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Oksana Semenik stands in front of a large image of a painting by Maria Primachenko, one of Ukraineâs most popular painters and a subject of Semenikâs research, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2024. Semenikâs social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists â and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
KYIV.- Hiding for days in the basement of a kindergarten in Bucha, the Kyiv suburb that became synonymous with Russian war crimes, Oksana Semenik had time to think. Outside, Russian troops were rampaging through the town, killing civilians who ventured into the streets. Knowing she might not make it out, Semenik, an art historian, mulled over the Ukrainian artworks she had long wanted to write about â and which were now in danger of disappearing. That time spent holed up in Bucha was during the early days of Russiaâs full-scale invasion, but even then, two years ago, she had already seen reports of destroyed museums. Precious folk paintings by her favorite artist, Maria Primachenko, had gone up in flames. Moscow, she realized, was waging a war on Ukrainian culture. âTheyâre destroying artworks. Theyâre destroying museums. Theyâre destroying architecture,â Semenik recalled thinking in the basement. She vowed that if she escaped from Bucha, she would not allow Ukraini ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, "Peter Alexander " Feb 2 - March 14, 2024, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo: Cow Lau, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Designs from a celebrated brother who now flies solo | | For 15th anniversary of Asia Week New York, Lark Mason Associates auctions quartet of Asian art | | Activists deface portrait of Balfour, who supported Jewish homeland |
The celebrated designer Humberto Campana, right, overseeing work in his studio in São Paulo, Brazil on Feb. 15, 2024. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Last Thursday the New York gallery Friedman Benda opened On the Road, a look at the work of the Campana Studio, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. This is the gallerys fifth showcase of the studio, which was founded by Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- As Asia Week New York marks its milestone 15th anniversary, Lark Mason Associates announced an exceptional series of four Asian art auctions set to entice collectors worldwide. Hosted on iGavelAuctions.com, the auctions commence on March 12, 2024, and run through April 18, 2024. As members of the Asia Week New York Association since its inception, ... More | |
A photo provided by the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action shows an activist defacing a century-old portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in England on Friday, March 8, 2024. (Palestine Action via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of Arthur James Balfour at the University of Cambridge on Friday, defacing a painting of the British official whose pledge ... More |
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| David Bordwell, scholar who demystified the art of film, dies at 76 | | A panorama of design | | An Instagram-ready immersive museum uses Braille. But is it accessible? |
The film historian David Bordwell, at The University of Wisconsin, in Madison on April 18, 2010. (Andy Manis/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- David Bordwell, a film studies scholar whose immersive, accessible writing transcended the corridors of academia and illuminated the mechanics of moviemaking to a generation of cinephiles and filmmakers, died Feb. 29 at his home in Madison, Wisconsin. He was 76. The cause was interstitial pulmonary ... More | |
A cobweb valentine, which features paper carefully cut into whorls, each of which can be pulled up to form a cage containing the drawing inside. Its maker, Eleanor Green, designed her cage to hold two gray mice. (Eclectibles via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Loves bonds can be delicate yet feel constraining and require hard work to maintain. How better to express all that than by slicing paper into handmade greeting cards, with whorls that can be pulled up to form gossamer cages for images ... More | |
The artist Roy Nachum in an exhibit called Pneumatic Transmission at mercer Labs in lower Mahnhattan on Feb. 5, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- While he was settling into Manhattan after moving from Israel in 2004, 24-year-old artist Roy Nachum decided to contend with a second challenge: Inspired by his grandmother who had lost her sight, and in search of new inspiration for his artwork, he blindfolded himself. For the next 168 hours, he felt his way around his ... More |
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| Those lines on the wall are more than just scrawls and squiggles | | Drawings, assemblages, words and sounds are all clues to the universe of artist Annette Messager | | William H. Johnson's 'Fighters For Freedom' series reunited for the first time in 75 years at Smithsonian |
Shantell Martin at Vardan Gallery in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2024. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For artist Shantell Martin, every surface has a story. It is just a matter of figuring out how to tell it best. When she is commissioned to create one of her trademark line drawings on a wall or a ceiling or on a sidewalk, storefront, museum gallery or the set of a live performance ... More | |
Iconic, 2022. Installation; 7 drawings, acrylic on Japanese paper, black net, 88 5/8 x 72 7/8 in. (225 x 185 cm) (overall). Photo: Atelier Annette Messager. © Annette Messager. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery recently opened a new exhibition by Annette Messager. At the Parisian gallery where she first exhibited in 2000, the artist offers a journey through her new production, emblematic ... More | |
William H. Johnson, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1945. Oil on paperboard, 28 7⁄8 x 23 3⁄8 in. (73.5 x 59.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- William H. Johnson (19011970) painted his last body of work, the Fighters for Freedom series, in the mid-1940s as a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers and performers as well as international leaders working ... More |
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| Maps are for more than finding your way | | Broken Horizon by Ayça Telgeren is now on view at Galerist | | SJ Auctioneers' finest selections of jewelry, silverware, trains, toys and collectibles for auction |
The Swedish design companys Stockholm Cabinet, which features a map of the city printed in the 1870s. (Svenskt Tenn via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Looking at a map is like looking into a fire in a fireplace; theres a sense of something happening all the time, and it draws you in, said Anders Mattsson, a cabinetmaker for Svenskt Tenn. The Swedish design company is celebrating its centennial by participating in a surge ... More | |
Ayça Telgeren, Morning Gaze, 2024. Charcoal and powder blush on paper, mounted on canvas, 140 x 220 cm. Ayça Telgeren, Aubade, 2024, Concrete, 16 x 90 x 30 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 AP.
ISTANBUL .- Galerist just commenced Ayça Telgerens fifth solo exhibition at the gallery titled Broken Horizon which began on March 7 and will continue through to April 27, 2024. Broken Horizon departs from ... More | |
Japanese airplane boat ride: Yonezawa tin litho airplane boat ride in fine working condition, 5 inches wide (est. $200-$350).
BROOKLYN, NY.- SJ Auctioneers is gearing up to provide its finest selections of jewelry, silverware, trains, toys and collectibles in an online-only Luxe Décor Silverware, Toys & More auction on Sunday, March 31st, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. Online bidding will be provided ... More |
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A redifinition of the vernacular of abstraction visible in the work of Dale Chihuly
DUBAI.- Leila Heller Gallery is showing the first extensive exhibition by internationally renowned artist Dale Chihuly in the United Arab Emirates; Chihuly: Four Decades of Iconic Work, which opened on the 25th of February 2024. Chihuly: Four Decades of Iconic Work, showcases works spanning nearly a 40-year period from 19852023 and celebrates both the monumental installations and more discrete works for which Chihuly is known. The collection features two new large-scale installations and over 50 sculptures in glass, as well as two-dimensional works, connecting various series and decades. Synthesizing ideas and practices of the Studio Glass Movement in North America as well as the traditions of the Venetian Ateliers, Chihulys ambitious six decade long career has set the bar for glass in contemporary art and redefined the vernacular of abstraction. ... More
With Goku, Akira Toriyama created a hero that crossed generations and continents
NEW YORK, NY.- Its over 9,000 is perhaps the most popular line in the English dub of the Dragon Ball Z series. The line is beloved for its drama; its an exclamation referring to the unmatched power level of the main character, Son Goku. It was an ongoing joke in my middle school and became one of the internets most enduring memes. But Goku was always an exemplar of staying power, back from his beginnings in the Dragon Ball manga created by Akira Toriyama, whose death was confirmed Friday. Toriyama is the creator of the manga Dr. Slump and Sand Land but is best known for Dragon Ball, which first published in 1984 and for years ran in the popular Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. It was successful from the start, but as more people around the world learned about it, Dragon Ball attained such levels of popularity ... More
Review: A gentle nightmare (Paging Dr. Freud)
NEW YORK, NY.- As a title for a dance, On the Nature of Rabbits is unusual. So is the presence of a dancer wearing an oversized rabbit head. That might be comic or creepy. In this work, by Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg, rabbits are part of a nightmare, and an awfully Freudian one. The rabbit is comfort, desire and death, as well as a psychological block that undermines adult relationships. The hourlong work, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday, begins with Lidberg on the floor with a toy bunny, a Rosebud rabbit. This childhood scene is one of several points in the life of Lidbergs character that the dance depicts, not always in chronological order. There are also an adult love affair (with dancer Damiano Artale) and an encounter with another man (played by Hussein Smko) who hops as a rabbit does ... More
From 'Dune' to decadence (and back)
NEW YORK, NY.- There are three great novels that I read as an early adolescent that I would take to a desert island if I ever needed to be set up for decades of rereading: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Watership Down and Dune. Ive written more in the past on J.R.R. Tolkiens work and even on Richard Adams great rabbit epic than on Frank Herberts magnum opus. So I cant let the occasion of Dune: Part Two and its imperial command of the box office pass without some kind of comment. Two comments, to be precise. The first is about the storys contemporary resonance. You can find plenty of other takes on the specific way that Denis Villeneuves movies deal with Herberts depiction of colonialism, resource wars, Islam-coded religious fundamentalism and a white savior figure who might also be a world-historical villain. ... More
Crafting a better future: 'Changemakers' exhibition touring Australia
CANBERRA.- This International Womens Day, the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House celebrated women who have played a pivotal role in Australian society and is launching a new touring exhibition, Changemakers: Crafting a difference. Changemakers: Crafting a difference is the touring component of the Changemakers exhibition, sponsored by Commonwealth Bank, currently on display at MoAD at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The touring exhibition will commence in Wanneroo, in Western Australia next month, before travelling to three regional locations across the country. The touring exhibition showcases a range of textile banners created by craftivist and artist Dr Tal Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick has used embroidery, quilting and applique techniques to create textile banners that explore challenging issues, attitudes and behaviours ... More
Pulitzer presents first exhibition spanning career of Columbian artist Delcy Morelos at Pulitzer Arts Foundation
ST. LOUIS, MO.- A labyrinthine art installation comprising over three tons of soil sourced from St. Louis, created specifically for the Pulitzer Art Foundation, is the centerpiece of an exhibition devoted to the work of the Bogotá-based artist Delcy Morelos (b. 1967), which opened Friday, March 8, 2024. Delcy Morelos: Interwoven is the first museum showing to place Moreloss acclaimed earthen installations within the context of her earlier artistic output. Some 30 drawings, paintings, and sculptures are assembled to trace the sociocultural and spiritual connections the artist has examined over the last 30 years. Morelos grew up in Tierralta, a town near the Caribbean Sea in the north of Colombia, one of the most biodiverse ... More
'Ellen von Unwerth: The Provocateur' is fifth exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Provocateur is Ellen von Unwerths fifth solo exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery. The photographs included in this exhibition, several of which have never been seen before, reflect a liberated and irrepressible engagement with her subjects that the photographer has championed for her entire career. Von Unwerth notes I know what its like when you feel really uncomfortable, so I do everything in my power to make them feel at ease and to live and laugh and move. These exhibition images reflect a winking provocateur; not so much the object of lust but the playful instigator - both innocent and naughty. While eroticism is in the forefront of many of these images, fantasy and humor unite von Unwerths vision of her subjects simply having fun - with each other, and with the viewer who they tease, taunt, and provoke. ... More
'Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest' at South London Gallery
LONDON.- The exhibition 'Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest' which looks at contemporary responses to photographys long-standing association with feminist resistance has gone on show at the South London Gallery. This collaborative exhibition between the SLG and the Victoria and Albert Museum, (V&A) as part of the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, opened on International Womens Day on 8 March 2024. Acts of Resistance brings together works by over 16 international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional modes of protest photography. This exhibition addresses different approaches to feminist practice which have emerged over the past decade, a period which is discussed as having generated a fourth wave of feminism. ... More
'Spark of Fire' by Santiago Parra at JD Malat Gallery
LONDON.- JD Malat Gallery has introduced Spark of Fire, a new series by Colombian artist Santiago Parra. This show marks the fifth solo exhibition with Parra at JD Malat, displaying a different strand of his artistic oeuvre, sensationalising his method and presenting a new form of internal dialogue that materialises deeper ventures of the subconscious mind onto the canvas. Stories stemming from Sumerian mythology dictate tales of the first person being made out of clay; in Greco-Roman mythology, it was Prometheus who sculpted humans from clay and gifted them the spark of fire which brought them to life. These myths unravel an analogy regarding inert materials and the impetus of energy needed to bring them to life. In this exhibition, Santiago Parra presents himself as a creator, narrating stories of pure expression and journeying ... More
'The Field Robot of Myself' has been inaugurated at Asya Geisberg Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery has inaugurated at their new Tribeca location at 45 White Street the first solo exhibition of Czech artist Jakub Tomá, his first in the US. Tomá situates his exuberant painting in sculpture and collage, using cardboard models and theatrical lighting imbued with his study of theatrical scenic design to generate enigmatic or absurdist scenes. The resulting flattened schematic faces are painted within illusively familiar environments, with a surprisingly friendly robot nearby. The title of his exhibition, The Field Robot of Myself, feels lost in translation, an apt conjecture as it was generated by feeding prompts into ChatGPT, to offer a slightly surreal, off-kilter phrase. In so doing, Tomá establishes his most recent series circulating around the awkwardness of how our desires for human simulacra via an automaton ... More
Petra Mathers, author whose children's stories soared, dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Petra Mathers, a German-born childrens book illustrator and author whose kindly, often bumbling animal characters were nonetheless quietly heroic and often risked much for love, died Feb. 6 at her home in Astoria, Oregon. She was 78. Patty Flynn, her executor, said Mathers and her husband, Michael, a photographer, who was 79, took their own lives. There did not appear to be an obvious health concern that precipitated their act, although they had often told friends that they could not live without each other. They were a private, devoted couple, and the timing of their deaths remains a mystery. With spare, naive images rendered in ink, pencil and watercolor, Mathers stories whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator) and a warmhearted chicken ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome.
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