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Stuart Dunkel, Dance of RA, 6 x 8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday, April 6th, Rehs Contemporary will unveil a digital exhibition, A|MUS|E, featuring new work from Stuart Dunkel on their website  www. RehsCGI.com. Dunkel, who has seen rapid success in the last few years, has compiled more than 40 original paintings for this project  the largest number of available works in one venue by the artist. Stuart DunkelÂs subject matter ranges widely  his works can be classified as still life, landscapes, or even genre paintings  but one quirky characteristic is consistent throughout... the presence of a little white mouse named Chuckie; his Muse. A muse is most commonly thought of as the source of inspiration for a creative artist  for Dunkel, he thinks of it as more of a Âmagnificent obsession. But it is not just about what he is painting, as the artist says, Âthere is rhythm and harmony; my life has been dedicated to the pursuit of beauty. Dunkel, a world renowned oboist, turned his full ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Black people were present in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Here, in society, in RembrandtÂs neighbourhood and in art. It is an aspect that has long been overlooked. This exhibition brings you eye to eye with portraits of black people. How did artists depict them? And can we find out who they are? HERE: Black in RembrandtÂs Time runs from 6 March to 31 May 2020 in The Rembrandt House Museum. In line with national policy relating to the coronavirus, The Rembrandt House Museum will remain closed to the public until further notice. Photography by Mike Bink for The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.
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 | | Pace Gallery publishes series of curated exhibitions on its online viewing room platform | | Troubled turf: The photographs of An-My Le | | First solo exhibition of Shannon Cartier Lucy's artwork in L.A. on view at De Boer Gallery | 
Sam Gilliam, Untitled, 2020 (detail), watercolor on washi, 74 à 39" © Sam Gilliam.
NEW YORK, NY.- As a response to its temporary gallery closures, Marc Glimcher has announced that Pace Gallery has expanded its online viewing room tool to the public, and will publish a series of thematic and solo artist exhibitions during the period of closures caused by COVID-19 and beyond. Presented over the course of the coming weeks, these digital exhibitions have been organized by Paces dealers and curators. They include a group exhibition dedicated to ceramics, an exhibition of works inspired by nature, and a focus on photography on the topic of Americas cultural history. Many of the exhibitions directly engage with human experience in this unprecedented climate, including a solo artist exhibition devoted to works on the theme of domesticity by American artist and cartoonist Saul Steinberg (launched Monday, March 23), and a meditative group presentation on stillness, titled A Swiftly Tilting ... More | | 
An-My Le in her New York studio, Feb. 7, 2020. From war enactors to Americas southern border, the artist blurs boundaries between directing and documenting. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
by Nancy Princenthal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you step back far enough, there is no outside to war. Or so suggests An-My Le, whose harrowingly quiet, wide-angled photographs highlight battle re-enactors, active military personnel and sites of conflicts, both real and simulated. They are featured in On Contested Terrain, a revelatory career survey at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, through July 26. (While the museum is temporarily closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, a video tour of the exhibition and selected images are at cmoa.org.) Les photographic terrain spans the Vietnamese countryside, shown in intimate black-and-white images of the early 1990s, and, in recent color photos, a deceptively placid rural stretch ... More | | 
Shannon Cartier Lucy, Woman with Machete, 2019 (detail), Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For its inauguration, De Boer Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Shannon Cartier Lucy. Entitled Woman with Machete, the exhibition will run through 25 April, 2020. This exhibition marks the first solo exhibition of Shannon Cartier Lucys artwork in Los Angeles. While the works are meant to convey the in-between spaces and moments of life, they stand out in the boldness of their critique of the absurd, showcasing their own hyperawareness. The exhibit reflects the work of an experienced artist who takes the viewer on her artistic journey, from which a discerning narrative emerges, one that mirrors a very human experience - the rise and fall of relationships, recovery and reflection in drug addiction and a return to home. In Woman with Machete, Lucy often includes herself painted in eerily familiar snapshots of the subconscious. The images she creates are strange, violent, and unsettling, b ... More |
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| | Kehrer Verlag publishes Helen Levitt book to accompany retrospective exhibition | | Sabrina Amrani opens a digital solo exhibition of works by Joël Andrianomearisoa | | Wilhelm Burmann, teacher of ballet's brightest, dies at 80 | 
Helen Levitt. Edited by Walter Moser, Albertina. Texts by Duncan Forbes, Astrid Mahler,Walter Moser, Christina Natlacen, Bert Rebhandl. Designed by Manuel Radde. Hardcover, 22 x 27 cm. 232 pages, 203 b/w and 34 color ills. ISBN 978-3-86828-897-1 Euro 39,90 / GBP 35.00 / US$ 50.00.
BERLIN.- Helen Levitt (1913 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography.As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the citys poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitts oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour,and her employment of color photography was revolutionary: Levitt numbers among those photographers who pioneered and established color as a means of artistic expression. The book accompanying the retrospective of the Albertina Museum features around 130 of Levitts iconic works. These range ... More | | 
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Together forever now until the end of time, 2020. Wood, textile. 76 x 15 cm. Ed. of 2.
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting the digital solo exhibition From Home, by Joël Andrianomearisoa. Confined. Away from friends, family and social life. Isolated from the world. Sometimes on our own. Just like the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa is in his Parisian flat, millions of people already look at the world from a window, from a balcony, and try to continue their lives improvising with what they have at hand. There are no stores, no parks, nothing beyond the nutrition of the physical being. No art show to go nor any art supply to buy. Only what you have around you. These are the laws that shape the new project by the Malagasy artist to produce a collection of objects, artistic works and, according to his own voice, "emotions". From home, with household tools. "These objects are explorations to forget time but above all to affirm the vital necessity of creativity, says Andri ... More | | 
Wilhelm Burmann teaches a ballet class in New York, April 1, 2004. Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wilhelm Burmann, a revered ballet master and teacher who trained generations of dancers including Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocca, Maria Kowroski and Wendy Whelan died March 30 in New York. He was 80. Jane Haugh, his friend and health care proxy, said the cause was renal failure. He had also recently tested positive for the coronavirus. With a sharp wit and a dry, sometimes withering delivery, Burmann could get to the essence of a dancer, ballet or otherwise. His advanced professional ballet class, which he started teaching in 1984 at Steps on Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, drew dancers from the modern dance world, too. Burmann was a part of so many of our histories across the world and across disciplines, recalled ... More |
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| | Alexander Berggruen opens an exhibition of works by four artists | | Lawrie Shabibi opens first 3-D exhibition 'Upsurge: Waves, Colour and Illusion' | | Thousands of isolated artists join together to draw online in a global internet moment | 
JJ Manford, Sea Dogs, 2019. Oil stick, oil pastel, and flashe on burlap over canvas, 72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams. A 3D virtual tour of the exhibition can be seen here. The four artists in this exhibition share an attention to the familiar, and a glimpse into an inner, secret life. Anne Buckwalters work exists on a smaller scale and deals in the mystery of the female body, while exploring and disrupting traditional gender roles. Dustin Hodgess paintings harness an intimate feel in an archival and sometimes cinematic manner, as though chronicling a specific but esoteric history. JJ Manfords work transforms seemingly ordinary scenes into the realm of the sublime. Brittney Leeanne Williamss paintings command an awareness of the body and surrounding environment, conflating location and time. The artists in Quarters approach the subjects of familiarity and proximity from ... More | | 
Mona Saudi, Rivers of Sadness, 2004. Black Marble, 61 x 28 x 13 cm.
DUBAI.- Bringing together the diverse range of practices of a multi-generational group of artists - Mohamed Melehi (b.1936, Morocco), Mona Saudi (b.1945, Jordan), Hamra Abbas (b.1976, Kuwait), Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (b. 1962, UAE), Shaikha Al Mazrou (b.1988, UAE) and Vivien Zhang (b.1990, China) - Upsurge explores notions of perception within abstract art: how form, colour and contrast affect the visual experience to give illusions of depth or dynamism based on our psychological predisposition. Different starting points lead each to converge on Op art: the perceptual experience is related to how vision functions. Take a 360° exhibition tour here. A term coined in 1964 by Time magazine, Op art describes a form of abstract art, specifically non-objective art, that uses optical illusions. Never a movement, more a tendency, works now described as "op art" were produced decades earlier by Victor Vasarely in the ... More | | 
The first life-class is still on the artists Facebook page, so that any artists who would like to draw from the model with Stuarts guidance can draw along at any time.
LONDON.- Over the last week, we have seen fantastic initiatives by major museums, art fairs and galleries, utilising the internet to keep culture moving and audiences connected. Recently, British artist Stuart Semple contributed by opening his studio and hiring a life model, then streaming a free, live, online life-drawing class via Facebook for everyone to take part. Quite unexpectedly, and despite the coronavirus, over 3000 artists from around the world joined him. Whole art schools who were self-isolating participated, people in countries as far away as the Philippines set their alarm clocks to join in the middle of night and thousands of others drew together. During the 2-hour class, Debbie, the model, was handed a facemask. The online community made a series of quick drawings that spoke to the present moment, rallying together to share ... More |
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| | 'Shakedown' has fans at the Whitney and on Pornhub | | The Reuben Foundation announces support for Illuminated River | | Timeless aesthetics: Collectors advised to buy quality pieces amid COVID-19 crisis | 
Filmmaker Leilah Weinraub in Los Angeles, March 22, 2020. Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times.
by Melena Ryzik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The moment Leilah Weinraub stepped into Shakedown, a roving lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, she was hooked. It was the winter of 2002, she was a recent college graduate, and Shakedown, which was part of a scene that catered to black lesbians, offered a tantalizing new community. I had never been in a lesbian space that was full before, Weinraub said. She immediately breezed her way into serving as house photographer for the parties. Not long after, she realized stills werent going to cut it: The action at Shakedown was in the movement of the sweaty dancers and appreciative crowd, of the charismatic founder and promoter, and of the dollars that made their way from performers G-strings to their nail techs and babysitters. She ... More | | 
Illuminated River Cannon Street Bridge. Photo: © Matthew Anderson / PA Wire.
LONDON.- Illuminated River Foundation is delighted to announce the Reuben Foundation as a funder of the second phase of Illuminated River, joining The Rothschild Foundation, Blavatnik Family Foundation and Arcadia Fund. An ambitious public art commission which is transforming the capital with a unified light installation across central Londons bridges, the project aims to connect, celebrate and capture the spirit of the Thames and its diverse communities. The first four bridges - London, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium - were illuminated in July 2019, with the illumination of the second phase of the project planned for early 2021, including Blackfriars Road, Waterloo, Golden Jubilee Footbridges, Westminster and Lambeth bridges. Formed in 2002 by Simon and David Reuben, the Reuben Foundation is committed to the improvement of society in the UK and around ... More | | 
Jean Gauchet.
NICE.- The international art market is now bearing the brunt of the financial crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this, our Chief Expert, Jean Gauchet, has several pieces of advice to our readers. The newly released Art Market 2020 report by Art Basel and UBS analyses that the travel restrictions and bans on social events put up by governments worldwide are bringing a dramatic impact on the global art market. Indeed, a number of art fairs have already cancelled or postponed their show this year, including Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Paris and Art Dubai, while these major art fairs constitute up to 40 percent of the global art sales. Auction houses have also postponed their sales to later this year. In face of difficulties, how should collectors and art investors react accordingly? Jean says that knowing ones artistic predilection is of paramount importance, which even comes before the quality. Amidst unstable tim ... More |
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 JoAnne Artman Gallery opens a new series of exclusive online exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- The romance of the Old West reminds modernity of the freedoms it represents in our imaginations. Artists America Martin, Billy Schenck, Greg Miller and James Wolanin incorporate the legacy of Western Expansion into their art. The exhibition can be viewed here. Abundant in history, landscape and folklore, the American Frontier was once synonymous with the cowboys take on the American Dream. The romance of the Old West and the temptation of corruption and vigilantism that juxtaposes its unbridled purity remind modernity of the freedoms it represents in our imaginations. Visually mythologized by the vast spaces and liberties inherent in the genre, the aura of a land continually regenerated through dreams of independence and gratification remains an innovative locale for both the entertainment industry ... More Japanese art market estimated at 258 billion yen, up 4.9% on last year TOKYO.- Art Tokyo Association, the organizer of Art Fair Tokyo, Japans largest art fair, conducted the Japanese Art Industry Market Research Survey with approximately 20,000 people, estimating the scale of the art market in Japan to be 258 billion JPY. This years growth of 4.9% is the largest since the survey began in 2016. (In 2016, the market was estimated at 243.1 billion yen; in 2017, it was estimated at 243.7 billion yen.; in 2018, it was estimated at 246 billion yen.) When the art market is viewed by sales channel, the two highest channels remain galleries in Japan (98.2 billion yen) and department stores (56.7 billion yen). Art Tokyo Association has collated these results from the survey into the Japanese Art Industry Market Research Report 2019, which is published online in March 2020. Scale of Markets for Works of Art, Art-related Products, and Art-Related ... More Check out the Grey Art Gallery's digital offeringsNEW YORK, NY.- Though the Grey Art Gallery is temporarily closed, the gallery wants the community to know that they are still here for you online. They are actively exploring new ways to engage with you during these challenging times and are sharing special digital content on their website and via their social media channels. You can enjoy a digital experience of the exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s1980s online by viewing artwork and installation images alongside explanatory text. Watch a short film shot at the opening reception of Taking Shape, which took place on January 30, 2020. Read reviews of the exhibition from the New York Times, 4Columns, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Browse the blog The Grey Area and read posts that highlight artworks and artists featured in Taking Shape, including ... More Kunsthaus Hamburg temporarily closed but still busy with exciting contentsHAMBURG.- Due to the current situation, caused by COVID-19, the Kunsthaus Hamburg will remain closed. Accordingly, the exhibition Ah humanity! cannot be opened. Kunsthaus Hamburg is currently working on digital formats to provide insights into the exhibition and the work of the artists Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. In their experimental works Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor bridge the classical film genre, their interest in anthropological themes and the visual arts. At the centre of their attention is the human being from complex perspectives, with all given social and psychological motivations, as a part of a community, along with the consequences of human activity on our planet. The exhibition Ah humanity! brings together films that deal with non-conformism and the absurdity of human behaviour. Somniloquies, 2017 ... More Steidl publishes 'David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Photographed'NEW YORK, NY.- Goldblatt began working on Some Afrikaners Photographed, first published in 1975, in 1963. He had sold his fathers clothing store where he worked, and become a full-time photographer. The ruling Afrikaner National Partymany of its leaders and members had supported the Nazis in the Second World Warwas firming its grip on the country in the face of black resistance. Yet Goldblatt was drawn not to the events of the time but to the quiet and commonplace where nothing happened and yet all was contained and immanent. Through these photos he explored his ambivalence towards the Afrikaners he knew from his fathers store. Most, he guessed, were National Party voters, yet he experienced them as austere, upright, unaffected people of rare generosity of spirit and earthy humor. Their potency and contradictions moved ... More Dewi Lewis Pubishing releases 'House Music' by Charles RozierNEW YORK, NY.- Asked what he wished to convey in his poetry, Robert Lowell once said "I want to break your heart." This book is nothing if not heart breaking, heartbreakingly wistful and poignant, heartbreaking in the way that the inexorable passage of time, with its inevitable losses and recuperations, can be heartbreaking. Spanning almost thirty years, House Music by Charles Rozier chronicles seemingly quotidian moments in the lives of multiple generations of the photographer's extended family. Training the camera on those closest to him, Rozier brings the sensibility of a street photographer to his own domestic setting. This is a body of work that transcends convention and the particularities of Rozier's own circumstances to create a story that speaks to universal experience. House Music underscores the uncanny in the everyday, presenting ... More Mitchell Fine Art presents a solo exhibition by Ann ThomsonBRISBANE.- A solo exhibition by Ann Thomson, one of Australias iconic female artists is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley. Ann Thomson's exhibition is on view until 27th April. The gallery remains open however all events have been postponed. The gallery is asking visitors to be mindful when visiting. All exhibitions and the gallery stockroom can be viewed via the website. The gallery can email images of artworks and can assist with 'virtual instals' for anyone unable to visit the gallery. Thomson, who is originally from Brisbane, has been painting for over 50 years and has taken her art around the world. After periods in New York and London Thomson is now based in Sydney. Since graduating from the National Art School in 1962 Ann Thomson has become a force in the Australian art scene. Now in her late 80s Thomson is known for her vibrant, ... More Kim Foster Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Dan HernandezNEW YORK, NY.- Early video game consoles were designed with a RESET button. This feature allowed the user to reboot the consoles software. While it was not the intent, the RESET button on Dan Hernandez Nintendo Entertainment System often got used as a release of frustration. His finger would jam the RESET in a fit of annoyance at losing a precious life, or at missing an important weapon or power up, early on in a game. The four new narrative works in the RESET series were influenced by various pictorial genres, including early Christian painting and illuminations, medieval maps, Islamic Art and Indian Miniatures. Two distinct philosophies were employed in the creation of the works both of which are commonly used in video games. The first is an open-world or sandbox philosophy. In this approach the player (or viewer) has complete ... More A new graphic novel pays homage to the unsung makers of popular comicsNEW YORK, NY.- Christopher Sperandio, an artist and educator who has long melded artmaking and labor activism, released a new kind of graphic novel, one that he has developed over the last few years at the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) at Rice University. Pinko Joe is the story of a troubled anti-hero wage-slave from another planet who battles to save earthlings from gun-toting corporate raiders and out-of-control oligarchs. Sperandio created the novel by patching together and re-inking original pages from old public domain comics. I got it in my head that I could tell a new story without using new layouts or characters, says Sperandio. Rather, I borrowed and repurposed panels and layouts from disparate genrescrime, science fiction, horror and romance. Once the remix fell into place, I wrote new dialogue and ... More Canadian actress and activist Shirley Douglas dead at 86TORONTO (AFP).- Canadian actress and civil rights activist Shirley Douglas died Sunday at the age of 86, her son actor Kiefer Sutherland said. Douglas died following a bout of pneumonia, Sutherland wrote on Twitter, specifying that it was not related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. "My mother was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life," wrote Sutherland, best known as agent Jack Bauer in the TV thriller "24." "Sadly she had been battling for her health for quite some time and we, as a family, knew this day was coming," he wrote. Douglas spent her acting career between Canada and Hollywood, where she worked with big-name directors such as Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg. She is also known for campaigning for several progressive causes, including the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers in the 1960s and later ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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