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The artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan, July 21, 2021. The artist famous for his riddling photos has turned to old-fashioned function and grace in his design for the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. So why doesnt Washington love it? Shina Peng/The New York Times.
by Blake Gopnik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hiroshi Sugimoto laughs. He laughs a lot. On a Zoom call from Tokyo, the 73-year-old artist laughs at his first reaction to the avant-garde while living in New York in the 1970s: Its a very twisted-mind art, so this kind of twisted mind it can be applied to myself! Im the same kind of animal! On a dime, he turned from working in commercial photography to his own twisted-mind conceptual photos that went on to make him famous: dramatic shots of animals in the wild that turn out to show stuffed beasts in museum vitrines; photos of Madame Tussauds waxworks that look alive but also seem to depict sculptures or other photographs. My art has a kind of punchline at the end, Sugimoto says. He laughs at a Japanese identity he says he had to learn during years living in the United States because Americans kept dwelling on his origins in Japan: Im trying to be as Japanese as possible. Im playing my Japaneseness. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Museum-Deaccession | Asian & Pre-Columbian Auction on Tue, Aug 10, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5. An interesting mix of de-accessioned Asian and Pre-Columbian Art from The Ashland University Museum in Ashland, OH, originally donated between 1994 to 1998. All lots from the Museum have been noted, as such. Other Asian, Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic art have also been included to add a bit of variety. Shipping handled in-house for your convenience. In this image: Exceptional Maya Limestone Ball Court Marker. Estimate $30,000 - $45,000.
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| Exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen pays tribute to Sol LeWitt | | The dirndl: a dress for past and present | | San Francisco's cyclists cheer a road less traveled. Museums mourn it. |
Lines and Lines. Sol LeWitt and Konrad Fischer, K21, Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Archive, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2021. Photo: Linda Inconi.
DUSSELDORF.- Under the title Lines and Lines. Sol LeWitt and Konrad Fischer. Traces of a Close Cooperation, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen pays tribute to the inventor and influential representative of American conceptual art in the Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Archive at K21 from July 27, 2021 until the end of the year. 1967: In June, the American artist Sol LeWitt (19282007) published the essential principles of his conceptual art for the first time in Artforum: What the work of art looks like isnt too important [...] No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. With such principals as well as his minimalistic works Modular Wall Structure, 1967/2005 is on display Sol LeWitt would change art permanently. At the end of the same year, Konrad Fischer (19391996) opened his first gallery space in Düsseldorf at Neubrückstrasse 12 with a floor piece by Carl Andre. ... More | |
Dirnd dresses are on display at the exhibition "Dirndl - Tradition goes fashion" at the Mamorschloessl palace in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, on June 24, 2021. ALEX HALADA / AFP.
by Blaise Gauquelin
BAD ISCHL (AFP).- The humble Alpine "dirndl" dress, with its distinctive white blouse, full skirt and apron, has won new fans among Austrians and foreign fashionistas alike in recent years. Its folksy appeal has now made the historic dirndl and other traditional outfits a key part of Austria's clothing industry, about 70 percent of which is exported, according to the Chamber of Commerce. Even British style icon Vivienne Westwood, better known for her provocative punk designs, has been charmed by the dirndl, which also features a close-fitting bodice. Now the enduring garment is the star of a new exhibition which traces its journey through the years from the countryside to the catwalk. The show is being held in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl, the former summer residence of Emperor Franz Josef and his wife Elisabeth, known popularly as Sissi. ... More | |
File photo of the De Young Museum, San Francisco. Photo: Mark Miller.
by Adam Nagourney
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From the top of the Hamon Observation Tower at the de Young Museum, with its sweeping views of San Francisco, John F. Kennedy Drive cuts a gentle curve through Golden Gate Park below. It is, these days, a road without cars, set aside for pedestrians and bicyclists since the beginning of the pandemic, which forced the museum to shut down for nearly a year. But as the de Young comes slowly back to life, this six-lane road has become a flashpoint, pitting two historically influential constituencies cultural institutions and park enthusiasts against each other in a divisive debate about public space, the arts and the priorities of a city rethinking its future after the pandemic. For parkgoers, closing the road to cars has shown what can be and should be: A broad boulevard that cuts through the citys premier park, transformed into a safe, quiet refuge for people to enjoy ... More |
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| Hang-Up presents 'Game Changers: Renegade Artists Defying Convention' | | White Cube opens an exhibition of works by Rachel Kneebone | | Hung Liu reflects on migration in de Young's Wilsey Court |
Nina Chanel Abney, Temporary Friends, 1 of 5.
LONDON.- Hang-Ups first exhibition of 2021 is a celebration of women in contemporary art. Presenting works by Bridget Riley, Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama, Nancy Fouts, Swoon and Nina Chanel Abney, the show highlights women who are and were true artistic game changers, playing on a field that was rigged against them. This important exhibition honours the valuable contribution made by these extraordinary women and acts as a rallying cry for equality going forward. Many of these artists re-defined or even invented their own genres and offered invaluable contributions to the development of contemporary art. In 1971, celebrated art historian Linda Nochlin asked, Why are there no great women artists?. Since then, many attempts have been made to address this statement, while acknowledging critical and public acclaim set against the continuing gender disparity present within the art market. In conversation with Nochlins q ... More | |
Rachel Kneebone, Shell, 2020. Porcelain, steel and adhesive, 105 1/2 à 35 7/16 à 31 1/2 in. (268 à 90 à 80 cm). © Rachel Kneebone. Photo © White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting Raft, an exhibition by Rachel Kneebone at Masons Yard, London. The porcelain sculptures and drawings featured in the show focus on themes of transformation and metamorphosis, and the material manifestation of these fluid physical and mental states. Responding to Théodore Géricault's essential theme of the agony of physical existence, Kneebone probes the arc of human life: birth, growth, change and death. The title of the exhibition alludes to Géricaults monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa (181819). A high point of French Romanticism, the painting depicts a moment of grave crisis with desperate bodies cast adrift following the wreck of a naval frigate. Kneebones reference to Gericaults painting, however, goes beyond specific iconography and instead cuts across space ... More | |
Hung Liu, "Corn Carrier 2", 2021. "Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門)" at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Hung Liu: Golden Gate (金門), a new installation by renowned artist Hung Liu. The site-specific installation, which greets visitors in the de Young museums Wilsey Court, features four new and four existing works, highlighting international and domestic narratives of migration. Based in Oakland, Liu is one of the most important Chinese-born artists working in the US today. Reimagining some of her most iconic paintings through the lens of her personal history, she places herself among and celebrates the migrants who arrived in California from both land and sea. Much of Lius work confronts official and state-sanctioned narratives with personal stories and historical truths, states Thomas ... More |
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| Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces the release of "Pope.L, My Kingdom for a Title" | | Group show highlights landscape painting, drawing, sculpture and photography | | A new welcome to the Art Gallery of New South Wales: First look at transformed civic space in Sydney |
My Kingdom for a Title reveals how the act of writing is integral to Pope.Ls labored practice, given its foundational role for him since the 1970s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announced the release of My Kingdom for a Title, a collection of writings by artist Pope.L documenting his use of language as a mode of visual, narrative, and performative action. My Kingdom for a Title is now available for preorder, with a virtual book launch event held in September. The gallery will release a limited edition of 100 signed copies by Pope.L featuring an original screenprint by the artist, bound within the book, available for $250 each. Pope.L is a visual artist and eduÂcator whose multidisciplinary practice uses binaries, contraries, and preconceived notions embedded within contemporary culture to create artworks in various formats including writing, painting, performance, installation, video, and sculpture. Building upon his long history of enacting arduous, ... More | |
Etel Adnan, Untitled, c. 2012. Oil on canvas, signed on verso, 9 x 12 in. 22.9 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery is presenting, The Earth, That is Sufficient, a group show highlighting landscape painting, drawing, sculpture and photography as an assortment of traditional and radical depictions that characterize the ground we stand on and the distance we look out upon. The assembled, multi-generational group enlists various narrative methodologies to describe landscape in traditional terms and as new terrain possessing original and revolutionary spirit. The landscapes on view manifest as thought, object, vista and action. They offer up literal and metaphorical journeys and the terrestrial as full of physical and mental possibilities. The exhibition features work by Etel Adnan, Alvaro Barrington, Sholto Blissett, Lauren Halsey, Barkley L. Hendricks, Shara Hughes, Marcus Jahmal, Ana Mendieta, Walter ... More | |
Architectural render of the Art Gallery of New South Wales forecourt produced by bloomimages Berlin GmbH © Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021.
SYDNEY.- The Sydney Modern Project, which is expanding and transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales, will feature a new civic gathering space outside the main entrance of its historic building. The Art Gallery has released a first look at the design for the new forecourt by internationally renowned landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson and Seattle firm GGN ahead of the commencement of construction works. The design significantly expands public use of the space and includes two reflection pools with ample seating along the perimeter. New trees will provide additional shade within the enhanced landscape connecting the forecourt to the outdoor art campus, created around and between the existing gallery and new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA, curren ... More |
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| Markie Post, 'Night Court' actress, dies at 70 | | New online exhibition explores humanity of those living with HIV/AIDS | | Smithsonian American Art Museum announces new initiative through the American Art Journal |
Her greatest success came on the sitcom Night Court, when she was cast as Christine Sullivan, the alluring and naive public defender who was the romantic interest of Judge Harry T. Stone, played by Harry Anderson.
by Neil Vigdor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Markie Post, the effervescent actress known for her roles on the television series Night Court and The Fall Guy and the movie Theres Something About Mary during a career that spanned four decades, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, who provided a statement from Posts family specifying that the cause of death was cancer. Post had continued to act for nearly four years after her initial cancer diagnosis and while undergoing chemotherapy treatments that she referred to as her side job, her family said. Since her diagnosis, she had worked on a Lifetime Christmas movie and had a recurring guest role on the ABC series The Kids Are Alright. Frequently cast in daffy roles that emphasized her comedic timing, ... More | |
Clifford Prince King, Safe Space, 2020, archival inkjet print on Photo Rag Baryta, 48 x 32 inches, collection of the artist.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announced the online opening of Look After Each Other: Intimacy and Community. The student-curated exhibition features work by artists, activists, and documentarians who show the human side of life with HIV/AIDS beyond a medical diagnosis, revealing moments of intimacy, care, friendship, and more. Organized by Nathan Bloom 21, the 202021 Eleanor Linder Winter 45 Endowed Intern, the exhibition presents the work posters, magazine covers, drawings, video, fiber art, sculpture, and photography, most coming from the Tangs growing collection in five distinct, yet interrelated, sections: Performance, Livelihood, Memory, Outreach, and Joy. The Performance section, for example, includes work by Hunter Reynolds from the Tang collection that documents his pivotal first performance as his alter ego, Patina DuPrey, who cured participants of Stendhal syndrome, a psychosomatic ... More | |
Liza Lou, Kitchen (detail), 1991--96. Glass beads, wood, wire, plaster, and artists used appliances, 96 ´ 132 ´ 168 in. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Liza Lou. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. Photo: Tom Powell.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has established a new professional development program to foster excellence and diversity in the field of American art scholarship. Toward Equity in Publishing is a two-year pilot program that will provide critical support to early-career art historians. Through editorial mentorship and workshops, the program will demystify scholarly publication processes and help scholars revise manuscripts for submission and publication. The initiative is supported by a $64,000 grant from the Dedalus Foundation. The museum is well positioned to offer this guidance through its critically acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal for new scholarship, American Art. The journal is known for publishing original research written in clear prose, and it has a reputation for providing authors with the most extensive peer-review and editorial support in ... More |
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Artists brighten walkway with installation created in collaboration with nature
FALKIRK.- Scotland-based artists Yulia Kovanova and Lars Koens are presenting their latest installation - Chroma Calls as part of Canal Encounters - a month-long celebration of Scotlands Forth & Clyde Canal. Commissioned by Falkirk Community Trust and Scottish Canals, the artists are exhibiting twenty sculptures drawing attention to the ecology of the Canal and some of the local and visiting bird species. Each of the twenty sculptures are based on the colourful plumage of specific bird species that live or visit the Canal. They are attached to trees along four miles of Forth & Clyde Canal from the iconic Kelpies to the Falkirk Wheel, the worlds only rotating boat lift. The artists worked with ecologist and Scottish Canals Environmental Manager, Olivia Lassiere to select some of the most iconic bird species to feature in the canal and the adjacent walking and cycling ... More
Join a living work of art as Uniqlo Tate Play opens at Tate Modern
LONDON.- Tate Modern invites visitors of all ages to transform the floor of the Turbine Hall into an ever changing work of art. This extraordinary invitation is part of a transformative project by artist Ei Arakawa, which launches UNIQLO Tate Play - Tate Moderns new free programme of playful art-inspired activities for families, in partnership with UNIQLO. UNIQLO Tate Plays first project is inspired by the Gutai group, radical Japanese artists who wanted to change the world through painting, performance and childrens play. For the groups Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition of 1956, Yoshihara Jirō created the groundbreaking work Please Draw Freely, a large board on which people were free to draw and paint. To kick off UNIQLO Tate Play, contemporary artist Ei Arakawa has expanded and drawn inspiration from this idea at Tate Modern as a gigantic interactive ... More
Cooper Hewitt's Interaction Lab launches seven prototypes to experience the Smithsonian Open Access Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- The Interaction Lab at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the launch of seven prototypes commissioned under the Activating Smithsonian Open Access program. The selected teams each received $10,000 to create new digital interactions and innovative tools that enable play and discovery with 2D and 3D digitized assets from the Smithsonians Open Access collections. The teams retain ownership of the intellectual property developed from the program. Made possible by Verizon 5G Labs, the Activating Smithsonian Open Access program fosters a new approach to activating museum collections by expanding access to deep engagement for people of many abilities and interests ... More
Luis C Lopez-Morton of Morton Subastas joins Bidsquare's board of directors
NEW YORK, NY.- Bidsquare, the curated, online platform where collectors can discover and bid on rare and authentic fine art, antiques and design from leading auction houses and dealers, announced that another esteemed member of the auction industry joined its board of directors, Luis C Lopez-Morton. Mr. Lopez-Morton brings deep industry knowledge with his 33 years of expertise and experience in the auction world. Morton Subastas opened in 1988 as Luis C. Morton Galleries in Mexico, that same year Lopez-Morton held his first auction. Since then, Morton Subastas has developed as the only prestigious auction house in Mexico, with specialists in the areas of antiques, modern and contemporary art, jewelry and timepieces, antique and contemporary books and documents, wines and spirits, as well as decorative arts. Based in Mexico City, Morton ... More
The LA Art Show's special summer edition celebrates major success with record sales
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Among the first events to return live, this weekend the LA Art Show wrapped a socially distanced special summer edition of the fair with half the attendance, but double the sales. Galleries, art dealers, curators, collectors and art lovers masked up and made their way to Los Angeles Convention Center this past weekend to surround themselves with arts and culture, marking the first time in 18 months for some visitors. Utilizing 150,000 square feet, new director Kassandra Voyagis was able to create an airy show with room to roam. In past years, as one of the most popular art fairs, the LA Art Show has hosted 65k guests, showcasing up to 150 galleries and museums from around the globe. Protocols for 2021 included wide aisles, clean air circulation, mandatory masks and limited total attendance of 30k art lovers over the course ... More
Kelton the one-tonne wicker beltie starts Dumfries and Galloway homecoming tour
EDINBURGH.- A one-tonne wicker Beltie bull which earned international stardom at Edinburghs Royal Highland Showcase is soon to start a homecoming tour of Dumfries & Galloway. He has been named after the parish of Kelton, with its strong agricultural history. The name is also a nod to the National Trust for Scotlands Threave Landscape Restoration Project which is getting underway at the nearby Kelton Mains Farm. In the coming months he can be seen at a variety of locations and events including: The Tour Series Cycle Race, Castle Douglas, 12 August The Castle Douglas Bike and Food Festival 13-15 August Kirkcudbright Summer Festivities for a week from 16 August Crawick Multiverse, near Sanquhar on 28 and 29 August Wigtown Book Festival will play host to Kelton for the duration of the event from 22 September to 4 ... More
Cheshire based H&H Classics appoint Nick Bicknell as its Sales & Business Development Manager
LONDON.- Nick Bicknell has been appointed by H&H Classics to manage its Sales and Business Development team. He has spent almost 30 years in senior management within the automotive sector with some of the leading marques, including Rolls Royce, Bentley, Porsche, Ferrari and Aston Martin. He is a business builder with experience as a very successful franchisor of a car repair service, growing the franchise network from zero to 350 independent franchisees and ultimately selling the business, Chipsaway International, for significant value to a UK PLC. This gave him the freedom and finances to indulge in his life-long passion for motorsport. But it wasnt long before he felt the need to return to the addictive world of classic and performance cars and when the opportunity arose to join the auction world. It was too difficult to resist he says. ... More
Kool and the Gang's Dennis 'Dee Tee' Thomas dies at 70
NEW YORK (AFP).- Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, a co-founder of the legendary soul-funk band Kool and the Gang, whose hits included "Celebration," died on Saturday at age 70, the group announced. Thomas, "beloved husband, father and a co-founder of Kool & the Gang, passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 70 in New Jersey," said a Facebook statement from the group. Another founding member, Ronald Bell, died last year. "An original member of Kool & the Gang, Dennis was known as the quintessential cool cat in the group, loved for his hip clothes and hats, and his laid-back demeanor," his bandmates wrote. "Alto saxophone player, flutist, percussionist as well as master of ceremonies at the band's shows," he made his farewell appearance with the group on July 4 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the statement added. ... More
'Reservation Dogs' uses humor, not magic, to conjure Native culture
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a dramatic moment of the Reservation Dogs pilot, a car with tinted windows rolls up on the Dogs, a crew of four teenage petty thieves living on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. In slow motion, the rival gang members inside lower the car windows, faces covered with balaclavas, and then aim their guns and open fire with paintballs. Bear, the Dogs self-appointed leader (played by DPharaoh Woon-A-Tai), goes down in a hail of gunfire that simultaneously seems to pay homage to Menace II Society, Platoon and Community. While lying unconscious, Bear has a vision: A Native warrior on a horse appears through the mist and speaks to him about bravery. I was at the Battle of Little Bighorn, the warrior says. But then he turns sheepish. Well, I didnt kill anybody, but I fought ... More
Exhibition explores how three artists document changes in nature, culture, and crises
LONDON.- No 20 Arts is presenting BRULAT | PULIDO | ROBERTS, a group show featuring works by Ruben Brulat, Jhonatan Pulido, and Keith Roberts. From sculpture and painting, to film and works on paper, the exhibition explores how the three artists document changes in nature, culture, and crises. Ruben Brulat creates sculptures, photography, and paintings which reflect upon the relationship between humanity and nature. His work absorbs and is absorbed by its natural surroundings, from the initial inspiration to the use of found materials and natural processes in the works creation. Beginning in the forest, images are created from the surrounding flora and fauna. These images are printed, scanned, and reprinted before returning to the forest as objects to be buried. After a time of absorption, they are unearthed, rinsed, and appear ... More
Nach Waxman, founder of a bookstore where foodies flock, dies at 84
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nach Waxman, who combined his seasoning in anthropology and nonfiction editing to found a Manhattan bookstore that became a global mecca for chefs, cooks, culinary academics, epicurean writers and just about anyone who enjoyed eating as much as he did, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. The cause was septic shock, his son, Rabbi Joshua Waxman, said. Waxmans passion for, and curiosity about, food made his store, Kitchen Arts & Letters, a go-to source for all kinds of culinary history and customs, as well as for recipes that he insisted should be sources of creative inspiration rather than rigid paint-by-numbers templates. Faced with a dining challenge, customers knew whom to call. In one instance, Waxman counseled Citibank on its banquet menu for the Venezuelan finance minister; ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors pose for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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