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Installation view. Picasso - El Greco Photo: Julian Salinas
BASEL.- A grand special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel turns the spotlight on Pablo Picassos (18811973) engagement with the art of the Cretan-born Old Master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco (15411614). With around thirty pairs of masterworks by both artists, it retraces their dialogue, one of the most fascinating such colloquies in the history of art. A core set of works by Picasso from the museums own collection is complemented by first-rate loans from all over the world. Pablo Picasso helped set the course of European art history at several key junctures. Few artists enjoy greater international renown; few have been subject to more exhaustive scholarship. And yet hitherto unnoticed aspects of his oeuvre still await discovery. For example, it is well known that Picassos enthusiasm for El Greco has left marked traces in his work. Yet discussions of this relationship typically foc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Alexander Berggruen announces their new exhibition, a group show, Freya Douglas-Morris, Tom Howse, Talia Levitt. This show opened Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
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| Bowdoin College Museum of Art announces opening of 'At First Light' exhibition | | Alexander Berggruen opens a group show with works by Freya Douglas-Morris, Tom Howse, and Talia Levitt | | Museum opens exhibitions of works by William Cordova, Beatrice Glow, Elle Perez, and Salman Toor | 
Abraham Hanson, ca. 1828, oil on canvas, by Jeremiah Pearson Hardy, American, 18001887. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY.
BRUNSWICK, ME.- This summer, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, an expansive exploration of how artists have shaped our understandingand often, quite literally how we seeMaines landscapes, communities, and people. At First Light includes more than 100 works, including those by such historic acclaimed artists such as Berenice Abbott, Lynne Drexler, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth, as well as living masters Katherine Bradford, Barry Dana, Lois Dodd, Daniel Minter, Richard Tuttle, and William Wegman, to name just a few of the numerous artists whose artistic production has been nurtured in Maine over the course of two centuries. Together the featured works, which range widely in media, style, and approach, offer a vivid portrait of Maine while charting its relationship to wider artistic develo ... More | | 
Freya Douglas-Morris, Sun Flower, 2022. Oil and pigment on canvas, 31 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. Copyright the artist Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen announces their new exhibition, a group show, Freya Douglas-Morris, Tom Howse, Talia Levitt. This show opened Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Constructing realities shaped by personal and collective nostalgia, Freya Douglas Morris, Tom Howse, and Talia Levitt build tender worlds where surprises await a close observer. Though each artist has a distinct painterly aesthetic and focus, all three reveal richly-hued perspectives that herald sincere investigations of the human experience. Freya Douglas-Morris (b. 1980, London, United Kingdom) received a BA in fine arts from Brighton University, Brighton, UK and an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Her work has been featured at galleries and museums including Alexander Berggruen, NY; Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; FreshStart, Los Angeles, CA; HDM Gallery, Sh ... More | | 
Salman Toor. Walking Together. 2019 (detail). Courtesy the artist and Lurhring Augustine.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art opened a suite of four solo exhibitions by some of todays leading contemporary artists: William Cordova, Beatrice Glow, Elle Pérez, and Salman Toor. The presentations, which opened in April and May, capture the ways in which these artists are exploring and revealing ideas and issues relevant to individual and communal experience, from examinations of structures of power to intimate portrayals of identity, and to the amplification of voices suppressed across history. The artists also employ a wide range of formal and technical approaches within photography, painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation, and immersive works, reflecting the boundary-pushing nature of each of their practices. Together, the exhibitions highlight the significance of artists voices within our social and cultural dialogues and understandings. Specific details about each of the exhibitions, including opening and cl ... More |
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| Fogo Island Arts opens "Nadia Belerique: Body in Trouble" | | Pearl Lam Galleries exhibits new works by Zhu Jinshi | | MoMA and Neue Galerie acquire rare color self-portrait lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz | 
Nadia Belerique, If I Had Words, 2022.
JOE BATTS ARM .- Following a residency at Fogo Island Arts seven years ago, Nadia Belerique was invited to present a solo exhibition of her work in 2022. Body in Trouble is a new series of works by Belerique that are directly linked to her time on Fogo Island, where she began to experiment with integrating sculptural and architectural gestures into a practice that was predominantly photographic at the time. Nadia Belerique was born in Toronto, Canada, in the early 1980s, growing up around the time when Canadian singer-songwriter Mary Margaret O'Haras song Bodys in Trouble (1988) was released. The song is an important starting point for Beleriques new work, which, like this track, is concerned with the experience of the physical form and its discontents. Bodys in Trouble has been praised for straddling a tension between tradition and formlessness, a characteristic that Beleriques work ... More | | 
Zhu Jinshis palette-like landscape paintings are composed of groups of small oil paintings created during the epidemic
SHANGHAI.- Pearl Lam Galleries is presenting the solo exhibition of Zhu Jinshi Next Week to Milan, which shows new works by the artist from the end of 2019 to the present, including thick acrylic paintings and small oil paintings. The artist, who has been living in his studio for a long time and barely goes out, often titles his works with fictional names and illogical images from his mind. Next Week in Milan, which is also the name of a painting in the show, starts a new journey of a mind traveller of art, inviting audiences to a space of floating paintings. The new medium and working methods introduced by the artist in two new series in this exhibition both challenge his past painting practices and usher in a new approach to painting as a spatial construction. Zhu Jinshi uses undiluted acrylic paint in his new acrylic works. The fluid nature ... More | | 
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 18671945). Self-portrait en face. 1904. Lithograph, sheet: 18 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. (48 x 33.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and Neue Galerie New York have jointly acquired Käthe Kollwitzs Self-portrait en face (1904), one of the most extraordinary self-portraits made in the early years of the 20th century. The acquisition was supported at MoMA by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints and a gift from Jack Shear, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Alice and Tom Tisch (in honor of Marlene Hess), Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Maud I. Welles, Ronnie Heyman (in honor of Marlene Hess), and Carol and Morton Rapp; and at the Neue Galerie by a gift from Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. Christophe Cherix, MoMAs Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, said, Käthe Kollwitzs legacy looms large over the 20th and 21st centuries. Executed ... More |
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| Galerie Urs Meile a solo presentation of the Chinese artist Miao Miao | | Exhibition explores the layered histories and tensions of West Texas | | Solo exhibition of paintings by Hughie Lee-Smith opens at Karma | 
Miao Miao, Magic Carpet, 2021. Oil, wax, pigment on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Urs Meile.
ARDEZ.- Under the title Magic Carpet, Galerie Urs Meile is showing a solo presentation of the Chinese artist Miao Miao (*1986) in its pop-up exhibition space in Ardez. Her enigmatic works on paper and canvas - which can be seen for the first time outside of China in this exhibition - are characterized by unusual compositions, a hypnotizing use of colors and forms, and surprising pictorial ideas. Miao Miaos work is characterized above all by her intuitive and courageous approach, which moves outside any norm and entrenched visual modes of representation, rather than coming from the classical educational path via an academy, as is usually the case in China. For Miao Miao, painting is not a cognitive choice, but a natural way to represent the world and express her point of view. Her works are often inspired by a particular moment in life, a specific color, impression, action, or thought, which can certainly prove challenging for v ... More | | 
Installation view of Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 18, 2022 January 02, 2023. © 2022 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Emile Askey.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, on view in the Museums street-level gallery from June 18, 2022, through January 2, 2023. The multimedia works featured in this exhibition explore the complex histories and cultures present in the territory of Somi Sek, the lands of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe commonly known as West Texas. Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas foreground the stories and voicesboth human and non-humanthat shape the landscape, and articulate the ways in which they have been historically affected by the built environmentfrom land privatization to the construction of dams, oil sites, and border walls. Originally commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, these works are the result of a lengthy research process that involved fieldwork in the region, with archival work at the University of Texas in Austin. Projects: Carolin ... More | | 
Hughie Lee-Smith, The Birds, 1955, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches; 50.8 x 61 cm, © 2022 Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by Hughie Lee-Smith. The surreal compositions of Lee-Smith (b. 1915, Eustis, Florida; d. 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico) reflect the social alienation of mid-twentieth century American life. The exhibition will run from August 3rd to September 17th, 2022 at 22 East 2nd Street, New York. Hughie Lee-Smiths body of work spans nearly seven decades. He came of age in the midst of the Great Depression, spending his early life primarily between Cleveland and Detroit. He was in Chicago from 1943-45 where he enlisted in the Great Lakes Naval Station. The Midwest left an indelible influence on Lee-Smith, whose Social Realist paintings made reference to its expansive gray skies and industrial architecture. He was involved in several projects that were recipients of Works Progress Administration funding: Karamu House in Cleveland, the oldest running African American theater in the nation ... More |
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| The Watermill Center opens two solo exhibitions by artists Christopher Knowles and Robert Nava | | 'Pancho Jiménez: Impressions & Revelations' on view at Jenkins Johnson Gallery | | Hugh Lane Gallery presents "Eva Gonzalès is What Dublin Needs" | 
Christopher Knowles, copyright Lovis Ostenrik, courtesy of The Watermill Center.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Watermill Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located in Water Mill, NY, presents two solo exhibitions by artists Christopher Knowles (b. 1959, New York) and Robert Nava (b.1985, Chicago) across their gallery spaces on July 30, coinciding with STAND, The Centers 30th anniversary Summer Benefit. Visual artist Christopher Knowles, a returning alumni artist whose work is featured in The Watermill Center collection and has a long-standing relationship with the institution dating back to the 70s, first came to The Watermill Center in 1992 for the founding International Summer Program. Now, The Center presents a comprehensive exhibition of Knowles work throughout the South Wing of the main building, covering all periods of his artistic career, including his drawings, typings, paintings, sculpture, sound work, and performance. The exhibition is the result of a two-year examination of ... More | | 
Pancho Jiménez, Fulfilled, 2019, ceramic, 23 x 10 x 9 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting Santa Clara-based artist Pancho Jiménezs solo exhibition Impressions & Revelations, exploring the elusiveness of dreams and memory. Joining together molded forms in unlikely combinations. Jiménez transforms kitsch elements into complex pieces with a rich and relevant focus. The juxtaposition of shapes in his sculptures may at first seem haphazard, but it is intentionally crafted to mimic the illusiveness of memory as it advances and recedes over time. Interested in the universality of visual language and the human ability to assign meaning to symbols, Jiménez explores how meaning is formed by restructuring recognizable forms to investigate their universal significance. The artist started working with clay at a young age, which gave him the opportunity to explore his ideas through sculpture than through more traditional academic subjects. His background in art and history echo ... More | | 
Angelica Kauffmann, Self-portrait, 1787. Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, © Cobbe Collection. Photo: Alexey Moskvin.
DUBLIN.- Experience Eva Gonzalès like never before. Hugh Lane Gallery in partnership with The National Gallery, London, is presenting the exhibition Eva Gonzalès is what Dublin needs. Although best known for her magnificent portrait painted by Ãdouard Manet in 1870, Eva Gonzalès is what Dublin needs removes Gonzalès from Manets shadow and shines a light on the extraordinary talent of this artist. Eva Gonzalès is what Dublin needs is the first-ever showcasing in Ireland of a collection of Eva Gonzalèss work. Her paintings and pastels were admired by her contemporaries and she regularly exhibited in the Paris Salon. The exhibition will provide a window into Manet and Gonzalèss lifelong artistic dialogue, delving into the complex mixture of mentorship, admiration, and emulation that underpinned their friendship. It will also present a fresh perspective on women artists and their art practice in 19th century ... More |
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 National Gallery of Ireland launches extraordinary new exhibition celebrating works of Alberto GiacomettiDUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland has announced the launch of its latest exhibition Giacometti: From Life. The new display offers visitors a rare opportunity to see more than 50 works by renowned artist Alberto Giacometti, including sculptures, paintings, and drawings. This is the first exhibition of Giacomettis work to be held at the National Gallery of Ireland. Giacometti: From Life is co-organised by the National Gallery of Ireland and the Fondation Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss-born artist who lived and worked mainly in Paris. He is considered to be one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. The artworks in the exhibition date from Giacomettis early years in his native Switzerland through to the late work he made in his Paris. The human figure was a source ... More  The Japanese author behind 'Bullet Train' is OK that the film isn't so JapaneseSENDAI.- Kotaro Isaka, one of Japans most popular crime thriller writers, is a self-described homebody. He rarely leaves Sendai, the city in northeast Japan where he lives, and many of his books are set there. Yet when his 2010 novel Maria Beetle was adapted into Bullet Train, a Hollywood action film starring Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry and Joey King that opens in the United States on Aug. 5, he embraced the largely Western cast and highly stylized, hyper-neon setting that can perhaps best be described as Japan-adjacent. In writing Maria Beetle, a thriller about multiple assassins trapped on the same high-speed train, Isaka created a motley crew of characters who are not real people, and maybe theyre not even Japanese, Isaka, 51, said during a recent interview in the lounge of a hotel ... More  Nacho Carbonell inaugurates Carpenters Workshop Gallery's new Los Angeles spaceLOS ANGELES, CA.- Since the beginning of his caveman aesthetic, where his sculptural pieces would invite people to hide from ambient fear, his interest in archeology has grown even more prominent, proposing fragmented finds and materials that coagulate into magnificent auras that take away ones breath. As if moving from the rudimentary Stone Age to the enlightened Bronze age, Nacho Carbonell takes his progression in stride as he combs the earth for even more unique materials to be amalgamated into organic shapes. The pandemic took him deep into himself, turned him inside out and brought him to the wild shores of hisSpanish childhood where he would play with his grandfather, working with familiar colliding materials such as sand and sea. He rediscovered diving and observed himself driftin ... More  Vienna's Secession presents "EBB & Neïl Beloufa: Pandemic Pandemonium"VIENNA.- Screen TalkCheat IslandConsole of QuizPress Key PortHand of VengeanceTax Haven RouletteSouvenir Shop: these are the various stations of Pandemic Pandemonium. In fact, the whole exhibition is a kind of walk-on game board: you move from zone to zone, gathering information and clues for the quiz questions and small challenges to be solved at the gaming machines where you can try your luck andwith a little dexterity and steady nerveseven win genuine works of art. Dont be scared! The game is humorous and parodic, with the answers hidden in the sixteen episodes of the video installation Screen Talk, and a visit to Cheat Island could be prove helpful, too, though you might find yourself in an ethical dilemma afterwards. Screen Talk, with which the exhibition opens, actu ... More  Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art opens an exhibition curated by Yaby (Beatriz Ortega Botas and Alberto Vallejo)MIDDELBURG.- Some of It Falls from the Belt and Lands on the Walkway Beside the Conveyor has to do with what exceeds normal flow. This image of a conveyor belt draws out some of the ideas behind the show: a context that determines how things move forward (a well-oiled system where all circulates according to preset parameters); accumulation, waste and spillage within it, not quite halting circulation but always swirling it a little; and the possibility of withdrawing from normal flow and finding some space to take up in its near surroundings. A legal process, an economic system, a language, a public place, an aesthetic paradigm
Any given context is a sphere of constraint ... More  The Ogunquit Museum of American Art presents 'John Walker: From Low Tide to High Tide'OGUNQUIT, ME.- On August 1, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art will present John Walker: From Low Tide to High Tide, an exhibition portraying the artists exploration of Maine coastal landscapes and the movement of the tides. The exhibition runs through October 31, 2022. When John Walker first visited Maine, he could not paint the landscape. It was too pretty, too scenicI felt I couldnt do anything with it. However, walking near what eventually became his coastal home, he felt inspired by outgoing tides and the expansive mudflats left in their wake. Determined not to make pretty pictures, Walker began incorporating tidal mud into his abstract paintings that range in scale from the monumental to the minute. The paintings in this exhibition portray John Walkers experience when he sees the patterns o ... More  Largest show in recent history of Kestner Gesellschaft - 150 works from 44 artists HANOVER.- With more than 150 works by 44 historical and contemporary international artists (22 women, 22 men), from the 17th century to the present, the group exhibition that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model is the largest and most comprehensive show in recent history at the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany. Curator is Adam Budak, Artistic Director of Kestner Gesellschaft. That other world, the world of the teapot, is the world the writer and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk is longing for. In her Nobel Lecture, she recalls Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale of a teapot that is broken due to peoples clumsiness and carelessness and is immediately discarded and rejected. In its search for tender narrators, the show ranges from the idealized nature ... More  Nichelle Nichols, Lieutenant Uhura on 'Star Trek,' dies at 89NEW YORK, NY.- Nichelle Nichols, the actress revered by Star Trek fans everywhere for her role as Lieutenant Uhura, communications officer on the starship USS Enterprise, died Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico. She was 89. The cause was heart failure, said Sky Conway, a writer and a film producer who was asked by Kyle Johnson, Nichols son, to speak for the family. Nichols had a long career as an entertainer, beginning as a teenage supper-club singer and dancer in Chicago, her hometown, and later appearing on television. But she will forever be best remembered for her work on Star Trek, the cult-inspiring space adventure series that aired from 1966-69 and starred William Shatner as Captain Kirk, the heroic leader of the starship crew; Leonard Nimoy (who died in 2015) as his science officer an ... More  A conductor who knows his way around a score, and a farmYLÃJÃRVI.- Here I grow peas, conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali said, gesturing to a plot of land the size of a small room. Why? I just love fresh peas. That pea garden is a blip in the scale of Rouvalis property here a farm, dating back to the 16th century, on over 34 acres. It is among this places wildflowers, evergreens and moss-covered rocks that he feels most at ease, especially compared with where hes more often seen: inside the worlds major concert halls, whether at the podium of his Philharmonia Orchestra in London or as a guest with ensembles like the New York Philharmonic, where he is a contender to become the next music director. I was never someone who wants to be famous, Rouvali, 36, said. But of course, with this profession it comes automatically. Rouvali has structured his life ... More  Gerald Peters Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Penelope GottliebSANTA FE, NM.- Penelope Gottlieb has uprooted the tradition of flower painting both formally and thematically. In her Invasive Plants series, Gottlieb appropriates and significantly alters existing digital prints from the John James Audubon archive. Gottlieb depicts the ravages of a contemporary ecological phenomenon wherein non-native species are introduced and overtake the balance of its delicate ecosystem. This exhibition pairs my concerns and research into vanishing and endangered nature. Invasive species overlap the iconic plates by John James Audubon (himself an increasingly controversial figure) blurring the lines of authorship between his original design and my additional layers of information and historical reference. Beauty and unease coexist. Nature turns against nature. The title Still Liv ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades died  August 01, 2006. Jason Rhoades (July 9, 1965 - August 1, 2006) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was recently celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs with African, Caribbean, Creole and hip-hop slang for the female genitalia. His work remains part of the permanent collection in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, where he was a part of exhibit "Beg Borrow and Steal" at the time of his death. In this image: Jason Rhoades, Installation view, 'Perfect World', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany , 1999. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jens Rathmann.
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