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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula', 1610. Intesa Sanpaolo Collection. Gallerie dItalia - Napoli © Archivio Patrimonio Artistico Intesa Sanpaolo / foto Luciano Pedicini, Napoli. LONDON.- The Last Caravaggio (18 April 21 July 2024), 'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula', 1610, generously lent by the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection (Gallerie dItalia Naples) is being displayed alongside another late work by the Italian artist from the National Gallery Collection, Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist, about 160910. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) is one of the most revolutionary figures in art. His strikingly original, emotionally charged paintings, with their intense naturalism, dramatic lighting and powerful ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Carbon 12 invites six artists who engage in risk and interruption within their practices, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, sound and textile. backbone reveals how the âimageâ, whether dreamt or felt, can begin to materialise into a physical form, producing outcomes that self-alter within a constant balance & tension between shifting & collapsing temporal spaces.
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Fairfield University Art Museum presents 'Peter Anton: Just Desserts' | | Ben Vautier, artist whose specialty was provocation, dies at 88 | | Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger presents Susumu Shingu's 'The Breath of Here - The Water Beyond' | Peter Anton, Les Macarons, mixed media, © 2024. FAIRFIELD, CONN.- Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting Peter Anton: Just Desserts, a solo exhibition of Antons incredibly realistic, oversized pop sculptures of desserts, on view from May 10 through July 27, 2024. Antons models for his array of desserts come from products that are instantly familiar to the viewer and evoke nostalgia for childhood (and adult) favorites. Sculptures that are being featured in the exhibition include a melting chocolate-covered ice cream pop, a candy apple, a gigantic box of donuts, ... More | | Ben Vautiers Bizart Bazart (2002/03) consists of 351 objects and text-based panels that are mounted on the inside and outside of this kiosk-like construction. Photo: Marcus Meyer Photography. NEW YORK, NY.- Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under the moniker Ben, and who as a core member of the anti-art collective Fluxus blurred the boundaries of high and low, art and life, while adhering to the credo Everything is art, died on June 5 at his home in Nice, France. He was 88. He died by suicide shortly after his wife, Annie Vautier, a performance artist ... More | | Susumu Shingu, Menuet, 2024, stainless steel, aluminum (painted), ø / H: 75 cm © D.R., Courtesy Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris-Lisbon. PARIS.- Susumu Shingus exhibition Le Souffle dIci - LEau de là [The Breath of Here The Water Beyond] is the third in an exhibition cycle entitled ENCHAN-TEMPS, presented in 2023 and 2024. They reflect the gallerys commitment to artists who are part of a certain artistic renaissance and whose work deeply reveals universal, social, environmental and peaceable values. Artists ... More |
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Overlooked no more: Lorenza Böttner, transgender artist who found beauty in disability | | The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts showcases a new body of incandescent work from Wanda Koop | | MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome presents an exhibition of works by Elisabetta Benassi | Lorenza Böttner, untitled (n. d.), pastel on paper, 137 à 170 cm, courtesy private collection. NEW YORK, NY.- It was the weekend of the gay pride parade in New York City in 1984 when Denise Katz heard her doorbell ring. Surprised, she opened her door and was greeted by Lorenza Böttner, a transgender artist, who was wearing a wedding gown that she had customized to fit her armless body. Im here for the party! Böttner said in her hybrid German-Chilean accent. Though Böttner had buzzed the wrong apartment, ... More | | Wanda Koop (born in 1951), Sleepwalking Braid, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery. © Wanda Koop. Photo William Eakin. MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the exhibition Wanda Koop: Who Owns The Moon, showcasing a new body of incandescent work from one of Canadas most renowned living artists. With the all-seeing moon as its central motif, the exhibition invites reflection on universal questions of territory, the environment, memory and loss, while offering hope through the transcendent ... More | | Elisabetta Benassi, Fixator III (Rhinoceros), 2023. Bronze, plaster, iron foundry cart. Courtesy the artist. ROME.- Autoritratto al lavoro (Self-portrait at work) is the first major anthological exhibition on Elisabetta Benassi (Rome, 1966) presented by an institution active in the city where she lives and works. The project presents over twenty years of her artistic output, juxtaposing works from the early 2000s with more recent pieces, and three new productions made for the show. Moving freely across a wide range of languages, media and ... More |
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Carbon 12 opens group exhibition curated by salasi | | Last chance to see: The Third Line's Khalid 'Jauffer : Looking, dwelling, leaving' | | William Turner Gallery presents an exhibition marking the first solo show of photographs by Melanie Pullen | Installation view. DUBAI.- Made up of a composition of vertebrae, disks, joints, soft tissues, nerves and your spinal cord the backbone serves as a central, internal structure of strength that binds and connects things together, embodying our internal worlds and expanded senses of function and feeling. The metaphorical meaning is similar to the figurative translation of the word, سند in Arabic, which refers to someone who has your back. Through the interrogation of the word, ... More | | Khalid Jauffer, Keys, 2024. Copy of found keys, print on glass, hand-tied keychains, pen on paper, FIS keybox, 55 x 38 x 8 cm. DUBAI.- Consciousness and sensitivity are compromised states. Part and parcel of the comfort of habit is an ignorance of the environments we occupy, move between and pass, enjoying the ease of simplifying the lexicon of the public realm into digestible blocks, like consuming simple carbohydrates. It is in a less comfortable state of indefinite consciousness and sensitivity ... More | | She Sees Everything (Voyeur Series), Archival print, back mounted, 32x24 Edition of 5. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.- William Turner Gallery is presenting an exhibition marking the first solo show of photographs by Melanie Pullen in Voyeur, from May 18th-July 6th, 2024. The gallery presents a showcase of Pullens photographic works ranging from her early High Fashion Crime Scenes to her more recent monographs. Pullen explores the glamorization and desensitization of violence on the human psyche through themes ... More |
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Bristol Photo Festival Second Edition - The World on a Wave - to open in autumn | | A metaphorical garden fills ACE's gallery floor for the 2024 Porter Street Commission exhibition | | Columbia Museum of Art presents (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art | The festival opening week will take place between 16 - 20 October 2024. BRISTOL.- The second edition of The World A Wavewill open in autumn 2024. Focussing upon the theme of movement, exhibitions will be held across the citys major visual arts institutions alongside independent and unconventional spaces accompanied by a wide events programme. The exhibition programme focuses on personal and collective stories of communities confronting societal change whilst navigating daily life. The first confirmed exhibiting artists are: Akosua Viktoria Adu Sanyah, Kirsty Mackay, Amak Mahmoodian, Trent Parke, Sarker Protick and Hashem Shakeri. Each artist ... More | | Lee Salomone, Fragments Catalogue Photography, 2024. ADELAIDE.- Adelaide Contemporary Experimental announced, Lee Salomone, recipient of the 2024 Porter Street Commission presenting his first major institutional exhibition in over a decade at ACE. Titled Fragments; a widening vision, the exhibition is being held from 1 June to 10 August 2024, with a metaphorical garden spanning the gallery floor. The poetic installation encourages audiences to explore themes of memory, identity and connection to land. Fragments; a widening vision poetically weaves together form and image interlacing memory with personal and ancestral histories. Grounded ... More | | Beverly Buchanan (Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1940 Ann Arbor, MI, 2015). Frank Owens Blue Shack, 1989. Painted wood. Columbia Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Richard Samuel Roberts Minority Artists Purchase Fund, 1991.7. © Estate of Beverly Buchanan. Photo credit: Victor Johnson / The Columbia Museum of Art. COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, a collaborative exhibition that explores the rich, complicated, and evolving topic of the American landscape, from its origins in 19th-century painting to the present. The CMA is one of four participating museums in the Art Bridges Cohort Programs American South Consortium, the institutional ... More |
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Interview with Karen Lamassonne
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More News | Discover ancient Egypt for kids at NGV International MELBOURNE.- Ancient Egypt for Kids is a free exhibition inviting children to unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt through a series of activities exploring the art and culture of this fascinating world. Coinciding with the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® exhibition Pharaoh at NGV International, this interactive exhibition will captivate young visitors and their families with displays of ancient Egyptian objects from NGVs Collection, including a decorated coffin lid, over 2,500 years old, along with a space filled with gleaming gold walls and floor-to-ceiling hieroglyphs. The exhibition is designed to evoke the mystery and wonder of ancient Egyptian culture. Children will step into a space to discover a golden funerary head covering and an elaborately decorated coffin illuminated to reveal imagery of gods, goddesses and hieroglyphic ... More Heide Museum of Modern Art unveils major new exhibition exploring the significance of hair in contemporary culture MELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new exhibition exploring the complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of Australian and international works of art. Presented until 6 October 2024, the exhibition titled Hair Pieces brings together historic and recent works encompassing a wide array of media such as painting, photography, video, installation, sculpture and recorded live performance. For millennia hair has been a resonant and compelling site of meaning, transmitting ideas about gender, mythology, status and power, the body, psychology, feminism and notions of beauty. At once radiant and repellent, and often richly symbolic, it has always assumed ... More Globus and Fondation Beyeler announce public art project: Julian Charrière Calls for Action BASEL.- This summer, Swiss-French artist Julian Charrière will transform Basels historical department store Globus, currently under renovation, with a boundary pushing artwork that aims to connect visitors across vast distances, bridging mountainous Switzerland with a Western Andean Cloud Forest in Ecuador. A radical intervention in public space, it invites the citizens and visitors of Basel to become participants and protectors, lending their voices to one of Earths critical carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots. Calls for Action is the second iteration of the Globus Public Art Project. During the three-year renovation of its iconic department store on Basels market square, Globus is collaborating with the Fondation Beyeler on inviting artists to conceive and realize new site-specific works of art that engage with the building and the public. ... More Lawrie Shabibi opens the first-ever solo exhibition of works by Dima Srouji DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi is presenting the first-ever solo exhibition for artist, architect and researcher Dima Srouji titled Charts for a Resurrection. Sroujis work lies in the expanded context of interdisciplinary research projects. It acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making or un-making tool. Srouji collaborates closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, glass blowers and sound designers to develop her architectural projects, installations, product designs, and writing. Working across a diverse range of media including glass, text, archival materials, maps, and film, Srouji questions ideas of identity and globalisation through historic strata and space, in connection to the spirit of a place and displacement. Interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives, Srouji looks ... More Modern Art opens an exhibition of works by Sanya Kantarovsky LONDON.- Teachers and Students. Honoré Daumier published his titular series of lithographs in the journal le Charivari between 184546. With its title Professeurs et Moutards, the choice of words also suggested that the students depicted may have also been rascals, little devilsat least something about them had to merit the punishments, the revulsion exhibited by their authority figures. Rebellious, liberatory moments reoccur in the series. The young students subvert the foolish superiority of their elders, who appear pompously stately, perhaps as armatures of the state itself. A painter is always already a student, a fact that Kantarovsky implies through rhyming with Daumier himself. What happens to knowledge as its transmitted and perverted through another subjectivity? The paintings in Teachers and Students approach this question ... More A Met Orchestra of mixed quality returns to Carnegie Hall NEW YORK, NY.- So far, Yannick Nézet-Séguins tenure as the Metropolitan Operas music director has been mixed. That much was evident over two Met Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall last week that were by turns excellent and mystifying. This groups specialties can seem indistinct; its quality, inconsistent. And, in general, it has been difficult to assess these players under Nézet-Séguin, who took over in 2018. A music director needs to be present to shape the sound of an ensemble, and he has been chronically overscheduled, juggling the Met with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, not to mention his post as the head of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music. On a practical level, a music director also needs to build an orchestra, and the Mets is still regrouping from a wave of retirements during ... More The wife who survived Henry VIII finally gets her big-screen due NEW YORK, NY.- Midway through Karim Aïnouzs Firebrand, King Henry VIII of England takes a break from playing bowls on the lawn to walk with his sixth wife, Katherine Parr. Gripping her arm tightly, limping heavily, the king, played with terrifying menace by Jude Law, offers a threat to those who betray him. They know what would happen, he says quietly, turning to face the queen. Wed have to have their head cut off. Alicia Vikanders Queen Katherine smiles faintly. Im sure you would come up with something much more creative, she says. Firebrand, which is based on Elizabeth Freemantles novel Queens Gambit and opened recently, is set during Henrys final months, in 1546-47. Katherine is trying to keep her head on her shoulders while the king, ill, paranoid and angry, grows suspicious of her alliance with ... More "On Water, Flow and Warped Time" opens at Vleeshal MIDDELBURG.- On Water, Flow and Warped Time is a group exhibition that features work by Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, and artist duo HUNITI GOLDOX (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox). In our western society, time is seen as a linear process revolving around growth and progress. More than ever, humanity is focused on productivity and time management. But how can we experience time in our current society? Can we move through the world differently? The artists in the exhibition On Water, Flow and Warped Time explore the phenomenon of time from various contexts and perspectives, focusing on water(ways) as entities from which we can learn to collectively live together; a counter-narrative to capitalist notions, contemporary productivity, and colonial structures. In July 2022, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago ... More 'Say Less' by Greg Gulbransen to be published August 2024 NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of three years, Greg Gulbransen photographed Malik, a set leader of the violent street gang, the Crips. Malik was shot and paralysed in 2018 by the bullet from a rival gang, and as a result his world now centres around his small Bronx apartment in New York, where he is cared for by his family and fellow gang members. Gulbransen, a practicing doctor, had been photographing in the Bronx during his spare time and got to know some of the local kids. He began to notice a lot of young men in wheelchairs with spinal injuries and was professionally curious. He was told they had all been shot. He wanted to speak to someone in a wheelchair and was introduced to Malik through a fellow Crip. As a physician, it was a way to explore one facet of the epidemic of gun violence in this country. There are shootings ... More Hosfelt Gallery opens Rina Banerjee's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Born in Kolkata and based in New York, Rina Banerjee creates shamanistic sculptures and vibrantly sensuous paintings-exploring the complexities of identity, the aftermath of colonialism, the nuances of migration, and what it means to be human-through the lens of a transnational woman of color. Banerjee's approach is characterized by its defiance of traditional hierarchies-be they cultural, material, or linguistic. Her multifaceted artistic practice includes crafting fetishistic assemblages from a mix of antiques and tourist-market trinkets; painting and collaging evocative images of women in states of ecstatic transformation; and composing poetic titles that draw viewers into the emotional atmosphere of her creations. Her fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on the fundamental human rights to freedom from oppression: ... More MCA Chicago announces 'Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence' CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is presenting Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, running through January 5, 2025 in the Bergman Family Gallery. Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence is the first major retrospective and largest monographic exhibition to date of the work of Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, TX; lives in Hampton Bays, NY). Tracing the artists practice from the mid-1960s through the present, Principle of Equivalence features over forty abstract paintings and handmade paper works that reveal her longstanding preoccupation with the relationships between the earthly and metaphysical realms. Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970samid mass political movements and debates around representation and the relevance of painting Jaramillos work has long ... More |
| PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, Dutch illustrator M. C. Escher was born June 17, 1898. Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. In this image: Installation view, ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience at Industry City, June 8, 2018 - February 3, 2019. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy Arthemisia.
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