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Nicole Eisenman, an artist, inspects her work at Urban Arts Projects in Rock Tavern, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 2024. As the artist prepares for a major exhibition in Madison Square Park, Eisenman takes stock of the winding path to fame. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the basement of an old museum, artist Nicole Eisenman grabbed a cordless hacksaw and started demolishing the past. It was a scorching morning in June and Eisenman was excavating a mischievous mural sealed for decades behind a wall of the former Whitney Museum on Madison Avenue, where it had caused such a sensation at the 1995 Biennial. It was a panoramic, Boschian vision of the museums destruction, where everything from Edward Hopper paintings to Andy Warhol prints had been crushed, and the institutions ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The American Folk Art Museum announced a gift of gameboards and photographs from the collection of Bruce and Doranna Wendel. Works from the gift will be presented in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture, which will feature over 100 gameboards from the Wendelsâ collection from September 13, 2024, through January 26, 2025.
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| Parrish Art Museum receives Bank of America grant to support conservation of historic William Merritt Chase painting | | Street artist documents war in Ukraine, one stark mural at a time | | Asia Week New York Autumn 2024, returns with a vibrant array of gallery exhibitions and auctions from September 12-20 |
William Merritt Chase, A Comfortable Corner (At Her Ease; The Blue Kimona [sic]; The Blue Kimono), ca. 1888, oil on canvas, 57 x 44 ½ inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Littlejohn Collection. 1961.5.21.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum announced that it has been awarded a Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant to support the conservation of an iconic painting by American artist William Merritt Chase. This grant, one of 24 projects selected this year by Bank of America, is part of a broader effort to help preserve culturally significant works of art around the world. William ... More | |
The street artist Gamlet Zinkivskyi, who has painted murals in cities across eastern Ukraine, walks past one of his first works made after Russias invasion in his hometown, Kharkiv, on May 16, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)
KHARKIV.- As Ukrainian troops began to push the Russians back from the outskirts of the city of Kharkiv in May 2022, Gamlet Zinkivskyi, a street artist who knows how to shoot as well as paint, was eager to fight for his hometown. So Zinkivskyi, who had frequented firing ranges before the war, joined a volunteer unit defending the city, in Ukraines east. But the battalions leader had other ... More | |
Fukumoto Fuku (b.1973), Sun and Moon, 2024. Glazed porcelain sculptures with either gold or platinum leaf and dust. Sun (gold): 10 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. Moon (platinum): 12 5/8 x 15 1/8 x 13 1/4 in. Image courtesy of Joan B Mirviss LTD. Photo: Okawara Hikari.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York announced that the Autumn 2024 Edition will run from September 12 to 20 with an eye-catching array of gallery exhibitions in New York and seven auction sales at Bonhams, Christies, Doyle, Freemans|Hindman, Heritage, iGavel, and Sothebys. To mark the opening of Asia Week New York, a special webinar titled Four Centuries ... More |
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| Naudline Pierre's second solo exhibition with James Cohan opens in New York | | New book celebrates the centenary of the death of Belgium's leading impressionist | | Yinka Ilori makes his mark at Sotheby's |
Naudline Pierre, It Appears in Solitude, 2024. Oil on linen, 60 x 48 in. 152.4 x 121.9 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting The Mythic Age, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptural interventions by Naudline Pierre, on view from September 6 through October 19, 2024, at the gallerys 48 Walker Street location. This is Pierres second solo exhibition with James Cohan. Transformation is the central tenet ... More | |
Emile Claus: Prince of Luminism. Author: Johan De Smet.
DEINZE.- Emile Claus: Prince of Luminism celebrates the centenary of the death of Belgiums leading impressionist, Emile Claus (18491924). He captured the unique atmosphere that characterised life around the river Lys in Flanders like no other artist, before or since. During his early academic years in Antwerp, Claus emerged as ... More | |
Yinka Ilori at Sothebys. Photo: Chris McAndrew.
LONDON.- Yinka Ilori MBE, the British-Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist and designer, has put his stamp on Sothebys, transforming its café on New Bond Street with floor-to-ceiling adire motifs and symbols, furniture and upholstery, in his iconic, bold and joyful style. The immersive takeover titled, Pride is Within My Story, opens to the public today through to the 31 October. It pays tribute ... More |
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| CLAMP opens "Doris Mitsch │ Locked Down Looking Up" | | Flawless Type IIa diamond, designer jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany & Co., Cartier and more lead Heritage sale | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach to open 'Jasmin Werner: Remote Control' |
Doris Mitsch, Lockdown Gulls Sunset, 2022 (detail). Archival pigment print. © Doris Mitsch.
NEW YORK, NY.- CLAMP opened Doris Mitschs solo show, Locked Down Looking Upthe artists fourth inclusion in an exhibition at the gallery. Locked Down Looking Up started as a series of images made over time from a fixed pointoutside the artists front doorduring the San Francisco Bay Areas lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19. Multiple shots were combined to show the flight trails of birds, insects, and ... More | |
Van Cleef & Arpels Diamond, Platinum Ring, GIA Type IIa. Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Jewelry enthusiasts of all tastes will find something to fall for in Heritage Auctions Fall Fine Jewelry Signature® Auction. From venerable designer names, including Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Tiffany & Co., to bold art jewelry brands like Christopher Walling, Aldo Cipullo and Tony Duquette, the September 30 auction offers a fabulous selection of signed jewels, alongside a wonderful assortment of big, ... More | |
Jasmin Werner, Figure 2.2 Dolor using a desktop computer in the living room., 2024 (detail). Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Jasmin Werners artistic practice employs sculptural forms to explore the infrastructures and lived experiences of global migration. Her works address the aesthetic and political dimensions of labor migration by attending to its unseen economic and emotional transactions. In her latest body of works presented in her second solo exhibition Remote Control at Galerie ... More |
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| Zohar Fraiman has a new solo exhibition at Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen in Germany | | Lisa Williamson's third solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens in Los Angeles | | LAUNCH Gallery will open an exhibition of figurative drawings and paintings by Curt LeMieux and Marley Van Peebles |
Zohar Fraiman, Come Out To Play, 2024, Oil on canvas, 85 x 60 cm.
VIERSEN.- The exhibition by Zohar Fraiman at the Städtische Galerie in Viersen includes about 25 paintings from the last four years, two participatory installations, and an earlier small drawing. The artist, who has lived in Berlin since 2009, reveals the harsh reality of social networks, their influence on the everyday lives of young women, and how they turn pop culture idols into contemporary icons. Visitors will recognize contemporary singers, ... More | |
Installation view, Lisa Williamson, Hover Land Lover, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024, Photo by Jeff McLane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Hover Land Lover, Lisa Williamsons third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 7th through November 9th in Los Angeles. With an interest in forming a language through concise material abstraction, Lisa Williamson creates works that are visually precise, physically resonant, and often attune to the spaces in ... More | |
Curt LeMieux, The Lizard Is There To Remind The Young Man That Youth Is Fleeting
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery will present That Which Animates, an exhibition of figurative drawings and paintings from visual artists Curt LeMieux and Marley Van Peebles. The art depicts anthropomorphic and celestial entities as well as people, animals, and insects. LeMieux and Van Peebles push and pull figuration in unexpected directions. Both artists prod the depths of corporeal experience; creating expressive ... More |
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Artist Amanda Ziemele: Understanding Abstraction
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Read your way through Buenos AiresNEW YORK, NY.- When I started traveling, I came to realize just how different Buenos Aires, Argentina, was from other literary cities. Maybe we all have similar thoughts about our hometowns, or maybe my revelation is just one more confirmation of the arrogance for which we porteños people raised in the port city of Buenos Aires are famous throughout the rest of Latin America. But that arrogance is also what gives rise to our literature. Around here, we like to boast of being one of the cities with the greatest number of bookstores per capita in the world and about how, even in the depths of an economic crisis, Argentina has more than 200 independent publishers. One of our great problems, we like to say, is having more people who want to write than people who read. We grow up steeped in the idea of a city built by European ... More Giorgio Andreotta Calò's first solo exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery will open in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery announced When it's almost dark, Giorgio Andreotta Calò's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition presents the project ΙΚΑΡΟΣ (ICARUS), originally developed during Andreotta Calòs participation in Into Nature (Emmen, 2020). The project began as a medium-length film and evolved into a broader constellation of works, aiming to translate the poetic essence of the film into the specific grammar of the exhibition space. The film Icarus (2021) was created after a visit to the former butterfly pavilion of the zoo in Emmen. After the zoo relocated, the pavilion also fell into disrepair. Just before its eventual demolition in 2021, Andreotta Calò created this film about one expert -, and one self-taught entomologists who reestablish a colony of moths within the building, in a final symbolic act before its destruction. ... More The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents 'Reframing Dioramas: The Art of Preserving Wilderness'LOS ANGELES, CA.- The historic, incredibly detailed dioramas of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have inspired visitors for a hundred years, transporting viewers to natural locations all over the world and introducing them to the animals that depend on these habitats to survive. Reframing Dioramas: The Art of Preserving Wilderness explores the history of dioramas and deconstructs the art and science that makes them so compelling. Set in a newly refurbished diorama hall that has been closed for decades, the exhibition features three habitat installations made by contemporary artists. NHMs historic diorama halls showcase more than 75 incredibly detailed habitats from Arctic tundra to tropical rainforest. ... More Exhibition of Roy Thurston's sculptural color fields on view at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona CollegeCLAREMONT, CA.- During the 1960s and 70s, The Claremont Colleges served as an important intellectual springboard for the Light and Space movement, itself so essential to defining artistic production in Southern California in the mid to late twentieth century. Roy Thurston (born 1949) graduated from the MFA program at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) in 1974, around the same time as celebrated Pomona and CGU alums James Turrell, Helen Pashgian, and Chris Burden, all of whom created variations of field and color that emphasized spellbinding experiences over the immutability of the image. Thurstons practice, loosely defined as sculptural, evades easy categorization in its multifaceted engagement of the viewer. Thurston uses massive rectangular forms often crafted from aluminum ... More Bortolami opens its second solo exhibition by Deborah RemingtonNEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami is presenting the second solo exhibition by Deborah Remington (b. 1930, d. 2010) at the gallery. Mirrors features works from three distinct junctures in Remingtons career, from some of the artists most iconic compositions to rare and never before exhibited paintings. The exhibition coincides with the release of the artists first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa. Remington achieved notoriety in the early 1960s for an inscrutable approach to hard edge abstraction, painting an iconography of irregular, organic shapes rendered with startling precision. Her heraldic imagery, both biomorphic and mechanistic at once, encircled luminous, mirror-like surfaces painted with gradients of black, white and gray. She painted the irregular perimeter of each shape with brilliant bands of orange, blue or green, as if the metallic ... More Exhibition features works on paper and large-scale mixed-media paintings by Dewey CrumplerCOLLEGE PARK, MD.- The Driskell Center announced the exhibition Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies, acclaimed contemporary artist Dewey Crumplers first show in Maryland. The exhibition will be on view at The Driskell Center gallery from September 10 through December 10. Dewey Crumpler (b.1949) is a painter and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work examines consumerism, globalization, and racial capitalism, pointing to the complex histories behind our present-day realities. Crumpler works in series, focusing on certain motifs that recur throughout his decades-long oeuvre. This exhibition homes in on two of these motifstulips and shipping containers. Though their connection is unexpected, both objects speak to volatile economic systems created and sustained by racist methods of disenfranchisement. Dewey ... More Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff's 'THEATER' will open at FLUENTUM, BerlinBERLIN.- As part of Berlin Art Week 2024, Fluentum presents THEATER, a solo exhibition by artist duo Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff that reflects on live performance in an age of radical change. THEATER marks the beginning of their newest durational film, with the first three episodes commissioned by Fluentum and premiering there in September. Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoffs new film THEATER is set and shot at New Theater Hollywood in Los Angeles, the black box theater space the two artists have been operating since January 2024. Blending fiction and performance documentation, THEATER uses footage shot during rehearsals of productions staged at New Theater Hollywood to construct a narrative around a character named Kennedy, played by filmmaker Leilah Weinraub, who buys a fifty seat theater after a car accident and subsequent ... More 40 years later, does 'Bright Lights, Big City' still resonate?NEW YORK, NY.- Late in the summer of 1984, as Nancy Reagan was bringing her Just Say No campaign to potential teenage drug hounds around the country, the publishing world was transfixed by a first novel set amid the fleeting, febrile pleasures of yes. Jay McInerneys Bright Lights, Big City arrived 40 years ago this week with an initial print run of 15,000 and a future that was hard to envision. Maybe you were present at the creation young, living in New York and overidentified with your literary pretensions, just like the books nameless hero: a mostly strung-out, apathetic research assistant at a patrician literary magazine. If you were, maybe you were not impressed. Maybe you were not impressed. For some, an initial aversion was triggered by the novels signature narrative device, or gimmick, depending on your view the story told ... More For him, a 'Lion King' prequel is the 'most different thing I could do'NEW YORK, NY.- By his own rough count, filmmaker Barry Jenkins has seen the 1994 animated movie The Lion King around 155 times, many of those viewings with two young nephews and a well-worn VHS tape. So when he was asked to direct the latest installment of the franchise, Mufasa: The Lion King, he was already pretty familiar with the story. Who isnt? When anybody takes their baby and holds it up like this he paused to raise his arms overhead, cupping his hands as if presenting a small but celebrated cub you know its The Lion King, he said. There are very few things that have that level of cultural penetration. Familiarity aside, very few things in Jenkins career would seem to point to a big Disney animated feature. The director, 44, broke out in 2016 with Moonlight, a small-budget coming-of-age film set in Miami ... More 'Katherine Bradford: Sky Swimmers' opens at Kunsthalle EmdenEMDEN.- With Katherine Bradford: Sky Swimmers, Kunsthalle Emden is one of the first European institutions to present a solo exhibition of the American artist. Katherine Bradford (b. 1942) creates works that are characterized by a blend of figuration and abstraction along with a vibrant, contemporary color palette; her recurring motifs of swimmers, supermen, and acrobats populate the canvases in mystical, surreal scenes, and are the focus of the exhibition in Emden. These anonymous figuressome truncated, some wholeappear ghostly and other-worldly. Strong painterly reduction breaks them down to the essentials: devoid of faces, characteristic body features, or gender classification, the figures seem mysterious and masked. They are depicted in suspended states, in which both the before and the after are ambiguous: thus, ... More Off-white after Virgil AblohNEW YORK, NY.- When, not long after the designer Virgil Ablohs unexpected death, New Guards Group, the company that manufactured Off-White, Ablohs fashion label, approached Ibrahim Kamara about taking over the house, no one was more surprised than he. Kamara was not, after all, a designer. He had never considered being a designer. He was a stylist and the editor of Dazed magazine; he had dreamed of being a musician when he was a child growing up in Sierra Leone and Gambia, and his work explored the bleeding edge of gender, politics and self-expression. Sure, he had gone to Central Saint Martins, the art and design school in London (where he and his family had immigrated to when he was 16). Sure, he had been working with Abloh at Off-White and Louis Vuitton menswear, but for only two years. There were ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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