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Gallery 249 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022, where many of the 13 artifacts the museum has now returned to Cambodia were on display, in New York, July 27, 2022. In a room filled with artifacts, officials in August 2024 formally welcomed the return of more than 200 statues and other objects stolen from Cambodian sites where the Khmer people, centuries ago, had once honored their kings and deities. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Amid the stone sculptures of Hindu demons, mythological temple guardians and Buddhist divinities, Cambodian officials this month recognized the success of lengthy years of repatriation efforts with a ceremony at the prime ministers office in Phnom Penh. In a room filled with artifacts, officials formally welcomed the return of statues and other objects stolen from sites where ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day What is believed to be the nationâs last functioning Whirla-Whip, a 1930s-era machine that mixes different ingredients into hard ice cream, behind the soda fountain counter at Dakota Drug in Stanley, N.D., Aug. 14, 2024. The Empire Builder route between Chicago and Seattle runs by prairies, mountains, forests and a variety of remarkable surprises in its string of heartland towns. (Janie Osborne/The New York Times)
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| Galerie Max Hetzler will present an exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath | | rodolphe janssen announces an exhibition of works by Guy Degobert & Marcel Maeyer | | NYU's Grey Art Museum celebrates the first art dealer to focus solely on emerging artists |
Friedrich Kunath, I Restored My Will To Live Again, 20232024 © Friedrich Kunath, photo: Dawn Blackman.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler will present One Day Ill Follow The Byrds (Tutto Pasta), an exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath at GoethestraÃe 2/3, in Berlin. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Berlin space. Friedrich Kunath's oeuvre spans painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and video. His works contain references to diverse subjects including music, film, Romanticism and pop culture. Born in Chemnitz, the artist grew up in East Berlin and later moved ... More | |
Marcel Maeyer, Personenweegschaal, 1973. Oil on canvas, 200 x 152.5 cm. 78 3/4 x 60 in.
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen announces Belgian Hyperrealism from the 70s, with two key figures of the Belgian hyperrealist movement: Guy Degobert & Marcel Maeyer. The exhibition opens on 12 September 2024 at Livourne 32. The origins of Hyperrealism are situated in the United States in the late 1960s, early 1970s, when artists such as Ralph Goings, Richard Estes, Charles Bell, Duane Hanson and John de Andrea sought to counteract the abstract and conceptual art dominant in the preceding decades. Hyperrealist painters and sculptors developed an illusionistic ... More | |
Raoul Dufy, 30 ans ou la vie en rose, 1931. Oil on canvas, 38 5/8 x 50 3/8 in. Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: CC0 Paris Musées / Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Universitys Grey Art Museum presents Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, featuring works by modern artists championed by a dealer who remains relatively unknown. Weill (pronounced vay) was the first dealer to purchase works by Pablo Picasso in 1901, and she promoted Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani, among many others. Yet her role in early 20th century modernism ... More |
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| Eiffel Tower will keep Olympic rings permanently, mayor says | | A driven introvert creates his dream home in Paris | | Anne Duk Hee Jordan's first solo exhibition in Austria will open at KunstHausWien |
Tourists gather on the banks of the Seine River near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, July 23, 2024. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
PARIS.- The giant Olympic rings that were installed on the Eiffel Tower for the 2024 summer Olympic Games will become a permanent fixture on the monument, the mayor of Paris revealed Saturday. Mayor Anne Hidalgo said that it was a beautiful idea to combine a quintessentially French icon, the Eiffel Tower, which was originally built for the 1889 Worlds Fair, with a global one. The five interlaced rings of blue, red, yellow, black and green, which represent the different continents, were installed this summer ... More | |
Mismatched designer chairs, all in black, and a mobile-style chandelier by the London designer Michael Anastassiades, in the dining room of the product designer Max Gunawans apartment, on the Place des Vosges, in Paris, July 30, 2024. (Joann Pai/The New York Times)
PARIS.- Timeless with a bit of magic. That is how the company Lumio describes its small line of lamps and speakers that are designed with smart functionality but also a distinct sense of delight. Max Gunawan started Lumio in 2013 with a portable light shaped like a book that turns on when opened and voilà ! its accordionlike pages form a sculptural fixture that can be used in various ... More | |
Worlds Away, 20222023. Eight-channel sound installation, stage elements, mattresses, bass shaker, UV lights, 540 Ã 980 Ã 250 cm.
VIENNA.- KunstHausWien announced Anne Duk Hee Jordan. The End Is Where We Start From, the artists first solo exhibition in Austria, which will be on view from September 11, 2024January 26, 2025. Curator: Barbara Horvath What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. These lines by T. S. Eliot from Little Gidding, the final poem, published in London in 1942, of the Four Quartets series, are the inspiration for the eponymous title of Anne ... More |
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| Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen celebrates its 40th anniversary | | Steven MacIver wins 2024 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting | | 'Henri Dauman: Life, Lens, Legacy' to open at KP Projects Gallery |
Peter Sedgley, Spin und Dreieck (detail), 1988. Photo: Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen.
GELSENKIRCHEN.- Its birthday time for Gelsenkirchens art museum! On the 40th anniversary of the museum building, the institution presents its treasures in a new collection exhibition. Look what we haveall this is there for you to discover starting on September 15, 2024. From the inception of modernism in the early twentieth century to the European avant-garde of the post-war years, from outstanding holdings of kinetic art to the international movements of the present. Newly designed galleries now offer space to display stimulating juxtapositions ... More | |
Steven MacIver, studio portrait.
EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy announced that Steven MacIver has received the 2024 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting. Funded by the MacRobert Trust and administered by the RSA, the award provides the time and financial assistance for a committed painter whose circumstances have, for whatever reason, made it difficult to focus upon and develop their artistic talent. Steven MacIver will receive £20,000 which will fund a 12-month period of research and development for a new body of work which will be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. Steven MacIvers paintings are built around ... More | |
Behind the curtain, NYC, 1960. Color Pigment Print, 20 x 16". ©Henri Dauman Photo Archive/Daumanpictures.com. All rights reserved.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Henri Dauman, a generational giant, came along to share with us his vision of the world, garnered by an insatiable curiosity about people and life. Spanning four decades as photojournalist and photographer, Daumans images capture powerful cultural and social moments that serve as living testimony to modern America. According to TIME magazine, Dauman created photos that play like a slideshow of some of the biggest moments in American history and popular culture. From Brigitte ... More |
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| 'Ãlvaro Urbano: TABLEAU VIVANT' to open at SculptureCenter | | Thomas Erben will present Mike Cloud's new body of work | | 'Ice Cold': From Biggie to Lil Yachty, getting your shine on |
Ãlvaro Urbano, studio image. Courtesy the artist; ChertLüdde, Berlin; and TravesÃa Cuatro, Guadalajara, Madrid, and Mexico City. Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza © 2024.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Álvaro Urbanos work has engaged in conversation with various entities across different times and places, including artists, writers, and architects; plants, animals, and buildings. At SculptureCenter, Urbano focuses on a potential ruin, or a ruin in progress a public artwork by the American sculptor Scott Burton (19391989) that was rescued from destruction and now faces an uncertain future. The work was originally installed in the lobby of the Equitable ... More | |
Jones Phoenix Suns, 2024. Oil on canvas, wooden stretcher bars, broomsticks and canvas strips, 94 Ã 74in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben will present Holistic Abstraction, Mike Clouds new body of work developed during his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome earlier this year. Retaining key features of his practice, Cloud expands his concept of paintings intricate relationship with death to now embrace - though from an impersonal perspective - the full range of human experience. In these new paintings, Cloud replaces traditional wooden stretcher bars with handmade mops, which he has fashioned from broomsticks ... More | |
A chain belonging to musical artist A$AP Rocky on display at the Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Of the New York museums that would create an exhibition on jewelry associated with hip-hop culture, I would not have imagined the American Museum of Natural History to be one. Yet, Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry did open in May in a tiny gallery of their Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals. With 66 objects, it has an astute premise that precious stones might attract more attention if regarded through the lens of hip-hop, probably the most ... More |
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First solo exhibition of Andrea Fraser in France to open at Marian Goodman GalleryPARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris will present Untitled (Video, Audio, Objects), the first solo exhibition of Andrea Fraser in France. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation, Fraser emerged in the 1980s as a major figure in the field of institutional critique. She has used performance, video, installation, text, and a range of other mediums to investigate the social, economic, political, and psychological structures of the art world. Informed by sociology, psychoanalysis, conceptualism, and feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, Frasers works exist at the extremes of systemic analysis and affective embodiment. The result was described by Pierre Bourdieu as a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself. In the ground floor, lower ... More Leonard Riggio, who founded Barnes & Noble and upended publishing, dies at 83NEW YORK, NY.- Leonard Riggio, the brash, charismatic and literary-minded businessperson who, in founding the giant Barnes & Noble retail chain, transformed the business of selling books as thoroughly as the rise of the paperback once did, and who was cast as both a hero and a villain for doing so, died Tuesday in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 83. His death, from Alzheimers disease, was announced by his family. Riggio, a son of a cabdriver, was just 30 in 1971 when he bought a fusty half-century-old bookstore in lower Manhattan called Barnes & Noble and began turning it into a literary behemoth. Within decades, it was the largest bookseller in the United States, with hundreds of superstores, many of them in places that had formerly been book deserts, such as malls. The outlets more resembled dep ... More MOCA Tucson will open the first solo museum exhibition by artist and musician Karima WalkerTUCSON, AZ.- MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) presents Graves for the Rain, the first solo museum exhibition by artist and musician Karima Walker who works with sound, sculpture, and durational performance to consider ecological practices and grief in response to the hydrological death of the Santa Cruz River. Through recurring performances, Walker builds up an earthen sculpture and an immersive audio piece, accumulating layers of river material and sound over the course of the exhibition. Informed by the history of human intervention to the river and her ongoing sonic engagement with the landscape, Walker seeks to understand the ways we relate to the land. Attuning to the river through listening and movement, she states, Im holding the microphone up to the rivers mouth, circling and circling, grieving in ... More For solo explorers, a solitude-friendly 'paradise' amid the crowdsNEW YORK, NY.- Public space, by definition, is meant to be shared. So why are architects throughout the world designing parks, airport lounges, museums, shops and other communal areas to accommodate the lone individual? Americans are spending an increasing amount of time alone, and we do not need political candidates to remind us that single-person households are rising throughout the world. Last year, the World Health Organization deemed loneliness a global health threat. With more of us flying solo, more spaces are catering to visitors who may or may not be in the company of others. Urban planners and architects are recognizing a paradox: Public spaces designed to increase opportunities for social interaction may have the unintended consequence of making isolated people feel marginalized, whereas ... More Tolarno Galleries announces Georgia Spain's third solo exhibition with the galleryMELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries will present Georgia Spains third solo exhibition, Why Not, What If, Could It Be? Winner of the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize, Georgia Spain, makes her debut in the medium of sculpture, bringing together paintings alongside sculptural assemblages. Embracing ambiguity, humour and material transformation, Spains surreal, semi-figurative sculptures look as though they might have just stepped out of the vigorously expressive canvases that surround them. In a way they have, for they are comprised of an assortment of detritus found in Spains studio, including the very materials rags, cardboard, bits of wood and other objects used to make the many layers of marks in each painting. The process began when Spain was in the middle of painting and found herself nursing a strong desire to get off the flat surface of the canvas. ... More 4,000 miles, 6 small towns: A whistle-stop tour of AmericaNEW YORK, NY.- See America, an old Amtrak slogan promised, at See-Level. And if you ride the railroads Empire Builder route from Chicago to Seattle and back, as I did recently, youll watch the scenery evolve, from city to suburb to small town to north woods to sweeping grasslands to Great Plains to sandy buttes to snow-capped peaks to sagebrush meadows to pine-lined streams to small town to suburb to city. But are you really seeing America? Literally, perhaps: You are seeing it zip by. After a while, though, that can get to feel as if you are wearing a virtual-reality headset, and it may occur to you that to truly see America, you have to get off the train. So I bought a $499 USA Rail Pass, good for up to 10 trips of any length in 30 days, and selected a half-dozen stops along the route. Since the Empire Builder runs once a day, I could, ... More kaufmann repetto announces 'Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: noW girls allowed'NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Didion once said that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Magdalena Suarez Frimkess tells her stories with clay and glazes, working every day in the early morning hours in order to keep going, to survive, and, yes, to live. Her fellow travelers are a steadfast menagerie of characters, animals and scenes taken from a handful of books and comics and her adopted home of Venice, California. One of her favorite figures is Condorito, the wry Chilean cartoon condor, whom she has often described as her philosopher. As she has stated frequently: He has an answer to every problem. When visiting Magdalena some time ago, I noticed that she was reading a bound collection of Condorito cartoons at the kitchen table while she waited for me. It made me realize just how seriously she takes these supposed childrens ... More Fatman Scoop, a DJ and rapper, dies at 56NEW YORK, NY.- Rapper Fatman Scoop, whose hoarse and booming voice brought an electric energy to songs by Missy Elliott and Mariah Carey, and who performed the underground club favorite Be Faithful, died after collapsing onstage during a performance Friday. He was 56. A statement from the rappers family posted to his Instagram account confirmed his death but did not provide a cause. The post described him as the undisputed voice of the club and as a performer with an infectious stage presence. A video taken at the concert, at the Hamden Town Center Park in Hamden, Connecticut, appeared to show people performing CPR behind equipment on the stage. Lauren Garrett, mayor of Hamden, said that paramedics had attempted lifesaving measures. Fatman Scoop, whose birth name was Isaac Freeman III ... More Kemar Keanu Wynter's third solo exhibition with Klaus von Nichtssagend to open in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend announces Rücken, Kemar Keanu Wynters third solo exhibition opening on Friday, September 6, from 6-8pm. The exhibition delves into the profound emotional depth of Wynters work, revealing his sentimental approach to color field painting. The artist charts the sublime through a masterful technique that reconfigures ones perception of space, texture, and flavor into mutable and tactile sensations, offering a full-body immersion. Wynters alchemical process is deeply rooted in chemistry and memory. Born to a family of Jamaican immigrants who settled in Brooklyn, New York, Wynter came of age in a household where love and strong bonds manifested through gatherings and home-cooked meals. Guided by these heartfelt reflections, Wynter developed an artistic style he dubs a visual Patois ... More Six exhibitions opening September 2024 at Kunstinstituut MellyROTTERDAM.- Kunstinstituut Melly opens a new season of exhibitions and programs on Friday, September 20, 2024. The season introduces the program of the new director, Gabi Ngcobo, and sets the tone for the following years. Embracing improvisation as an ongoing conceptual approach, the exhibitions and programs explore what it means to work and act in favor of freedom. September also kickstarts educational initiatives and partnerships that build momentum toward future directions. In collaboration with our new neighbors Hiphophuis, we have invited several artists to transform our ground-floor convening space and bookshop, MELLY. Additionally, we are proud to launch the sixth edition of our Collective Learning in Practice (CLiP) program, which invites former participants to create a new curriculum for CLiP participants of the future. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died September 02, 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.
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