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Einar de la Torre, left, and his brother Jamex at their art studio in Baja California, Mexico, May 20, 2024. Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, the brothers shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind. On the table: nucleated eyeballs nestling in golden spoons, miniature torsos propped up on cake stands, and baby Kewpie dolls trapped in red goo, like candied desserts. A glass Capitalist Pig, one of several profane centerpieces, grins as it defecates gold coins. The banquet, an installation called Le Point de Bascule (The Tipping Point) at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, is visually stunning, and a bit repulsive and thats the point. Were repulsed by this opulence, said one of its creators, Einar de la Torre. But were also thinking: God, I wish Id been invited to this party. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of "Maija Peeples-Bright & Roy De Forest", curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, 2024. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
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| For the price of a police helicopter, New York could save the arts | | Rothko meets Morrisseau, as Art Gallery of Ontario celebrates great Moments in Modernism | | Two-person exhibition features the vibrant works of Maija Peeples-Bright and Roy De Forest |
The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Nov. 2, 2019. (Emily Gilbert/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Earlier this spring, I went to see Mark Morris The Look of Love, a joyous performance modern dancers offering themselves in service to the music of Burt Bacharach. It was one of those nights that made you realize what your life in New York could be if you didnt spend the hours between dinner and midnight resetting passwords to file past-deadline insurance claims while you half-paid attention to something on BritBox. Even in the city that has given us Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, too many of us ... More | |
Mark Rothko. No.1, White and Red, 1962. Oil on canvas, Overall: 259.1 x 228.6 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift from the Women's Committee Fund, 1962. © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / CARCC Ottawa 2023. 62/7.
TORONTO.- Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, from Toronto to São Paulo, painters began rejecting figuration and perspective, embracing colour, scale and line, in pursuit of a more expressive and immediate experience. On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Moments in Modernism presents more than 50 works from the AGOs collection ... More | |
Maija Peeples-Bright, Sheep Shamrock, 1975. Acrylic and glitter on canvas; 24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm). Courtesy the artist, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venus Over Manhattan is presenting a two-person exhibition featuring the vibrant works of Maija Peeples-Bright and Roy De Forest, curated by artist Adrianne Rubenstein. Both Peeples-Bright and De Forest were central figures in the Northern California Funk Art movement of the 1960s, a period known for its whimsical imagination, vibrant colors, and unique quirkiness. Featuring historical works ... More |
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| Exhibition at Moderna Museet features selected works from the four first decades of the 20th century | | The Barnes Foundation opens "Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes" | | Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles North B Gallery presents 'Winfred Rembert. Hard Times' |
Nell Walden, Komposition/Composition, 1917. Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet.
STOCKHOLM.- The exhibition Pink Sails highlights some of the imagery and styles that existed side by side in an era of major social change. Sweden was rapidly transforming from an agrarian society to an industrial nation social reform and optimism about the future mixed with military armament and fears of an imminent world war. Pink Sails features selected works from the four first decades of the 20th century and the ... More | |
Henri Matisse, Two Young Girls in a Red and Yellow Interior, Between May-June 1947, Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation, BF2075. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Barnes Foundation is presenting Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes, an exhibition featuring a selection of renowned canvases from its modern European art collection. Co-curated by curator Cindy Kang and assistant curator Corrinne Chong, this exhibitionincluding 34 iconic works by ... More | |
Winfred Rembert, Hard Times, 2003. Acrylic paint on carved and tooled leather, 90.2 x 78.1 cm / 35 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. Private Collection of Michelle and Joseph Pratt.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Working in his signature medium of carved and painted leather, late American artist Winfred Rembert (1945 2021) dedicated the last thirty years of his life to creating a striking visual memoir. The consistently powerful and original oeuvre he left behind is a testament to the improvisational skill, determination and resilience required of a visionary shaped by a lifetime ... More |
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| Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel and HOA present RAW!: An intersectional art exhibition in Barra Funda | | "Gerhard Richter. Series │ Variations" opens in the rooms dedicated to Gerhard Richter at the Albertinum | | Kevin Kwan's art deco heirloom |
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SÃO PAULO.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel and HOA proudly announce RAW!, a concurrent and intersectional group exhibition showcasing the works of artists from both galleries, set across two warehouses in Barra Funda. In a shared effort to foster exchanges and explore horizontal organizational models, Fortes DAloia & Gabriel and HOA unite artists from different generations, blending their diverse approaches, languages, ... More | |
Gerhard Richter, (Edition 51a) Farbfelder. 6 Anordnungen von 1260 Farben (Gelb-Rot-Blau), 1974 © Gerhard Richter 2024 (10042024).
DRESDEN.- The Gerhard Richter Archive will be presenting the special exhibition Gerhard Richter. Series | Variations in the permanent exhibition rooms dedicated to Gerhard Richter at the Albertinum. The works mainly come from the archives own holdings, supplemented by selected loans made by Gerhard Richter as trial proofs and variations ... More | |
Author Kevin Kwan shows an imperial jade ring that first belonged to his paternal grandmother and then a favorite aunt, in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kevin Kwan used to do some of his best napping in jewelry stores. This was decades before Kwan, 50, wrote his new novel Lies and Weddings; before the books in his Crazy Rich Asians trilogy became bestsellers; before it was announced that Jon M. Chu, the director of the Crazy Rich Asians movie, would also direct ... More |
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| Why Southeast Asia is crying over this movie | | Simone Fattal presents bodies of work from different periods in her career at Vienna's Secession | | Center ring at the fashion circus |
Pat Boonnitipat, 33, director of the film How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, at GDH, the studio that produced it, in Bangkok, June 11, 2024. (Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times)
BANGKOK.- Daniel Nico Laudit says he does not cry easily. He decided to test his mettle this month in a movie theater in Manila, Philippines, and documented the experience for his 4.5 million followers on TikTok. Before the screening, he filmed himself dancing and beaming and said to the camera: Me before watching How to Make Millions ... More | |
Simone Fattal, metaphorS, installation view, Secession 2024. Photo: Iris Ranzinger.
VIENNA.- In her exhibition metaphorS, Simone Fattal presents bodies of work from different periods in her career and in a variety of media, including fired clay and ceramic sculptures, paintings, and collages. With her works, she tells stories of humanity, culture, history, and the present. Conflict, consensus, nature, faith, and trust are central concerns. Despite (or precisely because of) the artists nomadic life, her oeuvre is ... More | |
Colm Dillane, a.k.a. KidSuper, right, at a studio preparing for his fashion show at Trianon in Paris, June 21, 2024. (Sam Hellmann/The New York Times)
PARIS.- Tucked away on a side street behind Père-Lachaise, the largest cemetery in Paris and perhaps the most visited necropolis in the world, Colm Dillane, aka KidSuper, stood at the cyclonic center of a studio strewed with clothes, bags, shoes and props and crammed with models, stylists, photographers, videographers, the designers parents and rapper Lil Tjay. Dillane looked for all the ... More |
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Your chance to snoop: It's 'open days' season in the gardenNEW YORK, NY.- I was at my station, a folding table dressed up with a burlap cloth, checking in visitors at a Garden Conservancy Open Days event maybe 10 years ago and answering questions from those who had already explored my garden, when I saw someone across the yard taking a photograph. But of what, I wondered whats over there? There was nothing in that spot, I felt certain. And then I realized that there was no way I could know exactly what the subject was. Because it was my garden, as someone else sees it. Sharing a garden with others is an eye-opener and its not just the visitors who draw inspiration from the experience. Make like a public garden for a day, and you may grow as a gardener, too, by watching and listening (in between fielding questions and identifying the same show-off plants over and again). ... More Exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Ray Atkins opens at Belgrave St IvesST IVES.- An exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Ray Atkins is being held at Belgrave St Ives to coincide with the publication of a new 160 page monograph about the artist's life and work, written by Peter Davies. Atkins is primarily a plein-air painter working outside, often on an epic scale, to immerse himself physically and emotionally in the landscape. Large boards are staked-down on location often for days (or even weeks) at a time letting the weather and environment help shape the work. The paintings are constructed through the process of applying oil paint vigorously at each session, the constant re-working forming a rich painterly impasto. The artists chosen subjects are often neglected spaces; roadsides, quarries, and other industrial and post industrial landscapes. Ray Atkins uses the outside world as a studio. ... More How an app is uncovering Sunderland's Black historySUNDERLAND.- A University of Sunderland professor has teamed up with students and graduates to launch a new app to shed light on the citys Black History. Sunderland Black History Walk is a geolocation app that offers a guided walk through the city, marking points that offer insights into its historical ties to enslavement, anti-enslavement and anti-racism. The app has been developed by Professor Angela Smith with Dr Michael Pearce as part of Project North Star, an initiative that brings together teachers, academics and educational consultants from around the region to increase knowledge about Black History. The project also includes voiceovers from graduates Endurance Idowu and Godstime David as well as an illustrative map produced by student Sara Heraoua, who studies Illustration at the University. Endurance, who studied MA Radio, Audi ... More Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of works by the Brazilian artistic duo of twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio PandolfoNEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Cultivating Dreams, the gallerys sixth solo exhibition with OSGEMEOS, the renowned Brazilian artistic duo of twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo. Featuring 13 new paintings and a site-specific immersive installation, the exhibition invites us into the vast and magical landscape of Tritrez, a dreamworld invented by the artists and developed in their work over the past three decades. The intricate patterns and vibrant colors employed in the works in Cultivating Dreams invoke a multisensory joy that is characteristic of OSGEMEOS expansive oeuvre. The exhibition precedes the artists first US museum survey exhibition OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, on view ... More Modern Art presents an exhibition of works by Richard AldrichLONDON.- In the basement are a selection of older works, most from mid 2000s. I like them as a group of paintings, but they may not be particularly strong, and to an extent, as they were never shown, they are kind of rejects. But its interesting for me to see them as compared to the work I am making now. I can see what they were working towards an experimentation with the object of the painting and the conceptual impetus for each of their existence, but how does that relate to the art of today? 20 years feels not a long time, but I suppose it is, so to see how the art world has changed around me, and how I have changed as well, both as an artist, but also how I relate to the art world, seems typified in this larger gesture of showing these in the basement then versus now. The trash sculptures (which perhaps to be clarified require ... More Ron Simons, who brought Black stories to Broadway, dies at 63NEW YORK, NY.- Ron Simons, who left his job as an executive at Microsoft to pursue his dream of acting but later found his métier as a theatrical producer one of the relatively few Black ones on Broadway and won four Tony Awards, died June 12. He was 63. His death was announced by Simonsays Entertainment, his production company. A spokesman declined to say where he died or provide the cause of death. Simons had been acting for about a decade, but was unhappy with the roles he was being offered, when he started producing in 2009. He believed that his experience as an actor and businessman would serve him well as a producer. Ive found that many businesspeople can handle the question of financial viability but cant judge a good story, so as an artist I also have that area of expertise, he told DC Theater Arts in 2020. Plus, even if its a g ... More The 40 best songs of 2024 (so far)NEW YORK, NY.- Every week, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on notable new songs. After six months of listening, heres what they have on repeat. (Note: Its not a ranking, its a playlist.) Sabrina Carpenter, Espresso: Atop a mid-tempo beat that recalls the muffled retro-funk of Doja Cats smash Say So, Sabrina Carpenter plays the unbothered temptress with winking humor: Say you cant sleep, baby I know, thats that me, espresso. Make it a double youve surely heard this one everywhere. LINDSAY ZOLADZ Tyla, Safer: Following her worldwide 2023 hit Water, Tyla pulls away from temptation in Safer, harnessing the log-drum beat and sparse, subterranean bass lines of amapiano. Her choral call-and-response vocals carry South African tradition into the electronic wilderness of 21st-century romance. JON ... More The Aldrich presents an exhibition of works by Layo BrightRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Dawn and Dusk is Layo Brights first solo museum exhibition featuring new and borrowed works in glass and pottery made between 2020 and 2024. The show brings together several ongoing series tracking Brights synchronized jumps from figuration to abstraction. Working in the round, on the wall, and in relief, Brights practice centers narratives of ancestry, feminism, mass migration, and the African diaspora. She cites her matrilineal heritage, the Nigerian Ife Heads, and West African textiles, as well as contemporary artists Simone Leigh, Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu, Fred Wilson, and Alison Saar as her inspirations. Bright chooses materials that express geopolitical and biographical resonance to spotlight themes of matriarchy and migration. Her portraits in blown and kiln-formed glass and pottery are ... More Halle für Kunst Steiermark opens an exhibition of works by Franz KapferGRAZ.- History does not only shape the present; the after-effects of the supposed past that we feel echoing in our current times will also stretch far into the future. Mythical narratives inscribe themselves into society and its political bodies, which in turn influence whose stories are told and whose remain untold. In his research and interpretation of objects overloaded with historical signifiers, Franz Kapfer investigates methods of historiography and scrutinizes how these approaches may be used and misused both politically and by the media. His works thus reveal the political dimension of historic symbols, ciphers and monuments as well as their influence on todays societies and their composition. As part of the Province of Styria's appreciation prize for visual arts 2022, Kapfer realized a group of new large-format works dealing with the mythological ... More British artist Hannah Perry presents Manual Labour at Baltic Centre for Contemporary ArtGATESHEAD.- The work is a large-scale installation developed for Baltics level 4 gallery, comprising film, sculpture, printmaking, and sound. The commission, mediated through the artists own experience, looks at the process and transformation of matrescence the process of becoming a mother and its creative and destructive power. Perry said: I came to the realisation that I had a deep-rooted, unconscious, anti-feminist view of the role of a mother that is excruciatingly patriarchal. As though the value of a mothers labour is somehow less than that of one's success in the professional, male-dominated world. Perry is known for her psychologically charged installations that investigate the intersection of industry, class and gender. Her materials, from sheet metal to car lacquer, body wrap and hydraulics, are associated with manual ... More Jaynelle Hazard appointed Director of Georgetown University Art GalleriesWASHINGTON, DC.- The Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences announced the appointment of Jaynelle Hazard as the new director and chief curator of the Georgetown University Art Galleries. We are delighted that Ms. Hazard will be joining us on the Hilltop, said Ian Bourland, incoming chair of the Department of Art and Art History. She brings a deep knowledge of both the regional and global arts landscape, and an impressive record of fostering timely, impactful exhibitions. She arrives on campus at a moment when her vision will contribute in exciting ways to our collective conversations around contemporary culture and politics. Georgetown University Art Galleries, which is housed with the College of Arts & Sciences, encompasses both the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and the Lucille M. & Richard F.X. Spagnuolo Art Gallery. "University galleries are centers for teaching, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Stuart Davis died June 24, 1964. Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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