel) after the recent deaths of his mother and husband (Luke Evans). Good Grief is the first release in a deal he signed with Netflix. On a video call last month, Levy, 40, traced the films inception to the death of his grandmother ... More  Taraji P. Henson is tired of fightingNEW YORK, NY.- Before things started to click for Taraji P. Henson, she sought career counseling from the man upstairs. I had a talk with God a long time ago when things didnt pop, she said. Invoking the women she had watched as a child, like Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis and Diahann Carroll, she told him, I want longevity and work that matters. This, Henson has had: At 53, she is an Oscar-nominated actress with a long career that includes films like Hidden Figures, Hustle & Flow and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She also spent six seasons playing the music industry matriarch Cookie on the Fox series Empire, a juicy role that netted her a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award. But she is candid about the frustrations she still faces in an industry that undervalues Black actresses. The fact that I made it through ... More  Overlooked No More: Cordell Jackson, elder statesperson of rock 'n' rollNEW YORK, NY.- When Cordell Jacksons long and mostly obscure musical career intersected briefly with American pop culture in the early 1990s (coinciding with her appearance in a popular beer commercial, in which she showed guitarist Brian Setzer a few tricks), it was almost as if she had stepped out of a dream: grandma, resplendent in a shiny ballgown and bouffant, peering through her old-lady glasses while ferociously rocking out on a cherry red electric guitar, amp cranked up to 10. Even if we had never seen or heard Jackson before, she seemed to reside in the dusty bric-a-brac of our countrys collective unconscious: one of rock n rolls forgotten pioneers, Jackson had been making music for more than a half-century. Cordell Miller was born July 15, 1923, to William and Stella Miller in Pontotoc, Mississippi, a small city once known ... More  Nassima Landau Art Foundation fundraising exhibition Spectrum of Lights on display until February 15TEL AVIV.- Nassima Landau Art Foundation initiates "Spectrum of Lights," a one-of-a-kind fundraising exhibition with some of the strongest voices in Israeli art today, from emerging to very established, who will show their work following numerous cancellations both locally and abroad. The exhibition and its proceeds will serve to support the Be'eri Gallery and new arts center (in collaboration with the German government) and the Elem charity organization. In these polarized days, Nassima Landau intends to provide an opportunity to remind, mostly our international friends, of the diversity of Tel Aviv's cultural scene and Israel's society at large, with 25 artists from an array of ethnic, religious, and gender identities, affirming the power of art and its ability to present a different perspective. "Spectrum of Lights," Nassima Landau's first grand ... More  Kasmin set to open Mark Yang's first solo exhibition with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced Mark Yangs first solo exhibition with the gallery. A suite of new paintings by Yang will be on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from January 11 through February 17, 2024, showcasing recent technical and thematic developments in Yangs painting practice. Ambiguity remains a pervading theme in Yangs hallmark compositions of intertwining body parts that explore the nuances of human interaction. Evading clear assignments of gender, Yangs figures resist the throes of a totalizing narrative. Yang realizes his new, boldly colorful figures by staining raw canvas with thin, transparent layers of oil paint. Layer after layer, Yang develops full-bodied fields of color that ground his figures in their liminal settings, before defining their backgrounds and shadows. Using techniques associated with the history of abstraction, ... More  New paintings by Greg Drasler on view until January 27th at Betty Cuningham GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery is hosting External Drive, an exhibition of new paintings by Greg Drasler. This will be the artists sixth exhibition with the gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street, New York, NY which started on November 16th last year. Just as a journey down an open highway offers dramatic changes of scenery, so does Greg Draslers External Drive, an exhibition of new paintings. In Rear View, 2019, the windshield of an automobile is included, providing the scale that frames or reflects the landscape. It orients you as the road divides the landscape and sky into kaleidoscopic patterns of color and light, marking both the vast view and the speed of travel. In Dealership, 2020, the car disappears. A bold edge remains to guide sight, but the focus is far beyond the confines of a physical space. It finds its reference in the visual ... More  "Double Feature: Tarek Lakhrissi" opens at the Julia Stoschek FoundationBERLIN.- For the second iteration of Double Feature, three films by the French artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi is on view. Through text, film, installation, and performance, Lakhrissi explores socio-political narratives that relate to diasporic and queer embodied experiences in Europe. Drawing on the work of other artists and writers such as French writer Kaoutar Harchi and Cuban-American artist Félix González-Torres, Lakhrissi generates dreamlike environments where multiple voices, generations, and perspectives coexist. The artist thus disrupts any sense of historical canon and dominant narrative being linear. At once nostalgic and speculative, Lakhrissis work brings tenderness to the fore, not only as a means of resistance in the face of systemic violence, but as a way of relating to the past, present, and future. Bright Heart (2023 ... More  The NYPD dance team walks the beat and feels it tooNEW YORK, NY.- Officer Lauren Pagán looked at the line of dancers in the overheated cafeteria at a Queens high school on a recent Monday night and frowned. They were gyrating through moves choreographed to Mamacita, a pulsating, reggaeton-inflected song by the Black Eyed Peas and Ozuna. She had told the dancers to count to eight as they moved through the steps, but they were dancing in silence. The hip jerks, arm sweeps and knee lifts appeared graceful, but to her, the six women in front of her looked out of sync. Nobodys listening around here, I see, said Pagán, vice president of the New York Police Department Dance Team. She started the music again and ordered the dancers to count. This time, they obeyed. The seven-officer team has mastered hip-hop and salsa and is playing around with bachata and bhangra, ... More  'Vibeke Tandberg: Yippee-ki-yay! Narratives beyond grasp or control' opens at OSL contemporaryOSLO.- The battle cry of the West is freedom, and the crier is a cowboy. He is Daddy-o, The Man, frontier spirit incarnate: good old boy, patriot, war criminal, dont mess or his defence of our freedoms will open the gates of hell. Vibeke Tandbergs exhibition quotes for the first part of its title a catchphrase from an 80s action movie that in turn has it from The Roy Rogers Show a mid-twentieth century franchise of westerns, Hollywoods most nationalistic genre. Her work is as theatrical as ever, but now its stagecraft leaps combatively into the space of the viewer. This historical space is a present that narcissistically sucks past and future into its orbit. As philosopher Boris Groys writes in his essay Comrades of Time (that supplies the rest of the exhibitions title), it is a contemporaneity that makes history serve its own purposes: ... More  Portland Art Museum 2024 season spans Monet and Matisse to futuristic sneaker designPORTLAND, OR.- The Portland Art Museum has announced a dynamic slate of exhibitions opening in 2024. From future-forward sneaker design to Impressionist masters and psychedelic posters, the exhibitions celebrate a wide range of artistic expression and offer visitors world-class experiences in the heart of downtown Portland. Opening in March 2024, Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is an exhibition that sneaker-loving citizens of Portland and visitors are sure to enjoyoffering not only physical objects but digital imaginings, design concepts, and futuristic visions. Summer at the Museum brings French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, a stunning exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum featuring nearly 60 works of art from several renowned artists, opening in June 2024. Pulling from the Museums deep collection of prints and ... More  Sakshi Gallery presents 'We are meant to survive... beyond our stories' by Rekha RodwittiyaMUMBAI.- Sakshi Gallery is offering a solo exhibition by Rekha Rodwittiya, "We are meant to survive
.beyond our stories." (Selected works from over four decades), as a part of Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024. The exhibition previews are on Thursday, January 11, from 5 - 9 pm and January 12, 13 & 14 from 10 am - 8 pm. I understood that as an artist the most liberating lesson learnt is that one's own sense of belonging is held in multiple histories that form the stories of the world. And it is the curiosity of wanting to know about the unfamiliar that invites us through the doorways of many new discoveries. I learnt however that like any sensible traveler, each of us needs to carry along in their journey as artists the memories of our own origins in order to collate with greater coherence, and thereby not loose ourselves at the alters ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born January 08, 1836. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 - 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. In this image: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tademaâs The Finding of Moses.
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